Demonstration only
Originals — demonstration works
3 fictional worlds and 9 films written as examples of how an original saga with branching paths would be presented. None of these exist; they are kept here, apart from the research catalogue.
Under glass
The Glass Orchard
World · The last green under glass.
The Glass Orchard
A valley where nothing grows outside and one family keeps a kilometre of fruit trees alive beneath climate glass that seems to have rules of its own. Quiet, strange and folk-tinged.
OriginalExampleA pane has cracked.
Blight
Blight
2026 · 33 min · Sequel
A pane has cracked. Something outside has noticed.
The glass is singing.
The Glass Orchard
The Glass Orchard
2026 · 36 min · Original film
In a valley where nothing grows outside, a family tends the last orchard under glass — and the glass is singing.
Ostrava-by-the-Sea
The Last City
World · One world. Three futures.
The Last City
A coastal megacity sealed behind the highest seawall ever built. The original film ends on the night the city must choose — and the catalogue carries two clearly labelled continuations of that choice, neither of them official. Explore the original, then follow The Exodus or The Collapse.
OriginalExampleWhere the line goes.
Seawall
Seawall
2026 · 14 min · Prequel
Forty years before the water rose, three engineers argue over a line on a map.
The Wall does not get a vote.
The Collapse
The Collapse
2026 · 44 min · Alternative continuation
The city chooses to stay. The Wall does not get a vote.
One night. Ten thousand boats.
The Exodus
The Exodus
2026 · 38 min · Alternative continuation
The city chooses to leave. Ten thousand boats, one night, and a harbour that was never meant to open.
The Wall holds. For now.
The Last City
The Last City
2026 · 42 min · Original film
Behind the highest seawall ever built, a tide engineer discovers the city's hundred-year promise has a date on it.
- The CollapseOne of several futuresThe CollapseThe city stays. A licensed continuation by a second filmmaker, clearly labelled as one possibility among several.
- The ExodusOne of several futuresThe ExodusThe city leaves. Follow this path if you believe a city is its people, not its walls.
The Meridian Line
The Quiet Meridian
World · Seven cities. One line.
The Quiet Meridian
A continent that has stopped talking to itself, held together by a single north–south railway. Stories on the Line are about who carries what, and for whom, when no authority can be sure its orders still arrive.
OriginalExampleOne switch.
The Signalman
The Signalman
2026 · 19 min · Spin-off
One switch, one night shift, and the only person who knows which track the train is really on.
Past the end of the map.
Northbound
Northbound
2026 · 47 min · Sequel
The sealed car is open. The line has a new terminus.
Seven cities. One line.
Meridian
Meridian
2025 · 51 min · Original film
After the satellites go dark, the only thing still connecting the city-states is a railway nobody fully controls.
- Side storySide lineThe Signalman's LineA licensed side story running parallel to the events of Meridian.
- NorthboundMain lineNorthboundThe main line continues north. The collective's own sequel.