In a world of superheroes and villains, you’re just working off a contract and trying to get paid. But when a simple in-and-out job ends in an explosion, you get dragged into a massive corporate conspiracy. To make matters worse: your heroic brother rediscovers your existence, a shady government organization is investigating you, and everything seems to lead back to your birth.
You’re a contractor — no cape, no cowl, no code name given to you by the public. Just someone with enhanced senses sharp enough to make you dangerous, and a very particular set of skills you’ve built into one of three specialties. Glorywell doesn’t care who you are, as long as the job gets done. And now the job has encroached upon your life.
Current status: Chapter 1 (the heist, and everything it kicks off) is complete at roughly 40.5k words, along with one optional side story. Chapter 2 is in the works but don’t expect it for like, months. It’ll be built as three sub-chapters, and I’ll post updates as each one is finished.
What you can do:
• Play as male, female, trans and/or non-binary; gay, straight, or bi (and eventually poly).
• Define the person behind the mask: patient or bold, true to yourself or built to blend in, generous or always keeping score, confident and seeking glory or apologetic about your existence.
• Grapple with the stress of having super senses, which you’ve honed to be the best Combatant, Tactician, or Stalker.
• Romance your telepathic childhood friend, a government agent barely able to take care of their niece, a fellow contractor who’s a devious flirt and out of their depth, a prickly scientist with too many secrets, or your mentor’s friend who’s a wannabe cowboy.
• Reunite with your brother and mother, or scorn them for the pain you still feel.
• Uncover the secrets of your birth, and just how connected to everything you truly are.
Romance options:
• Robin “Byrdie” Byrdie — your childhood friend, a telepath who’s spent years learning to tune out everyone else’s thoughts except yours.
• Jesse Eckart — a BICS field agent with a multi-mode vision power and a niece they’re perpetually one bad shift away from being late to pick up.
• Lloyd “Double L” Lloraze — a fellow contractor who can split into two independently-operating copies of themself, and flirts like it’s a competitive sport.
• Dr. Harley Kennedy — an Anderdansk researcher that hides their secrets with intense aggression.
• Nicky “Firebrand” Gardner — a pyrokinetic contractor and your mentor’s oldest friend, equal parts cowboy larp and unregistered fire hazard.
Trigger warnings:
• Neglectful parents
• Run-away child
• Unintentional deadnaming & misgendering (choice dependent)
• Graphic violence and gun violence
• Panic attacks & dissociative episodes
• Grief of a parental figure
• More to be added later
This is my first ChoiceScript project, so I’d love feedback of any kind. Thanks for reading!
Demo Link Again: CoGDemos
Tumblr (where I’ll be more active): https://www.tumblr.com/blog/icychoiceclaw
AI Disclosure:
No — This project does not contain the output of Generative AI
Yes — This project contains the output of Generative AI
I used Claude through access I get via college. Its main jobs have been editorial: checking grammar and typos, bug fixing, and giving craft feedback on pacing, continuity, and characterization. A few passages — including at least one flashback scene — started as a Claude-generated draft that I then rewrote and revised across multiple passes; some smaller lines went through a lighter version of that same process. No AI-generated art was used.
