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grabs by the throat ([personal profile] maladied) wrote2025-10-01 12:00 am

INTEREST CHECK


FEEL THE BLOOD PRESSURE RISE
Feast… Blood… Find…

PREMISE
The MESSAGE is scrambled and distorted, but it doesn’t come from any familiar voice, or even a voice to begin with—not that it matters, as you feel the words all the same. Resonate with them. It’s not a command; it’s a request framed as a statement. The message creates an oppressive weight on your chest with its grief. Underneath the grief, however, is a simmering, insatiable hunger. A hunger you can feel in the back of your mouth.

It momentarily cripples you, immobilizes you, and forces your eyes shut, but only for a fleeting moment. Once that moment passes, both the grief and hunger vanish completely and do not linger. You feel like yourself again, but when you open your eyes, you’ll find yourself in a field that you do not recognize surrounded by unfamiliar buildings.

BONJOUR
Hello & welcome to your interest check for [community profile] pestilentem, an upcoming murdergame opening on November 3rd. The game will incorporate various horror themes and tropes and is expected to be plot intensive; we are prepared to accommodate no more than 30 players. All characters will be challenged weekly, allowing them to choose to work together or against each other to influence the outcome of the game.

THE BASICS
▸ Characters will find themselves transported to the game's setting from their current canon point moments after they have expressed a desire, no matter how significant or insignificant that desire is. The specifics of how they got here will not be clear to them.
▸ All powers will be nerfed upon arrival and all/any characters who are dead/have sustained a fatal injury will be brought into the game in good health.
▸ Cast caps are set to three (3) characters per canon. This excludes franchised canons such as the Persona series and Final Fantasy where each specific series will count individually.
▸ Characters do not have to be humanoid in order to be appable; they just have be able to be killed. If you are unsure about your choices, feel free to ask your mods!
▸ While characters of all ages and backgrounds are welcome, we will be taking suitability in mind for this game. Please remember that this a horror-themed game so there will be a lot of sensitive material and content.
▸ It's possible that your character will be chosen to kill, so they must be willing to do so. Characters may also be incentivized to kill on their own. Please keep these things in mind when deciding on your character choices.

INTERESTED?
Please feel free to check out the GAME INFORMATION page for specifics on the game's schedule, gameplay loop, and FAQs.

Reserves will open October 18th at: 12PM EST | 9AM PST | 5PM GMT.
Applications will open October 25th at: 12PM EST | 9AM PST | 5PM GMT.

This game will be run on an invite-only basis, so you must have received a link to this interest check from one of the mods: Naru, Amb, Milky, & Caitie. If there are still slots remaining by October 23rd, we will open those slots for players to invite +1s. Please remember to ask the mods before extending those invitations!



Like in previous games, we will be using a Discord server for game updates, which you can join HERE. Even if you're undecided about joining, you're free to come and hang out in the peanut gallery if it turns out you can't make it. Since all ongoing information in the game will be going through the server, it is mandatory to join once your application is in.

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[personal profile] siriuspuns 2025-10-04 07:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Name: Tori
Consideration(s): Uhhh okay recency bias means I'm rotating Siffrin from In Stars and Time, though I could probably also put Ritsu Kageyama from Mob Psycho 100. Or I can swerve from playing a muppet and play the 10th Doctor from Doctor Who. "There's no fate/strange fakes in there Tori, what the fuck" never fear, friends. It could happen.
Likelihood: NARU GAME THAT STARTS ON MY BIRTHDAY??? I WILL BE THERE EVEN IF I HAVE TO LIVE ON ENERGY DRINKS TO DO IT.
Concern(s): NONE IM SO FRICKIN EXCITED
Meme/Other:
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[personal profile] justscribing 2025-10-04 07:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Name: Athuria
Consideration(s): It's time I finally inflict Alhaitham from Genshin Impact on y'all.
Likelihood: 90%-100%
Concern(s): Am I smart enough to play Alhaitham in a plot intensive murdergame? No, however, I'm fool enough.
Meme/Other:
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[personal profile] baori 2025-10-04 07:20 pm (UTC)(link)
EHEHEHEHEHE....
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[personal profile] cleansheets 2025-10-04 07:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Name: Luna
Consideration(s): It may once again be time for McGillis Fareed of Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans fame. I've been too experimental lately and it kept biting me, I wanna return to a character where I know I can be active!! Alternatively, I am thinking reprising Tokiko Kurosu from Walk To Death, because she seems like a great thematic fit? Hmmm.
Likelihood: 90%. If my life doesn't explode totally unexpectedly, I am here.
Concern(s): None rn!
Meme/Other:
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[personal profile] fightolive 2025-10-04 07:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Name: Mira
Consideration(s): Firefly (hsr) or Nozomi Kirifuji (100 line)
Likelihood: 50/50 I'm currently barreling down time stranger and then maybe I'll be a human who can think about other things
Concern(s): I think I'm out of town on Thanksgiving
Meme/Other: it's nice to see you!
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[personal profile] baori 2025-10-04 07:27 pm (UTC)(link)
WOE UPON YE ATH MAY YOU SUFFER WITH HIM AS I DID WITH LAVI....

