Libel City Cold Cases
Libeu doesn't give up its secrets easily. GrungeZhou is a mystery built to be decoded — every zine margin, every redacted memo, every missing resident is a thread, and the threads connect. This is the cold-case board: unsolved in-universe mysteries, drawn only from the published canon, waiting for readers sharper than the Civic Recovery pipeline.
No new facts here. Everything you need is already on this hub — the universe pages, the reading order, the dispatches. Read closely.
Case 01 — The Zine-Margin Cipher
Blue ink in a zine proof. Twelve sentences annotating the freight-yard spread — and the first breath of each one is a name.
Case 02 — The Final Notice Fragment
A redacted Civic Recovery transfer memo. The black bars are cut to measure — count them.
Case 03 — The Missing Resident
Harlan Fitch never left his desk. The papers said stroke. The replaced nameplate says otherwise.
Theory of the Month
The ritual: every month, the sharpest reader theory gets shouted out on @grungezhou. Post your decode as a comment there — the winning theory gets named, and the case board gets updated with the solve.
Work a case
New to the universe? Start with Chapter One, free — then come back and read the evidence again. It lands different the second time.