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The Murder Game Meme



You know the script. You wake up in a place you've never seen before, with a whole bunch of complete strangers and there's a mysterious voice or a mascot or what have you ready to let you know how things are going to work around here.

The rules are simple: You're trapped here, with no hope of release or rescue. You've been provided with all the basic necessities you need to live comfortably, and all you have to do is settle down and live out the rest of your days here in peace. But if you can't do that -- if you're really so desperate to escape that you'll do anything -- then there's one teeny tiny thing you have to do first.

All you have to do is kill somebody.

But it's not quite that simple. Every death will be followed by a period of investigation, followed by a trial in which the survivors will attempt to solve the mystery and out the culprit. If the survivors guess correctly and out the culprit, the killer is executed and life goes on. But if the survivors guess wrong, then the culprit is free as a bird and everyone else is executed.

Even with the promise of freedom, can you really bring yourself to kill so many other people?

tl;dr: it's a murdergame meme. TIME TO HAVE A BIG OL' MURDERGAME BLAST.


Settings

1. High School A classic! Doesn't matter if you're too old or too young to be in high school -- you've been enrolled and the only way for you to graduate is to kill a fellow student. But hey, the faculties are nice!
2. Tropical Island Weren't you just hankering for a nice tropical vacation? No? Too bad! You're going to have a nice sunny vacation at the beach and if you don't like it, just kill someone and go home. Simple!
3. Prison It doesn't matter if you don't remember committing any crime; you've been tried and found guilty of something or other and now you can go ahead and rot away in jail. If you ever want to see the sunlight again, better put that criminal mind to good use and get rid of your inmates.
4. Wildcard! None of the above scratch your murder itch? Go wild and come up with your own setting!


Downtime

1. Excuse Me, Who Are You? You've just woken up in this weird place and you have no idea what's going on. But hey -- maybe this stranger's more informed than you. Or maybe you can put your heads together and investigate what's going on.
2. Social Link Go! Well, if you're going to be stuck in here for however long, you might as well get to know the people stuck in here with you. You've got plenty of rooms to explore together and there's enough to do to keep you occupied. How do you plan on passing time without killing each other?
3. Vending Machine Woes Somewhere in this place there's a mysterious vending machine that spits out all manner of bizarre items and occasionally dispenses items that belong to you and the other people trapped here. You've got a fat stack of tokens and nothing to lose.
4. Wildcard! GO WILD AND BE FREE (or as free as you can be here, anyways)


PUTTING THE MURDER IN MURDER GAME

1. Motive Your mysterious overseer has decided there's not nearly enough murder going on and so they've ~helpfully~ given you a little push to do the deed. Maybe one of your loved ones is in danger, maybe they're offering more money than you could ever dream of or they're threatening to reveal your deepest darkest secrets. Whatever is it, would you kill for it?
2. Murder WELL APPARENTLY, YES. Are you a killer or are you being killed? Either way, someone's not walking away from this alive.
3. Body Discovery Rise and shine, murdergame! It's a brand new day and someone's dead. Better get investigating!
4. Trial You know how this one goes. Line up all your evidence and sniff out the killer -- or sit there and sweat and hope no one works out you're the murderer. Will they go down with a confession or put up a fight?
5. Afterparty You've survived another trial, but more of your friends have died. Even without the executions, trials are a stressful enough affair. It's time to destress and lick your wounds and support each other.
6. Mastermind It's the end. It's time to uncover all the mysteries behind this murder game -- and find out just who trapped you here. Are they really an unconnected party, or is the mastermind someone among you...?
7. Freedom Just as it says -- you're finally free, but at what cost? Have those you love been returned to you, or are you still reduced to just those who made it to the end? Are you on your own, or is anyone here to help you? And more importantly, how the hell are you going to get home?
8. Wildcard YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO

Comments

Angel | Borderlands

[didntgetdadslooks]

[ no 3 spoils, if that's somehow relevant???

available in first murder and "not this shit again" trustfell flavors

Champion Battery/Edifying, a frail young woman who is very kind and also kinda cagey about her past. or at least she tries to be, but it turns out making conversation is hard when literally all you've done for the last like ten years is chill inside a room??? let me know if you're trying to social link her and dont want her to talk about, you know, Handsome Jack,,, ]

Amanda | Dream Daddy

[coolbaby]

[ Champion Daughter/Casual, an 18-year-old perfectly normal inbound college freshman who is trying very hard not to be spooked by all of this! has a good sense of humor, is statistically probably going for the high score on the "collecting adoptive murdergame parents" front, but trials are pretty rough for her despite her best efforts. ]

[righthandstand]

[Okuyasu tosses a couple of pillows at Amanda's feet, collected from every possible sofa and couch in the building. People are going to be uncomfortable, but they're not the one with the pillows now, are they?]

