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The Vault
The seed is alive. The accession cannot be proved.
- ~170 min
- 11665 words
- 49 scenes
- 18 branch points
- 5 endings
- Greyfen, four days in October 2026
40 recorded plays (one per visitor per day)
No cover art yet · generated placeholder backgrounds and character art in-game · listing metadata: listing.json · counts: authored
About
Fallowmere National Seed Archive has four days to become smaller. Its public grant will pay only if the collection falls from 18,442 accessions to 18,000, the roof over Cold Room Three needs $286,000 before winter, and the bank assessor arriving Tuesday can turn a delayed payment into foreclosure. Dr Marguerite Vale, fifty-five, must choose which 442 histories still count as life. One accession is a black climbing bean her mother collected from a terrace garden in 1971. It is the only line in Fallowmere gathered from a garden rather than a field, the only one whose passport has a recorded voice, and it has failed its germination test. Protocol says retest, review and withdraw. The retest proves the bean lives. An opened jar and 113 unexplained seeds prove something worse: Marguerite's daughter has already broken the chain of custody trying to save it. The Vault is an adult procedural tragedy about extinction by correct paperwork. Six tracked pressures and five complete endings force the distinction between a living plant and a public, defensible accession. Marguerite can protect the institution, the line, her daughter or the truth in her report. No ending protects all four, and the last page keeps what it takes.
Content notice8 topics · tap to review
- irreversible extinction of biological heritage
- institutional coercion and financial precarity
- professional misconduct and falsified custody records
- family grief, betrayal and estrangement
- alcohol misuse
- off-page destruction of biological material
- no instructional pathology or modification detail
- all characters are adults
Cast
- D Dr Marguerite Vale protagonist; Collections and Viability Officer no portrait yet
- S Soren Pike director of Fallowmere Seed Archive no portrait yet
- I Imani Ro seed technician no portrait yet
- E Elias Bell retired commercial seed grower no portrait yet
- C Celia Venn Calder Mutual special-assets assessor no portrait yet
- N Nadia Vale Marguerite's daughter; former collections assistant no portrait yet