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The Demolition Office on Vretvägen

about 4 h · 4–7 players

In the spring of 1973, Sveab Bygg & Rivning is tearing down the old wooden houses along Vretvägen in Högdalen to make room for the concrete buildings, and the crane runs every day until five o'clock. On the fourteenth of May at 17:05 it brought down the gable of Vretvägen 14 according to the demolition schedule, and under the gable lay demolition manager Rolf Stenlund, 47, who three hours earlier had signed out his wages at the demolition office's barrack. Case file F 1973-0891 was written off as an accident at work on 8 June 1973 and placed on the shelf in Högdalen. Six years later, when the club's pension fund is audited, the file is reopened: the material card for the waste concrete is missing from its folder, and whoever follows the gable straight ahead gets the wrong man. Rolf Stenlund was found ninety metres from the desk he sat at, and no one has explained why his glasses were left lying on it. What is requested is what no one read in 1973: the demolition schedule for the fourteenth of May, the find list from the barrack and from the gable, the time clock's card, a line in the club's letter about the clock, the switchboard's call list, the tool ledger for the shed, the pension fund's cash book and the unnumbered envelope in the folder. Elsa Bergqvist at the coffee cart and caretaker Ivar Sjökvist survive only as notes in the file; both died before 1979.

The Demolition Office on Vretvägen – a murder case in Alibit. Up to eight people work the same case in the browser, with no game master.