#Murder Case Idea: Similarity Slasher

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fiery cairn
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Possible Murderer Archetype Idea. Either:

  1. the killer murders people who share a similar characteristic e.g.: only kills people with blue eyes or red hair etc
  2. Murderer kills people who share characteristics (all or some) with themselves. This can work as the player may not know which traits of this person matches the killers, e.g. John Smith is killed cause they have brown hair which the killer has, but there’s no info about which of Smith’s traits they were targeted for. Alternatively maybe the killer removes body parts the person was targeted for, for example, someone’s green eyes are taken out, and if you haven’t met that person you have no idea what colour eyes they had. Maybe the parts could be found in a jar somewhere as a secondary crime scene related to the places the killer visits or in their apartment and their making a second person.
    Name ideas for this killer could be “Gemini Butcher” or “Similarity Slasher”. Could have the second part as Bigot, Discriminator, Hater for the different versions.
    Ideas for “Why did you commit murder?” Could be: “Those <insert trait here> deserved to die, freaks”, “Everyone’s wrong. It’s always what’s on the outside that counts”, “They stole my looks, can’t you see, I’m the real victim here”, “<city name> will be a lot safer with <number of victims> less <trait “green eyes”> infesting our streets”
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Pretty sure that an implementation for the Retired Reaper cases that targets people of different ages could be used for this (obvs no actual idea). Would love to see this

slow basalt
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There are some traits that are available that I felt a little uncomfortable personally keying in on for murder victims including ethnicity. For whatever reason actual characteristics that count as murder evidence aren't listed in the traits but are definitely available in the DDS editor like "|receiver.haircolour|"

I set most of the murders/victims based on stuff like
"companies": [
"REF:CompanyPreset|AmericanDiner", "REF:CompanyPreset|StreetFoodVendorSnacks","REF:CompanyPreset|FastFood"
and I wonder if I could use something like "REF:DDSScope|citizen.haircolor.red" or if there is a preset that I don't know about with those variables.

fiery cairn
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100% agree that stuff like gender and ethnicity shouldn’t be used as murder material. Just random ones like hair colour or eye colour etc

golden plover