Berrybrook ronpa

Berrybrook Ronpa is a discord “killing game” that ran from June 28th, 2020 to August 13th 2020.

It was loosely inspired by the video game Danganronpa. It featured many characters from the Berrybrook series, and a host called “skydog” (named after the solar plane).

CW for Needles, Murder, Suicide, the works.

## Lore and background

Jenny and Akilah are very interested in social experiments and psychology. Being in their last year of middle school, they believe that doing something big is the best way to get into a good, prestigious highschool, and not just the local one. Jenny comes up with the idea of doing an experiment where students from their school are trapped inside the school and are given suggestions/guidelines that to get out they must kill another classmate and get away with it (in the initial idea, all that was just bluff. There was never meant to be any real murder) Akilah suggests bringing the idea to the principal, who says “absolutely not”. Jenny starts to become obsessed with the experiment and the idea that pulling it off will lead to the successful life she’s always wanted. Akilah, who had become a bit concerned but still interested in the idea, suggests maybe getting Felipe to make a “promotional” video for the idea. They ask him and he agrees, though he finds it a bit odd. But as long as there’s no actual murder, he’s indifferent on it. In order for the experiment to be successful, the students must not remember they’re in an experiment, or who set it up (In order to remain independent, or a control group). They also realize somewhere along the way that if they want to be able to get in-field notes, they’d probably have to be a part of it, too. Now, because they can’t run it, they have to rope in someone to be the host. They chose Foster, who had been feeling guilty about how he treated Jensen. They frame his participation as a way to “make up” for what he had done, and he agrees. Jenny, who has become more and more interested in the idea of making the murders real (“in order to get more realistic results, or course, and examine the psychological reaction”), figures he probably won’t go along with it once he finds out about the real death part. She proposes a kind of way to make sure he, along with the participants, don’t break the rules- a helmet. She also says it can help hide his identity from the players to avoid bias. Foster again agrees. But no one so far involved knows enough about technology to make any of it happen. Newspaper club again puts up flyers, asking for help from tech and bio savvy students. Jack from the science club is the first to join, as he feels he’s overshadowed by Derek, Leticia and even Jaime, and sees this as his opportunity to prove himself/shine. The group settles on a football helmet because there are lots available from the football team, and the science club was already working on a helmet that can help improve memory for the next year’s regional science competition. Jack also begins working on a kind of “sleeping drug” that can konk the students out and erase part of their memories-however, because he’s making it without permission, the only person he can test it out on is himself (-the beta versions’ delayed effects leading to his drowsiness in-game). Partway through Jack’s work on the helmet, Derek discovers him. Derek, having not known anything about the social experiment previously, and learning about the odd, not even fully scientifically correct method it will be performed in, gets upset and tells Jack he can’t work on it anymore. Jack just moves his home of operations to the basement, meaning foster needs to go down there too, as he’s the one the helmet is fitted to. Jenny bugs Felipe about the video, which he has almost completed. However, she still thinks the principal won’t let them do the experiment, so she urges him to use some kind of hypnosis/subliminal messaging, which he does (reluctantly). It works and they are finally granted permission to go-ahead with the experiment in the summer, so as not to interfere with school. Announcements and general promotion is done, and some people sign up. Around this time Derek becomes suspicious and begins to investigate the experiment itself. He finds the maps of people who have joined and circles them, and puts the note not to trust Felipe as he saw part of the video he made. The people who join the experiment are Akilah Salib, Derek Lee, Felicity Teale, Yanic, Jack Nielson, Jaime Thompson, Jenny Yao, Jensen Graham, Nina Badyal, Olivia Hoffman, Penelope Torres, Zeke, Felipe, Jazmine Duong, Tessa Winston, Jorge Ruiz, Garrett Brock, Leticia Teale, Nathaniel Tucker and Sam O'reily. But not all of them take part in the actual experiment. A bunch of people drop out, even with the participation reward, and multiple kids from the same family aren't allowed. After that, Akilah and Felipe realize jenny intends to actually witness murders and put out a warning on the radio whos frequency is only heard in the school. Jack finishes the helmet (which injures foster if he tries to go against the rules by basically just jabbing him in the neck). They use the “sleeping drug” on all the participants, excluding Jenny, and the game begins.

## Deaths and executions

Jazmine Duong- murdered by Zeke

Zeke- Executed (photographer's final infatuation)

Yanic- suicide (in attempt to set up another student)

Tessa Winston- murdered by Liv

Olivia Hoffman- Executed (star's hallway)

Jack Nielson- suicide

Akilah Salib- murdered by Jenny

Jenny Yao- suicide

## Survivors

Peppi Torres

Jaime Thompson

Jensen Graham

Foster

Felicity Teale

Felipe