The Hero Unmasked!

Impersonate your identical twin as the Swashbuckler, masked champion of justice! You have two weeks to rescue the REAL Swashbuckler and marry the mayor before superpowered criminals take over the city. The Hero Unmasked is a 300,000 word interactive novel by Christopher Huang. It's entirely text-based, without graphics or sound effects, and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination. As our story begins, you have everything you've ever wanted. Your TV news show is the highest rated in the city, and you're engaged to the mayor, with two weeks until the wedding. But when superpowered criminals kidnap the Swashbuckler, you realize the awful truth: the person in the ransom video is your identical twin, and everyone thinks it's you! Now, you must draw the Swashbuckler's laser sword and wear the Swashbuckler's mask to bring down three of the city's most wanted super criminals before time runs out. How is this going to work? Can you keep up the charade? Do you want to? When you meet the Swashbuckler's sweetheart, will you remain faithful? To whom?! Who is really behind the mask? • Play as male or female, gay or straight • Infiltrate high society events and root out criminal hideouts • Uncover the true identities of Caledon City's superpowered criminals • Disarm a bomb and save the city's finest from destruction • Maintain the masquerade as you learn about the Swashbuckler's secret hero life • Find romance with a journalist, a pyromaniac, or a vampire • Become a powered hero in your own right Minor bug fixes.