Zodiac Blood Game

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"See how they play with her (Macey Irving). See how they toy. They want her to run. They NEED her to run. Have you feel their need, Mr. Crane? Their blood is screaming! Kill! Kill! KILL! Hunter and prey, held in the ecstasy of crisis. Is this not life at its purest?" — Nether Sorensen the Demon Prince

Zodiac Demons during the Blood Game

The Zodiac Blood Game, or simply the Blood Game, is the core event in the Endgame Trilogy (Sabbat Saga, Zodiac Saga and Moloch Saga, its Grand Finale) of LOTM: Star Spangled Crown.

It is a killing game instigated by Nether Sorensen the Demon Prince and hosted by him and Hubert Zodiak, regarding both the Sabbat Clan and the Zodiac Demon during the Period of Tribulation cycle, making Zodiac Demons into killing humans in all sorts of terrifying way. The winner would reap their reward and gain their leader position.

After several stepbacks and postponing, the Blood Game was eventually started immediately after the demise of Sascha Vykos, and it was called in an end when Sorensen, Zodiak and Lady Van Tassel were killed one by one. Its concequences was wiped out with the demise of Moloch and the United Kingdom of America, returning the world and the timeline back to its normal tracks.

Overview

Original Blood Game

Agent Abracadabra, the successor of Blood Game makers in LOTM: Destiny

Spanning from 2019 to 2020, the Blood Game was proved to be the most torturous atrocity that the UKA could ever carried. The exact body count worldwide was unknown, but it was far behind The Purge 17 years later, which was instigated by Kaitlyn Powell and Vira Hermes. In spite of this, the Blood Game caused tremendous loss on Salem Witch survivors and showed the brutalization from Zodiac Demons. The largest attempt murder held a staggering number of 1.6 million attempted victims.

Unlike the Purge which was pure chaos, the Blood Game has a set of certain "rules" that every Zodiac Demons who took part in shall followed, forcing humans into destructive activities, unless they themselves wanted to be kicked out and killed. Some of them also killed people more subtly, like doing massive marketing for their poison, killing people according to alphabet, or using certain spells to cause conflicts between humans. The winner would become personal guardians of Twelve Nethers, and those who killed the most wanted (Team Witness members) would win their bounty as an extra reward.

Conception

Killing Game

The Blood Game was conceived by Hubert Zodiak in an attempt to purge the Salem witch descendants around the world, paving ways to the reign of the United Kingdom of America, and convert them into ferocious and brutal Zodiac Demons, believing them to be inferior due to their belief after comparing them to the witches and warlocks serving Moloch, of which he believed to be supreme.

Humans who followed the Twelve Nethers and the United Kingdom of America are also included in this "game". During the Blood Game, the remnants of the House of Arzonia, now getting powerless and insecure, gathered under Zodiak's command after the Sabbat's downfall and participated into the Blood Game and hunt down humans, turning the witch descendants into the Zodiac Demons and finishing what Crow Faux failed to succeed (in Harvest Saga) due to Lord Helio manipulating all sides.

Renegade Zodiac Demons

The Blood Game's instigation was also framed upon the Team Witness and the Order of Flourish in order to justify the Zodiac Demons' superiority. However, not every Zodiac Demons support the Blood Game. A few of the more honorable Zodiac Demons stood against the game (including those who sided with Kristen Kiwifruit, Nether Kaysie the Demon Princess and Crow Faux). Other Zodiac Demons were trying to use this as a chance to take down Zodiak, since they believed he too was a human warlock and was inferior to the pure Zodiac Demons. In spite of their mysantrophic belief, the Zodiac Demons shows no apparent grudge against any human hosts of Zodiac Nethers, due to the Zodiac Demons' general fear over the Nethers.

Rules

• Each of the different Zodiac Demons are seperated in different groups led by certain Nether. In addition, there are different rules for them. Common rules are:
  • Certain Nethers, who agrees to take part in, has the authority to determine which individual or group is qualified to take part in the gegeru depending on the performance of the group.
  • Hubert Zodiak has the authority to choose which player and when to start the Blood Game. The player chosen may postpone the start of the Blood Game for preparation. Number of kills and time limit were detemined.
  • At the start of the game, Nether Noirton the Demon Prince serves as the referee. He would insert explosive energy into the buckle of the player using the Zodiac ring, which would cause the buckle of the player to explode if the time is up, or Noirton determined that the player has forfeit the Blood Game. If the player completes their game mission, the explosive energy would be assimilated by the player, thus powering them up, and promoting them to the higher group.
  • Player may challenge the referee to a duel if they deem the referee has hindered their experience of the game or otherwise that would render them unworthy of regulating the Blood Game.

