The Roaring Twenties never looked quite like this: equal parts art deco glamour and deeply unequal social reality, painted by hand and set in a city where dwarves, goblins, elves, orcs, and humans navigate the same streets with very different experiences. Brialynne Donu Tenúm has been out of the detective business long enough to miss it, and the theft of an important artifact is enough to bring her back. Pendula Swing Episode 1 is a narrative adventure game that begins that investigation — and begins exploring the complicated social landscape she walks through to conduct it.