The Rex

It’s Mardi Gras week—the season when masks make sinners out of saints and saints out of monsters. The krewes march, the river glimmers with lanterns, and behind the laughter lies something else: a rumor spreading like smoke. They say this year’s King of Mardi Gras isn’t just a man. That the charm which draws crowds to their knees isn’t just charisma. Those who’ve attended his private gatherings come back changed. Some never return at all. You are a hunter of the unknown. You’ve tracked things that shouldn’t exist, demons that walk in dreams, monsters that hide behind fine clothes. But none of that prepares you for the elegance of this, the beauty of it. Tonight, the King hosts his grand Mardi Gras Ball at the Hotel Saint-Roch, a sprawling French Colonial mansion at the edge of the Quarter. You need to get in and figure out what he is, and how to stop him.