interest check

[afflictionmods]

BASICS

This is an official interest check for an invite-only, short-term game called Affliction! Affliction is a character-oriented, CR-building game with its basic premise taking inspiration from Kiznaiver. For those who are familiar, you guessed it: Pain sharing time. Characters will be paired up and share their pain with one another, both of the physical and emotional variety. They will be given weekly missions that will challenge the cast in different ways and test their fortitude, in order to bring life to a rather dull city.

Your mods for this game will be Coco amplitude / onikabuto and Lavender revelries!

(Have either of us actually seen Kiznaiver? Nope, but the basic foundations are interesting and we thought they might make for a fun short-term game.)

Affliction will operate on a weekly schedule and run for around 8 weeks max, so yes, you can expect that this will be a fast-paced game. Characters will be given weekly missions that will challenge the cast in different ways. We will post weekly logs that will cover Sundays to Fridays; these logs are for mingling and lighter tasks. Saturdays will feature the main missions.

There will be a maximum of 24 28 characters (14 pairings), 1 character per person, not including mod characters. Activity will be 10 comments a week across 2 threads with a minimum of 5 comments per thread, and there will be opportunities to turn in bonus AC for rewards! Eligible threads for AC must be from the weekly logs and not the event logs that go up on Saturdays.

For more information, please refer to our FAQ!

INVITES

This game is limited to people on Coco and Lav's Plurk timelines, +1s of interested players, and anyone who received a direct invite (for those who don't use Plurk).

Regarding the +1 system: Since this is a game that pairs characters together, as long as at least one person in your pairing is on one of our timelines/received a direct invite, you're golden!

PAIRING UP

We are allowing players to choose who they will be paired with OOCly. We encourage everyone to plan ahead and find someone they'd like to be in a pair with. Because of this, only one reserve for both people is required.

For example, Lav and I (Coco) play characters named Mitsuki and Riku respectively. We want to app them in as a pair, so Lav decides to be the one to place a reserve for the both of us. Lav gets our reserve in on time, guaranteeing us a slot in the game.

We have a section on our interest check form below where you can indicate if you already have a partner in mind! If you don't have anyone or are flexible to being partnered with someone in search of one, feel free to use this interest check as a way to find a partner!

SCHEDULE

– Reserves will open on Saturday, May 14th at 2pm EST. They will close on Sunday, May 15th at 2pm EST or whenever we hit our 24 player (12 pairs) cap – whichever one comes first.

– Applications will open on Sunday, May 15th at 2pm EST and will close on Friday, May 20th at 6pm EST.

– The game will begin on Sunday, May 22nd at 2pm EST.

FORM

If this sounds like something you'd want to play in, please fill out the form below! Feel free to follow our mod plurk theafflicted for updates!

<b>Name:</b> <b>Contact:</b> <b>Invited by:</b> <b>Likelihood:</b> <b>Timezone:</b> <b>Character considerations:</b> <b>Are you looking for someone to partner up with?</b> If you don't have anyone in mind, feel free to use this post as a way to find someone to buddy up with for the game proper. <b>Anything else?</b> Memes, questions, etc. go here.

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[catarou]

Name: adrian
Contact: sweetstacks @ plurk
Invited by: gee i wonder
Likelihood: 10000%
Timezone: pst
Character considerations: ichiro yamada or gentaro yumeno, both from hypnosis microphone! or maybe i'll go completely off the string with a final fantasy xiv character. whomst? i have zero idea but emet-selch maybe. perhaps an oc? WHO KNOOOOWS
Are you looking for someone to partner up with? i have no buddy in mind so if you wanna partner up.... flexes
Anything else?

[sicklysweet]

keep going bitch but it's just different asnm roles

[catarou]

i hate how true this is

[pcrtiallystcrs]

Name: Amity
Contact: amity_rose
Invited by: Coco!
Likelihood: I'm going to be cautiously optimistic and put myself down at 85% because life has been hard but I am Stubborn.
Timezone: EST
Character considerations: Shizuku Hinomori (Project Sekai) seems like she could be fun on a comfort side of potential hurt/comfort! As an idol, she's someone who pushes herself hard so she's not unused to pain, but she's also certainly no soldier or anything of the sort. Another option is Riddle Rosehearts (Twisted Wonderland), a young but prodigious mage with a temper problem he's trying to work on, and also, my son. No but for real I will fight his mother he's mine now how dare she.
Are you looking for someone to partner up with? Yes, please! Feel free to hit me up on plurk!!
Anything else?

(also hi this will be my first short-term game if i do manage to make it which is very exciting!!!)

[moes]

Name: Len
Contact: tsundereban
Invited by: I'm on Coco's timeline!
Likelihood: Cointoss, we'll see how April shakes out.
Timezone: Pacific.
Character considerations:

Mafuyu Asahina (Project Sekai) would be interesting due to her personality and how she struggles with emotions in the first place and anything pain related would be potentially interesting. Alternate options I also have are Iori Nagase (Kokoro Connect) most likely from a post-anime canon point where she's found herself will be like 'not this shitto again' or maybe even Sara Chidouin (Your Turn to Die). I'm not quite sure yet. I might also be convinced on a character that isn't on this list if a partner convinces me of something. Who knows.

Are you looking for someone to partner up with? As stated above: yes, definitely! It can also potentially sway my character choice, too.
Anything else?

[kaientai]

Name: min
Contact: koutenko
Invited by: i'm on coco and lav's timeline!
Likelihood: Tentative? Probable? The fact that it's like "intend to do this thing on Saturdays" is something I can think I can probably swing but we'll see! But I am a short term game nub I sorry.
Timezone: Pacific.
Character considerations:

Sakamoto Ryouma or Okada Izō, both from Fate/Grand Order. SO MUCH PAIN HERE LOL. They both have a lot of issues and handle them in different ways, but neither of them are very good at sharing how they feel with others. Sort of depends if anyone wants an aggressive, crude tsundere or a weird, unintentionally shady dude who is too kind for his own good. Sorry, I will drag you into my samurai pain i have one brain cell and it's all this

Are you looking for someone to partner up with?

