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The cover of Three Duels by Noon

Historical swashbuckler: a life in the King's service

Three Duels by Noon

Paris, 1625: thirty-six livres, a borrowed sword with a dead man on it, and three affairs of honour before the bells of Saint-Germain ring noon.

An interactive story for adults, written live by AI as you choose.

Start reading

New readers start with 140 free ink, about seven turns. For readers 18 and over.

Who you play

Younger child of a poor Gascon house, newly arrived in Paris to seek a place in the King's service

Eighteen, from a crumbling manor with a pigeon-tower in Armagnac. You carry a sword lent by the neighbour Sanche d'Arblade, thirty-six livres, and a letter of introduction to M. de Sarrance of the King's Musketeers. You have been in Paris less than a day.

Length
A serial: it goes on as long as you keep reading
Endings
5 to find
Content
Mature (18+), closed-door romance

How it plays

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