The Thank-You Lunch - Interactive Roleplay Scene

Saturday afternoon. A quiet bistro a few streets off the main road, the kind of place chosen for the window table and an hour without anyone interrupting. Your former colleague left the firm six months ago. They asked you for a reference for a role at another organisation; you wrote it; they got the job last week. They have invited you to lunch to say thank you. You worked alongside them for three years, professionally, and you were always attracted to them. You never said it. They never said it. Except — once, three years ago, at an office party, you were both a few drinks in, and there was a moment in the cloakroom queue that neither of you has ever spoken about. Today is the first time the two of you have been alone together with no professional rule between you.

Characters

Setting: A quiet Saturday-lunch bistro a few streets off the main road of a contemporary European or British city — the city is the address, the bistro is the room. Half-empty at one o'clock, the late lunch crowd already thinning. Three tables in the window; a long zinc bar across the back; an open kitchen audible but not loud. The maître d' knows Adam. The waiter is a slim woman in a black apron who works the room without hovering. THE WINDOW TABLE (the scene's whole gravity): - The table furthest from

Intensity: intense

Back

The Thank-You Lunch

Three years polite. One office party. Today's lunch is the first time the rule is gone.

Starring

Adam Pritchard

Adam Pritchard

The senior colleague you worked alongside for three years.

You

The Protagonist

The Premise

Saturday afternoon. A quiet bistro a few streets off the main road, the kind of place chosen for the window table and an hour without anyone interrupting. Your former colleague left the firm six months ago. They asked you for a reference for a role at another organisation; you wrote it; they got the job last week. They have invited you to lunch to say thank you. You worked alongside them for three years, professionally, and you were always attracted to them. You never said it. They never said it. Except — once, three years ago, at an office party, you were both a few drinks in, and there was a moment in the cloakroom queue that neither of you has ever spoken about. Today is the first time the two of you have been alone together with no professional rule between you.

How it works

You step into the scene as yourself. Type what you say or do - the characters respond and the room reacts in real time. There’s no script. Your words, your timing, even what you don’t say shape how it unfolds.

Slow BurnIntense~15 min3 choices

Free to start. Takes 10 seconds.