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The Eighth Seat
Seven friends have played the same intricate fantasy campaign for twelve years, every Saturday, mostly at one woman's dining-room table.
- ~108 min (estimated)
- 23767 words
- 33 scenes
- 7 branch points
- 5 endings
- One Saturday evening through the following morning, during the final session of a twelve-year campaign in fictional Lowf
35 recorded plays (one per visitor per day)
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About
Seven adult friends have played The Eighth Seat every Saturday for twelve years. Their characters have spent six months near the Salt Door, a threshold that opens only for a person who can name what they are owed and set it down. The newest player, Dev Chaudhry, is leaving town for a four-day work rota, and the group must decide how the last session is played, who holds the shared log, whether a beloved moment can be corrected, how an absent voice might enter, and who gets the dining-room table next. The campaign’s fantasy and the friendships at its table shape one another: every written line changes the imagined world, but the group can choose how it remembers. Five endings continue the game and the friendships in different ways; one lets the table stop without requiring anyone to leave it.
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- longtime friends discuss who hosts, writes and holds a shared campaign archive
- a player is leaving town for a temporary work rota
- the group considers ending or changing a twelve-year creative tradition
Cast
- D Dev Chaudhry no portrait yet
- Y Yusra Belhadj no portrait yet
- A Anselm Pryce no portrait yet
- M Marguerite Osei no portrait yet
- I Ivo Markovic no portrait yet
- H Halina Wojcik no portrait yet
- R Rosalind Achebe no portrait yet