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Synopsis

Episode one
The play begins with the narrator reading the first verse of a poem, later called The Quartet for the Twilight of Man. The player then designs a character of their choice; with an introduction to the Player's 1920s suburban neighborhood. A mysterious voice instructs the player, whose house is quickly destroyed by a giant robot (a steampunk version of Fruit Fucker Prime), while smaller steampunk Fruit Fuckers attack. After a brief tutorial, the player teams up with Tycho Brahe, an apocalyptic studies specialist turned detective, and his extremely violent partner who fought with the devil, Johnathan Gabriel, in search of information on Fruit Fucker Prime. Episode two
Several months after the end of the first episode, the player rebuilt their house (a tent), and Tycho and Gabe decided to destroy Fruit Fuckers and try to find a lead on Fruit Fucker Prime. While escaping a swarm of them, they crash a truck into the player's (partially rebuilt) house and recruit him to help them find their trail. A trip to Anne-Claire's house reveals that they have tracked down the original designer of the Fruit Fuckers: Dr. Jonathan Crazoir, currently incarcerated in the same sanitarium as Tycho's father and grandfather when they succumbed to the madness inherent in otherworldly affairs. She also requires that they collect various pieces of equipment for one of her experiments: five rolls of silk thread, preferably spider silk, a golden bolt, a truck or tractor engine, and a molecule of Energite, a very unstable element. They enter the sanitarium to find Crazoir, who promises to give Tycho, Gabe, and the player everything related to his research, as well as a "robot monkey card", if they can free him from the madhouse. After wooing the receptionist, they meet the hunter/sanatorium owner, Dr. Wolfington, who has used the millions earned from the Brahe family's inevitable descent into madness to hunt down and kill every rare animal in the world. He declares the Player, Tycho and Gabe all unfit for society after a rigged inkblot test, and has them injected with various chemicals to induce insanity. Episode 3
The main game begins with Tycho receiving a phone call described as 10 minutes of silence, prompting Tycho and Gabe to go to the Arcadia boardwalk where they had previously defeated the mime god and members of his cult. Teaming up with Anne-Claire, they fight off the cultists and eventually confront a crabomancer, then, after defeating him, collect pins that grant classes to whoever wears one (similar to the job system in the early Final Fantasy games). They return to their office, only to discover that Dr. Blood has orchestrated the theft of the Necrowombicon. Anne-Claire returns home, Tycho and Gabe team up with Jim, a former colleague who lost his body in a work accident, reducing him to a skull floating in a jar of green liquid. Jim is unable to speak, but can follow Tycho and Gabe, as well as participate in combat. Following leads, they arrive at the museum of contemporary and ancient works, where Tycho finds Moira, his ex-wife, who joins the party. When asked if they can recruit Anne-Claire again, Tycho replies that she is on vacation with her parents. The group discovers that a painting has been stolen from the museum, the painting being one of four depicting the god of doors, Yog-Modaign, a figure resembling a god of death. Episode 4
The fourth episode begins with Gabe and Dr. Blood crashing into a hellscape. With no other options, Gabe is forced to team up with Dr. Blood, who happily explains that when they defeated Yog Modaign, the apocalypse occurred and the world was destroyed. The people closest to the epicenter were thrown into a dimension called Underhell, so called because it resembles a huge floating continent, directly beneath the huge floating continent of Hell. Gabe believes that Jim, Moira and Tycho must have been sent to Underhell as well and negotiates with Dr. Blood to help him search for them. Dr. Blood reveals his motivations: in his youth, he traded the soul of his lover Hestia for knowledge. Since then, he had come to regret his actions and had staged a premature apocalypse in order to send himself to Hell, where he hoped to reunite with Hestia. Dr. Blood also informs Gabe that since they are not of the same composition as Underhell, they cannot harm its inhabitants, meaning they must use Underhell monsters to fight for them (similar to Pokémon). They head towards a large pillared structure where Dr. Blood thinks he will find Hestia.

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