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I'm currently watching Dead Like Me (surprisingly good for something that was cancelled after season 2, but I'm only almost through S1, so not sure if it gets crappy) and was wondering: What if a game-mode could be based around thiooiyíï o oil oe concept?
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The concept being:
One player - or a group of players - gets the role of Grim Reaper. That player, or the head of the group, gets a list of people who need to die (one person per player per shift), a place where they need to die (preferrably plausible) and a time when they need to die.
They get to touch people shortly before their death to pull out the soul (or shortly after, but in the series this is considered bad form as the soul is stuck in the dead body in the meanwhile.) Oh, and they're undead and regenerate health crazy fast.
The other player, or group of players, get to be Gravelings. They also know who gets to die, where, and when.
Gravelings are little black-smokey monkey-reptile things that make accidents happen. Harmless if they're off-duty, fatal if not. Also, normal people cannot normally see them.
Now, translation into mechanics, rules and shit.
Grim Reapers: You can tag any living being for the Gravelings, for a short while - this shows itself as hug or help-intent shake. When a tagged person dies in the time and place specified, their soul leaves their body for good. No cloning, no MMI-ing, no nada. In the series, the Reaper then has to escort that soul to their destination (shiny lights, visions of whatever that soul desires most, and the Reaper can't go there), but for gameplay purposes, that part can be skipped.
You can also pull the soul out of a body. If that body is dead and time/location of death was as specified, that person gets ghosted with no return. If dead, but not as specified, nothing happens. If alive...you pull their soul out of the body, but the body still lives. Go put it back in, for fuck's sake! (This ought to happen automatically.) Oh, and you just outed yourself as Reaper by doing that. Enjoy the valids...and reconstituting after getting gibbed, cremated, and singulo'd. Reapers are not permitted to actively involve themselves in the deaths of their targets except when dealing with their souls.
Gravelings: You're invisible, except in the far-out corner of a person's vision (last tile or two.) You get to set up accidents for people to suffer and have general license to fuck around
harmlessly otherwise. You can ventcrawl and have all-access, also thermal and night-vision. You also know where your target is at any given time. You are, however, not indestructible. Someone finds you and blasts you, you're gonna end up as smoke and ashes. Finally, if a Reaper fucks up - gets themselves outed or, worse, warns someone, you get to fuck them up, too. They're regenerating, fast, so you can get nasty. Just don't harm anyone else while you're at it.
Greentext is gotten for working on the list and getting everyone on it to die in the right place and timely manner (with a reasonably large time-frame, and possibly generous location-wise as well?) The
right manner does not matter, you don't know how your target will die, only that you're working with External Influences and it will therefore be a murder, suicide, or accident.
Oh. Sorry. That's how Gravelings get greentext. Reapers get greentext for pulling out the souls. Preferrably before that guy dies, so there's no cloning chance.
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