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?

[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?

[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?

[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?

[magnetcap]

Name: Dany
Contact: danybel
Invited by: I'm in both the mods' pluralists!
Likelihood: Medium? It depends on scheduling, but this would be my first fast paced game? i think?!
Timezone: EST
Character considerations: Eustass Kid from that one pirate series, who is loud, obnoxious, tsundere, and cares more for his crew than he lets on. Vil Schoenheit from Twisted Wonderland, who's a beautiful teenage boy, amazing at making potions, and multitalented when it comes to the arts. Malleus Draconia also from TW, the poster boy of the game, who never gets invited to anything, and has a liking for dark, desolate places. OR Shu☆zo from Show by Rock!!, the most famous rock star in his universe, has everything anyone could ever want, except friends!

Are you looking for someone to partner up with? im free for all!
Anything else?

[perfectlytimed]

Name: Eric
Contact: kokichi, rideaux#7246
Invited by: Friends with both mods!
Likelihood: 70%...?? Honestly the timing is pretty bad for me lmfao because I think the game starts literally the day before I'm supposed to start school but also I really want to do this...
Timezone: EST
Character considerations:
Almost definitely Rideaux from Tales of Xillia 2, you all know my life... whoever was stuck being linked to him would just have The Worst Time because he's in some level of pain at all times due to his medical situation. Alternatively Alphen from Tales of Arise would be interesting since he feels no physical pain, but I don't think I'm going to be up to playing a protag, lmao.

Are you looking for someone to partner up with? Yes! (unless....? looks at pom)
Anything else?

[currysseur]

Name: nik!
Contact: exits#8071
Invited by: YOU BOTH KNOW ME GOSH
Likelihood: uhhh medium??? i gotta see how the next couple months pan out but this looks fun...
Timezone: GMT
Character considerations:
my first considerations, because I'm Satoshi Hino garbage, are Guy from A3! or... Takuto Maruki from P5R because I don't love myself (but also Maruki + Pain Sharing The Game sounds Interesting). The possibility of bringing someone like La Signora from Genshin Impact or an OC (which OC is yet to be decided) is also not out of the question.

Or maybe I'll just bring the Stupidest Lad and drop Steak in here.

Are you looking for someone to partner up with? yes, si, ja, はい。
Anything else?

[selfconcept]

Name: Haki
Contact: factious
Invited by: both!
Likelihood: extremely likely
Timezone: Eastern
Character considerations: Hien Callias, an OC. If anyone remembers pokespe, it's the same guy.
Are you looking for someone to partner up with? I have a partner already!
Anything else? nope

[jokey]

Name: milky
Contact: shitpost
Invited by: coco & lav
Likelihood: SLAMS ON THE DOOR, LET ME IN
Timezone: GMT -7
Character considerations: a few!! i'm considering 9S from Nier Automata, Asch from Tales of the Abyss, and (predictably) maybe some Personas? Minato because blue boys need love too. Madl or Belial from Granblue if i can take mandee by the handee......
Are you looking for someone to partner up with? i've got someone in mind!
Anything else?

[partymagician]

Name: amber
Contact: secondhandmagic @ plurk
Invited by: both!!
Likelihood: 100000%
Timezone: CST
Character considerations: fai d flowright from tsubasa: reservoir chronicle! im pretty set on him! he’s a disaster emotionally so he’s perfect for this game
Are you looking for someone to partner up with? i have one already!
Anything else? pretend i have something super funny here

[stalagsmited]

Name: Luminitrium
Contact: leyfi @ plurk
Invited by: On both mods' plurks.
Likelihood: 75%. The other 25% is me just being cautious but my participation is fairly likely, at least.
Timezone: EST
Character considerations: Zhongli (Genshin Impact), Dimitri (Fe3h), Ferdinand (Fe3h), Crow (Trails)
Are you looking for someone to partner up with? Yes. I am flexible and willing to sign up with anyone.
Anything else?: No.

