Sherlock Holmes: Adventure of the Blanched Soldier

🔍 A text game you play by talking to Grok. You work one of only two Sherlock Holmes cases Conan Doyle wrote in Holmes' own voice — Watson has married and left, so the detective has to tell this one himself. Doyle's plot and his real sentences come from the public-domain text; the extra scenes, the diaries and the endings past the book's last page are the game's own. You get a numbered menu every turn, and you can always type something of your own instead.

January 1903. A sunburned stockbroker climbs the seventeen steps to Baker Street looking for the friend who dragged him out from under the Boer rifles. The friend is alive, hidden in a locked lodge at the end of his father's garden, and his face has gone the colour of cheese.

Play it two ways:

• Verbatim — Doyle's plot, beat for beat, with his real sentences fetched from the public-domain text
• Branching — your choices bend it, and the game tells you the moment you leave the book

Walk it as Holmes, as James M. Dodd, as Godfrey in the lodge, or as the Colonel keeping the secret. Type "canon" and the game breaks character to separate what Doyle wrote from what it invented. Type "fact" and it does the same for the real Boer War, the real Battle of Diamond Hill, and what medicine now knows about the disease everyone in this story is terrified of.

Every scene generates a full media set — image, video, audio, music, and dialogue — that you can contribute to momatio, where playthroughs become AI-generated video.