INTEREST CHECK

[holynights]

INTEREST CHECK

Hi there! This is Shay, and this is my silly little shipping game idea. Welcome to the HOLIDATE interest check! Thank you for giving the game a look! HOLIDATE is a shipping game themed around winter holidays and Christmas romance tropes specifically. It borrows heavily from Are You the One?, both the reality television show and starswept's short-term game from earlier this year. The premise is borrowed and tweaked with her permission!

HOLIDATE is a short-term, private game that will run on a weekly event schedule from Halloween to mid-December, with an "off" week with no major events to accommodate Thanksgiving. Each week, characters will compete in romantic challenges and dating scenarios while trying to find which other participant the game runners have selected as their Perfect Match. If all matches are found by the end of the game, every character will win a "Holiday Miracle" and be able to have a wish of their choice granted. While the basic structure is reminiscent of other short-term setups like murder and mafia style games, it is my intention that HOLIDATE remain low-pressure throughout its run. The short duration and end goal for the characters will still create the incentive for rapid CR development; however, participation in every single event isn't mandatory. This is my Christmas gift for my friends and I want to make it a positive, cozy experience.

If you haven't already, please check out the premise, rules, and FAQ for more information about the game. If you have any other questions, I'm happy to answer them as well! I'm very excited to play with everyone, and I hope the premise has piqued your interest!

The interest check is now running! Go wild in here, enable each other, hype one another up, and most of all, remember to make some holiday wishes come true!

INTEREST CHECK FORM

Your Name: Who are you?
Contact: How do we contact you?
Character Considerations: Tell us who you're thinking of bringing!
Certainty: Are you in it to win it? Not sure if you'll have enough time to play? On the fence?
Questions, Comments, Concerns?: Mechanics-related questions or any clarification you'd like on the premise or ideas? Any issues with the end date? Any Santa secrets?
Anything else?: I'm scared to see what you'll put here.

If you're interested in playing, you can use this form to post your interest check comment in style!

<b>Your Name:</b> Who are you? <b>Contact:</b> How do we contact you? <b>Character Considerations:</b> Tell us who you're thinking of bringing! <b>Certainty:</b> Are you in it to win it? Not sure if you'll have enough time to play? On the fence? <b>Questions, Comments, Concerns?:</b> Mechanics-related questions or any clarification you'd like on the premise or ideas? Any issues with the end date? Any Santa secrets? <b>Anything else?:</b> I'm scared to see what you'll put here.

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Comments

HELLO

[holynights]

Your Name: Shay
Contact: antiquating // everlutionary#5489
Character Considerations: I will be playing the Overseer! And also running the game.

I have a couple of different characters in mind; the one I am leaning towards is a little unorthodox for holiday joy while others play it very straight. I'm not sure if it's better to preserve the mystery or talk them out, but! Either way, the Overseer will be guiding everyone to a happy holiday.
Certainty: I have to be here!
Questions, Comments, Concerns?: Barring the need to fill an uneven number of participants and play in the game myself, my hope is that I'll have the time for the Overseer to be around regularly to mingle throughout the weeks for maximum drama and fun. I normally wouldn't do that with a mod character, but, like, you know. My city now. Would people be cool with that level of playing in my own game given the more casual atmosphere?
Anything else?:

[revenues]

Your Name: jams
Contact: lunarians! or my discord, wassup#4416
Character Considerations: ferdinand von fireemblem! i'm preeetty sure i'd want to bring him, because i, personally, want to embarrass him... and who else is going to feed the ponies after all the cute sleigh rides?? tho i could pull out someone else if need be for cast purposes!! franziska von aceattorney as my backup perhaps
Certainty: I'M PRETTY SURE I'LL GO FOR IT!! i had so much fun in kia's round earlier this year, i'd be delighted to join again 🥺
Questions, Comments, Concerns?: nothing from me!!
Anything else?:

[holynights]

I WILL BULLY HIM!!!

(these are both really good choices; i feel like both ferd and fran would have their lives absolutely wrecked and therefore are perfect.

losers.)

[crabg1rl]

Your Name: Lenga
Contact: crabgirl
Character Considerations: Kizuna Chieda from AI: The Somnium Files: Nirvana Initiative, shortly before "Nostalgic Idol"! My backup choice is Mahiru Koizumi (after Hope Arc), though I've been saving her for Castaway.
Certainty: There was a point in time when I would have said 100%, but some career events have occurred after that time; this includes a period of absence in November of days around the time November 5th. I'm also not entirely sure how well I'll be able to canon review before the game. So it's 80%.
Questions, Comments, Concerns?: Kizuna is very nearly in what you would call a walking spoiler situation that also deals with slightly sensitive themes so PLEASE let me know if you have any problems.
Anything else?: Uchikoshi, please drop a Santa hat Kizuna edit... it would be IC I think...!

