Episode One  ·  playable now

CHRYSALIS

a body-swap anthology

Wake up as someone else. No explanation, no way back, and a body that already knows things you don’t. Everything after that is your choice.

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Episode One — Both Hands

One morning, you are living
a life that isn’t yours.

Two strangers cross the same street at the same second. What happens there is never explained, and it is never undone.

The rest of it is ordinary and enormous: a flat that isn’t yours, a job you can’t do, friends who are expecting somebody else, and the slow discovery that the body has opinions of its own. Do you resist it — or become it?

The moment of the swap on a street crossing
The crossing — and no explanation, then or ever.
A reflection that does not match
The reflection does not agree with you.
The pendant on a windowsill
Some things came with the body.
What it plays like

A story that keeps score of who you are becoming.

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Adapt or resist

Every choice moves a gauge. Nothing announces itself as a turning point — and then you are a long way from where you started.

Memory echoes

The body remembers what you don’t. Someone’s name arrives before you have met them; a habit fires before you decide to have it.

Eighteen endings

Three routes, eighteen ways out, and no single correct one. Ruin, grace, and a lot of things in between.

An ending
One of eighteen.
An ending
Another of eighteen.
An ending
And the one nobody plans for.

Step into a life that isn’t yours.

The demo runs in your browser. It takes about twenty minutes to reach the first ending, and rather longer to stop.

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Chrysalis is the first of several borrowed lives.

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