except worse bc my game will have plot.
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[personal profile] holeful 2025-10-04 07:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Idk the doctors but I think Siffrin and Ritsu would both handle a murdergame extremely unhingedly, which is ideal
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[personal profile] acereversal 2025-10-04 07:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Name: Luminitrium
Consideration(s): Hugo Vlad (ZZZ), Flins (Genshin Impact), Anaxagoras (Honkai: Star Rail), Hikari Ku (Octopath Traveller II)
Likelihood: 100%
Concern(s): idek
Meme/Other: what meme gimmie a mo (or not)
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[personal profile] fefellocaelum 2025-10-04 07:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Name: Sable!
Consideration(s): My primary one is Amaya Sasaki, an OC of mine who's so fucked up; literally raised as a cult sacrifice, attempted to end the world with the god of said cult, failed (all at 17, mind you), and left to pick up the pieces and lead the village she was raised in because she has literally nothing left. Kind because she has to and yet quick to build a cage of obligations for herself so she doesn't return to being evil. I'd wanna try to play a more selfish arc for her lmao...

otherwise, uh, my other strongest muse hitting me for this is Lif from Fire Emblem Heroes? or maybe Little Mermaid from SINoALICE...we'll see!!! i know i wanna go with someone fucked up for this.
Likelihood: 55% or so! it all depends on how work goes since we do be entering the holiday season, and even where i work now it unfortunately has a habit of being chaotic,,,
Concern(s): nothing i can think of off the top of my head!!!
Meme/Other:
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[personal profile] baori 2025-10-04 07:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Name: naru
""Consideration"": giyuu tomioka from demon slayer.... i regrettably must confess that after seeing the newest demon slayer movie he has taken a choke hold on my monkey brain. please be kind to me i didn't ask for this. who could have known...
Likelihood: IMAGINE IF I DIDN'T JOIN MY OWN GAME.
Concern(s): how much sleep will i lose over this game...
Meme/Other: me. i'm the meme 💃
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[personal profile] sixhearted 2025-10-04 07:29 pm (UTC)(link)
WAIT BOTH OF THESE OPTIONS WOULD RULE FOR ME PERSONALLY??? Bedgillis or the surprise little sister....
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[personal profile] floodplane 2025-10-04 07:30 pm (UTC)(link)
naru voice: giyuu (derogatory)
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[personal profile] justscribing 2025-10-04 07:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Please everyone will be relieved if Alhaitham is dead.
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[personal profile] baori 2025-10-04 07:31 pm (UTC)(link)
mira.....
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[personal profile] cleansheets 2025-10-04 07:31 pm (UTC)(link)
I WAS THINKING IT LIKE. No matter what, Caitie meets An Old Friend!!
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[personal profile] baori 2025-10-04 07:31 pm (UTC)(link)
ENOUGH.
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[personal profile] baori 2025-10-04 07:32 pm (UTC)(link)
imagine if death didn't spare you like it didn't me.........
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[personal profile] slacksnark 2025-10-04 07:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Name: Caitie
Consideration(s): Unfortunately for all of you I've decided to play Beryl Gut from Fate/Grand Order. He has definitely never eaten a guy.
Likelihood: RE: WHAT NARU SAID.
Concern(s): I have none I'm full of hubris
Meme/Other: I have to go to work so imagine a really good one here.
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[personal profile] playingnice 2025-10-04 07:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Name: Panana or Pan
Consideration(s): Lin Ling (TBHX), Little Johnny (TBHX), Maomao (Apothecary Diaries), or someone from Final Fantasy or HSR?
Likelihood: 95%
Concern(s): Making icons for Little Johnny...
Meme/Other:
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[personal profile] baori 2025-10-04 07:34 pm (UTC)(link)
one of those choices is not like the other.......
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[personal profile] voidbound 2025-10-04 07:35 pm (UTC)(link)
swerves just so daybit can kill him
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[personal profile] baori 2025-10-04 07:35 pm (UTC)(link)
LIN LING!!!!!!! or little johnny...... gambai with the icon making.
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[personal profile] voidbound 2025-10-04 07:36 pm (UTC)(link)
wao what a surprise…
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[personal profile] impacter 2025-10-04 07:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Name: Nik
Consideration(s): Thancred Waters or Estinien Varlineau from FFXIV or a TKRB... Otegine but i could also just man up and bring Nagasone Kotetsu finally
Likelihood: augh ough oof idk man 50% i have so much free time but i gotta find a job so that's the clincher
Concern(s): not a concern just thank u for having CYOA signups on the calendar this makes me happy and warm and seen
Meme/Other:
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[personal profile] playingnice 2025-10-04 07:36 pm (UTC)(link)
i see you're still in the digimon mines

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