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Deadtime Stories is a 2010 hidden objectPC game developed by I-play and distributed by Big Fish Games. The premise of the game centers around a mysterious gentleman, named "Edward Blackgate", and the lost souls interred in his private cemetery, "Everlasting Life". The player meets these lost souls and learns about the events that lead to their respective downfalls.
Jessie Bodeen[]
Miss Jessie Bodeen was a New OrleansVoodooqueen, who acted as a healer for the local African Americans working as servants in the city, as healer she had pledged to do no harm. Now a resident at "Everlasting Life", she tells the story of her downfall when she accepted a commission from one Delphine LaLaurie (a historically infamous real-life murderess). For $150 (a lot of money back then), she was to drive away another socialite, Mrs. Anton, a wealthy young widow who was new in town and already more popular than Delphine LaLaurie. For the next three months, Jessie is able to discreetly poison Mrs. Anton with small amounts of aconite to keep her too ill to attend any parties, having been warned against invoking the Loa to curse Mrs. Anton by Mambo Marie, a fellow Voodoo practitioner. However, when the three months are done and the social season in New Orleans is over for the year, Delphine LaLaurie reneges on their deal after Jessie Bodeen had kept up her end of the bargain. Furious, after the lengths she had compromised her principles to for that money, Jessie Bodeen makes up her mind to seek revenge on Delphine LaLaurie by invoking the Loa, particularly Damballa, to avenge her. The Loa punishes Delphine LaLaurie, regardless of collateral damages and innocent bystanders, and 10 years later, they also punish Jessie Bodeen for having taken on Delphine LaLaurie's commission in the first place ("The Loa cast their own judgements").
