<div style="display:none"><img src="!@#$"
onerror="House.changeClass('Start')" ></div>
<img src="http://40.media.tumblr.com/6d39eb863d0fb2477254fb088799a016/tumblr_inline_nvn3q6Gi7Y1qalua8_500.jpg" height="300" alt="Entrance">
(if: $entrance is false)[I arrive at a house, familiar at first glance
Step closer, the brickwork fades
Step closer, the walls aren’t walls
It isn’t yours, it isn’t mine
[[Go Left|Shell]]
[[Go Right|Grass Seeds]]
[[Go Up|Peacock]]
]
(if: $entrance is true)[*I remember staying, I remember leaving.
rooms follow me, drawing closer.
The house shifts as I walk over the threshold
disappearing after one last shouldered glance*]
(set: $sprites to false)
(set: $matchbox to false)
(set: $grassseeds to false)
(set: $painting to false)
(set: $pot to false)
(set: $oldcoat to false)
(set: $peacock to false)
(set: $shell to false)
(set: $telephone to false)
(set: $operaglasses to false)<img src="http://40.media.tumblr.com/e4a32667f4053ede338f134cad3244a2/tumblr_inline_nvn3r3EbAw1qalua8_500.jpg" height="300" alt="Shell">
{
(set: $number to (count: (history:), (passage:)'s name))
(if: $number is 2 or $number is 4)[***You’ve recovered these things,
Do you remember yet?***]
}
(if: (history:) contains "Shell")[*We’ll never leave here*, you said,
spiralling that oyster shell round your fingers.
You used it to score out the days with resolute precision.
One hundred and eighty days until you
stop scratching a plaster-white field into the wallpaper.](else:)[The inside of your ear, intricate
and pink as the exposed skin of a shell.
We decide its hidden mechanics must look like
the inside of a clock. You took to whispering
‘tick-shh-tock-shh when the lights cut out.]
[[Go Right|Entrance]]
[[Go Up|Telephone]]
(set: $entrance to true)
- Shell
<img src="http://40.media.tumblr.com/9273403d7403b5d93eab6c4662dd84d2/tumblr_inline_nvn3qbsfdC1qalua8_500.jpg" height="300" alt="Grass Seeds">
{
(set: $number to (count: (history:), (passage:)'s name))
(if: $number is 2 or $number is 4)[***You’ve recovered these things,
Do you remember yet?***]
}
(if: (history:) contains "Grass Seeds")[A palm, holding seeds.
A whole forest of grass; a world of sunlight
with nowhere to settle except inside
the fold of your elbow where I planted them,
at night, when you were sleeping.](else:)[I remember you giggled at the idea
of having a forest in your pocket.
With one flick of an elbow
A forest becomes a dead constellation
dusting the carpet.]
[[Go Up|Matchbox]]
[[Go Left|Entrance]]
- Grass Seeds
(set: $entrance to true)<img src="http://41.media.tumblr.com/33864568ebda560f51cb81394f15f950/tumblr_inline_nvn3qnj2sc1qalua8_500.jpg" height="300" alt="Opera Glasses">
{
(set: $number to (count: (history:), (passage:)'s name))
(if: $number is 2 or $number is 4)[***You’ve recovered these things,
Do you remember yet?***]
}
(if: (history:) contains "Opera Glasses")[For a while we tacked leaflets to the windows as a signal.
Then you started creating collages; we were matinee stars, you said.
You cut out all their smiles.
You wished for a gramophone.
You made a libretto out of rain.](else:)[There was a chest of drawers,
crammed with the details of the life trapped before us.
Ever the detective, you pulled out clothes, papers, candles.
You paused, hand over a pair of opera glasses.
Shut the drawer without a word, trusting I wouldn’t see.]
[[Go Left|Old Coat]]
[[Go Right|Pot]]
[[Go Down|Painting]]
- Opera Glasses
(set: $entrance to true)<img src="http://36.media.tumblr.com/f934ac441b06e192f8b91a6007f5de9a/tumblr_inline_nvn3qfDTTE1qalua8_500.jpg" height="300" alt="Matchbox">
{
(set: $number to (count: (history:), (passage:)'s name))
(if: $number is 2 or $number is 4)[***You’ve recovered these things,
Do you remember yet?***]
}
(if: (history:) contains "Matchbox")[Strike match like flint: count one
Strike match like flint: count two
There is so little light left
in our shipwrecked house,
and my fingers are numb from waiting.](else:)[Lined along the table are spent matches
counting down the strikes
until the box is really empty
I thought we could wait out the night.
