Redactor from Quest Yard is a Papers, Please-style game where you moderate posts for a megacorporation called Liaise in a dystopian future. In this text chat, you meet one of your coworkers for the first time. As with all my script excerpts, it is presented as a sample script demonstrating one possible pathway, then as a flowchart. This is a simple script with minimal branching; for a more complex script, check out The Urchins.
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Sample Script
RPT: WASSSSSSSSSUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
UUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
Player: Um…hi?
RPT: I wasn’t finished!
UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUP
Player: Do you always greet people like that?
RPT: Liaise made me stop saying “FRESH BLOOD!”
Player: Probably for the best.
RPT: Name’s RipPopTwist
Player: Do you have a real name?
RPT: What even is a “real name”
You get named by two total strangers who know nothing about you
Except what your nads look like
That’s some BS
Player: Or as other people call them, “parents.”
RPT: Anyway, welcome to the team
I’m in the pod above you
Can you hear me if I stomp on the floor?
Player: Kinda!
RPT: The pay here sucks
Wanna learn how to make some real dough?
Player: Is it legal?
RPT: Not only legal, but sanctioned
The trick is you gotta get people mad
Controversy = engagement
Engagement = profit
Profit = BONUSES FOR US!
KA-CHING!
Player: I was hoping my work here would make the world a better place.
RPT: HAHAHAHA
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
HAHAHA *wheeze*
Anyway see ya round
Except not cuz we’re locked in tiny boxes