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[mytarget]

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

manaka sajyou | fate/prototype

[immaculacies]

( Available fresh from canon or post-Airlocked. )

3

[bloodofthefather]

[Mordred did not like her new roommate. Behind that young, innocent face she wore, Manaka felt too much like Morgan Le Fay for comfort.]

[Perhaps she would have tolerated her a bit more if they had been partners in an ordinary Holy Grail War. After all, Manaka was a more than competent mage.]

[No, Mordred decided, even if Manaka had the power to rival Merlin, she would never be able to adjust to Manaka's alternating moods of overabundant affection and dissonant calm. The only reason they have been partnered together is to keep an eye on each other. The others trapped in this strange location had apparently decided that the rest of them would be safer if the two most "unstable" people were placed together, apart from everyone else.]

[And, judging by the stiff form dangling from the chandelier in the foyer, heir housemates had obviously made an error in their judgement.]

[She lazily paws at the feet hanging in front of her face. The body half spins, half swings, without even the slightest grunt of complaint coming from under the sackcloth mask that covered its face, proving that it is, in fact, dead. Having confirmed that little detail, she lets her eyes drift to the only other inhabitant of the area.]

So, your work?

[Even as she says so, she pops open her can of coke and takes a sip. She is less perturbed by the fact that there is a body hanging above her than the fact that Manaka might have killed the unfortunate while Mordred had turned her back for a brief fifteen minutes to grab food out of the shared refrigerator.]

leonardo b. harway | fate/extra

[learnedloss]

( Available fresh from canon, or post-We Could Be, or the as the Last Encore version whose profile probably says a bunch of weird shit. )

julius b. harway | fate/extra

[blackscorpion]

( For added fun, we can assume Leo is also in this hypothetical murdergame!! It'll go great. )

himeko inaba | kokoro connect

[dereban]

( Fresh from canon - ask me for whatever canon point - or post-SCP [r2 or r4] )

[zackthekiller]

[So... Wanna find out what happens when MGRP Zack runs into SCP Inaba?]

Kokichi Oma | DRV3

[shslliar]

[Oh hell here we go again.]

Zack | Angels of Death

[zackthekiller]

[Available in canon or post MGRP and/or 15s.]

Red | Pokemon

[yochamp]

2-3

[manacurve]

[When Red comes up to the machine, he'll see Mei trying to shake it back and forth in a way that is definitely not safe.]

Come on, give me more stuff!

Ignis Scientia | FFXV

[totalclarity]

[in both blind and not-blind flavors]

Felix | RvB

[thegoodguys]

[in original and murderweek flavors]

Darkwing Duck | DWD

[terrorthatflaps]

[only one flavor but y'all know someday Imma make a ducktales version]

Seto Kaiba | YGO

[playthedamncard]

[in original and airlocked flavors]

Pidge | VLD

[childofvoltron]

[listen I only watched through s2 but someday I'll finish the show]

Asuka Langley Shinkinami · Rebuild of Evangelion

[crimsonchin]

[ Contrary. A nightmare of a person who prides herself in her independence, but holds a strong desire to be recognized. Has extreme difficulty forming connections.

Post-Trustfell 1 compliant, where she's...still a grouch, but is at least slightly more personable. She's working on being more honest with herself, and is a little more protective, particularly of her own. ]

2-1

[yes_im_kawaii]

[What a nice day to wake up in -- okay, for some reason you're in murderschool, surrounded by a bunch of strangers. And one grumpy redhead staring at the profiles on the wall.]

Auu... What's this stuff even supposed to mean? Hey, you better not be the one who kidnapped me!

Misa Amane · Death Note

[happysweets]

[ Captivating. A bright mood-maker who loves to be the life of the party, and tries to keep up with all of the gossip around the complex. Despite appearances, she has strong feelings with regards to justice.

Post-Trustfell 2 compliant as well, where she's just a little less quick to judge. She's put the whole Death Note business behind her too, thank goodness! ]

Chitoge Kirisaki · Nisekoi

[gorira]

[ Dexterous. Daughter of a mafia don, and has a mouth to prove it. An athletic and brash girl with a serious temper; book-smart, but doesn't think straight when she starts seeing red. While she may look rough-and-tumble, she's shy when it comes to making friends, and keeps a notebook full of potential conversation topics.

