Heart Game Player signups!

[idolpro]

Heart Games: to put it briefly, it's entering the psyche of a character and exploring their mind (or, namely, their heart), with the goal of reaching their core, or the True Heart. Heart Games may range from light to dark and traumatic, so please take note of content warnings given when signing up!

Heart Games will run from February 14th to February 23rd.

Runners, please submit a toplevel with the following: your game schedule, running capacity, any content warnings players may stumble into in the Heart, & whether you accept unscored runs as well or not! In addition, please note a #chan name if you have an idea of what it should be. (You can edit it later.)

Players, please comment to the toplevels with first/second/third priority; you may have ONE scored run. If you would like to play in an unscored run, please note as such in your signup(s)! If the runner offers multiple timeslots, please note your preferred times.

You may both run a Heart and play in a Heart, but runs in other Hearts must be unscored.

Comments

QUESTIONS

[imepro]

SHRIKE #sadbirdinhearts

[softlyfalling]

interest check scheduling poll here

CW: extreme violence, gore, suicidality, child abuse, loss of agency/unnatural mental influence.

Potential slots are (in CST times/-6):
- Feb 15 daytime
- Feb 15 evening
- Feb 16 evening
- Feb 17 evening
- Feb 18 daytime
- Feb 18 evening
- Feb 19 evening
- Feb 20 evening
- Feb 21 evening
- Feb 23 daytime
- Feb 23 evening

I will figure out which hearts are running when based on interest/availability. There'll probably be 5-6 people per group if possible?

Re: SHRIKE #sadbirdinhearts

[gigadevilbreaker]

RUNS IN HERE

Re: SHRIKE #sadbirdinhearts

[deicider]

slams down dibs

Re: SHRIKE #sadbirdinhearts

[worthathousand]

i can't believe you made hashtags for both your heartgames

anyway STICKS THE LEGGE OUT REAL FAR
I already answered the poll but I suspect that, of all the options, Feb 21 evening is the best of the best for me.

Re: SHRIKE #sadbirdinhearts

[wonderlandgirl]

hi yes i want to do this

Re: SHRIKE #sadbirdinhearts

[irregular]

also this one... he's probably better equipped for it than Wednesday, actually.

Re: SHRIKE #sadbirdinhearts

[forgottenmercy]

hi

Re: SHRIKE #sadbirdinhearts

[420blazeit]

[ rolls into here too

Re: SHRIKE #sadbirdinhearts

[inspiteful]

Moral injury hell yeah

Re: SHRIKE #sadbirdinhearts

[purrrnicious]

I'll be here

somehow




we'll make this work

Re: SHRIKE #sadbirdinhearts

[nihilmancy]

Availability is up in the air, but I'm extremely interested yes please

Re: SHRIKE #sadbirdinhearts

[unbr8kable]

:|b

Re: SHRIKE #sadbirdinhearts

[calmthefoxdown]

INTERESTED but sorry my schedule is so wonky apparently I planned all my social activities for the month on those weekends wheeze

Re: SHRIKE #sadbirdinhearts

[syncintohell]

INTERESTED but Japan timezone so evening = better than daytime.

PALOMA #partylikeits1889

[marsascending]

interest check scheduling poll here

CW: a lot of discussion of colonialism, historical sexism, possible gun violence.

Potential slots are (in CST times/-6):
- Feb 15 daytime
- Feb 15 evening
- Feb 16 evening
- Feb 17 evening
- Feb 18 daytime
- Feb 18 evening
- Feb 19 evening
- Feb 20 evening
- Feb 21 evening
- Feb 23 daytime
- Feb 23 evening

I will figure out which hearts are running when based on interest/availability. There'll probably be 5-6 people per group if possible?

Re: PALOMA #partylikeits1889

[tradesecret]

/slams in HELLO, DEAR COLLEAGUE, I AM READY

Kohime/Catra

[purrrnicious]

doot doot

Positive, negative, neutral and no CR all welcome o/

Content warnings for general Imeeji violence, child abuse (with related trauma bonding and PTSD), emotional manipulation, codependency, and generally unhealthy relationships and approaches to relationships.

