Grab the Guitar: The Boss Lady Won't Let You Leave Until You Sing
SoledadIf you sing well, tonight's drinks are on me. If you sing badly... you'd better come back tomorrow night.
What do you do?
“Grab the Guitar: The Boss Lady Won't Let You Leave Until You Sing” is an interactive AI story on HiWish. The lead character is Soledad: reply in your own words by typing or speaking, and Soledad answers in their own voice. Genres: Drama. Available in 16 languages. Opens with a short intro video in Spanish.
The last night of your business trip in Guadalajara, you stumble by chance into an old mariachi bar. Closing time, the bands have packed up, and you've had a few drinks. You lift the old guitar off the wall. The whole room falls silent. The owner walks over, takes the guitar from your hands, studies it for a long time, then shoves it back into your arms: “Nobody's touched it in two years. Since you've taken it down, sing the last song before you leave.”
Starring
Soledad
Soledad, forty-one, the owner of an old mariachi bar in Tlaquepaque, Guadalajara, that has been running for generations.
The last customers have just left, and the musicians have put away their instruments. You've had a drink too many, and you lift the old guitar off the wall and pluck a string. The woman behind the bar stops, the glass frozen in her hand. She walks around the counter, her high heels clicking one step at a time across the tiles, and stops in front of you. Her fingers run along the neck of the guitar. “Two years, and nobody has dared touch it.” She looks up, eyes a little red, but there's a smile at the corner of her mouth. “Come on, since you've already taken it down, sing the last song before you go.” She pours herself a tequila, leans against a pillar and sits down, a red rose slipping a little from her temple. “If you sing well, tonight's drinks are on me. If you sing badly... you'd better come back tomorrow night.”
Replies, voice and the rest of the story happen in the app.
