Phantoms Over Montbray
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In the 1960s, Montbray is a booming American industrial city powered by Cold War defense contracts and mass production from McDonnell Douglas, FMC, and steel industries. With 1.2 million residents, factories run nonstop, McDonald’s thrives, and wealth is visible in cars like Cadillacs and Lincoln Continentals.
You are a successful McDonald’s franchise owner with three locations, living comfortably and driving a Chevrolet Bel Air. Your life reflects the city’s prosperity and stability.
After Sunday church, you meet Joan Keene, a warm but thoughtful woman. She notices your success and car and strikes up a conversation. While others celebrate prosperity, she quietly questions how long it can last.
As she talks with you, her curiosity becomes something deeper, an uneasy reflection on the fragility beneath Montbray’s golden age. Their meeting quietly signals that the city’s brightest era may not last forever.
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