kaisou plot recap

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In early 2021 (before game start), the Spirit Vein over the city of Kaisou began exhibiting abnormal behavior. It began with the arrival of a couple "isekais", people from another world who found themselves stranded in this world. The company Zodiac took charge in looking after the Isekais and monitoring the situation.

In 2022 (game start), the situation grew more severe. Not only did more isekais arrive, but some citizens within Kaisou began remembering memories of previous lives and gaining unusual abilities. Zodiac responded by creating the Libra app, a social media app that serves people being affected by the situation. A few weeks later, Spirit Gates began manifesting a monthly rate in the city of Kaisou. These gates leads to several different parts of the Spirit Realm, sometimes peaceful but often dangerous. After the appearance of the second Spirit Gate in February, Zodiac contracted Professor Willow from the researcher faction POKEGO to assist them.

As the year went on, the situation continued to get worse. In May after the appearance of La Llorona, the mysterious group the Black Order made their presence known. While initially hostile to the users of the Libra app, once they realized that the app users weren't the cause of the situation, they decided to continue monitoring the situation in a less hostile manner.

In August, a group of teenagers decided to take matters into their own hands and created a portal to travel through the Spirit Realm. This horribly backfired as all they did was essentially punch a hole into the barrier between Earth and the Spirit Realm, resulting in dinosaurs invading Kaisou and the barrier weakening enough to allow for tears in reality to begin appearing.

Eventually, the app users were able to discover some truth of the world: Kaisou's Earth is a world comprised of souls from previously destroyed worlds that survived and were reincarnated into this  world. Thus all the previous memories and abilities the app users were obtaining came from a past life from a destroyed world.

Finally things came to a head in October/November, when the sun god Ra was kidnapped and it caused the sun itself to stop rising over Kaisou. App users who went to resolve the situation discovered that it was Professor Willow, who had kidnapped Ra in an attempt to make the old god restore his past life's world. Professor Willow was also responsible for all the damage to the Spirit Vein that's been causing all the anomalies to occur from his own attempts to travel the Spirit Realm. He was taken into custody and eventually sent to Florida as punishment.

Now with the mystery solved for who was responsible, the app users are now left to figure out what to do next. The Isekai still haven't returned home, and the Spirit Vein is still damaged and behaving unusually. While Zodiac predicted the vein will heal itself, it in fact seems to increasing in severity....