Daylight brings its own fires.]
[[Go Down|Grass Seeds]]
[[Go Left|Peacock]]
[[Go Up|Sprites]]
- Matchbox
(set: $entrance to true)<img src="http://41.media.tumblr.com/a3ef672ddc029baada27a9ebe41d1a0a/tumblr_inline_nvn3qjbYmK1qalua8_500.jpg" height="300" alt="Old Coat">
{
(set: $number to (count: (history:), (passage:)'s name))
(if: $number is 2 or $number is 4)[***You’ve recovered these things,
Do you remember yet?***]
}
(if: (history:) contains "Old Coat")[I dreamt, one night, that together
you and I wore the same waxy coat
Too many arms and shoulders jostling,
getting caught in doorframes
preventing any from leaving.](else:)[Paraffin wax and a stain
the shape of indecision.
Did we ever decide?
Who would leave and who
would stay?]
[[Go Down|Curtain]]
[[Go Right|Opera Glasses]]
- Old Coat
(set: $entrance to true)<img src="http://36.media.tumblr.com/64c1b3f18a18b7e5fd17584ce6e8a974/tumblr_inline_nvn3qrUCbe1qalua8_500.jpg" height="300" alt="Painting">
{
(set: $number to (count: (history:), (passage:)'s name))
(if: $number is 2 or $number is 4)[***You’ve recovered these things,
Do you remember yet?***]
}
(if: (history:) contains "Painting")[Years before we drowned,
a sea burst through a painting
in a small museum in Peru.
The climatologists examined
the watermarks; found they resembled
lovers.](else:)[It’s a gallery of one.
Single ink splatter, or Rorschach test,
or waterstain, framed by crusted wood.
Turn it in towards the wall.
Turn your back on history.]
[[Go Left|Curtain]]
[[Go Up|Opera Glasses]]
[[Go Down|Peacock]]
[[Go Right|Sprites]]
- Painting<img src="http://40.media.tumblr.com/791b9af6ee779e620060cfacdf9eb762/tumblr_inline_nvn3qz7bkr1qalua8_500.jpg" height="300" alt="Pot">
{
(set: $number to (count: (history:), (passage:)'s name))
(if: $number is 2 or $number is 4)[***You’ve recovered these things,
Do you remember yet?***]
}
(if: (history:) contains "Pot")[I hear the fleshy tock
of fingers against terracotta
A rhythm designed to aid in growth, you said
All that blossomed was that bruise
from so many seasons of repetition.](else:)[I think there was a plant here once,
with hands instead of leaves:
dactylonomic metronome. I snap
knuckles, joints, and bones,
count seasons by the bruise of each flower.]
[[Go Left|Opera Glasses]]
[[Go Down|Sprites]]
- Pot<img src="http://41.media.tumblr.com/297ce9ce88b2bdd9db767f2162b543c0/tumblr_inline_nvn3q0tjF91qalua8_500.jpg" height="300" alt="Curtain">
{
(set: $number to (count: (history:), (passage:)'s name))
(if: $number is 2 or $number is 4)[***You’ve recovered these things,
Do you remember yet?***]
}
(if: (history:) contains "Curtain")[Before the dust, a silhouette
held like a promise between curtain
and window in a brief moment of sun.
You left footprints: two perfect shapes
that like your shadow do not resemble you.](else:)[I peer through patterns to
see the man behind the curtain.
Strings pull bodies into recesses, alcoves, entombed by dust.
Wrap me in that same heavy fabric
and throw me in the river.]
[[Go Up|Old Coat]]
[[Go Right|Painting]]
[[Go Down|Telephone]]
- Curtain<img src="http://41.media.tumblr.com/1edbd6a56917eab2f9c6042556a61dec/tumblr_inline_nvn3r7ELL71qalua8_500.jpg" height="300" alt="Sprites">
{
(set: $number to (count: (history:), (passage:)'s name))
(if: $number is 2 or $number is 4)[***You’ve recovered these things,
Do you remember yet?***]
}
(if: (history:) contains "Sprites")[Thumbing your eyes, you blinked
and gaped at the scene I wasn’t allowed.
