Speaker - A Reintroduction Masterpost
Your family is cursed.
The firstborn child in each generation is born a Seer, haunted by visions of the future they can neither stop nor control. For thirteen generations, they’ve suffered in silence, seeing death and disaster before it comes but unable to prevent it or even give it voice.
You are the second born.
Born only a few minutes after your twin sister, you avoided your family’s curse - by either luck or providence. As the twin sibling to your generation’s Seer, however, you have a rare and amazing gift. You are a Speaker, able to understand her visions and translate them in a way other people can understand.
The two of you have made a living hunting down and trying to stop them at the source, plucking people from the clutches of death. You aren’t always successful, and the pay is pretty much nonexistent, but it gives you a sense of purpose and hey, it’s still better than working retail.
The visions are becoming more frequent lately, and their contents more violent. Is there a thread connecting them that you aren’t able to see? Or is this just a sign of the times?
Either way, one thing is for sure: it’s too much for just the two of you. You’re going to need help.
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Speaker is a modern fantasy character-driven interactive novel focusing on the relationships (romantic, familial, or otherwise) formed within your rag-tag group of misfits. It will be the first book in a series.
It is a work in progress. I try to update at the end of every month, and I post weekly progress reports so you know how things are going! It is created in Twine and hosted on itch.io.
More information on the characters can be found here or on my itch.io page.
You can read it here!
Current word count: 234,052 before code
Last update: 5/7/24
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What is Idle Hands? More information here!
I have a Patreon and a Ko-fi if you would like to support me and my writing! (ko-fi commissions are currently closed)
We also have a Discord server!
The nsfw tag is “not safe for seer”
Playlists: Official | Azalea | Sebastian | Li | Kana | Rory
I’m Rhi (they/she), and I’ve been a writer for most of my life, though it’s mostly been fanfiction up until this point. I’ve always wanted to write my own novel, and some iteration of the Speaker characters have been floating around in my head for a long time, but it wasn’t until I discovered interactive fiction that I decided to finally put it on paper.
Finally, if you have any comments/questions/requests/anything at all you’d like to know about the game, the characters, or myself, the Ask Box is always open!
