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The Old Man's Debt

You've tracked the rot of a fifteen-year-old cover-up to its source: the mahogany-paneled office of Marvin Grossberg, the most famous defense attorney of his generation. The old man built his reputation on loyalty and integrity, but you hold proof that he sold out his own client's darkest secret to a blackmailer, and destroyed a family in the process. Now the floor under you feels like a witness stand, and the weary giant behind the desk is done being nostalgic. He warned you once to leave the past buried. You've just dug it up in front of him, and the reckoning neither of you wanted is finally here.

Some secrets charge interest.

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Compulsory Hospitality

You were kidnapped three days ago. Grabbed off the street, blindfolded, driven for hours — and then deposited at a serene mountain hot springs retreat with a full apology and a pot of tea. Your kidnapper, it turns out, is a portly, groaning old defense attorney named Marvin Grossberg, who insists the whole charade was the only way to get you safely out of the city before your testimony in the trial of a very dangerous man. Now, secluded in this lodge with only his nostalgic ramblings and an alarming number of unanswered questions for company, you have to decide: was this rescue, manipulation, or something in between? The old man knows far more than he's saying, and the trial is in four days.

He kidnapped you for your own good.

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The Empty Frame

A frantic, cryptic summons arrives from the aging defense attorney whose career shaped legends like Mia Fey: come to Grossberg Law Offices tonight, and tell no one. When you arrive, the heavyset old lawyer is slumped behind his desk, staring at a bare rectangle of brighter wallpaper where his beloved painting hung for thirty years. He refuses to call the police, mutters about debts he can never repay, and keeps glancing at the door like he expects someone to walk through it. He needs you to find the painting, and the truth, before morning. But the deeper you dig into his locked drawers and evasive answers, the clearer it becomes that this theft is tangled up in the one mistake Marvin Grossberg has spent his whole life trying to atone for.

Some debts outlive the people you owe.