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Netwrck library novels are complete, playable scripts at different stages of production: 84 of the 208 novels have generated cover art; 139 novels play audio, 124 of them with licence credits and the other 69 are silent; 9 novels still use generated placeholder backgrounds and character art in-game. Fork one and the art, music and voice tools in the editor fill in the rest. Author-published novels carry whatever their author gave them, and each card states its own art, audio and content notice below.

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The Night the Tower Asked

In Amberthwaite, magic is not cast.

~51 min
11408 words
6 branch points
4 endings
27 plays

mature-17-plus fantasy academy institutional-critique bureaucratic-magic contracts-and-obligation coercion records-and-evidence winter moral-ambiguity restrained-fantasy-craft no-sexual-content

Content notice (8)

A minor's signature taken in an emergency and relied on for four years
Institutional coercion by procedure rather than by force
A witness who cannot afford to withdraw consent
A job that cannot be declined and cannot be left
Public naming of private financial obligation
Hunger written as money, fees and wages
Loss of irreplaceable records, described without injury
Chosen adult company, non-sexual, bounded, easy to decline

· art review pending · play time estimated from word count

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The Museum of Unfinished Doors

Ostrow is a river capital, and its Civic Collection is a long low yellow-brick building in the Marsch Park that was a customs house until 1937.

~31 min
7027 words
4 branch points
3 endings
31 plays

all-ages fantasy architectural-magic museums work-and-incompletion civic-institutions institutional-ethics restrained-fantasy-craft no-sexual-content

Content notice (5)

A building begun and never finished
A work site that failed under a boy at work
Institutional pressure and a public committee
A name removed from a public record in 1981
A hard moral choice that no option resolves

· art review pending · play time estimated from word count

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The Quarantine of Bellwether

Bellwether is a market town of eleven thousand on a slow brown river, with a north ward, a river gate, and a bell tower whose hours mark the time the ward is shut.

~37 min
8237 words
4 branch points
4 endings
26 plays

teen fantasy civic-fantasy quarantine contagion-magic mass-distrust small-town paperwork-ethics public-record institutional-ethics moral-ambiguity restrained-fantasy-craft no-sexual-content

Content notice (7)

Quarantine and enforced confinement
Hunger and food rationing
Mass civic distrust and a shared false agreement
A public record used to erase a group
Institutional pressure and a public vote
A hard moral choice that no option resolves
Illness described without any symptom being visible

· art review pending · play time estimated from word count

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The Undertaker's Apprentice

In Gallowmere, a northern town on the trade road, a body is a document.

~57 min
12723 words
5 branch points
5 endings
31 plays

mature-17-plus fantasy morbid-fantasy undertakers paperwork-magic small-town institutional-ethics inheritance grief apprenticeship moral-ambiguity restrained-fantasy-craft no-sexual-content

Content notice (7)

Death and burial described at trade level
Burned remains and their recovery
A house fire with six adult deaths
Financial ruin of four households
Self-destruction offered and declined aloud
Institutional pressure and a public naming
A hard moral choice with no clean option

· art review pending · play time estimated from word count

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Salt on the Windward Side

The Windward Reach is a hard western coast of sea stacks and low cliffs, fourteen miles long, with four lamps burning on it in a chain and four families who have kept them for six generations.

~56 min
12346 words
5 branch points
5 endings
28 plays

teen fantasy coastal cost-magic questions-and-answers family-obligation found-document inherited-institution moral-ambiguity working-class-protagonist restrained-fantasy-craft no-sexual-content

Content notice (7)

Destructive magic with a named, unrefusable price
Loss of a family word and a family name
Institutional habit of thirty-one years examined in a public meeting
A boat and a season of work lost, described
One branch spends a year of another living person's life
Sleet, gale, and a winter deadline
Chosen adult company, non-sexual, nothing depicted

· art review pending · play time estimated from word count

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The Cartographer Who Drew the Sea

The Selvage Coast is a long run of chalk and timber, and every chart drawn of it is a promise the world has to keep: surveyed, fair-copied by an engraver who never saw the field book, signed by two hands, and sealed.

~50 min
11123 words
6 branch points
4 endings
30 plays

mature-17-plus fantasy cartography chart-magic coastal institutional-pressure professional-ethics small-town workplace moral-ambiguity restrained-fantasy-craft no-explicit-sexual-content

Content notice (8)

A false sealed chart and a record that is wrong on purpose for twenty years
Coercion through a job, a signature, a wage account, and other people's licences
Named self-interest and a career ambition pursued against the public record
Relocation of four hundred and six people in the rain
Nineteen deaths, described and counted, including two named adults
A career-ending disclosure and a resigned commission
Loss of a harbour's legal position and of two hundred and eleven men's work
Chosen adult company, non-sexual, bounded, fades before anything is depicted

· art review pending · play time estimated from word count

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Sixteen Doors, One Key

Marrowgate is a walled city cut into seven terraces, and each terrace holds sixteen named doors that the city keeps locked as promises.

~26 min
5886 words
4 branch points
4 endings
53 plays

teen fantasy city-fantasy craft-and-apprenticeship lockwork-magic institutional-negligence records-and-evidence consent-and-refusal city-politics moral-ambiguity restrained-fantasy-craft no-sexual-content

Content notice (6)

Institutional negligence and an uninspected record
Nine years of confinement in a room nine feet by one, described without injury
A threatened demolition of an occupied room
A clock of eleven days and a hard moral choice with no clean option
A career and a stipend placed at risk
A dated mention of an adult's action as a minor, not depicted

· art review pending · play time estimated from word count

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The Night the Tower Asked

The Museum of Unfinished Doors

The Quarantine of Bellwether

The Undertaker's Apprentice

Salt on the Windward Side

The Cartographer Who Drew the Sea

Sixteen Doors, One Key

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