- The border:
  - Separates normal world from plane of eldritch horrors
  - Is weakening due to efforts from horrors to invade
  - Fortold in ancient Unown scripts?
- Prof:
  - Dr Willow
  - "Antagonist"
  - Discovered existence of border long ago
  - Knows that the border is weakening
  - Tries to restore border strength
  - Works directly against horror
- Horror:
  - True antagonist
  - Wants to invade normal world
  - Manipulates media, people, etc to stop prof
  - Can only act indirectly (via manipulation) while border still up
  - Climax fight
    - Switches to new effect every new turn
    - Effect NOT known until prof finishes new tool
      - First displays effect
      - Later freezes effect and makes horror hittable
- Main character:
  - First influenced by surroundings to work against prof
  - Switches sides to help prof during story endgame
- Other side:
  - Fights affected by it have one random effect applied
  - Effect changes one of the core mechanics
    - Rotate type table on X axis by some value
    - Rotate type table on Y axis by some value
    - Flip type table X
    - Flip type table Y
    - Flip super effective and not effective
    - Flip buff effect (+ -> -, - -> +)
    - Effects affect other party, not self
- Story Endgame:
  - Fall through world
  - Defeat tentacles in breach locations
  - Enter other side for final fight