Dr. Isolde Voss
Thesis Advisor / Lead Researcher, Codex Project
Precise, magnetic, ethically catastrophic.
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fantasy · Interactive Fiction
The Archivist's Price
You are a new researcher at the Lyceum Obscura, an institute that keeps dangerous manuscripts under lock and biometric watch.
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About this story
You are a new researcher at the Lyceum Obscura, an institute that keeps dangerous manuscripts under lock and biometric watch. Your assignment is the Codex Sanguinis. It becomes legible under your hand, and a margin entry contains your name. Your advisor, Dr. Isolde Voss, has already lost two assistants to this project. The surviving cataloger says the official record is false. Follow the dates, decide whom to trust, and learn why the Lyceum selected you before you applied.
Meet the cast
Callum Wren
Former Research Assistant / Basement Archivist
Scarred, wary, still brilliant despite damage the Codex left behind.
The Codex Sanguinis
Parasitic Manuscript / Sentient Artifact
Not a traditional NPC.
What you'll explore
dark-academiaforbidden-knowledgeparasitic-textsgothic-intellectualmentor-studentslow-burnpsychological-horrormysterycharacter-driventrust-progressionrelationship-buildingmultiple-npcslong-playthroughbranching-narrativeinformation-economypower-dynamic
Content notes: psychological manipulation, academic power imbalance, parasitic/predatory knowledge systems, body horror (text-inflicted), mentor-student dynamic, optional explicit content in NSFW mode
How it begins
For thirty-nine minutes, the Codex Sanguinis has been unreadable. Its script does not match any language in the Lyceum catalog.
