The Farbound Union
The larger storyworld. Damaged routes outside Neo New Orleans remain unresolved until published sources establish them.
Open the world primerNeo New Orleans · Below the waterline · Year 19
A city keeps two records.
You decide what each can prove.
DISSONANCE is the first published story in the Farbound Union. Mud News Package records what lower-ward witnesses can support. The Canopy Standard prints the Board explanation.
Keep the names straight
One universe, one story, two publications.
DISSONANCE
An adult Afrofuturist speculative-noir case file by Manuel A. Dominguez.
Read the book recordMud News Package
Immediate lower-ward records of counts, harm, care, repair, and uncertainty.
Read witnessed recordsThe Canopy Standard
Polished civic explanations from the elevated districts, precise about systems and selective about costs.
Read Board recordsThe investigation loop
Read the world by using it.
Each step changes what the next step can show. No password screen and no required quiz stand between the reader and the city.
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Read
Meet the first published story in the Farbound Union and open the free First Arc.
Open route02Compare
Set lower-ward witness records beside the Board publication without collapsing them into one account.
Open route03Investigate
Use evidence across spaced encounters, then carry it into later decisions.
Open route04Play
Enter explorable scenes, work eight investigations, roll visible 2d6 checks, and reach the unresolved return.
Open routeMud News Package · Witness desk
What the table counted
The Mud record keeps the measured shortage beside the household that carried it.
Open the witness deskThe Canopy Standard · Board publication
How the city explains the count
The Standard describes the systems that make supply countable and keeps its omissions composed.
Open the Board deskReader ledger
Conduct leaves a visible record.
Care protects people. Exposure makes concealed systems answerable. Repair returns damaged systems to public use. Earned behavior awards badges, with no more than two active at once.
Enter Reader PressOpen my field ledger
Reader posts stay separate from canon. Official posts and replies carry the author badge.
The complete First Edition
Go beyond the released record.
The public archive teaches readers how to inspect the case. The novel carries the complete unresolved story.
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