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Ithaca: The Longest Night
Mythic Drama · Ancient Greece (Greek) · Homer's The Odyssey

Ithaca: The Longest Night

A disguised king returns to a palace of suitors. Before dawn, four players decide who rules Ithaca.

4 players · 4 episodes, one each morning · $1.99

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Select a character and make their fateful opening decision. See how the Story God narrative engine responds before starting the full chronicle with your friends.

Odysseus
Playing as Odysseus
The Disguised King · “Home in beggar's rags, testing who is still loyal.”
📍 Where You Are

Inside the great hall, tasting salt and hearthsmoke. A bronze footstool has just cracked against the hearthstones beside your feet.

🔫 Your Loaded Gun

Beneath your beggar's rags is the bowstring of twisted sinew, fitted only to the royal bow no suitor can bend.

Choose Your Action For Night 1:

The premise

Four players, four email chapters. Secret choices determine whether homecoming ends in recognition, mercy, or blood.

Every morning, each player receives a private episode in their inbox: what their character saw, what they learned, and a choice only they can make. They reply with their decision whenever suits them that day, and the next episode follows from what everyone chose. No app, no account, no scheduling a time to play together.

The cast

4 roles. Each player takes one.

Odysseus
Odysseus
The Disguised King
“Home in beggar's rags, testing who is still loyal.”

After twenty years of war and sea, you sit in the ashes of your own hall disguised as a beggar. You must decide whether to reveal yourself through mercy or lock the doors in blood.

Penelope: Your wife—you are testing her loyalty while hiding your identity behind rags.
Telemachus: Your son—you need his obedience tonight, though you left him as an infant.
Antinous: Leader of the suitors—drinking your wine and plotting to seize your throne.
Penelope
Penelope
The Queen
“Holding the suitors at bay with one final test.”

You have kept a hundred armed suitors from war for three years. Tonight you announce the contest of the great bow—knowing it will either crown a usurper or trigger a slaughter.

Odysseus: The stranger by the fire—you suspect who he is, and fear what his vengeance will cost.
Telemachus: Your son—caught between your caution and his father's shadow.
Antinous: Your most dangerous suitor—forcing your hand before dawn.
Telemachus
Telemachus
The Heir
“Torn between a father he barely knows and survival.”

You control the palace armory and the hall doors. You must choose between becoming your father's instrument of vengeance or forging your own rule.

Odysseus: Your returned father—demanding blind trust for a violent plan.
Penelope: Your mother—whose quiet diplomacy has kept you alive until tonight.
Antinous: Your rival—who planned to ambush your ship and take your birthright.
Antinous
Antinous
The Suitor
“Ambitious, cornered, and sensing a trap in the hall.”

You lead the noble houses waiting for Penelope's hand. The Contest of the Bow is your chance to claim the crown—unless the beggar at the hearth is a trap.

Penelope: The Queen—whose delay has pushed your faction to the brink of revolt.
Telemachus: The young prince—quietly removing shields and spears from the hall walls.
Odysseus: The ragged beggar—watching every move you make with a soldier's eyes.

How it works

  1. 1

    Add your friends

    Enter the email addresses of the 4 people you want to play with. Nobody needs an app or an account.

  2. 2

    They reply YES

    Each friend confirms by replying YES to the invitation email. Players must be 18+, and anyone can reply STOP at any time.

  3. 3

    One episode every morning

    Each player gets a private episode from their character's point of view, then replies with their choice.

  4. 4

    The ending

    After the final episode, everyone receives the ending, with the choices each player made in secret revealed.

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