"It's fine, don't worry about it."
— Discord Murder Party Catchphrase
Discord Murder Party, also known as DMP, is a role-playing version of the games Werewolf, Mafia and other variants where nothing bad happens. It is played on the YouTube channel Internet Remix
. This series started January 19, 2018, and ended on December 19, 2021, with 4 seasons with a total of 54 episodes on YouTube. The playlist of episodes and supplemental videos is located here.
Discord Murder Party contains examples of:
- Alternate Reality Game: During the hiatus between Seasons 1 and 2, messages encrypted under a Caesar Cipher were suddenly dropped at the end of various DMP-related videos, starting with their Halloween Special. The messages seem to correspond to the motives and wishes of the various characters that eventually led them to go with the Murder God. More appeared during the mid-season hiatus of Season 2, and during the hiatus between Seasons 2 and 3, Morse code and spectrograms were introduced as forms of encoding. Then, between Seasons 3 and 4, codes also appeared in ciphered German, ciphered French, and hexadecimal.
- Audience Participation: Donating bitsnote during the streams will slowly fill up a meter. Once the meter is full, the Bit Wheel is spun, which will enact a variety of effects onto the players. The effects range from adding new roles to turning people into velociraptors, or even giving the Murder God a conscience. Audience members who donate absurdly large numbers of bits at once, enough to fill the meter several times over, get to directly suggest scenarios and/or choose Bit Wheel effects to activate. In season 2, one can offer an improvisation prompt.
- Big "NO!": Episode 11 Scenario 2. Loki AKA 's response when told him that he doesn't have to throw Joe's body off the ship.
- Call-Back: Players will refer to previous scenarios should they be related. For example, In Episode 3 Scenario 3 characters will often call back to Episode 2 Scenario 1 as they are both based on popular TV. In addition, certain characters are able to remember past scenarios regardless of relation.
- The Cameo: Before adjusting Wheel spins, and what bit donations in another Internet Remix stream did, characters from other streams appeared in DMP scenarios -
- Momo Sans Vol, an Aarakocra cleric Player Character from a Dungeons & Dragons campaign that Internet Remix streams, appeared as one of the characters in both Episode 8 Scenario 2 and Episode 9 Scenario 1, played by the same person.
- Thalia, a Wood Elf druid Player Character from a different Internet Remix Dungeons & Dragons campaign, also appeared as a character in Episode 9 Scenario 1, and also played by the same person.
- Catchphrase: The Murder God's is "It's fine! Don't worry about it." It also functions as a catchphrase for the game as a whole.
- The Chosen One: Vinny for Murder God, Murder God to &A Elig;lethias, and any of the other Black Star’s Chosen.
- Continuity Nod: Cecil Underwood (played by JoJo). She's heavily implied to be the daughter of Frederick Underwood from Episode 2 Scenario 1.
- Death by Disfigurement: Inverted. The sexy disease, the method of murder of Episode 4 Scenario 1, turns the person sexier before they die.
- Déjà Vu: Occurs in the Season 2 premiere when the Murder God uses the exact same scenarios as Season 1's first episode.
- [untitled reference] is a broken record of all of Juno's past characters.
- Evolving Credits: The openings of both Season 3 and Season 4.
- The Season 3 opening initially has images of all the Awakened at that time, alongside ones of the few remaining Sleepers, who have blank faces and lack a certain level of detail. As each of them awaken, their images regain both of these.
- The Season 4 opening changes in Episode 7 to reflect the absolute whirlwind of events that took place at the end of the midseason finale the episode before, overlapping with Evolving Music. Chaos God replaces Murder God in the central throne, his Strings replace hers, and the Cutt-lective's images at the end are replaced with ones relating to Murder God.
- Evolving Music: The opening of Season 4 changes midway through the season to reflect the whirlwind of events that occurred in the midseason finale, overlapping with Evolving Credits. Murder God's verse and bridge are replaced with ones from Chaos God, Chaos God joins in singing in the third chorus, and Murder God replaces the Cutt-lective's concluding verse with her own.
- Formula-Breaking Episode:
- Each scenario follows the general formula of the party game Mafia, also known as Werewolf, with some minor variations. Season 2 Episode 3 Scenario 2, however, functions instead like a dice-rolling Tabletop Game. This has since become another staple gameplay style (instead of just Mafia) in order to change things up.
- Season 2, Episode 14. The episode does not begin with the usual cast introduction and is not split into Scenarios, nor does it use either of the established gameplay styles. Instead, the episode consists of each of the Awakened (sans Christine) being placed in their own lotus-eater world, featuring a better, perfect version of their lives, and they then have to break themselves out of it, whether on their own or with the help of the others. The episode contains no character status boards; its visuals consist entirely of illustrations.
