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The Mystery tab

The Mystery tab is a clue-board surface: pick any event and link clues to it, and that event becomes the “mystery” with its clue cluster beneath. Hidden clues render as redacted placeholders so you can preview the player view without spoiling it. Mystery view — clue clusters with hidden / revealed states

How a mystery is made

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Any event becomes a mystery the moment another event links to it as a clue (a clue for link).

  • The target event (the thing being explained / pointed at) is the mystery.
  • The source events (the clues) cluster beneath it.

There’s no separate “this is a mystery” flag — any event that has at least one incoming clue link shows up here.

What you see per mystery

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A mystery card shows:

  • The mystery event’s title, date, layer chip, and summary.
  • A clue count — N revealed, M hidden.
  • The list of clues, ordered along the timeline when their dates are known.
  • Clues set to Hidden or Foreshadowed appear as (hidden clue) placeholders for players — but show their full title to GMs.

Click the mystery title to open it in the inspector. Click a clue title (when revealed) to open that one. Click a (hidden clue) placeholder as a GM to reveal it.

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You can link clues in two places:

  • From an event’s inspector — open any event and find the Clues section (just below Cause & effect):
    • Mark as clue for… makes this event a clue pointing at a mystery — pick the mystery it explains.
    • Add clue… treats this event as the mystery and attaches an existing event as one of its clues.
  • From the Mystery tab — click + Add clue on any mystery card and pick the event that acts as a clue.

Either way, the mystery and its clues appear — and update live — on this tab.

Hidden clue rendering

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When a clue’s reveal status isn’t Revealed, GMs still see it normally on this view — but it shows as a (hidden clue) placeholder when the GM toggles into player-preview mode (or for an actual player you’ve shared the world with).

Use Foreshadowed for clues you’ve planted in early sessions but haven’t surfaced yet. Use Partially revealed for “they have a hint but not the full picture” — the clue’s Player summary stands in for the full body in that case.

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