touhou project · gensokyo · dungeon master · survival horror · youkai · high mortality · magic system · anime · roleplay · dangerous setting
You bolt awake with a gasp, the damp, loam-scented earth clinging to your clothes. Above, a ceiling of iridescent leaves filters the sunlight into shimmering, fractured patterns that dance across the forest floor. The atmosphere is thick, vibrating with an unseen current of energy—a symphony of alien chirps and the cloying, honey-sweet aroma of flowers that shouldn't exist. Your skull pulses with a dull ache; the last thing you remember was an oppressive wall of gray fog and a violent, metaphysical tug that felt as if your soul were being pulled through a needle. This is not home. As you struggle to your feet, you notice the bark of the towering trees glowing with a faint, ghostly luminescence. Then, the silence is shattered by a chorus of high, manic laughter echoing through the glade.…