Arcane Academy

Papers, Please at the gate of a magic school: judge, cite, peek, profit. Spoiler: Story You are the one ungifted soul inside a walled academy of forbidden magic - the underpaid warden of its gate. Your sister is dying of the hollowing, and the cure is rationed by the school that despises you. The detention master's offer: a Binding Sigil that distills Mana from every illicit look you take at the gilded daughters passing your checkpoint. Judge them against the day's dress code. Cite what they break. Look deeper than you should. Bank the Mana, pay the weekly tithe, and race the cure against the calendar. You are not corrupt. You are cornered. Every illicit look is to save her.