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Strange Gospel. It's a name that's become a common subject of discussion among students, and an endless source of confusion for just about everyone. A phone app released just a month ago, Strange Gospel has rapidly ascended to one of the most downloaded apps in Japan. There's not a day gone by where someone hasn't talked about it and tried to figure out where it's coming from. Every attempt to trace it, to discern who developed it, has failed. And yet it's spread like wildfire, websites speculating about the app, students talking about it every day. This app has become the center of attention, chatrooms and messageboards attempting to understand how it does what it does and where it comes from.

Why has Strange Gospel exploded so much in popularity?

The app appeared on the store one day without explanation, or much description. No-one would have taken much interest, until a student of Yamamura High School decided to download it on a whim. They didn't think much of it, until it showed them a perfectly clear video of events featuring them and their friends. Only, these were events that had never happened, as far as the student knew.

It was a week later when they actually occurred.

News of a phone app that could predict the future spread rapidly, and the more people downloaded it the more people discovered its perfect predictions and told their friends. Even people who didn't believe the app were downloading it, just for the novelty.

It didn't take long for it to top the charts.

But then, something changed.

An update, simply titled "Apocrypha" downloaded itself and installed on every phone with the Strange Gospel app. This time, whenever the app was used, things had changed.

No longer did it show simple, normal events, a slice of the user's life a short period into the future.

Violent deaths, dark, shadowy figures, surreal warping scenery, a pale white mask. The videos shown to predict the future now showed truly horrific events, terrible things. The app was no longer an enigmatic curiosity. Now it was something terrifying. Attempts to trace the app failed. There was no way to discover just who made it.

And then, people who had used the app started to go missing.

Needless to say, reaction was almost immediate. Detectives were dispatched in order to try and get down to the bottom of this.

But so far, they've been unable to discover anything. No clues. Nothing at all.

You and your friends stopped using the app the moment you heard about the creepy images. And yet, recently, you've been having odd dreams... a blue and white room, and a dark city with an enormous tower...




The Apocrypha.

The small girl sat on the long, blue velvet couch, the bells in her hair jingling. The repeated intrusions hadn't ceased, and yet that tower was still standing tall...

It was time.




Another nightly descent.

The roar of gunfire.

She had to make it inside.

It was her reason for existence.




So, this is a bit of a new urban fantasy RP idea! Basically, this popular phone app with the mysterious ability to predict the future has suddenly begun showing incredibly disturbing images and horrific events. Naturally, this has gotten a lot of people pretty scared, especially the students who had been using the app the most.

You'll be playing as a set of these students(and potentially one or two of the detectives) from Yamamura High, who will be contacted by a mysterious being wishing to solve these terrible events.

These students will be granted a unique item to allow them to fight the dark creatures within the mirror world of the Apocrypha, a distorted reflection of the real world where an enormous tower stands above all else.

Discover what lies at the top of this tower, what has happened to the people who disappeared, the darkness within the Apocrypha, and the true nature of Strange Gospel.




The group of students who will be venturing into the Apocrypha will not be unarmed.

They will be granted Soul Arts, objects which appear to be simple microchips but, once placed "inside" the body via a "slot" somewhere on it, tap into the soul in order to produce some sort of item or power.

The first Soul Art you receive is always tied to your skills and personality. For example, an aggressive girl who is skilled at kendo might receive some kind of highly offensive sword-based ability. However, they can be a wide variety of weapons and abilities. After receiving your first Soul Art and using it for a little while, you can even switch to others.

Be warned, however, these new Soul Arts may not be as compatible as your first.

Up to two Soul Arts can be equipped at once.




Finally, our protagonists won't be without opposition...

If you want to play a villain, PLEASE PM me so we can discuss the plot and your ideas in order to create a fitting antagonist.

I will only accept a very limited number of villains, two or three maximum.

You may also play one of the detectives assigned to the case, though I'll limit the number of these to two only.




