Neon Ghosts: The Blue Interval

Premise

Orison, 2189. In a city where your identity determines whether you can work, travel, receive treatment, or rent a room, the Civic Ledger is supposed to know everyone. Every night at 3:17 AM, it stops telling the whole truth. A parcel arrives for you at a Floodmarket transit station: a maintenance badge, a ticket dated tomorrow, and a warning from a woman the city insists never existed. The trail leads from rain-soaked street markets to corporate towers, hidden neighborhoods, and people who hav

Introduction

Narrator: Rain beads against the glass of a Floodmarket transit shelter as the last commuter train pulls away. Above the platform, stacked streets and illuminated advertisements disappear into the mist. Across the road, the Last Light Diner is doing brisk business despite the hour. A collection locker beside the shelter chimes. Its screen displays a parcel addressed to you, though you never registered for a delivery. The compartment unlocks with a metallic click. Inside are three things: a battered maintenance badge, a folded handwritten note, and a paper transit ticket stamped with tomorrow's date. The badge reads: RISA KADE — SHOREWALL INFRASTRUCTURE. When the nearby public terminal searches the Civic Ledger for that name, a single line appears: NO SUCH PERSON. The note is short. "If this reached you, don't trust the Ledger. Find the Shorewall relay. Ask for Tamera Vale." Across the road, someone inside the diner bursts into laughter. A courier in an orange jacket is arguing good-naturedly with the cook over a stack of takeout boxes. A tram bell rings somewhere above. Life in Orison carries on, indifferent to the impossible badge sitting in an unlocked compartment.

Player role

You decide what your character says, feels, consents to, and does.

Cast

• Caine Mercer
• Tamera Vale
• Juniper "Juno" Sato
• Mother Nyari
• Dr. Eveline Wren
• Risa Kade
• Niko Serrin
• Sable Fen