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Premise;

The Locked Place is a panfandom, puzzle-focused, short-form murder game taking place in one month/four (and a half) weeks. In it, a max of 20 characters are tasked with solving the mystery behind the house they are trapped in if they wish to escape and survive.

Because they ARE trapped–they are very literally locked in. There is no egress from the manor by any means. The exterior doors aren’t the only ones that are locked, either–throughout the home there are locked doors, leading to more locked doors, leading to… wait, this hallway is impossible. This window can’t be here. That landscape outside... isn't it too different from the window right beside it? What’s going on? Why does the house seem to have a life of its own? Get used to your new home–as it tries to get used to you.

This is a mystery murder game where the characters must solve puzzles and unravel the plot that lurks in the heart of the manse. What does it want? Why are things different this time? And better yet–how will you survive it?

Game Information;

Arrival;
On arrival, all characters will receive a notebook. The first page of this notebook contains the rules of the house. The rest of the pages are blank; characters may use these journals freely to take notes, write diary entries, or whatever they like. You may play this out to whatever extent you please; usage of the journal is not mandatory.

Activity/Interaction;
This game permits both private conversations (PCs) and mingles. Mingles are mandatory; you must either top level, or tag out to a character you didn't tag the previous mingle. Each mingle will cover a full IC week of the game and headers will be organized by day. You are only required to top level or tag out once; all other activity is at your discretion. New mingles will go up on Mondays. Some, but not all, will feature mod-hosted mini events which will be announced the week of their occurrence. Activity should be reported here, where you can find more details on PCs and how to set them up.

Puzzles;
In all, there will be ten puzzles to solve with characters working in teams of two for each IC puzzle. Every successful puzzle solve will result in that pair of characters being rewarded with a key that goes with a door somewhere in the house; characters may decide amongst themselves who will keep the key and where. As more keys are earned, more locations will unlock for characters to explore. Puzzles will be assigned semi-randomly using ranked choice picks for numbers between 1 and 10 on applications. You may pick your favorite number, and after game start, players will be informed which puzzle is theirs and when they will get to solve it!

Schedule;
Murders will happen Thursdays; investigations will occur on Fridays; trials will be on Saturdays, followed by the execution taking place on Sundays. Unless players volunteer their characters as victim or culprit in a particular week in their app or by contacting the mods, the mods will select the characters involved in each case randomly through RNG. To give players ample time to plan cases, we will roll for all cases after all apps have been accepted and before the start of the game.

Trials/Executions;
The Locked Place is a mass execution-style murder game. That means that the characters must work through each murder case and correctly identify the culprit, or the culprit wins and everyone else will die. Executions are Danganronpa-style, wherein the mods and player in question will work together to write a customized execution which will be posted on Sundays for everyone to see and react to.

Graveyard;
There will be a graveyard to which victims and the executed are sent. There will be plenty to do there, don't worry! All dead characters will get access to the locked graveyard community the Monday following their death. Characters on the living side and characters in the graveyard will need to work together to solve the mystery, so look forward to the graveyard being actively involved with the game as it goes on!

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