Alibit

The Gold Field at Nome

about 4 h · 4–7 players

Anvil Creek at Nome, January 14, 1911. Claim owner Eli Vance (47) is shot down in his cabin during a snowstorm, with buckshot in the doorpost and a staking pin beside him. The storm buries all tracks that same night, no one is arrested, and the file is shelved in Nome. It is pulled out again in 1934, when a tin coffin in the shed by the creek is broken open: two extortion letters in the notary's hand demand Vance's share of claim no. 47, and whoever follows the papers straight through ends up at the notary. Two witnesses who were recorded in time are dead, a coachman remembers the wrong name, and a single sentence about a hole in a snowdrift recurs in three files.

The Gold Field at Nome – a murder case in Alibit. Up to eight people work the same case in the browser, with no game master.