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[AI]Strings AttachedA runaway teen stumbles into a crew of street performers days before a make-or-break festival — but when a talent scout offers a solo deal that could save or shatter the only family the player has ever chosen, every note becomes a test of loyalty.
미션
Decide whether true artistry means performing for the crowd or performing from the heart — and whether the family you choose is worth more than the future you're offered.
✨ 학습 포인트
Kit's first encounter with the Downbeat Troupe in the Midtown subway tunnel — choosing how to approach Dex, Soleil, and Crow determines initial trust and closest ally
Talent scout Margaux Lane offers Kit a solo contract at the Harbor Park busking spot, forcing a choice between personal ambition and loyalty to the troupe
Dex reveals a sabotage plan against the Riven Collective — Kit must decide whether to support it, refuse and risk expulsion, or propose a public performance battle instead
Kit discovers a younger street kid, Sparrow, sleeping near their busking spot and must choose to bring them to the troupe, help from a distance, or teach them to perform
The final festival performance — Kit chooses the Downbeats' closing act: a crowd-pleasing spectacle, an emotionally raw piece, or an interactive performance that invites the audience to join
📖 스토리 소개

You arrive in Greyport with a cracked ukulele and three dollars in your pocket. The city is loud, indifferent, and cold — until you hear music echoing from a subway tunnel beneath Midtown. A beatboxer's rhythm bounces off tile walls while a violinist weaves something fierce and aching above it. A kid in a black hoodie shuffles cards between vanishing acts. They call themselves the Downbeat Troupe, and their leader, Dex, watches you with the careful eyes of someone who's been burned before.

The Greyport Street Arts Festival is one week away — the biggest event on the Circuit, where buskers compete for a permanent performance permit and the attention of every scout in the city. The Downbeats need one more act to fill their lineup. You need a place to sleep. The math is simple. The cost is not.

Soleil, the troupe's violinist, pushes you to dig deeper, to play something raw and real instead of safe. Crow, the card-trick graffiti kid, tests you with pranks and sharp jokes, daring you to prove you won't bolt at the first sign of trouble. And Dex — Dex wants to believe in you so badly it feels like a weight on your chest.

Then a woman in a tailored coat appears at your busking spot. She's a talent scout named Margaux Lane, and she offers you a solo contract: studio time, a real stage, money. All you have to do is leave the troupe before the finals. Dex finds out. Soleil calls you a sellout. Crow won't look at you.

Meanwhile, Dex reveals a plan to sabotage the Riven Collective, a rival crew whose leader once stole Dex's songs and walked away. You can support the sabotage, refuse and risk exile, or propose settling it on stage — a performance battle in the alley behind Harbor Park.

A younger street kid named Sparrow appears near your busking spot, alone and hungry. What you do with that mirror — ignore it, feed it, teach it — echoes everything the troupe once did for you.

The festival's final night arrives. The crowd presses in. The judges sit with clipboards. Dex looks at you and asks one question: "What do we play?" A high-energy spectacle to win the judges, a stripped-down piece about life on the streets, or something no one's ever tried — an act that pulls the audience in and makes them part of the music. Your answer doesn't just decide the competition. It decides what kind of artist you are, and whether the family you found is the family you keep.

👀 프롤로그 미리 보기
The subway tunnel swallows the last of the daylight behind you, and for a moment there is nothing — just the drip of condensation on old tile and the stale breath of underground air against your skin. Then a beat drops. Not from speakers, but from a mouth — a percussive rattle that ricochets off the curved walls like a living thing. A violin slides in on top, sharp and aching, the kind of sound that makes your chest tighten before you understand why. Somewhere deeper in the tunnel, a kid in a black hoodie fans a deck of cards into the air, catches them behind his back, and grins at no one. You press your shoulder against the damp tile wall and watch. Your cracked ukulele digs into your spine through the backpack. Three dollars in your pocket. No plan. No name anyone here knows. But the music keeps pulling, and your fingers are already twitching.
Dex
Dex
Dex stops mid-rhythm, tilting his head like a dog that just caught a scent, and locks eyes with you across the tunnel.Aight, new blood — you been standing there long enough to learn the setlist. So what's the deal? You a tourist... or you got something in that busted case worth hearing?