History Roleplay / AstralCabal

* KillEmAll:
** The chapter 4 motive is a threat to do this. It starts by threatening to merely turn the lights off permanently, but then there's an implied threat that monsters will be sent out to kill everyone unless a murder occurs.
** The chapter 6 motive is also a threat to kill 'em all; in this case, Monobear threatens to open all the hatches in the space station so everyone dies from lack of oxygen unless a murder occurs.
** The chapter 7 motive is similar, threatening to starve everyone to death by cutting off the food supply unless a murder occurs.

* KillEmAll: The chapter 6 "motive" in Astral Black. Monobear threatens to flood the boat and use the ocean to kill all the students unless a murder occurs.

''[[http://astralcabal.tumblr.com/ Astral Cabal]]'' is a Tumblr Roleplay Group formed in February 2014 by [[http://amberlonsdales.tumblr.com/ Admin Roulette]]. It adapts the rules of ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc'' with occasional spins on the original game's approach. Its cast is made up of Super High School Levels, the elite of the elite students, just as the Visual Novel; but instead of taking place in a school, the group's games take place in other areas with completely different plots and meanings. The students find themselves confined within the area's restraints and are forced into a game of mutual killing hosted by none other than Monokuma, a demonic half-black half-white bear that's out to strike despair into the student's hearts. To escape their despairful shackles, those trapped must uncover the secrets of [[TheManBehindTheMan who carried out this operation]] and why they were put there in the first place before it's too late.

!!General Tropes Appearing In Astral Cabal:

* AHouseDivided: Turned against each other, each student has to fend for their own as they try to escape the hell they've been put in.

* BuryYourGays: [[spoiler:As of chapter 8, all homosexual couples have had at least one half die.]]

** Two official same-sex couples have been confirmed, namely Jaz and Akemi (two women) as well as Nakunaru and Ginji (two men). [[spoiler:Unfortunately, it's cut short in both cases: Jaz loses Akemi because Akemi's murdered in chapter 6, and Nakunaru and Ginji are both murdered in chapter 5.]]

** In Astral Blue, [[spoiler:Exus Val and Shirogane "Rhythm" Katsumi become a couple in chapter 3; unfortunately, it is cut short when Exus Val is murdered in chapter 4.]]

* PinkGirlBlueBoy: Possibly averted with Hirashi and Honoka: Hirashi's pink to Honoka's blue.

!!General Tropes Appearing In Game Sessions:

* AccidentalMurder: A variant in [[spoiler:chapter two: neither Akemi nor Valentina thought that Akemi assisting in Valentina's suicide would count as a murder. It did.]]

* BloodierAndGorier: Both chapter four's murder and execution take this to a new level. [[spoiler: The victim is found with her face cut beyond recognition and her ''heart cut out of her chest'', and the execution sees the culprit's stomach being cut open with a bread knife, before being left to bleed to death.]]

** The second motive, overlapping with SadisticChoice. If no-one kills, two innocents will be executed. However if someone ''does'' kill, that ''also'' means two deaths- a murder and execution victim. Either way, two students will die to the motive. [[spoiler: This eventually leads Valentina (and eventually Akemi) to try and TakeAThirdOption in order for there to be only one victim.]]
** The fourth motive eventually turns into this: it starts with a threat to make the lights stay off permanently, but then turns into a threat to [[spoiler:sic monsters to kill everyone unless a murder occurs]].
* ClassTrip: Usami appears to bill the scenario as this for a little in her introduction, before dropping that entirely and telling the students that they're here forever.

* DeadGuyOnDisplay: [[spoiler:Valentina]]'s body was decorated with flowers by the culprit.
* DeniedFoodAsPunishment: Chapter seven's motive sees the announcement that the food and water supplies have been empty- and they'll stay empty for ''200 years'' unless someone kills!

