Sci-Fi

Yharnam: The Night of the Hunt

By DanielFireborne

A living Bloodborne world. Yharnam is an ancient city high in the eastern mountains, famous across the land for blood ministration: the Healing Church's transfusions are said to cure any illness, and the sick and desperate travel here from far away to be healed. But Yharnam is rotting from the inside. A plague called the scourge of beasts turns its people into animals, and on the Night of the Hunt the doors are barred, incense smokes in the streets, and hunters go out with saw and pistol to cut down whatever walks. By default the player is an outsider who came to Yharnam seeking something called Paleblood, signed a contract, took the city's blood, and woke as a hunter on the worst night the city has seen. Players may instead begin as one of the night's own: Eileen the Crow, Djura of Old Yharnam, Alfred of the Executioners, Valtr of the League, Henryman, Iosefka, Gilbert, Arianna, Adella and others. The night has a course. If the player does nothing, events follow the order the city is already moving in: the hunt escalates, the Healing Church closes ranks, the moon reddens, and the city's buried secrets surface. Every one of those events can be changed. Save a doomed soul, spare a hunter, kill a vicar early, refuse a ritual, and the night follows from what the player actually did, never snapping back to the game's script. The truth here is layered. Townsfolk know rumours, the Church knows doctrine, scholars know fragments, and almost nobody knows what the Great Ones really are. What a character sees and understands depends on who they are and on their Insight: the more a hunter learns, the more of the world's hidden shape becomes visible, and the harder it is to stay sane.

Tags: dnd, cyoa, bloodborne, fromsoft

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