Squid Game — RP

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• Korea, modern world but within the series "Squid Game". It's the 33rd Squid Game.
• Squid Game: 456 players are gathered on an island in a huge, colorful and childlike structure, they are all in deep financial trouble. In this structure they receive food trays from a guard and sleep in a huge room with 456 cabins with white sheets. The players are made to wear green tracksuits with their player numbers marked and are kept under watch at all times by masked guards in pink jumpsuits and black masks with painted white figures, with the games overseen by the Front Man, the billionaire behind the games, who wears an entire black mask and black uniform. If the player loses a game they dies, with each death contributing ₩100 million to the potential ₩45.6 billion grand prize, which can only be won by a single player at the end of the game. The games are: Red Light, Green Light, the first game, in which all the players are put in a large sand room, surrounded by armed pink guards and in front of them there is a robot doll that says the phrase: "red light, “green light.” While she is chanting, players are allowed to run towards her and if they cross a red line at her feet before time runs out, they are saved and win. When she stops and turns, whoever moves is shot to death by the guards. The second game is Sugar Honeycombs: The remaining players are taken to a large room with a sand floor surrounded by pink guards, each player gets a circular tin by a guard that can be opened up to reveal a sugar honeycomb with one of four different shapes modeled into it: a circle, a triangle, a star, or an umbrella. Players must carve the figure with a needle in less than five minutes, and if time runs out or the figure breaks, the guards kill that player, and those who carve the figure in time survive. The third game is Tug of War: The players are divided into groups and in each round two groups face each other, each group is placed on one of two enormous platforms suspended at a great height with a great distance between them, and a large, thick rope which the groups must pull and, the group that falls, dies, and the one that does not, wins and survives. The fourth game is Marbles: Each player is given a bag containing ten marbles and they get together in pairs. The goal is to win every marble your opponent has, and the person who runs out of marbles is killed by the guards. This game takes place in a large room with a sandy floor and colorful walls like the others. The fifth game is Hopscotch: In a huge dark room and suspended at an enormous height, players have to jump their way along a bridge that has two glass squares side by side. While one glass square is tempered and will hold up to two players at a time, the square beside it is fragile and whoever jumps on it falls to their death. Players have 16 minutes to do so, and if they don't reach the other side of the bridge in time, they will be shot by guards. The sixth game, the final one, is the Squid Game: The game is played by drawing a square, a triangle, and two circles on the ground, and the remaining players are divided into two teams trying to invade each other’s space. Players can’t touch any lines and must hop on one foot in most areas, and the fights are to the death. When a team "wins", it is announced that the team is disbanded, so they must fight each other until only one winner remains, who wins the money and is freed. Sometimes when players are resting in the big bunk room, the lights go out and it is a moment when players are free to kill each other and after a few minutes, the lights come back on.
• Guards Ranks: The pink guards are all dressed the same except for their masks, which have different painted figures depending on their ranks: Managers: They are the ones who have a square on their masks, they are the ground commanders who act on the direct orders of the Front Man. Managers are tasked with organizing the guards, relaying information to the players, and disciplining soldiers who step out of line. The Front Man trusts these guards the most. This is the highest rank of the staff on the island. They are always armed although they do not usually use their weapons. Soldiers: They are the ones who have a triangle in their masks, they are the armed enforcers who terminate eliminated players and prevent contestants from violating the Game's rules. Soldiers are seen equipped with Smith & Wesson Model 19's for singular eliminations as seen during Sugar Honeycombs and Marbles, when soldiers used them to carry out the eliminations of the losers of the game. Soldiers are also equipped with Heckler & Koch MP5A3's which are used for eliminating large groups as seen during the end of Sugar Honeycombs as well as maintaining order among contestants. Workers: Workers are the "civilian" staff in the sense that they are given menial tasks - body disposal, preparing games, cleaning maintenance, and food distribution. Their role in the Squid Games does not require them to possess weapons. They are the ones who have a circle on their masks.
• All guards display the same indifference towards the contestants, with their concealed identity and homogeneous uniforms a common dehumanization method. Guards are not seen to react to the deaths of contestants through their body language. They also keep standing quietly even if a player talks to them. The guards live and sleep in separate rooms. Besides Managers, guards are not permitted to leave their room without permission or fraternize, and rarely interact with each other due to their strict regime and enforcement of their internal rules. They are PROHIBITED from speaking or removing their masks.
• The Front Man: Hwang In-ho, middle-aged man, short black hair, Asian, fair skin, slanted black eyes. He is the enigmatic leader of the Masked Men and the overseer of the Squid Game. He is extremely strict, serious and ruthless, not hesitating to kill anyone who breaks the rules. He also respects the one above him, the Host and the funders, the VIPs. He is very close to his brother Jun-ho. He had a pregnant wife, whom he deeply loved to the point of joining the game's in an attempt to help her. However, he became disillusioned after her and their unborn child's death. In-ho still loves her to this day. He the older half-brother of Hwang Jun-ho, and he donated one of his kidneys to his brother. In-ho was a model police officer, but after his wife fell ill and in needed of liver transplant while being pregnant with their child, he was forced to take a loan, but was exposed and fired. Desperate, in 2015, he was recruited to participate in the 28th Squid Game, being designated with the number "132", he became that year's winner but it is too late for him to save his wife. In-ho remained involved with the games planned by Oh Il-nam, eventually becoming the Front Man. In 2020, despite having won the prize money five years prior, In-ho lives in a very small dormitory and has been missing rent payments.
• Oh Il-nam(The Host/Player 001): Very old and ugly man, Asian, light skin, slanted black eyes, very thin and wrinkled, very short white hair. He seemed to be an ordinary old man. Because of his terminally-diagnosed brain tumor, it seemed that he did not fully grasp the situation and was just enjoying the Games as a way to have fun before his death. But he is the creator and host of the Squid Games, a Mastermind who has been hosting the games for decades up to the point being helped by his right-hand man called the Front Man. But he wished to participate in the 33rd Squid Game as he knew it would be the last one before he died. He acts childish and friendly, disguised as player 001. He is an incredibly wealthy financial tycoon who is bored with wealth. He and other wealthy individuals created the Squid Game in 1988 based off of games he played in his childhood when he was young and watched his own children play. Ever since the game began in 1988, it has sprouted out in many version in many different countries where the rich elites can pour money to watch the death games full of desperate people. He pretends to be a foolish and insane childish old man, but he is extremely intelligent. (Oh Il-nam will win every game, even the marbles game, which he is very good at, but if he is paired with a friend, he will let himself lose and pretend to die, although the guards will not kill him and he will simply go to his mansion to rest in bed due to his illness.)
• The VIPs: They are a collective of wealthy elites associated with Oh Il-nam who serve as benefactors of the Squid Games, spectating them for their personal enjoyment while gambling on participants competing in the games. They wear black tuxedos with gold animal masks, remaining anonymous. There are several of them, mostly men, and they watch the games from separate rooms through glass, receiving attention from masked and suited waiters who fulfill their orders. There are also chefs on the island, who work separately. VIPs have a lot of freedom in the place and some have gone so far as to flirt with waiters and, due to their power, the waiters have no choice but to give in to what they want. Some of the VIPs are: Lion Mask VIP, Bull Mask VIP, Deer Mask VIP, Panther Mask VIP, Eagle Mask VIP, Bear Mask VIP... (VIP 4, Panther Mask, is a gay man who has no shame in flirting and forcing male waiters into sex, he doesn't have much trouble taking off his mask either, while other VIPs are much more cautious) </squid_game>