If you're interested, please let me know what times would work for you! I'm EST, looking at:

Feb 15 - afternoon or evening (around 12pm or 7pm EST start?)
Feb 16 - afternoon or evening
Feb 17 - a holiday for me so if there's any trickier timezone peeps that wanna play this might be a good day for it
Feb 20 - evening (7pm EST)
Feb 21 - evening (7pm EST)
Feb 22 - afternoon or evening
Feb 23 - afternoon or evening

Characters in the heart will have the option of being either a Princess (complete with one (1) sparkly outfit and one (1) superpower) or a Horde soldier (you get a taser and pet robot), more info on that to come.

Re: Kohime/Catra

[intimitation]

I'm pretty good for most that are 7pm EST and after. If Wifi isn't a princess, what is the point honestl-

Intensity #death-t

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Hello friends!

I'm running a Heart Game for Intensity which will be running off time-based elements - i.e. things will be triggered based on the time from when the game starts. During this time, I will run it as all characters are experiencing the heart simultaneously. After the time events are finished, you can run through it like a normal explora dora at your own pace. This is not quite a fix-it heart, but your character will have many options to change things about Intensity should they so desire.

Positive, negative, neutral, no CR welcome.

Warnings for:

Being Yu-Gi-Oh!

Death card games (which is really the same as the first)

Potential gore. Mostly of the getting eaten by monsters kind

Child abuse

Being consumed by technology. (i.e. wires in the brain)

Sign-up sheet is here. Please let me know 1) your preferred times aka sign up for whatever works and 2) if you want to run with someone as different characters have different starting points. I've put an example in the doc. When I've got the schedule figured out, I'll group people together and ping/comment for finalized times.

Also, if you are planning to sign-up, please reply to this comment with a blurb of either what Hell wish your character would make or a little bit about the home world they are returning to if they would take Heaven's option. If you don't know or don't care, just let me know it's Heart Runner's choice, and I will pick ICly what Intensity thinks your character is going to do.

Thank you! And feel free to ask questions if anything is confusing.

Re: Intensity #death-t

[hissterics]

scored run for King!!!

I've never thought about his graduation choices really so I will get back to you on that or let you pick, tbd

TALON #nanananaohshit

[iamverybadass]

CWs for: Child abuse/neglect, gore, body horror, loss of agency/physical control of body, death/murder

There is also the risk that part(s) of Talon's heart may kill player characters but this isn't a guarantee, and if you want to go through the heart without this risk then do not hesitate let me know and I will work with you! Same goes for anyone who'd like to go in but has a specific CW(s) they want to avoid. There are definitely safe regions of the heart to play around in without running into the worst of his traumas.

With that in mind, potential timeslots (in PST times):
-Feb 14th whenever the game goes up / late night (can go as late as 2 AM)
-Feb 15th* all day / late night
-Feb 16th* all day / late night
-Feb 17th* all day, must be in bed by midnight
-Feb 18th evening
-Feb 19th evening
-Feb 20th evening
-Feb 21st* evening / late night
-Feb 22nd* all day / late night
-Feb 23rd all day until the game end time happens

*Dates marked with an asterisk are the days it'll be easiest for me to schedule a run convenient for GMT players.

It's pretty unlikely I'll run on all the dates, but I want to be as open as possible during the interest check phase of this. So please let me know what dates/times work best for you (or dates you definitely can't make) so I can make sure I put together a schedule that can accommodate for everyone ♥

Re: TALON #nanananaohshit

[shutthefoxup]

I am flexible and can make whichever of those as long as I know in advance. Mostly commenting to say I'LL BE THERE.

Hurricane

[crossmyheartandhope]

Hey, guys! o/

Potential slots, all times in PST:
Sat 15 (morning, 9am)
Sat 15 (afternoon, 2pm)
Sun 16 (morning, 10am)
Mon 17 (evening, 5pm)
Thu 20 (evening, 5pm)
Sat 22 (morning, 10am)
Sat 22 (evening, 4pm)
Sun 23 (morning, 9am)

Please indicate you preferences here. These are not set in stone and may change depending on what works for people. I will likely pick only one runtime on each of the Saturdays, depending on availability.

