Exploration Record #13, the one I added.
-If you obtain and wear a school uniform by the proper method, you can be treated as a student.
Honestly, it was a pretty radical addition.
Because handled the wrong way, it was also a choice that could distort the flavor of the original Ghost Story.
A school ghost story.
A monster that moves only when it isn’t being watched.
“In the Dark Shadow,” made by varying those two clichés, was originally a classic Ghost Story with the theme of “the terror of the pursued.”
A nightmare where a familiar everyday place and familiar people become something strange and impossible to identify, and keep chasing you until they kill you.
But once more than ten exploration records accumulate, even this starts getting little bits of buildup.
‘It adds the fun of concretely imagining the background of the setting.’
Exploration Record #5
Writing found on the blackboard:
Avoid the teacher the teacher is— (the rest of the sentence was roughly erased)
That was how the foreshadowing kept piling up little by little.
It had just kept building for twelve rounds, and on top of that, this Ghost Story was fairly popular, so it looked like it was only going to keep “building” further.
‘At that point, it starts to feel stifling.’
It becomes hard to maintain the original theme, where the fear comes from gaps in information.
But then.
‘If you can explore as an insider called a student, then there’s also the fun of actually cashing in on that foreshadowing itself…!’