SOMATRY

The county reading room / Original short fiction

Ashport Short Stories

Fourteen original Somatry mysteries set in Ashport. Ashport measures its days in shifts, departures and goods changing hands.

What survives an ordinary day?

Ashport measures its days in shifts, departures and goods changing hands. Behind those practical transactions lie favors that were never invoiced and promises that never reached a manifest. These stories pause beside the working harbor to ask who kept an object, who recorded its movement and what the paperwork left unsaid.

Start anywhere. Each story stands alone, with a link back to its district. These are original website stories, separate from playable cases and DLC missions; they reveal no game solutions.

Read the record a little closer.

For practical techniques behind these small mysteries, explore documents as storytelling, the purpose of a record and what a mystery ending resolves.