PREMISE

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✲ฺ Ukimiya ✲ฺ

“It creeps up on you,
Like a wisp’s light;
A ghost’s whisper,
This silence that is corruption.”

One minute you're minding your own business— maybe you're grabbing a bite to eat, maybe you're out and about in the world, or maybe you're just about to climb into bed after a long day, when all of a sudden it hits you. A dark, leaden feeling in your chest that pulls and pulls and pulls. Each passing second the weight grows heavier, and you fear as if it may pull you through the very ground itself. The last thing you remember is a distinct pop, before your vision goes dark.

When you awaken its oddly peaceful, the sunlight streaming above you through the leaves, blades of grass under your fingertips. The weight you felt on your chest in your last lucid moment is gone, though in it's place rests a light wooden amulet beset with a colored jewel. All around you is a meadow, enshrined by solid stone walls and a bright red archway.

Through the arches of the courtyard, you see a towering castle.

✲ฺ

Ukimiya is a short term murder mystery game, influenced by Western and Eastern Fantasy. It operates similar to a game of mafia and Dangan Ronpan, though more so the former. Characters are summoned to the castle grounds on an island called Laika, inhabited only by two individuals known as the Sage and his Teishu. The only way to return home is to prove oneself by triumphing over your fellow warriors, or die trying.