Eternal Affairs

Eternal Affairs is a 100,000-word interactive urban fantasy romance novel by Jamie Maurer. It is entirely text-based, with no graphics or sound effects, and offers hundreds of choices. You play a secret magical agent investigating a stolen artifact and an arcane conspiracy before time runs out.

The investigation

After losing your beloved brother in a magical anomaly, you joined the Bureau of Magic to investigate anomalies and prevent others from suffering the same fate. You and your Bureau partner are assigned to recover a dangerous artifact stolen from one of the agency’s most secure vaults. The investigation uncovers conspiracies reaching the Bureau’s highest levels, other worlds and your own traumatic past.

Magic is part of the work: thieves use shadow-manipulation charms to evade security cameras, while hackers can put necromantic malware into computers. You can shapeshift, move objects with your mind, teleport, heal grave injuries, hurl fireballs and manipulate time by looking into the past or future. Choose a specialty in matter, energy, time/space or antimagic.

Your choices

You can play as a male, female or non-binary character, and choose to be gay, straight or bi/pan. Decide whether to follow Bureau rules and keep magic secret or rebel against its restrictive policies and share magic with the world. You also navigate the Bureau’s bureaucracy, dealing with your boss, red tape and a smarmy, arrogant rival. You can even turn to the dark side and defy death.

Magic and romance

Your investigation can take you into the kaleidoscopic realm of the Fae, where you negotiate the delicate balance between their world and yours, or dance at a Fae masked ball. As the chase unfolds, you may fall for Charlie, a rebellious rogue mage who consults for the Bureau, or Lex, your loyal and serious Bureau partner. The choices you make shape who stands by you when you reach the heart of the conspiracy.