Post by Sachi on Aug 24, 2024 20:20:58 GMT -6
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The livestream begins abruptly and rather unprofessionally. A boy in a yellow-green coat split down the middle has his face pressed up against the camera, which appears to be little more than a built-in laptop webcam. Both the picture and audio quality are about as poor as you'd expect from such a thing.
"Gamotan, Gamotan - is it working? Is it?" A question comes from an unseen girl's voice.
"Uh... Yeah. I think it's streaming," replies the boy as he withdraws from being up so close and personal with the camera. When he does, you get a good look at the filming location. Four people in total, including the boy, sit around an empty café staring at the screen. A fifth, a rather effeminate man, watches from behind a counter with his head resting on his hands.
"Wooow... Hiya, Baristers!" The girl from before leaps to her feet and salutes at the camera with a plastic toy gun in hand. She's wearing a school uniform (isn't this a Saturday?) and a haircut styled into a bob, accented by two heart-shaped hairclips. "Welcome to the very first... Kiri Kiri Basara Livestream!! Poya!"
Another girl - perhaps more apt to call her a woman - takes a small sip of tea and smiles at the camera. She has a very Japanese fashion sense, wearing a short, purple yukata with traditional geta. Underneath this, she wears a red skirt and black stockings. Her black hair has two greyish-blue highlights running through. Because the video of the stream is so grainy, it's difficult to pinpoint exactly, but you get the feeling that her smile doesn't quite reach her eyes.
"I'm so happy to be a part of history," she says. "When Gamonosuke-san invited me to perform the ritual with you, why, I was honoured. Aiko Niwa, by the way. Spiritual investigator, occultic informant, and collector of anything paranormal. Please check out my website if you wish to get in touch. It should be linked in the description, right, Gamo-tan?"
"U-Uh, yeah!" The boy shouts, just a little too loud. "Umm, Aiko-san already introduced herself, but to get introductions out of the way! I'm your NEET God Gamotan, proprieter and number one reporter for Kiri Kiri Basara, the most informative blog on the web! The girl breastiling boobily over there is my assistant, Ryo-tas!"
"Poya!"
"And back there is Izumin, the owner of this fine establishment!"
The man behind the counter waves at the camera.
"Oh, I'm terribly sorry," Aiko interjects. "Did I forget to introduce you to my good friend Haruyuki-kun?" Aiko places a hand on the shoulder of a nervous-looking blond boy. He jumps a little at her touch.
"Erm... I'm Haruyuki Inumaru. Pleased to make your acquaintance." The boy bows to the camera and the Basariters in unison, then plops back down on a squishy seat without a backrest right next to Aiko.
"Isn't he adorable?" Izumin comments.
"Ahem, with all that out of the way," Gamotan clears his throat, "it's time to start what you're all here for. The Sachiko Ever After Charm! Aiko-san, you brought the paper doll, right?"
"Of course. It was the least I could do." Aiko reaches into her handbag and pulls out the paper doll in question.
"Awesome! Izumin, could you dim the lights? And, er, lend us a lighter? This has to be done over candlelight."
"Well, sure, but try not to burn the place down," says Izumin. He does as he's asked.
Only the light of the laptop brightens the room now. Ryo-tas takes Izumin's lighter and lights a white candle as instructed. She places it on a table in the middle of the café, a bit far back from the corner seat where the laptop is resting. Gamotan turns the laptop's brightness down, just in case.
The four participants stand over the candle and each grab a limb of the doll. Ryo-tas grabs the head, Aiko an arm, and Inumaru and Gamotan take a leg each.
"Are you sure you don't want to take part, Izumin?" Asks Gamotan.
"No, no. I'm fine just watching. I don't like getting too involved in things like that, you know?"
"Alright. Well, are you guys ready?"
The four of them nod. Their grips on their individual doll fragments tighten.
"There's four of us, so... We should say it four times in total."
"It's a very simple charm. Don't worry about messing it up. We can always try again." Aiko chuckles mischievously. Gamotan averts his gaze from the camera, probably to hide his embarrasssment.
"Okay... Here we go! A-As Basaristers say... Let's tear it apart!"
"Sachiko-san, we beg of you! Sachiko-san, we beg of you! Sachiko-san, we beg of you! Sachiko-san, we beg of you!"
"Sachiko-san, we beg of you! Sachiko-san, we beg of you! Sachiko-san, we beg of you! Sachiko-san, we beg of you!"
"Sachiko-san, we beg of you! Sachiko-san, we beg of you! Sachiko-san, we beg of you! Sachiko-san, we beg of you!"
"Sachiko-san, we beg of you! Sachiko-san, we beg of you! Sachiko-san, we beg of you! Sachiko-san, we beg of you!"
