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CLUEDRIFT ORIGINALCASE 003
THE LYRIC / ONE LAST SCREENING

The Ninth
Seat.

SOMEONE WANTS THE ORIGINAL ENDING BACK.
AN EIGHT-REEL CINEMA MYSTERY

Eight guests are expected.
The ninth vanished twenty years ago.

A private cinema is preparing an anniversary screening. Then a ninth ticket arrives in the name of a woman who vanished after its premiere. You are the restoration operator. The film on your desk is real. The story told about it may not be.

1–4 together8 reels32 archive recordsEvolving original score
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  • Recover hidden inscriptions at an optical bench
  • Reassemble film fragments and inspect what a crop removed
  • Challenge witnesses with pairs of evidence
  • Build a theory and assemble the final screening
  • 32 graduated hints, saved notes and pinned records
  • A personal outtake, two closing moments and a full postgame
Before the house goes dark

Solo or up to four people sharing one screen. Untimed, with browser-local saving. Includes fictional manipulation, estrangement and stolen authorship; no graphic violence. Frame-by-frame investigations use illustrated stills, action descriptions and complete sound transcripts. Audio is optional. This is a written, interactive mystery, not a full-motion video film.

THE BOOTH IS YOUR INVESTIGATION

Restore a picture.
Recover a person.

01–02

Find what survived

A supplementary ticket leads to an old print. Choose the light, align the image and search for a title the programme forgot.

03–04

Question the cut

Recover the order of a take, then confront a witness with the records his story cannot explain.

05–06

Look beyond the edge

Inspect the uncropped image and support three connected findings with independent evidence.

07–08

Give the final cue

Build a screening that makes the truth visible. Then bring up the lights and meet the person behind the missing name.

A DIFFERENT KIND OF INVESTIGATION

The meaning is
between the frames.

Your tools change with the story: a seating desk, an optical scanner, an editing bench, a witness line, a comparison viewer and a screening console. The small details you recover early become the evidence you need at the end.

The central story and puzzle solutions remain the same on replay. An optional personal discovery enriches the epilogue, and you can revisit both closing moments without starting again. Completion time varies; independent customer playtests have not yet established a typical duration.

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