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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

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.]

good

[deathroadtocanada]

[Kara's movements weren't quite so sharp, though she was very animated right now. So many new things, strange things. Confusing, as well. If an Android could have sensory overload, then she was working through some of that as she came across this young woman.]

Hello... No, I'm sorry. [She can only shake her head, expression drawn.] I have no idea what I'm doing here. I don't... remember coming to this place.

downtime 1

[aimfornotbad]

[ ... this is. okay, no reason to freak out! she's given herself the same pep talk like five times in the privacy of her room - she can't start thinking about the existential ramifications of things like "having fingers" and "being exactly like the girl upstairs except pink hOW--"

no she's. she's fine, she's good. she's General Mayhem, right? whatever game is going on (if there's even a game, oh gosh-), it seems pretty serious, so that's probably who she has to be! serious. helmet on, leader time.

she leaves the safety of her room and finds the first person she can. time to be a general! ]

Uh... you there! Where are we?

[deathroadtocanada]

[Kara was having a similar, if less existential, crisis in her own room. Everything was finally fine? And now... it wasn't? What gives? She crossed the border and everything.

That, unfortunately, would require some investigating. But that's fine. She would get back to Alice, of course she would. She steps out into that hallway, prepared to walk home to Canada, if need be.

She wasn't expecting to find a.... a spaceman? Or something like that. My, what a colorful costume.]

Oh. Uh.... [She had to act Human. Human. So. Non-committal shrug?] I have no idea? I just... woke up here, in this room. I don't even remember laying down.

[aimfornotbad]

[ ah yes, a normal human, which she also is now! this is fine! ]

I see. So you were also kidnapped.

[ she looks around. there are other people here, too. hm. she doesn't recognize any of the franchises. ]

So someone took us all... but why?

[deathroadtocanada]

[Yup, a very normal set of humans, having a normal, human conversation.]

It... looks like that, yes.

[Which is???? bad??? but the panic hasn't set onto Kara's face yet.]

I'm not sure. I was just trying to cross the border, this wasn't supposed to happen. [Oh there's the panic, in her voice.] I can't stay here, I-I really need to get going.

[aimfornotbad]

[ oh thats a real person issue, she's seen some of the Girl Upstairs's homework. uh. heck???? ]

Well, we... better figure out what's going on here, then. I have a lot of work to get back to, too.

[deathroadtocanada]

[It sure is a real person issue. An issue she wished she didn't have to deal with.]

Uh, yes. We should.

[...God, she has so many things to worry about besides this, but dammit all her nature is just too good.]

Is... I know everything is not okay right now, but are you alright?