The Missing Candle is a reliably quiet pub in Veilgarden – the drinks are cheap, the food is… extant. These days it is best known as the meeting place of a very exclusive club – one that happens to include you.
The Candlefinder Society – the five greatest detectives in London – regularly meet to talk shop. Sometimes, you join forces to unravel the city’s most unusual mysteries. Today we’re releasing another new case for you to solve: the Case of the Clay Kidnapper, written by Gavin Inglis.
A prominent Veilgarden artist has gone missing, mere days before a new exhibition of her work! Eyewitness reports pin the crime, vociferously and with great conviction, on a Clay Man. An open-and-shut case? The Implacable Detective has her doubts. In the art world, the evidence often requires a little creative interpretation…
This case is available for free.
Getting Started
Candlefinder mysteries are episodic stories set in London, available from the midgame onwards. To unlock the Candlefinder Society:
- Complete ‘A Name in Seven Secret Alphabets’ (raise that quality to 7)
- Complete ‘A Name Whispered in Darkness’ (raise that quality to 7)
- Raise your unmodified Watchful to 90 or more
If you meet those conditions, you can gain access to the Candlefinder Society by drawing a guaranteed card in London. Once started, cases must be finished before you can start another one or replay a past case. Some, like this one, require additional progress in other storylines, or higher stats, to begin. Cases can be replayed; Fate cases don’t cost anything to replay. The reward for completing a given case for the first time is more substantial.