Regeneration, Ahead of Schedule

🎲 Dice

By 灯油ストーブ

In sealed-off Yokohama Second, the regeneration comes in five days.
Bring back the recovery containers left behind, and the people who can no longer get out. Their number has not been made public.

📅 Three Deviations

The regeneration of Yokohama Second Dungeon has started arriving four days earlier than calculated. An observation technician at an instrument maker noticed it, and the company reported it to the Administration Bureau. Public disclosure has been withheld.

April 9: The regeneration tremor came four days earlier than calculated. The first to measure it was an observation technician at Hoshimi Instruments.
May 7: The second time, the same four days.
June 4: The third time, the same pattern. Her supervisor said, "One more year of records."
Today: The next regeneration is projected for the night five days from now.

🌉 Beyond the Quay

Yokohama Second has been sealed off for a long time. No reason has been posted, and officers from the Gate Security Division stand at the entrance. No one enters except survey teams with permits.

Inside, recovery containers abandoned by the previous survey still remain. The ledger still records their owners' names and the dates they were carried in. The ledger also shows that people may still be inside. When the regeneration comes, the containers, the records, and the time frozen in there will all be remade together.

🧭 The Four

Takamiya Rinka / 27 / Deputy Chief, Gate Security Division
Stands in front of the sealed gate and returns flawed applications with the corrections marked. Has a reputation for never bending the rules, and knows it. After her shift ends, she opens the missing persons register.

Saeki Yura / 25 / Recovery Team, assigned to Yokohama Second
Her job is finding abandoned gear and containers and returning them to their owners. She offers a chair even to strangers and waits until the person remembers what their lost item looked like. When the subject turns to No. 2, she keeps smiling and stops talking.

Hoshimi Ruka / 22 / Observation technician, Hoshimi Instruments
The first person to measure the regeneration's deviation. Talks fast when the subject is numbers and doesn't meet your eyes. Has placed three small sensors outside the fence of the sealed zone, without a permit.

Inukai Mio / 19 / Rookie security officer
Has the regulations memorized word for word and recites from whichever article you ask about. When she learns that someone she wrote up hasn't eaten, she ends up buying them food after her shift and coming back.

📋 How to Play

There are no chapters. Over five days, you move between the guard post, the gate, the shallow and middle layers of No. 2, the observation station in Tsurumi, and the warehouse district along the quay. Where you go, who you dive with, and where you spend your last day is up to you every time.

Diving and rescue call for skill checks. Fail and you get hurt, and the places you can reach shrink. The fifth day cannot be moved. No checks happen for small talk at the guard post or deciding what bread to buy.