Low light · flat fluorescent strips and blue glare through frosted glass
Cold steel
Cold steel. Fluorescent strips, painted metal and a blue that gets into everything, including the shadows. Everyone is wearing three layers, the dark outside is permanent, and the nearest other human being is a very long way off. Steel greys and safety orange under light nobody chose.
The twelve
Every colour on this page is one of those twelve — and so is every pixel of the art in a case set here. The palette is the style lock the plates are quantized to, so the chrome and the art can never belong to different games.
A death here is announced like this
Station Log
— PRIORITY. ALL PERSONNEL TO REMAIN AT STATION UNTIL STOOD DOWN.
No case is set in Cold steel yet
The world exists — the palette, the light, the way its newspapers talk — but nothing has been set here yet. Commission a mystery and describe a setting that fits, and it will be dressed in exactly this.