Locations unlocked this far. There are many doors blocked off with steel.

( Elemenatary! R1: Locations )

Game Navigation, Game Interest Check, TDM.

Player Name: Player Contact: Character Name: Character Canon: Fondest Wish: Deepest Nightmare: Up to 3 items that will accompany them to the game: (if depowered, please note which has been nerfed) Top Memory: (very brief description, you will get a chance to expand later)

APPS ARE CURRENTLY: CLOSED
APPS OPEN: April 1st, 12 noon EST
APPS CLOSE: April 16th, 7 PM EST

UPDATE: TDM IS HERE!

Game Name: Red Grave Murders
Canon: Devil May Cry, but you can be canon-blind and still play! You just gotta like the concept of the game! Everything will be explained.
Mod: Mandy
Projected Run Dates: April 17th - May 14th, 21, or 28th (estimate! This game will take four-six weeks.)
Apps Open: April 1st, and they stay open until the 15th
Info pages: Will go up March 31st
Spots: 25 total, but we’ll run with at least 5 (though this may shorten the projected run dates)
Reserves: Nope. Apps are easy enough that there’ll just be a short app process.
Invite-only: Nope. Public game : ) if you’ve seen this interest check, you can apply!
Application Form:
Name:
Canon:
Fondest Wish:
Deepest Nightmare:
Type: Scapegoat. For those who don’t know what this is, it’s sort of the typical format, but with a twist. Each Friday has a murder and an investigation, and a trial on Saturday. The difference is that each trial presents multiple suspects for the murderer, and you can scapegoat one of them to be killed instead of the murderer. This is not punished by a total party kill - it just results in the true murderer staying alive.
Minigames Y/N: Yes! It’s not a Mandy murdergame without minigames!
Final count: We run into endgame when we hit 10 characters (of a full 25). This number will be shortened if we get less. There will be ways to die throughout the week as well - such as volunteering to go up against the mastermind. However, be careful… if you do manage to kill him, it might be worse than you realize.
Characters Allowed: Fandom OCs, OCs, malleable and silent protagonists, basically we’re open to almost anything here, but we can have only one version of each character. What’s not allowed? Historical characters/real life people.
Power loss: Yes. Most powers will be lost. In fact, your character will even find that body-specific powers that keep them functioning are nullified. A vampire won't need to drink anymore, for example. In return, they will be given a ‘devil arm’ - a weapon formed from a demon dying and taking new form.But here's the thing - they can only be wielded by supernatural creatures. So why can your character?
So I know Devil May Cry, can I app it?: Yes! All characters are free except Dante, Nero and Kyrie. However, even they will be power nerfed if necessary. Redgrave’s magic is strong.
Plot summary: In a world where demons and humans once lived in bitter harmony, a war was led by a demon king to try to defeat the human world. While he did not succeed, the two worlds have clashed ever since. A devil hunting family, known as the Sparda bloodline, has tried to bring this balance back - or at least eradicate all demons that don’t cooperate with humans. Their partial demonic blood doesn’t stop them from this.

Recently, Dante, the most prolific of all of them, has met with an odd fate. While he’d battled someone else in a similar state, he never thought he’d end up like this himself. A demon cast its magic over him, splitting him into two forms - Tony the human, Redgrave the demon. But Redgrave is no ordinary demon. He is a king, and he aims to be entertained in his court. Standing over the wreckage of Red Grave City, he weaves his magic and brings in unique people from all over the multiverse. The goal? To make them murder each other and suffer for his benefit.

Part exploration game, part mystery and part murdergame, this game will take place over four-six weeks. The length depends on how quickly clues are found and mysteries are solved. It also depends on how quickly we get down to 10. There will be many ways to die to assist that. Don’t worry, nothing will be sprung on you without fair warning. (example: “if you proceed down this path, you may die”)

Each week, a murderer and a victim will be rolled at random and these players plus the mods will work out an investigation to be launched on Friday. Volunteers will always be taken, and may result in a double murder!

CASINO ROYALE: A NEWLYDEADLIKE GAME INTEREST CHECK

CREATORS:
XL came up with the Newlydead concept.
The original pitch for this round was came up with by Mandy and Mego.
Any modifications since were done by Mandy and Ni.

