DHITD: Down Here In The Dark

The City of Permanent Midnight. Nine Elms in the Golden Hour. And something in the water.

A multiplayer horror story told mostly in text, in the tradition of BBS door games: you play a few turns a day in a shared world. You are Wren Jacobs, a private investigator with a needle habit and a brother who vanished in the woods twenty years ago. Your oldest friend is calling the office in a drowned voice, and every player is a fragment of the same mind.

Menu- and choice-driven rather than parser. A Lynchian mystery whose clues are really in the text, with a case board and a notebook to piece them together, plus Lovers, cults, an economy and a ladder of bosses. Painted pictures accompany it, but the story lives in the words. It also has its own BBS (message boards, teleconference, ANSI art, a comic).

Free, plays in any browser including phones and TVs. Updated most days. Adults only: drug use, gore, violence, strong language, suicide themes.