OK, I’m going to allow @Glenn_Irish one more day to answer the call or we’ll start with 9 players.
Since Glenn isn’t answering, we’ll proceed to start. The players are: @Khsellhu, @Necem, @Kawaii-is-Justice, @Hardscope, @Natsume, @Likeaneko, @RedRavenW, @Pepe and @Arete.
For now I’ll post the general setting. During the rest of the day or tomorrow morning (my time) you’ll get your characters, roles and the side you are in.
Information about the first mission and leader order will also be posted as soon as everyone’s been notified about their characters. Best of luck to you all.
Kazamatsuri is a modern city, where innovative research and environmentally friendly technology coexist in harmony. One could think that such a city would be a utopia, a place where everyone can leave peacefully and no conflicts arise, but, while this might be true at surface level, the truth is that a fair amount of obscure business is hidden behind all these associations. Corruption, blackmailing, and information administration are the basis of a secret association that finances itself at the cost of pollution, subtracting money from research funding and life-quality reductions.
This secret association, 風魔都利 (Kazamatsuri) as they call themselves, acts as a syndicate of select individuals that ignore the law and oversee any kind of violation to these. They act as independent cells, but when danger arises, they can organize themselves to protect their status quo. They don’t usually use any means of violence. Instead, they focus on political manipulation of their targets to silence them by blackmailing them or offering them advantages in form of bribes. However, should a major concern arise, they have access to a select team of assassins that they won’t doubt to use to silence their targets forever.
All of this is unknown to the regular citizens, including our famous Okaken. The Okaken, the occult research club of Kazamatsuri’s high school, originally formed by Kotarou, Akane, Kotori, Chihaya, Shizuru and Lucia has already done some business and their popularity has been increasing lately, to the point where they now have external collaborators, including Esaka, Inoue and Yoshino. With this, there are currently 9 people making the Okaken’s discoveries possible.
Recently, a member of the club found a very suspicious lead about a secret exchange of goods to be done deep inside the forest. That member went to investigate alone since they didn’t know if that was a lead that they should follow or if it was too dangerous. There, they found 2 members of that secret organization, trading a huge amount of money for what looked like a weapons crate (material for the assassins). The loner could only identify one of those two members of the organization, but the name of a third member of the organization was also mentioned. Both the subjects and the mentioned name weren’t unknown to the loner… They were members or collaborators of the Okaken! The loner became both angry and scared. They had found a very obscure organization and knowing who they were meant that they had become their target.
This lone member started running back to town. In the process, they saw a shadow who had been observing them: they had been discovered… One of the spies of the organization knew about their intentions and had been tailing them for the day. However, what this spy didn’t notice is the presence of a third person in that forest (apart from the traders). Another Okaken member had seen both the assassin and the loner. Both were in the Okaken, but they couldn’t discern which one was loyal to the organization and which one was a true member of the Okaken. This member had seen the loner go into the forest, and since they seemed suspicious, they followed them.
Like this, the peculiar and dangerous trip to the forest concluded. The loner suspects that the ones they saw were the boss and the leader of an assassin gang. They didn’t see each other directly, so probably the Assassin leader wanted to remain unknown for their own safety. Also, the name mentioned probably belonged to the spy that had followed the loner.
The next day, the loner managed to anonymously send an email to all the members and collaborators of the Okaken. Their only objective was to cleanse the Okaken from the organization’s infiltrators:
Last night I went to the forest, although one of you already knows that. An organization is carrying out some utterly serious business involving weapons. I don’t know much about it, but I know that 3 people from the organization are members or collaborators of the Okaken. I know who 2 of you are, so don’t you even dare approach me. As for the 3rd, let’s all cooperate to find him and send them all to court. This mystery isn’t just a mystery. It’s part of something bigger. The Okaken must stop these criminals.
We’ll do some research and designate teams to go on “Special Investigations”. We must carry out these investigations successfully to obtain enough evidence about the organization, but we need to be careful about these teams’ members. Should one of the moles end up in one of the teams, they’ll be able to cover up all the evidence and gather even more information about us. If we allow the organization to gather too much information about us they’ll start blackmailing us and we’ll have run out of options. We might even have no other choice than to become slaves of the organization.
The atmosphere has been set up. With a common objective for the Okaken, they are ready to start their investigative operations! Will they be able to gather enough proof and drag the organization away from the shadows they are hiding in? Will the organization be able to cover up the evidence and be safe from the Okaken, while coercing them to keep their mouth shut? Or will they have to resort to their last option: a risky and notorious massacre to eliminate any and all threat?
Both Okaken and 風魔都利 will do their best to destroy each other, be it with information or physically.
The special roles are the following:
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The loner (Okaken): Knows the identity of the Assassin leader and the spy.
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The observer (Okaken): Knows the identity of the spy and the loner, but doesn’t know who is who.
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The boss of the organization (Organization): Remains unknown to the loner.
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The assassins’ leader (Organization): This person is as careful as they are deadly. They prefer to remain in the shadow, so not even the Organization knows who they are. In exchange, they don’t know specifically for who they are working.
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The spy (Organization): One of the Organization’s spies. They saw the loner but don’t know who they are. They are also revealed as the loner to the observer.
If the Organization loses, the Assassins’ leader will have the chance to kill the loner and win the game for their team. This means that the Assassin’s leader, who will have a great disadvantage from the start, will be the key at the end of the game if their team loses.
so count me in!
