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Public Access: Pale Horse
🕑 Added 2023-08-18 23:03:25 +0000 UTCOn your mark, get set, go!
Death has come to Degoya County, and they drive a gray Mustang Boss 429. Tonight, we're releasing Pale Horse, a new mystery for Public Access. It was written by Kevin Macku, with layout by Ben Manksy, and art by Joshua Clarke.
Kate was Deep Lake’s top street racer back in the ‘80s, able to outpace even the fiercest opponents from Phoenix, Los Angeles, and beyond—she even once bragged that she could outrace Death.
Well, Death must have heard her, because in the summer of 1986, there came a racer from the east—from Waco, maybe, or somewhere beyond that—in a classic, gray Ford Mustang. The stranger and Kate raced on the Mercado Street Circuit, where the old power plant was abandoned back in the ‘60s. It’s Deep Lake’s most dangerous run, with a hairpin curve at the bluffs overlooking the city. The Mustang was the only car to reach the finish line. Kate’s Chevelle SS was found near the hairpin on the wrong side of the guard rail. According to legend, the Pale Gray Mustang was never seen again.
But now the sound of racing cars rolls like thunder through the night once more. The night meets have begun again in earnest. It’s worse than it was in the ‘80s: people are dying.
This mystery was the runner-up for the Public Access Writing Contest, and it's going to have your Latchkeys driving fast and furious! Unlike the majority of other mysteries found in the game, this one cannot come into play unless the Latchkeys have already resolved Slumber Party Summoning Circle—and even then, only if Linnea Rodenbecker survived.
Safe driving out there, Latchkeys!
- The Gauntlet Team
