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The main has been unlocked thanks to everyone’s enthusiasm. I appreciate everyone for engaging with our teaser post! I was able to finish up the main pages early than I anticipated so you can now find the main at @cluedorpg

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what character is taken by the admin(s)?

The admins will be playing the npcs (who will be present and active in the story, but not at all times)! the npcs are The Butler, The Maid, and Mr. Boddy!

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this looks amazing! as a question, are the skeletons going to have open gender options? I'd love that!

All of the skeletons will have no assigned gender and the applicant may choose whatever gender they want for their character!

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how will the murderer be chosen?

Every skeleton has the potential to be the murderer or the blackmailer (or both). When you apply you'll have a section to denote whether or not that's the direction you want to take with your character and you can add any ideas you have for how it would happen. I'll take that into account and choose whichever one works best with the other applications.

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𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄 𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐂𝐄𝐑𝐓𝐀𝐈𝐍 𝐂𝐑𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐂𝐇 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐋𝐀𝐖 𝐂𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐓𝐎𝐔𝐂𝐇

Innocence is something that you forgot many years ago. The concept seems like a distant, sweet, sense memory, like recalling the birthday cake your mother made for you when you turned nine. When you pontificate about this to others, they murmur in agreement, lamenting the loss of their childlike wonder and sense of a just world. You don’t know how to tell them it’s far beyond that for you. Your childhood innocence departed so long ago, but you sacrificed a deeper, more dire sense of the word. One that would come into question in a court of law. The antonym of this innocence is not worldly, it is guilty.

You are guilty. You know that and you’ve been trying to hide it for years now. But someone found out faster than you could have imagined for how well you covered your tracks. An unmarked envelope landed below your mail slot one Sunday evening and detailed every last fact of your crime. In return for their silence, they demanded you pay them ten percent of your monthly salary. You could hardly afford it, but you could afford the truth getting out even less. So you agreed. And for the past year, you have been dropping cash at the locations assigned to you. Whoever your blackmailer is they are careful and professional. All of your attempts to track them down have been fruitless.

𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐂𝐇 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐄, 𝐓𝐎 𝐒𝐎𝐌𝐄 𝐄𝐗𝐓𝐄𝐍𝐓,

Not only are you guilty, but you are also strange. It’s an affliction you’ve had since childhood and it’s only grown. Your supernatural abilities frightened even your parents and you learned quickly to keep quiet about what you can do. You know that if word got out about your psychic capabilities you’d be the victim of a witch hunt and you’d have far more to worry about than a single blackmailer. But you’ve slipped up more than once and the beast within you has crawled to the surface; fighting out of pure, beautiful instinct. Those moments saved your life but always threatened to ruin you as well. Still, you’re thankful, it’s a cruel and dangerous world and you’ve been given the upper hand in so many ways.

You would think that such abilities would help you to track down your blackmailer. But they seem to be immune to your abilities. You’ve only met a few other people in your life who have that same shroud around them which protects them from your powers. Every thought of them is cloudy, every attempt to pierce through the veil and locate their mind is unsuccessful, and every time you try to find them they are two steps ahead of you. You’re no fool, so your adversary must be some kind of genius.

𝐉𝐔𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐅𝐘 𝐏𝐑𝐈𝐕𝐀𝐓𝐄 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐆𝐄

But what kind of anonymous genius invites their victim to a face to face dinner party? The usual letter arrived last Sunday night and you expected to open it to find the address of a new drop site, but instead it was a formal invitation to a dinner party that coming Saturday evening. It outlined the expectations: you are to arrive at six p.m., you are to dress for a black tie event, and you are to go by the alias assigned to you. Your alias is a simple single word: a color. Nondescript and vague, it suitably matches the anonymity of your host: Mr. Boddy. The invitation is an odd departure from the routine, but you know better than to refuse.

So on Saturday evening you dressed in your finest clothes and departed to seek the address written in the letter. Lightning cracked overhead as a steady onslaught of rain hammered your windshield; your headlights barely piercing through the Stygian evening murk. You do not know what this evening will hold but there is a prickle at the back of your next. Extra-sensory perception screams at you: DANGER! But it’s too late to turn back, you are already guilty, and your only option now is to dive deeper into the night.

– ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE  

CLUEDORPG is a 21+ murder mystery roleplay inspired by Clue (1985), House of Danger, and Stealing Shadows. Featuring a cast of eight criminals with psychic abilities who’ve been blackmailed for the past year the rp will follow the classic ‘dinner with an unknown host’ storyline, but with a twist. This is a writing-heavy roleplay, with some ttrpg mechanics. The rp will be mature and dark; focusing on themes of murder, morality, money, and desperation. The story is set in 1959, but will only represent the aesthetics and technology of the era.

UPDATE: MAIN HAS BEEN UNLOCKED @cluedorpg!

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