MODS:
Mandy and ?

MASCOTS:
The Most Interesting Man In The World
The Man Your Man Could Smell Like

PROPOSED RUN DATES:

INVITE RULES:
Anyone on Mandy or ?'s timelines can invite people. You are also eligible to join if you are on one of these timelines, without using an invite. If you played in a previous Newlydeadlike, you can join without an invite. If you’re confused as to whether or not you can join without an invite, just ask.

GAME CAP:
40

DESIRED GAME LENGTH:
5 weeks

SIGNUP SHEET:
Player:
Plurk:
If invited, who invited you:

Character:
Canon:
Consolation Prize:
Grand Prize:
Fears/Dislikes:
Fondest Wish:

Important Non Weapon Item Of Any Kind:
Other Than The Prize, What Are They Fighting For:
If given the chance, are you willing to come back from the hotel?:

If you are a silent protagonist, add a link to the wiki.

CHARACTERS ALLOWED:
Canon is obviously allowed
Original OCs are allowed. Canon OCs are allowed on a case by case basis.
CRAU is allowed
For silent protagonists such as Persona or Vocaloid, for them to be apped as canon, they need to have a sufficient amount of canon

PREMISE:
In the midst of whatever your character was doing, they suddenly feel dizzy. Whether they sit down or stand, they will suddenly pass out. Within their unconsciousness, they will have a dream of a very interesting man appearing to them, carrying them to somewhere new. They’re far too interested to deny the process.

When they awaken, they’re in their brand new dressing room. (see Settings). Characters arrive with whatever was on their person on the time. A pet may also be present! If said character, items, or pet had powers, they have now been nerfed, or at least limited in such a way that they are now ridiculous.

They are also given a small tablet that lets them look up character profiles and vote. It has an intuitive interface and will not break easily, even for the kind of person who loves spilling things and dropping electronics on the floor. Should a character manage to break or lose their tablet, however, a replacement will be provided in their dressing room. You can also borrow another character's tablet! It will automatically log into the account of whoever's holding it and not give away a vote to anyone else.

As they get their bearings, a voice recording will explain:

1. The basic premise of the game
2. What prizes they stand to win
3. The fact that they are not to speak of their prize to anyone, and in fact if they try to do it nothing will come out of their mouth.
4. The mechanics.

SETTING
You’re on a boat, you’re on a boat, you’re sailing on a motherfucking boat.

It’s not a tv show this time. You are performing for an audience, but they’re behind the scenes, watching the camera feeds from the elite upper deck of the boat. When executions happen, they are overseeing the area from theatre-like seating, masked and chattering.

The main deck is where everything happens. It is sectioned out into the following areas:
A nightclub area. It has a bar: it’s stocked extremely well, with anything you can possibly think of. Connected to the bar is a stage area and a dance floor.
There’s a casino room, with many machines and multiple card game tables. Oh, and don’t miss out on the roulette or craps!
A restaurant, which has the very basics of food. They didn’t put as much effort into the food as they did into the drink.
A pool area. The water is never cleaned by the staff, but you can risk it if you want. There’s many deck chairs surrounding the pool. If someone wants to be nice and clean the pool themselves, the stuff is there in a room to the side.
Planetarium/movie theatre - yes, you can view the stars. They’re fake stars, but you can still view them. This is hoping you don’t mind the recording that never shuts up about trying to teach you about the galaxy. The only way to get it to be quiet is to switch a movie on - then you’ve got blessed silence, except for one of the always horrible movies that are on stock.
Library - a large area full of books. The books come from all the various canons that are here on the ship. So you might find something from home, but you may also find something from say, Fire Emblem: 3 Houses. It just all depends one who’s here.

The suite deck is below the main deck and where everyone’s ‘dressing rooms’ are. Instead of a dressing room, each participant gets a small suite. It’s a small room that is decorated uniquely to each person.

The ‘hotel’ is the lowest deck, where the crew of a boat usually stays. Their rooms are even smaller, matchstick size. The beds are not great. There is an engine room down here, but playing with the controls leads you nowhere.

