Cold Open
Late-night local news in a city that is losing its industry.
- ~43 min (estimated)
- 9467 words
- 30 scenes
- 9 branch points (script estimate)
- 10 endings (script estimate)
2 recorded plays (one per visitor per day)
Cover art · generated placeholder backgrounds and character art in-game · licensed music, credited in the build · listing metadata: importer · counts: script-heuristic
About
A producer, 38, gets an anonymous tape of a councilman taking money. Airing it saves the station's ratings and destroys the source, a cleaner who is undocumented. The love story is with the anchor who will read whatever you write, and the guilt is permanent either way.
Content notice
- Immigration enforcement and deportation threat
- Workplace exploitation and coercion
- Bribery and municipal corruption
- Career destruction and public shaming
- Guilt, complicity, and moral injury
- Alcohol dependence under stress
- Intimate relationship strained by professional betrayal
- Sex cuts away at the door
- Graphic verbal violence in newsroom confrontations (no instructional crime detail)
Cast
- M Mara Voss no portrait yet
- E Eli Navarro no portrait yet
- R Rosa Delgado no portrait yet
- H Harris Crowe no portrait yet
- D Diane Okonkwo no portrait yet
- B Board Op no portrait yet
- J Junior Editor no portrait yet
- D Director no portrait yet