Guide to Afterlife

[Yuni Shingyouji]

Season: Afterlife is the sixth official season of the Murder Mystery Forum Games. It is one of the Player Hosted Side games, and is hosted by Mystio, who also acts as the Mastermind and not participating player. Luna also appears as a second Mastermind for during "nighttime mode".

Antagonists are those who try to obstruct anyone from solving the mystery and perform murder to complete an objective. Protagonists are those who try to solve the mystery and solve cases to obstruct others from winning. Neutrals assist the protagonists with the mystery but will also commit murder for personal reasons.

Rooms are separated by different threads. You will see the name of the room, and links to all rooms that are connected / one room away from said room.
On the thread you will see a description of what you see upon entering. You can message the Mastermind to examine or investigate or perform any action you desire inside the room. You will ALWAYS need at least one recent post for every room you enter, whether it be a monologue or just "."

If you wish to take an item, move an item, or perform any action such as this, you will need to make a post on the thread of you performing this action. You can then message the Mastermind (you should check to make sure the Mastermind is available first) with your action. Once you are told "noted", you can then delete that post with your action if you desire. This does not need to be done for murders.

MURDERS

Players can murder other players if they so desire. Motives for doing so is, if you are not caught, you can win the game. You can also obstruct threats or those in your way.
To murder, you must be in the same room as the player and send in a murder report. The more detail of the report, the better it is in the long run. The Mastermind will read over to make sure it is possible and will follow up with an action. If the player is killed, they will be notified and removed from the game. If not, the player will be notified of the attempted murder and the murderer would be explained how they failed (He blocked you.)
Murder reports should be in the following format: Room - Victim - Weapon - Actions. An example of such is:

"Room of Mirrors. Victim: Mystio
I take my knife and stab Mystio right in the heart." Congratulations, you killed me!
PARANOIA

Paranoia is one of the ways to protect yourself. Simply message the Mastermind 2 things if you feel unsafe. Who you think will kill you and how. If the how is even relatively close, you will be able to dodge / block / avoid the murder all together. This will last 5 minutes, and then you will need to wait another 15 to use it again. If you are a cautious player, you will be very difficult to kill.
Paranoia also protects against knock outs, yet the player doesn't even need to specify or be even close to an action to protect against this. Even if you tell me "Paranoia: Mystio stabbing me" and I try to knock you out, you will defend against it.

Twice a day, players can enter Guard. This lasts for 15 minutes, and will make you heavily on edge. All murder reports against you will be impossible.

TRIALS

Once a body is found by at least 2 players, a trial will begin. A voting thread will open and a Murder Investigation Room. In the Murder Investigation Room, players will have the ability to fire special Verbal Bullets they discover from noticing important pieces of information tied to the murder.
Example: You look at the stab wound and see the knife there, as obvious as ever. You will gain the Verbal Bullet #3: Small Knife Piecing the Heart. You can fire this bullet to help keep people on track and solve the murder.
Once enough has voted in the voting thread, the investigation phase is over. If the murderer is found guilty, the murderer is murdered through a special execution and is removed from the game. If not, only terrible things await for the rest of the players.

INVESTIGATING

Players can investigate to discover the mystery of why they are here. If they can figure out everything that's going on fully, they should be able to figure out the coarse of action to save everyone, this is the protagonist role.
In the start of the game, only one Hallway is available. You will need to solve the hallway to unlock the next, for a total of four hallways.

There are 10 important pieces of evidence that ties to the overall mystery. These items all hold very important information. The first player to discover one of the items will notice something strange about the item, and will gain a Secret Verbal Bullet that contains very vital clues. These Secret Bullets can only be fired in the special Investigation Room made to discuss the mystery.
Among the ten Secret Bullets, there are 3 Super Secret Bullets that are obtained by doing major accomplishments that contain the 3 most vital clues in the game.

ITEMS

Players can pick up and hold a maximum of four items. Some items have special phantom powers that you will have to discover what they do. These items appear blue on the map.

NIGHT TIME

During the night, Mystio goes to sleep and Luna comes out to play. Murders are harder at night, so players are much more safe. Phantom Items get more powerful at night, and certain SHSL titles will benefit or hinder them.

AFTERLIFE MURDERS

Each player has sent in a murder report before the game even begun. This murder report was given to a random player, who was killed by this before Afterlife. Their body will be killed similar to your report with added evidence. Any evidence the player who was murdered finds tied to their own murder will be notified to be tied.
Players who solve who murdered them will complete an objective.

OBJECTIVES

- Kill a player and do not get caught.
- Solve the hidden mystery and perform an action that will save everyone.
- Solve who killed you before Afterlife.
- Solve 3 other players who were killed before Afterlife.

Please know that when you send in a theory of who killed you before Afterlife, you will die if you are incorrect.

Those who complete an objective will be brought back to life.
I hope you enjoy playing Afterlife.