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[endless loop, I should make an emote] this is a(nother) rules discussion plurk...
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first off, I'm just gonna link the rules to murder manor as a reference for myself and others
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anyway, what I have so far:
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the board game I'm basing this on is called Tragedy Looper. In the game itself, you play a couple of anime protagonists going through time loops to try to prevent the various deaths of your friends.
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I want to change this so its the player base going through time loops trying to prevent the various deaths of one another.
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1. The game is played in rounds of (X) loops of (Y) days. If, at the end of the allotted number of days, the deaths (generated via RNG and moderated by GM) are avoided, players win.
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The current loop is abruptly ended and the next loop started, via GM announcement, once the crime is discovered.
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2. It is possible for players to look see the round.
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...LOSE. FINGERS PLS?
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3. I'm thinking each day gets its own post, and lasts an IRL week to lower pressure on us since I know most of us can't boomerang all the time...
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4. Crime discovery threads announced by mod? They wouldn't be happening on specific days, so...
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5. Maybe limit the setting of each round? There are 4 possible settings in the board game and they're all interesting but giving that much space may make things hard to track
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IDK THATS ALL I HAVE 
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also here's the player's handbook from the game if that helps at all
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I will check this out after dinner
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Enjoy your dinner!
just lexi.
we will eat our hamburgers, apollo
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Okay so.. wait
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If memories are tampered with and everyone is 'strangers', does that mean we don't keep old CR?
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Or even canon CR?
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nah ignore that part of mm entirely
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your character wakes up in EL place and is like "wtf" so basically like any nexus ever
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Ahhh, okay.
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Good.
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Okay so how does one 'prevent' a murder?
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Thiiiis is where I get a little lost and any ideas anyone has would be great. in the board game there are typically 2 mastermind plots you have to stop (you don't know either) and a couple of
in the board game there are typically 2 mastermind plots you have to stop (you don't know either) and a couple of
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random events you have to stop (you know what they are and when they will happen but not who does them)
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In-game it's basically "stop (murderer) from getting so many despair points or keep them away from (victim)"
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Because there IS a set murderer and victim. You just don't know who until it happens.
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Usually the mechanic in murder games is 'voting'.
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You can't collect because of how DW RP works.
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Success hinges on the majority of people voting for the right thing.
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So maybe a trial during the day to vote for who they think the murderer might be? And then whoever they vote for is stuck in some kind of jail, maybe, which would prevent them from murdering if indeed they
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are the murderer.
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I could go with that.
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I r smart
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We'll get to play out the murders if the wrong person is chosen, right?
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Oh, absolutely. 
Multiple times, potentially.
Multiple times, potentially.
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"Man. They just keep fucking this up! Welp. /stabbity"
/stabbity"
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also there could potentially be more than one murder plot happening... so, in the board game, it's usually just that one person has to die for you to lose. other people can die no problem.
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so for example you could have one person with the goal of Kill the Key Person and another person with the goal of Kill Everyone
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I'm not sure how to work that in.
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If at all. I just worry having multiple chances is kinda useless if there's only one
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Murder for the sake of murder!!!
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WELL I MEAN MAYBE. but there would be a motive given to the RNG-picked murderers
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Presumably better than "EPM gave me a drop down menu" lmao
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Noice
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Does a week seem like too long/too short/??? for one in game day? Keep in mind how slow some of us can be, but...