INCOMPREHENSIBLE INTRIGUE OF THE ISEKAI INCIDENTS

***INCOMPREHENSIBLE INTRIGUE OF THE ISEKAI INCIDENTS***
*'There's a rumour about a sinister truck crashing into high school students... but instead of macabre deaths, the students simply disappear.
Is it about the truck? Or is there something more eldritch involved?...'*

Endings' list:
ENDING A: "SURVIVOR DUO"
ENDING B: "HURT BUT ALIVE"
ENDING C: "LUCKED OUT"
ENDING D: "NEVER FORGET"

PART A: Start of Mystery
Sidequest: Prepare For Trouble: Visit Hospital twice to prepare for the confrontation. (upon completion, +Bandage, +Sewing Kit)
Location 1, Downtown: "You hear worrying rumors about a certain truck killing high school students randomly... but neither the bodies nor the truck can be located.||Maybe someone heard more about this story?"
Location 2, School: "Random teens you've met at the metro station mention hearing the story from their friends at school.||You should go there and question the students a bit."
Location 3, School: "Some of the students heard of the story. It involves a particular delivery truck, and supposedly, there's no one behind the driving wheel.||But does someone know how the truck looks like?"
Location 4, Downtown: "One of the upperclassmen's friend was recently involved in such an incident, and the boy describes the truck to you. ||Armed with the truck's description, you begin roaming the streets in search of it..."
Event: "Suddenly, with screech of the tires, a large, white delivery truck turns the corner and drives right at you!"
A) Brace for Impact: You decide to take the blow head on and prepare for the worst! (-3 Stamina)
B) Jump Away! (dexterity check):

**Success: You jump away from the truck and avoid being gruesomely smacked against the pavement...
ENDING C, "LUCKED OUT":
You've escaped certain death... but your action has a has more lasting effect.
Namely, the truck, responsible for the inexplicable disappearances of students, disappears itself. You believe this to be the end of it... ...until you hear of the similar incidents starting to happen in a town in the neighbouring prefecture. (+5% DOOM)

**Failure: You fail to jump away and the truck crashes into you! (-3 Stamina, +Injury)

PART B: Either through 'Brace for Impact' or 'Jump Away!' check Failure.
You wake up in an eldritch world... strange shadows flicker and ghastly mists concort into eldritch spirals.
7 'Otherworld' tiles to explore (smacked randomly on the screen rather than in a neat field).
Possible Events:
Land of Insanity (up to 3 times per mystery): 'This place is truly eldritch, and you have no idea what is happening out here. (-2 Reason)'
Land of Pain (up to 3 times per mystery): 'The air of this place burns your skin and makes you sick. You barely manage to carry on forward. (-2 Stamina)'
Land of Whispers (up to 3 times per mystery): 'Eldritch whispers penetrate your mind and leave a permament mark on you... (+SPELL, +CURSE)'
BOREAL EXPANSE, no more than once per mystery
BLEEDING DESERT, no more than once per mystery
UPPER KINGDOM (if unlocked), no more than once per mystery

Dying during PART B, instead of usual death screen, gives Lost in the Otherworld death screen instead.

Randomly, player can chance upon Field of Bodies; they also automatically get there after visiting the final, 7th Otherworld tile.

PART C: Field of Bodies.
You find the place littered with bodies. Teenagers in all manner of attire, mostly school uniforms of various colors and designs, are all dead in front of your eyes.
Some of them grasping at their heads, faces frozen in expressions of pure horror.
Others, horrificially mutilated in various, gruesome ways.
Withholding an urge to simultaneously vomit and flee, you move through between the macabre field...
Suddenly, you notice a bright light far in front of you. Is this an exit? A way out of this place?
A) Step toward the Light: You step toward the light and let it fully engulf you...
ENDING B "HURT BUT ALIVE":
Suddenly, the light disappears and you find yourself back in SHIOKAWA. Whatever eldritch world you were trapped in is now gone. Hurting but alive, you limp back home.
Later on you hear on the news that the strange incidents have ceased. Was your escape the trigger to break the mysterious chain of otherworldly kidnappings? You can only hope that's how it is...

B) Investigate some more: You decide to ignore the Light and check the bodies...

PART D: She's Alive!
...and suddenly you see one of the corpses twitch and move! Gasping for air, a teenaged school girl opens her eyes. Her leg is badly mangled, the open wound is bleeding profusely. Suddenly, her gaze matches yours.
"P-Please... h-help me... it hurts, it h-hurts so much... please!..." Looking at the state she is in, you are not sure you can help her.
A) Tell her the truth
You tell her the truth; she is beyond your ability to help.
"No! P-please! Don't leave me here!... please!!" You turn your back and walk toward the light.

ENDING D "NEVER FORGET":
Deciding the poor girl to be a lost cause, you toss yourself into the Light, and escape from the horrific, alien world. You try to shake off the nightmares you saw in that place...
...but the girl's pleas for help echo in your head, even when you go to sleep. (+CURSE: TRAUMATIZED or SUICIDAL)

B) Try to patch her wound (REQUIRES SEWING KIT)
You open up your sewing kit, and, hoping for the best, begin suturing her wound. After a while, the bleeding stops, and you help the traumatized teenager onto her feet.
Quietly, you two limp toward the light. Finally, you reach it, and step forward...

ENDING A "SURVIVOR DUO":
Together, you both escape the horrific Otherworld and make your way back to the relative safety of Shiokawa. You help the girl, whom you learn is called Mio-chan, to the nearest clinic, and explain that you two were hit by the truck from the stories.
You're both tended to by the doctors, who take care of the most of your wounds. (+2 STAMINA, +2 REASON).
After your and Mio-chan's escape from the dark, morbid world, the suddenly incidents and disappearances of random high school students abruptly end. Did your escape perhaps break the link?
While you continue on with your investigations, Mio-chan disappears from Shiokawa. You learn that she has moved to live with her grandparents in the countryside, presumably to rest her strained mind and body. You wonder if you two will ever meet again...