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The Hollow Court keeps no gold and no land; it keeps stories, told aloud in the Hall of Telling and minted into thin silver that is spent at one table and nowhere else.
- ~80 min (estimated)
- 17750 words
- 35 scenes
- 13 branch points (script estimate)
- 5 endings (script estimate)
27 recorded plays (one per visitor per day)
No cover art yet · art review pending · listing metadata: importer · counts: script-heuristic
About
Ravenna Noll, 47, has spent thirty-one years standing in the lamplight telling other people's true tales, and on the fourth morning of her worst week she puts a full-weight coin on the rim of the Long Table and watches it refuse to go across. The Court's treasury is not empty and not poor. It is the richest room on this coast, and nothing in it can buy anything, because the Court is the only place in the world where everybody has already heard everything. A coin in the Hollow Court is worth precisely the portion of a story that was true, and a story only mints when it is told aloud in the Hall to at least one listener who could contradict it. Told four hundred times, a tale goes pale and spends as water; the Court has been living on four hundred-year-old husks and calling it continuity. What the Court has never had is anything current. There are a hundred and sixty trays of full-weight t
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- Institutional decay, and a sovereign who has gone un-asked-for for nine hundred years
- A miller who has secretly ground the archive into bread for nine years, and who says so
- A Fool who has been listened to for fifty-eight years and earned nothing, and the one woman in a room he lost on purpose
- One adult relationship, optional, negotiated in plain words, and off-page; declining it is fully authored
- Threatened erasure from a record rather than death; the Queen is not saved in two of the five endings
- A child of fourteen is named and is never a speaker or a portrait
- No gore, no sexual violence, no sexual content, and nobody is granted anything for refusing
Cast
- Q Queen Ysandre no portrait yet
- R Ravenna Noll no portrait yet
- T Tallow Merrick no portrait yet
- G Grist Bellweather no portrait yet
- C Cresset Ombre no portrait yet
- M Marrow no portrait yet
- I Ivo Prewett no portrait yet