The all-too-familiar sound of paper being torn fills the room. It's not a very nice noise. It sends a bit of a shiver up the spine of everyone involved as they wait for something, anything, to happen. They hold their vessel fragments tightly, each looking over the part they took as if trying to feel Sachiko's power surging through it.
For a moment, nothing happens. Gamotan sighs.
"I guess SARAI-"
Suddenly the world around them begins to shake. Everyone in the building gasps or screams. Someone shouts to take cover under a table, standard earthquake procedures. The chat is going wild with people commenting on how fake everything looks, like it's from a found footage horror movie. A very cheesy one, at that.
When the shaking stops, the proper lights to the café are turned back on. Izumin exits his spot behind the counter to check everyone's safety. Only... no one is there but him.
He checks under tables, behind plants and furniture, even behind the counter again... But the four of them who performed the ritual are nowhere in sight. He dials a number on a phone and approaches the camera. The dialtone rings loud through the silent restaurant, and is the final thing recorded by the stream itself. He shuts over the laptop, and quick as it started, it's finished.
Reception to the Kiri Kiri Basara livestream event is generally quite negative. Critics describe it as "a boring ARG trying to emulate some sort of analogue horror lens without knowing what makes the subject creepy in the first place". Many say that it's in bad taste to theme a story around a recently disappeared girl, and one particularly verbose Kiri Kiri Basara commenter lambasts the site for throwing away any tiny bit of credibility they might have had with this amateur horror show.
As they say however, no publicity is bad publicity. Word quickly spreads around the internet of the Sachiko Ever After charm and the mysteries surrounding it. It soon becomes a bit of a trend for people, particularly teenagers, to recreate the video and uplooad it to their own accounts. Indeed, if Gamotan's goal was to get attention, then he absolutely succeeded. That being said...
Though he and Aiko receive many messages inquiring about their services, potential sponsorships, and all sorts of other goodies they would no doubt be desperate to receive...
Not a single email is given a reply. Hundreds of questions, requests and comments sit in desolate inboxes unread and unanswered.
Are they playing a long con?
Where exactly did they go?
This, dear players, is where you come in. You are students who ever witnessed this livestream firsthand, heard it from a friend of a friend, or otherwise came across it while mindlessly scrolling on the internet. Ever one to follow trends, you roped in (or were roped in yourself) several others to recreate the charm yourselves and claim your five minutes of internet fame. After all, who knows? Maybe you'll be the next one to get those awesome affiliates.
To sign up for Mortis, please fill out the following sheet:
"Gamotan, Gamotan - is it working? Is it?" A question comes from an unseen girl's voice.
"Uh... Yeah. I think it's streaming," replies the boy as he withdraws from being up so close and personal with the camera. When he does, you get a good look at the filming location. Four people in total, including the boy, sit around an empty café staring at the screen. A fifth, a rather effeminate man, watches from behind a counter with his head resting on his hands.
Another girl - perhaps more apt to call her a woman - takes a small sip of tea and smiles at the camera. She has a very Japanese fashion sense, wearing a short, purple yukata with traditional geta. Underneath this, she wears a red skirt and black stockings. Her black hair has two greyish-blue highlights running through. Because the video of the stream is so grainy, it's difficult to pinpoint exactly, but you get the feeling that her smile doesn't quite reach her eyes.
"U-Uh, yeah!" The boy shouts, just a little too loud. "Umm, Aiko-san already introduced herself, but to get introductions out of the way! I'm your NEET God Gamotan, proprieter and number one reporter for Kiri Kiri Basara, the most informative blog on the web! The girl breastiling boobily over there is my assistant, Ryo-tas!"
"Poya!"
"And back there is Izumin, the owner of this fine establishment!"
The man behind the counter waves at the camera.
"Oh, I'm terribly sorry," Aiko interjects. "Did I forget to introduce you to my good friend Haruyuki-kun?" Aiko places a hand on the shoulder of a nervous-looking blond boy. He jumps a little at her touch.
"Isn't he adorable?" Izumin comments.
"Ahem, with all that out of the way," Gamotan clears his throat, "it's time to start what you're all here for. The Sachiko Ever After Charm! Aiko-san, you brought the paper doll, right?"
"Of course. It was the least I could do." Aiko reaches into her handbag and pulls out the paper doll in question.
"Well, sure, but try not to burn the place down," says Izumin. He does as he's asked.
Only the light of the laptop brightens the room now. Ryo-tas takes Izumin's lighter and lights a white candle as instructed. She places it on a table in the middle of the café, a bit far back from the corner seat where the laptop is resting. Gamotan turns the laptop's brightness down, just in case.
The four participants stand over the candle and each grab a limb of the doll. Ryo-tas grabs the head, Aiko an arm, and Inumaru and Gamotan take a leg each.