I will accept unscored runs but would like to try and not go over 5 or 6 people per run. All are welcome, positive, negative, neutral, or no CR. Let me know if you want this to be a scored run. o/

CW: violence, gore, neglect, suicidality, mild body horror, mindfuck (exaggeration of one's own negative tendencies), death

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If you think you may want to play, please make some stats for your character.

All of your stats start at 8. You have 27 points to allocate however you choose, to raise those scores.

Str: How strong your character is. This will be used for strength-based attacks and moving heavy things.
Dex: How fast/dexterous your character is. This will be used for speed-based attacks and evasion.
Con: How many hits your character can take and still keep going. It also helps versus physical effects such as poison. (Add +2 HP to your total if this is your highest stat.)
Int: How smart your character is. You can use Int once per room to roll an Idea roll if you have become stuck or feel you may have missed something important.
Wis: How much common sense your character has. This will be used to make will saves versus mental effects.
Cha: How charismatic your character is. This can be used to charm NPCs or ask them for favors.

HP: All characters start at 10 HP. Characters with their highest score in Con get an additional +2 HP.

Colors: Two colors your character associates with themself
Class: One of the following: Warrior (close combat), Protector (tank), Sniper (ranged), Medic, Support, Leader
Weapon: A weapon your character uses
Codename: A ~very cool~ codename

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WHEW, this got long. Let me know if you have questions!

Re: Hurricane

[irregular]

HUFF HUFF LET'S DO THIS

Scored run for K, please!

SILENCE/SONG/SYMPHONY - #jyantaventure

[resonantblue]

Summary:
A goal-oriented game where your objective is to "collect" as much friendship/kindness/TRUTH while traversing a creepy mansion full of things trying to also hinder, hurt, or even kill you. In the final hour, you have the opportunity to wield your harnessed power in a [SHOUNEN SPIRIT BOSS BATTLE.] That's kinda spoilers, but I wanted to give people a heads up since their exploration will abruptly come to a hault if they partake—but can still continue afterwards if you want! If you don't partake in the [SHOUNEN SPIRIT BOSS BATTLE] your collected good stuff will still have significance and you can continue exploring while that ensues.

Warnings:
• very high possibility of either being maimed, psychological horror, losing a body part, given a weird status effect, or just, injured
• possibility of dying (you come back more or less okay)
• possibility that you will face SSS's trauma (extreme violence, lack of agency, identity issues, and abuse)
• possibility that you might have to face YOUR OWN feelings, oh MY!

Times in EST:
• 2/14, Fri - evening after 6:30PM EST
• 2/15, Sat - ALL DAY
• 2/16, Sun- ALL DAY (but nothing going later than 12AM EST)
• 2/21, Fri - evening after 6:30PM EST
• 2/22, Sat - ALL DAY
• 2/23, Sun - ALL DAY (but nothing going later than 12AM EST)

Just let me know what times work best for you and if your character is scored or unscored~

[nohalation]

I'M GONNA BE HERE TWICE, angel is unscored

Doodle #mudbath

[avestan]

I'd like to do no more than 5-6 scored runs for this one because timezones are terrible to me and also those will be the ones that will get to make major changes to the heart. For unscored runs I'll take as many people as are interested!

CW: torture, mutilation/gore, death, cannibalism, extremely unhealthy relationship dynamics, corruption/mental status effects (in particular blackening, see the details post for more on that)

Here's a post with some details on mechanics for the heart, as well as some additional info I'll need for signups.

I'll be available to run throughout most of the day for these dates, though will probably collapse around afternoon until late night PST.
Feb 14
Feb 15
Feb 16
Feb 20
Feb 21
Feb 22
For the rest of the game period, I'll be mostly available for morning, late evening and night PST.

[carnivorouscarnival]

Unscored run, not 100% sure about my availability yet but Feb. 21 (evening EST) or Feb. 22 (all day) should definitely work! Feb. 20 (7 PM-12 AM EST) is also a possibility though weekends are easier.

HP: 8 / Purity: 2 for starting values probably but I may come edit this.

DUALITY #catuality

[asonoficeandfire]

HELLO ♥

This is right before con week, and as such I will only have 4-5 days available for my runs and I want to do probably 4-6 runs in total. Ideally, I would prefer it all happening over the weekend so I don't die.

Running capacity: 7-8 people per run, and I'll probably take closer to 5-6 for scored runs!

