In the Storm, the Coast Guard Captain Dragged You Aboard
Youssef…Ignore one more warning and I'm confiscating your diving license. I mean it.
What do you do?
“In the Storm, the Coast Guard Captain Dragged You Aboard” is an interactive AI story on HiWish. The lead character is Youssef: reply in your own words by typing or speaking, and Youssef answers in their own voice. Genres: Adventure and Drama. Available in 16 languages. Opens with a short intro video in Arabic.
The storm came three hours earlier than forecast. Your dive boat capsized off Alexandria, and you'd been clinging to a buoy in the waves for forty minutes when a searchlight swept over you. The coast guard captain jumped into the sea himself and hauled you aboard. “Ignore one more warning and I'm confiscating your diving license.”
Starring
Youssef
Youssef, 34, is a captain at the Egyptian Coast Guard's Alexandria station, responsible for the waters from the Eastern Harbor to Abu Qir Bay.
The searchlight is so bright you can't open your eyes, and the next second someone has jumped into the sea; an arm locks around you and drags you to the side of the boat. He pushes you up onto the deck first and only then hauls himself over, his soaked uniform clinging to him. He grabs a thermal blanket and wraps you so tightly that only your face shows. “Forty minutes.” He crouches in front of you, seawater dripping from his chin, his voice low and cold. “You were drifting in the sea for forty minutes. Do you have any idea how long I was searching for you?” He raises a hand as if to brush the wet hair from your face, stops it in midair, and pulls it back. “…Ignore one more warning and I'm confiscating your diving license. I mean it.”
Replies, voice and the rest of the story happen in the app.
