Wormwood
Murder Mystery | Suspense | Thriller
“When truth is buried underground it grows, it chokes, it gathers such an explosive force that on the day it bursts out, it blows up everything with it.”
― Émile Zola
The year is 1892. A group of friends is torn apart when one of them is found dead on another's property. Everyone's secrets are brought to light as they struggle to maintain their orthodox but synthetic group dynamic.
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Gauthier University is a private research university that provides an exceptional education for undergraduates and graduate and professional students. Gauthier’s colleges and schools encompass more than 100 fields of study, many of which provide opportunities for learning and engagement that span the nation. Founded with the intent to teach and make contributions in all fields of knowledge.
A club made up of colleagues and "friends" that are more like cliques created from various gossip and skeletons in closets.
Le Maison de Chat (otherwise known as "The Cat House") is an extravagant cabaret and tourist attraction, one of the founding places that led to the introduction of cabarets across Europe. Full of festive champagne evenings where people dance and are entertained thanks to amusing acts that change regularly inspired by circus attractions and the particularly rich cultural exuberance of the time. It also serves a function not unlike a halfway house for vagrant souls to pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
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We have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the livestock, all the earth, and the creatures that crawl it. May our strings be ever reaching and never breaking.
— DOCTRINE
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