[Shenandoah]

*flounders slightly*

Yeah... I'm kinda weak at the moment on ideas... For the Game, the puppet master could be the first part, but then things get worse when it comes out he/she isn't actually in control of the situation. Essentially, he's the accessory and the puppet him/her-self. The players would have to kill the true creator of the whole 'Game', a 'Shadow King' that wants to achieve a kind of goal. To bring these kids into the Shadow World and turn them into his subjects. That's where a good portion of the monster come from, the souls of the kids that are killed in the game. (Totally pulled this out of my ass, if it's not obvious.)

And on the demon world idea, we could do something a little narrower at the beginning. Most of the people of this world have lost someone in their families due to the accident. It could start as revenge to get the demon that killed the family member or all demons in general. And the fact that these people (ten years down the road from the accident, which is something I forgot to say earlier) have lived for some time in a hard, war-ridden world makes for unusual personality developments. But I don't think that this has quite narrowed it down, yet. Revenge is a powerful motivator, but not many should remember the exact cause of the accident except for the older people who may or may not remember the cause.

Another point I forgot to mention is that holy ground is a powerful thing, too, but can only be maintained when there are no violent deaths on the property and takes a lot to sanctify that ground again. Churches or holy buildings are common safe-grounds that are also commonly forgotten simply because the violence that occurs in the cities on a daily basis nullifies most sacred grounds quickly. Most people either survive on crap that had been in a can for ten years or from synthetically produced foods that aren't that great.

What do you think would be a good narrow goal in the beginning? Revenge is all I can come up with at the moment. "To kill all demons as they come across them."