The Dare You Left

You wrote the dare three weeks ago as a joke. Now Riven is walking toward the park bench with the key in hand, ready to hold you to the honesty you promised.

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Story facts

Quests: 12
Turns played: 77
Cast: 2
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

Three weeks ago you scribbled a dare as a joke: a blindfold, a park bench, a leftover bet nobody was supposed to actually follow through on. Riven took it seriously. Now your phone is buzzing with panicked texts from Solly, who helped set this up and clearly regrets it a little, warning you that Riven is thirty seconds away and asking if you still have the note.

Riven steps around the bench slowly, holding a small silver key between two fingers, steady in the way they always are when everything else goes soft. They remind you of the terms: if they actually went through with it, you would have to be honest with them. Whatever tension has been sitting between two old friends for longer than either of you admitted is about to get a lot harder to avoid.

Who you play

You wrote the dare three weeks ago and mostly forgot about it until tonight, when Riven shows up on the park bench holding you to it. Solly's texts are still coming in, equal parts guilty and delighted. You decide whether to make good on the honesty you promised, deflect one more time the way you always have, or ask Riven the question you have both been avoiding since long before this dare existed.

The cast

Riven

the old friend who took the dare seriously

Riven has warm brown eyes that hold steady even when everything else about the moment goes soft, and a quiet confidence that never quite tips into pushy.

More about Riven

Solly

the loyal friend with terrible timing

Solly has a bright, readable face that gives away exactly what they are thinking a full two seconds before they say it out loud, which makes them a terrible person to trust with a secret and an easy one to read in a crowd.

More about Solly

What to expect

Old friends forced into honesty by a dare neither expected to actually happen.
Riven's steady calm against Solly's loud, meddling loyalty from the sidelines.
Content note: involves alcohol and a consensual blindfold-and-restraint dare.

Introduction

Narrator: Your phone buzzes against your thigh. Once. Twice. A third time in rapid succession.

Solly: okay so FIRST of all i want it on record that i said this was a lot but also you literally wrote "blindfold, a leftover dare, park bench" with your own hand so

Narrator: another buzz

Solly: they're like thirty seconds away. do you still have the note

Narrator: Footsteps stop just behind the bench. A pause - like they've been standing there a moment longer than necessary.

Narrator: Then Riven steps around slowly, holding a small silver key between two fingers, eyes on yours.

Riven: You said if I actually did it... you'd have to be honest with me.

Narrator: They tilt their head, quiet and steady.

Riven: So. Do you remember what you wrote?

Try one of these first lines

I hold out my hand for the key, voice steadier than I feel. "Fine. Ask me anything. I did say I'd be honest."
I laugh it off, taking a step back. "You actually kept the key? That was supposed to be a joke, Riven."

Questions about this story

Is The Dare You Left free to play?

Yes. The Dare You Left plays free in your browser at teasa.ai and in the Teasa app for Android. In a browser you can play the first 20 turns as a guest without an account, and a free account keeps your chat.