Some say it’s an app downloaded onto your phone, that you can only access at midnight. Others say it’s a website that you can only see if you click a link left behind by someone who has died. Still others say that it’s the name of a mysterious Line account that you can contact by sending one message a day for three days, offering up your life…
But no matter what version of the rumor you believe, there’s one consistent aspect of it that remains true in every version. If you download the app, visit the website, or contact the account on Line, you will receive a message from a week into the future. A video, depicting events that have yet to come to pass, but will.
They call it Strange Gospel. A popular new urban legend among students, and it’s not difficult to see why. The idea of being able to see the future is exciting. A prediction about your love life? The topics that will be on the next quiz? Seeing if you have a stroke of good luck in the future?
Of course, someone would want to be able to access that information. Of course, someone would want to look into their future.
Of course, it’s only a rumor. A fun little game of searching for something that ultimately can’t possibly exist, to occupy time between school, homework, and other free time activities. Trying to get down to the bottom of the mystery of Strange Gospel is just as popular among students as the idea of actually using its mysterious future-telling activities.
For the students of Yamamura High School, it’s no different. It’s likely the majority of the student body, by this point, has at least spent a little bit of time looking into the impossible rumor of a future-telling app, or website, or Line account.
You’re one of the ones who found it.
A late night. A mysterious link left behind by someone who’s been dead for years. The English text that scrawled across the black screen read “Strange Gospel”.
Staying up until midnight and discovering a download page for an app you’ve never seen before. A black screen with those ghostly white characters reading “Strange Gospel”.
After sending the third message on Line, receiving a response the very next day. The name of the account was “Strange Gospel”.
Regardless of what version of the rumor you used, you found it.
Your reward for doing so was just as promised: A video of the future. Whatever happened between viewing it and the same day next week, it would come to pass. You experienced it, first-hand.
It was true.
Strange Gospel was real.
Maybe you were in a rush to use it again. Maybe you were scared to.
But somehow it found you instead. This time, it showed you a new video.
Shadows falling over a full moon. A pitch black tower standing before it. A white mask bearing a thin smile with empty eyes.
Blood.
It was only then that the first disappearance occurred.
Other students who had used Strange Gospel vanishing without a trace, two weeks after their prediction came true. Law enforcement is involved, now, but so far they’ve been unable to find any leads.
Maybe you’re scared. Maybe you think it’s not connected at all. Maybe you’re still in disbelief, denial that something like this could even exist. Maybe you believe the rumors that a strange figure in a trench coat supposedly seen on late nights is involved in this.
But there can be no doubt.
The moment you used Strange Gospel, your life changed.
Soon you’ll learn why.
The A.A.S is running out of time.
They’ve been working behind the scenes, trying to crush the appearance of the Strange Gospel and slow it down, buy more time, find more candidates to scale the tower and stop the Dead End from coming to pass.
But reality is starting to set in.
The situation has been deteriorating. Now the disappearances have started. The number of people who have actually found Strange Gospel has grown.
They’ve tried to stem the bleeding. Even if they can only reach so far, they’ve been doing all the can to try and recruit anyone with the necessary capabilities.
Time is short.
They need more recruits, more who can descend into the eternal night and scale the spire, to bring and end to things before it’s too late. With every passing day, the situation becomes more desperate. So few people can do what they need of them, and they can only look for so long before time runs out.
But maybe, just maybe, they’ll find you.
Falling down.
Again and again.
She tries again.
She fails.
It’s the reason she exists. The reason she’s here. There’s no other purpose to her existence than this one.
Everyone else is gone. She’s the only one.
She tries again.
She fails.
Every night.
Even if she’s alone, she has no choice. She can’t stop.
She tries again.
She fails.
If she doesn’t succeed, everything will end. If she doesn’t break through, she knows exactly what will happen.
So she has to keep going.
She tries again.
So this is a revival of a much older concept, with me refining it and being a lot more honest about the fact it’s pretty much just Persona with the numbers filed off. Since I want avoid the baggage of working with the already-established setting, plus my own knowledge of the wider series being a bit more limited, I decided against attempting a direct Persona RP and instead reviving a concept that I’d initially come up with for similar reasons.
So think of this as Urban Fantasy in the style of Persona. If that interests you, you’ve come to the right place! Expect lots of social interaction combined with spooky weird enemies in nightly visits to a bizarre mirror world with a massive tower known as the Apocrypha.
In terms of characters I’m not planning on accepting more than maybe six, seven at the most. I want this to be fairly character-focused, and if you want to join the party proper later on I’m fine with that as well.
I’m planning on player characters being students, and if you want you can already be a member of the Apocrypha Annihilation Agency which will already be active in Yamamura High School, trying to recruit more candidates who are capable of safely entering and leaving the shadowy mirror world of Asphodel to scale the Apocrypha tower and destroy it before it’s too late. I’ll probably only accept one character in this situation
Emotional baggage is a bonus for the narrative, so feel free to give your characters some issues they need to work out!
Fear and self-preservation are a natural part of life, and these elements are key to the summoning of an Echo, an entity that is a reflection of the user’s inner self. Echoes are the primary method through which the creatures inhabiting the Apocrypha can be combated, though they can also be harmed by physical damage.
I did say this was Persona with the numbers filed off.
Echoes take the form of an entity or even a weapon in some cases, but they are often influenced by mythological origins. They possess a variety of abilities comparable to magic, and can act semi-independently but are largely controlled directly by the user.
Characters will gain access to their Echo early on, as they join the main party. The character already associated with A.A.S may already have access to theirs. Echoes are activated by an Awakening Drive, resembling a USB inserted into the wrist.