  • Name:
  • Age:
  • Gender:
  • Appearance:
  • Personality:
  • Skills:
  • Equipment: (Anything they tend to carry on them)
  • Soul Arts: (Start with one, will be received shortly into the RP. Also note where the character inserts their Soul Arts, such as the forehead, temple, chest, or thigh)
  • Brief Backstory:
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If you're not full, I'm definitely interested in the scenario!
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@SaintRice: It's still open.
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brainstorming time
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  • Name: Persephone Unit Rho
  • Age: 3
  • Gender: Female
  • Appearance: "Daedalus System: Online." She has black hair, grey eyes, and pale skin. Her body, legs, and lower arms are white, the raised portions of her frame being silver. Her upper arms are darker silver. She is about 5'1.
  • Personality: Rho is a quiet and reserved individual. At this point in her life, everything is all for her mission, the penetration of the enormous tower in the Apocrypha. To be truthful, she doesn't honestly know what will happen, but her programming, everything, has told her that she must get inside, to end the threat posed by the Apocrypha. In spite of her single-minded focus and her nature, Rho is actually highly expressive. She has felt increasing desperation and frustration at her attempts to enter the tower consistently failing. Rho is awkward in social interaction, coming across as somewhat shy. She has trouble understanding why others would show concern for her, due to her nature as a weapon designed for combat against the creatures within the Apocrypha. However, she is deeply concerned for others, immediately attempting to defend any humans with little concern for what fate befalls her. In her mind, she is machine and a weapon whose purpose is the elimination of all threats that the Apocrypha poses and the defense of humanity. Rho struggles with understanding certain phrases that are not entirely literal. Compliments on her appearance will be entirely lost on her.
  • Skills: Rho is entirely without practical life skills, likely due to her nature. As a robotic Persephone Unit, however, her aim is as accurate as possible for an artificial intelligence.
  • Equipment: Rho herself, as a Persephone Unit, is technically a piece of equipment. Inside her body is stored a wide variety of different weaponry. She can produce a pair of chainguns from her lower back, fire machine guns attached to her wrists, deploy grenade launchers from her hips, and small missile launchers from her legs. Her most powerful weapon, however, is the A.R.G.O cannon, an enormous energy cannon that extends from her back. Firing it, however, immediately causes her to overheat and be unable to use any of her weapon systems(collectively known as the Daedalus System) for quite some time. Rho is much more durable then a human being and can be repaired from extensive damage. She is also strong enough to lift a car by herself easily, and quite agile. Her design is simply to overwhelm the enemy with extreme firepower.
  • Soul Arts: N/A
  • Brief Backstory: Rho is the seventeenth Persephone Unit. The Persephone Units were created by the shadowy A.R.C, the Apocrypha Research Center. Having discovered the warped mirror world of the Apocrypha five years prior, a secretive institute was formulated in order to research it. They discovered something terrible, that a horrible threat was rising that could be disaster for the real world beyond anything ever seen before. But no human could enter the Apocrypha and most drones they deployed were eventually destroyed. As a result, they developed the Persephone Units. Named for the figure from Greek mythology, the Persephone units could utilize the reflection of the moon to make a transit to the Apocrypha themselves, under their own power. Unfortunately, after a terrible disaster, the facility was ravaged, all personnel apparently killed, along with every Persephone Unit aside from Rho herself. In spite of this, Rho has attempted to continue her mission, visiting the Apocrypha every night in order to try and enter the enormous tower. So far she has met no success.
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Is this still open?

Do I just make a sheet to be judged?

What is the scope on Soul Art abilities? How good can they be?
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It's open, just make a sheet.

Soul Arts vary in power and function, but I wouldn't like them to start super strong. They can get more powerful as things go.
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I don't know why this idea came so fast, but it do.

  • Name: Motoyama Keita
  • Age: 17
  • Gender: Male
  • Appearance: "Let's get this show on the road, I guess."
  • Personality: Keita's a bit eccentric as far as people go; he's always sharply dressed regardless of the situation, which occasionally makes him stand out in the middle of a crowd of normal high school students. This stands in contrast with his own organization, though, as whenever computers aren't involved, things tends to become cluttered rather easily. Regardless of that, though, he is confident in his abilities to handle whatever comes up... Preferably as a manager or strategist, though. So long as someone else can handle everything on the front-end, Keita's content handling everything from behind the scenes of from afar, even if his own desires inevitably end up with him sticking his head into that, too. It works out well enough most of the time, though, but it can get a bit aggravating to those working with him. He is not egotistical, though; while his pride may interfere with his actions on occasion, Keita will ultimately place finishing an assignment over anyone's spotlight (including his own). He is dead serious when it comes to work ethic, though; he'll pick up the slack if someone falls behind, but after a certain point he'll start ranting nonstop about a peson not doing their part.
  • Skills: Keita's a programmer at heart, so as long as he understands the language and whatever code he's looking at, he should be able to understand how it functions to some degree... Then possibly copy, change, or otherwise manipulate it as he wishes. He also has some experience working with figures and models (which stems from an older sister who loves working with them), but is usually better off working from reference rather than pure imagination.
    In other words, don't make him draw anything. Even his sketches suck.
    He can cook multiple styles of food quite well, though. Cool dad is cool.
  • Equipment: A watch, wallet, smartphone, and keys to his home. If the stuff in his backpack (as well as the backpack itself) counts, then that too.
  • Soul Arts: Con Anima: Keita gives form to an object within his imagination, which he is then able to control with a combination of magical puppet strings or pre-programmed commands. When he is in direct control, the resultant object is much more mobile and powerful than it would be otherwise. The object is limited in scale by his own abilities, though, and at most can only be about 1.5 cubic feet in size at the moment. If enough energy is funneled into an object, it can maintain form indefinitely; the problem is, though, that the consumption rate for that is rather inefficient at best. Once a certain threshold has been reached, though, the object no longer requires energy to exist in the physical sense.
    His slots are hidden on the back of his left wrist, right under his watch.
  • Brief Backstory: Keita was born into a family that was lucky enough to have a windfall of money; his mother was a high-ranking employee in a technology firm, while his father was a world-class chef based within Takezuma City. Even so, while they had no want for money, Keita's parents made sure to keep their children from being too complacent about life just because they had more than others. He and his sister still had to work towards their funds to keep their hobbies afloat, and they had to return results in order to keep that coming, whether that meant good marks in school, creating something in their spare time, doing well at events, or even the usual handling chores in and out of the home. That, in turn, instilled a strong work ethic within him, which led to a consistent desire by other people to work on projects...
    Which tends to backfire when he ends up making the slackers do more work than they would have otherwise.
    Because of said work ethic, though, Keita's life has been fairly active, which means he often goes around to talk and socialize more than one would expect. Some might say that his lifestyle is more befitting an upcoming actor, but Keita himself often denies those claims anyhow.
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@PKMNB0Y: Since we discussed it before even though it's late, accepted.
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Name: Seta Hikaru

