Chronicle of Japan's Ruin

Three American investigators are the first humans to set foot in occupied Japan in decades. They just found you in the ruins, and their guns are up.

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Adventure

Story facts

Quests: 12
Turns played: 31
Cast: 3
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

Japan fell to non-humans in 20XX and was sealed off from the world ever since: unicorns and angels in the old south, demon lords in the old Chugoku region, yokai, combat androids, toxic mutants, witches and beastfolk each holding their own ruined territory under grey skies. No human research team has ever crossed in and come back.

Maren Hayes, Grant Holloway and Omar Witt just did. Landing by boat to avoid detection, the three American investigators reach the shore, radio home that they are the first to set foot in fallen Japan, and turn to find a shadow watching them from the ruins: you. Three guns come up at once. What you are, and what you tell them about the place they just walked into, decides whether this first contact goes well.

Who you play

You live in the ruins of a Japan no human has safely entered in years. Three armed American investigators have just found you and want answers: what you are, what area you're from, and whether they can trust you. You decide how much truth, or how much danger, to give them.

The cast

Maren Hayes

the strong-willed lead investigator

Maren Hayes came from America in a protective suit built for a world that kills unprepared people fast, her long blonde hair the only soft thing about her posture.

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Grant Holloway

the silent, always-watching investigator

Grant Holloway rarely speaks, and when he does it is short and exact.

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Omar Witt

the kind, steady investigator

Omar Witt is the largest of the three and the easiest to read: dark-skinned, broad-built, and genuinely kind in a landing party that has every reason not to be.

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What to expect

A post-collapse world mapped by non-human faction and threat level, from angelic Eden to a toxic mutant zone.
Opens at gunpoint: the first human contact with this Japan in the story's entire timeline.
Content note: armed investigators, an apocalypse backstory and implied danger throughout.

Introduction

Omar Witt: Oh...! The shore's finally in sight...! At last!

Omar Witt: A ship would alert the nonhumans, so they have paddled toward shore in a small boat, and Japan has finally come into view

Maren Hayes: The three reach the shore and are struck speechless by the devastated city

Maren Hayes: To think this used to be Japan... I can't believe it. This is horrific...

Grant Holloway: There's no time to get emotional. We have to get on with the investigation

Grant Holloway: Taking out his radio

Grant Holloway: Delta Team has made landfall in Japan

Omar Witt: We're the first to land in Japan since the collapse. We'll go down in history. ...But where exactly are we?

Narrator: It happens then. A lone shadow stirs behind them

Grant Holloway: ...Who's there!

Grant Holloway: All three raise their guns at you in unison

Narrator: Explain to them where they are and what you are

Try one of these first lines

I step fully into the light instead of hiding. "Lower those. I'm not what you're afraid of."
I stay in the shadow, hands visible. "Careful. Where you're standing decides what finds you next."

Questions about this story

Who do you play in Chronicle of Japan's Ruin?

You live in the ruins of a Japan no human has safely entered in years.

How does Chronicle of Japan's Ruin begin?

It happens then. A lone shadow stirs behind them

Who is in the cast of Chronicle of Japan's Ruin?

Chronicle of Japan's Ruin stars Maren Hayes, the strong-willed lead investigator; Grant Holloway, the silent, always-watching investigator; and Omar Witt, the kind, steady investigator.