CRAU MURDERGAME MEME

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THE CRAU MURDERGAME (And Mafia) MEME

You wake up somewhere new. And unlike your first go-around, you know what's happening this time.

This might be your second - third, fourth time in a murdergame. Maybe you had even hosted one, or ran it yourself. You recognize some of your fellow captives, and even the ones you don't seem to have emerged from similar situations.

Either way, you know the drill by now: you're trapped aboard an allegedly haunted school that's floating about in space, and your legion of hosts (an odd collection of characters, which may include but is not limited to: a robot bear, a male voice that only speaks via the intercom, a horrible abomination fast food mascot, a terrifying lich(?), Neil Patrick Harris and an eerily familiar celebrity who's incredibly famous out in space) then suddenly get told that there's only one way to escape, and that's by one thing alone: murder.

Been there, done that.

Each time a murder happens, there's going to be an investigation, and then a trial. Naturally, more often than not, you have to find the culprit or else. Hope that it all comes back to you.

(This meme is intended for CRAU characters and NPCs from previous murdergames (Dangan Roleplay, Foolish Mortals, Trustfell, Parasomnia, Curtains, etc), mafia/murder PSLs/other games (Nope's Peak, Newlydead Game, EpicMafia, etc) and characters from canons that center around "killing games" (Dangan Ronpa, CLUE, Willy Wonka, Hunger Games, etc).




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MURDERGAME TYPE:

1. Investigative. This type of murdergame relies on having specific culprits per trial, each one handpicked as a culprit or victim.
2. Mafia. Specific characters are chosen to be either a group of killers or a single killer from the very beginning. Other roles may also be given to other characters, such as Doctor, Gunsmith, etc.
3. Hunger Games. No trials. No investigations. No downtime. Just an all-out bloodbath. May the odds be ever in your favor.

PROMPTS:

1. Welcome to Hell, Enjoy Your Stay! You've only just woken up, but immediately, you panic. Thankfully, you're not alone, and some of these people are unfamiliar to you - but all of you are terrified.
2. So How About that Murder? You've just been told by your Legion of Hosts that "hey, you've got to kill to survive" and immediately, we're back on your bullshit.
3. MOOOOOOTIVE! It's been quite some time and your mastermind is pretty much sick and tired of all of this fluffy and sweetness to the point that they've put their hands down and decided that they've got to do something about it. But what's it going to be this week?
4. So Do You Want To Be A Mole? Probably not, but it seems that whoever is overseeing your game thinks that you'd be great to be the game's spy.
5. Roles, Roles, Roles! Specific to the Mafia set up, sometimes you're given a specific role. Maybe you can pass out weapons or guns to people. Or perhaps you can speak to the dead. Maybe you can block someone from killing for the evening. Whatever it is, you're special. Just make sure not to get killed. (For ideas on roles, feel free to utilize this list here!)
6. So you're Mafia now, eh? You are one of the elite. The ones chosen to vote for who dies each week. Whether it's by choice or by chance, you've got a dirty job to do and you have to do it... or else. But hey, at least you're not alone! You've got some buddies to help you do the work with you.
7. What's that? Somehow, somewhere, you've managed to find some sort of machine that takes a special kind of coin and pops out some sort of item? Who knows.
8. Free Time Events Throughout the week, you're free to do as you please, so what are you going to do, even with the threat of murder hanging over your heads? Might as well get to know your fellow captives, right?
9. Kill or Be Killed Whether you're mafia or just a solo killer, it's time to start your murder on! There's plenty of ways to do it. So how's it gonna be done this time?
10. IT'S INVESTIGATION TIME! Ding dong bing bong, a body has been discovered! Whether or not you'll actually find any clues, however, to who did it might be a bit of a toughie.
11. Let's figure this out The trial starts and everyone's eyes are on everyone else. Whether you're given a list of suspects or not, there's a killer to catch! But will you catch the right one? Or scapegoat someone else entirely innocent?
12. I remember...! In some murder games, memories are key. Every Sunday, you remember something from your past that you've somehow forgotten. But why was it lost in the first place? And why are you remembering it now, all of a sudden? It is a mystery, truly.
13. And the mastermind is-? Is it truly someone outside of the group? Or perhaps it was one of your friends after all? It's time to finally finish this, solve all the mysteries, defeat the evil twisted things, maybe get the Golden End and go home.
14. WILDCARD Anything else that I'm missing? JUST JAM AND PLAY IT OUT!

