Saturday, September 1, 2012

Backstory

Hi all

I'm Shinteo, head writer of this project and I'm gonna tell you a bit about the world's background and the main characters.

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The game is set in a small world floating in the void of inter-dimensional space. The unique thing about this world is that it is able to connect to any of the worlds in the multiverse, sharing a common boundary for a period of time before moving on. During this period, you'd be able to travel to and fro from this world as easily as walking down your street. The problem comes when you are out of this world, and it moves on. You'll be stuck in whatever world you are visiting until the dimensions align again, if it ever does in your lifetime. For this reason, the inhabitants of this world is a curiously uncurious lot, content to spend their lives never wondering what lies beyond the forest that surrounds much of the land.

No one who attempt to find out ever returns, and nothing has ever came from there, so why spend time wondering about it? Besides, they have their own lives to worry about, what with the feuding nobles families, random monster attacks and other worries of daily lives.

Things changed round about 15 years before the game starts. The nobles, who had previously been content to leave the people alone, suddenly began paying attention; specifically to young pretty girls. These girls were suddenly pressed into indented servitude in the homes and manor of the nobles in the area, where they fall prey to the lust of the noblemen.

It was also about this time that travelers and strangers started appearing, claiming to have came from places that no one has ever heard of, and disappearing just as suddenly. Unknown to the people of this world, the dimension rifts are starting to become stabilized.

A few of the braver merchants started following these strangers, and reported strange lands that have never been seen before, and places that have never been heard of before. Exploration soon determined that though the time that the rifts would remain open varies, there is always enough clear warning for those outside to return safely.

Once it was determined that a different place would appear every time one goes through the forest, some enterprising soul soon came up with the brilliant idea of taking pretty girls from these places and selling them as slaves to the nobility.

The problem with taking local girls has always been the friends and family members of said girls. While it is easy enough to intimidate the peasants, work would inevitably suffer, and production would be affected. However, such problem does not exist will those girls from outside. And with the rifts always cycling, no one would be able to find them even if they came looking. A perfect solution.

At first, it was an unofficial arrangement between the slavers and the nobles. In time, enough girls were captured to warrant an official slave market. Thus, about 2 years before the game starts, a slave market is established in the slums outside the City.

And this brings us to the main characters of this game. Each of the 4 characters have left the dimension before, for their own reasons. Each have returned, and saw the potential of a brothel comprising of these outsider girls for rent.

The Warrior, who was previously a guard captain in the City, and whose unit was betrayed and killed while on an expedition outside, seek to use the brothel to gain access to the nobility, and thus reaching the noble who had given the order.

The Mage, whose travels outside showed him a disturbing truth, see the brothel as a means to gain funds for his research, and also access to samples outside without having to waste time gathering them himself.

The Noble, who was betrayed by his closest friend, and exiled by his family, will use the brothel as a means to regain his standing, and to gain revenge.

The Sorceress, who had flee the cruel attention of her former master, now returns and seek to overturn the entire Wizarding Tower for what she has suffered. At the same time, she'll use the brothel as a means to both survive and to keep the girls from suffering what she suffered.

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So there you have it. A glimpse of the backstory to this game.

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