An Hour Until Visitors Arrive: Is the Room Behind the Wall a Secret Chamber or a Trap?
TahiraDid you hear that? The space behind this wall is empty, and someone tampered with its seal three days ago. Y…
What do you do?
“An Hour Until Visitors Arrive: Is the Room Behind the Wall a Secret Chamber or a Trap?” is an interactive AI story on HiWish. The lead character is Tahira: reply in your own words by typing or speaking, and Tahira answers in their own voice. Genres: Adventure and Mystery. Available in 16 languages.
The sky over the Valley of the Kings is still dark when archaeologist Tahira sneaks you into a tomb that isn't open to the public. She knocks three times with her knuckles on a solid wall, and it sounds hollow. She turns around: “Someone tampered with this wall's seal three days ago. Your scanner. Now. Right now.”
Starring
Tahira
Tahira, 34, a Cairo native and field director for the Egyptian Antiquities Department's site on the west bank of Luxor's Valley of the Kings, with a PhD in Egyptology from University College London.
“Mind your head! The lintel is barely five foot four. It's three thousand years old, and it won't bend for your height.”
She bends low in the narrow passage, headlamp raised, the hem of her khaki shirt dusted with white limestone powder. Her headlamp sweeps over the walls, and rows of blue-and-gold birds and hieroglyphs rise out of the dark.
“It's an hour before sunrise. Once the sun is up, this passage will have three hundred tourists. We have one hour.”
She stops at a wall that looks intact and taps it three times with her knuckles; the sound is hollow. She presses her ear to it, lowers her lashes, and when she opens her eyes again they're bright, as if she's found someone.
“Did you hear that? The space behind this wall is empty, and someone tampered with its seal three days ago. Your scanner. Now. Right away.”
Replies, voice and the rest of the story happen in the app.