Probably yes! This could also potentially sway who I choose but I play them both actively right now so I'm very 50/50 on it and would go one way or the other purely for Rule of Fun reasons lmao.

Anything else?

[sangopearls]

hm.

[sangopearls]

opens my arms for amity!!!

i'm canonblind to both but that meme is very relatable

[sangopearls]

ok but any of these three sound like fantastic choices?!

[sangopearls]

WELCOME MIN

canonblind to both of them but i am here to witness the pain train 😱

[kaientai]

THANKS

they will both suffer the mortifying ordeal of being known

[sangopearls]

they will absolutely be perceived

[mirrite]

Name: Luna
Contact: LunaHoshino @ plurk
Invited by: Coco!
Likelihood: IT'S A COINTOSS AT THIS POINT it really depends on how I feel after coming right out of a murdergame!
Timezone: EST
Character considerations: Okay but what if I brought Marcus from Tales of the Rays back out for this because he canonically has an emotional link to someone and knows aaaaaall about how fun those are! I look forward to letting his big brother instincts loose again because he absolutely WOULD.
Alternatively, I could also do Nuadha from the same canon because that man has the emotional intelligence of a mushroom and so clearly that is an excellent idea, right?
Are you looking for someone to partner up with? At the moment, probably yes!
Anything else?

[sangopearls]

ngl luna...ramuda was one of my choices, can you imagine if nuadha

[mirrite]

... amazing and terrible

[magicam]

Name: Eri
Contact: subjuggul8ion
Invited by: Coco!
Likelihood: I love the concept, but will I have the time/willpower to play when it rolls around? I hope so!
Timezone: GMT-5
Character considerations: [Cracks knuckles here we go.......!]

Cater Diamond, Jade Leech, Leona Kingscholar | Twisted Wonderland So we've got a stepford smiler, a feral merman (don't let his façade fool you), and a depressed former gifted kid, what could possibly go wrong here?? Cater would bring the unexpected emotional pain, Jade would be the first one to start experimenting to see the limits of this link business (while being 1000% annoyed that he isn't paired with his twin, excuse you, multiverse, rude???), and Leona would. Uh. Probably nap through most of the chaos. Probably also try to get his partner to nap through the chaos, too, so he wouldn't be inconvenienced by being hurt.

Hisomu Yoshiharu | Kiznaiver So full disclosure, this consideration is absolutely the "hey I have a muse this thing was based on!!!" consideration. The upside is that he'd be post-canon, so he's been through all this painshare nonsense before! Yay! The (massive) downside is that he's hyper-masochistic, so whoever he's paired with would probably not have a fun time trying to wrangle him, unless they're similarly inclined. Whoops.

Eve | NieR: Automata Another twin, and another character who is used to spooky links with someone else, wow, amazing. He'd also not be pleased that his link isn't his brother, and he'd rocket the pair into highkey emotional distress immediately because of it... Lucky for the setting the power nerfs mean he can't destroy the electronics around. If given good reason to chill out, though, he'd be very overprotective of whoever he did end up paired with! A cute bean at his core, honestly.

The Protagonist [Akira Kurusu] | Persona 5 Everyone needs a wildly extra, empathetic mom friend, right? Right. Simultaneously the most emotionally stable and most likely to get up to Shenanigans(tm) of anyone on my list of considerations. I'd probably pull him from the Vanilla game, because I've played it... Many Times, and I've only played Royal once!

Various OCs | Tabletop [Vampire: the Masquerade] This game has been consuming my life and I have way, way too many characters for it... So like. I could be enabled into throwing a Vampire into this game for fun and chaos. It could happen.

Others! Hey, it's a short-run game! I have a muselist over here! If anyone wants to take a glance and sees someone they would want me to consider, or would want to be partnered with, let me know! <3

Are you looking for someone to partner up with? Possibly!
Anything else?

[sicklysweet]

i'm only canon familiar with riddle who like, maybe doesn't deserve this, but also absolutely deserves this and maybe it would... tone his temper down a bit...

but also that meme is A+ so shizuku also seems like she would be great to see here, laughs

[sicklysweet]

they all sound like good choices but i also can't help but feel bad for mafuyu... struggling with emotions and then you get thrust into This Shit,

rip,

[sicklysweet]

MIN HAS IZO NOT SUFFERED ENOUGH IN AVALON,





but also i would love to see either of them here?! and if you have any short-term questions you know you can hit up me or coco ✨

[sicklysweet]

lunaaaa i had such a good time watching alan in mayoi i would love to see you here again if you were up for it once mg ends!!

i feel like a mom friend might be necessary but also. also, people with no emotional intelligence having to deal with emotions also sounds very good

[applehearted]

clearly this is how you get emotions

[sicklysweet]

as one of the mods i am trying very hard to not be incredibly biased in welcoming players considering the game

on the other hand i love cater with all of my heart HAHA. but, really, any of them do sound like great options! mom friends are good, lazy cats are good, distressed twins are good...

[sicklysweet]

if you can't make your own emotions store bought is fine

[sangopearls]

all are a+++ choices eri, WELCOME i hope you can make it!!!

[mirrite]

I VERY MUCH WANT TO, the concept intrigues me a lot and it would be fun with either one of my boys! And yes, the hard part would be picking because... mom friend... or someone who would be an absolute DISASTER if exposed to someone else's emotions... I mean they'd both be disasters in their own ways BUT who to choose haha