Talekai

Jazz Age and Prohibition

Gin, jazz, and gangsters after midnight

The glittering, dangerous 1920s: speakeasies, bootleggers, flappers, jazz clubs, and the darkness beneath the party.

Styles
Novel · Literary · Pulp · Noir, or Random
Aisle
Historical

Begin with

  1. The Velvet Lantern

    You sing at a speakeasy in Chicago, 1925. Tonight, two rival bootleggers sit at the same table, and each slipped you a note asking you to poison the other.

    Your role: A speakeasy singer

  2. Harlem Nocturne

    You are a young pianist arriving in Harlem with big dreams. Your first gig is at a club where the owner just vanished, leaving you his piano and his debts.

    Your role: A Harlem pianist

  3. Prohibition Agent

    You are the most honest prohibition agent in New York, which makes you the most hated. Your new partner is on a gangster's payroll, and so is your sister.

    Your role: A prohibition agent

Start a premise as written, or make it yours with your own hero, style, tropes and intensity. Every scene after the first is written around your choices.

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