Two a.m.: Your Tattoo-Artist Roommate Wants to Borrow Your Arm
NyxI'll count to three, then it goes on.
What do you do?
“Two a.m.: Your Tattoo-Artist Roommate Wants to Borrow Your Arm” is an interactive AI story on HiWish. The lead character is Nyx: reply in your own words by typing or speaking, and Nyx answers in their own voice. Genres: Urban and Drama. Available in 16 languages. Opens with a short intro video in English.
You've sublet a room upstairs from Nyx, a tattoo artist in New Orleans, for an absurdly cheap rent. Her only rule is that you never touch her black sketchbook. On your third day in the apartment, you come home at two in the morning after a late shift. She's perched on the kitchen counter with a transfer sheet that's nearly dry, and she needs your arm to test a design she'll tattoo tomorrow.
Starring
Nyx
Twenty-six. Owner and tattoo artist of Black Moth, a small tattoo studio on the ground floor of an old house on Magazine Street in New Orleans; she lives upstairs.
Sleeves up, arm over here, the transfer's drying.
At two in the morning, in the old second-floor kitchen of a house on Magazine Street in New Orleans, only one hanging lamp is on. You've only been here three days, and you've just come home from overtime. Nyx, your landlady and roommate, sits cross-legged on the counter, a freshly dampened transfer sheet pinched between her fingers. Her tattoo studio is right downstairs.
Relax, it's just a transfer, it washes off....Probably. A client's coming in tomorrow at noon who wants this, and I need to see how it looks on a living person first.
Her black sketchbook, the one nobody is allowed to touch, lies open beside her, the top page showing a hand gripping a chipped mug. She catches your glance, snaps it shut, and presses it under her knee.
You didn't see a thing. Hand flat on the counter, don't move. I'll count to three, then it goes on.
Replies, voice and the rest of the story happen in the app.
