Weighted Mortality: Ludomania

**Weighted Mortality: Ludomania**, also called **Weighted Mortality 4**, **WM:L**, or **WM4** was the fourth game in the Weighted Mortality series.

It had four game masters during its run: Konton, Armonia, Nothingness, and Grief.

The game began December 1, 2021 and ended January 23, 2022. It succeeded the cancellation of Weighted Mortality: Sinister Circus. It was succeeded by Weighted Mortality: Uncertain Death.

## Hosts

### Game Masters

Konton
Armonia
King
Grief

### Entities

End
Mirror

## Participants

### Other Characters

All characters were relevant, but due to the Gods are Gone ending, all the Gods are dead. This leaves only the characters briefly mentioned by Grief alive.

These important characters were Galina, Richard Marlow, Scientist (character), Brone Williams, Pandora (character), and Aeon (character).

> "Brone created an AI to oversee the game and make sure it would rewrite all anomalies, it was named The Artist."
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 - quote from Grief.

## Synopsis

This game took place over weekly calls and conversations during the downtime. The game was a godly game to decide who would become the next god of Chaos and Harmony. There was a total of ten players, Deer, Devesh, Lyric, Ludwig, Rose, Cibil, Oliver, Lilith, Hewitt, and Eris. There was also one entity, End. The game ended with the "Gods are Gone" ending.

### Prior to Main Game 1

Ten people wake up with fuzzy memories and headaches in an odd casino. They are a strange group, all from different places, and told that they must play a game for their lives here. They meet Konton and Armonia- who claim to be gods of chaos and harmony respectively.

##### Grief's puzzle

Using Mirror, Grief was able to communicate with the players and told them to help her. Oliver and Lilith accepted this and went on to solve Griefs puzzle. This puzzle killed Mirror and gave Oliver the key.

Konton revealed that there was two traders amongst the ten players. Oliver asks Grief and she confirms this to be true.

#### Main Game 1

Ten enter and eight leave. Oliver begins the debate by accusing Ludwig and Cibil of being the traitors. Cibil argues against this asking for evidence which Oliver seems to be lacking. The debate continues until Shark breaks and reveals himself and Lyric to be the two traitors. Lyric opposes this and tries to stop Shark to no avail. The game ends with Shark dying to sacrifice and Lyric to majority vote.

>  “I’ve never been who you thought I was, it’s all an act, I’m so sorry, you lot mean so much to me, you’re the greatest friends I’ve ever had, and yet I was never even who you thought I was never even someone to trust and I.. I’m not even Australian! The accent is fake! I’ve never even been there! I’ve never even surfed before! I wasn’t allowed! I’ve never been attacked by a shark and I’ve never been ANYTHING more than just a stupid dumbass who can’t see past himself! I’ve never amounted to anything except pain and I’ve never even truly been someone to make anyone happy! I’ve been so IDIOTIC that I thought maybe Lilith could have loved me! I’m not a hero, I'm just a filthy traitor! A selfish filthy traitor who wanted someone to think maybe, just maybe, I was somebody!  But now I guess I’m gonna become the most nobody I’ve ever been.”
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 -Excerpt from Shark's execution.

### Prior to Main Game 2

#### Armonia's Ball

Armonia invites six players to a ball, Cibil, Eris, Hewitt, Lilith, Ludwig, and Deer. Unbeknownst to the players, this will be a game of Russian roulette to purge a sin from the game. The game ends with Hewitt's death.

>  "As you pull the trigger the gun clicks. A long silence fills the room. As you begin to pass the gun, the handle becomes burning hot like magma to the touch. You drop the gun from pain to notice burns on your hand. The gun vibrates rapidly on the ground until the barrel points at you. Lottery tickets dash out of the barrel in a serpentine fashion. The tickets divide and wrap around your limbs. The constrict and get tighter and tighter and tighter. With one quick motion, they sever your limbs, leaving you, nothing but a bloody corpse on the ground."
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 - Hewitts execution.

