Honor Bound

Overview

Protect an exclusive boarding school and rebuild your life after scandal as a military bodyguard for the children of the rich and famous. Return to the world of Crème de la Crème, this time as a military officer in the Republic of Teran.

About the Game

Honor Bound is an interactive novel by Harris Powell-Smith where your choices control the story. It's entirely text-based, 595,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.

The Story

You've built a promising career in the Teranese military, a force which has not seen major engagement in decades but which holds vast influence. Thanks to an injury, you're no longer in the field. Thanks to the complicated (read, scandalous) circumstances of that injury, you've been quietly reassigned as a bodyguard for the teenage child of a famous scientist at an exclusive boarding school in the wilderness.

But danger is closing in, and peril can come from inside as well as out. What secret projects are your colleagues pursuing in the dead of night? What is your commanding officer not telling you? Bandits lurk in the wilderness, including one of your childhood friends, and natural disasters constantly threaten the fragile environment. And then there's the danger to your heart, from the complicated feelings that come from returning to your birthplace.

Choices and Customization

Build a warm community and bond with your colleagues, or impress everyone with your aloof competence. Chase ambition to receive glowing reports and get your life back on track, or become such a disaster that only bandits will tolerate your presence. Or risk it all for the sake of doing the right thing.