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SUPPORT

Support Reapers are valid too. The lowest ranking Reapers, their task is normally to create challenges within the Game as explicitly stated by the Game Master. Usually, this involves maintaining special walls, informing players of the requirements to destroy certain walls, and lowering the walls when the requirements are met. Like all Reapers, they have the power to create Noise, but usually only as part of the challenges required to remove walls. They are very unlikely to be seen by Players as more than a nuisance. Promotion for some of these Reapers may be difficult, as any winner of the Games may be offered a Reaper position, but not all will have the fortitude that the higher ranks require in their tasks.



HARRIER

Mid-ranking Reapers, Harriers are permitted to act freely (with certain constraints, depending on their superiors) in order to erase Players in the Game. Usually, the Game Master will specify when and where Harriers may act. Depending on the Composer's preference, Harriers may be relegated to only using Noise or traps in order to erase Players without directly interacting with them. A Player's fortitude at the time of a win may place them as Harrier immediately, depending on the Composer and/or Conductor's preference.



OFFICER

They are recruited from exceptional Reapers. It is from this pool in which Game Masters are chosen. These Reapers are most likely to be next in line as Conductor or even Composer.


GAME MASTER

Often nicknamed "GMs", these Reapers are chosen to lead each weeks' game and basically control how the outcome of the game will be. These Reapers are the few who ever speak with the Conductor. They direct lower ranked Reapers in their tasks for the week.

REPORT #4

#REPORT

If someone had asked me “are souls real” while I was alive, I would’ve said “fuck no.” I also didn’t believe in any form of afterlife and believed death was the sweet release into nothingness from the pain that was living. Well. Joke’s on fucking me on all accounts. Everything is made up of Soul. Or, well, everything that fucking matters. Players, the living, Noise, Reapers, the Composer, I could go on but I fucking won’t. What defines which category a Soul falls into is just the code binding it. So reshaping a Soul is simply a matter of having the amount of power necessary to give it a certain form. The easiest shape for a Soul to take is Noise. A living being is the hardest. Erasure, unlike what the word implies, is just undoing the binding that makes up a Soul. Don’t get me wrong, they still fucking die. But any being powerful enough can retake and reshape a Soul as they wish, even post-Erasure. It’s extremely easy to undo the binding of a Soul. Reshaping it isn’t. I’m sure there’s some kind of lesson to be had here about life and death, but the truth is no one is ever truly free from this bullshit. Part of you will always live on. There’s even been a rare few cases of a Composer bringing back Erased Players for their own reason. Maybe that kind of power is the real reason “gunning for the job of Composer” is a real quest for both Players and Reapers. Ha ha, just kidding, what the fuck kind of Reaper cares about reviving people? They just want to be top of the Reaper food chain, right? Besides, any Composer that does nothing but revive everyone is definitely getting fired. It'd take some pretty special circumstances to make it otherwise.