Post-Trustfell 3 compliant! She won't try to poison the Mastermind this time, hopefully. Pretty damn good at corralling the herd. Will kick her own ass. Ask her about her girlfriend. ]

Tsubasa Hanekawa · Bakemonogatari

[michellepfeiffer]

[ Assimilated. A walking database with a frightening amount of factual knowledge. If you need to know something that can be found in a book, she's your girl. While she's always polite, she has a sly side that comes out during banter. Has no real preferences, doesn't often say no, and never shows weakness. Ultimately, a strange girl.

Post-Trustfell 5 compliant! She's traveled the world, cut her hair short, and settled down, but even so, old habits can be pretty hard to break. Hope you're a cat person! ]

Brynhilde Pendragon | OC

[draconite]

Name: Brynhilde Pendragon | Champion of Ashes / Draconian (you can pick your poison i'm not fussy)
Age: 18 | Species: Human, dragon | Occupation: Wandering troublemaker adventurer
Likes: A good fight, hot food around a campfire, adventuring
Dislikes: Humans, princes, losing.
Trivia: She likes to be called Bryn.
[ Physical impressions cliffnotes here! A traveling warrior with as many braincells as she has functioning eyes (which is to say, one). She was raised by a dragon as part of his horde until a prince whose name and face she's yet to find out went and slayed him. After taking on the powers of her Dead Dragon Dad, Bryn has set out on a Revenge Road Trip across the continent of Seidrfold, a Fantasy Kitchen Sink setting full of all sorts of neat European mythological nonsense. Despite how edgy that description makes her sound, she's actually a cheerful, high-energy sheltered weirdo who cannot be trusted with her own braincell and is having SO MUCH FUN out here on her wild adventure. She can get kind of weird and condescending about Regular Humans as a consequence of her upbringing, and she's also kind of cheerfully bloodthirsty about seeing culprits executed??? I'm sure it's fine. ]

3-6

[crywiththesaints]

[So you've been unlocking more of this weird city surrounded by a barrier, and finally, you're in the final building. Past the assembled skeletons of some things that probably startled Bryn specifically unless the people of Seidrfold know what a dinosaur is, he survivor pool has found scattered files on the Martel Corporation, a scientific organization that does charity work with orphans and the environment. Notes that indicate that it's actually a front for the apocalypse cult known as Gaia. That it seeks to capture a powerful familiar known as the Key and force it to enact "Salvation" to end life. And that its leader, known as a "Saint," is CEO Kashima Sakura, a septuagenarian who's been using her power of transcription to "heal" the minds of those the world can't take as they are, with the side effect of making them all loyal to her, with one heir chosen to become the next Saint and become possessed by her and all the previous Saints after Sakura dies.

Once the party has converged and called her out, a panel in the courtroom opens up and the woman herself steps out onto a platform high above them.]

Yes, hello. I hear you'd like an audience with me.

tarrlok | legend of korra

[bloodisthicker]

[Trustfell R2-R6 or Nick vs CN compliant. Or let's do something new! He's a smarmy waterbending politician with a lot of skeletons in his closet that cause him to lean mmmmm a little authoritarian. Kind of a dandy who smells like a lady.]

motive....

[legalcy]

[The large (if shrunken) Cybertronian has incredibly limited facial expressions that deviate from frowning, but the picture provided to him has him biting his lower lip in worry. Their captor brought up "returning" someone as the motive - the meaning being deliberately open-ended to suit the subjects' needs. The robot depicted is someone that Ultra Magnus did not expect the mastermind to know about...but that answers much of his questions to the breadth of their knowledge.

There is no secret safe form all.

He gazes at the photograph for a while, only to realize that it would come off as suspicious to others. It will not do to have his fellow captives pry into his private life.

Magnus tucks the picture into a side compartment and resumes his upright stance. One last, deep breath, and he's fine. It's fine.

