User blog:Mkatkannon/AU Life of Mutual Killing, DanganRWBY

"Welcome one and all to a new, majestic game. You are all here to perform for my amusement. And what will you be performing? A beautiful piece directed by yours truly, one of blood, betrayal, despair. You've all been selectively chosen for this, as your talents should make for some fun, and you can bet the stakes are high.

You might have a lot of questions about where you are, who all these other people are, and why you have to do what I say. I'll answer only one of those. If you don't do what I say, I'll blow something up. Unfortunately for you, I have no promises about what that'll be. Just something you care about, no worries. Obey, and you will go free. Of course, if you come out on top. Your goal is to kill someone here, and when you do you'll have a chance to go free, but not only with your life, but a fortune beyond what you could ever imagine. You'll leave here so wealthy that you can rule the world by coin alone! Isn't that an incentive?

Haha, but it's not that simple either. If you kill someone and someone finds the body, there will be a trial to figure out who killed the victim. The innocent ones will need to present evidence to figure out who did it, and create alibis for themselves and others, which if are unstable enough can be debated and counted as invalid. However, the killer and anyone who so pleases can present false evidence and fake alibis, that can be debated and proven wrong by anyone who pays enough attention. If the final consensus is wrong, everyone but the killer dies, their loved ones or possessions are blown sky high, and the killer goes free. But, should they guess right, the killer will be executed, and everyone else will keep living. Sounds like fun, doesn't it? Doesn't it sound amazing? I can hardly wait. The fear, the sadness, the despair. I, MonoKitty will show you all madness."

Hello everyone, this is Kat here, breaking character of the mastermind to explain the requirements for signing up. For those of you who aren't familiar with Danganronpa, it is a visual novel / anime series in which hope clashes with despair through class trials and debates, and is essentially a mixture of Clue and Phoenix Wright. Even if you aren't super familiar with the series, if you'd like to participate in a murder mystery RP, this is the AU for you. For those of you who do know the series, this will operate on a similar basis, regarding having a mastermind, school trials, interaction with other students and so on. I considered having the mascot being Monokuma, but instead opted for MonoKitty. Very creative, I know. As much pain as it brings me, I will act as the mastermind and coordinate everything with all of you privately. Your murders and plans should be discussed with me directly so I can assist in them working out, but investigation, debate and casual interaction must all happen in RP. I ask that everyone respects everyone's privacy and stays in character for this RP. Your character cannot know about information that they weren't present for or told about.

Firstly, this whole AU relies on confidentiality and debate, so do make sure to be very private with your character profile and plans, unless you'd like them to be figured out very easily.

Secondly, everyone can die in this AU. As it is far from canon, and is an AU, do not worry about this, and do not sign up if you are not willing to have your character die in the setting.

You will have to make a fresh character profile by filling in a form I will provide at the bottom of the blog post, but you can only use an accepted character nonetheless.

Characters who know each other in non AU settings may not know each other on a personal basis, nor may those who don't. If a character is a celebrity because of their talent, others will inevitably know of them.

Mild changes in personality are acceptable, adapting the back story for the universe is also allowed, if not highly encouraged.

The "days" of the RP should go fairly simply. It begins with casual time, which I'll mark the beginning of and the end of in my posts. Casual time lets your characters talk, look around and seek out some less important info. This ends after three rounds of casual interaction, when a body will be discovered. This is followed by investigation time. After everyone looks around for clues during this time, the debate time will occur and everyone must figure out who the killer is.

There are multiple endings that can happen, one being the killer winning, or escape. I will give no info about how the latter can happen until later in the AU. The latter is fairly difficult.

If you take too long to post and respond, or want to quit out of the AU, your character will defaultly become the next target. Discussion of things within the AU isn't recommended. Hold your information close, as it can defend you in a class trial, and if everyone knows the information already due to you spreading it outside of the RP, it means your character has nothing to offer as well, and can easily be a framed target.

Any murder your character would do should be offered to me, and I'll do my best to make it happen in a time slot that does best for the plot. Fair warning, if you plan to kill someone, you can still be killed. I'll however talk to you in private asking if this is okay beforehand. Creativity is welcomed, all methods of murder are allowed, and using the environment and your characters talents/skills will serve for more efficient murders. There will be a bigger scheme going on involving the figure behind MonoKitty, which you all have an option to search out, but only during free time and investigation stages. I will intentionally leave evidence of that around.

Regarding murders, you can pick several clues to leave, a minimum of 3 being required, more being welcome. These clues can include red herrings, but 2 have to be real at a bare minimum. You are still welcome to deny these clues in the debates and attempt to hide them in the investigation stage. Present a successful alibi and outsmart everyone else and you win.

Certain conditions will be implemented throughout, and the rules will bend, mostly due to adapting to the choices the group makes. You can exploit loopholes until they are remedied.

Name: Include a link to the page in this. Talent: Can be anything within reason. Include additional skills and abilities under this for my knowledge of it. Ultimate Luck is available this round, but tastefully. It only works if it works for the character. Don't do it because no talent works for them. Personality: Should be similar to the actual page's info, but mild adjustments and multilayered personalities are fine. Background: How they were raised, how their life went beforehand. Willing to Kill: Are they willing to kill someone else to escape, or would they rather stop the killing entirely? Additionally, would they want to assist or interfere with debates and evidence searches? Hostages: Do they have any pets, family, friends that they care about from outside? Feel free to make one up on the spot.

Now, the info you all will receive about the setting that you cannot have your characters know but you can keep in mind is that they will be staying in a massive mansion. It's fairly old, it has five floors with a floor plan I'm working out at the moment, and a few secret passages characters can exploit. There are areas that are closed off, but not a single one of them are impossible to enter. Look around and you will find ways. For some context, I'll enter one character for the sake of demonstration of the system and to explain to the characters in the RP.

Since Danganronpa requires a good amount of players that can be whittled down, I'll leave no cap on the entry within reason. Anyone that has an accepted character can PM me in chat or contact me in any other way, discord, Skype, your choice. I'll look over the forms and discuss everything with everyone interested in entering. For some additional notes, do not ask questions here. Ask them privately. If it's something I missed unintentionally, I will remedy it, otherwise I'll let you know in private it was intentional. You can enter with two characters if you'd like one to be used as a character who dies relatively faster, but if we need the slots for individual characters, I'll have to deny the request.

I'll have a list here of participants and characters they have available.

Mkatkannon-
 * The Mastermind (Identity to be revealed later, is an accepted character, if you're a staff member and really need to know who this is, I'll PM you.)
 * Ceruleo Rafiyan, the Super High School Level Truant.

I'm still developing some things, so I wouldn't expect this too soon, but I'll include updates for this constantly.