Not My Convo; save the lascivious old rich men, or watch their doom unfold.

Narrative:

You play someone on their way to their job on a Saturday morning, when suddenly you get a provocative text from a stranger. It's simply an image of a girl hiding her face, and as your character is pondering why they're receiving this message, the girl gets a response from an older looking man. You suddenly realize that you're not meant to be part of this conversation.

Another conversation window opens up, it's the girl again, seemingly messaging her friend this time about the man that just responded. "We've got him" she says. You find yourself in the middle of what appears to be a cat fishing operation on social media, but have accidentally been added to the list of recipients. Soon the conversations turn darker and darker, and these catfish seem to want much more than simply money.

They're preparing some kind of dark ritual for, or experimentation on, wealthy old men. Something about the pursuit of ascension, an ancient text or two are referenced, it's whatever. And it's up to you to use the cryptic catfish' texts to save these men from their eminent misfortune. Or not, you can decide.

Gameplay:

Play the role of the Rich man's bane or Rich man's savior, as you learn about the targeted men of this operation, and decide whether on not they're worth your effort saving. Decode the identities of the catfish, get to the bottom of the mystery.

It's basically more like an adventure game, where you travel to different locations in your city to find out the identities and backstories of everyone involved. And make the crucial decisions leading to a few unique endings, some good, some bad. Decisions will unfold in dialogue choices with other characters, actions towards certain situations, people and objects. This decisions would ideally be informed by what you find out with your investigative mind. But you could also just ignore the backstory and make funny things happen.

You're a fly on the wall, but a very important fly.

(image edit by me, blood splatter found here; http://sagacious.deviantart.com/art/Blood-Splatter.... // Tweet used found here; https://twitter.com/bleopatra/status/7481628697248....)

Come into contact with old entrepreneurs, important political figures, royalty from distant lands, hasbeen celebrities, deranged sociopaths, sex workers, witches, questionably intelligent children with no pupils and perhaps even your (character's) own friends and family to crack the ritual secrets, and perhaps even "ascend" yourself.

This is just inspired by the threads of cat fishing that goes on throughout my Twitter feed (I follow some interesting folks). They seem like little gangs, and so I decided to turn that into a game, only the gang is some dark cult set on the pursuit of knowledge through the sacrifice of old, rich men.

My reason for including old rich men, is that they're typically introduced as the least blameless people in the modern world. It will be interesting to see how players would react to scenarios that might involve having to save them, if the contrary doesn't rub them the right way.

This would be a game set for any platform really. The controls would be quite difficult to make unintuitively. Aimed at teens and above for mature content (like cat fishing and ritual sacrifice to name a few).