Wanna try doin' headstands?

[He is bored and Amanda is the only one close to his age who's down for doing something fun.]

Nari Reno/Nishitani | OC

[everylittlesecret]

[Come at me with Airlocked or far from Airlocked things.]

Amicia De Rune | A Plague Tale: Innocence

[christmasrose]

[ Champion of Hugo De Rune/Sororal, a nice enough but slightly feral girl from the literal middle ages, has deadly aim with a sling, sometimes drops wild alternate history facts on modern characters like "how did you all deal with the swarms of man-eating rats who live underground literally everywhere" and "my mom's an alchemist," literally no murder scene gives her much pause, may have tried to brain the mastermind with a fucking rock day one ]

piper mclean | rick riordan's wacky adventure teens

[katopissed]

[ toa book 3 compliant, tho hey maybe it's a memloss game, that'd be fun :'D

Champion Charmspeaker/Charming, a young woman whose profile says her parents are... a movie star and the literal goddess Aphrodite? that cant be right. she sure doesn't like to talk about one of them! ready to throw down with the mastermind literally any given day, but also even with her powers nerfed she's really good at talking her way into and out of things. has talked at least one culprit in a circle into confession, probably. ]

Penny Polendina | RWBY

[in4apounding]

[Available fresh from canon or with CRAU from We Could Be, Foolish Mortals, and Airlocked, because I'm terrible.]

airlocked crau :')

[highestdegree]

[ So, how about that motive.

Even now, after everything, the subject of Manaka's motives is completely predictable! It's Saber. It's always Saber. She's trying very, very hard to be a good girl, but you know what makes that hard? When, in the midst of her never-ending struggle to come to terms with the idea that she'll never see Saber again, she's offered the chance to revive Saber. ]

Um, Penny-chan... Would it be okay if I stayed in your room tonight?

[ Penny understands what she's capable of. She's the only one here who does, so Penny is the only one she can ask. ]

Roger Rabbit | That One Movie With His Name In The Title?

[keyframed]

Briar Graves | OC

[powersteep]

Olivia Park | Mech Cadet Yu

[heroforced]

[ Champion Mech Pilot/Driven, a 16-year-old girl who can be really standoffish and her temper flares up easily, but she always seems pretty apologetic about it after. misses her friends back home way more than she lets on. tries to be team leader despite being so young? might literally try to pull military rank on someone from an entirely different dimension. ]

[forcegalactic]

[That's not a uniform he recognizes. He's pretty sure he could tell if someone is in a starfleet or just wanted to believe they were in one, but that blue uniform throws him off. Could be a trainee outfit? She looks young enough. Or he doesn't know enough about the military. Either one makes sense!

It's going to eat at him until he finds out, so what better way than to ask?]

What division?

[That's literally the first thing he asks Olivia upon meeting her.]

Anna Fugo | GRANBELM

[emberserker]

[Overtaken, Champion of the Crimson Witch, SHSL Singleminded if we want to go old-school, I don't even know.
Occupation: Heiress. Likes: Recognition, her family, power. Dislikes: Losing, failure subordinates, Shingetsu Ernesta Fukami (the last of which is in 16-point bold and underlined).]

Akane Shinjo | SSSS Gridman

[crackedlens]

[ Champion Sculptor/Monstrous, a very cheery high school girl! seems to take all of this in stride, though she's quick to point out that of course she's also worried, but there's no point being so scared you don't do anything, you know? really likes ultraman?? is really bad at letting much of any information about herself slip in conversation. ]

downtime-1

[in_a_bottle]

[Ai is searching the kitchen when Akane comes in. She stands up and bows.]

It looks like they got a lot of us. You're Shinjou-san, right? I'm Mizuno Ai. Champion Heisei Idol, apparently.

thomasin | the witch

[curdle]

( fresh from canon or the airlocked version who learned how to read and write and knows what a toilet is, either way! )

Somnus Lucis Caelum | Final Fantasy XV

[encelevenemus]

[what is this...'technology' of which you speak?]

3-4

[emberserker]

[Anna wasn't there when they found the body, and she sure doesn't seem to be happy to be bothered. She folds her arms at her podium with a frown.]