[startraveler]

Name: Ashka
Contact: spiritualwhisper
Invited by: Coco
Likelihood: Very likely because this idea is amazing
Timezone: GMT +1
Character considerations: Aether (Genshin Impact), Kazuha Kaedehara (Genshin Impact), Ruca Milda (Tales of Innocence)
Are you looking for someone to partner up with? If I go with Aether, then I have someone who'd be interested in partnering with me as Childe, but if this doesn't work out then I'll be looking for a partner!
Anything else? n/a

[harimaya]

Name: Eski
Contact: eski
Invited by: I'm on Coco's timeline
Likelihood: I'm gonna say... 60% because I'm getting a new work schedule at the end of this month and I don't want to commit until I see that.
Timezone: JST
Character considerations: Probably a sword boy because they're all getting new-ish canon between now and then. My top choice is Tsurumaru Kuninaga because he is peak conceal don't feel but Hizen Tadahiro and Mutsunokami Yoshiyuki are also possible because we love boys with meaningful scars.
Are you looking for someone to partner up with? yeAH. My time zone is def out there but I'm usually able to boomerang during the day at work and I commit sleep crimes regularly. I'm also always around on weekends. I've murder gamed from Japan before. I can commit sins again trust me.
Anything else?

[lotusbloom]

Name: Kei
Contact: begleiter
Invited by: Coco
Likelihood: Medium-high! I'm skipping Momocon this year so May is wide open for me.
Timezone: EST

Character considerations: I've always got a thousand characters in mind, but for now I'm going to narrow it down to Keito from Ensemble Stars!!, Guren from Seraph of the End, Oscar from RWBY, or Bennett from Genshin Impact!

Are you looking for someone to partner up with? Yes! I am more than happy to pair up with anyone who is lacking a partner! To cover the basics, Keito is tired and bossy, Guren is tired and sassy, Oscar is tired and earnest, Bennett is enthusiastic and horrendously unlucky, and all of them are used to working in groups!

Anything else? I have a dumb sense of humor so if we partner up you need to be prepared for the fact that this sort of thing is going to disable me with laughter on a regular basis.

[reallyfishy]

Name: Seto
Contact: Arystar
Invited by: On Coco's friend list!
Likelihood: Pretty high, I don't have much going on RP-wise.
Timezone: CST
Character considerations: Cid or Nero (Final Fantasy XIV), Raven (Tales of Vesperia). Old men (in JRPG standards) all around.
Are you looking for someone to partner up with? Redd has thrown some amazing ideas at me so I should be good!
Anything else? (Cid is standing on a box here.)

[gilden]

Name: Limon Basil
Contact: basil#5015
Invited by: the cocopuff
Likelihood: gonna say 60% ish right now. squints loudly at schedules.
Timezone: EST!
Character considerations: Kawase (Hashihime of the Old Book Town), Cinnabar (Houseki no Kuni), < insert another disaster pair of the charred citrus flavor >
Are you looking for someone to partner up with? nein i am here to be a disaster with fyre
Anything else? How long will main missions be?

pcs?

[scythegun]

Name: Redd!
Contact: pokerap
Invited by: Coco!
Likelihood: Hopefully 100%, but my brain has been made of slush lately so we'll have to see.
Timezone: EST
Character considerations: Did someone ask for old jrpg men??? No??? Too bad. Either Nero or Cid (FFXIV) or Yeager (Tales of Vesperia) to go along with Seto's!!
Are you looking for someone to partner up with? I'm partnering with Seto!
Anything else?

[pimpplan]

Name: Pom!
Contact: hnnng
Invited by: joe mama
Likelihood: Pretty likely? No idea how my life is gonna be May/June but barring anything crazy, you know I will be here õwõ
Timezone: EST
Character considerations: ???????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????? dog, I dunno. I have a lot of scrungly Tales characters that would be a good fit for this. Zelos??? Julius????? Colette??????? Lind Ah! My Goddess???? Saber Fate/strange fake???????? honestly who knows
Are you looking for someone to partner up with? do you ever get the feeling that someone is intently looking at you? (i should be good!)
Anything else?