* HistoryRepeats: [[spoiler:In chapter four, the majority vote is once again for Lukas as it was in chapter two, for seeming like their most likely suspect. However, this time, he actually ''is'' the culprit.]]
* HopeSpot: Presented during chapter six's execution: [[spoiler: with their feet on fire, Nikki notices a lake and dives into it- only for it to not be filled with water, but ''oil''.]]

** [[spoiler:Akemi gets away with killing Valentina in chapter two, and while even she didn't believe she was a killer and felt guilty over the event, some students regarded her as this. However, she later becomes chapter six's victim.]]
** [[spoiler:Jaz later becomes one in chapter 7, getting away with the murder of Haruka due to the class voting for the victim on the grounds that they had no real lead for a suspect. Shika is chosen for execution instead. Unlike Akemi however, Jaz doesn't die later, playing this trope straight.]]
** [[spoiler:The final killer Ryouko also becomes one, surviving her trial for the murder of Yasu and Hirashi due to the class deciding to call a mastermind vote rather than try and catch the culprit.]]
* KillEmAll: [[spoiler:The chapter 4 motive is a threat to do this. It starts by threatening to merely turn the lights off permanently, but then there's an implied threat that monsters will be sent out to kill everyone unless a murder occurs.]] [[spoiler:The chapter 6 motive is also a threat to kill 'em all; in this case, Monobear threatens to open all the hatches in the space station so everyone dies from lack of oxygen unless a murder occurs.]] [[spoiler:The chapter 7 motive is similar, threatening to starve everyone to death by cutting off the food supply unless a murder occurs.]]

** [[spoiler:When Honoka is punished for breaking a rule, a picture of her being impaled is broadcast through the base.]]
** [[spoiler:There's an interesting subversion in chapter 3: Oolong is killed by Monobear for breaking a rule, but Monobear ''doesn't'' use him as an example of what happens when you break the rules, so the class doesn't even realize Oolong is dead until Ryouko notices someone's missing from the center of the courtroom, Max confirms that it's Oolong who's missing, and Aimé directly asks Monobear to confirm that Monobear killed Oolong.]]
* MiscarriageOfJustice: The first mistrial in [[spoiler: chapter two sees Mayoi randomly selected for execution]]. [[spoiler:The seventh trial]] is also an example, with [[spoiler:Shika being randomly selected for execution]].
* NeverSuicide: [[spoiler:Assisted suicide, however, is another matter entirely.]]

* RuleOfPool: Incredibly averted during chapter two's pool party.

** [[spoiler: Chapter three sees the AccidentalKiss between Miwa and Mikazuki, only for whatever relationship that may have blossomed to be cut short when Miwa is murdered in chapter four.]]
** [[spoiler: Chapter four also sinks Lukas and Aimé, as Lukas is that chapter's killer.]]
** [[spoiler: Chapter five sees the deaths of Ginji and Nakunaru; a prominant ship since the beginning of the game. However, as they are both victims that chapter, they move into TogetherInDeath.]]
** [[spoiler: Chapter six sees the sinking of the first canon ship, with one half left alive this time: Jaz and Akemi, with the latter being that chapter's victim.]]
** [[spoiler: Chapter eight sinks Yasu and Hirashi, having become official earlier in the game. However, since they are both victims, they move into TogetherInDeath.]]
* ShoutOut: Just before chapter 4's trial begins, there's a shout-out to "bronies." However, since the post is from Monobear's perspective, it's a mocking one, telling them that friendship ''isn't'' magic, given what usually happens in these trials.

* SympatheticMurderer: Several students feel this towards [[spoiler: Naohiro in chapter three, after he murders in order to find out what happened to his loved one.]]
* TitleDrop: [[spoiler:Shinju finds a newspaper which has an article referring to a group known as the 'Astral Cabal'.]]
* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler: Ginji's gun malfunctions in the aftermath of chapter two's trial, setting him alight and leaving his status unknown. He later returns at the beginning of chapter four, having been in a coma and treated by Monomi.]]

