ROSEMARY MUNICIPAL ARCHIVE — INTERNAL MEMO REF: RV-09 // NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION

TO: Vale, M — Analyst, Sub-Dept. Records Review
FROM: Günak, K. — Senior Director
DATE: [see terminal stamp]
RE: Case DT-0041 — Informal handover

Dear friend,

What you're looking at is Dog Town, a game I've been building for a while now, partially inspired by old movie scripts I've written, some ideas flying around my head, a combination of all aces up my sleeve.

This is a free playtest. It is unfinished, but that's intentional.

Over the course of this demo you'll read all kinds of documents. Letters, newspaper clippings, radio transcriptions, official reports that say very little on purpose. All of them belong to Rosemary, also known as Dog Town, a city built into the rock of a mountain peak, surrounded on all sides by a black ocean filled with oil and wreckage and things nobody goes looking for anymore. It is warm there, almost always, and it used to be a part of the great nation of KETHARAN. The first two districts have bars, markets, stray dogs, people who've decided to get on with it. It's a peaceful city, more or less, if you don't ask too many questions about what happened twenty-five years ago. Your name is Mara Vale. You're an archivist. Someone has put a case file in front of you that wasn't supposed to exist, and now you're going to read it.

A few things before you do! The interface you're looking at is a microfilm reader, analogue hardware, mostly. It was featured in the new Blade Runner, among others. Documents load one at a time. Some files are split across multiple pages, which you can move between using the buttons in the bottom right. The index on the left is how you navigate between files.

Pictured above is said microfilm reader, which was used to archive and read reports and documents. Also, please be kind about bugs or the alike. Remember, this is only the demo. The official plan is to eventually move this entire thing to GODOT, once I have the budget and the time. IMPORTANT NOTE: IF THE BUTTONS ON THE BOTTOM OF THE TERMINAL DON'T WORK, USE THE ARROW KEYS ON YOUR KEYBOARD.

Cheers, Mara! Happy reading.

THIS MEMO SHOULD BE DESTROYED AFTER READING SUB-DEPT. RECORDS REVIEW — NODE 7