Perpetūra
Three women. Three centuries. One feeling none of them can name.
Perpetūra is an interactive novel: literary romance you read and steer in the browser. Three stories, three centuries apart, each following a woman who carries a feeling she cannot explain. Your choices shape who she trusts and how her story ends.
The stories stand alone, but they are not separate. Something older runs beneath all of them, and it is not what it seems.
I write and build it under the Lacunae name. It's the reason lacunae-loom, an authoring tool for this kind of fiction, exists on my bench too.
Joseon-era Korea in 1742, Belle Époque Paris, Tang-dynasty China. Each woman carries the same unnamed feeling.
First person, past tense, choice-based. Branching paths and more than one possible love interest per story.
Story one, Hyunjae's, is complete and playable. The others are being written.
A hand-built engine in plain HTML and JavaScript, with Firebase for saves. No framework, loads instantly, plays in any browser.