### Main Game 2

Seven enter and five leave. The debate begins with Cibil figuring out everyone's roles and saying they should vote for Deer, the observer. Some oppose, but Deer receives majority. Due to a perk given to Deer for being the youngest, Deer redirects the votes on themself to Eris. Eris dies to majority vote and Ludwig to sacrifice.

### Prior to Main Game 3

Due to being pestered by Oliver, Konton creates an escape room. The souls of Lyric and Shark participate while Deer and Oliver play as well. The game ends with Oliver stabbing Lyric and Sharks soul, supposedly destroying them. This gives Oliver and Deer the perk God Killer which allows them to vote for the Gods.

### Main Game 3

Five enter and ten will leave. The discussion begins with a debate on who they should kill, Konton or Armonia. The players eventually settle on the fact that Konton should be executed. Konton dies due to majority vote, but Armonia reveals he won't stay dead unless she dies as well. Konton in his wavering strength also resurrects all the dead players.

>  With his wavering strength, he extends a curled hand, flicks his wrist, and the snap echoes- blinding everyone with a spark. When lovely sight blesses us all, we are cursed to view blue blood leaking from the god’s bullet-filled body. Bones scrape against each other, flesh melds and recombines, minds distend, and bodies revive. Your dead friends (and enemies) have reanimated. With a flicker of the lights, Armonia disappears. It seems you all have some catching up to do.
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 - Excerpt from Konton's execution.

### Prior to Main Game 4

A speaker in the casino breaks. Shark tries to touch it and it flashes red then brown, Oliver tries and it flashes green then brown, and End tries and it flashes purple and brown. End tells the participants that this is most likely a glitch and King will fix it.

#### Main Game 4

Nine players enter and nine will exit. The game begins with all but three players being trapped in cylindrical boxes. Deer, Lyric, and Lilith are not trapped in these boxes though because they will be deciding who to kill. Armonia explains that they must choose boxes to stab, three are empty, and if they find End the game will end. Many discussions happen, and then the players find Ends box, Killing him.

>  "“ (Konton) Welcome bastards! You wanted me gone so badly, well I’m baaaaaaack. Here is your fun reward for my heartless murder.” “(Armonia) as you can see, all but 3 of you have been trapped. The 3 on the outside, Lilith, Lyric, and Deer, will come to a majority vote and choose a box. The player or entity in the box will then be executed.” “ (Konton) After 1 player has been chosen, Armonia and I will take our turn.” “ (Armonia) We will swap 2 boxes without telling you which ones are swapped.” “ (Konton) There are two ways for this game to end.” “ (Armonia) By skewering 4 of the cylindrical boxes, or by killing End. End is trapped in one of the boxes as well and if you kill him, the game will immediately end .” “ (Konton) Let the game begin.”
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 - Intro to MG4

>  As the button is pressed, the skewer pierces the cylindrical box. Anyone inside is… oh. You look at the top of the skewer and nothing, no blood at all. The walls fall to reveal End with a skewer right through his chest. End looks around. “[End] Well I guess I was eventually going to disappear, just didn’t think this soon. Goodbye.” As End finishes, he starts evaporating. His body melts into a gas, a pitch-black gas. Goodbye.
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 - End's execution.

Oliver, not being able to handle Griefs demands anymore, kills himself by saying her name. The key then chooses Lilith.

### Main Game 5

Nine players enter and sadly, only eight will leave. Lilith starts the discussion with one fact, they must vote for Armonia. Cibil counters this, declaring that they all must kill Lilith so that the force she is working with (Grief) doesn't kill them all. This heated debate is stopped with a threat, Cibil will kill herself if Lilith isn't voted for. Ludwig and Lyrics convince the others that Cibils life is less than all of theirs. They decide to vote for Armonia. Armonia, Cibil, and Konton are all killed. With the deaths of Armonia and Konton, Grief and King become the new game masters.

