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Chandler's Court, Aldermoor

Chandler's Court, Aldermoor and everyone in it are invented. No real place or family is being reconstructed.

Maya Sołtys-Hale has asked you to Chandler's Court. She has a notebook for you, and the key to the Long Room: a door that opens onto the same courtyard in another year.

Sound is optional: every sound that matters is also written on screen.

Maya's notebook

Now:

Seen is what you looked at. Said is what someone told you; people can be wrong. Inferred is what you think. Entries from a history you have changed stay, marked former history.

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        The Court

        Go to the door of

        The key

        Go to someone or something

        You arrive a couple of steps away, facing them. Green dots on the plan are things worth a look.

        How to move and look

        W A S D or ↑ ↓
        Walk. Shift to hurry.
        ← → or drag
        Turn. Click the view to use the mouse to look; Esc releases it.
        R F or PgUp PgDn
        Look up and down (for a low desk, or the bell over the arch).
        E, Enter or click
        Look at or use what you're facing: the nearest thing roughly in the middle of your view glows, and the prompt names it. People are easier: walk up to someone and they stop for you; E talks to whoever is nearest in view.
        N
        Maya's notebook: what you've seen, what people said, what you think. Undo and compare live here.
        M
        The map: go to the doorway of any part of the Court, or straight to a person or a thing worth a look. You can also travel with the key from here.
        Tab
        Moves between buttons in any open panel. Number keys pick conversation replies.

        The Long Room door is where the key works. Turn it to choose a year: New Year's Eve 1926, March 1958, April 1991, or back to Maya's 2026. You arrive standing where you stand (unless that place doesn't exist in that year).

        Chandler's Court and its people are invented.

        The Court Book

        What you tell Maya

        Saved in Maya's notebook, with this history. Change the past and you can tell her again.