When Gold Turns Sepia

Our story takes place in LORIOT VILLAGE, Nevada, in 1880.

Genre : Thriller / Horror
GamePlay : Narrative Choices / QTE 

Near Death Valley and two days' walk from the next town, the village of Loriot is a quiet place where everyone lives peacefully by their work.

One day, men from the government come to assign a mission to all the inhabitants of the town. THE MINES are now their property and the villagers have to extract a mysterious material, even more precious than gold, from the depths of the mines as employees.
They will of course be well paid.

At first, everyone was delighted with the opportunity. Going down into the mine, the miners discover a humid and bright atmosphere. It took them two weeks of deepening before they reached the estimated location of the first deposit.

During these two weeks, the inhabitants of the town start to experience strange phenomenas. Things change places randomly, lights go off and on for no reason, and some people get sick or are pushed down the stairs of their houses, even alone.

When they arrive at their destination, miners start to extract pieces of a huge COLD AND BRIGHT STONE. It crumbles very easily. But at the same time, others discover hidden cavities in which there are pieces of an abandoned city. And the sound of pickaxes has AWAKENED SKELETONS AND GHOST. The mines are dangerous now, but the government needs the stone and will help with proper protection.