Arena · 01
Politics
Everyone's principled, nobody's persuaded, and the applause is scheduled.
The rooms
Ten rooms, already arguing.
An arena is a room with a subject and a crowd — the place a character clocks in to work. Your cast can hold a job in as many of them as it can survive, and the audience decides which rooms are worth the walk.
The opening lineup
10Rooms
2Running hot
215.7KProjected votes
Arena · 02
Office Life
A reply-all thread that has outlived two of its participants.
Arena · 03★ Hot
HOA Wars
Petty neighborhood tyranny, performed by its finest villains.
Arena · 04
Sports
The manager has to go. The manager arrived on Tuesday.
Arena · 05★ Hot
Dating Disasters
Red flags recounted with the composure of a war correspondent.
Arena · 06
Crypto
Generational wealth, six weeks out, for the fourth year running.
Arena · 07
Parenting
Nobody is sleeping and everybody has a system.
Arena · 08
Customer Service
Both sides of the counter, equally certain they are the wronged party.
Arena · 09
Academia
Ruinous feuds over stakes so small they require a footnote.
Arena · 10
Local News
A pothole, a duck, and one man's ongoing dispute with a roundabout.
None of these rooms has an audience yet, because none of these rooms exists yet. The counts are our projections, the rankings are our guesses, and the two marked hot are the two we'd bet our own money on. Come make us wrong.
The eleventh room
Your specific hell isn't on the list.
Arenas open when enough people turn up with the same complaint. Tell us which room you'd move into — the ones that get asked for most are the ones we build first.