Season Soul

[Aoba Seragaki]

So yea I had this idea bouncing around in my head for awhile and decided to spit it out here. Inspired by Puella Magi Madoka Magica (because Rebellion Story blueray is out and I have it on the brain) and Season Bloodshift

I more or less ditched my other season completely because I don't have the willpower to make the complex plot I wanted/needed for it and it moved pretty far away from the purpose of the MMGs. This one is closer to home but still has a fun twist.

Season Soul

The purpose behind this season is the same as normal, pass two trials without getting caught, or solve the mystery.
However the gimmick with this season is that every player has their soul separate from their body, letting them live on even if the body is fatally wounded.
So how do you kill someone who can survive fatal wounds?
Well, each person would have their soul housed in some object of their choosing. This item could be anything from a small trinket on their person, or a giant statue, is what you need to destroy to kill the player. Souls items will very greatly as they could be a small gem you can hide anywhere, or something large that you can use to defend yourself in an emergency. However all items will be more frail than a normal item of its size/use (IE: A Soul Sword would only be able to block a few hits or stab a few times before beginning to crack, and a Soul Statue would be more like glass than stone)

This season will have revivals after each trial for those who were killed by normal means, however players who have their soul destroyed will not be able to revive.

Trials will occur for both regular murders and soul murders.
Regular murders offer minimal punishment to the killer but also have no affect on winning, while soul murders will result in death (normal) for the killer, but will add towards the killers win count if successful. 

Fighting would also be present in my season, which is why regular murders can and (almost assuredly will) happen.

This season is similar to bloodshift in regards to the casual attitude towards murder. However with Soul Items being present it also adds in a bit of the "I want to play I better be careful" aspect.
I would probably also be offering semi OP Soul/SHSL Abilities much like bloodshift.

Opinions? ' ^'

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V2 REVISIONS

I have more thoughts on this so revised ideas
-Soul is separate from your body in an item of your choosing
-Knocking someone out increases the defensive capabilities of their Soul Item, preventing simple "knockout, loot, kill" wins. Certain buffs/items can bypass this but those are EXTREMELY rare and hard to get.
-Killing someone makes their soul gem invincible to being destroyed, but you can still move it around to screw with the person you killed (you can even carry it around if you want.) Soul items are still semi sentient so this could very well end up getting you caught.
-Soul Items can only be destroyed using certain means (special items in the building this will take place for example, or your own Soul Item. These are fairly common). Soul Items can be weakened to the point anything can kill them though (MANY means of accomplishing this).
-Killing a player normally will net you rewards/buffs (mainly towards buffing your soul item or progressing the game if you are all stuck), making them very helpful to attempt in the long run. Getting caught can give you some nerfs.
-Dying through normal means will nerf you somewhat. Execution deaths nerf more-so.
-Soul Murders would give a large buff to whoever killed (but none of you would know who it is) and would progress the plot. This makes anyone who succeeds in one soul murder extremely dangerous and likely to win (game doesn't end if someone wins with this method).
-Fighting will be extremely common in this season, as people will fight tooth and nail to protect their Soul Item. Fighting works much like it did in S4, with me taking you both into a private chat and having you message me your actions.
-Everyone will receive average SHSL abilities, but they will also receive Soul abilities based on their soul item. These abilities can be strengthened or weakened based on what you do or find in-game. Soul items start with one perk and either a means of being hidden or boost to its durability. Soul buffing actions or items can either net you more perks, or buff up your soul item itself

        EX: Say I am Noiz (Click it) my title is SHSL Hacker and my Soul Item is an UsagiModoki Cube (Click4Pic). My SHSL ability would be being good with computer and other technology, giving them more info with computer puzzle and possibly a chance to automatically unlock stuff. My Soul Item however would provide me with a perk of allowing me to view the room the cube is in. The cube's means of hiding itself would be that I have duplicate decoy cubes on my person. Should I power up my Soul Item, my cubes will get more powers such as being able to send out electric shocks, letting me view multiple rooms at once, giving the decoy cubes more durability, all the way up to being able to defend themselves or myself.

IF CONFUSED ABOUT ANYTHING JUST ASK.
/throws revised idea out there

[The City [EclipseZwolf]]

I love the idea of the item that ties our soul to the plane of reality. My only advice is to think carefully on how to allow and manage knockouts and just all around item destruction.

That is primarily because in a item hunt most people will probably just try and rob everyone early and see if they have something special on them. I simply fear that players will go to absurd length to destroy soul items and will discover them via luck instead of skill or any kind of logical deduction.