List of Notable Players

(In the order of appearance; this list is incomplete)

Part 1

Player	Group	Attempted Body Count and Time Limit	Methods (Special Rules)	Outcome
Pi Aquarii	Aquarius	N/A	N/A	Killed by Maria Arzonia (alongside Future Maria) before the game starts
Albali	Aquarius	Unknown	Random	Killed by Selina Strawberry and Albert Apple
Ancha	Aquarius	Unknown	Random	Killed by police force
Hydor	Aquarius	N/A	Never joined the game to kill a teenager who tried to hit on her and then police officiers after being shot in the eye.	Wounded by police force and killed by Sister Mary Eunice
Sadalsuud	Aquarius	81 people in 2 days	Dropping people from a high altitude	Killed by Ichabod Crane and Diana Thomas
Sadaltager	Aquarius	Unknown	Random	Died of buckle explosion when the time limit was up
Skat	Aquarius	Disqualified due to the multiple failures of the Aquarius group and the revolt of Nether Gleodon the Demon Prince	Entered a rampage via Sorensen's corruption and start killing truck drivers	Killed by Crow Faux as a mercy kill
Aldebaran	Taurus	100 people in 2 days	Using Lolth's crystal to turn human into Driders and Making them to kill each other Strangulation	Killed by Macey Irving
Brendon Herb	Taurus (unofficially)	Round 1: 20 people in a day Round 2: 40 people in ten hours Round 3: 100 people in one hour	Varies, mainly causing explosion via making "human fireworks" by opening his victims' chests, filling them with gunpowder, and burning them alive to make them explode Ambushing others randomly	Succeeded in the first two rounds, but was stopped and killed by Carl Robinson
Cygnus X-3	Taurus	121 people in an unknown time limit	Shooting poisonous feathers at people from higher up, with the feathers traversing from the victim's head through the foot while piercing through the heart	Destroyed by Helene Hawthorn
Prima Hyadum	Taurus	Disqualified due to failure of reporting progress to Noirton	Ran a truck backwards into people	Killed by Katrina Crane
Oculus Borealis	Taurus	180 people in 2 days	Kill passengers of water transportation vehicles, such as boats	Killed by Ichabod, Diana and Noelle Bor
Pavo Alpha	Taurus (unofficially)	1.6 million people in 2 days	Selling poisonous drink connected to his mentality worldwide to destroy their drinker's brain through his power	Assasinated by Zhang Xiulin before his marketing was cut off; having about 10,000 body counts worldwide
Maia	Taurus	144 people in an unknown time limit	Poisoning people via spores	Burned down by Future Maria
Merope	Taurus	Unknown	Dragging humans with her tongue and make them die either by suffocation, cervical spinal fracture and/or dislocation or physical trauma by smashing their body against hard objects, followed by announcing her next location (and later, time) to kill	Killed by Crow Faux, 88 Aquarii and Betsy Ross
Hamal	Aries	288 people in 18 hours	Mutilate the passengers in the 4th cabin of a specific train as they leave who were marked with a scent prepared by herself	Killed by Maria Arzonia and Future Maria
Sheratan	Aries	320 people in 16 hours	Making noise that angered people in order to make them rampage	Killed by 88 Auqarii and Helene Hawthorn
Algedi Secunda (aka Caroline Marlon)	Capricornus	Unlimited	Fighting Team Witness and anyone on sight	Broke out from brainwashing and redeemed herself
Bahrani	Libra	300 people in 5 hours	Grow a carnivorous plant that devours all other species on the planet	Eaten alive by his own plant
Spica	Taurus	Unknown	Stealing items to make the world's economy corrupt	Killed by Matt Butcher
Botein	Aries	Unknown	Capturing various people using his Shackle Wrecking Ball and transporting them to an unknown location via his Sink You Down Combo move	Buried alive by Carl
Brachium (aka Ms. Phosrose)	Libra	150 people in 1 day	Brainwashing primary school children into attacking their parents	Facade torn by Team Witness and got killed
Collesu	Virgo	Unknown	Hunting down Chinese Zodiac Human and killing human beings randomly in his way	Killed by Ichabod
Karmada	Aries	300 people in 3 hours	Blowing up the cities with cannonball	Killed by Lara Thomas
Jawline	N/A	Round 1: 20 people in 1 day	Sending Shadow troops to attack people	Succeeded; later attempted to leave the Blood Game for his personal goal of Team Witness' bounty, but was persuaded by Logan/Aronas to work as a working partner
Jawline	Libra	Round 2: Killing Team Witness members after breaking their mind	Using memory clones to cause mayhem, before using an illusion of Lady Crane to haunt Ichabod	Failed but not disqualified
Porrima	Virgo	1,000 people in 1 day	Sniping 1,000 humans and turning them into dolls by the end of the day.	Failed and killed
Jawline	Libra	Round 3: 20 couples (40 people in total) in 10 hours	Forcing married couple to kill each other	Failed but not disqualified
Zubenelhakrabi	Libra	Unknown	Causing wars between nation by starting bickering	Failed but not disqualified
Theta Librae	Libra	Unknown	Convert inanimate objects into bombs that explode when a person comes into contact with them	Failed and killed by Team Witness
Jawline	Libra	N/A	Luring Ichabod out to make him give in the Philosopher's Stone	Failed and killed by Team Witness
Beta Librae	Libra	Luring Olga and Noirton away	N/A	Succeeded, but was killed
Nether Aronas the Demon Prince	Libra	Unlimited	Killing any human in sight to avoid Isolendy and Sorensen's wrath	Killed by Caroline, with his Nether Crystal sealed and his Horseman of Conquest mantle casted away
Simmah	Pisces	Need to kill 207 people within unknown amount of time	Shoot pellets at people in their heart with a blowgun from the air, killing them from acute myocardial infarction (Follows the first letter in Chinese pinyin, according to the order on Xinhua Dictionary, and attack people in streets of Shanghai, killing 9 people each street)	Defeated and killed
Alpherg	Pisces	Unknown	Hit swimmers in the chest in public swimming pools with her whip, killing them from a frostbite-induced cardioparalysis (Follows the music score of Symphony In G Minor, No 40 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)	Defeated and killed

