Paul Kendrick

April 17, 2025

By Grace Steinmetz

🛑 YOU ARE NOT THE MURDERER.

But you’ve served drinks to all of them. You know whose hands shake. Whose stories don’t line up.


Additional Backstory:

Red’s final night alive, he stopped by your bar. Didn’t order a drink. Just sat down and said:

“It’s coming full circle, Paul. I left the truth in the walls. But they won’t like it.”

He gave you a napkin with a drawing — crude, circular, with a tunnel that curved back into itself. Labeled S13C: Mouth.

Later, you found an old locker key hidden in a bottle Red left behind the bar.

Locker’s been empty ever since. But someone’s moved the stuff out of it.


New Motivation:

Make sure Red’s real message doesn’t fall into the wrong hands. Keep the investigation going — but stay one step ahead. You’re not trying to stop the truth. You’re trying to control how it’s told.


Clue You Possess:

  • Red’s napkin sketch, real and fake versions

  • A key to a locker that no one has found yet (or already emptied…)

  • A list of initials scratched inside your liquor cabinet.

    G.B., M.G., F.C., R.M., C.H., S.T. One of them’s still lying.
    One of them’s already dead.