Congratulations! As you have guessed, this is the
Good Place (Which is realistically the Bad Place, but is disguised as the Good Place to be the ultimate torture for 4 particular people), from the show of the same name!
And here were your roles:
The role of
Michael was played by
@Excalibur. Michael is the Good Place Architect (played by Ted Danson in the show) responsible for the creation of the "Good Place." He was one of the 2 roles allowed to lie about his answers.
The role of
Shawn was played by
@Wintermoot. Shawn is Michael's boss in the Bad Place, overseeing Michael's project to see if it was a success (although he counted on it failing and even called him names behind his back). Shawn was the other role that was allowed to lie about his answers. He was also only to able to answer precisely with no emotion involved, since he is basically an emotionless being.
Janet, a real Good Place knowledge pool (not a robot or a girl, she'll remind you), was played by
@A self deprecating Kane. She contains all knowledge of the Good Place as well as the universe, and will answer any question so long as it's not about the bad place. She can also give you anything you ask for, and will even be your trusted confidante (she must always uphold a resident's privacy). She was one of the 3 roles that was required to tell the truth, and it would be truth that would pertain to the actual truth.
Bad Janet, a walking talking real-life version of Bad-Siri was played by
@Red Mones. Like Good Janet, Bad Janet supposedly contains all knowledge of the Bad Place as well as the universe. Also, like Good Janet, she's required to tell you the truth. However, her answers don't have to fit in actually answering the questions the way you want, as she's a generally unhelpful being. She'll be more likely to answer with insults and fart jokes (or actual farts) than to tell you what you actually want.
Finally, we have
Vicky, aka "Fake Eleanor" played by
@Hydra. Vicky is an overly ambitious demon taking part in Michael's Good Place experiment, playing the part of the "Real" Eleanor Shellstrop in Attempt #1. She was brought in to drive a wedge between Chidi and the actual Eleanor, making Chidi fall in love with her and making Eleanor's torture worse in her realizing that the "Real" Eleanor was a really good person (even if the reality is that it's all a complete lie). Despite her ambitions, she wants the project to succeed because of possible alternatives if it doesn't, so she's the 3rd role that will normally tell the "truth" about the Good Place (in that it's a wonderful place to be).
Aaaaand the game wouldn't be the game without our spies! In this game, the spies were also secretly (by that I mean even they didn't know) assigned a role of one of the 4 torture victims (aka the main characters of the show).
It's actually quite amusing that
@Gerrick was the one to make the guess, because Gerrick played the role of
Eleanor. In the show, Eleanor was the focal point because she was under the impression that she was brought to the actual Good Place by mistake. She had to endure pretending to be a good person and eventually take lessons from one of the other main characters so that she wouldn't be suspected. But in the end, Eleanor is the one who ends up guessing that they're in the bad place in the original attempt as well as most of the 800+ reboots. Eleanor's torture is believing she was brought to the Good Place by mistake, and having to be surrounded by people that are better than her.
@North played the part of Eleanor's "soul mate"
Chidi. Chidi is a Moral Philosophy professor that second, third, fourth, and fifth guesses every decision he makes based on its moral repercussions and principals. Does he wear the gray hat or the brown one? Will he look sillier in the brown one? Will he be taken too seriously in the gray one? No decision is too simple for Chidi, and his torture in the "Good Place" is to be constantly thrown into situations where he'll have to make decisions as Michael delightfully watches him suffer, as Chidi gets constant stomach aches when he's thrown into any kind of moral dilemma. He never makes the discovery that he's in the Bad Place in any of the 800+ attempts, despite you expecting that he'd figure it out at least once. Chidi, despite being a genuinely good person, was brought to the Bad Place when he died because of all of the torture he made others endure because of his indecisiveness (though he believes it's because he uses Almond Milk despite knowing all of the harmful effects it has on the environment).
@taulover played the part of the beautiful, gorgeous, kickass character with legs for days and the height of a giraffe (Eleanor's words),
Tahani. Like Chidi, Tahani genuinely believes she's in the good place because of all of the charity work that she's done and how she's genuinely a selfless person...despite her constant namedropping of all of these celebrities that she's rubbed shoulders with (which was actually proven true by a lie detector test). However, deep down she only did the good she did to get back at both her sister Kamilah for always one-upping her in life (becoming a famous artist and rockstar to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame without having to sit out the 25 year waiting period), and also her parents who constantly praised Kamilah and made her feel inferior. So all of the good that Tahani did was corrupted by her reasoning and landed her in the Bad Place, where she's tortured by having a Soulmate the exact opposite of her in every way, at first even being that he doesn't speak, though she speaks quite often. Like Chidi, Tahani never figures out in any of the attempts that they're in the Bad Place.
Finally, we have
@Ruguo who played the part of Jianyu, actually known as Jason Mendoza. Jason is a playfully innocent, very dim-witted character that was brought to the "Good Place" after a failed robbery attempt (he and his friend were going to "install" a safe with Jason hidden inside, steal the money, and then "uninstall" the safe, though Jason suffocated inside during). Michael made Jason believe that, like Eleanor, he was brought to the Good Place by mistake (Michael "believing" he was a silent and wise Buddhist Monk named Jianyu), and Jason's torture is not being able to speak or be himself because he's afraid of getting caught (although he is constantly under belief that it's all a prank show, or he's going to get caught by the cops). In one of the earlier reboot attempts, Jason is the one to figure out that they're in the Bad Place (much to Michael's dismay at believing that he's really sunk low if Jason of all people could figure it out).
And that's game! Good job to everyone, and good job to Gerrick for figuring it out!
This was by far my favorite question of the game:
So, @Wintermoot, how did you retire?
Simply because in the Good Place, retirement means this when it comes to Michael and other immortal beings:
Michael: Its an extreme form of punishment. We call it "The Eternal Shriek". My soul will be disintegrated, and each molecule will be placed on the surface of a different burning sun. And then my essence will be scooped out of my body with a flaming ladle and poured over hot diamonds.
Tahani: But the diamonds are lovely...?
Michael: They're not. And then what's left of my body will be endlessly beaten with a titanium rod.
Tahani: Like a piñata. [Indicates a piñata she has made in the form of Michael]
Michael: Yes, except you have the string around my waist, but instead it will definitely be around my genitals.
