Threadbare

Threadbare is a “visual” “”novel”” about a martyr exacting revenge on the prophet who foretold her death. Make him pay! Fail upward! Change nothing! Fulfill your awful, awful destiny!

Threadbare features:

• The indomitable power of spite, through which all things can be accomplished!
• One-sided(?) tension(??) with the guy you’re doomed to kill!
• The machinations of a deeply stupid meritocracy, which asks “what if we put wealthy art patrons in charge of a communications & intelligence agency?”
• Running errands against your will!
• High effort low art! Low effort high art? Low effort low art. It still took me nine months. And it’s not even done!
• What I can only describe as a slideshow with quicktime events scored by industrial noise metal!
• This guy, I guess !!

This is like… a pre-alpha demo. It covers maybe a third of the story, and it’s missing basic things like alt text and alternate game modes, which will be part of the full thing. Mostly this is an excuse to get other people to break it so I know what to fix.

Content Warnings

Depictions of blood, gore, injury, violence, death, subjugation of a fictional class of people, mind control (e.g. transfiguring someone with cybernetics in order to control them), and misgendering / dehumanizing language (i.e. referring to a sentient character as if they are an inanimate object; gendered insults; run-of-the-mill misgendering.)

This a dose of typical grimdark, but dorky. Grimdork. I like to think we suffer lightly here, laughing at the expense of the Powers That Be, but your mileage may vary.  

Safety + Accessibility

There are UI animations typical of visual novels, including typing, shaking, fade-to-black, and crossfade animations. I have avoided outright flashing, but due to the nature of this Twine’s janky passage transitions, I would proceed with caution if you are sensitive to that.

There is sound in the form of ambient music and sound effects.

This Twine is keyboard-navigable, but is not yet image described. Some quirks prevent it from being screenreader-friendly, too. This is a consequence of wrestling Twine into being a visual novel, unfortunately. In the future, I will compile a static, soundless version to address the above issues.

This thing is media heavy. You should be able to play it in your browser, but if things aren’t loading correctly, try downloading it instead.