<span style="font-size: 150%; font-weight: bold; color: #6032b0;">Event Timeline</span>
<span style="font-size: 115%; font-weight: bold; color: blue;">January 2022 (water)</span>
<blockquote><b>Posts:</b> <a href="https://kaisou.dreamwidth.org/753.html">Zodiac Post</a> | <a href="https://kaisou.dreamwidth.org/1454.html">Event Log</a>
<b>Event Summary:</b> The Libra App was first launched, and people began experiencing new powers and memories for the first time. A gate to Nifelheim, the frozen Norse afterlife, appeared within Kami State Park. Within the realm characters fought a Valkyrie, who unbeknownst to everyone, was not a true Valkyrie but a possessed person who failed to uphold their contract.
<b>What Normal People Remember:</b> It was cold and there was a winter carnival.</blockquote>
<span style="font-size: 115%; font-weight: bold; color: red;">February 2022 (fire)</span>
<blockquote><b>Posts:</b> <a href="https://kaisou.dreamwidth.org/3690.html">Zodiac Post</a> | <a href="https://kaisou.dreamwidth.org/4686.html">Event Log</a>
<b>Event Summary:</b> The Spirit Realm of Kanto, a post-apocalyptic version of the Pokemon world, appeared. Characters were able to meet and befriend Pokémon. They also met Professor Willow and the POKEGO faction, who would serve as information providers to the app users. Also while they were small so they mostly went unnoticed, the first world changes began to happen with the arrival of the cosmos canyon drink and glaze lilies - a sign that the Spirit Realm has begun morphing the reality of Kaisou itself.
<b>What Normal People Remember:</b> Valentine's Day :)</blockquote>
<span style="font-size: 115%; font-weight: bold; color: green;">March 2022 (wind)</span>
<blockquote><b>Posts:</b> <a href="https://kaisou.dreamwidth.org/14500.html">Zodiac Post</a> | <a href="https://kaisou.dreamwidth.org/15698.html">Event Log</a>
<b>Event Summary:</b> Random items started spilling out of the Spirit Vein and into Kaisou (the gacha system). Meanwhile the Fae court decided to kidnap app users to make them permanently join the court. While they were eventually rescued, some of them ended up forever cursed by the Fae.
<b>What Normal People Remember:</b> Some people suddenly went on vacation for awhile. Maybe it was Spring Break?</blockquote>
<span style="font-size: 115%; font-weight: bold; color: orange;">April 2022 (earth)</span>
<blockquote><b>Posts:</b> <a href="https://kaisou.dreamwidth.org/24826.html">Zodiac Post</a> | <a href="https://kaisou.dreamwidth.org/25364.html">Event Log</a>
<b>Event Summary:</b> App users were asked to restore the peaceful farming realm of Stardew Valley, who had been corrupted by some unknown force. To assist, the god  of wine Dionysus (but called himself "D") came and threw an incredible party.
<b>What Normal People Remember:</b> Yay spring is here.</blockquote>
<span style="font-size: 115%; font-weight: bold; color: purple;">May 2022 (shadow)</span>
<blockquote><b>Posts:</b> <a href="https://kaisou.dreamwidth.org/33039.html">Zodiac Post</a> | <a href="https://kaisou.dreamwidth.org/36678.html">Event Log</a>
<b>Event Summary:</b> La Llorona appeared in Kaisou and began drowning people throughout the city. While investigating, the App Users had a run in with the Black Order, who was determined to protect the realm La Llorona was connected to even at the cost of innocent people's lives. After getting through them, app users reached the Spirit Realm of the Mexican after life Land of the Forgotten. Here they found remnants of their forgotten past worlds, and learned this realm needs sacrifices in order to survive. Thus several characters agreed to play a game of deadly soccer, in which the losing team was sacrificed. A few days later, the losing team was revived by the goddess La Muerte as a thank you.
<b>What Normal People Remember:</b> There were a lot of accidental drownings this month. Was it part of a tiktok challenge gone wrong?</blockquote>
<span style="font-size: 115%; font-weight: bold; color: gold;">June 2022 (light)</span>
<blockquote><b>Posts:</b> <a href="https://kaisou.dreamwidth.org/44399.html">Zodiac Post</a> | <a href="https://kaisou.dreamwidth.org/45063.html">Event Log</a>
<b>Event Summary:</b> App users had pieces of themselves taken by Wizeman the Wicked and were forced to travel to the Night Dimension to get them back, where they had to directly confront their dreams and nightmares all while wearing ridiculous jester outfits.
<b>What Normal People Remember:</b> The Anime Convention was in town. 💖</blockquote>
<span style="font-size: 115%; font-weight: bold; color: blue;">July 2022 (water)</span>
<blockquote><b>Posts:</b> <a href="https://kaisou.dreamwidth.org/51534.html">Zodiac Post</a> | <a href="https://kaisou.dreamwidth.org/54041.html">Event Log</a>
