02-13-2022, 15:10:04 PM
Don't know if this is the right thread or not, but I'm interested in making a Murdergame myself. Don't know if anyone would be interested in it though.
Calling it something along the lines of "Dead Men Walking" or something else entirely, I'm still thinking up a name.
The synopsis: 14-16 participants wake up to find themselves not in where they were before, but in a mansion. A mansion that has seen better days for sure. Cobwebs and dust bunnies inhabit this once glamourous and rich manor, now was old and dilapidated from age and neglect. The only thing here that seems to be intact and fully functional is the electricity in this place to use electronics such as stoves and what not, and the beds in the bedrooms upstairs.
As the soon to be victims get their bearings, someone comes through the door. A cloaked figure seemingly hovering off the ground. A figure who while is here to explain your situation, isn't here to deliver good news.
He tells each and every one of you that you are trapped here. And he's right. Any door that would lead to the outside are completely gone, and although there's windows, breaking them is nigh impossible.
However, there is a solution. For you see, he tells them all that not everyone in your group is to be trusted. That three/four/five (I'm still deciding on the exact number) have been in this mansion before, that they're simply ghosts under his beck and call. Ghosts he cursed to be the key to your escape.
Every day, you may hold a meeting to try and dispel these ghosts. Bring forth evidence as to who you believe is a ghost. Once the votes have been cast, that ghost (or potentially innocent mansion dweller) will be purged from existence. You will know you got the correct one when the three candles permanently burning on the table in the voting room's fire dies out.
That said, that isn't all there is. For at night, the ghosts may roam around and pluck you off one by one by his (The Cloaked Figure)'s command. They can only kill one a night however, as if multiple ghosts killed multiple people at night, then the game would be over much sooner.
However, the ghosts aren't the only one who can kill at night. If you feel like you have someone in mind (or if paranoia gets to you) and don't think you can wait until the morning to vocalize your suspicions, you may take the initiative and off someone yourself. Just hope that whoever you offed was a ghost, because you may very well wake up in the morning to two corpses waiting to greet you. If you do manage to kill a ghost however, you successfully prevent them from killing that same night.
Apart from the murder mystery, you are free to explore the manor as you see fit. Oh right, murder mystery. We got the murder part out of the way, so how about the mystery? Your characters may find clues and puzzles to the mansion's history, who the Cloaked Figure truly is, and could potentially find clues that can help you deduce who the ghosts are keeping you from leaving the mansion.
When face to face with a horrific tasks of finding out which among you could be a wolf in sheep's clothing or be potentially killed, can you all band together to solve the mystery? Or will paranoia get the better of you and leave you to joining the mansion's population of ghosts. Can you leave this mansion? And if so, will it be with many standing behind you, a few, or by yourself?
This was just an idea I had since it doesn't really fit the DRRP formula I believe, plus I've been in a few murdergames before that have been a lot of fun to participate in that made me want to host my own. I have no idea if anyone would be interested with me hosting this, or if an idea like this has been done already or not. Just let me know what you guys think.
Calling it something along the lines of "Dead Men Walking" or something else entirely, I'm still thinking up a name.
The synopsis: 14-16 participants wake up to find themselves not in where they were before, but in a mansion. A mansion that has seen better days for sure. Cobwebs and dust bunnies inhabit this once glamourous and rich manor, now was old and dilapidated from age and neglect. The only thing here that seems to be intact and fully functional is the electricity in this place to use electronics such as stoves and what not, and the beds in the bedrooms upstairs.
As the soon to be victims get their bearings, someone comes through the door. A cloaked figure seemingly hovering off the ground. A figure who while is here to explain your situation, isn't here to deliver good news.
He tells each and every one of you that you are trapped here. And he's right. Any door that would lead to the outside are completely gone, and although there's windows, breaking them is nigh impossible.
However, there is a solution. For you see, he tells them all that not everyone in your group is to be trusted. That three/four/five (I'm still deciding on the exact number) have been in this mansion before, that they're simply ghosts under his beck and call. Ghosts he cursed to be the key to your escape.
Every day, you may hold a meeting to try and dispel these ghosts. Bring forth evidence as to who you believe is a ghost. Once the votes have been cast, that ghost (or potentially innocent mansion dweller) will be purged from existence. You will know you got the correct one when the three candles permanently burning on the table in the voting room's fire dies out.
That said, that isn't all there is. For at night, the ghosts may roam around and pluck you off one by one by his (The Cloaked Figure)'s command. They can only kill one a night however, as if multiple ghosts killed multiple people at night, then the game would be over much sooner.
However, the ghosts aren't the only one who can kill at night. If you feel like you have someone in mind (or if paranoia gets to you) and don't think you can wait until the morning to vocalize your suspicions, you may take the initiative and off someone yourself. Just hope that whoever you offed was a ghost, because you may very well wake up in the morning to two corpses waiting to greet you. If you do manage to kill a ghost however, you successfully prevent them from killing that same night.
Apart from the murder mystery, you are free to explore the manor as you see fit. Oh right, murder mystery. We got the murder part out of the way, so how about the mystery? Your characters may find clues and puzzles to the mansion's history, who the Cloaked Figure truly is, and could potentially find clues that can help you deduce who the ghosts are keeping you from leaving the mansion.
When face to face with a horrific tasks of finding out which among you could be a wolf in sheep's clothing or be potentially killed, can you all band together to solve the mystery? Or will paranoia get the better of you and leave you to joining the mansion's population of ghosts. Can you leave this mansion? And if so, will it be with many standing behind you, a few, or by yourself?
This was just an idea I had since it doesn't really fit the DRRP formula I believe, plus I've been in a few murdergames before that have been a lot of fun to participate in that made me want to host my own. I have no idea if anyone would be interested with me hosting this, or if an idea like this has been done already or not. Just let me know what you guys think.
You know what they say. All toasters toast toast.