A New Life Series Idea - Dead Life
I know this is a very absurd comment to make but I have a life series idea.
You could make a Dead Life. Because in every life after you die as red it’s over, but in dead life, you become a zombie. Zombies are strength buffed players with slowness that can only attack at night, can’t permanently die as they come back the next night, can’t win, and have to kill on sight. They also cannot communicate with living players, have zombie versions of the player’s original skin, and can’t wear armor above leather or copper, just basically representing a natural disaster for the series.
Now, one zombie is actually the leader of the horde. They’re the first one dead to another player or if the first episode ends with no permanent deaths, the player with the most deaths that episode becomes the horde leader. They automatically get full netherite, have major resistance and absorbtion(basically a bunch of items and potion effects making them borderline impossible to kill without major preparation from living players such as an even more powerful strength and they get netherite weapons and no speed debuff but instead a speed buff maybe if that’s not overkill) CAN permanently die, can win if they are alive and every other player is a zombie. Basically the natural evil for the series. They can communicate, but they also have to kill on sight at night. The living final remaining player lives if the boss is killed. If this happens after the 5th episode, the zombies stop and are removed from the game leading to a normal life series. If it happens before then, the second zombie becomes the leader. Zombies cannot attack their leader directly or indirectly, as they will be sent out of the horde resulting in a permanent death.
Of course there’s also a boogieman, which makes it automatically start to set this off.
As for living players. They can’t attack zombies during the day, as those zombies can only spectate, and mine and such for themselves, or the leader zombie(or if they want to give items to living players they just can’t talk to them to explain anything).
The leader is the only zombie that can interact with players at daytime but no one’s allowed to kill them during it or vice versa, traps or otherwise.
Of course this is a rough draft and could be changed in many ways, but I wanted to balance it a bit.