 

(original meme prompts by anonily)

Comments

[foolishjustice]

Some sort of mission that he never really elaborated on. He wasn't exactly cooperative even before he killed someone.

[It's...pretty clear Akechi isn't fond of this guy, from his tone.]

He didn't seem particularly devastated by having actually been away for three and a half weeks, by the way.

[purrtagonist]

[by contrast, there isn't an ounce of judgment in Akira's tone. weird. . . when he'd usually be the most judgmental, or at least the most angry over someone murdering for a reason like that]

I've never met the guy, so I can't say. . .

[. . . shrugs!]

I never figured out why our first culprit did it. He wouldn't tell me.

[foolishjustice]

[Or maybe not so weird, the Akira he was with is more tolerant of the guy than he is, too.]

I suppose I should consider myself lucky that our group ended up fairly close knit...both myself and the...

[He hesitates, expression clouding. He doesn't like thinking about that case.]

...The culprit after me were forthcoming about our motives after we gave up on denying responsibility. There was no fourth culprit.

[purrtagonist]

[just protag things!!]

[Akira nods, quietly listening, quietly draining the dregs of his coffee from his cup. he's not really looking at Akechi anymore, just kind of. . . staring at a spot on the counter top, gray eyes distant]

Only three culprits. That isn't bad.

[hm. he taps his fingers against the counter again]

We had-- [he stops to count. Niles, who killed Sigma. Will, who drugged Tsumugi into killing Dazai, who then killed himself. Futayo, who killed Maki. Kaiba, who killed Hiyori. Minako, who killed Grim Eyes. Mae, who killed Corrin. Ulaz, who killed Illyasviel]

[. . .]

[Akira himself, who killed Erika]

-- eight. Six killing nights, and on four of those nights a murder occurred. On two of those nights, nobody committed any crimes at all.

[foolishjustice]

[His eyes widen at that number. Not only was Akira trapped there longer, but...nights with multiple culprits?]

Well...you did better than us in that there were nights you expected someone to act and were pleasantly surprised. Three Thursday nights, and three cases. ...Four victims. Two punishments. Out of fifteen of us, six survived to face the masterminds and ensure there wouldn't be a sixteenth group.

[purrtagonist]

[heh]

Both of those nights sure did incite false feelings of optimism, yeah.

[the second no-murder killing night was the night he and Ichigo almost died in the DO NOT ENTER room, too?? man. look at how much he isn't saying, because he just does not want to go there. sorry Akechi; it's nothing personal]

Eight culprits, nine victims. Four killed for rule violations. Three killed randomly because the raccoons didn't like that no one murdered on a killing night. One died in a lab accident.

Out of thirty people, eight were still alive last I checked. Three of them were culprits who got away with their murders, and "won" the game.

[hm!! more finger tapping]

No mastermind, though. But-- shall we say-- things were still a bit unfinished before I wound up here.

[foolishjustice]

They...won?

[Excuse him while he looks a little stunned. He's used to very different stakes.]

Yours operated on different rules than the one I endured. If any of us had been successful at hiding our crimes, the rest would have been executed.

Of course, I doubt the one you suffered before this was for the same purpose as the one I went through. The intention was for all of us to die without the masterminds violating their own rules against initiating violence. They could fight in self-defense, and had a sentient robot to keep their hands technically clean through executions and punishments, but they couldn't simply arbitrarily murder us.

So, since they needed all of us to reach the afterlife, they of course decided to motivate us to kill one another and establish a rule that would justify them in killing all but one of us in the right circumstances. From what I gather, that's how all of the previous rounds ended.

[purrtagonist]

[he]

[immediately]

[makes a face]

That's stupid.

[BLUNT]

[foolishjustice]

Well. Yes.

[Just waving a hand. Might as well set his empty cup down on the counter behind him, while he's at it.]

