An original roleplay serial, one chapter a day until launch night.
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Leonida Nights
Tonight's chapter is on its way. One vote a day decides where the story goes.
Previously on Leonida Nights
The story starts tonight: there is nothing to recap yet.
Chapter 1
The Gull Comes In
Storm night in Vice City. The rain comes sideways off the water and the radio at Nightline Cabs has been nothing but cancelled fares for an hour. Then the marine band crackles: a boat with no lights drifting toward the Ocean Beach breakwater. Dez Okafor, the night dispatcher, is the only person awake who hears it. She calls the one number she trusts in the Keys. Sol Reyes picks up on the first ring, already pulling boots on, because a storm is when boats need her. By the time Sol's skiff reaches the breakwater the derelict has wedged itself on the rocks: an old party boat, chrome rails, a name half painted out. The Gull. No registration, no crew, a hold locked with a chain. And in the marina car park, leaning on a car that costs more than the marina, Teo Vance is watching with a folder under his arm.
What does the crew do?
Votes so far appear here after you vote. The split shows once 20 people have voted today.
Your path
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Your own path (what you picked) against the crew's appears here as you vote.
Your card shows the chapter's scene, the crew you sided with and the days to launch, never the choice itself, so it spoils nothing.
Read today's scene, vote on what the crew does next, and tomorrow's chapter follows the choice that won. Fan fiction about original characters: not GTA 6 story, no spoilers for the game.
The cast
Dez Okafor: the night dispatcher at Nightline Cabs, who hears everything the city says after midnight.
Sol Reyes: a boat mechanic in the Keys who will not let a hull go to scrap.
Teo Vance: a fixer and former insurance investigator with a folder for everything.
Mireille: the last of the family that built the boat.
Halvard Pike: a marina developer with a pier to finish and a lease to beat.
Three crews pull the story their way: Nightline (Dez and the cab radio: talk, favours, eyes everywhere); Tidewater (Sol and the Keys: water, weather, nerve); Paper Street (Teo and the paperwork: angles, patience, the long game). Every choice sides with one of them, and the page keeps a meter of which crew you back most. The characters, the boat and the marina developer are invented for this serial; the places are the roleplay staples and the regions Rockstar has named, nothing more.
How the vote works
One chapter a day, from 11 October to launch night on 19 November: forty chapters. Each ends on three choices and everyone sees the same three. You vote once; after that the page shows how the split is going, with real numbers once 20 people have voted that day. At midnight UTC the leading choice wins and the next chapter opens on that branch, with a short "aftermath" of the choice before the story moves on. The whole tree was written in advance so that every branch comes back to the main story the next day and no path runs out before the finale. Days with too few votes, or a tie, are settled by a seeded roll of the dice and are marked that way in the recap. We never make up a vote count.
Your side of it stays in this browser: what you picked, how often you landed with the majority, which crew you back. Voting is one of today's dailies, so it counts for your streak and the RP Academy, and two album cards wait for regular voters. For a one-night branching scene with endings to collect, try Story Night; for a character to write your own serial around, the character generator.
Questions
How does the vote work?
Each chapter ends on three choices. Vote once a day (midnight UTC resets it); your vote is one anonymous number sent to our server, nothing else. After you vote you see how the split is going. Once 20 real votes are in, the numbers show; before that the page says the count is still low. At midnight the choice with the most votes wins and the next chapter opens on that branch. If fewer than 20 people voted, or the vote tied, the branch is picked by a seeded roll of the dice and the recap says so. We never invent vote counts.
Is this GTA 6 story?
No. Leonida Nights is original fan fiction about original characters on an imagined roleplay server, written for this site. It is not Rockstar's story, it contains no official characters, no real people and nothing from leaks, and nothing in it is a fact about the game. The places are the regions Rockstar has named and generic spots like a marina or a diner.
What if I miss a day?
The chapter still happens: the community (or the dice) picks the branch and the recap shows the path. You can read every chapter so far on this page any time. Only today's chapter takes votes, and voting counts as one of today's dailies.
What is the allegiance meter?
Every choice sides with one of three crews: Nightline (Dez and the cab radio: talk, favours, eyes everywhere), Tidewater (Sol and the Keys: water, weather, nerve), Paper Street (Teo and the paperwork: angles, patience, the long game). The meter counts which crew you have backed most, in this browser only. "With the majority" counts the days decided by a real vote where you picked the winning choice.
Can I write in?
No. The serial is written in advance as a branching tree that comes back together each day, so every path has a real chapter through launch night, 19 November. There is no free text anywhere: the only thing you send is a choice number.
Alibi
Between chapters, crack today's case
A daily who-is-lying puzzle in an invented RP setting: read the clue cards and the statements, question if you must, accuse once. Badges, a streak and an emoji result to share. A fan puzzle.
