Low light · green-shaded lamps and grey light through tall leaded windows
Ink and oak
Ink and oak. Panelled rooms, reading lamps, tobacco and old paper — the warm brown-and-green world of libraries, chambers and long institutional memory. Everyone is unfailingly polite and nobody says anything directly. Deep greens, oxblood and brass on wood, lit by whatever lamp somebody left on.
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
The University Register
— The matter has been referred to the Proctor. Minutes to follow in due course.
No case is set in Ink and oak 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.