"Is that your Grandpa's medal?" Reaper-kun asked.\n\n"His collection, but he isn't the real owner. These are ... war medal granted by the government I think. Grandpa never involved in any war. He just loves war stories. He found it ... I dunno, melancholic? Romantic?"\n\n"Aho na hito." Reaper-kun shrugged. "Real war isn't romantic."\n\n[[Put it away|The Living Room][$put_away_medal = "yes"]]\n[[Leave it be|The Living Room]]
<<nobr>>\n<<set $killed_by_rapier = "yes">>\n<<set $killed_by_rifle = "no">>\n<<set $killed_by_armor = "no">>\n<<set $killed_by_bottle = "no">>\n<<set $killed_by_falling = "no">>\n\n<<set $thrown_out_window = "no">>\n\n<<set $put_away_rapier = "no">>\n<<set $put_away_rifle = "no">>\n<<set $put_away_axe = "no">>\n<<set $put_away_medal = "no">>\n\n<<set $on_hand = "">>\n\n<<set $secure_armor = "no">>\n<<endnobr>>\n\nAaron was surprised when he found a man clad in black in his apartment's living room.\n\n[["Who are you?"|Reaper-kun desu]]
Aaron was visited by a Reaper who told him that Aaron was going to die right after midnight. But his death wasn't in the Reaper's plan. Something was wrong, but the Reaper couldn't fix it. Aaron was given chance to stop an hour before his death and rewind to previous days, trying to stop his own death and find out why he was going to be killed.
"Grandpa secured the pole-axe by welding it to the gauntlet." Aaron tried to pull the pole-axe. "And he somehow made the entire armor couldn't be separated to pieces."\n\n"He made it more difficult to be moved around," Reaper-kun commented.\n<<if $killed_by_armor is "yes">>\n[[Secure the pole-axe blade|Securing Armor]]\n[[Leave it be|The Living Room]]\n<<else>>\n"Yeah." Aaron shrugged. [["I can't do anything with this one. I suppose."|The Living Room]]\n<<endif>>\n
"Alright, this one is the one that will kill me."\n\n"Sono toori." Reaper-kun scratched his ear. "Are you sure doing something with that sword will make things differ?"\n\n"At least I'm doing something, not just commenting like you," Aaron snarked.\n\n[[Put it away|The Living Room][$put_away_rapier = "yes"]]\n[[Leave it be|The Living Room]]
"What the hell are you talking about?!" Aaron snapped. "Who are you and why are you here, you goddamn creep!!!"\n\n"Am I that creepy ...?" Reaper-kun reached to his jeans pocket. In a blink of eye, he suddenly moved in front of Aaron. "My business card. Yoroshi--"\n\nAaron reflexly slapped Reaper-kun's gloved hands which handed him a silver card. Unexpectedly, both the hands and the card were thrown to the ceiling. The card pierced the ceiling and just stuck there with the hands still holding it.\n\n"Oh, gomen." Reaper-kun looked at his stumped arm. "I don't have much muscle to hold my arm."\n\nAaron glared at him with shock. What hidden beneath Reaper-kun's long sleeves shirt was white bone.\n\n"Do you prefer [[the green|Cards]] or [[the yellow|Cards]] one, anyway?" The weeb reaper flicked his arms and with "regrown" hands, he handed two business cards.
"Huh? It fixed to the wall."\n\n"I suppose it's a huge bear," Reaper-kun commented. "Remind me of the story about Kesagake."\n\nAaron had no idea what or who or where "Kesagake" was.\n\n[[Back|The Living Room]]
This is the end of prologue for "Project Rewind".\n\nWould you kindly fill [[this questionnaire|http://goo.gl/forms/2SNU3b5Z6u]]?
"Let's see if I avoid death this time."\n\nAaron took a look at the TV. The screen flickered and showed [[the scene from the future|Future Room]].
<<if $killed_by_rifle is "yes">>\n"This goddamn rifle ...," Aaron grumbled.\n\n[[Put it away|The Living Room][$put_away_rifle = "yes"]]\n<<else>>\n"Hmmh, I don't think this one has bullet in it. Or is it still working or not."\n\n"Winchester Model 1876 or Centennial Model," Reaper-kun commented. "Sugoi."\n\n"I'm not surprise if you say you're a walking Wikipedia, seriously," Aaron remarked.\n<<endif>>\n[[Leave it be|The Living Room]]
"Alright, I understand," Aaron said.\n\n"Dozo." Reaper-kun stepped aside to let Aaron had a look at the TV."\n\nThe TV flickered and showed the sight of the room in black and white color. The viewing angle made Aaron felt he watched a CCTV recording.\n\nThen he saw himself, [[entering the room|Future Room]].