He glances downward at Tarrlok.] I am not pleased with the vague promise they offer. "Return" could mean that they simply return a body, could it not?

flat escardos | fate/strange fake

[escardos]

[ scp compliant or something new! hmu on dms if you wanna plan something out? either way, he’s a mage that is very lighthearted...maybe a little too much, though. in fact, he’s kind of an idiot.

an idiot with some things to hide. ]

seteth | fire emblem: three houses

[baitless]

[assistant to the hot lady pope of fodlan. very much your stern and uptight but actually very soft like mashed potato new dad who is kind of a dweeb. is very concerned about his... little sister, probably. is probably not doing great during the secrets and hostage motives! technology is also kind of weird, especially dubstep.]

lord el melloi ii | fate/

[londonstar]

[ case files or fgo flavors are both available! in case files, he’s the lord of the modern magecraft department and he’s a very serious man that speaks very formally—but with the world shortest temper. he’s a very shitty magus but a very decent detective. he also really likes video games.

in his fgo flavor, all of this still applies except he now has the soul of zhuge liang mixed with him. his class is caster. ]

grimm crau

[thesettingsun]

[Going from 'scapegoats happen and frequently' murdergame to 'if you get it wrong everyone else will die' murdergame requires some adjustment. It's probably the best kind of murdergame that Waver and Dazai could have ended up in, if they had to go through another one - Waver knows full well that Dazai is willing to die or kill for him. It's better that he can't scapegoat himself again without putting Waver at risk.

The incentive this week had been 'if no one kills by Friday, one of your loved ones will die'. Dazai, of course, had taken this as Waver, and had been glued to his side for most of the week. Only by the other's side could either of them get any decent sleep - well, maybe the tea Dazai fixed for him every night helped.

Someone who Dazai got along with was found dead. Dazai hadn't participated in the investigation - didn't find the bloody blade deposited at the site with a single coin beside it, nor found the missing herbs from the garden or the empty teacup in the kitchen sink. Waver had taken him being withdrawn as shock and mourning, but...

He knows he didn't need to. As soon as the trial starts the next morning, he speaks.]

It was me. He agreed to it. We flipped a coin for which of us would die now and which of us would be executed.

[He doesn't look at Waver.]

kayneth el-melloi archibald | fate/

[enjoymyatelier]

[available in drrp r3 flavor, along with vanilla f/z and fgo flavors. a smug upper crust magus professor who has it all............. but does he. f/z version definitely doesn't, he is all fucked up and wheelchair-bound and will probably do some kind of absurd ace attorney murder at some point. fgo version is... not. he's pretty fine actually. just kind of smug and his love life is a mess.]

3.

[londonstar]

[ as a magus, especially one who had participated in the holy grail war, the sight of a corpse did little to shake him lord el melloi ii’s composure. the others had already seen the body and given their reactions. but now he’s alone with the body, ready to begin with the investigation—

or, well, almost alone. ]

Sir. [ his voice is tense, still wanting to tread this situation as cautiously as possible. ] You wish to stay for the investigation?

BB | Fate

[sakurabeam]

Name: BB | Champion of the Mooncell / MoonCancerous (you can pick your poison i'm not fussy)
Age: Good question! | Species: A.I. | Occupation: Final boss-style kouhai
Likes: Senpai, bullying little piggies, humans
Dislikes: Cleaning up everyone's mess, her embarrassing past, humans.
Trivia: Don't be tricked when she acts like a villain. BB's a pure maiden at heart. ♡
[ An A.I. who's been brought down to the level of a lowly regular human and is SERIOUSLY not happy about it. She's a bit of a troll with a petty, sadictic streak who likes stirring up trouble, but has a good heart when things come down to the wire. She calls herself an evil villain and yet, she opposes evil and villainy with all her heart. ♡

since C.C.C. has yet to be properly translated I'm working entirely off the FGO translation and what I can pull together from the wikis s–SO PLEASE GO EASY ON ME ]

High school, FTE

[callbacks]

Okay, Beebs, so clear a thing up for me.

[Says Dave, Champion of Complete Bullshit, as he slides into the cafeteria seat across from her, apropos of absolutely nothing. He sips an apple juice loudly, but his sunglasses are fixed on her.]

The whole 'notice me senpai~i' thing's gotta be to someone older, right? By definition.

Elaine/"Cheryl" Hawthorne | Pokemon OC

[heartswapped]

[ Available both in normal and post-Airlocked flavors! ]

Queen Ambrosine |Original Character

[necroyalty]

[ Available in both vanilla and post-15S flavors. Necromancer queen who's only slightly coy about the fact that she practices dark magic, and somewhat cagey about the fact that she's also a lich wearing a pretty convincing "sickly human or possibly a vampire" disguise. ]