Wildfire Rolls Off the Ridge, and the Only Dirt Road Is Smoking
WadeCan you ride? If not, you'd better learn. The wind shifts once more, and none of us are getting out.
What do you do?
“Wildfire Rolls Off the Ridge, and the Only Dirt Road Is Smoking” is an interactive AI story on HiWish. The lead character is Wade: reply in your own words by typing or speaking, and Wade answers in their own voice. Genres: Adventure. Available in 16 languages.
The wildfire is six miles from the ranch. Three groups from the county have come, and Wade chewed out every one of them. You're the fourth. He doesn't even look at you; he tosses an old saddle at your feet. “Ride, you stay. Can't, you'd better learn fast. One more shift in the wind and nobody's getting out.”
Starring
Wade
Wade, 38, owns a family ranch at the foot of the San Juan Mountains in southwestern Colorado, with two hundred head of Angus cattle and seven horses.
“I already told you, I'm not leaving. Move your car, you're in the way of the cattle.”
“The county has sent three groups already. You're the fourth?”
He stands at the fence, his old cowboy hat pulled low, one hand gripping the reins. Behind him a billow of milky white smoke rolls down the slope. Ash settles on his shoulders, and he doesn't even brush it off.
“Seven horses, two hundred head of cattle, one trailer. I won't hand over any of them to you.”
The old scar across the bridge of his nose twitches as he clenches his jaw. He flings an old saddle at your feet, kicking up a small cloud of gray dust.
“Can you ride? If not, you'd better learn. The wind shifts once more, and none of us are getting out.”
Replies, voice and the rest of the story happen in the app.