* TakeMeInstead: A few students have offered themselves up for the more threat based motives, most notably Masayoshi due to his insistance on being a good 'team leader'.
** [[spoiler: Masayoshi also offered himself to be executed along with Jaz in the first mistrial, when it was revealed a random student would be executed. Neither of them were chosen; poor Mayoi was killed instead.]]
* TakingTheHeat: Several examples through the game so far, coming from [[spoiler: Ginji, Haruka, and Miwa (though in Miwa's case, she was more doing it for shits and giggles rather than to cover for someone).]] Often overlaps with FalseConfession.
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill
* TheKetchupTest: Performed by a few students during chapter three's investigation to determine if that really is all blood on the body, though Toru takes the prize for this one- he actually puts some in his mouth.
** It also occurs several other times during cases with substances that may or may not be blood. Spinda is a different example; he often actually refers to blood as ketchup.

[[folder: Astral Black]]
* AccidentalMurder: It's implied that the death of [[spoiler: Aomi is this, by means of Sun-mi attempting to open the music box that contained a mastermind clue.]]

** The first trial brings the discussion of whether [[spoiler:the culprit used makeup to cover up wounds. Astral Academia's third killer did just that, eventually prompting the same discussion in trial]].
** [[spoiler:The [[TitleDrop Astral Cabal]] group first seen in Astral Academia appear again, directly speaking to the students this time by means of taking over the connection with the Monobear bot. It's also implied that the mutual killing game had happened ''again''. From the speech of the Astral Cabal member speaking through the bot, it's suggested that they're a survivor of the first game; specifically, Jasmine 'Jaz' Hayes.]]

* DuelToTheDeath: [[spoiler:Chapter 3's murder case appears to be this at first, with both victims carrying bullet wounds and guns after dying within a minute of each other. However it's subverted; there was a third party responsible for both deaths.]]
* IHaveYourWife: The chapter 3 "motive" in Astral Black. If a murder occurs, Monobear promises to find out who everyone would risk their lives for, and kill them all.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Ryouta]] becomes one in chapter six, getting away with murder due to the class choosing to call a mastermind vote rather than trying to catch that case's killer.

* LoudOfWar: The chapter 4 "motive" in Astral Black. Monobear turns on some loud sirens, and ''refuses to shut them off unless a murder occurs''.
* MakeAnExampleOfThem: In the prologue, Monokoi breaks [[spoiler: Hinako's]] leg after showing displeasure with his introduction of the mutual killing.
* NoSympathy: No-one appears to show any sympathy or mercy towards chapter four's murderer whatsoever, after the revelation that [[spoiler: prior to arriving at the sea centre he had killed and eaten ''sixteen people'', all explained while eating the missing flesh from the victim right in front of the class!]]
* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler:Revealed at endgame: the students who died over the course of the game were preserved as some kind of data, allowing them to return as holograms.]]

** [[spoiler:The mastermind of the sea centre is dating the mastermind of the snow centre mutual killing game.]]

* [[spoiler: TalkingToTheDead: Along with the oppertunity to talk to members of the other class, chapter five's introduction of transmissions centre allows the students to contact their dead classmates.]]

[[folder: Astral Blue]]
* CallBack:
** [[spoiler:The [[TitleDrop Astral Cabal]] group first seen in Astral Academia appear again, directly speaking to the students this time by means of taking over the connection with the Monobear bot. It's also implied that the mutual killing game had happened ''again''.]]
** [[spoiler:From the speech of the Astral Cabal member speaking through the bot, it's suggested that they're a survivor of the first game; specifically, Ryuzaburo 'Akuma' Shinozuka.]]
* CareerEndingInjury: The chapter 1 "motive" in Astral Blue. Monobear threatens that if a murder doesn't occur soon, he'll choose a random student to have a limb broken, possibly ending the student's capacity to perform his/her/their SHSL talent.

