Vacancy
A motel on a highway that got bypassed.
- ~20 min (estimated)
- 4504 words
- 15 scenes
- 9 branch points (script estimate)
- 1 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
Gita, 47, buys it as a fresh start and inherits its long-term residents: a man hiding from a sentence, a woman waiting for someone who is not coming, and a boy who does the laundry for room and board. When the sheriff starts asking, the answer determines who is still there at the end.
Content notice
- Coercion and quiet blackmail
- Fugitive status / obstruction of justice
- Grief and abandoned waiting
- Economic precarity and exploitation of labor
- Addiction (alcohol; past opioid dependence referenced)
- Domestic violence in backstory (not on-screen)
- Suicide ideation (referenced; not enacted on-screen)
- Bigotry shown through behaviour (small-town suspicion; slurs not written out)
- Sex cuts away at the door (desire, negotiation, and aftermath only)
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Cast
- G Gita Ramesh no portrait yet
- M Marcus Hale no portrait yet
- D Dot Kell no portrait yet
- E Eli Vargas no portrait yet
- S Sheriff Ruth Cole no portrait yet
- S Seller's Agent no portrait yet
- D Deputy no portrait yet
- P Pass no portrait yet