Tortiver



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    What do an uncomfortable mattress spring, a pink phone and an oddly named antique shop have in common? Well they shouldn't be talking to a detective in his mid-forties, that's for sure.

    TASK LIST:
    - Stay sober □
    - Keep your head down at work □
    - Refurnish your miserable flat □
    - Wonder if you'll ever see Kim again □
    - Stay sober □
    - Solve THE FOUND FAMILY □
    - Try not to lose your mind □
    - Stay sober □
    - Be *naughty* in the stacks □
    - Stay sober □
    - Buy a gift □
    - Surprise your new best friend in a completely normal and appropriate way □
    - Don't get murdered in the process □

    [Edited 03/01/24 to add gorgeous art by @paleyonder on tumblr!]

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    27 Feb 2026

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    It was supposed to be a simple case: A crashed motor carriage. Two casualties. A handful of witnesses in a resurrected district.

    But as Detectives Harry Du Bois and Jean Vicquemare are about to discover, it's the simple cases that have the most to hide. In the course of one week, they’ll uncover a community-wide conspiracy, descend into the dog-eat-dog world of organized crime, and meet the mysterious mechanic who seems to be at the heart of it all...

    (AU where Harry has his sh*t together, Jean's his partner in Martinaise, and Kim isn’t a police officer)

    (05/14/2021 - added these wonderful sketches from jenemange to Chapter 5, Chapter 10, and Chapter 14!)

    (12/21/2020 - added this fantastic Trant/Jean artwork by caramujo to Chapter 6!)

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    19 Feb 2026

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    A body of a young factory worker lies unclaimed on the railroad tracks in Jamrock West and Harry has yet to show at the precinct. Kim Kitsuragi has been up since the dawn and has already decided he's over this week. It's a mild Tuesday morning in June '51. The spectre of Communism hangs over Revachol like a burial shroud.

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    12 Feb 2026

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    “Hello there! Ah, I see you’re new around these parts. I’m old around these parts. Blind Man Cassidy is my name. If you’d like your fortune told, I just ask for a bit of gold.” He holds out a tin coffee can smothered in rust, full of empty, whistling desert air. Heat broils up around them and makes the horizon waver.
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    Arthur knows now, so many miles later, he never should have stopped. He never should have stopped along the trail, and he certainly never should have given that man any money. Damn this moment of charity, of weakness, and all the change it brought about.

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    27 Nov 2025

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