Kisaragi Station

23:14, 8 January 2004. A woman posts to an anonymous forum from a late train: it hasn't stopped in twenty minutes.

Kisaragi Station retells the internet legend as it happened, in real time, from her phone. The replies of the thread arrive one by one. You choose what she writes next, and what she does.

THE NIGHT
• The original thread, post by post: the train that doesn't stop, the blinds over the driver's window, the tunnel, the station called Kisaragi that is on no map.
• You decide: get off or stay on. Wait at the station or walk the tracks. Enter the tunnel or turn back. Ask the stranger for help or walk past.
• The drum and the bells in the distance. The old man with one leg. The stranger who offers a ride.
• Five endings, and a comment posted seven years later that you can read once you have reached the end.

THE ATMOSPHERE
• A dark night scene above the phone: fluorescent tubes, a single lamp on an empty platform, rails under a thin moon, the mouth of the Isanuki tunnel.
• Sound built for headphones, generated live: rail joints and brakes, wind in the grass, gravel under heels, the taiko drum coming closer, a shout behind you, the buzz of a phone running out of battery.
• Vibration with every call and every new reply.

ALSO
• Your night is saved if you leave; continue where you stopped.
• Nine languages. No account. Works offline. Free, with ads only on the home and result screens, never during the story.

A work of fiction based on an internet legend. Do not walk on railway tracks, enter tunnels or get into strangers' cars. For entertainment.