

To lay Sakuya to rest and calm Rougetsu's dead inhabitants, the ritual must be completed, and for that the mask must be restored. Two years after Misaki and Madoka left the island with Ruka, Sakuya woke up and infected the whole island, killing everyone who saw her face including Souya. The ritual was a catastrophic failure due to another tourist version of the ritual taking place concurrently Sakuya reached the final stage of the disease and fell into a coma when the mask shattered, the other girls collapsed and had their memories wiped, and the dancers in the tourist ritual all died.

Ruka herself became infected, and was treated at the sanatorium along with the other girls and the dancer, Haibara's sister Sakuya. It is gradually revealed that Ruka's father Souya had become obsessed with completing the ritual dance, as it would also cure the disease and required the construction of a special mask for the dancer. During the course of the story, it is revealed that Misaki arranged their return to the island so their illness might be cured, and that Chōshirō himself died ten years before, and is now helping the girls guided by the benevolent spirit of Ruka's mother Sayaka. Each character also collects pieces of a mask used in a local ritual dance to guide souls into the afterlife. During her exploration, Ruka learns that she and Misaki are suffering from a supernatural disease, which affects their memories and identity and is spread by touch and vision. Wanting to uncover her memories, as well as to find Misaki and Madoka, Ruka returns to the island and to Rougetsu hallĬhōshirō, the detective who rescued them, also returns to the island to both find Ruka and continue his pursuit of Haibara. She also remembered the time when her mother was ill and told her not to visit the island. Using it, Madoka defeated her first spirit but later succumbed to the curse itself and was spirited away.Īfter an unknown amount of time passed, Ruka Minazuki, a friend of Madoka and Misaki as well as one of the original five children who escaped from the island, was seen playing piano and recalling some memories two of her friends, Marie and Tomoe had died by an unexplained cause of death and Madoka and Misaki went to the island and never returned. She encountered visions of spirits on her way and managed to enter the Asou museum,where she found the Camera Obscura. Madoka was separated from Misaki and forced to wander on her own.

in the beginning of the game, Madoka Tsukimori and Misaki Asou were seen wandering around Rougetsu hall, an abandoned sanatorium built for the Luna Sedata Syndrome sufferers. Two years later, a catastrophe strikes Rougetsu Island which kills off the inhabitants. The girls were rescued from a cavern beneath the sanatorium by detective Chōshirō Kirishima, who had been pursuing Haibara, but they had all lost their memories.
#FATAL FRAME 4 MASK OF THE LUNAR ECLIPSE ANTAGONIST SERIAL#
In 1970, ten years prior to the start of the game, suspected serial killer Yō Haibara kidnapped five girls from their rooms in a sanatorium on Rougetsu, an island south of Honshu. Plot For more details see: Fatal Frame IV Chapters
