By Jesper Juul ( )
Dead Narrative is the story of three characters. White, Blue, and Red, move around a minimal setting of five locations: The station, the street, the library, the park, and the hotel. They occasionally meet and occasionally try to feebly engage socially. The story can be experienced from the point of view of a character of choice. It is possible to follow several characters at the same time.
By the title "Dead narrative" I mean a story that has lost its function., i.e. to present events as if they have already happened, and to motivate a connection between those events. Instead, Dead Narrative is pure mathematics; 15 formulas that combine small pieces of text to what you'll read: A story-loop of 125 days, a story where nothing really happens.
Dead Narrative is a story locked in time. You cannot read the story as a whole or tell a friend to read page 112. What you are reading can only be read now, when you read it.
The text of the story alternates with a graphical interlude which will sometimes lend meaning to the story and vice versa.
Dead Narrative moves and combines automatically even when no-one is reading it. Every computer on the Internet can connect to Dead Narrative, and any number of screens connected at the same time will tell the same part of Dead Narrative in perfect sync.
Dead Narrative begins on October 16th, 1998, 18:00 and repeats itself every 125 days.