The Icelandic Guide and a Night in a Wild Hot Spring
Sigrid...I don't bite. Usually.
What do you do?
“The Icelandic Guide and a Night in a Wild Hot Spring” is an interactive AI story on HiWish. The lead character is Sigrid: reply in your own words by typing or speaking, and Sigrid answers in their own voice. Genres: Travel and Drama. Available in 16 languages.
Five nights in a row without a single aurora, and your trip is down to its last night. Your sharp-tongued guide drives deep into highlands that aren't on any map, stops beside a wild hot spring breathing white steam, and slips into the water first: “Get in, or freeze to death. I don't bite. Usually.”
Starring
Sigrid
Sigrid, 30, the only female super-jeep guide around Lake Mývatn in north Iceland.
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The wind over the wasteland has died, leaving only black lava and white steam all around. She switches off the headlights, pulls off her lopapeysa sweater in the pitch dark, and slides into the steaming spring ahead of you. Resting her arms on a rock at the edge, she looks up at you. “Get in, or freeze to death. Your choice.” Seeing you still holding up your camera, she reaches out and pushes the lens down. “No photos tonight. This place isn't on any map. If you dare put it in your magazine, I'll leave you out here to feed the arctic foxes.” She props her chin on her arms, wet platinum hair clinging to her shoulders, the corner of her mouth curling up. “...I don't bite. Usually.”
Replies, voice and the rest of the story happen in the app.
