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So ... WHY did you poison him, stab him, blugeon him about the head with one of those sausages the length and weight of a bowling pin, shoot him with a crossbow, push him out a 5½ story window, and run him over with a 2005 Honda Civic?

(For Example: Mine was a truly wild series called Tenchi Muyo.)

First session is normal, maybe has bogey man (Third Life, Last Life)

Second gives people a soulmate for the session (double life)

Then people can gain the hearts of those they kill (Limited Life)

They each get a task for the session (secret life)

Either the players get all the wildcards like on the Wild Life finale, or there’s a dice roll animation for each player and whatever it lands on is their twist for the session. One player has superpowers, another an immortal snail, and other gets Trivia Bot. (Wild life)

You see it’s a common misconception that London Bridge is a bridge in London. It’s actually the name of a little girl. She’s not even from London, her parents just visited Europe once and decided to name her that because that’s where they believe she was conceived.

If you had to listen to one of these (fictional) options for one whole hour, uninterrupted, which would you choose?

Once on the fingers that grabbed the treat

Ones next to the treat

This could be based on literally anything, including just vibes. But ideas could come from mythology (gods and spirits and heroes and monsters from different cultures). Or history (figures who famously studied or thought about or worked with deep space, black holes, etc.). Or media (many different stories, games, and movies have characters, classes, and species who are connected with darkness, etc.). Or simple word association derivatives (for example, "shadow" could lead to "obscuration" which could give Obs, Scura, Scurat, Obcurt, Osurti, etc.).

(Every story is made of tropes, just like how every sentence is made of words. Still, some tropes can feel a bit overused if a storyteller doesn't do something different with them. What do you think could be an interesting variation to this trope? It doesn't need to be elaborate or surprising or original, just something that might appeal to you personally.)