Paste

The crown is glass. He put it there.

50 turns4 endings

Twelve days before the crowning, the chancellor sends for Sabine Ives, the dead court lapidary's daughter, to certify the regalia stone by stone. By the second stone she knows the great sapphire is paste, and she knows the hand that cut it. And the Keeper of the Jewel House — a prince — sits down on her bench, watches her find it, and doesn't deny a word. Certify the glass and she has lied to a king. Refuse, and she hangs beside him. He keeps telling her the truth. That's the trouble.

4 authored endings — reach any and their Ever After opens.

The premise

4 authored endings — reach any and their Ever After opens.

The love interest

Prince Lucan

Keeper of the Jewel House · charming rule-breaker

The old king's younger son by the queen he put aside; thirty-three, holder of a chain, a stipend and no duties, and the court's favourite bad example. Says what he likes. Nobody has ever found out what he does all day.

Prince Lucan's Ever After opens at any ending.

Reach any ending of Paste and it opens for good — free. It remembers what you actually did.

At a glance

Length: 50 turns
Endings: 4
Heat: Open Door
Shelf: Royals & Nobility
Setting: Royal Court
Rating: Mature

Written in-house, played end to end before it reached the shelf.

How it opens

You are at a bench in the palace, in the Jewel House workroom, where the crown's jewels come out of the vault one case at a time. You say what each stone is and write it in the Book of Assay, read aloud at the crowning on the twelfth. Today is the first. Your father did this work for the old king and trained nobody else. The loupe in your hand is his. So is the punch in your pocket, for the day a line wants his mark. …

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