future is now

[idolpro]

[ You spill out of the elevator into the library—the elevator is gone when you look back.

In the library shelves form labyrinth corridors of books, between which are heaped precarious piles of paperbacks. Leather wing-back chairs provide privacy around the crackling fireplace at the back—if someone was sitting in one, you'd never be able to tell until you circled the full way around to the front to see. Expensive looking paintings line the walls, and you'd expect the shelves to be laden with rare editions. However, there's hardly any hardbacks at all, most everything is cheap spy novels and erotica. No accounting for taste, really.

The library has been disturbed though—something is missing from it. Through the books, through the stacks, notes have been removed, pages torn out. Aching wells up in your throat, the raw urge to scream, to exclaim some truth about the knowledge missing but it's just not there. Your mind has been scrubbed clean just like these shelves have, of whatever truth you can't recall—though, that's for the better, isn't it? Better not to know, than to meet that fate again comes the thought twinned with another one: how dare they bury your knowledge from you. You feel this distantly, in some distant and uncertain corner of your mind—but you probably don't want to linger too long on the thought that you have more materials around than they did. If you lose your sanity, or are damaged too far, though, it will overwhelm you.

A book sits open on the counter, not all the pages torn out: some are empty, and a scant few are filled out with deductions.

A readout on your phone tells you the rules and displays the sanity goal (explore rooms) and your traitor goal (accuse your victim of their crimes with recorded evidence before killing them) as well as the item that you've been given (book). It looks like nothing is stopping you from committing the traitor goal even while you're sane, if you wish to.

There is one exit: South. ]

Comments

Item

[idolpro]

[ A book sits open on the counter-- the writing a mad mishmash of accusations but there are some genuine deductions in here.

Your cellphone tells you that carrying it will increase your knowledge. Gain 2 knowledge now, and lose 2 knowledge if you lose the book. ]

Traitor Goal:

[ Your traitor goal is to accuse your victim of committing a crime and provide evidence of it, before killing them, with the caveat that the crime may be fabricated, and whatever observations you've written down in your notebook are considered good enough evidence to kill them.

You have no desire to and receive no points for committing this act on a unitmate. ]

Session 1 Discussion

[idolpro]

Re: Session 1 Discussion

[resonantblue]

[examining the book, and her phone]

This is a good advantage.

[she does turn to Duality though]

Would you like it?

Session 2 Discussion

[idolpro]

Session 3 Discussion

[idolpro]

[justpure]

[For some odd reason, that urge in the back of his head has a woman's voice. Like a familiar haunting... Yet he cannot remember why, or who the voice belongs to.

Maybe it's for the best he doesn't know.]

Hello? [Alas, he is alone. Nothing but these bitter thoughts for company. He may as well take the book with him for the sake of sanity.

And the only way out is... South, yes? May as well venture on.]

Session 4 Discussion

[idolpro]

Re: Session 4 Discussion

[resonantblue]

[picks up a fireplace poker and heads South]

Session 5 Discussion

[idolpro]

Session 6 Discussion

[idolpro]

Re: Session 6 Discussion

[windheritance]

Uh... guys? Anyone? Is this a game?

I guess it's a game? Uh, okay.

I'll take this like, cursed book or whatever and just... go.

[ SOUTH I GUESS ]

Session 7 Discussion

[idolpro]

[justpure]

[The next thing he knew, he was back in the Library. In one piece, even...

That vision he had was fresh on his mind. He knows someone else is here. He speaks aloud, to no visible person.]

Oh... What a terrible fate that must have been.

[Of course, nobody was around to answer. But in his corrupted state he thought he heard a voice coming from the back of his mind. "Thank god, someone around here believes me. Not that it would do me any good."

Medusa paused... Stroking the spine of the book he was carrying from the last round he was in.]

This was your book, yes?

["Yes."]

Wouldn't it make more sense to go after your handler?

["It's too late. I don't know what happened, but he's definitely not here."]

I see... [He drummed his fingers against the cover... He still has that painful knife on his person, so... Very well...] I'll help you, but on one condition. I have trusted companions that we may encounter that I do not wish to harm. You understand?

["... They're not in the house right now. Just try not to talk to me out loud, lest those criminals get suspicious."]

Of course. [He took the knife and the book as he finally went south.]

Session 8 Discussion

[idolpro]

Re: Session 8 Discussion

[resonantblue]

[blinking wildly as she comes to and sits up, testing her reassembled limbs

DYING SURE FUCKING SUCKS]

Session 9 Discussion

[idolpro]

Session 10 Discussion

[idolpro]

1/??

[nohalation]

Oh.

[Looks at rules. Looks at library. Looks back at rules.]

Session 11 Discussion

[idolpro]

Session 12 Discussion

[idolpro]

Session 13 Discussion

[idolpro]

Session 14 Discussion

[idolpro]

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Just give him a minute to try and wipe the blood off of his hands and face and---

It's just smearing it all over his white outfit.

Well fuck you, too.]

Session 15 Discussion

[idolpro]

Re: Session 15 Discussion

[asonoficeandfire]

[... well... okay then.

he seems to be alone this time...]

Session 16 Discussion

[idolpro]

Session 17 Discussion

[idolpro]

Re: Session 17 Discussion

[windsofwar]

[WHAT THE SHIT IS EVEN HAPPENING]

--this is one of the games, right? Finally.