Part 2

IMPORTANT NOTE: From this point on, Noirton determines the number of kills and time limit due to repeated failures.

Player	Group	Attempted Body Count and Time Limit	Methods (Special Rules)	Outcome
Shaula	Scorpius	Required to kill 567 people within 3 days	Crush people with giant iron balls from atop random skyscrapers in locations (Determined by roulette where he would throw 54 iron balls towards each location)	Defeated and killed
Alrescha	Pisces	Unknown	Kill people by melting them down with her strong acidic blood in ten of the type of human-containing moving boxes (eg. vehicles, elevator) that reflect the color pattern of her nails (matching part of the color is sufficient), starting from her left thumb to her left pinky, and then her right pinky to her right thumb	Defeated and killed
Girtab	Scorpius	Required to kill 99 people within 7 hours	Kill motorcyclists by throwing them off their bikes and then running through them, later proclaiming Ichabod Crane as the last target.	Defeated and killed
Dschubba	Scorpius	Required to kill 90 people in 12 days	Kill 90 male students in the second year of a high school in 12 days by shooting his quills that teleports into their brain, the students died by encephalitis when the quills changes shape in four days.	Defeated and killed
Dzaneb al Samkat	Pisces	Unknown	Kill people in a certain film studio	Defeated and killed

Part 3 (Final)

From this point on the final game starts, previous rules of the Pisces and Scorpio group still applies, with the addition of the following:

• If only one player completes the Blood Game in this stage, he/she would gain the right to challenge the leader by default. He may assimilate the power of the referees before challlenging the leader.
• The remaining Twelve Nethers can directly participate in the final game under permits from King George Washington.
• If more than one player completes the Blood Game, the players would enter a duel (or a battle royale if more than two) to determine who would have the right to challenge the leader. The victor may assimilate the power of the defeated and the referees before challenging the leader.

