A relative's death is always sad.... But is it really? What if you barely knew the relative? What if you were able to gain billions of dollars from their death? Is their death still sad to you?
"Congratulations! You've been selected to participate in The Inheritance Games! By taking part in The Inheritance Game, you have the chance to inherit the massive Lovelle fortune..."
Many people have that one relative that's rich, you're not exception to this. Granted, you probably don't know him that well. You've heard rumors about him, saw him in the family pictures, and maybe you've even met him once or twice, but the point is, you're not close. Christopher Lovelle was always a mysterious man in the family, and wasn't the most popular. The only thing most people in the family knew about him was that he was a billionaire with no immediate family. He was known as eccentric, strange, and nobody in the family really wanted to be close to him. Which is why it stunned you when you received a letter informing you of his death. Why would you get notice of his death?
And why are you eligible to receive his entire inheritance?
Whatever the case, intrigued by the inheritance, you decide to participate in The Inheritance Game.
What awaits you is a series of puzzles that you must solve, and to win the inheritance, you must be the first to figure out the final answer. But of course, you're not alone. Competing with the members of your own family, you must navigate this game of greed, false relationships and distrust to outsmart everyone else. Who will you trust? Who will you abandon? Will greed win over your moral compass?
Let The Inheritance Game begin....
Basic Idea and Premise: Solve puzzles! Betray people! Make friends! Meet family! GET RICHHHH
The Inheritance Game Rules
- Everyone will receive puzzles. The goal will be to collect as many clues as possible to solve the puzzles and figure out who the "answer" is. The winner will receive the inheritance.
- The "answer" will be a person among the contestants. The players' goal will be to figure out who the "answer" is.
- Everyone is going to work in assigned pairs. Although cooperation is okay, you will not gain any additional money for lending aid to anyone.
- You must live on the Lovelle Estate during the game.
- People must come up with their answer and reasoning by the deadline.
- If no one gives the correct answer, the "answer" will receive the inheritance. Therefore, the goal of the "answer" will be to confuse the others and try to get them to guess wrong.
Hello everyone! I realize that a lot of this may be confusing, so I'll try to break down and explain the parts which I think are a bit hard to understand.
Every few IC days, your characters will receive a puzzle that they must solve. These puzzles contain important clues leading to who the "answer" is.
The "answer" will be a character in the roleplay. Nobody will know who the "answer" is besides for the GM and the "answer" themselves. The person who is the "answer" will be more or less the antagonist of this roleplay, trying to throw everyone off. It's the goal of all of the players to guess who the "answer" is by the end of this game--that's how they win the inheritance. But the "answer" will be actively trying to mess everyone up, because if everyone guesses wrong, the "answer" will receive the money.
You do not have to be good at puzzles or mystery solving to participate in this roleplay. Although I would like you to at least try to solve the various puzzles, it would be unrealistic if everyone knew how to solve the puzzles and such. Remember, your character can be a clueless one, they can't all be the detective-type! I will be dropping hints about how to solve the puzzles in both the IC and the OOC.
This roleplay is centered around human relationships, even more than puzzle solving. While attempting to solve the puzzles will be an important part of this roleplay, the main goal is to work through character interaction and the changing relationships with family members. There should be betrayal, there should be drama. This is concerning a very large sum of money after all. How do people change when confronted with something like this? Will they make friends in this strange environment? Stuff like that. This roleplay is largely character driven.
Have you read The Westing Game? If so, this roleplay is based off of that book. While it's not completely the same, many aspects and puzzles are based off of this book. You don't have to have read the book to understand the roleplay.
Anyways, I believe that's all for now! Thanks for reading, and I hope you're interested!
This is such a confusing premise, if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask.
If there's an ample amount of interest, I will put up an OOC with more information.
