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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

[thesettingsun]

I'm a spirit, so I'm obviously not a human.

[Never mind that he was human when he wrote those words.]

[doctorize]

But you were human before, yes? And as far as I can see, you still have the appearance of one, too.

[Does being a spirit somehow negate that?]

[thesettingsun]

Y...yeah, but it's still different! Things that look the same aren't always the same.

[doctorize]

Hmm, I suppose you may be right about that... even so, I think it's still worth consideration, as the spirit of a once living human I mean.

[thesettingsun]

What I really want to consider is why I'm haunting this pen and how I can stop haunting it and go reincarnate or something. Even if it were somebody else, you'd want to help them move on properly, so obviously I have to help myself!

[But he has no idea how to do that, or how to even communicate with the spirit of this pen who is probably a version of himself.]

[doctorize]

Of course: one has to be willing to help themselves before they can help someone else.

[... But then he laughs sheepishly.]

Ah, but I'm not sure I'm the right person to ask: as a counselor, my area of expertise doesn't usually include matters of the spiritual realm.

[That was more Gray's thing than his... if you can even call it that.]

[thesettingsun]

[what was Gray's deal even, asking for a friend]

Aaaah, I guess it's no fair asking you advice for that kind of thing. Sorry, Danny-sensei.

[Dazai scribbles angrily on the paper - well, by his expression and the force he's applying the pen, it looks like he's trying to scribble, but it's still more 'I am no longer human'.]

Did you get anything better?

[doctorize]

[something about being obsessed with how people see god or whatever, we stopped paying attention to his shit a while ago]

No, I can't say I got anything nearly as interesting as your pen.

[And here, he holds up... a notebook with a heart on it? Maybe whoever stocked the vending machine likes weird office supplies.]

[thesettingsun]

[does danny even have a heart to lose though]

At least it's useful! You can never have too many notebooks.

[doctorize]

[... good question]

Indeed! A shame that I don't have a pen to use for it though.

[because of course he'd end up with a notebook he has nothing to write in with, while someone else gets a pen that only writes one sentence]

[thesettingsun]

Want to write the same sentence five hundred times?

[It's like the gift of the magi only infinitely more lame.]

[doctorize]

Why not? We haven't tried seeing if the pen will write something else if used on a different sheet of paper.

[Though, real question here, would the notebook actually affect Dazai if he's writing with a pen that may or may not have his soul in it??]

[thesettingsun]

[Well, Danny probably won't break it, at least not now that he knows how significant it is... So Dazai hands it over.]

Knock yourself out.

[they're gonna smooch]

[doctorize]

Thank you.

[And while it is tempting to see what would happen if he tried to snap this pen in half, he is not going to do that: instead he opens the notebook to a random page and tries to see what happens if he writes with it, just in case it does something different when it's in another's hands.

... That sure is the sentence "I AM NO LONGER HUMAN" still showing up in the notebook here. Huh.]

[thesettingsun]

[Of course Dazai leans over to check what's going on that page. Still no longer human, huh... Well, too bad. He's about to back up, but-

As it turns out, maybe it's kind of a bad idea to write with a pen containing somebody's soul in a random journal out of a vending machine.

Dazai isn't really aware of how he moved - he certainly didn't intend to. He's just aware that he was here, and now he's closer to Danny, especially in the lips region.

I'd say this is the most awkward kiss either have them have had but they're terrible so I can't guarantee that.]

[doctorize]

[......... Um.

Normally Danny would ask what the fuck Dazai thinks he's doing, but the notebook's powers will not allow him to do that right away until about 40 seconds of kissing are up (because lol, you know, death note references and all). Only then will Danny be allowed to pull away, hand over his mouth and just... what the hell man, why did they do that??]

[thesettingsun]

[Dazai makes no attempt whatsoever to chase him, instead just looking absolutely horrified. He swallows, attempts to speak, fails the first time, tries again.]

...Maybe don't write in that notebook again.

[doctorize]

... I think I'm going to pay a trip to the incinerator today.

[this thing needs to be burned to ashes]

[thesettingsun]

Good. We never speak of this to anyone.

[doctorize]

Agreed.

[thesettingsun]

[Just going to look affronted at... the pen.]

How could you betray me like this?