* DarkSecret: The chapter 4 "motive" in Astral Blue, but with a twist: instead of each student being given his/her/their dark secret, they are each given someone ''else's'' dark secret, in hopes of motivating them to kill someone with an especially dark secret.

** [[spoiler:Nanako becomes one as early as chapter one after she gets away with killing Susumu. However it's later subverted when she becomes chapter three's victim.]]
** [[spoiler:Johannes becomes one, but doesn't suffer the same fate as Nanako- the class choose to call a mastermind vote during that case rather than try and discover the culprit.]]

** In the prologue, Monokoi breaks [[spoiler:Exusval's]] arm after showing displeasure with his introduction of the mutual killing.
** Monobear tries this with [[spoiler:Kazumi]] in chapter five's trial for standing up to him.

** [[spoiler:The very first trial ends this way, with Honoka being chosen for random execution.]]
** [[spoiler:The fifth trial, as the class correctly votes for one of the culprits, but gets the other one incorrect, so Monobear decides to execute ''two'' innocent students.]]
* NeverSuicide: While it's discussed that [[spoiler:Harumi poisoned herself in chapter five, it doesn't turn out to be the case; she was murdered]].

** [[spoiler:The mastermind of the snow base is dating the mastermind of the sea centre mutual killing game.]]
* RadioSilence: The chapter 6 "motive" in Astral Blue. Monobear freezes over the weather transmission station that [[spoiler:can communicate with the dead]], and refuses to unfreeze it unless a murder occurs.
* ShipSinking: Chapter four sees the sinking of [[spoiler: Shirogane and Exusval]], with the latter being that chapter's victim. [[spoiler:However, Shirogane is later chosen randomly for execution, making them TogetherInDeath.]]

* TalkingToTheDead: [[spoiler:Along with the opportunity to talk to members of the other class, chapter five's introduction of transmissions centre allows the students to contact their dead classmates.]]
* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler:When Atohi takes the blow for Kazumi in chapter five's trial, whether he survived or not is unknown until the next chapter.]]

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''[[http://astralcabal.tumblr.com/ Astral Cabal]]'' is a Tumblr Roleplay Group formed in February 2014 by [[http://amberlonsdales.tumblr.com/ Admin Roulette]]. It adapts the rules of VisualNovel/{{Danganronpa}} with occasional spins on the original game's approach. Its cast is made up of Super High School Levels, the elite of the elite students, just as the Visual Novel; but instead of taking place in a school, the group's games take place in other areas with completely different plots and meanings. The students find themselves confined within the area's restraints and are forced into a game of mutual killing hosted by none other than Monokuma, a demonic half-black half-white bear that's out to strike despair into the student's hearts. To escape their despairful shackles, those trapped must uncover the secrets of [[TheManBehindTheMan who carried out this operation]] and why they were put there in the first place before it's too late.

* AlwaysMurder
* AnotherDimension

* ChildrenForcedToKill

* DeadlyGame
* EmotionalTorque

* PoorCommunicationKills

* AccidentalMurder: A variant in [[spoiler: chapter two: neither Akemi nor Valentina thought that Akemi assisting in Valentina's suicide would count as a murder. It did.]]
* AlienSky
* AllPlanetsAreEarthLike

* BreakingTheFourthWall: In his response to Jaz's question in the chapter one trial regarding accomplices, Monokuma muses that it's surely a little too early for accomplices, shouldn't that be saved for chapter three?
** And ''again'' by Monokuma just before chapter two's trial starts, alluding to the week long break the group took due to the fact that many players would not be able to attend the trial the previous weekend.
** [[spoiler:Refering back to Monokuma mentioning that chapter three should be saved for accomplices, Haruka had tried to convince the other students at first that she was the killer, and when Nao had 'confessed' by showing the scratch marks on his hands, she had tried to pass off that she was the killer and Nao was her accomplice to try to get them to vote for her instead of him so that he would have less of a chance at dying.]]

