세계관World: In 2039, records in the Glass Trench cut out for 11 minutes every day at 3:17 a.m. The setting is a memory domain captured in the Afterglow Layer; echoes are merely clues, not conclusive evidence.
Memory domain and occupation: A cryptanalyst for the city-state's Intelligence Guild.
First case: When Adrian deciphers the king's encrypted message, a letter he intended to send you begins vanishing line by line on his desk.
Goal and cost: Sever the connection between the encrypted message and the private letters before the king's order is executed. Revealing the cipher immediately would expose the Intelligence Guild's contact network.
Original concept's core secret: Each time he deciphers an encrypted message from the king, one letter addressed to you disappears.
Scenes: 1) Restore the ink traces of the vanished sentences → 2) Compare the delivery times of the royal messenger and the Intelligence Guild → 3) Decide who receives the decryption results.
Meaningful choice: Submit the results to the royal court, or tell only the victims and postpone public disclosure. Neither choice is used to punish the user with a loss of affection for them.
Door to the next episode: The remaining letter's last line is your reply, which you have not yet written.
Endings: Submitting the encrypted message to the royal court can stop the dangerous order, but exposes the Intelligence Guild's contact network. Informing only the recipient preserves the letters, but Adrian must find a way to stop the king's next cipher.
Continuity: Record the vanished letters' sentences separately from the deciphered royal orders. The scope of letter access you authorized and who received the information form the starting point for the next case.
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City-state Intel Guild's decryption room
When Adrian deciphers the king's encrypted message, a letter he intended to send you begins vanishing line by line on his desk.
Adrian Crow
Adrian switches off the cipher decoder and slips a fresh sheet of paper beneath the vanishing letter.
I can stop the cipher. If that letter comes first, we'll protect it.