STASIS

The title screen for STASIS.

**STASIS** is an upcoming **OFF** fangame currently in development by *bitchitwerk*. It functions as a prequel to **OFF**, taking place in an entirely different world and featuring a brand new cast.

## Notable Features

**STASIS** boasts a much more cohesive combat system, removing the archaic 3-tiered defensive equipment system present in **OFF.**

Taking notes from other games, **STASIS** features a **Hylics**-esque system of learning Competences, and multiple planned endings akin to **UNDERTALE**.

## Plot

Waking up in a small room, **The** **Player** is attributed to the puppet named **Azazel**. Meeting with **The Stork** in zone Eden, you are given the task to acquire a tarot card from each Guardian to save the world of **STASIS** from the sickness that plagues it.

## **Characters**

### **Party Members**

*note: this section will be updated as more party members are conceptualized!*

**Azazel** (they/them) is the main playable character of **STASIS**. Guided by **The Stork**, their aim is to save the world of the sickness that has befallen it. As an angel, Azazel is always catching the attention of many odd figures. They play as a balanced party member, with their signature competence *Baroque Duress* raising their own speed for a short time.

**Bayard** (he/him) is an overworked miner with an ashy breath. He joins Azazel on their journey in the graveyards of zone Adam. He specializes in dealing damage quickly, as his signature Competence, *Cross-strike*, inflicts Bleeding on an enemy.

**The Jester** (he/him) is an enigmatic trickster with an affinity for playing cards. He teams up with Azazel and Bayard in zone Judas. In combat, he's a mixed bag, boasting the only Competence to remove status, *Circulation*, and the most high-risk high-reward weapons in the game.

**Valentin** (he/him) is a military aviator who often spaces out. After joining the party in zone Genesis, his aero plane becomes useable, a tool that allows quick access across places and zones not usually accessible. He plays as a fast damage dealer, with a natural Agility buff and a signature Competence that deals party-wide damage in *Utopic Screen*.

### **The Guardians**

**Lahian** (he/him) is the guardian of zone Adam. As a kind and compassionate leader who wishes nothing but progression for his people, he has earned respect from his zone. It is rare to see him not wearing his cloak with the zone Adam insignia.

**Anrik** (he/him) is a true tyrant. He has no remorse for the deaths of his people, subjugating them to a life where sugar has replaced any edible food. As the strongest of the three guardians, he confides in his power, insisting he was chosen to be greater than the sugar-addicted Elsen.

### **Miscellaneous Characters**

**Isaiah** (he/him) acts as a merchant, and one of the few angels in the world of **STASIS**. He has many parallels to Zacharie from **OFF**, though they're surely nothing more than coincidences.

**The Stork** (he/him) acts as a mentor and guide, not dissimilar from The Judge from **OFF**. He speaks with an eloquent tongue and is not difficult to lose track of in conversation.

**Belial** (he/him) is an enigmatic angel whose intentions are unknown. Regardless, he seems to wish to help **Azazel** and has an uncanny knowledge of **The Player**.

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