Notes on a Ceasefire
Two interpreters on opposite sides of a negotiated pause in a war neither started.
- ~20 min (estimated)
- 4515 words
- 11 scenes
- 5 branch points (script estimate)
- 4 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
Anouk, 36, and Serhii, 41, translate other people's lies for a living and fall in love in the margins of a transcript. The third point of the triangle is the ceasefire itself: protecting it means never telling the truth to anyone who trusts you. A mistranslation you choose early kills people in act three.
Content notice
- War and negotiated ceasefire under constant breach pressure
- Civilian casualties as direct consequence of translation choices
- Coercion, diplomatic blackmail, and institutional gaslighting
- Grief, survivor guilt, and moral injury
- Extramarital/secret intimacy under surveillance
- Addiction (stimulants, alcohol) used to stay functional in talks
- Bigotry shown through behaviour and consequence (no slurs written out)
- Suicide ideation (referenced, not instructional)
- Sex cuts away at the door; desire, aftermath, and consequence remain in full
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Cast
- A Anouk Vale no portrait yet
- S Serhii Moroz no portrait yet
- M Marta Kline no portrait yet
- C Col. Vadim Rudenko no portrait yet
- L Linh Okonkwo no portrait yet
- I Iryna Moroz no portrait yet