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The Quarry of Borrowed Names
The line reopens only when no worker pays with their name.
- ~35 min
- 2510 words
- 19 scenes
- 4 branch points
- 3 endings
- The winter of 1978, in the invented northern quarry district of Veyr
33 recorded plays (one per visitor per day)
No cover art yet · art review pending · listing metadata: listing.json · counts: authored
About
A winter quarry railway trades names for passage. Tala Finch, 36, is the clerk who copies its manifests. Iven Marr, 40, is the signal engineer and Tala's estranged partner. Lotte Gray, 55, is the tunnel warden who has kept the hidden ledger for years. Tala finds Iven listed as the next donor, then follows the ink through a flooded tunnel and a worker hostel where the bargain is still being enforced. Across a compact three-act route, the player decides what evidence to preserve, what to disclose, and how to remain close to Iven without turning an old promise into permission. Three endings reopen the line under public rules, with Iven's freshly consented page and the public rule, a sealed private record and a public covenant, or a patient workers' signature. The romance is adult, nonexplicit, tense and grounded.
Content notice9 topics · tap to review
- adult-only confirmation
- coercive institutions
- threatened name-transfer
- workplace danger
- adult relationship tension
- implied intimacy cuts away
- no explicit sexual content
- no nudity
- no real-person likeness
Cast
- T Tala Finch protagonist, railway clerk and estranged partner no portrait yet
- I Iven Marr signal engineer and Tala's estranged adult partner no portrait yet
- L Lotte Gray tunnel warden and keeper of the ledger no portrait yet