>  "The center of your circle corrodes and decays. Out of the decaying floor, King emerges. “ [King] Thank you all for signing that contract, it allows me to meet you outside of my space. Konton, Armonia, seems you both have lost. Guess you’ll no longer need your divinity.” King waves his hand and a bright white light flies out of them both. The light tries to hold onto them but with no avail. The light dances and twirls as they both fall to the floor and release an agonizing scream, a scream no words can describe. “ [King] Huh, I forgot how painful that was for you two.” King moves his pointer and middle finger together, Armonia and Konton are dragged together. You look at the two former Gods on the floor, weak, shriveled, pathetic.“ [Konton] King, boss, Nothingness! Please don’t kill us! We’ve been good Gods! Well me more so than Armonia, but still!!” “ [Armonia] Boss please! I have done nothing but maintain harmony on Earth, please!” As the two continue begging their voices overlap and tears fall down their faces. As you all look over to King, you see its face contort and bend. With a wicked smile, King places his hands on their heads.“ [King] Don’t worry, I will make your deaths as painless as possible.” A loud crunch is heard and blue blood leaps outwards onto all of you. In King's hands are what used to be Konton and Armonias faces.“ [King] Ew, I always forget you two bled blue. Well no worries.” King flicks the blood off his wrist“ [King] I still have something to do.” In less than a second, the two mangled bodies decay into the same black goop that appeared when you all met King. It floats off the floor in bubbles. The bubbles burst and the remains fly towards King and get absorbed.“ [King] How I love feeling semi whole again. Well if you all couldn't have guessed, I will be the new admin of the casi…” A burst of smoke fills the room blocking everyone's sight.“ [King] Alright now, what is happening?” A snap echoes through the room and the smoke violently flies to the side, pilling some of you with it.“ [Grief] Hi baby, did you miss me? Imprisoning me for, how long has it been? 100 no no no, 357 years. Don’t even try to lock me away again. With the death of Konton and Armonia I have enough power to actively hold you back.” A look of anger falls  over King's face.“ [King] Fine then, I guess you can stay. For anyone who isn’t Lilith, Oliver, Lyric, and Devesh, this is the old queen of the Gods, Grief.” King decays into the black sludge and disappears.“ [Grief] Guess I’ll go too.” A door appears, Grief uses a key and walks through the door. It shuts and disappears."
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 - Konton and Armonia's execution.

### Main Game 6

Eight players enter and none shall leave. The game begins with a heated debate between Grief and the participants. One side wants to kill Grief while the other wants her to live. The players all throw away Griefs argument and vote her. Grief dies due to majority vote and King to the sacrifice. But they weren't the only ones to die.

