Editing Go to hell!

A /tg/ homebrew, first conceived as some sort of Pokeymans for adults and then evolved into a game of its own. Developed primarily by an anon with Tourette's with some general imput from the board. Players take the role of characters that have a "demon in a box" (ie. a Pokeyman from hell) which they use for nasty shit.

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Go To Hell

A Storytelling Game of Bad Decisions

"Vicious Circle the RPG" - Anonymous
Forward

One day on 4-Chan's /TG/ I posted a thread suggesting a world not so
different from our own, where, since 2002, maladjusted people had begun
using special occult boxes to summon tortured souls from Hell and have
them battle each other. It's sarcastic cruelty and adult satire of a
popular children's game was applauded and I was given many good ideas
that would provide the kernel of trying to flesh it out into a full,
playable roleplaying game.

This is not that game.

While struggling with how to represent the complexity of soul dueling
while keeping it both fun and dark, and trying to integrate an
advancement mechanic that dealt with not how many battles you fought or
enemies you defeated but with unlocking memories of your enslaved soul's
past life, I started to have some other ideas. Some ideas more my speed,
more my style.

And that's how Go To Hell was born.

Maybe someday I will go back to that first game (in my mind it's
"Luxuria Rule"), but speaking as it's core concepts were taken from both
copywrighted sources and other people, I doubt it.

Go To Hell is a creation of my own, but I made it with the kind of
players that show up on 4-Chan in mind.

So, with that said, let's Go To Hell...

To play Go To Hell you need at Narrator and at least one Player. Besides
that all you need is a sheet of paper and a pencil to keep track of a
few things. For the record, the game goes best when you have multiple
Players, so while one is getting royally fucked over by the Narrator the
others can point and laugh until it's their turn to get reamed.

Players will take on the role of Holders: social outcasts, psychos,
freaks, punks, and other assholes who have summoned a real, damned
Demon. How this happened isn't really important (occult bullshit is for
pussies). What is important are three things. Which of the 9 Circles of
Hell does the Demon come from? What powers does it have? And is it a
Lesser Demon or a Greater Demon?

There are, as I said, 9 Circles of Hell, one for each of the sins which
can land you there. Every Demon is defined by the Circle they occupy,
and that Circle also affects it's Holder. The Circles are: Heresy, Lust,
Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Wrath, Envy, Pride, and Betrayal.

After you choose a Circle, you should define what your Demon can do when
it's kicking ass and taking names for you. Does it possess people? Does
it take physical form and rip their heads off? Does it cause feces to
rain from the sky? All of this is up to you, any demon-y powers will do.
The shared factor among Demons is that whenever you summon them to solve
a problem, they usually end up causing more than you already had.

That leads me to the third question: What type of Demon do you have?
Lesser Demons have no free will. Their obedient slaves, so they'll do
exactly as your braindead Holder says. However since they're so weak,
they require 2 Points of Luxuria (more on that later) to materialize for
the duration of the scene. You spend the power, your Demon it appears,
it does what you say during that scene, and by the next scene of the
game it's dissapeared and if you want it again you'll have to spend more
power and resummon it next time you have a problem you can't handle
yourself.

Greater Demons are strong enough where they only require 1 Luxuria Point
to materialize for the duration of the scene. However their also
free-willed and only loosly bound to their Contract with you, the
Holder. They can't directly harm you and they have to follow what you
say, but they're free to cause you as much grief as possible in the
process, and generally will.

For example, Randy's Demon is Shithead, a Lesser Demon. It's Randy's
slave. When Randy's being chased by the cops he spends two Luxuria
Points to summon Shithead. He tells it to use it's powers (as his player
scribbled down gleefully at the beggining of the game) to possess the
cop driving the cruiser and cause it to crash. Shithead obeys and now
the police car is a firey wreck. Unfortunately that firey wreck is
blocking the only way out of the alley.