"Huh. This one fixed to the wall."\n\n"Do you ever eat deer meat?" Reaper-kun asked. "I always want to try some."\n\n"Now that you mention it, is deer meat delicious or what?" Aaron replied.\n\n[[Back|The Living Room]]
"Please repeat it," Aaron said.\n\n"No problem. We have all night long." Reaper-kun repeated his explanation, pointing to the small gargoyle figure in the corner of the room. "You will see this room from the eye of the gargoyle over there and you can view it from this TV here. Should I [[repeat it again|Tutorial - repeat]] or [[no|Tutorial - next]]?"
Aaron once lived with his Grandpa--may he rest in peace now--and the old man had a habit of keeping antique things all around the apartment. He was an antique shop owner, but Aaron couldn't differentiate which items were to be sold and which were Grandpa's collection.\n\nThe wall was decorated by:\n\n[[bear head trophy|Bear Head]] x x x x x [[deer head trophy|Deer Head]] x x x x x <<if $put_away_rapier is "no">>[[rapier and its sheath|Rapier]]<<else>>o o o o o o o o o o o<<endif>> \nx x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x\nx x x x x <<if $put_away_rifle is "no">>[[old hunting rifle|Rifle]]<<else>>o o o o o o o o o<<endif>> x x x x x <<if $put_away_axe is "no">>[[medieval axe|Axe]]<<else>>o o o o o o<<endif>> x x x x x x <<if $put_away_medal is "no">>[[a case full of medals collection|Medal Collection]]<<else>>o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o <<endif>>\n\nIn one corner there were a set of [[knight armor replica|Armor Replica]], holding a pole-axe. In another corner, a heavy wooden cabinet stood with many wine bottles inside--all of them were empty. Between the two corner, there was a window connected to the balcony.\n\nThe space near the entry door was filled with [[stack of newspapers|Newspaper]] (like, even from 5 years ago) and paintings wrapped in brown paper.\n\nAnd, yes, there were the sofa set and the [[TV set|Rewind Me]].
"At time like this, I really have deep thoughts about selling things like this in the online shop."\n\n"It's not antique thing, right?" Reaper-kun asked.\n\n"It isn't. Grandpa accidentally bought this when he tried online-shopping."\n\n[[Put it away|The Living Room][$put_away_axe = "yes"]]\n[[Leave it be|The Living Room]]
"You have a lot of old newspaper here."\n\n"Yeah." Aaron frowned. "It's gathering dust, but Grandpa insisted to keep some around. For wrapper, for packaging." \n\n<<if $on_hand is "" and $secure_armor is "no">>\n[[Get some newspaper|The Living Room][$on_hand = "newspaper"]]\n<<endif>>\n[[Leave it be|The Living Room]]
Future-Aaron was sitting on the sofa, checking his phone. Just about a few seconds later, someone wearing a ski mask and jacket abruptly broke into the room.\n<<if $put_away_rapier is "no">>\nBoth Future-Aaron and the mysterious assailant engage in a brawl. The assailant overpowered Future-Aaron, but s/he didn't stop at that. S/he grabbed the old rapier hanged as wall decoration and proceed to stab Future-Aaron in the ...\n\n"OUCH!" Present Aaron yelled. "Ouch! Not in my eye, goddamnit! That's GORE!!!"\n\n"Yeah, your death is kinda gore," Reaper-kun commented. He was sitting on flat pillow on the floor (Aaron had a lot of antique things in his apartment--Grandpa's collection--but he didn't remember having such pillow), sipping tea from Western style cup with Asian style manner.\n\nDismissing Reaper-kun's comment, Aaron started to look around his living room.\n\n[[Maybe I could change my death by removing objects from this room?|The Living Room][$killed_by_rapier = "yes"]]\n<<else if $put_away_rapier is "yes" and $put_away_rifle is "no">>\nBoth Future-Aaron and the mysterious assailant engage in a brawl. The assailant overpowered Future-Aaron, but s/he didn't stop at that. S/he grabbed the old rifle from the wall, hitting Aaron with the stock, aimed the weapon and ...\n\nBANG!\n\n"Goddamnit! It's loaded?!"\n\n"I told you to check it," Reaper-kun said. He peeked from behind Aaron's shoulder. "Oh. Headshot."\n\n"I don't need your comment. Just shut up."\n\n"Hai, hai~"\n\n[["Why everything in this room seems dangerous now?"