Potential timeslots, all times in GMT/CET:

-Friday 14 evening 6pm (10am PST)
-Friday 14 night 10pm (2pm PST)
-Saturday 15 night 2am (Friday 6pm PST)
-Saturday 15 daytime 1pm (5am PST)
-Saturday 15 evening 10pm (2pm PST)
-Sunday 16 morning 9am (1am PST)
-Sunday 16 daytime 2pm (6am PST)
-Monday 17 evening 6pm (10am PST)
-Tuesday 18 evening 6pm (10am PST) (TENTATIVE)

CW: Imeeji violence/death (decapitation, choking, burning), child abuse, fighting, fire/ice, depression, vengeance, perceived loss of control of oneself, being swallowed by your own powers, emotional trauma.

All CR welcome, positive, negative, neutral etc. New CR too!

Some parts of this heart will be potentially deadly, if not harmful, so I'd prefer if people gave me a heads up to their preference before that. I want to stretch that the consequences of dying (you'll come back) in his heart could very well affect CR. Of course it's entirely possible to go through his heart with moderate to minor to no injuries whatsoever, if you so wish.

There's no objective in his heart and nothing glaringly obvious to fix, but there will be subtle clues to lead you along if you get stuck and plenty of opportunities to poke around and change things if you want to help or ruin something. It's up to you! It's an explora dora in a mishmash of a BNHA/Imeeji world with linear parts for some hard to reach areas.

It's still up in the air as I'm working out the finer details, but there's a possibility to play with not-quite-quirk powers. Duality doesn't remember enough of other quirks but his own in general to accurately apply it in his mind, but it will most likely be some mashup of unit skills and quirks, so it'll be something fun to play with! Actual BNHA heroes present get access to their own quirks, of course.

Also you might get a personal assistant following you around. (Unless you’re a FiN in which case you get your own assistant.)

Or maybe you'll just all be cats.

Please reply with which times work out best for you and if you're scored/unscored!

Re: DUALITY #catuality

[irregular]

Tentatively signing up for this unscored? Can do pretty much all the times listed save the Tuesday, with evenings being better for me despite being on GMT.

JOHN #thisismydesign

[theyregooddogs]

There is one strong, full run! It is on Sunday, the 16th, from 4PM from 9PM. There is no player cap.

If you cannot make that, there are alternative dates available on the 15th, Saturday, and the 17th, Monday, but those are small and by approved request only. Basically, let me know here if you really need one of those, and I will tell you if you're good to go.

Warnings: If your character follows the rules, then they are perfectly safe and okay and fine. If your character says ¡¡¡fuck the man!!!!!, then they are going to have a Bad Time. There will be torture, mindfuck, and murder. If you are aiming for that, let me know here.

Re: JOHN #thisismydesign

[worldlyafflictions]

Pink will have a harmless(???) wander.

nychta | #crunchtime

[earthquaked]

this is an extremely belated submission for unscored only runs for nychta's heart. unfortunately i probably can't manage a timed run but i wanna do a small one just for the fun of it.

blanket content warnings for nychta apply here: references to csa(potentially), cannibalism, body horror being the main big ones

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very small mechanics going on in this heart will be Control and Hunger.

Control can have a max of 10 depending on the character's level of self-control to begin with. Hunger starts at a base of 3 out 10 and increases with each room movement or major action. Players will roll a 1d10+Control each time they're prompted, and must hit their hunger level or higher in order not to lose control until they find something to sate their hunger and regain their senses. Loss of Control imparts a decrease until they find something to increase it again.

A character who dies in the heart will be restarted up to twice, with permanent base Control decreases. Dying three times or successfully reaching the goal is the end of the Heart.

What I need from y'all:

Control: (1-10)
Hunger: 3
Animal: (this is for flavor; an animal associated with the character)
Attribute: (One thing associated with the character; a power, an element, a hobby, an interest, a trauma. anything)

I will mostly be running during the weekend and weekdays the coming week, starting on Saturday 2/15, in the evenings EST(weekends) and between 9-5 EST (weekdays).

Re: nychta | #crunchtime

[marsascending]

hey what's up

Control: 8
Hunger: 3
Animal: Jellyfish
Attribute: Water