Norm: A Serial Killer RPG

*WARNING: This game contains graphic descriptions and moderate depictions of: s*x, violence, drug and alcohol use, death of humans, animals and the American Dream, extremely foul language, Donald Trump, and other themes unsuitable for the workplace, those of a young age, or those with a sensitive or impressionable nature. Player discretion is advised.*

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Norm: A Serial Killer RPG

A very dark RPG/Adventure game, created in RPGMaker VX Ace.

It is a story about two people...

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Faith Powers - a prison nurse with a hero complex, who is nowhere near as lily-white as she seems, but managing to maintain her veneer. She is occasionally tormented on the job by her most high profile patient...

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Norman Peoples - a cannibal, convicted of thirteen counts of murder, and serving a multiple life-sentence in the bowels of a correctional facility. He will do anything to escape, and he has his ears peeled for opportunity to knock...

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It is not a story about love. It is a story about survival. It is a story about what is considered "normal" - and the actual truths of the universe that send people screaming from their beds in the night. It is a story about the lies we are told. It is a story about the lies we tell ourselves. It is a story about murder, debauchery, cannibalism, fraud, extortion, torture, Stockholm Syndrome, drugs, war, heresy and black magic. It is a story about tedium... it is a story about entropy... and there will be no happy endings.

But there will be plenty of macaroni and cheese...

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***CURRENT FEATURES***

~ Non-linear, story-heavy gameplay, set in the Washington D.C. of the Lovecraft mythos.
~ References to real serial killers galore.
~ Killer soundtrack by Nine Inch Nails.
~ Nearly-monochrome graphics will have you seeing red.
~ Basic weather and time-of-day system.
~ Three possible endings.
~ Four different murder Affinities to choose from, and two hidden Affinities.
~ Ten different character Classes to choose from, and three hidden Classes.
~ Cannibalize one of six different human body parts from each kill, to build your stats to your specifications.
~ Kill Count with comparison to actual historical serial killers.
~ Gain an entire experience level from each specific human you murder.
~ Random murders still yield experience.
~ Grinding if you want it. I don't see nothin' wrong with it.
~ Giant rats.
~ More giant rats. (D.C. has a serious problem...)
~ At least one hooker.
~ S*x, drugs and rock and roll.
~ Hallucinations.
~ S-Mart! Shop Smart!
~ Police bribes and brutality.
~ Night jobs.
~ Evidence disposal.
~ Premeditation.
~ Impulsiveness.
~ Suicide.
~ Bleeding.
~ Severed limbs and decapitations.
~ Comas, organ failures, and terminal illnesses.
~ Donald Trump.
~ Secret stuff. Shhh...
~ Cows.
~ Dogs.
~ Pigs.
~ Teddy bears.
~ Redemption?
~ Zombies.
~ The end of the world as we know it.

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***HINTS***(MINOR SPOILERS!!!)***

~ Save as soon as you leave/skip the intro, and can move around Faith's House. The save screen automatically pops up at this point now.
~ You start the game with 1 Hit Point. The immediate goal is to get Norm to the hospital at the very North of the Washington D.C "Main" map.
~ Hold Shift (the "Speed Button"), and immediately move left and away from the Police Car, when you leave Faith's House and enter the Main map. Then move north until you are on top of the Hospital Icon. Then press Enter (the "Action Button") to enter the Hospital.
~ Plan A: Talk to the Nurse at the desk. Wait as instructed, and then go to the back of The Hospital to the Doctor. Don't Attack the Doctor, Let him heal you. After that, you will be fully healed, and the world is yours to explore.
~ Plan B: IF you have more than $20 dollars at this point (which is possible without combat, IF you have been nosy enough) you can just leave, and go to the icon nearest the very middle of the map. This is the S-Mart. Speak to Angela at the right-hand counter and order food. After that, you will be fully healed, and the world is yours to explore.
~ Try not to kill everybody. Even though you probably can. Even though you will get a tasty piece of human that will make your stats higher. Even though Norm probably would. Yeah you're probably gonna kill everybody...
~ You can attempt to "Bribe" your way out of battle with Police Officers and Investigators on the Main map. This will cost you $100 per try, if you have it, and success is not guaranteed. And be prepared to speed away from the enemy unit on the map immediately.
~ If you kill an Investigator, and survive the battle, the game will immediately move to a separate segment of the game, considered for now to be one of the branches that leads towards one of the three "endings" of the game. Save before exploring this option, if you want to get back to the Main story later.
~ If you find a Dungeon, hold the Action Button while in a trap, until you break free - otherwise the time required to break free will keep increasing, and in the case of the Chainsaw, Drill, and Water Tank trap, you will keep taking more damage every time the red flashes appear, and you may die.