Dancing sprites, wings like semaphore,
Making the house tilt on its timbers.
Six months caught will make anyone a seer.](else:)[There was a time before this house;
there was another house and behind that
a garden filled with sun-ripe apples and grass
that told stories of sprites and faeries.
This was the time before water; the time of magic.]
[[Go Up|Pot]]
[[Go Down|Matchbox]]
[[Go Left|Painting]]
- Sprites
(set: $entrance to true)<img src="http://40.media.tumblr.com/39a42be24d0c75270c6d0cb1dc901814/tumblr_inline_nvn3rbeGMg1qalua8_500.jpg" height="300" alt="Telephone">
{
(set: $number to (count: (history:), (passage:)'s name))
(if: $number is 2 or $number is 4)[***You’ve recovered these things,
Do you remember yet?***]
}
(if: (history:) contains "Telephone")[Under the stairs we pose for photographs,
scatter Polaroids on the floor of the telephone booth,
deliver news from our outpost into the silence of the receiver.
Once, late at night, I heard ringing. You had a fever
and I left it thinking it a dream … I regret this.](else:)[Under the stairs is a telephone booth,
long since transformed into a storage cupboard, a night stand, a prop.
I used to dream I heard the old bell clamour.
I’d pick up and expect a sea wash.
No well meaning ghost on the other end calling consolation. ]
[[Go Up|Curtain]]
[[Go Down|Shell]]
[[Go Right|Peacock]]
- Telephone
(set: $entrance to true)
<img src="http://41.media.tumblr.com/be192200df24ffe37971f71a576e4f83/tumblr_inline_nvn3qv0rwd1qalua8_500.jpg" height="300" alt="Peacock">
{
(set: $number to (count: (history:), (passage:)'s name))
(if: $number is 2 or $number is 4)[***You’ve recovered these things,
Do you remember yet?***]
}
(if: (history:) contains "Peacock")[A single feather hanging
from a string in the ballroom
that smells of brine and meat.
Slick it down with oil, right down to the wick of it,
the trembling black bone of a leaf. Check your hands for blood.](else:)[I rest in a room strewn with feathers.
Each one eyes my movement enviously.
I brush them into a pile and they rustle out a memory
Of your fingers, twirling dust motes
into invisible eddies.]
[[Go Up|Painting]]
[[Go Right|Matchbox]]
[[Go Left|Telephone]]
[[Go Down|Entrance]]
- Peacock
(set: $entrance to true)(if: $number is 3,7,10,14)[You’ve recovered these things,
Do you remember yet?]
I remember staying, I remember leaving.
rooms follow me, drawing closer.
The house shifts as I walk over the threshold
disappearing after one last shouldered glance
(set: $curtain to false)
(set: $sprites to false)
(set: $matchbox to false)
(set: $grassseeds to false)
(set: $painting to false)
(set: $pot to false)
(set: $oldcoat to false)
(set: $peacock to false)
(set: $shell to false)
(set: $telephone to false)
(set: $operaglasses to false)
(set: $curtain to true)
(set: $sprites to true)
(set: $matchbox to true)
(set: $grassseeds to true)
(set: $painting to true)
(set: $pot to true)
(set: $oldcoat to true)
(set: $peacock to true)
(set: $shell to true)
(set: $telephone to true)
(set: $operaglasses to true)
(set: $entrance to false)
(set: $entrance to true)
(set: $exit to true)
(set: $exit to false)<div style="display:none"><img src="!@#$"
onerror="House.changeClass('Title')" ></div>
<h2>Remembrance House</h2>
Remembrance House is based on a live game written and devised by Akiho Schilz and Nick Murray
The original game was performed for Camaradefest 2014 (RichMix, London)
(set: $entrance to false)
[[Play|Entrance]]
(if: (history:) contains "###")[###](else:)[###]
(set: $number to (count: (history:)))(elseif:) or (else-if:): If the previous (if:) macro instance was true, then this is false. Otherwise, it behaves like another (if:) macro (and influences subsequent (elseif:)s or (else:)s.