[barleyrice]

Your Name: Amy
Contact: yoshi#5817
Character Considerations: i present two idiots

• Sena (Xenoblade 3): the girl with the gall, third wheel extraordinaire, can and WILL benchpress you, something something hammertime. she has never!! been!! in a relationship before!! and doesn't even know what dating is supposed to be like because she was born as a child soldier and War Never Changes. so i think she'd be really fun to toss in and watch her live and learn 😌 also pls let her awkwardly thirdwheel someone

(i need icons for her, send help)

• Megumu Iizunamaru (Touhou): capitalist whore. gaslight gatekeep girlboss 😉 by day, she's the head honcho of the crow tengu; by night, she's a total party animal and is just here to have a good time. i mean she's always here to have a good time regardless of the time of day but whatever. she would ALSO be fun to toss in i think, by virtue of her being a freak. her special talents include making onigiri, making money, and making enemies <3

Certainty: i haven't properly RPed in like a million years and have never been in a private game before but i miss RP and would like to give it a shot!!!
Questions, Comments, Concerns?: girl help
Anything else?: YIPPEE!

[reassurance]

Your Name: Cal
Contact: Discord: kalisona#8428
Character Considerations:

Potentially this guy, Ryuki Kuruto from AI: the Somnium Files Nirvana Initiative Too Long Game Name! He is Fine. Just a normal guy. A pathetic skrunkly. Help him. He is bad at love and also everything else.

Orrrrr one of many of the bachelors or bachelorettes from Rune Factory 5! Because that's where my brain has been as of late. (Beatrice, Ludmila, Reinhard???) WHO KNOWS WHO, it's a roulette wheel.

Certainty: Like 95%! It seems like oodles of fun!
Questions, Comments, Concerns? only excitement tbh
Anything else?:

[dominooo]

Your Name: Kia
Contact: starswept
Character Considerations: Domi from the Case Study of Vanitas, though possibly Haru from Persona 5 (Strikers, so 18). Listen, she's far better at flirting than she is at actual romance--
Certainty: 95%!
Questions, Comments, Concerns?: I'm Jewish--
Anything else?:

[zuihitsu]

Your Name: ara
Contact: galeforce#7011
Character Considerations: uh, actually the crossover of characters i have that would agree to do this and also admit they are bad at relationships is not very many. help.

sei shonagon (fgo) might just say things in a head empty way enough that it could work, maybe, but she doesn't think she's bad at relationships.

Certainty: yeah probably
Questions, Comments, Concerns?: nah
Anything else?:

[hwanin]

Your Name: Jae
Contact: Disco
Character Consideration: My heart is currently set on Roland from Triangle Strategy. Cyrus was too well-adjusted, so now I must play a wreck.
Certainty: I'm in it to embarrass myself.
Questions, Comments, Concerns?: My work hours! My work hours . . .
Anything else?: Everyone's favorite™️ Triangle Strategy experience is when it tells you to keep everyone alive and then Roland dies in one turn, because a thief suplexes him with his horse still attached.

[uncoils]

Your Name: Steve
Contact: opticblast is probably the best? I’m on discord at starfishplatinum#8582 and PMs are fine too.
Character Considerations: Jolyne Cujoh from Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure. Mulling over potential alternate choices, but I think she’d be fun and would be willing to go for it. Her last relationship got her wrongfully sent to prison for murder, so it’s bound to be smooth sailing from here on out, right?
Certainty: I would say about 85% certain? Haven’t been in a game in a few months and haven’t done a short term one in even longer, but this looks so fun and I really want to give it a shot!
Questions, Comments, Concerns?: why
Anything else?:

[truncation]

Your Name: Vee!
Contact: lycanthropic / sharisper#0002 / PM, whatever works!
Character Considerations: I'm still deciding, but! I have really been wanting to give Hayakawa Aki from Chainsaw Man another shot. I almost don't want to go into too many details for those who haven't read it (because I want everyone to either read or watch this one), but... he is a stick-in-the-mud romance-less disaster with a silly hairstyle and horrible wintertime seasonal depression, so it should be great.

