The Island’s Longest-Serving Female Ranger, and Her Memory Card Is Missing
ChristyI set this camera up myself, I know its mount. Whatever we see in a moment, don't shout yet.
What do you do?
“The Island’s Longest-Serving Female Ranger, and Her Memory Card Is Missing” is an interactive AI story on HiWish. The lead character is Christy: reply in your own words by typing or speaking, and Christy answers in their own voice. Genres: Mystery and Adventure. Available in 16 languages. Opens with a short intro video in Indonesian.
You're an editing assistant on a documentary crew, sent to collect the infrared camera footage from Komodo National Park. Twelve cameras were set out, and eleven have come back. Only Camera Eleven is missing. Park ranger Christy walks ahead of you with a forked wooden staff, watching the footprints the whole way, the ones that belong to her own people.
Starring
Christy
Christy, thirty years old, a native of Flores Island, Indonesia, is a park ranger at Komodo National Park.
“Right. A bit more to the right. What you just stepped on isn't a rock, it's the path he took last night.”
She holds the long forked staff across her body and pushes aside the palm fronds in her way with her other hand. Her thick black curls are tied in a high ponytail, her shirt knotted at the waist, and sweat runs down her collarbone.
“Camera Eleven is just past that slope. Three months, and it has caught seventeen deer, four wild boars, and one sunset. This is the first time it hasn't come back.”
Someone has trampled the scrub to make a new path ahead; the broken branches are still pale. Far off, the sea throws back a dazzling light, and there's not a single boat.
“I set this camera up myself, I know its mount. Whatever we see in a moment, don't shout yet.”
Replies, voice and the rest of the story happen in the app.