* Catch22Dilemma: The second motive, overlapping with SadisticChoice. If no-one kills, two innocents will be executed. However if someone ''does'' kill, that ''also'' means two deaths- a murder and execution victim. Either way, two students will die to the motive. [[spoiler: This eventually leads Valentina (and eventually Akemi) to try and TakeAThirdOption in order for there to be only one victim.]]
** The fourth motive eventually turns into this: it starts with a threat to make the lights stay off permanently, but then turns into a threat to [[spoiler:sic monsters to kill everyone unless a murder occurs.]]
** In chapter six, either one of the students commits a murder, or Monobear opens all the air hatches so they'll all die eventually anyway.
** So does the seventh motive: either the students all starve to death, or one of them commits a murder to get the food back.

* CorralledCosmos
* DeadGuyOnDisplay: [[spoiler: Valentina's]] body was decorated with flowers by the culprit.

* [[TitleDrop Group Name Drop]]: [[spoiler: Shinju finds a newspaper which has an article referring to a group known as the 'Astral Cabal'.]]
* HistoryRepeats: [[spoiler: In chapter four, the majority vote is once again for Lukas as it was in chapter two, for seeming like their most likely suspect. However, this time, he actually ''is'' the culprit.]]

* [[IHaveYourWife I Have Your Loved Ones]]: Chapter three's motive has Monokuma stating that everyone's families are missing, with the possibility of them being tortured or killed. Kill another student to find out what's happened to them!

* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Akemi gets away with killing Valentina in chapter two, and while even she didn't believe she was a killer and felt guilty over the event, some students regarded her as this. However, she later becomes chapter six's victim.]]
** [[spoiler: Jaz later becomes one in chapter 7, getting away with the murder of Haruka due to the class voting for the victim on the grounds that they had no real lead for a suspect. Shika is chosen for execution instead. Unlike Akemi however, Jaz doesn't die later, playing this trope straight.]]
** [[spoiler: The final killer Ryouko also becomes one, surviving her trial for the murder of Yasu and Hirashi due to the class deciding to call a mastermind vote rather than try and catch the culprit.]]
* [[spoiler:KillEmAll]]: [[spoiler:The chapter 4 motive is a threat to do this. It starts by threatening to merely turn the lights off permanently, but then there's an implied threat that monsters will be sent out to kill everyone unless a murder occurs.]]
** [[spoiler:The chapter 6 motive is also a threat to kill 'em all; in this case, Monobear threatens to open all the hatches in the space station so everyone dies from lack of oxygen unless a murder occurs.]]
** [[spoiler:The chapter 7 motive is similar, threatening to starve everyone to death by cutting off the food supply unless a murder occurs.]]
* MakeAnExampleOfThem: [[spoiler: When Honoka is punished for breaking a rule, a picture of her being impaled is broadcast through the base.]]
** [[spoiler:There's also an interesting subversion in chapter 3: Oolong is killed by Monobear for breaking a rule, but Monobear ''doesn't'' use him as an example of what happens when you break the rules, so the class doesn't even realize Oolong is dead until Ryouko notices someone's missing from the center of the courtroom, Max confirms that it's Oolong who's missing, and Aimé directly asks Monobear to confirm that Monobear killed Oolong.]]
* MiscarriageOfJustice: The first mistrial in [[spoiler: chapter two sees Mayoi randomly selected for execution.]]
** [[spoiler: The seventh trial is also an example, with Shika being randomly selected for execution.]]
* NeverSuicide: [[spoiler: Assisted suicide however, is another matter entirely.]]

* StandardTimeUnits

* UniversalUniverseTime

* ThrownOutTheAirLock

* CallBack: The first trial brings the discussion of whether [[spoiler: the culprit used makeup to cover up wounds. Astral Academia's third killer did just that, eventually prompting the same discussion in trial.]]
** There's a much larger callback in endgame: [[spoiler: The [[TitleDrop Astral Cabal]] group first seen in Astral Academia appear again, directly speaking to the students this time by means of taking over the connection with the Monobear bot. It's also implied that the mutual killing game had happened ''again''. From the speech of the Astral Cabal member speaking through the bot, it's suggested that they're a survivor of the first game; specifically, Jasmine 'Jaz' Hayes.]]