On the other hand, Bill's Demon is Soulfucker, a Greater Demon. When his
fiance has locked herself in the bathroom after he tried to stick it in
her pooper while she was asleep, Bill get's worried that she may call
the cops, or worst, her father. So he spends 1 Luxuria Point and
Soulfucker materializes. After verbally abusing Bill for while he
finally gets the command "make sure she can't call anyone". Hearing
this, Soulfucker breaks down the door and rapes Bill's fiance to death,
ensuring that she will never call anyone again; while Bill looks on in
horror.


To materialize your Demon for the rest of the scene (the scene changes
like in a tv show or movie, inbetween events and locations) you have to
spend Luxuria Points. 2 for Lesser Demons, 1 for Greater Demons. Luxuria
Points are gained by sinning. However these sins cannot be things your
Demon did for you or that you did because of your Contract Limit (more
on that later). Only unforgivable sins will do, so it helps if your
victims are old ladies, churchgoers, kittens, or loved ones. An active
sin (assault, theft, public shitting) against strangers will generate a
Luxuria Point. A passive sin (emotional betrayal, like sleeping with
your fiance's underage sister) against someone close to you will
generate a Luxuria Point. Only sins with a victim who knows it will gain
Luxuria; if you write hatespeech on a wall it doesn't count until
someone sees it.

Contract Limits are the price Hell puts on having a Demon at your
disposal. Simply put, by the agreement of a Holder's contract with it's
Demon, it shares the same Circle as it's Demon. Bill is normally a nice
guy, but Soulfucker comes from the Circle of Lust. That means whenever a
tantalizing opportunity to do something horrible in the name of Lust
appears, it's a Contract Limit for Bill. He has no choice but to either
obey it and perform that action (without gaining any Luxuria for it) or
to spend a Sanity Point to avoid it. Each time you avoid a Contract
Limit the price doubles. By interupting the chain of avoidances by
following a Contract Limit you can break the cycle, so that next time
you avoid one it will only cost 1 Sanity Point again. You have to obey
two Contract Limits in a row to restore all your Sanity Points. As you
lose Sanity Points, the Narrator gets to describe alterations to your
behavior as listed in the Sanity Meter below


Sanity
10: Composed
9: Anxious
8: Stressed Out
7: Neurotic
6: Desperate
5: Panicked
4: Disgruntled
3: Incoherent
2: Insane
1: Immobilized
0: Complete Breakdown

The inherent conflict in Go To Hell comes from consequences. When a
Holder does something bad, it instigates a Reality Check. You kill
someone the cops will be after you, you do drugs and your family will
try to put you in rehab, you rant about having a demon and people will
come to take you to the funny farm. You can't roleplay your way out of a
Reality Check unless you'v either spent Karma Points or summoned your
Demon. However this doesn't solve your problem, it just lets you avoid
it for a while, and causes the problem to get bigger and bigger as your
poor desperate choices only make things worst for you. You spend a Karma
Point, shoot a cop and run away. Now the manhunt is huge. You summon
your Demon, it throws the car off a bridge on the way to your
intervention, and you crawl out of it, only to see your uncle who was
driving is now dead. Sooner or later the Reality Check will be back. The
first Reality Check costs 1 Karma Point, the next one costs 2, and so on
like that throughout the session until your out. Each point of Luxuria
you gain also takes away a Karma Point. Needless to say, Holders are
people who rely on their Demons to bail them out when their Karma runs dry.

When your all out of Karma and Luxuria Points and the Reality Check
comes for you again, you can choose to either Surrender or Run. Either
way the Narrator gets to decide your fate, but depending on which you
choose the outcome might be different.

In some cases a Holder whose finally been caught by his Reality Check is
out of the game, dead or in prison usually. Other times this simply sets
up a whole new scenario. Once in prison and bereft of Luxuria Points,
the Holder can start sinning to get Luxuria and then summon his Demon to
get out of there. That works well in single-player games when neither
player nor Narrator have had enough yet.

