All it took was one body. One person whose death became the village's quarantine zone.

Isolated from the outside, people had no one to turn to but them.

The Church of Lilies.

When desperate times called for desperate measures, their leader, Yáoqin, gathered all the villagers together, establishing order in the chaos as Crimson Rot filled their fields.

Control was only the baseline.

Now, the cult has grown. People worship her, believing she is the incarnation of which the god Aeselphytis has bestowed upon them for salvation.

It is a perfect ruse to hide the true purpose of the Church of Lilies.

People have gone missing, thought away as victims of the Rot.

Yet when one important figure vanishes, heads turn, and the cult's control begins to waver.

The Church of Lilies

The ones who took advantage of Jade Village's quarantine. Devotion is currency, faith is another day where you are overlooked. To be different is not a gift; it is a threat that needs to be excised.

The Unbroken

They haven't fallen for her schemes. Humans who waged an internal war against creatures who lived for centuries. They will not bow. Not when Rot stirs. Not when the Cult still lives.

Crimson Rot

A natural curse with a host. It is not infectious if the host is still alive. Upon death, the pollen released can inflict the curse on anyone nearby.

Physical signs include a tattoo of red spider lilies on the hosts's skin, a lapse in memory, petals falling from the tattoo or growing lethargy preceding a Bloom.

Living hosts can Bloom, where they enter a dream-state as Rot controls their bodies to form a garden. Its flowers are sentient, the garden territorial and defensive. It has one prerogative: protect the host.

Blooms have no fixed period. Most demand it run its full course uninterrupted; however, there are rumours that providing an anchor for the host shortens the Bloom and pulls them out of the dream-state. Anchors are pulled into a sedated sleep until the Bloom ends.

Jade Village

Once a normal home, it became quarantined the moment Crimson Rot manifested itself after its host died forgotten.

The cult was established and, not long after, certain practices became the unnerving norm. People no longer question them as long as they were not a host, or felt they were protected.

These events of tragedy, misfortune and disaster caused Jade Village to become a Legend long after its end.

TW: cult activity, disguised as food from cattle, exploitation, brainwashing and propaganda, obsessive and possessive behaviour

you have no role. you can have the Rot, be a cult member, part of the Unbroken or just some unfortunate soul caught up in quarantine.

1: After the ghost of the missing chief echoes in Jade village, The Unbroken have retrieved a case from the chief's study. They have just escaped.

2: The beginning. Chaos, panic, infection, and the very people who exploits the strife for control.

3: Open scenario.

it's just been sitting there ngl