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GAME LORE

This page will be occasionally updated with the basic larger plot beats, although there are smaller ones scattered throughout the game itself. It will probably lag behind actual game events by several days to several weeks in order to effectively summarize without being a play-by-play, and may be retroactively edited for past happenings for clarification and/or renewed relevance.

The information here can be discovered through discussion, gossip, eavesdropping, etc in-game or handwaved, or if you wish for a concrete IC source, you can assume such information was passed on by Ala parhellia (OC, played by the mod).

GENERAL OVERVIEW / CURRENT STATUS

It is the eye of the storm. There is peace and quiet throughout the town.

Event: March event

☀ Kaeya is discovered near Maggie(npc)'s house on the brink of death and revival, his body brutally torn apart following a battle with an unknown demon overnight while there was inexplicable and complete silence.

☀ This death is used as an example for the bingo cards that appear by the public notice board, encouraging participation as each completed task returns a star to the night sky. A completed 5 tasks in a row rewards the player with a silver coin. Completing all tasks rewards the player with ???.

☀ Rinne and Niki are murdered in the train station plaza, with Niki's blood used to "hatch" the giant gemstone in the middle of the plaza and Maggie(npc) walking away with Rinne's, Niki's, and Hiiro's gems. In the meantime, the ressurrected townspeople from the month prior begin changing into shadow dogs and attack the living. The town's population is 500 by the end of the month.

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NOVEMBER 2022

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Mini-mini event: cipher (early nov 2022)

☀ Lark(npc) delivers letters to Sans, Kanata, Ib, Haruka, Naberius, V, and Kokichi. Each comes from an anonymous sender, is written in copy-paste ransom note style, and contains a portion of a message that is decoded via a rot13 cipher. The full message reads:
GATHER AT THE CEMETARY
ON THE CUSP OF THE EVE AND THE LORD'S DAY
IN PRAYER FOR THE SAFE RETURN
OF THE DENIZENS OF THIS WORLD
AND THOSE OF BEYOND

Event: coffin (early nov 2022)

☀ Following the cipher note, characters camp out at the cemetery on the designated day. Skeletons underground grab at characters who walk over them, and shadows of familiar people appear in the fog at night. At midnight, the bell on top of the church rings, and thunder and lightning bring a heavy storm.

☀ Inside the church, an open coffin has a note copy-paste ransom note style stuck to the lid with a yellow smiley face sticker:
EYE FOR AN EYE
TOOTH FOR A TOOTH
SACRIFICE
AND BE REWARDED IN TURN
YOU HAVE ONE MONTH
TO BRING THEM BACK
☀ A variety of objects are "sacrificed" to the coffin, including blood, sentimental items, and gemstones, and there are several attempts at communication, including notes that point Kaeya towards the forest and the lake. One of the results is a corpse that is returned to life without any memories, whom Hiiro names "Hamtaro."

Mini-event: fire (mid nov 2022)

☀ Several fires are spotted throughout town: in the forest, in the neighborhood, and at the train. In the forest, Diluc and Kaeya uncover Jiro's dead body, which is missing his heart. When Phil makes a copy of the body, it turns to a shadow cat demon which attacks the group, leaving behind shards of gemstone upon defeat. Further inside the forest, Tsurumaru, Phantom, and Eula discover a pit with a large human-sized something charred black at the bottom, containing shards of gemstone.

☀ In the neighborhood, a house is on fire and Albedo, Kokichi, and Dimos work to save someone who appears to be trapped inside. Dimos chases this shadowy figure to a bedroom, where Dimos finds a box containing shards of gemstone. This house is later revealed to be Hamtaro(npc)'s, and Rinne and Nazuna find a burnt photo of him and his family, triggering the memory of his real name "Raven" and his goal to be reunited with his dead family.

☀ Rinne and Azusa investigate the train whose furnace is lit. They discover shards of gemstone and bloody cloth inside the fire, and a blanket nest underneath the train. Tsukasa and Ala attempt to unlink the furnace from the rest of the train, but the surrounding area goes cold and dark, and Ala disappears. She later admits being attacked.

Group meeting: infoshare (late nov 2022)

☀ Rinne hypothesizes that the gemstones are tied to one's life, confirmed when Sans associates an additional murder count to Tsukasa breaking a gemstone.

☀ Coffin sacrifices and results are compared. Notes received by the coffin are illegible, but Raven(npc) discovers being able to read them. He translates one of Barnaby's notes, written by "Princess Stephanie Astrapia" aka Maggie(npc), who requests six silver coins in order to return home with her family and friends. He also translates one of Hiiro's notes, which contains a list of herbs and mentions bones and a heart.

☀ Albedo breaks the orb he received from the coffin, is sucked into a black hole, and disappears. Wave climbs into the coffin, falls through a black hole, and disappears. Subsequently, the inside of the coffin turns into a black hole.