PROVENANCE
You are a graduate student at Aldenmere University, hired to catalog the estate papers of Lionel Cavanaugh — collector, philanthropist, patron of the arts.
His papers were left to the university with one condition: once cataloged, they are to be sealed for ten years.
You are three days in. Names, dates, words... Something in this archive is very wrong — and someone went to great lengths to make sure no one would notice.
28 documents. Letters, receipts, legal correspondence, personal writings, newspaper clippings.
All of them are available from the start. There is no gating, no locked progression, no hand-holding. You read. You clip evidence. You take notes. And when you think you know what happened, you file your assessment — a report with 14 blanks, every answer typed by hand.
Get something wrong? No answers shown. Go back and look harder.
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How to Play:
1. Read — Browse the archive. 28 documents, any order. Not everything is relevant.
2. Clip — Click any sentence to pin it to your evidence board.
3. Tag — Use five color tags to organize evidence however you like.
4. Notes — Write your theories in the notepad. It saves automatically.
5. File — When you're ready, file your assessment. Every blank is typed. No hints. No multiple choice.
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If you enjoyed Epitaph, this is the next step. Same philosophy — pure deduction, no filler — but with a new story, new mechanics, and harder puzzles. The conspiracy is different. The documents are different. The answers require synthesis, not just recall.
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I didn’t use the tags, plus I started writing stuff down in my handy dandy notebook and forgot to use the in-game notepad! I’ll have to remember to do so next time :)