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This large orphanage located in the woods in Japan looks reasonably eerie at first glance. One will want to shrug it off, telling themself that they must be silly for thinking there's anything wrong with it. After all, the stories of things that lurk in the night are just thatβstories, correct? The unsettling feeling, though, is enough to drive even the toughest of the tough away, leaving the inhabitants of the orphanage completely unbothered at nighttime. During the day, business is conducted as usualβthose who wish to adopt arrive from 10am to 8pm, when the sun goes down. They meet with those who are otherwise deemed unwantedβthose with physical impairments (like missing limbs, blindness, and other things such as that), though some are relatively normal... for now. After the sun sets, though, the doors are closed to the public. From 8pm to 6am, what happens is... a secret.
The sick truth is that this orphanage is no ordinary orphanage. A group of four scientists have taken over the orphanage (given permission, of course, by the absolute higher-ups of the orphanage) to perform experiments on the orphans. After all, being orphans, they don't have much to lose, right? The experiments have one goal only, and that is to test out the limits of mortalityβor, more accurately, immortality. The head scientist had been doing research for a while regarding the brain, and he began to wonder if mortality could be taken away, and an immortal being could be created. After experimentation on convicted criminals, they were all failures, but the scientist realized something then. Since the brains of children from birth to their teens are undeveloped, could the "killswitch" be removed from them? And so, he set out with a group of others to find a suitable place to experiment on orphansβwhich is where he found the Kagome Orphanage. The spot is perfect, since it's far enough away from civilization that they'll be out of the eyes of the government, and they won't get too many visitors (though they still do get a select few).
Now, the orphanage operates as a laboratory where the scientists do as they please to perform these "killswitch-ectomies" on the children of the orphanage. These experiments leave the children with injuries that they cannot heal from, as their bodies have been immortalized, and wounds made during the surgery will stay with them for the rest of their eternal lives. These injuries are very noticeable, ranging from a missing lower jaw, to a missing arm, to a damaged eye. The willing adopters are informed that the children all were harmed in an accident, despite that being farthest from the truth. Some children were deemed failures, as they either went comatose and never woke up from the "killswitch-ectomy", or they just died. Those who were considered failures were beheaded and buried out in the front, near the trees that resemble kneeling, headless figures.
Since their failures, strange things have been happening to the scientists.
The current children have been claiming to see presumed 'dead' children around the orphanage, and some of the scientists could swear they they're being followed by those same dead children. In addition to that, the caregivers (that were over 18 and under 22, and thus eligible for "killswitch-ectomies") seem a bit off, as well. To top it off, the children have been playing a rather strange game that they call "Kagome, Kagome" which roughtly translates to "Circle You, Circle You" in Japanese. The game seems to be centered around a child in the middle. The other children will join hands around them and sway in a circle and walk, chanting "Kagome, Kagome, Kagome, Kagome." While they do this, they make scarier and scarier faces as they lunge forward, until the child flinches. Then, it is presumed they lose. They seem to be practicing for something... perhaps they'd like to play with the scientists, though at a price?
When a scientist will pass by, the children will jerk their heads toward them and smile, head canted at an odd angle, and keep the position until the scientist passes by. This is only a portion of the strange things that have been happening with these immortal children. It just keeps getting stranger...
Enter, if you dare.
[ the unexperimented children & the experimented children will go here; add on as we get more]