SEALED

SEALED is an illustrated branching adventure for a moment when someone wants a story that fits how they feel. A short preparation conversation asks what kind of experience the player wants, how intense it should be and what to avoid. The player can seek warmth, uncertainty or a bittersweet ending instead of being automatically steered toward reassurance. Read freely, without a clock running over the prose. At three key moments, review two options and press Start decision to begin a twelve-second choice. Choosing A, choosing B or letting time expire changes the deterministic journey. At the end, open the envelope to review the decisions, reveal a prepared detail and verify that the committed story and illustrations still match their original SHA-256 seal. Play the reviewed demo: https://sealed.patapalo.net/demo For this submission, the public entry uses The Shelter Sheet, an adventure previously generated with Meta and reviewed before publication. It reuses the same prepared story and art, makes no new generation requests, and saves each visitor's own decisions and ending. The video labels its archived preparation-chat clip as a separate example. Live generation remains experimental and can fail validation; it is not the primary judging path. The intended benefit is a short, memorable encounter with fiction and another perspective, with the player's declared boundaries respected. SEALED offers entertainment and reflection, not psychological assessment, medical advice or treatment. We do not claim proven emotional benefit or guaranteed uniqueness.