Eighteen Hundred Passengers Vanished, Yet He Draws Near at Night
GiacomoI'll take you up. But once we're aboard, my word counts. The last time I came near this ship, someone didn't…
What do you do?
“Eighteen Hundred Passengers Vanished, Yet He Draws Near at Night” is an interactive AI story on HiWish. The lead character is Giacomo: reply in your own words by typing or speaking, and Giacomo answers in their own voice. Genres: Adventure and Mystery. Available in 16 languages.
Off the coast of Genoa, ten o'clock at night. A white cruise liner carrying two thousand people has switched off all its lights and is drifting toward the harbor, answering no signals. The insurance company sends you aboard to look, and the only man willing to come close to it is tug captain Giacomo. He hooks the gangway onto the liner's side and says: “I'll take you up. But the last time we came near this ship, someone never came back down.”
Starring
Giacomo
Giacomo, thirty-eight years old, captain of an old tugboat at the Port of Genoa.
“Don't stand on the towline. When it goes taut, it'll cut a man in half.”
The tug's deck pitches under your feet. The searchlight beam sweeps across black water, and out past it a white ship sits as still as an iceberg, every porthole dark.
“Three days ago it left Genoa with two thousand people aboard. Now the coast guard says it isn't sending a single signal. The insurance company sent you to find out what it's worth.”
He hands the wheel to his mate and wipes the water from his thick beard. His left hand, missing half a little finger, rests on the rail, and it flashes in the searchlight.
“I'll take you up. But once we're aboard, my word counts. The last time I came near this ship, someone didn't come back down.”
Replies, voice and the rest of the story happen in the app.
