Alabaster

05.06.2009
Genre: Adventure
Alabaster is an experiment in open authorship: a piece of interactive fiction with conversation text contributed by a number of different authors in response to an introduction written by the project's organizer, Emily Short.
The Queen has told you to return with her heart in a box. Snow White has made you promise to make other arrangements. Now that you're alone in the forest, it's hard to know which of the two women to trust. The Queen is certainly a witch—but her stepdaughter may be something even more horrible...

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