1. First and foremost, don’t be a dick. This should’ve gone without saying, but godmodding, puppeting, and the likes are off the table. IC hostility does not translate to OOC hostility. No mincing words about it.
2. Don’t cheat. If you do, don’t get caught.
3. Unless you have my express permission to do so, DMs from the host are not to be shared for the duration of the game they were sent in, whether within the thread itself or elsewhere.
4. Dead players cannot post until the game ends. You may spectate and comment from the peanut gallery; however, keep it outside of the thread. Revealing vital information to living players is a violation of the “no cheating” rule.
5. Upon signing up, you are agreeing to be an active participant. Inactivity for more than 48 hours straight will result in your character being removed from the game.
6. Barring NSFW media and content otherwise against site guidelines, any kind of character can be used to sign up, though playing the same one for multiple games is frowned upon.
7. On the occasion that the game is moving too quickly to be able to reasonably catch up with, players may request to install a slowmode of at least 5 minutes since their own previous post.
8. DMing other players and lying about your role is both allowed and highly encouraged—group strategy, alliances, and betrayals are all a major part of the game.
9. You may not edit your posts. Typos and/or formatting errors can be corrected in a second post.
10. Lastly... have fun. Or don’t. Depends on what you think of being mass-abducted into a penitentiary, after all.

What is this, exactly?

If you’re familiar with the popular murdergame .EXE ~ A Virus Containment Game or the late A Game of Mafia, chances are, you won’t have much trouble getting into this one. For those who aren’t? God Complex is a Play-by-Post mystery Social Deduction Game slash Roll to Dodge hosted by unfortunatezorua on the TV Tropes forums. Being heavily strategy-focused, it’s more like Behind the Masks or Taco Badger’s Never You Mind gameplay-wise, but also draws inspiration from Survivor, Your Turn to Die, and Coup, mainly utilising the element of majority voting and dice rolling in order to complete actions.

God Complex doesn’t quite work like the rest of the Murderverse, in that there’s no actual murder going on (so much as lynching). Intended to be smaller-sized but have longer-lasting games overall, there are no parties or sides; rather, players participate in a series of puzzles and determine who to eliminate between themselves then. The last one standing wins, gaining release from the complex.

So, more or less “You are slave. Want emancipation?”. But of course, there’s still a main game, as well as its roles to consider.

Mechanics

1. At the beginning of the game, players are allowed to explore the map and get their bearings, interacting with each other and forming alliances. Typically, they will discover their assigned roles at some point.
2. Players complete the various trials and puzzles issued to them in the process. They may trade role cards once the option opens up, but as this is the first round and it is unavailable, the main discussion begins once all of the trials in the current area are cleared.
3. Players discuss their findings during the day and vote among themselves to decide who might be eliminated from the game. All votes must be DM’d privately.
4. Once the preliminary vote is over, players discuss their roles to determine who among the chosen candidates is safe to vote for.
5. The player who receives majority is then eliminated. If no one is voted for during a final vote, the game will meteor.
6. In the following round, the roles are redistributed. Role trading is now available, and so the cycle continues until a winner is declared.

Phases

• Free Time: More or less what it says on the tin. The cells are open and you have free reign to explore, socialise, or whatever else suits your fancy. (Role cards are assigned during this phase.)
  • Trials: These events can be found across the map during Free Time, through which you may complete the objectives to gain advantages, items, evidence for the Lockdown, and/or tokens. Players can die at any time during these, so do be careful with how you proceed.
  • Rehab: From the second round onwards, Rehabilitation will begin during every Free Time after 24 hours have elapsed since the start of the phase. Along with any normal Free Time actions, card trades can now be facilitated in exchange for tokens.
• Lockdown: Lockdown starts when all the Trials in the area have been cleared, or in the case of all rounds after the first, about 24 hours after the last Free Time action ends. Think of this as the Class Trial or Main Game of sorts. All players are locked in the debate area, and so the arguments begin.
  • First Stage: The first voting phase of the game, used to determine the initial candidates for execution. Players are given 24-48 hours to discuss relevant topics, such as who is the least cooperative or most suspicious, any significant events during the day, etc. This stage ends when the allotted time is used up and all players have DM’d a vote to the host.
  • Second Stage: This stage is used to narrow down the candidates chosen in the First Stage. Players are again given time for a discussion, this time generally to figure out who exactly has which role. Any role trades during Rehab could also be brought up here. This stage ends when the allotted time is used up and all players have DM’d a vote to the host.
• Execution: And last comes the fun part. The player chosen by majority vote in the Second Stage is eliminated from the game (along with any other relevant roles, such as the Bomber).

