What is the Death Game?
As its name implies, it is a game of death! A contest that combines life-or-death risk with a constantly-unfolding sense of unpredictable events to showcase a world of entertainment for all the adoring viewers at home. Just what are contestants willing to do to survive, win prizes and fame?
It incites equal parts of admiration, horror, and mockery, but people still watch. The sheer absurdity and energetic theatricality of it all elevates it to something like almost genuine entertainment, in spite of the utter horror involved in it. The spectacle of it is to be admired.
The enigmatic and eccentric host and his assorted helpers are always watching, and seem to be on every world. They will poke and prod for information, approaching targets of great interest or potential to offer them an invitation to the 'festivities'. In some event, particular individuals may even be outright kidnapped and forced to compete, for those irritatingly unwilling types; can't let all that potential go to waste!
The Death Game promises many things to many people, but above all of them are a good show for all watching, horrid trauma for its participants, and great prizes and fame (or notoriety) for its winner....or winners!
The only rules are that once you agree to participate, or are brought to the staging facilities for the game, you cannot leave. Not until the game ends, at any rate.
When enough players have been gathered, and the fields are finalized...the staff out among the worlds will all mysteriously vanish and depart, the facilities closing their doors completely. The preparation of the event will then begin in earnest, as the contestants have some final fleeting hours to relax, rest, or prepare themselves before being....escorted to the scene of the chaos that will soon begin unfolding around them.
How long the event lasts is almost entirely up to the contestants and their ability to survive and outlast whatever is thrown against them. Will they work together, and survive as long as possible? Will they turn against one another and kill each other, to increase their chances for prizes when all is said and done? Only those who get thryst into the fray can say for sure!