Tales Storyالعربية🗼 The Last Lighthouse
An interactive novel: you are the hero. Norway, winter 1912. You are Anders Holm, keeper of a lighthouse on a remote rocky island. On a stormy night a ship is wrecked on the rocks, and you rescue a single survivor carrying a locked case, who begs you to tell no one. In every chapter you choose your path, and every choice leads you to one of five endings… one of them secret. (For adults: death, violence and hard endings)
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How it begins: An Island at the End of the World
Winter 1912 — the island of Skarvik, off the west coast of Norway
You wake before dawn, as you have every day for six years.
You don't need a clock. Your body has learned the island's rhythm: the sound of the waves striking the northern rocks, the creak of the little stone house's windows when the wind rises, the crackle of the stove as its last embers die.
Your name is Anders Holm. You are thirty-four years old. And you are the keeper of the Skarvik lighthouse.
Skarvik isn't an island in the way people imagine. It's a big grey rock in the middle of the sea, less than a mile long, with no trees and no grass except small green patches between the stones. Stubborn gulls live on it, and three sheep that belong to you, and on its highest point stands a white tower with two red stripes, twenty-four metres tall.
The lighthouse.
You put on your heavy wool jacket and leather boots, take the…
The lesson: Every choice has a price, and the truth only survives if someone carries it
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