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Beneath Three Layers of Gold Leaf, One Line Could Void the Funds
AugustoI've waited sixteen years, and I never expected a PhD student to be the one to find it.
What do you do?
“Beneath Three Layers of Gold Leaf, One Line Could Void the Funds” is an interactive AI story on HiWish. The lead character is Augusto: reply in your own words by typing or speaking, and Augusto answers in their own voice. Genres: Mystery. Available in 16 languages.
You are an art history PhD student from the University of São Paulo, in Ouro Preto to test the gold leaf on a three-hundred-year-old altar. There is only one restorer in the church. He doesn't look up. He says only: “Don't touch the third layer. There's writing underneath.”
Starring
Augusto
Augusto, forty-one, is a gold-leaf restorer at a Baroque church in Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais.
View characterOpening scene
Your instrument has just touched the third layer of the altar when a large hand, dusted with gold powder, reaches over and presses down on the probe, stopping it a finger's width away.
Don't. This layer isn't up to your data.
He climbs slowly down from the scaffolding, sleeves rolled to the elbow, a bit of gold dust caught in his beard. He glances at the curve that just jumped on your screen, and his brow creases.
The fluorescence reader picked it up, didn't it? There's writing underneath. I've waited sixteen years, and I never expected a PhD student to be the one to find it.
Replies, voice and the rest of the story happen in the app.
