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The Borrowed Platform
The platform is the address, and the address is the only thing they cannot take.
- ~35 min
- 3951 words
- 19 scenes
- 4 branch points
- 3 endings
- The winter of 1979, in the invented river city of Ashlade
22 recorded plays (one per visitor per day)
No cover art yet · art review pending · audio review pending · listing metadata: listing.json · counts: authored
About
A disused terminus at Harrowgate has run for eleven years as a legal waystation for people the city cannot count. Letters for the unaddressed are written to Harrowgate, Platform Four, and are held under the canopy in a row of steel boxes. Eden Shaw, 39, is the station architect who inherited the platform from her father, and Mira Shaw, 65, is the mother and mentor who signed the order to demolish it. Kellan Dove, 44, is the structural engineer whose signature is on half of Eden's drawings and who used to be her spouse. A train arrives at 4:10 with no passengers and one sealed legal notice. Across a compact three-act route the player decides how that notice is handled, what terms the residents of the shelter are owed, and what public record the platform may hold. Three endings protect the canopy: a chartered commons with a public register, a one-year provisional lease with quarterly re-consent, or a charter nobody signs until every resident has read it. Romance is nonexplicit, clothed, and consent-forward throughout. Shelter, medicine, work, legal standing, and access are never exchanged for affection, and every promise on the platform is revisable.
Content notice11 topics · tap to review
- adult-only confirmation at the start
- housing loss and displacement
- institutional neglect by a city works department
- separation and renegotiation of an adult marriage
- grief over a parent and an inherited obligation
- adult relationship tension
- gentle adult intimacy that cuts away
- no explicit content of any kind
- no unclothed characters
- no one under eighteen is depicted
- no voice or likeness taken from any real individual
Cast
- E Eden Shaw protagonist, station architect and inheritor of Platform Four no portrait yet
- K Kellan Dove structural engineer and Eden's former adult spouse no portrait yet
- M Mira Shaw works architect, Eden's mother and first mentor, author of the demolition order no portrait yet
- I Iveta adult shelter resident, voice only, no portrait asset no portrait yet