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Hello. Our game team is looking for writers.
STORY SUMMARY
Everything started with just "existence" itself. "Existence" can take shape in everything, create everything and do everything it wants. It's a living being.
This being (Existence) started the world on its own, with nothing around him but itself. It was bored and lonely, that’s why Existence created a god called Astrea, given the power of space. Astrea created several worlds containing other living beings. However, one of those worlds Astrea watched over didn't satisfy her.
As time passed the newborn world flourished and began to grow, and with its growth so too did Astrea’s creations. From a small village to bustling towns the seeds of life Astrea had spread began to bloom and they deemed themselves humanity. Astrea looked upon her children with happiness for a time, yet with the growth of her children through the ages came sorrow, for they had been given a life with choices and with it the faults of mistakes. The poison of these choices ran amok among her children and with it came bloodshed and struggles amongst themselves, and the unseen poison only continued to spread. Astrea bore witness to the destruction caused by her own creations in sadness and lament, yet Astrea could not interfere, she could only watch. After she designed the world, it was not possible anymore to impact it because her power doesn’t go any further.
During those dark times Astrea chanced upon a young boy during her observations. She grew attached to the boy as he himself had become aware of the poison coursing through his fellow people. She watched as the boy beseeched the heavens to grant him power so as to save humanity from the poison in their veins. Astrea felt moved by the boy’s words and his determination and so she decided to aid the boy indirectly. She gave the boy a portion of her own power, she gave the boy the power over time, thus the Time Writer was born.
Her motives changed as she gave power to Weiss (the Time Writer), and continued observing her world. Her ideals changed from saving humanity to destroying it and losing hope.
Astrea and Weiss (the time writer) lived an immortal life. They always looked the same way also, they weren’t aging. Astrea saw Weiss as her younger brother, and Weiss saw Astrea as his older sister, even though they looked the exact same age and literally were the exact same age, since “time didn’t pass”. Same with Astrea’s creations, time didn’t pass for them either. They were immortal, until Astrea begged for Weiss to destroy the world in some way, since she wasn’t satisfied. She wanted the planet to be gone. Weiss created the curse of mortality/aging. After this, the humans began to reproduce and Astrea’s problem still wasn’t fixed. However, Weiss already predicted this.
Weiss didn’t want to interrupt the process at first. He wanted to give humans a chance, since the capability of being able to make choices could lead to many different ways and paths as he predicted. Weiss waited, patiently, for a long long time. Because Astrea was so hesitant to destroy the planet, Weiss agreed to creating this immortality disease which he knew would fail.
And yes, as he also predicted: the waiting was pointless. The humans wouldn’t change their behaviour. Why did Weiss hold on for so long? His emotions drove him, because he loved humans. But after being disappointed time after time, he despised them.
Astrea wants to get rid of the world(s) with humans while Weiss wants to reverse to a time without humans. Since the ideals of the gods clashed, they began war.
Astrea and Weiss had no idea there was such a thing as Existence, they thought they were the one in charge so it came as a surprise for them that Existence popped up. Existence disagreed with both of the gods, that's why it took both of their powers away.
Its plan was to create 8 newborn human beings, to make Astrea and Weiss think differently about the humans. They could only receive their power back by having four of the girls' consent. The girls weren't planning to give their power away easily because Existence waited 18 years for the girls to develop emotions and have a past before allowing them to enter the book. The girls were not aware of any of this. Both gods had one soldier each to use to manipulate the girls, which are: the boys.
The agreement with Existence was “DO NOT HARM THE GIRLS UNTIL THEY ARE READY”. Neither Astrea or Weiss understood why Existence wanted this so badly, so they easily agreed.
The girls had an aura in them Existence never mentioned on purpose. When killing the girls they could take this aura and gain part of their powers back.
While the girls grow up, Astrea and Weiss are sent to their world to observe humans. The boys lived their entire lives in the Unwritten Book, which started off quite empty. Existence gave all the girls and boys a diary for them to have a “home” inside the book. Every time the girls wrote in their diary their vision and imagination, thoughts, dreams and creations appeared inside of the book world for the boys to see. The boys started bonding with them. Existence didn’t intend for this to happen, and the gods claimed it was unfair because now the boys grew a relationship with the girls they would refuse to manipulate the girls. So, Existence removed the boys’ memories. The boys were also allowed to create things with their diary. While the boys noticed their memory fading away, they created temples with their memory fragments inside them. Boy1 created the temple of thunder, blood, fire and darkness. Boy2 created the temple of nature, poison, ice and light.
Existence also visited the human world. He was seen as a famous writer by many. Everyone has read the Unwritten Book at least once. The girls also knew Existence, two of them even worked for him as assistants (girl4 and 7). Girl7 and 4 heard rumors about the book being haunted and started to read about it in Existence’s library. They found little information, but managed to put all the pictures and vague text together into a big image. The girls remained silent about what they knew, because even though they believed it, they were sure no one else would. Once the girls turned 18, he decided the girls were ready to enter. The past 2 years, all the 8 girls have been working in Existence’s library because Existence wanted them to learn to know each other. Without hesitation they all accepted. All the 8 girls became great friends faster than expected. Half of the twin pairs already separated, and half didn’t (Girl3 & 6 + Girl2 & 4 were still together). So it was also a beautiful and emotional reunion for the girls who separated. When it was time to leave, all the girls disappeared one by one except for girl7 and 4.
Meanwhile there was something the gods didn't know anything of. There were cloaks guiding the girls, unseen by the naked eye. Only the girls themselves were able to see them. Those cloaks allowed the girls to develop their power and become more aware of what they are capable of, as they were - after all - a reflection of themselves.
The gods reside in a book called “The Unwritten Book” created by Existence. No one knew what the keyholes were until the girls were given keys by their personal cloaked figure. The book has always been unlocked, however upon opening a regular human being would only see pages with text and images containing a “fairytale” (which is actually reality) created by Existence.
SMALL TASKS:
- Write the "Unwritten Book" scene. The scene needs to be clear and detailed so our animator, voice actors and sound designers can understand. Every movement, sound, tone of voice, camera view, etc needs to be written down.
- Gameplay ideas. Right now there is too much story and we want more gameplay.
- The girls' world description.
- Fill in some missing dialogue (3 dialogue scenes for now).
TIME: 1 month.
BIG TASKS:
- DOOR3 FOR GIRL1 & 8 (more detail will be given in mail).
TIME: 2 months.
- Girl2 & 4 full diaries (we will write this together).
TIME: 2 months.