<b>Event Summary:</b> To help escape the heat and summer storms, App users were given an idyllic beach vacation in the Spirit Realm. Though for some who couldn't leave some things well enough alone, they ended up on a dangerous pirate adventure that took them through all sorts of danger. Meanwhile Zodiac implemented a child safety protection spell that would make sure no child 15 years or under could wander into dangerous parts of the Spirit Ream unchaperoned.
<b>What Normal People Remember:</b> It was hot and humid and stormy.</blockquote>
<span style="font-size: 115%; font-weight: bold; color: red;">August 2022 (fire)</span>
<blockquote><b>Posts:</b> <a href="https://kaisou.dreamwidth.org/59010.html">Zodiac Post</a> | <a href="https://kaisou.dreamwidth.org/60203.html">Event Log</a> | <a href="https://kaisou.dreamwidth.org/60756.html">Mid-Month Zodiac Post</a>
<b>Event Summary:</b> A few teenagers decided  to take matters into their own hands and created a portal that'd let them travel to other worlds. This unfortunately backfired and caused them to make an opening to a post-apocalyptic version of Jurassic Park. Dinosaurs flooded into Kaisou and it took a great deal of effort to get the realm sealed up once more. Meanwhile the  app users also met the <a href="https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/puppet_history/images/a/ad/The_professor.png">Professor</a>, a blue furry puppet who loves history and got stuck in Jurassic Park after...well a long story.
<b>What Normal People Remember:</b> There was a bad storm that caused a lot of damage and got some people killed.</blockquote>
<span style="font-size: 115%; font-weight: bold; color: green;">September 2022 (wind)</span>
<blockquote><b>Posts:</b> <a href="https://kaisou.dreamwidth.org/65890.html">Zodiac Post</a> | <a href="https://kaisou.dreamwidth.org/67344.html">Event Log</a> | <a href="https://kaisou.dreamwidth.org/69927.html">Mid-Month Zodiac Post</a>
<b>Event Summary:</b> App users learned that their past lives came from worlds that no longer exist. Not only that, but that no one is really sure what happens to the OUs once they do leave Kaisou. The app users  were also invited to visit the Great Library of Alexandria, that let them read  to  their hearts desire and learn more information about their previous lives.
<b>What Normal People Remember:</b> Back to school!</blockquote>
<span style="font-size: 115%; font-weight: bold; color: orange;">October 2022 (earth)</span>
<blockquote><b>Posts:</b> <a href="https://kaisou.dreamwidth.org/73013.html">Zodiac Post</a> | <a href="https://kaisou.dreamwidth.org/74643.html">Event Log</a> | <a href="https://kaisou.dreamwidth.org/77505.html">Mid-Month Zodiac Post</a>
<b>Event Summary:</b> As the veil between the Spirit Realm and Earth thinned, normal people began to notice the supernatural more. Not only that, but demons began to appear in Kaisou and ended up kidnappig several people for sacrifice. Characters went to the realm known as the Qliphoth, in order to beat the demonic army and save the kidnapped victims. But before anyone could have a chance to celebrate, the sun started disappearing from the sun until it had vanished completely by the end of the month.
<b>What Normal People Remember:</b> I could've sworn I saw something supernatural - but I'm pretty sure I imagined it. Also we sure did have a lot of dark cloudy days huh?</blockquote>
<span style="font-size: 115%; font-weight: bold; color: purple;">November 2022 (shadow)</span>
<blockquote><b>Posts:</b> <a href="https://kaisou.dreamwidth.org/81992.html">Zodiac Post</a> | <a href="https://kaisou.dreamwidth.org/83775.html">Event Log</a> | <a href="https://kaisou.dreamwidth.org/86143.html">Mid-Month Zodiac Post</a>
<b>Event Summary:</b> To get back the sun, characters traveled to the Egyptian afterlife of Duat that was hidden in the Spirit Vein itself. There, they discovered that Professor Willow had kidnapped the sun god Ra in an attempt to revive his past life's world. It was also revealed that Willow and some of his associates in POKEGO were the true cause behind the Spirit Realm's erratic behavior. He was taken into custody and with the sun god freed, the sun returned to the sky.
<b>What Normal People Remember:</b> More dark cloudy days...man November weather sucks. </blockquote>
<span style="font-size: 115%; font-weight: bold; color: gold;">December 2022 (light)</span>
<blockquote><b>Posts:</b> <a href="https://kaisou.dreamwidth.org/88956.html">Zodiac Post</a> | <a href="https://kaisou.dreamwidth.org/90621.html">Event Log</a> | <a href="https://kaisou.dreamwidth.org/92377.html">Mid-Month Zodiac Post</a>
<b>Event Summary:</b> A peaceful month for the holidays, app users got a chance to travel to Christmas Town and help Santa with Christmas. Anyone who tried to <i>fight</i> Santa, however, got their ass thoroughly whooped. Meanwhile, some app users began to notice they were taking on rather monstrous changes...
<b>What Normal People Remember:</b> Happy Holidays!  </blockquote>