But no matter what version of the rumor you believe, there’s one consistent aspect of it that remains true in every version. If you download the app, visit the website, or contact the account on Line, you will receive a message from a week into the future. A video, depicting events that have yet to come to pass, but will.
They call it Strange Gospel. A popular new urban legend among students, and it’s not difficult to see why. The idea of being able to see the future is exciting. A prediction about your love life? The topics that will be on the next quiz? Seeing if you have a stroke of good luck in the future?
Of course, someone would want to be able to access that information. Of course, someone would want to look into their future.
Of course, it’s only a rumor. A fun little game of searching for something that ultimately can’t possibly exist, to occupy time between school, homework, and other free time activities. Trying to get down to the bottom of the mystery of Strange Gospel is just as popular among students as the idea of actually using its mysterious future-telling activities.
For the students of Yamamura High School, it’s no different. It’s likely the majority of the student body, by this point, has at least spent a little bit of time looking into the impossible rumor of a future-telling app, or website, or Line account.
You’re one of the ones who found it.
A late night. A mysterious link left behind by someone who’s been dead for years. The English text that scrawled across the black screen read “Strange Gospel”.
Staying up until midnight and discovering a download page for an app you’ve never seen before. A black screen with those ghostly white characters reading “Strange Gospel”.
After sending the third message on Line, receiving a response the very next day. The name of the account was “Strange Gospel”.
Regardless of what version of the rumor you used, you found it.
Your reward for doing so was just as promised: A video of the future. Whatever happened between viewing it and the same day next week, it would come to pass. You experienced it, first-hand.
It was true.
Strange Gospel was real.
Maybe you were in a rush to use it again. Maybe you were scared to.
But somehow it found you instead. This time, it showed you a new video.
Shadows falling over a full moon. A pitch black tower standing before it. A white mask bearing a thin smile with empty eyes.
Blood.
It was only then that the first disappearance occurred.
Other students who had used Strange Gospel vanishing without a trace, two weeks after their prediction came true. Law enforcement is involved, now, but so far they’ve been unable to find any leads.
Maybe you’re scared. Maybe you think it’s not connected at all. Maybe you’re still in disbelief, denial that something like this could even exist. Maybe you believe the rumors that a strange figure in a trench coat supposedly seen on late nights is involved in this.
But there can be no doubt.
The moment you used Strange Gospel, your life changed.
Soon you’ll learn why.
The A.A.S is running out of time.
They’ve been working behind the scenes, trying to crush the appearance of the Strange Gospel and slow it down, buy more time, find more candidates to scale the tower and stop the Dead End from coming to pass.
But reality is starting to set in.
The situation has been deteriorating. Now the disappearances have started. The number of people who have actually found Strange Gospel has grown.
They’ve tried to stem the bleeding. Even if they can only reach so far, they’ve been doing all the can to try and recruit anyone with the necessary capabilities.
Time is short.
They need more recruits, more who can descend into the eternal night and scale the spire, to bring and end to things before it’s too late. With every passing day, the situation becomes more desperate. So few people can do what they need of them, and they can only look for so long before time runs out.
But maybe, just maybe, they’ll find you.
Falling down.
Again and again.
She tries again.
She fails.
It’s the reason she exists. The reason she’s here. There’s no other purpose to her existence than this one.
Everyone else is gone. She’s the only one.
She tries again.
She fails.
Every night.
Even if she’s alone, she has no choice. She can’t stop.
She tries again.
She fails.
If she doesn’t succeed, everything will end. If she doesn’t break through, she knows exactly what will happen.
So she has to keep going.
She tries again.
So this is a revival of a much older concept, with me refining it and being a lot more honest about the fact it’s pretty much just Persona with the numbers filed off. Since I want avoid the baggage of working with the already-established setting, plus my own knowledge of the wider series being a bit more limited, I decided against attempting a direct Persona RP and instead reviving a concept that I’d initially come up with for similar reasons.
So think of this as Urban Fantasy in the style of Persona. If that interests you, you’ve come to the right place! Expect lots of social interaction combined with spooky weird enemies in nightly visits to a bizarre mirror world with a massive tower known as the Apocrypha.
In terms of characters I’m not planning on accepting more than maybe six, seven at the most. I want this to be fairly character-focused, and if you want to join the party proper later on I’m fine with that as well.
I’m planning on player characters being students, and if you want you can already be a member of the Apocrypha Annihilation Agency which will already be active in Yamamura High School, trying to recruit more candidates who are capable of safely entering and leaving the shadowy mirror world of Asphodel to scale the Apocrypha tower and destroy it before it’s too late. I’ll probably only accept one character in this situation
Emotional baggage is a bonus for the narrative, so feel free to give your characters some issues they need to work out!
Fear and self-preservation are a natural part of life, and these elements are key to the summoning of an Echo, an entity that is a reflection of the user’s inner self. Echoes are the primary method through which the creatures inhabiting the Apocrypha can be combated, though they can also be harmed by physical damage.
I did say this was Persona with the numbers filed off.
Echoes take the form of an entity or even a weapon in some cases, but they are often influenced by mythological origins. They possess a variety of abilities comparable to magic, and can act semi-independently but are largely controlled directly by the user.
Characters will gain access to their Echo early on, as they join the main party. The character already associated with A.A.S may already have access to theirs. Echoes are activated by an Awakening Drive, resembling a USB inserted into the wrist.
- Name:
- Age: (Preferably High School age, discuss with me if you want anyone younger or older)
- Gender:
- Appearance:
- Personality:
- Skills:
- Equipment: (Anything they tend to carry on them and any weapon they will bring aside from their Echo)
- Echo:
- Name:
- Appearance:
- Abilities:
- Brief Backstory:
