Pendulum: Remember The Notes (Sample)

Music can take you to places where no man can walk, nor bird can fly. For Arnold however, that place is Venice in the year 1698.

Arnold has never had a family. Still, he's always had music to guide him through life. Whilst hiding from his pushy foster parents and his many problems, he finds a shoddy old piano and some simple sheet music with 'Remember The Notes' scrawled on the top. He plays the song and gets transported back to when the song was first played... Venice, Italy, 1698.

Here he meets Barty, the eccentric inventor of the piano, an elderly man who feels his invention was just one big waste of the little time he has left. The people of the era are quick to dismiss it, as he struggles to play anything of worth to the Venetian patrons. In a night of rage, he destroys the piano, sickened at how it wasted so many years of his life.

This leaves Arnold with no way to return to the modern age, so he must convince him that the re-creation of the piano is for the good of humanity. However, time is quickly running out as Barty is rapidly descending into the unreturnable grasp of dementia.