In multiplayer games having one of the Holders caught can either provide
a hook for the other Holders, or they'll say "fuck that guy, we have our
own shit to do". In that case the game has taken on a competetive edge
and it will now be about who stays alive/out of prison/ect. the longest.
In this case the Narrator should feel free to deputize players whose
Holders are out of the game to help him as co-Narrators.

Each session of Go To Hell should start with each Holder having 10 Karma
Points, 10 Sanity Points, and 0 Luxuria Points. Character sheets should
just be pieces of paper with the Holder's name on it, their Demon (it's
name, powers, Circle, wether it's Greater or Lesser), and a running
tally of their Points.

And that my friends is how you play Go To Hell.

SHITCOCK
The Official Supplement to
Go to Hell

Last Man Standing: In group play of Go to Hell, a Reality Check can be
settled (rather than just avoided) by selling out someone else. At least
until the next stupid thing you do. But the point is this will allow you
to stop "running" and allow you to bassically take a new direction at
your leisure without the Narrator steamrolling you with the cops on your
ass. This way you can choose what kind of evil activity you want to go
do next, or try to be a decent human being (and watch how the Narrator
tempts you/drives you insane with Contract Limits, like having your Lust
Contract Limit come up when your at church with your extended family and
a bunch of young nuns walk in).

Royal Rumble: Things like betraying fellow Holders will likely make
someone ask the question "what happens when Demons fight?". This is a
very good question, since there's no real limit placed on the
effectiveness of Demons, just the general rule that it's never going to
permanently solve your problems. However everyone's Demon does have
their own flavor (your suppposed to right down the way your Demon uses
it's narrative omnipotence at the beggining of the game, such as "feces
magic" or "possession" and so on. A list of three or so broad but themed
powers is usually a good setup). However this still doesn't decide which
Demon is stronger, it just gives them different styles of power use. Now
you might say "My Greater Demon should kick his Lesser Demon's ass".
However, Lesser Demons are pumped with 2 Luxuria Points for every 1 that
a Greater gets because they need the extra power to materialize. That
should put them on even footing with their more free-willed
counterparts. So then how DO you decide the outcome of Demons fighting?
When two Holders get in a Demon fight, they can both choose how much
Luxuria to spend on the fight, which translates into re-trys. Since they
both have their Demons materialized out in the scene already they both
are assumed to have one re-try each. You can spend all the Luxuria you
have on re-trys, but you have to decide it before the contest begins

The contest is rock, paper, scissors. When one person is victorious and
the loser has no re-trys left, it's settled. The winner then gets to
describe how his Demon rapes the other Demon. However, there's a rule in
the books of Hell that while Holders can get their Demons to kill, rape,
maim and otherwise fuck over, to death even, the general populace, one
Holder's Demon can't kill another Holder. That doesn't mean your Demon
can't rape or otherwise humiliate the Holder you just defeated, and you
get the chance to describe that if you want after you describe it
killing his Demon, but it can never be fatal. Because if your Demon
could kill other Holders, it would be able to kill you as well; that's
the way the rules of Hell work.

For those lilly faggots who lose such a duel and find their Demon killed
by another, theyre in a predicament. To get their Demon back they'll
have to make a new Contract with Hell, giving them a new Contract Limit
while keeping the old one. That means if your Lust Demon gets killed and
you summon a Sloth Demon, you now have both Lust and Sloth Contract
Limits. Have fun with that.

Recovering Karma: Helping good people avoid their own Reality Checks
(which usually makes it your Reality Check too when you get involved) or
causing bad people to get Checked when they otherwise wouldn't have
gives you the opportunity to regain Karma Points. So does patching up
things with people you sinned against (be it to get Luxuria, just while
being a bastard, or as part of a Contract Limit). If you can go from 4
or below Karma back up to 10, you gain an extra point of sanity on your
gauge to help you avoid Contract Limits (and thus TRY to be a good
person...faggot). This means having your scale changed from 10 to 11 or
11 to 12, ect