メデューサ's Sanity Break

[idolpro]

[ With that last blow of damage, everything snaps sharply into focus. you're in too much pain, too much agony. And this thing is clear. Vengeance is sharp and sure, and it tells you the story and what you need to do next:

[ You were eager to go to your handler with the evidence he’d asked for—the case had been heavily publicized and widely talked-about, and it’d be your work that caught the murderer. But when you talked to him, the tone had changed: the higher-ups were aware that it was a prominent politician on the hook, and were talking about who else to pin it on, since they couldn’t make such an accusation.

On the way back to the station for your final debriefing, you could tell he was uneasy like you, but you just thought it was that neither of you liked the idea of the powerful escaping justice. But when you stepped through the doors, he tackled you to the ground and bound your wrists, and you realized who would be framed for this, in the end.

The evidence was irrefutable except by you and your handler, and your handler wasn’t talking, and they consigned you to the gallows. Your neck didn’t quite break; as the noose strangled the breath from your body and your hands bled from tearing fruitlessly at the rope, you swore that you’d make sure everyone knew exactly who the true criminals really were. Justice would not be denied. ]

Sanity break effects: you may continue to play your character as mostly their normal self, but in pursuit of this goal, through whatever justification you prefer.

You may also play it with the vengeful spirit's personality overlaid on your character to some degree: if you choose to play with this, your character may become obsessed with material proof-- experiences only matter if you can back it up, because other people won't believe you even if they say they do. They might only be stringing you along so they can put you on the hook for it, after all. With the thought in mind that "you won't be dumb enough to trust that they'll mete out justice", characters may use that reasoning to mete out justice themselves. They might also want vengeance with proof to use to take power so the same thing can't happen again. It's hard to kill someone who is blackmailing them, with information that they can't risk you leaking-- and then, you can eliminate the power other people might hold over you by eliminating them completely. All of these aspects are optional, and may be individually played up or toned down to whatever degree would be fun for you, so long as they ultimately motivate your character to pursue the traitor goal.

Traitors are aware of the full layout of the house, which can be found here. ]

This or That Sanity Break

[idolpro]

[ With that last blow of damage, everything snaps sharply into focus. you're in too much pain, too much agony. And this thing is clear. Vengeance is sharp and sure, and it tells you the story and what you need to do next:

[ You were eager to go to your handler with the evidence he’d asked for—the case had been heavily publicized and widely talked-about, and it’d be your work that caught the murderer. But when you talked to him, the tone had changed: the higher-ups were aware that it was a prominent politician on the hook, and were talking about who else to pin it on, since they couldn’t make such an accusation.

On the way back to the station for your final debriefing, you could tell he was uneasy like you, but you just thought it was that neither of you liked the idea of the powerful escaping justice. But when you stepped through the doors, he tackled you to the ground and bound your wrists, and you realized who would be framed for this, in the end.

The evidence was irrefutable except by you and your handler, and your handler wasn’t talking, and they consigned you to the gallows. Your neck didn’t quite break; as the noose strangled the breath from your body and your hands bled from tearing fruitlessly at the rope, you swore that you’d make sure everyone knew exactly who the true criminals really were. Justice would not be denied. ]

Sanity break effects: you may continue to play your character as mostly their normal self, but in pursuit of this goal, through whatever justification you prefer.

You may also play it with the vengeful spirit's personality overlaid on your character to some degree: if you choose to play with this, your character may become obsessed with material proof-- experiences only matter if you can back it up, because other people won't believe you even if they say they do. They might only be stringing you along so they can put you on the hook for it, after all. With the thought in mind that "you won't be dumb enough to trust that they'll mete out justice", characters may use that reasoning to mete out justice themselves. They might also want vengeance with proof to use to take power so the same thing can't happen again. It's hard to kill someone who is blackmailing them, with information that they can't risk you leaking-- and then, you can eliminate the power other people might hold over you by eliminating them completely. All of these aspects are optional, and may be individually played up or toned down to whatever degree would be fun for you, so long as they ultimately motivate your character to pursue the traitor goal.

Traitors are aware of the full layout of the house, which can be found here. ]

[nohalation]

inventory note:
Snake Oil
The worn label has vague promises of renewed vigor. It doesn't smell poisonous.

Discard this item to choose a person in the room you're in (you may choose yourself) and raise one of their physical traits or mental traits to their starting values. If they're above starting values, this item does nothing.

EFFIGY
Handmade with care, the doll is dressed in a tiny copy of your own clothes.

While you have the Effigy, add one die to all trait rolls, except when you attack or defend. If you ever lose or drop the Effigy, reduce each of your traits by one die.

Book

WEAPON: Rusted and well-used, someone took a hacksaw to the barrel. At least they left two good shells.

When you acquire this item, it has two bullets. Each time you use it, make a speed 7 attack instead of a might attack. When there are no bullets left, discard this item.

You cannot use another weapon while you are using this one.

Session 18 Discussion

[idolpro]

Re: Session 18 Discussion

[arealeyeopener]

The fuck is this.

Session 19 Discussion

[idolpro]

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[And here we are.

Again]

Session 20 Discussion

[idolpro]

Session 21 Discussion

[idolpro]