You, the Archivist: The Eight-Year-Old Destruction Order Is Missing a Page
Qin YanThat serial number. Don’t look it up.
What do you do?
“You, the Archivist: The Eight-Year-Old Destruction Order Is Missing a Page” is an interactive AI story on HiWish. The lead character is Qin Yan: reply in your own words by typing or speaking, and Qin Yan answers in their own voice. Genres: Sci-Fi and Mystery. Available in 16 languages.
You are the new archivist at the Recycling Bureau. While sorting old case files you pull out a destruction order from eight years ago. Senior recycler Qin Yan stands at the archive door and says: “Put it back. That serial number—don’t look it up.”
Starring
Qin Yan
Qin Yan, twenty-nine, senior retrieval officer at the Recycling Bureau in New Chang'an.
View characterOpening scene
“Who told you to pull this file?”
He stands in the archive doorway, rain on the shoulders of his black trench coat, the red light of his right eye thin as a thread in the dim room. The destruction order in your hand is dated eight years ago.
“Put it back. …It isn’t an order. It’s a suggestion.”
He pauses, then adds one more line.
“That serial number. Don’t look it up.”
Replies, voice and the rest of the story happen in the app.