Role Trading

(A description will be added here once the second round is reached.)

Pauper

The Pauper has no special abilities, but remains an important role to the game.

• What happens if they get voted off: They die along with the Bomber for that round.
• Survival condition: Vote off another Pauper or a Fixer during the Second Stage.

Meister

The Meister has no special abilities. However, this role has a unique condition to its name—if the Meister is marked for execution at the end of the round, everyone will be executed alongside the Meister, ending the game.

While there’s no real restriction on the act of voting for the Meister itself, the fact that all players instantly lose if the Meister receives majority effectively makes them immune to votes for that round. So long as everybody actually knows who the Meister is, that is...

If there is an even number of players remaining during a Lockdown, should they be tied for majority with any other role in the final vote, the Meister takes priority and everyone dies regardless, ending the game.

• What happens if they get voted off: Everyone dies. The game ends.
• Survival condition: Vote off a Pauper or a Fixer during the Second Stage.

Fixer

The Fixer’s ability is that they are aware of who the Meister is at all times. This is in effect as long as the player in question is in possession of the Fixer card. Should their Fixer card be swapped for another, they will not be notified if the Meister’s role changes hands—so as such, the current Fixer is not only aware of their own card during Rehab, but the location of Meister’s card as well.

• What happens if they get voted off: They die along with the Bomber for that round.
• Survival condition: Vote off a Pauper during the Second Stage.

Bomber

The Bomber works like the Fool in Mafia, in that its victory condition is to be marked for execution. However, in the world of God Complex, there’s one twist—if the Bomber is not marked for execution at the end of the round, they die, along with the player voted off normally for that round.

To compensate for this, the Bomber’s ability is that they receive two votes. If you’re familiar with the Detective role in other murdergames, it’s similar to this.

If there is an even number of players remaining during a Lockdown, should they be tied for majority with a role(s) other than the Meister in the final vote, the Bomber takes priority and wins the game regardless.

• What happens if they get voted off: Everyone except the Bomber, and one other player of the Bomber’s choice, dies. The Bomber wins and the game ends.
• Survival condition: Get voted off during the Second Stage.

Map

I don’t own Prison Architect, so congrats, you get these MS Paint renditions! Postimg links because TV Tropes’s image uploader is a flaming pile of shit.

More of the map will be added here as new areas are unlocked.

• Map of the Cell Block, 2nd and 1st Floor.
  • Map of the Cell Block, 3rd Floor.
• Map of the Main Lobby.
• Map of the Cafeteria.
• Map of the Death Row.

Descriptions

More will be added to this section as rooms are explored.

• Cell Block: A large, open building with three floors. The layout looks somewhat similar to the main wing of Alcatraz if you’ve ever seen it.
  • 1st Floor: Not much to see here—an empty area with three doors, but the ones to the east and west appear to be locked. The southernmost door is the entrance to the Cafeteria, and the north wall is decorated with a strange assortment of lockers. There’s a spiral staircase in the northeast corner leading upstairs.
  • 2nd Floor: Cells 1 through 12 lie on this floor, connected by a series of wide catwalks going all around. 1F is clearly visible if you look down from them. The stairs to 3F are in the southwest corner.
  • 3rd Floor: Another set of catwalk hallways with railings surrounding the centre, from which the 2 floors below it can be seen. Doors labelled “Files Room” and “Storage” can be found to the right of the staircase. Another four doors can be found, two on each side of the room. They have no labels, but they’re conspicuously painted in different colours—the doors to the west are blue and purple respectively, while the ones to the east are green and orange. The northernmost door labelled “Security” is painted black.
• Main Lobby: A room of impressive size; can be accessed from the entrance in Cell Block 1F. It contains a miniature guard post and several structures that appear to be phone booths. There’s a couple of elevators located here, along with a door leading to a different hallway, next to the Cafeteria’s entrance.
• Cafeteria: Well, what were you expecting? There’s an unmanned cafeteria line to the east, but besides that, a door in the southwest corner, and what appears to be seating for some 20 people, there doesn’t seem to be much of note...yet. Something that looks like a giant trapdoor looms in the middle of the room. The two sliding doors at the far end, on the other hand, give a view into Death Row.
• Death Row: The entrance area leading to it from the Cafeteria is seperated from the execution block by a large glass panel, and a switch to raise said panel can be found on the opposite wall. A guillotine and bucket stands to one side; a gallows scaffold can be found on the other, too. Little bit old-timey, if you ask me.

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