🚬🕯️ ARBOGAST FUNERAL HOME — ST. LOUIS, 1927 ⚱️🚬
━━━ 10:18 PM ━━━

By a little after ten, the Arbogast Funeral Home has finished its business for the day, though the building has not yet sur...

🚬🥃 LACKADAISY SPEAKEASY — PRIVATE BACK ROOM, ST. LOUIS, 1925 🚪🚬
━━━ 11:47 PM ━━━

By a quarter to midnight, the Lackadaisy has settled into the kind of evening its proprietors hope for an...

🚬🥃 LACKADAISY SPEAKEASY — MAIN FLOOR, ST. LOUIS, 1925 ♠️🚬

━━━ 11:47 PM ━━━

By a quarter to midnight, the Lackadaisy has settled into the kind of evening its proprietors hope for and ...

🚬🪖 TRENCH LINE — NORTHERN FRANCE, LATE SUMMER 1918 🇫🇷🚬
━━━ SOMEWHERE AFTER MIDNIGHT ━━━

The regiment has been pulled back a short distance from the line after the latest push.

The t...

🚬🥃 CITY HOLDING — TEMPORARY HOLDOVER STY, MAY 29, 1927 🏚️🚬
━━━ 3:41 AM ━━━

The temporary holdover sty for intoxicated miscreants has the particular atmosphere of a place nobody intends to...

🚬🎾 SABLE ESTATE — PRIVATE TENNIS COURT, 1927 🕯️🚬
━━━ 4:42 PM ━━━

The afternoon has settled into a comfortable heat, the sort that lingers after the sun has begun its slow descent. The gra...

🚬🕯️FIELD HOSPITAL — NORTHERN FRANCE, LATE 1917 🇫🇷🚬

━━━ 2:17 AM ━━━

France, late 1917.

The field hospital has been overcrowded for weeks.

There are never enough beds, neve...

🚬🥃 HOTEL MARIBEL — QUIET SIDE BAR, ST. LOUIS, 1927 🚪🚬

━━━ 1:06 AM ━━━

It is early autumn in 1927, the kind of autumn that has not quite decided whether it means to be cool yet.

🚬🚪 VIKTOR’S APARTMENT — LOWER ROWHOUSE, ST. LOUIS, 1927 🥛🚬

━━━ 10:48 PM ━━━

It’s a damp stretch of late 1927.

Viktor lives on the lower floor of a narrow split-level rowhouse ...

🚬🚪 DOWNTOWN BAR — PRIVATE SIDE ROOM, 1924 🥃🚬

━━━ 1:17 AM ━━━

It’s late 1924—the height of the Glory Days.

Lackadaisy is thriving under Atlas May.

Marigold is growing und...

🚬🧱 MUDDY BACK ROAD — OUTSIDE ST. LOUIS, 1927 🛘🚬

━━━ 11:48 PM ━━━

It’s a rainy night in 1927.

The dirt road outside St. Louis has begun to disappear beneath the weather. Water ...

🚬☕️ LITTLE DAISY CAFÉ — LATE AFTERNOON, 1927 🌼🚬

━━━ 4:42 PM ━━━

It’s late afternoon in 1927.

The Little Daisy Café has reached that brief, comfortable stretch between the busie...

🚬🥃 BACK ALLEY BEHIND LACKADAISY — LATE 1927 🩹🚬

━━━ 2:41 AM ━━━

It’s late 1927, a little past half-past two in the morning.

The trouble is over.

For the moment.

The...

🚬📰 CITY PRECINCT — SIDE OFFICE, EARLY 1927 🎷🚬

━━━ 3:17 AM ━━━

It’s early 1927, a little past three in the morning.

The precinct has begun to wind down.

Not into silence—...

🚬🍸 LACKADAISY SPEAKEASY — AFTER CLOSING, 1927 🚪🚬

━━━ 2:18 AM ━━━

It’s 1927.

The Lackadaisy is still open.

Most nights, that is enough to count as good news.

The caves ben...

🚬♣️ LACKADAISY SPEAKEASY — PRIVATE BACK OFFICE, 1924 🥃🚬
━━━ 1:36 AM ━━━

The Lackadaisy is having one of its better nights.

Downstairs, the speakeasy is still humming—music slipping ...

🚬🛹 STATE COLLEGE — EMPTY SKATE PARK, LATE NIGHT 🌙🚬
━━━ 12:48 AM ━━━

It’s late on a weeknight at State College.

Most of campus has gone quiet. The main quad is nearly empty, the cof...

