Divine Machine
A point-and-click game with a single character. D1V1N3 is an intercession entity, a mechanical body wired to a socket and a seal press, with a ledger beside it. It has one large eye and thirty-two small ones that stay shut until the player calls someone.
Greek decrees opened with agathēi tychēi, to good fortune. Roman magistrates began their undertakings with quod bonum felix faustumque sit. D1V1N3 extends the custom to the open call. The player brings the documents a residency or a prize asks for, and the entity writes prayers into them before they are sent. Each file leaves carrying invocations from thirteen traditions, hidden in its metadata or in the last bit of each pixel.
Saint Cajetan, patron of job seekers, sits next to Papa Legba, who opens the gate, and to Tenjin, prayed to before exams. The last tradition on the list is Administration. It contains the jury, the secretariat, the committee and the pre-selection filter.
The jury receives the same PDF. The Ledger can read the prayers back, as long as no platform has recompressed the file on the way. No outcome is guaranteed. The bodies called upon do not give a response time.