the murdergame meme

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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. Space Station THE FINAL FRONTIER... Everything is very chrome and high-tech and shiny and there's all sorts of neat futuristic doodads at your fingertips. It'd be cool, if it wasn't for the murder thing.
5. 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

Erina Estival | OC

[zweihandler]

[ Superpowered Anime Teen known as a Synchronic from one of those Battle High School Settings that are ten a penny in any given anime season. There's actually some deeply fucked up shit going on behind the scenes that Erina doesn't know about yet. She's too busy being gay for two things: haunted swords and women.

verse info post here and a quick outline of Erina herself here! ]

grantaire | les mis

[tannic]

[A skeptic who takes good care not to believe in anything, save for the esteemed leader of the revolution, and is therefore definitely is not treating this turn of events with the gravity it deserves.

Can be found drinking almost incessantly, once whatever passes for a bar is found, and before then can be found sketching other participants.]

[disarmingstrikes]

((RNG says highschool setting, motive announcement, that sound good?))

[zweihandler]

[ it sounds EXTREMELY UPSETTING so obviously, i love it ]

[disarmingstrikes]

[It's been a few weeks at the school, enough for things to have fallen into a pattern. Part of that pattern? Magnus mercilessly heckling the incentive announcements, talking back or over the crackling voice of the aging PA system.]

[Today, though? The pattern breaks. It takes a second for the information to sink in: until someone dies, you'll slowly begin forgetting those most important to you. If no one dies by Friday, the memory loss will be permanent.]

[Magnus made a few attempted cracks and deflections, but it wasn't hard to notice how badly he paled and how quickly he excused himself. For once, Magnus rushes out.]

[Afterwards, his dormroom door is ajar; opening it, you'll find Magnus at his desk, writing furiously. A few sheets can be seen with names at the top; Taako, Merle, Killian, Carey, Angus, Lucrecia. He's currently scribbling an absurd amount of detail onto another sheet, more than the others combined. The name at the top is easily visible; Julia.]

[He's not looking too good.]

Piper McLean | Riordan Books

[katopissed]

[ hahaha if you wanna avoid burning maze spoilers lemme know rrrrrrright away pls ]

Ben Solo (AU) | Star Wars

[jedi_librettist]

shion sonozaki | higurashi no naku koro ni

[promisedyou]

sakura matou | fate/kaleid liner prisma illya

[unchose]

[zweihandler]

[ Erina's a tough cookie. Or at least, she's real good at acting like she's a tough cookie. Sure, sometimes it's kind of exhausting listening to her try and be an edgelord sassmaster instead of being actually honest about however she's feeling, but she's a good kid. For the most part.

Today, though, it seems like she's finally rattled enough to actually let the mask slip. She hears the motive and for once, doesn't have a snotty comment – she just swallows very hard as all the colour drains out of her face. And then as soon as they're dismissed, she disappears.

There's none of her usual troublemaking, either. She's just... worryingly absent, for most of the day. And then, without knocking or even bothering to announce herself, Erina barges in, throws herself at the bed and just bodyslams into it, facedown.

She doesn't bother lifting her head up when she speaks. ]

This is fucking bullshit.

[ Most people start with 'hello', but whatever. ]