There is a room with a single book on a table and a single candle for light. There is a calligraphy pen lying next to the book with an ink well.

You can Look, Touch, Smell, Listen, Tell, Write, and Ask.

If you look at the book: The book is an old leather journal with nothing written on the pages.

If you touch the book: The book is sturdy, but a bit worn from old age. The pages are frayed and yellowed by age, but also softer to the touch.

If you smell the air, book or ink: The air smells musky but still pleasant. Almost like an old library, even though there are no other books in sight. There is a faint smell of cigars and brandy. The ink smells just as ink should smell, and the book smells of time.

If you tell or write in the book: When you write in the book, the ink stays on the page, but certain responses based on what you write appears after what you wrote.

If you ask a question in the book: The question will be answered but vague. The owner never reveals itself.

This Interactive Fiction can become quite complex because there is no specific writer for the journal. It can sometimes be a little girl with her diary, an upset/depressed housewife, an angry teenager, etc. It also has no sense of time, the responder in the book can be from 2015, 1812, 1920, etc. The goal is to ask the correct questions in order to complete each person’s story.