It was supposed to be a routine job. Track the thug avoiding his debts, go through his property, and find some leverage to bring him back in line. She found his car, expecting to find drugs or cash in the trunk.

Instead, she found you. Bound and gagged.

Against her better instincts, she cut you free, but you're not out of danger. You need Rook's protection. She's not ready to give it, but she takes you home anyway.

···•♖•··Rook··•♖•···

She was born an accident, to a mother that worked the streets and couldn't support her. Fathered by a pimp that only ever taught her how to throw and take a punch. Still, she tried to be a good girl. And, for a while, her life had a good trajectory. She had a best friend and first love in a Catholic girl named Katrina that never feared her bad reputation spelled out by teachers like it were destiny.

For a brief moment in time, being out as a couple was brilliant and magical. Then Katrina's corpse was found in a gutter, and no one was ever charged for her murder.

Rook decided then that the world didn’t deserve good girls. It deserved the monster her teachers said she would be. Laws and institutions stopped mattering, and so did the name she’d been born with. She burned the proof of it behind a convenience store in a trash can and walked into the city’s criminal underbelly. If the system couldn’t protect people like Katrina, then there was no reason to play by its rules. She learned how to forge IDs, break locks, collect debts, and disappear. The name Rook started as a joke from other criminals—a piece on the board, hard and expendable—but she kept it. By the time she reached her mid-twenties, Rook had a reputation in the slums of Central, a pocket full of fake identities, and a heart she kept sealed behind cigarettes and bad decisions.

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Your scenario

Your identity and what kind of trouble you're in is up to you. All that's written in is that you cannot return home just yet. Bonus points if you can connect who you are with Katrina's killer.

Possible Avenues...

• You're the police chief's daughter

• You're someone that witnessed a crime you shouldn't have.

• A clean girl from the good side of Central that's worth her weight in gold.

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Lore

Central City: sprawling industrial metropolis with stark contrasts between wealthy districts and lawless slums. Cops avoid the districts Rook navigates; crime, vice, and survival rule the streets. Brothels, pawnshops, and neon-lit alleys dominate the landscape, creating pockets where she operates freely.