The execution area is the top deck, open to the air. There’s stands of seating circling around, with a small exit that leads towards the water. Everyone reports for the results. Only some people leave.

WHAT IS A HOTEL?
This is where people who aren’t eligible to play anymore are sent. They interact with each other for the most part, but can also interact with the player base in certain ways that will be revealed later.

WHERE DO THE DEAD GO?
They stay in the execution area as ghosts. Yes, this means they can comment on executions. They also have their own post for playing with each other.

POINTS MECHANICS:
At the beginning of every round, every contestant is allocated 25 points to spend in various ways. The amount of points they have left will never be advertised at any time for them, this is information they can choose to release on their own.

BIDDING MECHANICS:
At the beginning of each minigame, each contestant can choose to bid on minigame performance results. You can bid on yourself or someone else performing well.

They draw this bid from the 25 points. You can bid up to five points total per week.

If you have a successful bid, you double the points placed down.
If you lose your bid, you lose the points.

You do not have to do this!

TURN-IN MECHANICS:
At the end of every minigame, you post your results, as well as how many points you want to boost your vote earn with. How the points translate to game results will be determined with each minigame. For example, if there was a lying game played:

+1 score: Telling the truth
+3 score: Fooling others
+3 score: 1 Point Boost

You are allowed to play up to ten points per round.

VOTE MECHANICS:
Through a combination of game score and points gained through bidding, you earn votes to spend.

*Whoever is voted for the most is killed.
*Whoever gets the second most votes is sent to the hotel.
*Zero votes means nothing happens.

You’re not required to use all your votes each week, since votes are used in more ways than just kill or be killed. But you must spend at least one. If you try to use all your votes in ways other than voting, you will be denied. If you try again, you will be punished.

COMMUNITY POOL MECHANICS:
Every week, you can choose to donate votes into the community pool. You do not keep these votes. The community pool builds towards 50 votes and every time it hits 50, we have a week where nobody dies.

You can only convert until you reach one vote. You must keep at least one vote at all times.

SCOREBOARD MECHANICS:
The scoreboard keeps track of how many votes you’ve earned in total. The first person to reach the ‘golden number’ can choose a willing person to come back from the hotel. This can only happen once.

For specific milestones, you can choose to earn things from the store.

STORE MECHANICS:
There is a small store full of various things. Though it does not contain highly useful things such as the passes, it contains:

*Accessories: Every 5 points
*Smaller useful things such as aspirin. Every 10 points
*Roulette Item: Every 25 points

The roulette item is very important. When a character signs up, they put down a non weapon item of any kind from their canon. This item is acquired by the mascots and added to a pool. If this item had magical properties, it is nerfed. When someone buys the roulette item, they are given one randomized item from this pool.

You or the person you bought it for is required to wear your accessory for one full IC day.

HOTEL PASS MECHANICS:
This will be introduced halfway through as per usual. This is biddable on per mayhem, not per points. How mayhems work:

MAYHEM MECHANICS:
Every week, a post will be made with screened comments on Tuesday. You write a proposal to try to get a hotel pass of something you’re willing to do to everyone else. It can be horrible (examples from the past have included poisoning the alcohol) or interesting (another example includes setting up a glitterbomb). The person chosen will be notified by Friday. If you’re not notified, you didn’t get it.

MURDER MECHANICS

So your character wants to try and get someone killed without any of those pesky rules and votes getting in the way? Yeah. You can do that. But it's gonna cost you-and, well, this is a casino. ICly, it will cost your character 50 points, and your character will need to speak (privately, of course) to one of the mascots. Then, the Roulette of Doom will be set up for your character and their intended victim, where they will will stand behind a curtain until the results are revealed. Why a roulette? Well... OoCly, the player of your intended victim will be informed that someone wants them dead. If they agree to it, then the roulette will land on their color, their curtain will rise, and the mascot charged with killing them will go through with the deed, with characters ICly none the wiser to your character's shenanigans. However, if they refuse, the roulette will land on your character's color, and, yup, you'll be revealed, your character will be the one killed and your intended victim will receive 25 points for surviving! After all, no big gamble is without its risks. Surely your character accepted that when they decided to try and get someone killed so overtly! And no, your character won't be getting their points back. Your character will be dead. Oh, and did we mention other players will get to bet on the outcome? Because of course they will. Gambling's awesome!

