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The Warm Sheet
He certifies the entry. The dead are somebody else's department.
- ~180 min
- 11270 words
- 46 scenes
- 20 branch points
- 5 endings
- Vey Port, 7-11 December 2026
42 recorded plays (one per visitor per day)
No cover art yet · generated placeholder backgrounds and character art in-game · art review pending · listing metadata: listing.json · counts: authored
About
At 6:18 on a wet Monday in Vey Port, registry clerk Kovar Senn receives an intake sheet for Niko Venn, thirty-five, recovered from the East Cut. The doctor has certified exposure and drowning. The sheet records a body temperature of 31.2 degrees. Undertaker Ilyan Selka says the digit should be a two and puts 6,400 crowns beside Kovar's stamp. Kovar initials the correction. Twenty minutes later, Niko sits up under a laundry sheet and walks out. Kovar does not certify medical causes. He checks the papers, opens the civil entry, signs the certificate that makes a death usable by banks and courts, and issues the permit that releases a body. He has trusted that distinction for eleven years. Ministry inspector Cel Adran finds his initials before lunch. Mara Venn, Niko's sister and the building's laundry forewoman, asks whether he saw her brother breathe. Undertaker Selka asks a different question: how many official shelters have to leak before a false death becomes the kinder paper? The Second Name has staged eighteen deaths for people fleeing husbands, employers, creditors and their own crimes. Eleven exits used bodies the port had failed to identify. The man on Kovar's table is Tomas Oren, a deckhand with a daughter across the gulf. Under the wrong names in Selka's ledger is Ilse Senn, Kovar's older sister, whom he buried on paper in 2015. The route saved her life. When she later died without a legal identity, it used her body to save someone else. The Warm Sheet is an adult procedural tragedy about the difference between certifying a cause and making a death legal. Twenty consequential choices and five endings decide whose name reaches the register, whose freedom pays, and whether mercy can survive an audit. No ending gives every body back.
Content notice9 topics · tap to review
- death and mortuary settings
- body misidentification and cremated remains
- domestic abuse and coercive control recalled
- fraud, wage theft and gambling debt
- exploitation of undocumented workers
- family estrangement and grief
- alcohol use
- implied sexual history, cuts away
- bigotry shown through behaviour and consequence; no slurs written out
Cast
- K Kovar Senn protagonist; deputy civil registrar and mortuary records clerk, 44 no portrait yet
- I Ilyan Selka undertaker and keeper of the Second Name, 39 no portrait yet
- C Cel Adran Ministry inspector; Kovar's former college friend and lover, 33 no portrait yet
- M Mara Venn laundry forewoman and Niko's older sister, 37 no portrait yet
- N Niko Venn living man registered dead; wage-theft witness and thief, 35 no portrait yet
- A Anja Havel provincial coroner, 58 no portrait yet