Eloquent Countenance

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## General Information

### Upload Date

January 26, 2022 (Windows)February 19, 2022 (Mac)

## Miscellaneous

### Developer/s

Studio Investigrave

**Eloquent Countenance** is a short 2.5D RPG Maker horror/narrative-driven game with visual novel/adventure elements following the story of a nun who was selected by the church to assist in progressing the pastor's funeral service suddenly hearing a strange voice who claims to be a "guardian angel". She must choose between following through with the instructions given to her or acting on her own.

The game could contain blood and disturbing imagery.

## Plot

*You have been told that the pastor of your church had suddenly passed away last night.*

*As you helped with his wife's funeral not so long ago,*
you were assigned to assist the pastor's funeral service today as well.

*But as soon as you were about to start the service, you hear a strange voice in your head...*

The game introduces the player to a nun selected by the church to assist her pastor's sketchy funeral. As she goes about her way, she suddenly hears a strange voice in her head. It claims to be a guardian angel from Heaven, and she is skeptical at first, thinking that it's a demon. However, the unknown person makes himself visible and introduces himself, stating that his name is Forcas. He claims to want to guide the nun throughout this funeral, stating that she must keep to herself and not help anyone. The player can choose whether or not to follow this rule, and that will alter the nun's fate based on what she does.

### Ending 1: Silent Salvation

If the player ignores an unknown person locked inside a cage next to them, and tells the truth about one of the followers not having bought a Chrysanthemum, then the church will reveal to **Angelica**, the nun, that it was all a fake funeral to test if the pastor's wife was fully in control of the nun's body. This is because a possession ritual was performed on her during the wife's funeral to allow the deceased wife to come back to life through Angelica's vessel. However, according to Forcas, Angelica is still somehow conscious in her body alongside the wife, fighting for control. The church is now convinced that they don't have to do another ritual, and Forcas will from then on continue to try and salvage Angelica completely until she can defeat her possession.

### Ending 2: Fake Sacrifice

If the player helps the unknown person locked inside the cage next to them, and lies about everyone having their Chrysanthemums, despite Forcas' warnings about doing so, then the church will turn on her and think that the possession ritual on her did not work last time, because the pastor's wife "would never fall for cheap tricks like this" (*helping the follower without a flower and letting out the person in the cage*). The church prepares her for another possession ritual.

## Cast

* Angelica (protagonist);
* Forcas (deuteragonist);
* Minor Characters.

## Trivia

* **Eloquent Countenance** is the first game ever fully developed by the Studio, released on January 26 2022 for a Korean RPG Maker contest where they were tasked to make a full game only using 1 map. Development took only 18 days in total.
* Angelica's name is not revealed completely until Forcas mentions it in Ending 1. The only other hint at her name is the back of a burnt photo with the text "LICA" on it, short for "Angelica".
	+ According to the study book for angels at the bottom of the map on the right, her name means "a messenger of God", "Angel".
* If the player lights up the candles and continues walking during the praying segment even when the followers are all silent, they will get an instant game-over for interrupting the silence in the church with their footsteps.
* The reason for Angelica's nosebleeds could be either because of her half-possession or her seeing Forcas' true form during the Ending 2 route.