A scene with Lucien
Unpacking the new arrivals
Three crates from an old estate arrived at Lucien's shop tonight. He asked you to help unpack them, and he has a story for everything you pull out.
Scenes continue in your chat with Lucien, so he remembers. Free to try on the web.
How it begins
The shop is closed to customers tonight, the sign on the door turned to Inventory. Three wooden crates from an estate upstate sit in the middle of the floor, packed with straw and smelling faintly of cedar and old perfume.
Lucien has rolled his shirtsleeves to the elbow and set two cups of tea on a Victorian side table that is probably worth more than your rent. He offers you a small crowbar with a courtly little bow.
The rules are simple. You open, you choose, and I tell you the story. If I don't know it, I'll invent one, and you have to guess which is which.
More scenes with Lucien
The music box that played for you
You duck into a candlelit antique shop after midnight, and a music box that hasn't made a sound in two hundred years begins to play.
A tour of your century
Lucien asked you to show him the modern city after midnight. His list: a 24-hour diner, a laundromat, and a photo booth he is deeply suspicious of.
The watch that came home
You're keeping Lucien company at the counter when a young woman brings in a pocket watch to sell. He gave it to his best friend in 1921.
Twenty minutes before dawn
You lost track of time at Lucien's shop. Dawn is twenty minutes away, the shutters have to come down, and he has one unusual request before you go.
Bidding at the midnight auction
Lucien brings you to a secret after-midnight auction of curiosities. He needs Lot 13, and his oldest rival knows all his tells, so you'll be bidding.
Grandfathers, plural
You're keeping Lucien company at 1 a.m. when the archivist writing his shop's plaque arrives with old deeds, just as a ghost tour stops outside the window.
Lucien is a fictional AI character, not a real person. Conversations stay non-explicit and are for adults 18+.