It sounds really fun though, so Thumbs up from me.

[Deleted]

I like the idea behind this season, while it offers the same possibility of coming back after being killed, it also adds the danger of being killed for good by having your soul destroyed.

Like Eclipse mentioned, it would need a good system to manage items, as I can see a few people trying to get lucky by stealing and destroying *coughsakucough*

And concerning the semi-OP abilities, it would be best if none of them give any advantages regarding items, for the same reason stated before.

Overall it seems like a great/fun season and I look forward to it happening.

[Aoba Seragaki]

I was thinking about that. I plan to give the soul items a slight amount of intelligence of their own.

Nothing major, but stuff like if their owner in unconscious they would be nigh untouchable, but more obvious to find (IE: Say my Soul Item is a ring. It would glow but you repel any and all attempts to break or steal it), or if someone stole it the item would try to find its way back to its owner.

This way you need to either break the item in a fight if it is kept on them (another reason fights, find where the player chose to hide it, or get enough firepower to kill it if it is larger enough.

However because of how difficult it would be to destroy something that small without knocking someone out, I will make your average knockout MUCH harder to accomplish, having to deal with a dizzy, dazed, or momentarily blacked-out player, each of which will delay your opponents reaction time increasing your odds of getting a successful Soul kill.



As for abilities, as I going to go more along what Eclipse had. Nothing related to items, but still strong abilities in their own right. Most will be primarily for defense, murder, or investigation.

[Yuni Shingyouji]

yeyyyyyyyyy more special interesting concepts! My favorite!

[Kai, Prince of V]

Ilikeit
It enables murder similar to BS but there is a possible finality with the presence of Soul Items.

[King V]

There are 2 main issues I see with this idea. Firstly, since people can knock out other people, steal their soul item, and soul-kill them later, this leads to a lot of people hiding their soul items all over the place, and the game turning into one of finding soul items. I can see a lot of ways of fixing this that you've already mentioned, but I still think it deserves some looking in to.

The other issue is more with investigating soul murders. For normal murders you have things like a murder weapon, cause of death, and time of death that you can use to trace back to the culprit. For a soul murder, I'm worried about how the evidence for the murder would be presented, since destroying an item seems like it would leave behind a lot less evidence than killing a person. For example, if someone's soul item is a bead, and someone else proceeded to steal the bead, then smash it with a hammer in some obscure place, and leave the hammer there, how would we trace the crime back to the culprit?

Other than those, I think the idea is generally solid and could easily make it into a season.

[Aoba Seragaki]

The main counter towards Knocking someone out, stealing their item, and waiting to soul-kill is the artificial intelligence the items have.
Unless you can get a trial wrapped up in an hour or something, the item WILL start to do something (either make a ****-ton of noise, or escape your person).

Because I have little to no faith you you people getting your **** together fast enough to actually find, solve, and catch someone within a hour (the wrong person I might add, as if the correct murder is caught the all their items are going to be confiscated) I feel like that is enough to encourage people to either hunt down hidden items (there will be methods of protecting them so it isn't a total "Search and destroy") or actually outsmart your opponent in a fight.

As for evidence, on top of my prediction that most soul items will primarily be destroyed by fighting (something that would leave a fair amount of evidence, make noise, ect.) I will be hyping up evidence depend on the content.

Like in your example, I would likely have the bead shatter in a very fine dust that the killer could walk through, leaving a noticeable clue that the killer wouldn't really be aware of, Or perhaps something landed on him when it shattered. For example, if he was trying to kill your soul bead I would say something along the lines of "the bead shattered in a flash of light from the hammer strike, causing you to stumble back."

I would leave it at that. If the player choose to clean up the bead, he could get dust all over his shoes, hands, ect. if he wasn't being careful.
If he said nothing I will take advantage of his lack of comment and give him dust all over his shoes and a stray glittering shard on his clothing from. They would need to be very careful to avoid getting something on them for such a small item that would leave such small residue.

Smaller Soul Items will break much like this


It is NOT as simple as "break it in half and walk away" these things will send crap everywhere, cut you, ect. when you break them.

Finally, I will be giving exact times of death most likely.
My character will be finely attuned to everyone's soul and will know when one has left. This will usually take awhile though, so finding the body usually comes before your host finding out when a soul left ' ^' (hinthint, Im lazy and expect you guys to not take over a day to find a body so thats my canon reason as to why I can give an exact time of death but not tell you someone died)