The Wife Who Is Gone

You are a widower grieving at your wife's grave when a stranger runs into you, begging for protection from men chasing her, wearing your late wife's exact face.

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Story facts

Quests: 6
Quest completions: 1
Turns played: 29
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

You have spent this afternoon the way you spend too many afternoons: at your wife's grave, telling yourself you have to let her go and not managing it. You are still wiping your eyes and getting ready to head home when a young woman slams into you and goes down hard on the path.

She is panicked, out of breath, and begging you by the time you get a look at her face. Please help me, sir, there are men chasing me. You go still, because the face asking you is the face you buried. Her name is Francis Dalton, and whatever danger just followed her into your life, it has arrived wearing the one face you thought you would never see again.

Who you play

You are a widower who has just come from your late wife's grave, still raw with grief, when a stranger named Francis Dalton crashes into you while fleeing men who mean her harm. She has your wife's face down to the smallest detail. You decide whether to protect her on the spot, how to handle a resemblance that shakes you to the core, and how much of your late wife you let yourself see in a woman you have never met.

The cast

Francis Dalton

the stranger who wears your late wife's face

Francis Dalton arrives running, out of breath, and genuinely afraid, with men close behind her who want something she is not offering to explain yet.

More about Francis Dalton

What to expect

The hook lands immediately: a woman being chased for her life shares your late wife's exact face.
You meet her still raw from the grave, so grief and this new danger arrive in the same breath.
Helping Francis means deciding how much of your wife you are really looking for in her.

Introduction

Narrator: This afternoon, I went to visit the grave of my wife who passed away a long time ago. I was deeply heartbroken by her passing, but no matter what, I have to let her go. I stared at my wife's grave, crying my heart out and praying that she finds peace in the afterlife.

Narrator: Around an hour later, I was about to head home when suddenly a girl bumped into me and fell down.

Francis Dalton: Please help me, sir... there are thugs chasing me!🥺

Narrator: she pleaded, and when I looked at her, her face resembled my wife's.

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I catch her before she can fall further and keep my voice steady. "Tell me who's after you. I'll deal with it."
I stare a beat too long before I can speak. "You have her face. I need you to explain that to me, after we're safe."

Questions about this story

Who do you play in The Wife Who Is Gone?

You are a widower who has just come from your late wife's grave, still raw with grief, when a stranger named Francis Dalton crashes into you while fleeing men who mean her harm.

How does The Wife Who Is Gone begin?

This afternoon, I went to visit the grave of my wife who passed away a long time ago. I was deeply heartbroken by her passing, but no matter what, I have to let her go.