Up, Underneath

Up, Underneath is an interactive narrative experience hosted on itch.io, where the reader interacts with the narrative directly to impact the story as its history plays out before them.

It is a laptop or tablet browser experience, with an average story length of 2,800 words.

Content warnings for small spaces, mental illness, and isolation.

The reader rifles through salvaged records from an infamous and redacted manned mission to Pluto, to discover the fates of its lost crew.

Told from the point of view of the crew geologist, the story chronicles the journey from earth, the strange behavior of the mission’s crew, and the protagonist’s descent into her own obsessions - both with her crew mates, and the mysterious world they grow closer and closer to every day.