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whentheymod) wrote2031-04-19 05:15 pm
❖ NAVIGATION.
The last thing you recall is falling asleep - regardless of whether you have the capability of doing so or not, they find themselves whisked away into a world of dreams.
Everything is pitch black, tinges of darkness overtaking their sights.
But, in the distance, there is a light. If you try to run towards it, the light doesn’t seem to get any closer, nor does it seem to get any further.
Eventually, you can hear a voice.
“Help us. If you do… your one true desire, your one wish - it shall be granted.”
Most will notice that this voice, if paid close attention to, has a strange sense of familiarity, even if you have never heard it before. It is a voice which people will place as kind, gentle, someone you can trust. Whatever kind of voice that you would associate those words with is the one that you wind up hearing.
Regardless of whether or not you respond to the voice, it continues to speak.
“There is a curse that plagues our land. I bring you here to save it, as this land’s kami.
Fret not, child of man: as you will not be alone in this journey. And we shall make sure to protect your soul as you traverse the Fragments. It may be a difficult, arduous path. But we believe that you will be the ones who can help.”
And just as you open your mouth, whether it is to answer back or to protest…
There is the sound of chimes and running water…
…as you wake up to where the place where the hummingbirds cry.
Welcome to Paradoxum Fragment: When the Hummingbirds Cry. This is a private, invite-only game based off of Ryukishi/07th Expansion's works, especially Higurashi no Naku Koro ni and Iwaihime - with a bit of other elements from various other timeloop, horror, and isekai canons as well. The game is set in a modern day city where a kami has summoned others to help stop a curse from overtaking the city and destroying the world.