Worlds to play, cards to import

Andre and Alice's patrol and toll office beneath an obsolete gallows roof, with warrants, missing names and disputed journeys.

Felix's gaming inn and fiddle stage, where charm, marked cards and a witness in hiding complicate a pleasant night.

Covered city market where Edmund sells perfume among candle stalls, anonymous notes and public temptation.

Mabel and Bernard's roadside dairy and cooperage, offering sensual comforts and a pantry used for a secret rendezvous.

Camille's citrus conservatory and Etienne's rehearsal rooms, where winter luxury hides a costly experimental vigil.

Hugh and Colin's droving steading: spare clothes, livestock work and a hidden cache from a prohibited hunt.

Eastern flooded abbey country: salvage, uncertain apparitions, desecrated graves and bells that store one mortal phrase.

Leonie's collateral house and private auction room, where intimate possessions become public evidence.

Southwestern coach-road corridor of inn pleasures, toll records, card cheats and abandoned carriages.

Southern marsh settlements of chain ferries, reed dances, river smuggling and lamps that should not be followed.

Marcel's velvet theatre: seductive performances, backstage debts and masks that let enemies share an audience.

Ines's organ workshop and home above a narrow stair, rich in hidden sightlines and unfinished music.

Western fae estate country: decaying glasshouses, portrait sittings, old boundaries and dangerous private hospitality.

Northern wolf-country uplands, quarry tracks, hunt suppers and a disputed tradition of masked pursuit.

Cathedral city of masked suppers, civil hearings, theatre rivalries and discreet lenders at the province's central river crossing.

A gothic river province of cathedral salons, fae estates, wolf hunting country, flooded abbeys and perilous coach roads.

Sabina's cathedral seat: silver-screened worship, donor suppers and a reliquary gallery with an inconvenient locked cabinet.

Edmund's perfume laboratory and upstairs home, a place for disguising scent, tracing ingredients and intimate gifts.

Coastal city encompassing the southern waterfront and uphill business district: empty luxury hotels above a living circuit of clubs, kitchens, garages and risky opportunities.

Converted waterfront saltwater bathhouse and licensed implant clinic: warm pools, private changing rooms and neutral ground for recovery, leisure or a difficult conversation.

Closed upper floors and observation terrace of a Marden tower being dismantled for sale, where leases, rooftop antennas and portable server racks reward bargaining or a careful heist.

Marden Group's occupied office base inside a mostly dark uphill business hotel: staffed reception, winter garden and controlled routes to offices, assets and awkward meetings.

Ruben Amini's all-night food counter and upstairs rooms at an expressway footbridge, with sheltered bike racks and Ellis Park's roof herb beds close to the race spur.

Night Service's union-operated dispatch hall beside a working tram depot, with lockers, shared tools and a meeting kitchen where a repair call can become an evening together.