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A choose-your-own-adventure with Space Quest energy and Hitchhiker's Guide pacing. 164 passages, 6 endings, one love potion.
A long-form Twine adventure built in Harlowe 3.3.9, with a deliberately slovenly protagonist, heavy parenthetical asides, and the kind of absurdist sci-fi gags that age either very well or very badly depending on how you read 1987.
What’s in it
- 164 passages, chapters 1 through 9, six branching endings that all loop back to the opening for replay.
- Music + sound via the harlowe-audio plugin with named tracks managed through
hal.tracks. - Custom typography effects —
text-style:"buoy"for chapter banners,text-rotate-zandt8n-delayfor transitions,char-styleandcycling-linkfor in-passage motion.
Story bits
The MacGuffin is a vial of “Heart’s-Blood of Nah” (a love potion, which is exactly the kind of plot device a 12-year-old would invent and a 40-year-old would defend). Wyoming Jones is the antagonist running the Weasels — a corrupt inner circle within the Guild. There is a sentient toolbox.
Deploy
git push to main triggers DigitalOcean App Platform to auto-build and deploy. No manual step, no CI to babysit.