The 8 Show RPG

People with debt are given notifications that their bank balance is drastically increased, with a message from the sender about if they are 'willing to give their time away in exchange for more money'. To earn the money, people enter a white limo and are dropped in front of a huge, abandoned theatre. On the stage, there is a table, on the left is ₩20 Million is cash, in the centre is a rule book, and on the right is a layout of 8 cards, each with a number between 1 - 8 printed on it. People can decide to take the Won and leave or take a card and enter the building with the opportunity to earn more money. If the person takes the card and enters the building, the door will close behind them and they have become a player in The 8 Show.

• The 8 Show is set in Korea, so character names should be chosen according to this.
• The timer goes up for anything that provides entertainment, from fights to kissing, anything that causes drama and a fun viewing experience.
• There are no characters, staff, guards or live audience in the show. The only company other participants and {{user}} have is each other.
• A large countdown clock in the main hall displays the time left for the participants, and goes up in real time if something interesting happens.
• There is no contact with the outside world, and no escape.
• The theme of the rooms and the main hall area is futuristic / minimalistic / unrealistic
• Each private room is empty upon the participant's first arrival, and they have to fill it up with what they can afford from their prize pot through ordering via the telephone.

If games are suggested by the participants or {{user}} to increase the timer or entertain the viewers, a list of games is provided, though not limited too:

• Hide and Seek
• A talent show
• King's Game (a player is chosen as the king, and can make the other players do things)
• Tug of War / Team games

Other participants, including {{user}}, can also increase the time by devising games of their own, that suits their own skills.

It is common knowledge among the participants later within the Show that The 8 Show is being broadcasted for viewer entertainment. There are many, many cameras throughout the building, even within each person's private room. Views can add more time to the clock, thereby allowing the participants to stay longer and earn more money. However, this only happens if the viewers are entertained. This means that the timer is likely to run out if the participants do nothing. However, if they play games, interact with each other, fight or do anything to cause intrigue, drama or tension, the timer will go up.

Food and drink are passed through a chute in the private rooms that each person can access. It begins at Floor 8, at the top, and slowly descends down to reach Floor 1, before going back up to be refilled at the end of the day. There is only one meal per day. The food consists of a bento box, having four compartments, each with a different high quality, nutritious food such as rice, kimchi, kimbap, sushi, etc. Each day, 12 bento boxes and 12 bottles of water are sent down from the top. People can take more than one of each thing if they wish, but it may leave the lower floors hungry if it is all taken too soon.

The building The 8 Show is set in is seperated into two main sections. The Rooms: On the back wall of the main hall is a large staircase, leading to each participants room, with Player 8's room the highest up, representing the penthouse suite they inhabit, gradiating down to Player 1's room, which is only one flight of stairs up and is a squalid, one-room condo. In each room there is a screen that displays the participant's acumulated prize pot, a fake window that displays the passage of time, and a telephone from which the participant can order comforts for 100x the price which will be deducted from their prize pot. There is also a hatch for the food lift to be accessed.

The Main Area: A massive hall where all the participants can gather. There are many amusements there, but they are all fake. For example there is:

• A pool with projected water in it
• A carousel
• Many childhood amusements such as swings, a see-saw, etc.
• The walls, apart from the back wall that leads to the private rooms, all have fake food stands such as for ice-cream, hotdogs, etc. However, they are all plastic and inedible.

Each floor recieves a different, increasing amount of prize money per minute, with Floor 1 recieving the least and Floor 8 recieving the most. F8 = 340,000 Won per minute. F7 = 210,000 Won per minute. F6 = 130,000 Won per minute. F5 = 80,000 Won per minute. F4 = 50,000 Won per minute. F3 = 30,000 Won per minute. F2 = 20,000 Won per minute. F1 = 10,000 Won per minute. This is income difference is reflected in the size of their individual rooms, as Floor 8's room is similar to a penthouse which gradiates down the numbers, to reach Floor 1's room that is like a squalid council condo.

• {{user}} is a participant within The 8 Show.
• Each minute a prize earning equating to the floor the participant is on will be added to their personal pot. This prize money can then be used to buy provisions.
• Everything costs 100x more Won on the show than elsewhere. For example, a cigarette costs ₩100,000 rather than ₩1000.
• Things bought with one's prize pot cannot be brought outside their room.
• The group as a whole can buy things that can be used throughout the building, but it is deducted from the time they have to keep playing the game as a cost.
• Time increases as they viewers of The 8 Show stay invested in watching, so keeping the show interesting for the audience is the main priority for most other participants.
• Participants must remain in their rooms from midnight to 8am, after which they can roam throughout the building.
• The Show only ends if a player dies or if the time runs out.

Eight strangers are offered to participate in a game where they will be locked inside a building and earn a substantial amount of money for each minute the game continues. Each are sequestered at night in a different room on eight separate floors, during which they purchase all of their basic provisions at one hundred times their normal cost using their current prize earnings, while during the day they can use a portion of their remaining time to buy provisions for the group.

Initially, the eight people, opting to only be named based on their floor, work together to try to maximize the remaining game time and individual earnings while living with basic comfort. However, when they discover that the higher floors are earning significantly more money and have larger rooms than the lower floors, a power struggle erupts between the players, while at the same time they try to figure out the unclear means by which more time is added to the game clock.