Age: 17

Gender: Male

Appearance: Seta is an athletic teenager standing at 5'10. His face angular and youthful, with large dark eyes and high cheekbones, yet often covered with thick, dark stubble. His black hair is worn short and gelled, shaved on either side of his head. Seta has a penchant for altering dress code, often rolling his sleeves up and unbuttoning his collar.

Personality: Seta is usually brooding or quiet. Completely introverted, he often does not act out or do anything on his own, but prefers to mimic the people around him, usually his childhood friends. He has never revealed his true thoughts or intentions. Seta enjoys being accepted by others and earning praise, and can be competitive and possessive when it comes to the affection of others. His circle of friends would be considered the rebels of the school, and so Seta often defaults to their careless and delinquent behavior. Seta's mental state can seem to border psychosis, and while he is fully in tune with empathy, he is able to detach himself from his emotions and find opportunity in even the darkest situations.

Skills: Seta has developed basic strength corresponding to a minimal exercise routine, and has a good sense of balance. From years spent trying to fit in, Seta possesses a strong ability for reading the emotions of others, mimicking behavioral patterns, and fabricating stories on the spot. He is very cautious and calculating, and can often keep a clear mind under pressure.

Equipment: Cell phone, wallet, keys, pocket knife.

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Gekijo no Kage - The Gekijo no Kage chip, inserted into a slot superior to the foramen magnum on the back of the user's head, allows the user to conjur illusions affecting the senses. These illusions are not simply tricks of the mind, but an extension of the user's consciousness. They must be created proximal to the user, but beyond that can traverse any length of space from the user and can be used to conjure further illusion. The current user, Seta Hikaru, has only basic ability with the Soul Art, and his illusions can only affect sight and sound and are minute in scale.

Brief Backstory: Seta was raised by a narcissistic drug-addicted father and a victimized mother. Struggling to make ends meet, they spent Seta's childhood in low-income neighborhoods rife with petty crime and violence. The children Seta grew up with often spent their days inciting local mayhem and running from authorities. Seta's father eventually left the family, and his mother cycled through other companions every several months, the best of them treating Seta indifferently. Seta now attends Yamamura High with his childhood friends, and is seen as one of the school's undesirables.
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Is this based off some fandom?
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@Tancuras: I'm a little worried that his ability overlaps too strongly with @PKMNB0Y's Soul Art, being that they both create things the user can control.

@Dark Lugia: Not intentionally, though I've been told it has a lot in common with Shin Megami Tensei spinoffs. ^^;
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@RolePlayerRoxas: Accepted.
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@VitaVitaAR Well, one creates a physical object, the other creates illusions. The characters are entirely different, too, and so will be their actions.
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Unless I'm misreading, the illusions seem to be so good they might as well be real?
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Unless I'm misreading, the illusions seem to be so good they might as well be real?


The current user, Seta Hikaru, has only basic ability with the Soul Art, and his illusions can only affect sight and sound and are minute in scale.


Might be joining.
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@ERode: I misread and I completely apologize for that. ^^;

@Tancuras: I'll give the bio another once-over since I clearly didn't read it too well before, then give my final verdict.
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@Tancuras: Accepted.
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This is going to be a pretty fun thing, I feel.
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