>  "(Grief): “I guess it’s my time. I understand why you chose me, but I pity you.” Grief sheds one tear, the tear of a prisoned wife, a mother turned vilomah. As the tear sulks down her face. The tear falls and strikes the floor. The tear seeps into the ground, turning the ground, corrupting it. A scream is released, your emotions change and shift from fear, to grief, to anger, and finally nothing. Your emotions race through your brains like gazelles running from the lion's jaw. (Nothing): “What is this, I-I I… What is this?” More of the floor corrodes away. (Grief): “Retaliation. Retaliation from the soon to be widow. I will die, but at least you will too.” Grief, trying hard but failing to conceal her bloodthirsty smile, blows a kiss to Nothing and waves goodbye at you all. Nothing falls to its knees and hands, now visibly crying and a pillar above Grief falls, Crushing her. 2 glitched voices speak over each other. End and Oliver fight for dominance and as one of them seems to have won, they freeze. Their body cracks and bit by bit they fall apart. Finger by finger, eye by eye, until finally the entire body crumbles away, leaving only the head left. Nothing leans back off of his hands, but still crying on its knees. Its hands tighten and constrict as the blue tears shift into a red liquid, blood. The veins, or at least the mimic of veins, inside Nothing expand and and contract. More and more of the Casino crumbles away, opening up into an empty void below. Crunch crunch crunch, the sound of bones breaking as Nothing's fingers snap backwards. Its eyes roll back shining a spotlight of black light. Slowly, hair by hair, finger by finger, Nothing slowly deteriorates into black smoke. As the corruption of the casino finally reaches Nothing, the floor opens whole, swallowing Nothing below and right as it starts to fall, it deteriorates into nothing. Gone. Three corners of the room start to corrode, reduced to nothing but what shouldn’t have been. As you all run to the corner Devesh reaches to the wall and his arm falls off, and then a leg, another arm, then the head, and on his last leg, he falls back, consumed by the void. Lyric reaches the wall, breathes a sigh of relief, and then falls through the floor, consumed by the void. The corner you all are standing on slowly shrinks and shrinks. You all have no room to move, a single gust of wind will cause your death. You can feel the panicked breaths on your neck, the sweat falling on the others arms. The floor stops, a second, 2, 3, 7, 56, it feels like forever… A breath of relief comes from one of you, and then the floor continues. One of you falls, then another, someone drags another with them, and finally two. Lilith and Rose. Two flowers stuck on a platform in the neverending void. A strike of silence. Lilith, completely empty, pushes Rose off. Rose begins to scream but before the cry could leave her mouth, gone. Only one remains. Sadly, no door will be opened for any of you. No afterlife, no casino, nothing. As the last bit of platform crumbles away, Lilith falls, time seems to slow down. The trapped and tortured amalgamation of screams finally is freed. They all fly upwards coloring the walls around white. They ascend up and up, until the void constricts around them and they disappear. Time, feeling like it no longer exists, continues. Lilith continues falling until black. Nothing. Everyone is gone. Every God, scream, and suffering participant is gone. The pantheon, once ruling over the timelines, crumbles before itself like paper in water. Well, I guess the game is over. You beat Chaos and Harmony, Grief and Nothing. You won some gambles, you lost some. You died and you lived. The timelines are all still there, unregulated, able to break apart at will. Peace, finally peace. This isn’t normal. Welp, the game is over my friends. You reached this ending… Such a fun ending. Welp I will get going now, I shouldn’t leave vanishing waiting, but I will pose one last question. Was it worth it? You fought, you loved, you cried, was it worth it all?"
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 - Ending "Gods are Gone."

## Setting

A casino beyond time and space. The players were taken into this bright and loud place. Inside the Casino was a bar with infinite drinks, a prison to hold their darkest desires, and the main game grounds.

## Game Mechanics

Official art of all roles in Wm4
This game was run through calls and text chats. Trading was made through any chat with two willing participants (or one willing with a force trade). Discussions happened in view of the Gods due to their omnipresence. The dead were trapped in a discussion room where only The Medium and the Gods could hear. The players could gamble for coins to use in the store to buy perks to help them in their ascension to divinity.

Many new mechanics were made during this game, but many mechanics were also taken from Weighted Mortality: The First Death Game.

### New Roles

Weighted Mortality 4 was the origin of several new role cards.

* Gambler
* Stand-In
* Observer
* Gravedigger

## Timeline connections

A diagram of how time works.
The Casino and Mirror dimension exist outside of time. When timelines intersect, a main event happens. The ain WM timeline is timeline one. For a more complete timeline, view this article.

## Trivia

* The first and only game to have Gods in it.
* WM4 currently has the most roles out of every game.
* WM4 name-drops the most characters of any WM game, 22 in total.
* WM4 was put out unexpectedly early due to the cancellation of Weighted Mortality: Sinister Circus.
* A deck of cards was designed and released for this game.

## Gallery

Below is a gallery of all official or conceptual art from Ludomania.

The participants of Ludomania, in order of card number.The participants of Ludomania, in order of height.Deer, from Ludomania.Hewitt, from Ludomania.Rose, from Ludomania.Eris, from Ludomania.Lyric, from Ludomania.Shark, from Ludomania.Lilith, from Ludomania.Oliver, from Ludomania.Ludwig, from Ludomania.End, from Ludomania.The logo for Ludomania.The role cards for Ludomania.Armonia, from Ludomania.Konton, from Ludomania.The commoner role from Ludomania.The commoner role from Ludomania.The official deck of Ludomania cards.