"Are you sure you don't want to take part, Izumin?" Asks Gamotan.
"No, no. I'm fine just watching. I don't like getting too involved in things like that, you know?"
"Alright. Well, are you guys ready?"
The four of them nod. Their grips on their individual doll fragments tighten.
"There's four of us, so... We should say it four times in total."
"It's a very simple charm. Don't worry about messing it up. We can always try again." Aiko chuckles mischievously. Gamotan averts his gaze from the camera, probably to hide his embarrasssment.
"Okay... Here we go! A-As Basaristers say... Let's tear it apart!"
"Sachiko-san, we beg of you! Sachiko-san, we beg of you! Sachiko-san, we beg of you! Sachiko-san, we beg of you!"
"Sachiko-san, we beg of you! Sachiko-san, we beg of you! Sachiko-san, we beg of you! Sachiko-san, we beg of you!"
"Sachiko-san, we beg of you! Sachiko-san, we beg of you! Sachiko-san, we beg of you! Sachiko-san, we beg of you!"
"Sachiko-san, we beg of you! Sachiko-san, we beg of you! Sachiko-san, we beg of you! Sachiko-san, we beg of you!"
The all-too-familiar sound of paper being torn fills the room. It's not a very nice noise. It sends a bit of a shiver up the spine of everyone involved as they wait for something, anything, to happen. They hold their vessel fragments tightly, each looking over the part they took as if trying to feel Sachiko's power surging through it.
For a moment, nothing happens. Gamotan sighs.
"I guess SARAI-"
Suddenly the world around them begins to shake. Everyone in the building gasps or screams. Someone shouts to take cover under a table, standard earthquake procedures. The chat is going wild with people commenting on how fake everything looks, like it's from a found footage horror movie. A very cheesy one, at that.
When the shaking stops, the proper lights to the café are turned back on. Izumin exits his spot behind the counter to check everyone's safety. Only... no one is there but him.
He checks under tables, behind plants and furniture, even behind the counter again... But the four of them who performed the ritual are nowhere in sight. He dials a number on a phone and approaches the camera. The dialtone rings loud through the silent restaurant, and is the final thing recorded by the stream itself. He shuts over the laptop, and quick as it started, it's finished.
Reception to the Kiri Kiri Basara livestream event is generally quite negative. Critics describe it as "a boring ARG trying to emulate some sort of analogue horror lens without knowing what makes the subject creepy in the first place". Many say that it's in bad taste to theme a story around a recently disappeared girl, and one particularly verbose Kiri Kiri Basara commenter lambasts the site for throwing away any tiny bit of credibility they might have had with this amateur horror show.
As they say however, no publicity is bad publicity. Word quickly spreads around the internet of the Sachiko Ever After charm and the mysteries surrounding it. It soon becomes a bit of a trend for people, particularly teenagers, to recreate the video and uplooad it to their own accounts. Indeed, if Gamotan's goal was to get attention, then he absolutely succeeded. That being said...
Though he and Aiko receive many messages inquiring about their services, potential sponsorships, and all sorts of other goodies they would no doubt be desperate to receive...
Not a single email is given a reply. Hundreds of questions, requests and comments sit in desolate inboxes unread and unanswered.
Are they playing a long con?
Where exactly did they go?
This, dear players, is where you come in. You are students who ever witnessed this livestream firsthand, heard it from a friend of a friend, or otherwise came across it while mindlessly scrolling on the internet. Ever one to follow trends, you roped in (or were roped in yourself) several others to recreate the charm yourselves and claim your five minutes of internet fame. After all, who knows? Maybe you'll be the next one to get those awesome affiliates.
To sign up for Mortis, please fill out the following sheet:
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Name
School
Pronouns
Name
School
Pronouns
Additionally, send details in private to the host relating to your character's backstory (if they have one), as well as one item you may reasonably have on your person while performing the charm.
As an additional rule to keep this as story-friendly as possible, all signups must be part of a team! Whether that be a duo, a trio, a quad, or any other number that is greater than one: It takes at least two people to perform the charm, you know?
Your "pairs" (or trios, quads, but I'll default to saying pairs) will have the benefit of knowing each other before the game begins. Who knows? Perhaps you'll get along a bit better by having some common ground and sharing a school.
If there are any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to ask.
As an additional rule to keep this as story-friendly as possible, all signups must be part of a team! Whether that be a duo, a trio, a quad, or any other number that is greater than one: It takes at least two people to perform the charm, you know?
Your "pairs" (or trios, quads, but I'll default to saying pairs) will have the benefit of knowing each other before the game begins. Who knows? Perhaps you'll get along a bit better by having some common ground and sharing a school.
If there are any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to ask.
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