- Each scenario follows the general formula of the party game Mafia
- Fourth-Wall Mail Slot: On the official Internet Remix Tumblr, the Murder God will occasionally answer questions about Discord Murder Party instead of the Internet Remix team members.
- Halloween Episode: Discord Spoopy Party the semi-canon episode.
- Heroic BSoD: Vincent during season 3. The second War Scenario brings Vincent's brother-in-law as a reflection, not to mention the whole war scenario brings bad memories not only to Vincent, but Grace too, which also leads to a heated argument with McGillicutty. Not to mention that Vincent learns that his family isn't in the void as he thought, this leads to a Break the Badass, as in the following scenarios, he doesn't care, up until the mid season finale, where he wants to go back to sleep.
- Hope Spot: In Episode 7 Scenario 2, Adric's character Tommy Gwendolyn appears to have awakened. However, in the first scenario of the following episode, it is revealed that the awakening was botched, and Tommy has become glitched.
- Lotus-Eater Machine: Played Straight and Invoked by Murder God in Season 2, and Inverted by Chaos God in Season 4. Exploited and Defied respectively by Junior. Vinny also defies the latter.
- Medium Awareness: Murder God, Dr. McGillicutty and Vincent Reid to an extent.
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Memetic Mutation: Episode 3 Scenario 2. Memes have taken over the world. A small alliance of 9 people rebel, but two of them are sleeper agents for meme-kind.
- Off the Rails: Season 2, Episode 3, Scenario 2, took place in space. The obvious intent was a space battle against the marauding Jerks. Instead Tames T. Jerk (no relation) ended up seducing them. It got more insane from there.
- Powers That Be: It has been implied at various points that the Murder God is not running the games of her own free will, but due to the compulsion of some higher power or force.
- Pun:
- Episode 2 Scenario 2. Caren Blossom (as played by Queen) uses non-stop car puns, as she has the superpower of shooting cars from her wrist.
- Episode 4 Scenario 1. Mr. Skelly (played by Adric) makes multiple skeleton puns and he is a skeleton.
- Second Love: Despite the show initially pushing for Valencia to end up with Percy, the two end up separating on account of different end goals. In the end, Valencia goes for Ezra Crane.
- Split Personality: It is revealed in Episode 10 of Season 1 that Grace has a split personality that appears to house her emotions and crank them up to eleven.
- Unexpected Gameplay Change: Season 2, Episode 3 Scenario 2. Instead of the usual Mafia/Werewolf gameplay, it switches to a format reminiscent of tabletop games. This was done by the Murder God to fulfill Percy's wish for something different.
- Verbal Tic: In earlier episodes, Dr. McGillicutty often ends his statements with "HWAT HWAT HWAT!" He does this less often in later episodes, though, as his character becomes less and less of the joke character he was in the beginning.
- Villainous Breakdown: Although the Murder God has small tantrums when things do not go her way that could qualify, especially when any character truly awakens, there is one that really takes the cake. In Episode 14 of Season 2, when the Awakened have broken out of their Lotus-Eater worlds and stand before her, she questions each one why they would want to leave, insisting to each of them in turn that it would be so much better than their current situation, becoming more and more desperate. After they all have rejected her implorations, she goes on a rant reminiscent of the beginning of the one from the first season's finale, which then quickly turns into her sobbing, wondering why no one ever wants to stay with her.
- Wham Episode: Just about every season finale and mid-season finale could qualify, as well as many other episodes, but by far the most prominent is Season 4 Episode 6. With the help of the just-revived Yugo, the Awakened form the Longinus Blade, the artifact they were seeking. After they each go through a personal trial, Stephen betrays the Awakened, stabbing the Murder God through her chest, and reveals himself to be working with Guy Le Cutaux and Mr. GcMillicutty to take the power of the Void for the former. However, Murder God then reveals that almost everything that happened over the previous episodes, including Yugo's revival and the Awakened manipulating the void through their own stories, was all part of her plan to gain the power she needs to stop the Black Stars. However again, the four members of the Cutt-lective then reveal who and what they really are, as a figure calling himself the Chaos God emerges from Dr. McGillicutty's chest, detailing how he placed the four in the void both to entertain himself and to help him get the power he desired, and how his last obstacle—the Black Stars—was removed by Murder God sealing them out in S4E1. In their ensuing "conversation", he reveals her old name—Cassilda—and at its end proceeds to rip the Void out of her chest and take control of the Void for himself.
