A black void.
A table.
A man.
Before you sits a man, a mask of Comedy and Tragedy adorns and concealing the face as bright purple eyes shine from beneath the shadow cast. Before him lays a paper, a contract. No words are spoken. Not yet.
A white-gloved hand slides the contract to you, a small feather decends down to settle on the yellowed page.
"Now is the time to make a choice. Read carefully. Once chosen, there is no going back."
The contract is simple.
My life is my own, my actions mine to be accounted.
I understand that conciousness is a gift, mirrored in others and beyond.
For thyne art I, I art thou. In thought and heart, may our burdens be shared.
Sign thy name.
Afterimages
Reality has two sides to it, the normal 'real' world, and the Alter world. Just like everyone has dark sides, the worlds are the same, yet fundamentally different. The Alter World houses mirror images of people and structures of the real world, but as negative emotion and fear incarnated into monstrous creatures... This place has always existed, hidden behind the veil of ignorance in which humanity places itself. 4 young people are drawn into this world, bound by a mysterious contract signed in a dream that felt too real. Led by their other selves, their Afterimages, the lines between what is hidden and what is true reality are blurred, in a mission to save reality from itself.
Plot:
Neo Tokyo is a sprawling Japanese city and a hotspot of negative thoughts and emotions. Suicide rates have been on the rise recently for unknown reasons with almost no pattern or apparent reason why. Close friends of the most recent victims had said that they had gone crazy, babbling about an alternate reality and a figure called The Masked Man or some similar moniker. All the victims were alumni or current students of シルバーシェード (Shirubashedo) Academy, a community college near the Shinjuku District.
Lore:
This includes themes of suicide, self-harm, brutal deaths, and a grimdark alternate reality.
