Netwrck
The Machine Parade
A Ren'Py visual novel for the netwrck library, id 234.
- ~115 min (estimated)
- 25396 words
- 70 scenes
- 9 branch points
- 4 endings
- Eleven days of preparation and the ninth annual Machine Parade in the fictional town of Sallowmere.
30 recorded plays (one per visitor per day)
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About
The Tannery Row Guild builds eleven kinetic sculptures for a town parade: machines that carry a tune, braid rope, turn a wheel or do nothing at all. The player is a former works-notice writer asked to author the broadside. Petra Oyelaran builds a lamp that bows and stops; Cassius Iremonger has a route and a licence to keep; the rest of the adult guild each bring their own standard for what the day should be. Across nine choices, the group decides how close the public can come, whose name belongs on each plate, whether the route is timed or machine-led, and when the makers should stop improving a finished object. The parade happens safely. Its endings shape whether the town receives a polished hour, a recurring open workshop, or a deliberate handoff to next year.
Content notice2 topics · tap to review
- adult collaborators disagree about credit, public access and event organisation
- the story discusses permits and whether a public invitation is genuinely accessible
Cast
- P Petra Oyelaran no portrait yet
- C Cassius Iremonger no portrait yet
- B Bea Adeyemi-Lund no portrait yet
- T Teodor Sarkisyan no portrait yet
- I Ines Kaprow no portrait yet
- W Wendell Bray no portrait yet
- N Noor Haddad no portrait yet
- R Rowan Teasdale no portrait yet
- T The wordsmith no portrait yet
- F Flynt Tolly no portrait yet