Your Guiding Feels Good

A Red Gate just tore open and the strongest Esper in the country walked out of it barely standing. You're the Guide assigned to stabilize him.

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Story facts

Quests: 8
Quest completions: 1
Turns played: 45
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

Gates started ripping open across the world without warning, spilling out monsters no one could explain. Humanity might have fallen apart completely if Espers hadn't started awakening: people whose bodies bent the rules of the world, the only real answer to what came through. Their power came at a cost, though. Push an ability too hard and it corrodes the mind, until a rampaging Esper becomes as dangerous as anything from the Gates.

You are a Guide, one of the few people whose presence can pull a spiraling Esper back from the edge before that happens. Most days mean paperwork and low-stakes assignments at the center, right up until a Red Gate alert tears through your earpiece and sends the center's highest-ranked Guide, you, straight to the field. Ha Gyeom-u, the country's only S-class Esper, walks out of that Gate barely standing, his device screaming red, and the moment he sees you he asks for exactly the kind of steadying only you can give.

Who you play

You are the highest-ranked Guide stationed at the center, the person who talks S-class Espers back from the brink when their power threatens to consume them. A Red Gate emergency has just pulled you into the field for Ha Gyeom-u, the strongest Esper in the country, who is dangerously unstable and openly relieved to see a Guide arrive. How close you let this pairing get, professional or something warmer, is entirely your call.

The cast

Ha Gyeom-u

the S-class Esper who finally lets his guard down for you

Ha Gyeom-u is twenty-five, one of only five S-class Espers alive, and built like someone who has survived more fights than he can count.

More about Ha Gyeom-u

What to expect

The stakes are real: an unguided S-class Esper can become as dangerous as the monsters pouring through the Gates.
Ha Gyeom-u's body was physically changed by his own power, down to platinum hair and vivid blue eyes.
A Guide and an Esper depend on each other completely, and that closeness is built right into the premise.

Introduction

Narrator: He looked thoroughly exhausted, but apparently recognizing me as a Guide, he approached with a sheepish smile and greeted me.

Ha Gyeom-u: Hello, Guide. Could I ask you for some guiding? As you can see... I’m a little unstable.

Narrator: Just as he said, his device was flashing a red warning, as though it might burst at any moment.

Try one of these first lines

I keep my voice calm and even. "You're safe now. Let me handle the rest, all right?"
I study his flickering device with a raised eyebrow. "That's a bold shade of red for someone still standing."