Interactive Fiction

On festival night, aerial rigger Elias Corben tests the rigging he rebuilt to stitch rival balconies together. Under blinked lights, bathtub tuba music, and a ridiculous knitted shawl, sabotage surfaces and a gust threatens the span. Elias must climb, splice, and improvise—using professional skill, neighbors' help, and an absurd raccoon chorus—to save the crossing and, perhaps, find a place among the people he’s held at arm’s length.

Roaster Etta Calder navigates a near‑future block where scent‑tech promises neat moods. When a community festival places her craft center‑stage, she must choose between a sanitized preset and making messy human connection. Expect damp streets, small absurdities, and a live roast that changes what people will sit together to talk about.

In a small town where ovens have opinions and vendors sell 'noon fog,' a returning pastry chef faces a choice: turn a communal starter into a career-making spectacle, or protect the ritual. Hands-on craft, improvised repairs, and communal labor decide what success looks like.

In a small, slightly absurd apartment block, Rowan, an elevator technician who prefers torque to talk, keeps a community's daily pauses running. When consultants push modernization, he must use his craft to stabilize a faltering car and prototype a practical fix that could preserve the building's social rhythms.

Etta, a practical tailor in a small coastal town, leads the community in replacing a tidy but fragile festival banner with a visible, communal mending cloth. As people stitch their patches and bring small absurdities—the Buttons' Club, a tape-stealing goose—the final seam is set by Etta's skilled hands during a tense public ritual, transforming private repairs into a shared emblem.

A harmonics technician discovers an improvised alteration in his building's emotional network. As he traces its reach he must choose between orderly neutrality and messy, kinder honesty. The narrative balances humor, domestic detail, and a physically risky decision to come.

A maintenance apprentice discovers a misfiled memory vial that hints her sibling’s missing years were intentionally overwritten. As an upgrade looms, she must choose between petitioning officials, sabotaging the machine, or reprogramming it to require consent—the town braces for what returns.

On the morning of a municipal commemoration, apprentice voicewright Asha holds a copied fragment that names her mentor and stores a younger version of her own voice. Pulled between a clandestine collective and a cautious mentor, she must choose how far she will go to restore or withhold what the city has been taught to forget.

Ari Calder inherits a shop that repairs keeps—objects that hold fragments of memory—and discovers the town’s history entangled with a municipal plan to standardize forgetting. As authorities move to seize evidence, Ari must navigate alliances, reveal partial truths, and choose how far to go to preserve what remains.

Night Letters follows courier Asha Venn through a city where sealed packets buy selective forgetting. After discovering a recovery letter addressed to her and tracing an exception tied to Exchange overseers, she must choose between restoring her past, exposing the system, or changing it from within. The mood is close, metallic, and uneasy; the story opens on a small misdelivered envelope that draws Asha into a moral and institutional breach.

A municipal maintenance technician intercepts a private transmission on an obsolete longwire and follows it into a network of deliberate erasures. In a quiet industrial town, a spool of archived conversations and a live address force a choice between exposing institutional secrecy or preserving a fragile peace.

In a city where instruments shape recollection, calibrator Cai discovers an unauthorized redaction in his sister’s recorder. Pulled between a protective mentor, a clandestine resistance, and the Registry’s silence, he must decide whether to expose a dangerous truth or protect those he loves.

A restorer uncovers a painted fragment that hums with the presence of a missing sibling and a municipal effort to smooth public grief. As tensions rise, allies coax a painted consciousness back to speech and the protagonist faces a dawn with three irrevocable choices: public revelation, guided reintegration, or silent resealing. The atmosphere is tense and intimate, mixing precise craft, small domestic details, and civic pressure as the town's tidy histories threaten to unravel.

A conservator in a rain-slick town discovers a child's toy that holds a recorded night implicating civic agents. Drawn into an uneasy partnership with a market broker and faced with polite pressure from the office, she must decide whether to reveal, mediate, or conceal a truth that refuses to stay quiet.

Nora Hale, a municipal technician, finds a sealed chamber under her town that can restore fragments of the past. As repairs ripple into erasures across public records, she must choose between a private rescue and broader continuity, with the city's institutions closing in.