with Mountain Smiling (wMS)
This page is an introduction to the Antarctic Role-Playing game "with Mountain Smiling (wMS)".
About 100 years ago, a space war broke out.
A time when the population was halved, technological and economic activities were stagnant, exhausted, and yet still trying to recover. It was a time when people could not afford to waste money. Such was the era of Antarctic observation.
A long time ago, at the beginning of the 20th century, the explorer Ernest Shackleton put the following message in a newspaper to recruit members for his expedition to the South Pole.
MEN WANTED
for Hazardous Journey.
Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful.
Honor and recognition in case of success.
The Antarctic expedition in this game is still about extreme cold and darkness, but there is a guarantee of safe return, the danger is not so much constant as it is ever-present, and the new arrivals were not MEN.
"Explorer"
Newcomer to the expedition. Protagonist. PIC: Inland travel (field observation). She is a doggie (a humanoid with animal ears), 20 years old, having acquired her human rights at the age of 18 ( under Japan's special human rights law).
Originally trained for animal husbandry in Nagano prefecture in Japan, she is strong in cold and high altitude, powerful, and has an attitude. Her hobby since joining the expedition is playing carom (billiards) and taunting the captain by beating him. Her pet peeve is old people.
"Explorer" is a common doggy (a bio-artificial human being, with animal ears to distinguish from humans) of this era.
In Japan, a special human rights law is in effect that grants human rights to those doggies that meet the requirements, and she is one of them. Therefore, she is a unique person who is treated as a human being as well as a doggy.
She joined the Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition (JARE) this summer. In order to confirm the existence of the "legacy" of the old century, she will spend about a year alone in a forgotten place, the Dome Fuji, the southernmost base in Japan in the interior of Antarctica.
In addition to her, there are more than a dozen other members of JARE. Different from "Explorer", they are all human.
Here are some of the people who are deeply involved with her.
"Captain"
Captain of the expedition. PIC: communications and route setting. Human male, 52 years old.
He is very attentive to details contrary to his physiognomy. He is with a penchant for sermon, loves to graph data, is devastatingly bad at drawing, and cannot use a tablet for route setting properly due to dry hands from aging. High uric acid levels.
(Our) modern JARE are divided into summer and winter expeditions, spending 3 months and 15 months in Antarctica, respectively, but never staying in Antarctica for longer than that.
However, in this long winter season, one person can spend two or three years in Antarctica. "Captain" is one of such old-timers. He manages more than a dozen observers and was involved in the interview process that led to the hiring of "Explorer" for this expedition.
Antarctic observation in this era is a kind of adventure in which the route once conquered has returned unexplored, but 《Captain》 has attempted it in the past and is one of the few people with experience on the continent. In the story, he will help you operate the snowmobile, live on the ice sheet, identify dangerous terrain, how to urinate under strong winds, and how to set up your route to the Dome Fuji base. Along with a large amount of sermons.
"Medic"
The doctor of the expedition. A human male. He is the oldest in the current squad, 53 years old.
He is mild-mannered and has a smirk on his face as he says stupid things in a wise manner. He is the type of person who says "I'm hungry" while eating, which makes people worry that he has dementia. He used to be a surgeon at a hospital near doggy's settlement, so he understands doggy. His uric acid level is high.
"Medic" is another member of the old guard, and is the oldest surgeon in the current expedition. Although he is often described as "fishy," the hospital where he worked in the past was located near a doggy settlement (reservations), so he is a rare doctor who has experience operating not only on humans but also on doggies.
The solitary journey to the extremely cold Antarctic continent wears "Explorer" down both mentally and physically, and the damage accumulates without her knowledge. In the course of your involvement with "Medic", you may be able to learn how to alleviate these problems.
"Mechanic"
"Mechanic" is maintaining the snowmobiles used by the "Explorer" that will be sent to the continent. On a continent where temperatures easily drop below 60 degrees Celsius, a snowmobile, shielded from the outside world by a wall and heated inside by an engine, is indispensable.
He is responsible not only for the vehicles themselves, but also for the observation equipment that is mounted on them. In the inhospitable continent of Antarctica, observation equipment is a necessity, as it enables us to see the dangers without having to set foot on the ground. The successful use of observation equipment can make the difference between a successful trip and a failed one.
The goal of wMS is to reach the Dome Fuji, which is an Antarctic base located approximately 1,000 km away from the starting point, Syowa Base, within a period of one year.
The route to the Dome Fuji has been lost in the first attack of the past space wars, and neither the detailed location of the base nor a safe path to it is known. In addition, "Spider" of the aliens may even be blocking the way. Fortunately, the snowmobile used for the trip is equipped with a final return device to the base and can safely reach the Syowa base even if it is out of action.
Therefore, the player will have to repeatedly travel and return to find the way.
The game flow is mainly separated into a travel mode and a base mode.
In the travel mode, you actually drive a snowmobile over the Antarctic ice sheet. Simply swipe left on the side-view screen to advance the snow vehicle along a set travel route like a toy miniature car.
When the driver's health reaches zero, the vehicle becomes disabled, the fuel is empty, or other failure conditions are met or the driver actively chooses to return, the vehicle will return to the Syowa base.
In base mode you return from your trip and stay at the base. At the base, you can check your current status, set up your vehicle's observation equipment, and set your route.
The connecting element between the two modes is the "Story".
When you return to base from your trip, you will be presented with three stories, one of which you can earn.
When you get a story, an event conversation will be displayed and the story effect will give you a permanent buff that will make your trip more favorable.
In addition, the more you progress to new points in your trip, the more experience you gain, and once this experience is accumulated to a certain number, it can be converted into a story at the base. For this reason,
- Get a Story at the base
- →More advantageous to advance in the trip.
- →Gain more stories when you return to the base by getting more experience.
- →More experience, so you get more stories when you return to the base, and you can advance more easily on your trip.
It is important to create a flow of getting more stories.
Even if you fail once in your trip, you can still get the Story by returning. No matter how many times you continue to fail, the effect of the Stories will continue to accumulate.
Getting more defeat, getting more win.
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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