Potential back-ups could be... probably characters that would involve me doing a lot more canon review LMAO so I don't know, uhhh, Asato from Lamento? Luna-Terra from Heaven Will Be Mine? This is me sparing y'all from the most questionable characters from my muselist, but... Those are the thoughts in my head currently.
Certainty: Yeah, pretty certain! I'm not very experienced with short-term games and I do have a handful of other time commitments (tabletop games, FFXIV raiding), but I want to give it a shot!
Questions, Comments, Concerns?: I don't think so...
Anything else?: While looking for a shitpost to put in here, I was reminded that there's a character in Chainsaw Man named Santa Claus. Anyways:

me except i'm also actively forcing all my friends to watch

[gilden]

Your Name: Limon Basil!
Contact: disco me basil#5015
Character Considerations:

i play too many otomes how are they mostly murder otomes

dont worry im not bringing you ash again

hairi olympia soiree????? Tokitsugu Semi from dairoku...? help
Certainty: I'm here as long as I sort out who to play... squints into the distance
Questions, Comments, Concerns?: i'm gucchi
Anything else?: i dont know who im playing so youre getting more voice of cards content

[stirtheblood]

Your Name: Vector
Contact: vectorspace / Vector#9496
Character Considerations: DUNNO YET. some options:
- Kasque again, since she was a lot of fun in AYTO
- Hayasaka from the Kaguya-sama manga, an ex-maid/bodyguard/etc with no romantic experience who would love to fall in love
- Karina from Tiger & Bunny, who is a superhero with a doomed crush on an older man. Depending on my feelings and her romantic status after T&B2 part 2 comes out in like a week.
- V Devil May Cry a frail melodramatic goth who loves to quote William Blake.
I THINK HAYASAKA FEELS LIKE THE BEST FIT but I will take opinions!!
Certainty: LIKE 50%? I'm probably to be slow and tired but it would be nice to have something new and cute going on.
Questions, Comments, Concerns?: V has pets but they are kind of powers, they're magic demon contracts and live in his tattoos/hair when he's not summoning them; would they get to come too?
Anything else?:

[revenues]

YES!!!! AS U SHOULD!!!! as Everyone should,

but hehe yes i feel either would be goofy as hell in this environment though for different reasons.... i'm ready to make EITHER of their lives a living (cute and fun) hell

[revenues]

cal it's me jams....... i don't know this man but this image is making me laugh so much, he truly looks like he is going THROUGH it . a true pathetic scrunkly. for this reason i cannot wait to tag him

[revenues]

WOOOOO SHARING A GAME WITH KIA!! i only know haru but i am excited to meet any of your ladies 👀 domi looks cool...

[lockedon]

Your Name: Val
Contact: VAL#6969 @ disco
Character Considerations: closes my eyes.............................it's just Eustace from Granblue Fantasy because I have one brain cell and also I need someone whose tags I can do in my sleep if I want to survive. I still hate being a one-trick pony though, I want that stated on record.
Certainty: 75%? Maybe??? It really depends on how fast-paced this game is please don't be too fast, my body is so weak
Questions, Comments, Concerns?: I don't think so???? You told me he could pet at least one (1) dog at some point in the game and I'm holding you to that, that's my join condition.
Anything else?: WAIT ONE MORE THING can we have a cute lil kotatsu so I can replicate this in-game, thanks.

[uncoils]

Sei's great! Fantastic choice!

[revenues]

hi jae!! i've been super looking forward to playing triangle strategy (i have it but haven't Started yet.... but will soon,) so i'd love to see roland in this winter wonderland!!

[reassurance]

JAMS HELLO holds your hands

listen, ryuki is Fine and that's all you need to know

I SEE YOUR CHARACTER CHOICE IS AS CHEF'S KISS AS EVER THO i love ferdinand SO MUCH

[reassurance]

oh gosh kizuna WHAT A GOOD CHOICE, HONESTLY

she deserves only happiness and good things

[reassurance]

HI ARA it's cal, looking forward to playing with you again!!

also yeah I can't think of a funnier character in literally any setting than Sei, sh's perfect

[reassurance]

VALLLLLL hi it's Cal

i don't know your granblues but I love all Val characters always, so I'M EXCITED

[reassurance]

listen, I can't think of a more appropriate character for christmas ayto than a murder otome character

[dominooo]

She's only cool half the time, the other times she is a disaster :)

CAN'T WAIT TO THREAD WITH YOU