* [[spoiler: DuelToTheDeath: Chapter 3's murder case appears to be this at first, with both victims carrying bullet wounds and guns after dying within a minute of each other. However it's subverted; there was a third party responsible for both deaths.]]
* [[IHaveYourWife I Have Your Loved Ones]]: The chapter 3 "motive" in Astral Black. If a murder occurs, Monobear promises to find out who everyone would risk their lives for, and kill them all.

* LockedRoomMystery: The nature of chapter six's murder.

* [[spoiler: NotQuiteDead: Revealed at endgame: the students who died over the course of the game were preserved as some kind of data, allowing them to return as holograms.]]
* OfficialCouple: Sun-mi and Keichi.
** [[spoiler: There's also the fact that the mastermind of the sea centre is dating the mastermind of the snow centre mutual killing game.]]

* *CallBack: [[spoiler: The [[TitleDrop Astral Cabal]] group first seen in Astral Academia appear again, directly speaking to the students this time by means of taking over the connection with the Monobear bot. It's also implied that the mutual killing game had happened ''again''.]]
** [[spoiler: From the speech of the Astral Cabal member speaking through the bot, it's suggested that they're a survivor of the first game; specifically, Ryuzaburo 'Akuma' Shinozuka.]]

* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Nanako becomes one as early as chapter one after she gets away with killing Susumu. However it's later subverted when she becomes chapter three's victim.]]
** [[spoiler: Johannes later becomes one, but doesn't suffer the same fate as Nanako- the class choose to call a mastermind vote during that case rather than try and discover the culprit.]]
* MakeAnExampleOfThem: In the prologue, Monokoi breaks [[spoiler: Exusval's]] arm after showing displeasure with his introduction of the mutual killing.
** Monobear tries this with [[spoiler: Kazumi]] in chapter five's trial for standing up to him.
* [[spoiler: MiscarriageOfJustice: The very first trial ends this way, with Honoka being chosen for random execution.]]
** [[spoiler: The fifth trial also ends in a miscarriage of justice, as the class correctly votes for one of the culprits, but gets the other one incorrect, so Monobear decides to execute ''two'' innocent students.]]
* NeverSuicide: While it's discussed that [[spoiler: Harumi poisoned herself in chapter five, it doesn't turned out to be the case; she was murdered.]]
* OfficialCouple: Exusval and Shirogane.
** [[spoiler: There's also the fact that the mastermind of the snow base is dating the mastermind of the sea centre mutual killing game.]]

* ShipSinking: Chapter four sees the sinking of [[spoiler: Shirogane and Exusval]], with the latter being that chapter's victim.
** [[spoiler: However Shirogane is later chosen randomly for execution, making them TogetherInDeath.]]

* [[spoiler: TalkingToTheDead: Along with the opportunity to talk to members of the other class, chapter five's introduction of transmissions centre allows the students to contact their dead classmates.]]
* [[spoiler: UncertainDoom: When Atohi takes the blow for Kazumi in chapter five's trial, whether he survived or not is unknown until the next chapter.]]

** Whoever killed [[spoiler:Haruka in chapter 7]] also becomes a KarmaHoudini, as [[spoiler:the class incorrectly votes for a suicide, but Monobear tells them that this is incorrect, Haruka was murdered, so Monobear randomly executes an innocent student as punishment.]]

* CallBack: The first trial brings the discussion of whether [[spoiler: the culprit used makeup to cover up wounds. Astral Academia's third killer did just that, eventually prompting the same discussion in trial.]]

* [[spoiler: TalkingToTheDead: Along with the oppertunity to talk to members of the other class, chapter five's introduction of transmissions centre allows the students to contact their dead classmates.]]