[dehallow]

Name: Luna
Contact: AppleBlossoms
Invited by: Coco!
Likelihood: 50/50 right now, I just... got no clue!
Timezone: GMT+1
Character considerations: NO IDEA!! Like straight-up, I just. Don't know yet... enable me???
Are you looking for someone to partner up with? Y, but obviously my interest is tentative rn....
Anything else? :*

[numberedays]

Name: Dani
Contact: danidanidanica
Invited by: Coco!
Likelihood: Tentative!
Timezone: PST
Character considerations: I've got a few but honestly I have no idea what my schedule is going to look like come game time so these are all super super tentative.

Aubrey - OMORI the Faraway Town version. Full of fun emotions to share.

Sorawo Kamikoshi - Otherside Picnic misanthropic, exhausted college student. Explores a world populated with eldritch creepypasta beings to pay off student loans and quietly judges everyone, all the time. Probably going to be pining for her very good friend Toriko who she still has yet to acknowledge romantic feelings for, enjoy.

Rio Takeuchi - Spiral: The Bonds of Reasoning looks twelve but is actually seventeen and can singlehandedly take out an attack squad! She leans hard into the cute and innocent trope so having her true emotions felt will be one long nervous laughter track.

Tatsuma Hiyuu - Tokyo Majin quiet anime adaptation of a silent protag, has strong feelings about people and humanity but keeps it all tucked behind a sweet smile. Used to punching demons and getting stabbed, frequently, so haha what's a little pain.

Mikado Aisaka - 1BitHeart perpetually smiling pleasantman, definitely kind and trustworthy, does not know how to have strong feelings about things, please kick some sense into him.

Ahito - Hibiki's Magic idk he's a kid with healing magic that comes at the cost of his lifespan he's grumpy what do you want from him.

Are you looking for someone to partner up with? SUPER TENTATIVE BUT LIKE. IF ANY OF THESE APPEAL TO YOU, BY ALL MEANS, HIT ME UP.
Anything else?

[vivyr]

Name: Fyre
Contact: FFFyre[#]4083
Invited by: Cococo
Likelihood: 60% bc gestures upward at citrus
Timezone: PST
Character considerations: Tamamori Hashihime, Phos Sentient Rocks, other problem pairs probably available WE SHALL SEE once game is closer ☆???
Are you looking for someone to partner up with? We're good!! 🍋🍋🍋

Anything else?

[relentlesslyonwards]

Name: Fishy
Contact: fishytasty @ plurk
Invited by: Coco
Likelihood: Somewhat likely...?! I never know when it comes to these things, but I will definitely try to make it if I have the time!
Timezone: EST
Character considerations: Great question!

Because fuck if I know, but it will probably be a GBF character or a Trails character at this rate. On the Trails side, the Rean Bean Machine^TM is technically always an option unless I want to play a loud delinquent (again), but more reserved characters like Sandalphon and Freyr from GBF are technically on the table too. Or maybe I'll just end up choosing someone random, who knows!!!

Are you looking for someone to partner up with? Maybe?! I'm down for pairing up with whoever, so.
Anything else? i would post a meme but i am le tired so kindly pretend there is one in the blank space below

[misfires]

Name: soupie
Contact: soupie
Invited by: two very cute mods
Likelihood: HM more likely than not!!
Timezone: pst

Character considerations: chongyun (genshin) if lum will be my xingqiu, ayato (genshin) if he turns out to like boba as much as me, maybe thoma (genshin), a character with high gremlin energy (genshin), a boy with an dinky ponytail (some canon), kate lorraine (the holy grail of eris), ootakemaru (onmyoji), IDK

Are you looking for someone to partner up with? um I confessed to someone... but I don't know if they feel the same... blushu
Anything else?



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