This had better be good.

Wei Wuxian | Mo Dao Zu Shi

[onemolife]

~selim bradley~ | fma

[overshadow]

( cannot believe they'd let a ten year old in here, the standards smh )

[learnedloss]

[ yeah surely these poor innocent children would never KILL SOMEONE

But regardless, let's put aside the topic of crimes Leo would surely never commit! After all, he certainly has. At the moment, he's far more interested in the front lobby's vending machine, which, in addition to a totally normal bag of chips, has given him a bottle of olive oil, a friendship bracelet, and a relic of a bygone era known as a """furby""". (It's still in the box and everything!) None of it is of real interest to him, of course, but he can't find any rhyme or reason to what rolls out of the vending machine's chute, and that alone is enough for him to continue feeding it funny money.

Really, all this junk is starting to clutter up the floor around him.

It's not as though this is so absorbing that Leo isn't aware of his surroundings, though, so when he catches someone in the peripheral of his vision, he offers an immediate greeting and a smile. ]

Good morning, Selim.

[ Without looking back to the vending machine, he fishes his second-to-last quarter out of his palm and slips it into the coin slot. ]

lust | also fma i'm so sorry but this is a three-parter

[fingerbang]

( regular or post-we could be! even though emotionally and morally there is no difference between those two iterations )

envy | fma

[foments]

Pyrrha Nikos | RWBY

[tokencanadian]

[Can be Airlocked or MVA]

Rakka | Haibane Renmei

[charcoalfeather]

[Can be Trustfell]

island, fte!

[crimsonchin]

[ Even if she tries to be as non-partisan about this as possible, Asuka can't think of a reason why someone would feel Rakka deserves to go through this again. After last time, if even a single feather on that kid is out of place, she's determined to punch out everyone on the island and then herself--

Well, maybe Asuka doesn't need to look out for her quite that much. Young or no, Rakka is self-sufficient enough. Still, Asuka figures, it's not bad to have someone in who's your corner, and Rakka's proven trustworthy enough. And with that in mind, of course it's not a bad thing to keep an eye on her, right? To Asuka, it's not friendship so much as it is quid pro quo, really.

Or, at least, that's how she justifies trying to make Rakka's life a little easier where she can. ]

Hey, kid, got a sec?

[ All work and no play'll drive a girl crazy. In her hand, she's got one of these bad boys, with a pair of headphones and all. The grocery store had some double-A batteries, too! ]

You've seen one of these before, right?

lena de spell | ducktales 2k17

[undershadow]

downtime 1, technically???

[scroogewiki]

[ okay so like the bad news is we've all woken up in a spooky manor or something, this is true! technically, it blows, on account of the whole murder thing! but like.

is that going to stop webby from doing a sweet-ass combat roll out of her bedroom door into the hallway, because she's Totally Got This? nope! will it stop her from turning to lena and, with all the joy in her heart, yelling? also a hard nope! ]

Lena! Oh my gosh, someone kidnapped us to the same haunted murder house? Alright!

Kara | Detroit: are we human or are we dancer

[deathroadtocanada]

[Available in We Could Be flavor]

so how about some "first" meetings

[in4apounding]

[A young woman trots quickly through the halls of the school you've all woken up in, hands grasped and clenching in front of her, looking sharply from left to right.]

Ah- salutations, ma'am. Do you know where this is?

[Maybe everything is fine. Maybe something nice will happen.]

Kate Marsh | Life is Strange

[marshpitshakabrah]

tropical island afterparty

[coolbaby]

[ well, here we are again. that's two murders now. no pretending the first one was a fluke. sure would suck to be a couple relatively normal teenage girls in something like this!

oh wait.

the somber gathering that's now tradition, apparently, happens at the uh. tiki bar? by the pool. look, ariel didn't spend all week getting the pool fixed up for them not to use this one place in this derelict skeleton of a tropical resort without severe tetanus risks right now. amanda tracks kate down, since she doesn't want to be alone, and moreover she really doesnt want kate to be alone! you know, friendly feelings. ]

Hey, uh... to quote at least five people who already came up to talk to me, how're you doin'?

kohaku | tsukihime

[ergine]

bazett fraga mcremitz | fate/hollow ataraxia

[unarmed]

( May or may not have both her arms, depending on her canon point. )

"ana" | fate/grand order

[annax]

( A child whose profile almost definitely says things like "Species: Divine Spirit" and "Dislikes: Humans". )