Especially since under the circumstances, I'm sure they could have convinced some fully informed volunteers. A painless death, then becoming a being that can do a remarkably good impression of being alive, for the sake of saving our worlds...it would have been less traumatic and generated fewer resentments if they'd done it that way.

There are a number of reasons I strongly dislike the woman who made the decisions in how to go about the recruiting process.

[purrtagonist]

Less traumatic with fewer resentments, and significantly less entertainment value.

[he replies in a deadpan. STILL. SO. JADED. he crumbles his now empty cup, and tosses it in a nearby trashcan, linking his hands together and lifting them above his head in a stretch]

The road to hell is paved with good intentions, as they say.

[foolishjustice]

More or less. Her journal indicated that she enjoyed watching the first two trials for our suffering.

[An angry huff.]

They're fortunate the situation was dire enough that I was willing to accept a truce. And I can only imagine how many victim and culprit pairs may have Erased each other before they had the chance to even become Reapers, let alone return to their worlds as Composers.

[Not to mention situations like his, where a culprit wasn't even interested in coming back to begin with. It's a very lucky thing that everyone was so aggressive in convincing him he had reasons to want to go back to the RG.]

[purrtagonist]

Oh boy. Glad to know there's a booming market for this kind of thing.

[HE DIDN'T KNOW THERE WERE SO MANY MURDERGAMES OUT THERE. . . also, unfamiliar terminology, but you know what. he's just rolling with it]

[foolishjustice]

[You have your raccoons, he has his Reapers. Deal with it.]

I'll be sure to update my resume before the next one, it must look very promising at this point.

[So. Dry.]

I guess I'll just have to keep myself content for now with thinking about the rubble we'll leave this place as once I get my powers back and can get in touch with the rest.

[purrtagonist]

Rubble, or ash?

[lifts a finger, taps at his temple, and gives Akechi a wink]

Far more satisfying to set things on fire than to just tear them down, in my humble opinion.

[foolishjustice]

Maybe I was thinking I'd be nice and leave some for you. But if you're offering~ I'm sure I can find something around here to use as an accelerant.

[purrtagonist]

[HA]

[super dryly]

Ah, you sure do know the way to my heart. The chance to burn down an entire killing game is almost as good as the time the other Akechi gave me a knife for Trashmas.






[what]

[foolishjustice]

[See, he was all set to make an offhand comment about having experience with wooing Akiras...and then that last word completely derails his thought process.]

For...what?

[Careful Joker, Crow is confused!]

[purrtagonist]

Stabbing things.

[he might be purposefully making this sound worse than it actually is]

[foolishjustice]

Yes, I'm aware of what knives are used for.

[And is aware of non-nefarious purposes you might want to carry one in a murdergame. Self-defense is important.]

What...was that occasion, again?

[purrtagonist]

Trashmas. The most sacred of raccoon holidays in which you re-gift garbage presents you don't want to other people.






The raccoon holiday calendar is a bit different than our own.

[foolishjustice]

I...see. So my other self came by a knife and decided you would appreciate it more?

[Congratulations on finding something that actually strikes him as weird?]

[purrtagonist]

[that is because he is very purposefully not explaining context, because it's funnier this way]

Hashtag, Joker aesthetic.

[he's even doing the hand motions for hashtag please stop him]

[foolishjustice]

[He's pretty sure Akira is being deliberately confusing, but...that's just Akira, isn't it? A rank 10 Confidant doesn't necessarily mean he's going to understand someone completely.

Just. Pinching the bridge of his nose.]

I suppose it would have been useful if someone decided an ordinary looking teenage boy would make an easy target. Still, the holiday certainly sounds...unique.

[Stupid.]

[purrtagonist]

[sure doesn't!! and the nature of this Akira's Rank 10 with his Akechi has always been. . . kind of weird]

You can call them stupid. They all were.

Several of our executions were holiday themed, actually.

[foolishjustice]

[This Akechi has been...working on getting more straightforward communication with his Akiras? But it is just in the nature of Akira to do things that confuse Akechi's teenage old man brain. Why must you meme at him?]

Ah, tasteless as well as cruel. A shame exterminators don't generally deal with robotic vermin, isn't it?