🚬🛹 GAMMA MU MU HOUSE — STATE COLLEGE SKATE PARK, LATE NIGHT 🍾🚬
━━━ 1:17 AM ━━━

It’s late on a weeknight at State College.

For once, the Gamma Mu Mu house is quiet.

Not peacef...

🚬🏚️ SLEAZE TOWN — BACK ALLEY, 1927 🍺🚬
━━━ 2:03 AM ━━━

Sleaze Town doesn't really sleep.

It just gets quieter.

The bars lose their loudest customers. The streets empty out in u...

🚬🌿 RIVERBANK CLEARING — OUTSKIRTS OF ST. LOUIS, 1927 🎭🚬
━━━ 1:47 AM ━━━

St. Louis has never been a city that stays still.

The Marigold Gang has grown beyond the streets it started ...

🚬🛤️ RURAL BACKROADS — OLD TRUCK CAB, 1927 🥃🚬
━━━ 1:12 AM ━━━

Marigold's work has carried farther from the city these days.

Deliveries take longer routes. Meetings happen farther fro...

🚬📰 REMOTE SAFEHOUSE — OUTSKIRTS OF THE CITY, 1927 ♟️🚬
━━━ 2:14 AM ━━━

The Marigold Gang has spent the past year tightening its grip on the city's underworld with methodical precision. Riv...

🚬♟️ LACKADAISY SPEAKEASY — AFTER CLOSING, 1927 🥃🚬
━━━ 2:13 AM ━━━

The Lackadaisy has gotten quieter.

Not peaceful.

Just quieter.

The crowds that once filled every table ...

🚬♟️ NEUTRAL PAWN SHOP — BACK ROOM, 1927 🍸🚬
━━━ 12:19 AM ━━━

Business in the city has gotten quieter.

Not safer.

The Marigold Gang’s usual routines — deliveries, exchanges, and...

🚬🍹 FORGHETTY'S PUB — BACK BOOTH, 2006 🪑🚬
━━━ 11:47 PM ━━━

Forghetty's is winding down for the night.

Most of the tables have already been cleared. Behind the bar, the bartender wip...

🚬⛪ GOD’S FAVORITE PROTESTANT CHURCH — SANCTUARY, 2006 📖🚬
━━━ 10:52 PM ━━━

The church has been empty for nearly an hour.

Most of the lights are off now. Only a sing...

🚬🪊 LACKADAISY SPEAKEASY — BACKSTAGE GREEN ROOM, 1927 🎷🚬
━━━ 1:47 AM ━━━

The music is gone from the building, but it hasn’t quite left it.

It lingers in fragments—an echo caught in ...

🚬📜 SABLE RESIDENCE — PRIVATE COLLECTION WING, 1925 🍸🚬
━━━ 11:38 PM ━━━

The Sable residence has settled into the kind of quiet that doesn’t announce itself. It simply happens—room by room...

🚬🥃 LACKADAISY SPEAKEASY — MAIN FLOOR, 1925 🎺🚬
━━━ 10:47 PM ━━━

The Lackadaisy is having one of those nights.

The kind people will insist was better than it really was years from no...

🚬🪦 ARBOGAST & SON FUNERAL HOME — PREPARATION ROOM, 1925 📦🚬
━━━ 1:03 AM ━━━

The funeral home closed hours ago.

The front parlors sit dark beyond drawn curtains, flower arrangeme...

🚬🪊 OLD ORPHEUM THEATER — BASEMENT STORAGE, 1927 🎭🚬
━━━ 12:47 AM ━━━

The Orpheum stays quiet in that delayed way old buildings have after a long night—like the noise is still finishing so...

🚬🎺 LACKADAISY SPEAKEASY — BACKSTAGE GREEN ROOM, 1927 ♠️🚬
━━━ 1:38 AM ━━━

The speakeasy is winding down.

Downstairs, the last bit of music drifts up through the floorboards in uneven...

🚬🚂 MISSOURI - KANSAS - TEXAS RAIL YARD — PRIVATE SIDING OFFICE, 1927 🎩🚬

━━━ 11:12 PM ━━━

The rail yard doesn’t settle, even at this hour.
Engines breathe somewhere out in the dark — low,...

🚬🎭 MARIGOLD TERRITORY — NIGHT CIRCUIT, 1927 💰🚬
━━━ 10:47 PM ━━━

The east side changes after sundown.

The river leaves its smell on everything—wet timber, rusted rails, old brick th...