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***CHANGELOG VERSION BETA1K***(MAJOR SPOILERS!!!)***

* Fixed music not playing during Arson movie.
* Fixed description on The Game skill; original skill title was being used.
* Changed Newspaper sound effect for the opening sequence.
* Fixed ending (The En-) triggering during dream sequence.
* Fixed dead guard at White House Gate still moving and saying lines if they are killed before ramming the gate.
* Fixed bug where Limb Clinic would show up on the map before crippling injuries occurred, but after you commit murder on the bus.
* Changed image flashes from the use of drugs. They are much less frequent.
* Added Par references to each golf hole, if anyone wants to actually play golf:
Hole 1: Par 3
Hole 2: Par 4
Hole 3: Par 4
Hole 4: Par 3
Hole 5: Par 5
Hole 6: Par 5
Hole 7: Par 3
Hole 8: Par 3
Hole 9: Par 4
Total: Par 34
* Fixed Male clerk soft lock in S-Mart, if there were corpses between the male and female clerks, and you kill the female clerk.
* Added Reagent can be found, if you have the right timing, and used to turn John into a zombie. This will require the following:
1. John must be in the party.
2. John must be dead.
3. You must have at least one each of Human Heart, Human Liver, Human Eyes, Human Brain, Human Tongue and Human Blood.
4. The new "Nhoj" is Totally Insane and therefore cannot be controlled; he could attack anyone during combat.
* Added Pet advanced class. Mostly summonable by Handlers, these actors Rampage often, and some are even harder to control.
* Changed Trash Bags gained when looting S-Mart amount to 3 each side.
* Added Daoloth ending (The End!). The Revelations of Glaaki can be found squirreled away, and used to summond Daoloth, to ask for a wish. The formula must be completed as follows:
1. Daoloth must be given a blood sacrifice (Norm will lose a random number of HP). This always happens.
2. Daoloth must be summoned in total darkness (at night). If the book is read at any other time, Norm will go Totally Insane.
3. Daoloth must be magically contained within a pentacle. If the book is read anywhere else, Daoloth appears, but grows infinitely, absorbing and teleporting Norm into the near-orbit of some world, to fall to his death.
4. Concepts recognized for wishes are as follows; if none of these are typed, The Revelations of Glaaki will disappear:
Truth/Physical/Belief/Real/Norm  | Lies/Drain/Doubt/False/Faith
Life/Create/Live/Day/Frederico  | Death/Destroy/Die/Night/Hookerface
Light/White/Star/Fast/Hans  | Dark/Black/Void/Slow/Cherry
Loud/Wind/Noise/Yellow/Jodie  | Quiet/Earth/Silence/Green/John
Hot/Fire/Heat/Red/Ed  | Cold/Ice/Cool/Blue/Sara
Dry/Electricity/Lightning/Violet/Father  | Wet/Water/Rain/Grey/Mother
Good/Positive/Order/Up/Orange  | Evil/Negative/Chaos/Down/Purple
Friend/Love/Peace/Joy/Pink  | Foe/Hate/War/Sorrow/Brown
* Added Total Insanity state. Causes permanent loss of all Sanity Points, and hallucinations. This is the permanent version of Madness (which occurs when Sanity Points reach 0). Includes special phone and decapitation pics.
* Fixed Norm moving slower than normal, immediately after introduction.
* Fixed could not enter women's bathroom at the Hospital during State of Emergency.
* Fixed Cherry could be blocked by Amputee during Limb Clinic cutscene, causing soft lock.
* Changed sprite for Transit Center.
* Added optional interview section at beginning of the game, to provide a concrete reason for why Norm receives a Muzzle.
* Added Random ending (The En-); as Kill Count rises, and John has not been recruited, a random chance increases that Norm will be killed by him during a cutscene where he acquires ON THE SENDING OUT OF THE SOUL, and uses the ritual to try to contact Norm, sending his head to The Hydra instead.
* Changed timing on the color changes during hallucinations, to be more epilepsy-friendly. Also included two more images.
* Bath Salts now empties your SP, while also adding +10 to your max SP, as usual.
* Added Handler advanced class. You must kill no animals until the "Kitty!!" scene. Cannot be a Saint, Sorceror or Strangler already.
* Fixed bug where just having one advanced class event happen would prevent others from occurring, whether you accept or not.
* Swapped Blood drain and Sanity Drain for Stranglers, since sanity doesn't come into play until later in the game.

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