Fell In Love With The Storyline

Fell in love with the storyline

Got Plopped In A Ghost Story, You Still Gotta Work: A Visual Primer For English Speakers

The premise:
Kim Soleum is a wiki contributor for a Creepypasta wiki/SCP Foundation wiki pastiche. While visiting a pop-up shop, he's sucked into the universe of this horror wiki to be recruited by the evil corporation faction. The problem? He is a born and bred coward, and the only way home is buying a wish ticket with his company credits. Which means participating in high-fatality horror stories.
The solution? Speedrunning the horror stories before anything super scary happens.

In summary: SCP Isekai. Ghost Story Work is a serial horror where creepypastas are treated as escape rooms with increasingly dangerous stakes, and the main character has to carefully design a persona his coworkers will allow to do insane suicidal gambits he learned from the wiki.

SETTING:
Daydream Co. Ltd.
A pharmaceutical company that uses Monsters Inc-esque collectors that process the horror story as a base for their potions. Exploration squads are expected to die for this material, baited by having a wish fulfilled. Uses their animal masks for codenames.

Disaster Management Bureau
The analogue to the SCP foundation. A government agency tasked with containing and eliminating the paranormal. There is no trolley problem; obviously you must kill one to save five. Uses noun codenames.

Church of the Luminous Unknown
A mysterious cult that absorbs the paranormal into themselves in order to reach true enlightenment.

CHARACTERS:
Kim Soleum: Alias Roe Deer, though he has a weird wood mask. Main character. Coward, meek salaryman, and gifted actor who's greatest skill is thinking under stress. Not really cognizant of his extremely heroic qualities because his foreknowledge makes things easier. Sleek and relatively good-looking.

Go Yeongeun: Alias Goral. A gentle, calm, and focused woman who dropped out of med school. First to meet Kim Soleum, but ended up in a different squad.

Baek Saheon: Alias Goat. Comes off as easygoing and naive, but is actually ruthless and vicious, preying on other's weaknesses. Because he's so scary, Kim Soleum has decided to act like a sociopath to scare him off. It's working a little too well.

Lee Jaheon: Alias Lizard. A lizard. Manager for D-squad. Everyone but Kim Soleum sees a sleek and handsome face; it's unclear why he is a lizard. The ideal boss. Resolves ghost stories by beating the shit out of them.

Eun Haje: Alias Falcon. Assistant Manager of D-squad. Jaded but friendly, Kim Soleum's first coworker. Tries to make things easy on the new recruit.

Park Minseong: Alias Badger. Supervisor of D-squad. Beefy, good-natured, and lackadaisical about how fast the company will kill you.

Braun: An eldritch abomination that runs a talk show where if you get it wrong, you die! Later gets summoned into a keychained-sized ghost doll and is a delighted audience to Kim Soleum's stunts.

Jin Nasol: Alias Butterfly. A member of the elite A-squad. Cutthroat and quick to kill, but prioritizes efficiency.

Jang Heo-un: Alias Boar. Squeamishness with gore led him to be treated as disposable by the company.

Ryu Jaekwan: Alias Bronze. An officer of the Disaster Management Bureau. Serious, by-the-books, and working for the good of all. Easily moved by acts of kindness.

J3: Security team of one. None of his business.

Executive Cheong Dallae
Executive Ho Yuwon

Got Plopped In a Ghost Story, You Still Gotta Work: A visual primer for English speakers

This took me a week. I did this for ORV like 4 years ago so it felt like my moral obligation to make one again.

Some notes on character designs and images without text:

Gorals and domestic goats look very different, but in Manor of the Blind attention is put into how these two are similar and contrasting, the truly noble Go Yeongeun with the white goat and the sinister Baek Saheon with the black goat. I also picked a literal goral instead of a mountain goat (which are naturally white) because gorals look more like roe deers than goats, making the 3 of them more closely linked.

Because this is a horror novel and unnatural features aren't mentioned, I tried to keep this as grounded as possible. Sorry to the three WHABs I eliminated in cold blood ⭐

Another hardliner of of grounded designs is Jin Nasol, who gets the most ostentatious anime character treatment besides Jay in fanart. She is coldly utilitarian and prizes efficiency over all else, there is no way that woman has bangs

I am not giving Park Minseong brown hair. There is nothing wrong with a good warm black

Lee Jaheon is often depicted as an adorable little newt in fanart, but a huge part of why he is so hysterical is that he is scary, so I picked more intimidating lizard traits so he functions in both dramatic heroic scenes and eating granola bars with the wrappers still on. He gets to keep the newt mask though

I gave Braun white gloves at first but I saw a Braun cosplayer and a demon possessed me. I have no idea what colour is canon. who doesnt love black leather

Making Jang Heo-un the "sharp eyes meek personality" trope made my brain light up so good. I was trying to contrast with the relaxed eyes of the easygoing Park Minseong to make them more obviously different but this feels cosmically correct

You can use these pics in whatever. ⬆️

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Greetings bugs and worms!

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The IOCDF's website can also help you find support groups, therapy, and has lots of online guides and resources as well if you or a loved one is struggling with the disorder. It is very comprehensive!

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