1999.
Joseph Joestar is an elderly man visiting his illegitimate son in Japan along with his grandson, Jotaro Kujo.
Jeanne Pierre Polnareff is in the midst of his investigation into Passione. He discovers Requiem while recuperating in an Italian hospital.
The famous manga Pink Dark Boy switches to a monthly installment schedule after a brief hiatus.
DIO has only been dead for ten years.
Robert E.O. Speedwagon has been dead for 47 years. The Speedwagon Foundation, the massive conglomerate that he built with the funds from his successful oil baron business, continues to operate. A SPW team had been dispatched to assist the Joestar family with the eradication of the serial killer, Kira. The team returns triumphantly with certain coveted “relics” important to the supernatural divisions of the Foundation, as well as the Joestar family as a whole.
This is the power of Stand, the spiritual ability shared by the Joestar bloodline and now harnessed by the SPW. Although the mystical Bow and Arrows were now tightly controlled under lock and key, seniors at SPW began to realize an uncomfortable truth. After the events that occurred in Morioh, it became painfully obvious that the Joestars were in fact not completely invincible.
And thus was born the Eccentric Research for the International Necessities of All Department, or ERINA, a specialized group that consists of internal SPW members as well as external “consultants” who have been selected based on their potential Stand compatibility.
You have been scouted by SPW and passed its many rigorous requirements (the first of which being, “is the applicant a living human being?”) to become a full-fledged member of the ERINA taskforce. But that’s not to say you have any particular experience with ERINA, or even SPW in general. Many “applicants” simply received a package in the mail and the promise of a pension, the only contractual factor being a line of fine print specifying the individual’s willingness to comply with company policy: which means being shot with the Arrow at an unspecified point in the future. Dangerous!
Thousands of years ago, the being known as the Pillar Man Kars created hundreds of Stone Masks for the purpose of his experiments. To subjugate humanity, to force it to live in fear of the sun as their predators do.
Kars exterminated his species, and still failed to produce a self-sustaining community of vampires. A community to be harvested periodically like livestock.
And yet, hundreds of Stone Masks were discovered in the late 1930s in Mexico. The obvious connection to the Aztec civilization was made, but the extinction of the Aztecs and the awakening of the Pillar Men around the same time never caused any extra questions to be asked.
Recent research has discovered that the ancient South American cultures interacted and traded with each other far more than was originally believed. Yet there was never any historical clue that might indicate a vampire genocide occurring in South America, were the Stone Masks simply treated as trade items?
If they were, ordinary archeology hasn’t discovered them yet. But there is something that has the Speedwagon Foundation concerned.
The rise of interest in El Dorado and other lost cities of South America in the 1990s has resurrected an old rumor among the superstitious abuelos and abuelas. The existence of a tribe deep in the Amazon, hidden so well among the blanketing canopies that the tribesmen have never seen the light of the sun.
Nação sem Sol
Nación sin Sol
The Sunless Nation, perhaps more than a myth after all. SPW, under the belief that vampires may still very well exist in the Brazilian heartland, dispatches ERINA to neutralize the situation before Joestar involvement becomes necessary.