Game Plurk: murderstars

Character Statuses
Team Rosters
Voting
Hotel Pass Bids
Private Posts
Setting
Rules and Mechanics
Original Signups

Hotel
Graveyard

Private Posts

Votes

Hotel Pass Bids

Hotel

Graveyard

Games Scoreboard

Vote Distribution Spreadsheet

THANKS TO THOSE WHO PLAYED AND THANKS TO THOSE WHO HELPED ME. I LOVE EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU GUYS. SPECIAL SHOUTOUTS TO ERIN, KELSEY AND MAGU ESPECIALLY FOR PUTTING UP WITH SHIT THROUGHOUT THE ROUND SO THINGS WOULD GO WAY MORE SMOOTHLY.  SUPER SPECIAL SHOUTOUT TO XL FOR FORMING NEWLYDEAD GAME IN THE FIRST PLACE.

Y'ALL ARE AWESOME. <3 YOU MADE ROUND 3 BE THE GUNS OUT, FIRE BLAZING MURDER GAME IT IS. HOPE TO SEE YOU IN WHATEVER COMES NEXT.

Here is where you make your bids for hotel passes. One hotel pass is given per week. Here's how you make your bid:

*Comment under the proper top level for the days involved.
*Write the hotel bid comment how your character would write it. This is being submitted through the tablets by your character themselves.

More details:
*You can only make a bid if you have zero votes.
*The details of the ownership of passes are never given out by the mascots. If you get one, it's up to you to decide whether or not you tip anyone off to the fact you have it.
*Along the same, the details of what's been done to earn it will never be given either.
*Your bid must be given by Tuesday of each week.
*Hotel passes are given out privately and on Thursday of each week.
*All comments are screened!

🚘 COMMENT WITH YOUR CHARACTER
🚘 REPLY TO EACH OTHER TO TALK ABOUT CR
🚘 COMMENCE THE CR TALKING
🚘 HAVE FUN

Deposit below~

Game rules and mechanics can be found here. Please read them, even if you were involved in either of the first two rounds, because they have changed to a team based system!

This round will start on Friday, 6/16/2017 at 8pm EST

WHO CAN I APP?

* This is a private-ish PSL. If you're on XL or Mandy's plurk timelines, you can play or invite your friends.

* This time, Newlydead will be ran by morphogenetics

* You can play up to two characters.

* You can't do AU or post-game/CRAU except for if your character was in a previous incarnation of Newlydead Game. If so, assume a little time has passed for them. If the character died before, they were revived in a clone body to compete for another chance at life. There's a McDonalds logos branded onto their right shoulder via a change in skin pigmentation.

* Any accommodations will be provided. (If they are dead, they will be revived, if they don't have a corporeal form they will be given a body, if they need to be shrunken down, etc.) Any supernatural or superhuman powers are either nerfed or turned incompetent in a comedic way.

LET ME PLAY?!

We are currently at cap and taking no more reserves.

Friend murderstars, join the_newlydead_game and fill out the following form:

<b>Player</b>: <b>Plurk</b>: <b>Reference</b>: (IF YOU'RE NOT ONE OF XL OR MANDY'S FRIENDS, WHO INVITED YOU? Give plurk username.) <b>Character</b>: <b>Canon</b>: <b>Consolation Prize</b>: (something your character desperately wants) <b>Grand Prize</b>: (something ACTUALLY MIRACULOUS that your character desperately wants) <b>Fears/Dislikes</b>: (to be used while murdering you) <b>For canonmates and previous Newlydead CR that are playing in this round, would this character rather work WITH them or AGAINST them?</b>: <b>If your character could be any animal, what would they be?</b>:

*Please mark in the subject whether they are a NEW CHARACTER or a RETURNING CHARACTER.

No replies will be given. If you can't join the game for some reason, you will be DMed in response to your signup. No embarrassment here.

OPTIONAL: Join the Discord chat!

GAME RULES AND MECHANICS UPDATE: 7/12/2017

ADDED: Medbay Passes

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