<span style="font-size: 115%; font-weight: bold; color: blue;">January 2023 (water)</span>
<blockquote><b>Posts:</b> <a href="https://kaisou.dreamwidth.org/94970.html">Zodiac Post</a> | <a href="https://kaisou.dreamwidth.org/97044.html">Event Log</a> | <a href="https://kaisou.dreamwidth.org/99249.html">Mid-Month Zodiac Post</a>
<b>Event Summary:</b> The monster changes continued to spread, while app users were requested to assist with escorting the famous Zodiac Animals through their annual race. As a reward, they were offered some cash or the chance to gain an immortal peach that will grant immortality to anyone consumes it. While most picked the cash, Moxxie and Varian both took peaches. Varian with the intent to study it, while Moxxie sold it to Zodiac for $40k. Varian's peach blew up his apartment during an experiment gone wrong, and he was recruited by Zodiac to help them study Moxxie's peach.

Meanwhile, as part of their agreement made after the Willow incident, a few Black Order members were sent to Kaisou and joined the Libra app so they can keep a closer eye on things. This was met with mix reception.
<b>What Normal People Remember:</b> Sure was cold outside!   </blockquote>
<span style="font-size: 115%; font-weight: bold; color: red;">February 2023 (fire)</span>
<blockquote><b>Posts:</b> <a href="https://kaisou.dreamwidth.org/103728.html">Zodiac Post</a> | <a href="https://kaisou.dreamwidth.org/105088.html">Event Log</a> | <a href="https://kaisou.dreamwidth.org/106984.html">Mid-Month Zodiac Post</a>
<b>Event Summary:</b> Characters were sent to The Constant, an unusual realm where basically everything is trying to kill you and the night is full of unspeakable terrors. Made worse was  that Fern lost control of his grass demon and caused trouble for a number of app users and the Black Order. Meanwhile, a couple POKEGO members who weren't aligned with Willow join the app in hopes of repairing relations for their organization. Unfortunately they brought the scariest kind of person you could present to a crew of deeply screwed up folks: a therapist.
<b>What Normal People Remember:</b>  Happy Valentines Day! Please let winter end soon we're tired.</blockquote>
<span style="font-size: 115%; font-weight: bold; color: green;">March 2023 (wind)</span>
<blockquote><b>Posts:</b> <a href="https://kaisou.dreamwidth.org/111117.html">Zodiac Post</a> | <a href="https://kaisou.dreamwidth.org/112198.html">Event Log</a> | <a href="https://kaisou.dreamwidth.org/116921.html">Mid-Month Zodiac Post</a>
<b>Event Summary:</b> The Fae returned to Kaisou, after the Seelie and Unseelie factions splintered once again. The Seelie attempted to make Kaisou their new home, but between them cursing anyone who looked at them  funny and their penchant for kidnapping children - it was quickly decided this arrangement wouldn't work and they traveled into the realm to deal with the Unseelie so the Seelie  would leave.

Meanwhile Zodiac began to show  more and more erratic behavior. Varian, having worked with Zodiac since January, sounded the alarm that Zodiac's board members had turned into demons and intended to consume immortal peach- leaving the city stuck with immortal capitalists. The Black Order devised a plan secretly to use an ace up their sleeve to combat the threat, and surely there's no way this would backfire.
<b>What Normal People Remember:</b> Blue Fish Lake  park looks unusually green! Also why does my kid keep disappearing to there?</blockquote>
<span style="font-size: 115%; font-weight: bold; color: orange;">April 2023 (earth)</span>
<blockquote><b>Posts:</b> <a href="https://kaisou.dreamwidth.org/120804.html">Zodiac Post</a> | <a href="https://kaisou.dreamwidth.org/122689.html">Event Log</a> | <a href="https://kaisou.dreamwidth.org/124690.html">Mid-Month Zodiac Post</a>
<b>Event Summary:</b> Anyway so the Black Order's plan backfired, trapping four people (Jusis, Takame, Waver, Danny) in Spirit Realm dungeons that was shaped to reflect their own inner turmoil. Their friends and other concerned folks went in to save them and force them to confront their inner demons. Meanwhile everyone went to face actual demons, as they infiltrated a Metaverse version of the Zodiac building. They managed to steal the peach before it could be consumed, though Moxxie was killed during the fight (he got better).

After the fact, an employee of Zodiac indicated that it's possible the actions of  everyone triggered a change of  heart in Zodiac, but time will only tell what that'll mean....
<b>What Normal People Remember:</b> Yay cherry blossom season is here! </blockquote>