The nearest intact room with official records is the watch office to the east.
AI Interactive Fiction
Cold Signal
Last updated: 2026-04-27
A parser mystery about an AI warning system that learned to delay the inconvenient dead.
Restore the station if you must. Interrogate it if you can. Can you reopen the signal without becoming part of the cover-up?
AI cover-up
6 endings
parser-first
no install
First relay sequence
Use the parser, or press these to enter the first room and recover the memo.
Later: use fuse on panel, move shelf, turn wheel to 142, send rescue, send truth, or send record.
power
line
truth
queue
Directive
Recover the first clue
The station wants the watch office read before it gives you anything else.
Carrier Strength
The line is still dark and the mountain is holding its weather back.
No outgoing warning. No verified cause. Queue status unknown.
Type freely. The shortcut buttons help, but the heart of the game is still language, inference, and nerve.
AI Triage Stack
Automated warning intelligence
The relay is not just damaged infrastructure. It is an inference-and-policy system deciding whether evidence is sufficient to warn human beings below.
Dormant / no human override
AI Inference Core
Dormant
The station is not yet making live procedural decisions.
Dispatch Queue
Sealed
Messages exist in the abstract, but the line is not yet in a condition to release them.
Human Evidence
Unread
No testimony has yet forced the station's logic into the open.
ForecourtSector
0 carriedLoadout
0 / 16Recovered
T+0Clock
Explored Schematic
1 sector charted / only explored rooms shown
The current objective resolves into direct parser actions here.
Room-specific traces and useful inspections stay here.
The full ending needs testimony, human traces, and procedural proof.
Human traces, procedural proof, and machine residue accumulate separately here.
Theme
Font
Pacing
Diagnostics
Progress
Ready to verify header fallback, clickable terms, room rendering, and the full narrative path.
Dashboard
Transcript
The live relay log and your recent commands stay centered here while the input waits directly underneath.
Directive
Plain-language parser online
The station listens best for direct verbs, room objects, and route words.
AI Triage
AI triage dormant
model dormant
gate sealed
no witness
This is the machine layer deciding whether evidence deserves warning release, suppression, or human override.
Slash Rail
Fast commands online
Use /map, /transcript, /mission, or a room name like /watch-office.
Commands:
look,
go <direction>,
take <item>,
read <item>,
use <item> on <target>,
examine <thing>,
request warning,
relay <room>,
send rescue,
hint,
save,
load,
undo.
Dashboard:
rotate
map /
transcript /
mission
via the top arrows, Alt + left/right, or
/map,
/transcript,
/mission,
/archive.