So near, and yet, so far...
Where do souls go when they die before their allotted time? Lost between this world and the next in a dire Limbo where they linger listlessly, watching the Living World through ghostly portals, but sundered from it forever.
Or are they?
2010.02.05.
Travelling to the north of Japan to visit their grandparents in Aomori, the sibling pair Tadao and Kiyoko were caught up in the middle of a devastating train accident in which 57 people were killed.
Kiyoko died on impact.
Tadao suffered serious injuries, but recovered after a grueling 2 years.
Physically, at least.
>>Matsumoto Tadao:::
A biophysicist by trade and an engineer by hobby, he was all but destroyed by the sudden death of his little sister. Suffering from survivour's shame, his own recovery was delayed by the depression.
>>Madame Ito:::
A cheap and none too successful medium in Aomori who dreamt of a successful life in Tokyo, perhaps with her own talk-show. She contaced Tadao when she was batered by Kiyoko's spirit for weeks on end before she gave in and hunted him down, telling him about his sister's urgent messages.
Seriously sceptic at first, Tadao soon realised that there was more than a little something in Madame Ito's words. Not only could she tell him intimate information about his sister, little tibits that she could not otherwise have known unless through Kiyoko, but in the midsts of the medium Tadao also began to see messages from his dead sibling. Sometimes ghostly script would form on a window or mirror teasing him, or telling him something important. Other times objects would move, as if by their own accord. Rarely, he could see his sister's hand, or even the ghostly outline of her form.
>>Matsumoto Minako:::
Dying before she was meant to, her spirit in now lost in Takai Shinkou: the World Without.. And she is desperate. this nethereal limbo is wrought with dangers, dragons, salamanders, lepogs, all out to devour unwary souls. Worst of all are the Shinkai: a race of powerful spirits, possibly of human origin who have taken control of this Otherworld and are twisitng it into a form matching their own perverted desires for supreme control. These spirits are continuously on the look-out for souls that they can enslave.
Now the race is on.
Tadao, Madame Ito and their friends the Black Circle are playing a game against time to find and rescue Kiyoko before the Shinkai do. Using Madame Ito's powers to hone his machines, Tadao is working on a device that would open the door between Takai Shinkou and the Living World, but not everyone is pleased with this idea.
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 Robotic Zamat · Mon Oct 10, 2011 @ 09:40pm · 0 Comments |