|The Living Room][$killed_by_rifle = "yes"]]\n<<else if $put_away_rapier is "yes" and $put_away_rifle is "yes" and $secure_armor is "no">>\nBoth Future-Aaron and the mysterious assailant engage in a brawl.\n\n"Don't lose, my future self!" Aaron shouted.\n\nThis time, Future-Aaron managed to push away the assailant to the corner of the room eventhough he also fell on his knee. Thudding and clanking sound could be heard. The next scene was something moving fast from the corner.\n\n"What the--?!" Aaron stared at the TV. "The pole-axe falls and my neck got hacked by it???"\n\n"Yup." Reaper-kun nodded.\n\n[["Goddamnit."|The Living Room][$killed_by_armor = "yes"]]\n<<else if $put_away_rapier is "yes" and $put_away_rifle is "yes" and $secure_armor is "yes">>\nBoth Future-Aaron and the mysterious assailant engage in a brawl. This time no stabbing in the eye and no point blank gunshot. Future-Aaron pushed the assailant to the armor in the corner and no bloody medieval-ish accident.\n\nThe assailant kicked Future-Aaron on the stomach. Future-Aaron fled to the other side of the room. The assailant rushed to him and tackled him until Future-Aaron fell to the cabinet.\n\n"You can do it," (Present) Aaron hissed.\n\nFuture-Aaron grabbed a wine bottle. The assailant grabbed another bottle.\n\n"NO!" Aaron yelled in panic. Next to him, Reaper-kun was nodding as if he understood something new.\n\nNobody landed succesful hit on the other's head. Everything seemed alright ...\n\n... and then the assailant tackled Future-Aaron. Again.\n\nBoth of them crashed to the window.\n\nThere was silent for a moment.\n\nAnd then a heavy thud.\n\n"I'm still die!" Aaron raged.\n\n"Yes." Reaper-kun was still nodding. "Apparently, [[yes|The End of Prologue]]."\n<<endif>>
<<if $secure_armor is "yes">>\n"I think it's secure enough now," Aaron said.\n\n[[Leave it be|The Living Room]]\n<<else>>\n<<if $on_hand is "newspaper">>\n"Okay, this should do it." Aaron wrapped the pole-axe blade with newspaper.\n\n"Make it thick," Reaper-kun suggested. "Yes. [[That's better.|The Living Room][$on_hand = ""; $secure_armor = "yes"]]"\n<<else>>\n"The screw from the arm part is missing."\n\n"Maybe you should [[do something with the pole-axe|The Living Room]] instead?" Reaper-kun suggested.\n<<endif>>\n<<endif>>
"What is wrong with YOU?!" Aaron got furious now. "Stop this bullshit already! Are you here to kill me?!"\n\n"Chigau. Not me." Reaper-kun sighed. "Other people. But your death isn't registered in our Death Lineup. It's an anomaly."\n\n"Then, just erased it from the list."\n\n"We can't. Reaper can't interfere with the list, even the higher-ups can't. That's why I'm here. You need to change your own death."\n\n"Why didn't you say earlier?!" At this rate, Aaron really wanted to punch this so called Reaper. [["How could I stop my own death then???"|Tutorial]]
"Oh, hi." The man in black answered. "Sorry to surprise you, I'm what you called Grim Reaper. Well, although I'm not that grim. Just call me Reaper-kun will be okay."\n\nBefore Aaron recovered from his first surprise, the man who called himself "Reaper-kun" (What the heck is wrong with this guy? He added "-kun" after his name? What a weeb.) continued.\n\n"Aaron Barley, you're going to die tonight." Reaper-kun looked at his watch. "Oh, sorry. It's 47 minutes before your dead. So, you're going to die 47--eehh, I mean, 46 minutes from now."\n\n[["WHAT???"|ETA 45 mins]]
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"I' ve stopped your time progression by now." Reaper-kun looked around the room. "You lived in an antique apartment, souka. Subarashii. Fancy."\n\nAaron rolled his eyes. He had some images about Grim Reaper, but not as an emo-looking-weeb like this one.\n\n"You can see everything seen by the figure in the corner of this room." Reaper-kun pointed to small gargoyle figure lurking in the corner of the living room. "And you can view it from ... here." Reaper-kun flicked his finger and a widescreen TV popped up out of nowhere, replacing the small LCD screen on the table.\n\nAaron raised his eyebrows. He always wanted to buy a new TV just like this one.\n\n"Do you [[catch everything|Tutorial - next]]? Or should I [[repeat it|Tutorial - repeat]]?"