Partly inspired by a similar game found in Silent Hill: Frozen Memories, I just recently have been pondering this and was thinking it'd be fun to gauge other people's responses.
I just finished reading a book, a rarity for me: Life Support by Tess Gerritson. This 'game' explicitly spoils the events of the book, so I thought I'd throw out that warning in the odd 1/10000 chance of someone being partway through the book and not wanting spoilers, but I'm only going to summarize the events of one character.
Here's the story, in short: Molly Picker (16 years old) is a bad kid who has a pretty seriously bad relationship with her parents. Running away one day, she meets a man, Romy, who promises her a life of comfort and luxury as a prostitute. It's pretty obvious to anyone, but Romy is a filthy liar, so when he whisks Molly away to the faraway city of Boston, she finds herself trapped into this profession and abused both physically and emotionally by Romy. Molly's parents, being hardcore religious types, waste no time in completely disowning their daughter for this action.
Romy isn't just an ordinary pimp, he also just so happens to be friends with a one Dr. Wallenburg and his associates, who just so happen to need young women for a completely illegal operation they have. Dr. W pays Romy to allow him to drug Molly unconscious, where he then artificially impregnates her with a genetically altered ovum, without her knowledge. Five months later, when Molly starts showing signs of pregnancy, she believes it is simply an unwanted child from one of her clients. Molly becomes very scared at this point, and makes a phone call to her parents, begging to be picked up. Despite having the power and the possibility to remove Molly from this situation completely, her parents stick to their guns and refuse to even acknowledge her.
Molly runs away from Romy at this point, and being unwilling to go to the police due to an innate distrust of the law placed into her by Romy's manipulation, she bums it out and is eventually found by the book's protagonist, Dr. Toby Harper, who immediately realizes something is very wrong with young Molly and gets her into a hospital room.
Romy, to remind you, is being paid a lot of money to deliver her to Dr. W, so he tracks her down to the hospital and gets as far as her room before being chased out of the building by Toby Harper. She doesn't catch him, but before returning to Molly's room, she has an inexplicable romantic rendezvous with another doctor she's had her eye on for a while now. When finally returning to Molly's room, it would seem she was so spooked she fled the building, leaving her completely unguarded again. Perhaps Toby shouldn't have left her alone for so long...
Wandering the streets, Romy and Dr. W find her eventually, easily capturing her. Dr. W forces her to go into labor to extract the fetus, which is genetically modified to have several dozen pituitary glands, so he can harvest them and use the pituitary hormones as the key ingredient of an illegal surgical operation to return youth to his very wealthy geriatric patients. Molly dies on the table from complications during labor, unfortunately, and Dr W did not intend to kill her during this.
At the conclusion of the book, Dr W is apprehended for his crimes, but it's also revealed that his illegal surgery works wonderfully, returning youth to his geriatric patients and greatly extending their lives.
Now, for the culpability game! Who in the story is most responsible and least responsible for Molly's death.
- Molly
- Molly's Parents
- Romy the pimp
- Dr. Wallenburg and Associates
- Dr. Wallenburg's patients - Note: They don't know where the hormones are coming from, but they don't ask either.
- Toby Harper
Rearrange from the top (most culpable) to the bottom (Least Culpable).
I have my own opinion, but I wanted to see what other people think.
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