Player	Group	Attempted Body Count and Time Limit	Methods (Special Rules)	Outcome
Fumalsamakah	Pisces	Required to kill 729 people in 2 days	Kill the people either by stabbing or by forcefeeding them foods in underground centers with all exits blocked.	Defeated and killed
Piscis Australis	Pisces	Kill 567 humans within 5 hours	(Leaving message on internet blogs hinting the number of kills and the location minutes prior)	Defeated and killed
Nether Marsino the Demon Prince	Pisces	Challenged Isolendy to a duel when the latter had Noirton's abacus damaged, causing the Blood Game to be reset	N/A	Defeated and sealed
Nether Kaysie the Demon Princess (brainwashed)	Virgo	Challenged Isolendy to a duel when the latter had Noirton's abacus damaged, causing the Blood Game to be reset	N/A	Defeated by Kristen Kiwifruit after being subdued by the mind of Lazuli Lavenna; redeemed and fused with Kristen/Christine once more
Nether Noirton the Demon Prince	Scorpius	Challenged Isolendy to a duel when the latter had his abacus damaged, causing the Blood Game to be reset	Kill armed humans (e.g. police, soldiers)	Defeated after being subdued by the mind of Plaisir Permafrost (alongside Melancholia); redeemed and fused with Plaisir/Melancholia once more
Nether Isolendy the Demon Prince (Then leader)	Capricornus	N/A	Challenging any Zodiac Demon to defend his leadership over the Zodiac Demons and the Twelve Nethers	Defeated by Nether Sorensen the Demon Prince and sealed by Team Witness; leadership taken by Sorensen
Nether Sorensen the Demon Prince (Later leader)	Saggitarius	Round 1: Challenged Isolendy to a duel when the latter had his abacus damaged, causing the Blood Game to be reset, before killing all of the Zodiac Demons that are either treacherous, weak or supportive to Isolendy	Killing Zodiac Demons he considered weak and/or treacherous	Succeeded in becoming the Supreme Nether and eliminating most of the disqualified Zodiac Demons
Olga Romanova	Virgo, later Saggitarius	Unknown	Using Shadow of Darkness Series to attack cities	Killed by Hubert Zodiak after being disgusted by her empathy to her
Hubert Zodiak	Saggitarius	Unlimted	Making Katrina Crane (and later Lady Van Tassel) into a brainwashed beast Zodiac Demon known as Ophiuchus to massacre the United States of America	Succeeded, but later killed by Team Witness with his work ultimately undone by the efforts of the entire Team Witness
Lady Van Tassel	Saggitarius	Unknown	Trying to prevent Katrina from saving people by breaking her mind (failed); Spreading poisonous spores of Ophiuchus to cause a pandemic that turned human beings into Zodiac Demons	Killed by Katrina
Nether Sorensen the Demon Prince	Saggitarius	Round 2: Worldwide population in 1 hour	Injecting the materials from Planet Sorensen-444 and make the globe merge with it	Succeeded, but later killed by Crow Faux with his work ultimately undone by the efforts of the entire Team Witness

Trivia

• The Blood Game is named after the main villainous event of Dobutsu Sentai Zyuoranger, where the alien organization Deathgalien, the series' main villains, organized a chain of omnicidal events known as the Blood Game, simply to amuse their leader, Ginis. By the series' beginning, they had already destroyed 99 planets with it.
• The Blood Game, like many other video games, has multiple endings for the perspective of Team Witness and humanity:
  • Bad Ending: Humanity was pushed to its utmost limits by the Blood Game and its constant torments, before it finally snapped. Moloch's forces won and the Period of Tribulations took over the world in the following centuries, announcing the United Kingdom of America's ultimate victory. The Team Witness members were either killed, turned into Zodiac Demons or driven to insanity. (Finale of Zodiac Saga before the Stinger)
  • Normal Ending: Crow Faux regained his sense of justice and confidence. He destroyed Nether Sorensen the Demon Prince's crystal, while Katrina had broke free from her Zodiac Demon form after she fully rejected the corrupting influence induced by Lady Van Tassel, who appeared inside her mind and tried to turn her into despair. (The epoligue of Zodiac Saga and the prologue of Moloch Saga)
  • Good Ending: Hubert Zodiak and Lady Van Tassel were killed for good, while the Four Horsemen were sealed back into the Hell. The group of Witnesses launched another attack against the United Kingdom of America as it started to corrupt the Earth and spread its influence across the Solar System. The problem was still there, but there were a ray of hope to the future. (Prologue of Moloch Saga)
  • True Ending: All of the minions of Moloch were eliminated, and the corrupted timeline was restored. The Period of Tribulation had stopped for good, but Lara Thomas had perished from existence due to the timeline's eventual restoration. Maria Arzonia and Matt Butcher vowed to carry on the Witnesses' legacy, as they and Carl Robinson returned back to future, to the side of Katarina Couteau and the Alliance of Freedom.
    • In the end, Katrina appeared in a renewed Sleepy Hollow where everything turned to normal, got pregnant with Jeremy and adjusted the modern society. As she arrived in New York City to live in her husband's new house, Katrina met with a revived Abbie Mills, with possibility of them becoming friends once more. (The Finale of LOTM: Star Spangled Crown and the overall LOTM: Witnesses of Sleepy Hollow)
  • Another Ending: In LOTM: Destiny, of which five billion years had passed, Agent Abracadabra from the Universal Casino had raised another Blood Game for the Satan Cult and a revived Michael Langdon, but her plans was thrwarted by Melodia Arzonia before she could use the killing game to destroy the New Republic of Deus.Ex.Machina Industries.
• Comparing to its Super Sentai namesake, this version of the Blood Game is more prone to Gegeru in Kamen Rider Kuuga, a killing game set by a mysanthrophic monster race known as Gurongi, the main antagonists of the series. Some certain parts of the Blood Game is also inspired by parts in Kuuga's novel adaptation by Naruhisa Arakawa, and its manga adaptation by Toshiki Inuoe.
  • Its main tone was prone to Go Group amongst other Gurongi members, who held certain methods and extra rules in their gageru that fit their bizzare quirks.