The games initial narrative is very in depth. As it is too much to put into the final design document I am writing the full detailed story on the side as a bonus. Enjoy !
Narrative
Narrative
Storyline
Jason Ross is a
private supernatural detective for the Vegas Crime Unit. After ten years in the
service, he begins to feel his life has hit a dead end, which begins to affect
his marriage. Difficult disputes break out between him and his wife Susan.
Eventually they both agree they need a fresh start to create a better life for
their daughter, Lily. They decide to move to Osaka, a city in Japan. Jason
picks up the culture and language very quickly and finds himself a job as a
detective for the Osaka Crime Investigation Unit. He is partnered up with the
department’s chief investigator, San Sokhumi. Two years into his employment he
gets a call from his partner, San to investigate a house for a mysterious
disappearance of a mother and her daughter. Arriving on the scene, Jason
realizes that this investigation is more personal than professional, after
realizing that the missing mother and daughter are friends of his family and
San. Escalated by the coincidental case, Jason and San begin searching the
house. Jason’s search lures him into the parent’s bedroom where he finds some
crucial evidence. One item being a group photo, with the missing family members
in it and another family he doesn’t recognize. However, there is no trace of
the missing family’s husband. At the bottom of the picture Jason see’s the
photo’s date and location. This leads him and San to a large, mysterious house,
owned by the Kasumi Family. On his first visit to the house, Jason and San
speak with the family’s mother and father about the photograph and the
mysterious people within it. He is not convinced at their regularities and
cluelessness in the matter, and is eager to investigate further. San hesitates
and tries to convince Jason it is a dead end. Jason ignores San advice and
later that day, returns to the house. He finds the house is empty. He now knows
this can’t be a coincidence and searches the house for clues. During his search
he finds a locked toy chest in the children’s downstairs bedroom. Beside the
chest is what appears to be a semi circle engraved into the floorboards. He
notices one of the grazed floorboards is loose, so he removes it, and finds a
key, which opens the chest. Once the chest is unlocked, it triggers a
mechanism, causing the wall behind the chest to rotate revealing a secret
passageway. As the door opens a strange man in a blood stained, black cloak
falls at Jason’s feet. Without hesitation, Jason grabs and handcuffs the
demented cloaked man to the bed, and proceeds into the passageway. He follows a
candle lit spiral staircase into a pitch black room, which to his guesses is a
basement. Seeing no sign of a light switch anywhere he grabs his torch from his
utility belt and shines it in front of him. He sees a light switch over by what
appears to be an altar. He carefully treads over to the switch, gently tripping
on something making him nearly lose his footing. He picks himself up again and
flicks the lights on. The room lights up to reveal a storage room, filled with
piles of boxes and old furniture.
Jason leaves
the house and heads for the police station taking the demented man with him.
Jason calls ahead informing San of his arrival and the man he has found. San is
not convinced that this man suddenly appeared through some form of secret
doorway in a simple family home. Jason is determined to prove San otherwise and
locks the man up ready for interrogation. Jason returns home and tells Susan he
has to live away from home for a while, for the sake of the investigation. He
doesn’t tell Susan anything else, and leaves the house with a box under one arm
and dragging a large suitcase in the other. He arrives back at the Kasumi house
and makes his way up to their refurbished attic. Too tired to unpack everything
Jason gets ready for bed. While he’s cleaning his teeth he sees in the mirror a
dark figure dash past him. He drops his toothbrush and grabs his gun and slowly
walks out of the bathroom, keeping the lights on as he goes. He walks up the
corridor, towards the stairs and sees the shadow again, sweeping off into the
children’s bedroom across the hallway, slamming the door behind it. Jason
quickly creeps down the stairs up to the bedroom door. He carefully prides it
open and hits the light switch, pointing his gun across the room to where the
toy chest is. In that moment he see’s the shadow disappear under the toy chest.
As from before he uses the key he found to activate the door. He runs down the
candle lit staircase into the pitch-black basement and hastily locates the
light switch. He trips on something on the way over, but figures it to be one
of the many boxes scattered around the room. Jason reaches the switch, and
flicks it on. An electric spark dashes along the walls of the basement and
dissipates at the far end of the room. It goes dark again for a second. A faint
glow appears from a number of lights, trailing along the walls, getting
brighter and brighter. Jason looks back at where he tripped, only to find a
horrific display of dead bodies, piled up and trailing around to the other side
of the alter, opposite where Jason is standing. Terrified with what he sees, he
looks around at the walls and sees blood drawn symbols dotted all over the
walls. He steps around the pile of bodies to have a closer look at the symbols.
They match the symbol engraved on the toy chest’s key. He looks over to where
the electrical sparks dissipated and saw three bodies pinned to the wall. He
walks over to them, creating a single file line around the room, making sure he
doesn’t cover the entire blood stained floor in his footprints. As he gets
closer to the bodies he begins to feel woozy. He grabs a handkerchief from his
belt and covers his mouth and nose. He looks up at the pinned bodies and
notices that two of them match the identities of the missing mother and her young
daughter. The third body was covered up in a black cloak, matching the one worn
by the demented person he arrested earlier. Hanging from his neck was some form
of journal. Still holding the handkerchief in one hand Jason reaches up and
carefully removes the book from the cloaked stranger. Before he can analyse the
book there is a loud bang behind him. He quickly pockets the journal, grabs his
gun and turns around, checking all the corners of the room. He slowly moves
back towards the stairs remaining vigilant. A sudden low roar echoes across the
room, knocking Jason to his knees and sweeping the handkerchief from his face.
Jason’s wooziness worsens, drowning him into a state of panic and confusion. He
frantically drags himself closer and closer towards the stairs. Just as he
reaches the stairs he attempts to get back on his feet, only to realize he has
lost all strength in his legs and slumps back down. He looks back up and sees a
tall, dark figure standing before him. Jason asks who it is. He gets no reply.
The figure just stands there staring at him, until Jason blacks out.
Jason wakes up
the next morning in the police station. San is sitting across from him.
To be continued
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