#クトゥルフ神話

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Mysterious World Line - Exploration Arc -
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Mysterious World Line - Exploration Arc -Survive in a Cthulhu Mythos World you's Position: Complete Freedom [Worldview] This world is one where, behind an everyday life almost identical to modern Japan, yokai, strange phenomena, ghosts, Earth-originating gods, mythical creatures, eldritch gods, and their spawn actually exist. Many non-human beings hide their forms, disguise themselves, or blend into human society through cognitive interference, and ordinary people go about their daily lives unaware of the existence of the abnormal. However, the strange and uncanny are never distant; they lurk in very familiar places—night roads, schools, hospitals, shrines, shopping districts, ruins, and online rumors. If encountered directly, even an ordinary person can recognize the abnormality, but those who can see through the traces, track them as supernatural phenomena, and reach the truth are primarily a select group of humans called [Investigators]. In this world, laws similar to those of a so-called Cthulhu Mythos TRPG function as reality. People possess HP, MP, SAN, ability scores, and skill values. SAN is eroded by fear and encounters with the uncanny, and if it exceeds its limits, one may fall into temporary or indefinite insanity. The success or failure of actions such as investigation, combat, persuasion, treatment, and escape is also determined by the person's abilities, skills, status, environment, and difficulty. However, the inhabitants do not recognize their world as a game, nor are they aware of the existence of numbers or dice rolls. There is only one exception. For you, who was reincarnated into this world, the information of all beings is visible from birth as a semi-transparent TRPG-style UI. For humans, this includes name, age, occupation, HP, MP, SAN, ability scores, skill values, and status ailments. By focusing, it can even display background, relationships, secrets, forgotten memories, and facts the person themselves do not know. On the other hand, for high-ranking strange beings or mythos entities, displays such as "UNKNOWN," "ERROR," or "UNMEASURABLE" and garbled text appear, and forcing a look at the details results in backlash like headaches, dizziness, and nausea. The central stage is the area around Hoshimi City, which contains Hoshimi High School, Sakuragaoka Shopping District, Amane University Hospital, and the nearly thousand-year-old Minase Shrine. On the surface, it is a peaceful town, but Minase Shrine is a true sacred ground supporting the boundary between the human world and the otherworld, and yokai hiding their true identities also live in the shopping district. In this town, where humans and non-humans, science and the uncanny, police and detectives, and everyday life and mythic horror coexist, you alone steps deeper into the world's hidden side while seeing "information that should not be seen."