Netwrck
House Numbers
Eight named adults are the story's foreground: seven players and Ivo Marin, the caller, who plays a round himself on the weeks when nobody else has offered.
- ~95 min (estimated)
- 20942 words
- 41 scenes
- 8 branch points
- 4 endings
- Three Thursday evenings across one English autumn: Thursday 8 October, Thursday 5 November and Thursday 3 December 2026,
31 recorded plays (one per visitor per day)
No cover art yet · art review pending · listing metadata: listing.json · counts: authored
About
Eight named adults and an unnamed adult player share three Thursday evenings in the room behind the folding partition at a Methodist hall on Ashcombe Road. The hall seats forty and usually holds thirty-four to forty adults; the other attendees remain silent background figures. Each sheet costs a pound; the standard board has three sheets, and the player chooses to keep three or add a fourth. A quarter of the pot goes to the heating. In September Ivo Marin began leaving a beat of silence before roughly one call in nine. Nobody asked him to. By December the regulars have formed unwritten rituals around the pause: a pencil that travels four inches and comes back on Friday, a fan nobody ordered, a rule about the twenty-fourths, and mount board beneath one table leg. Seven decisions—where to sit, three or four sheets, a shared or private pencil, whether to name a near miss, ask for a repeat, invite Oren to show his drawing, and recall a joke or a silence—each receives a later scene callback. The three-evening story ends on December 3; four available futures follow it, each carrying only choices that matter to that future.
Content notice8 topics · tap to review
- a social game in a hall where nobody is competing for money, and the numbers not owing anybody a pattern
- a caller who has started leaving a silence before a number and the room not discussing it
- a woman who hears that silence and is not asked to interpret it for anybody
- a man who is openly competitive about a game with almost nothing at stake
- a man who draws small pictures in the margin of his bingo card and does not want to be asked about them
- a woman on rotating night shifts who misses Thursdays and explains nothing
- a woman who is at the hall every week and has never played
- adults weighing whether to hand a small kindness to a stranger or leave it alone
Cast
- F Frances Bell no portrait yet
- K Keon Baptiste no portrait yet
- S Salma Idris no portrait yet
- O Oren Pike no portrait yet
- P Pilar Reyes no portrait yet
- G Graham Holt no portrait yet
- J June Park no portrait yet
- I Ivo Marin no portrait yet