Welcome to the City of Veils: Meridian Protocol!
“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.” — Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles
Baltimore wears its nights like a second skin—harbour fog, sirens in the distance, the soft thrum of trains under cracked brick. Something new rides that darkness. Whispers say a detective’s blood carries a god’s trace, a fleeting spark that makes monsters more than what they are. At the center is Det. Catriona “Cat” Fraser, youngest detective in BPD history and the unwilling fulcrum of a secret economy. She doesn’t know why courts, covens, and syndicates are suddenly tracing routes through rowhouse mazes and along the Jones Falls. She doesn’t know why the morgue lights hum a half-note lower when she walks in. She only knows the bodies are stacking up, the stories don’t agree, and too many people seem suddenly stronger, faster, hungrier than they should be.
The Meridian Commission—an agency that keeps the human and the hidden from tearing each other apart—has moved in quietly, badges tucked behind bureaucratic smiles. The city can feel it: a pressure change before a storm.
City of Veils: Meridian Protocol is a collaborative writing story about power—its taste, its price, and the people who can’t stop reaching for it. This isn’t a casual sandbox. It’s built for writers who like pressure in their prose: for those who want to feel consequence, to write scenes that bite back. The tone is grounded, tense, and human. Every character walks the line between what they want and what it costs to keep it. This story values initiative and authenticity over polish. The tone can be intense, but that’s because we write where emotion meets consequence. We don’t chase perfection; we chase truth—the kind that comes from broken loyalties, bad decisions, and moments that change everything.
If you want to write stories that ask something of you—to test character, explore consequence, and see what happens when the city looks back—you’ll belong here.
The city’s breathing. Take the first step. Who will you become?