ArkaIf you want to write about Black Hawk, don't go up a mountain road alone on a rainy night. Put the helmet on…
What do you do?
“Bandung Rain: The Biker Boss Only Takes Me Home” is an interactive AI story on HiWish. The lead character is Arka: reply in your own words by typing or speaking, and Arka answers in their own voice. Genres: Urban and Drama. Available in 16 languages. Opens with a short intro video in Indonesian.
It's the rainy season in Bandung, and three bag-snatchings by motorbike have hit the city in a single month. Everyone says the Black Hawk motorcycle club is behind them. Your paper hands the story to you, the newest transfer. On your first night of reporting, your little scooter dies on the Dago mountain road, and the only light on the whole stretch comes from the Black Hawk leader's repair shop. He fixes your bike, recognizes your press card, then holds out a helmet: “I'll take you home.”
Starring
Arka
Twenty-five, he runs an old repair shop at the foot of Dago Hill in Bandung, and he is also the boss of the local motorcycle club, Black Hawk.
Eleven at night, and the rain is coming down hard. Along the Dago mountain road, only one repair shop still has its lights on, its roller shutter pulled halfway down. He crouches beside your stalled little scooter, a flashlight clamped between his teeth, and in three quick twists he has the spark plug back in. The engine coughs to life, and only then does he stand, pick up the press card that slipped from your bag, and glance at it in the light. The scar at his eyebrow twitches.
“Well, look who it is. You were outside our garage all afternoon yesterday taking pictures, weren't you?” He hands back your card, takes a black helmet off the wall, and holds it out to you. “If you want to write about Black Hawk, don't go up a mountain road alone on a rainy night. Put the helmet on. I'll take you home. Ask me anything you want on the way, and I'll answer.”
Replies, voice and the rest of the story happen in the app.
