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game information.

introduction.

Welcome to Purgastory, a six-ish week invite-only short-term game that will be focused on character arcs and relationship building. The game will have an assortment of themes floating around that will handle the unpacking of trauma, engaging in self-reflection, and pursuit of the betterment of the self… or not! You can, in fact, get worse! We’re not the boss of you. Characters will arrive to Purgatory with the memory that they came here to look for something, but do not remember what. They can only hope that engaging with the assortment of mazes that appear each week will bring them closer to what they seek. The mystery will be unraveled gradually over the weeks, and character choices will determine the personal resolution that they come to by the end of the game runtime.

Weekly mazes will have horror elements with an emphasis on character exploration and relationship building. That said, we’re also not going to tell you that you can’t get a little silly! The game—and Purgatory—is what you make of it.

Hope you find what you’re looking for in our little slice of Unknown.

game schedule.

Saturday, October 18th: Today! Interest Check is up! Applications are also open for those who wish to submit their app in advance.

Friday, October 31st: A Test Driving Meme will open for anyone who would like to voicetest or get a feel for characters they’d like to bring to Purgastory. While the TDM will be game canon, you won't have to feel obligated to app every character you wish to play.

Monday, November 10th: Applications will close to give mods time to prepare for game start.

Friday, November 14th: The game will open! It will run until mid-January.

The weekly schedule for posts is below:

Sunday: A weekly mingle log with the new maze prompts will be posted every week. You’re welcome to post directly to the mingle or can make your own posts as you please that engage with the log.

Sunday through Friday: Players are welcome to engage with the Weekly Maze via the log prompts or via Maze Runs for a more personalized experience.

Sunday through Friday: Select characters (based on player availability) will be chosen to be Spirited Away. When characters are Spirited Away, they will engage in a Choose Your Own Adventure (CYOA) style log where they will participate in a shared narrative adventure run by either a mod or another player. These adventures are often personalized to the characters chosen.

Weekend (Friday or Saturday): Once a week, a mod-structured post will invite those who are available for a two hour period to engage in a Reveal. More information about this will be shared after the initial Reveal. Ooh, mystery.

rules of the game.

Be kind! Straightforward, simple, classic. OOC rudeness of any sort will not be tolerated. We expect everyone to be able to engage with each other in a respectful manner and communicate like adults!
Communication is key! Feel free to ask your questions, take initiative in getting to know others, and know that the mod team is always receptive to taking in feedback. We’d like to do everything we can to assure that everyone has a great time as we engage in a very experimental format!
Please be active—as the format of the game is short-term, we very much encourage that what you get out of the game is what you put into it. We welcome creativity of all sorts and if you’ve got a dream for your character or arc, we’ll do our best to help set it into motion. Just make sure you engage!
IC =/= OOC. Given the heightened emotions that can come up with intense RP, we just ask that everyone make sure they take a deep breath and know when to draw the lines between in character interactions and out of character discussion. Negative CR should only exist between characters, not players!
Your flexibility is appreciated. Since this format is so experimental and trying out a lot of different mechanics, we are sincerely grateful for your patience. Again, feedback is always welcome for what is or isn’t working, we just ask that you communicate any hiccups in a respectful way to the mod team. We’re doing our best too!

mechanics and activity.

Activity Check: Once a week, Activity Check will be a check-in style with no minimum comment requirement, but you must link a thread. However, we will ask that the thread linked show that the character is engaging with the weekly maze in some way, shape, or form. Avoidance is also a type of engagement, but please note that the thread/action submitted will result in a mod decision of if the character takes a step forward or back. Toward or away from what, you might ask? Great question! This will be revealed later. :) We ask that you be thoughtful about the threads you select and how they might contribute to your character’s arc, for better or worse.

Maze Runs: Based on the Fractura World Investigation system, every week character will be able to explore the Maze with other characters (with a minimum of 2 and max group of 4) and get personalized responses from the mods. Mods will provide each group with up to 3 options, and groups will get to engage in 3 back-and-forth responses with mods before the run is over.

Spirited Away/CYOA: Every week, we will run a CYOA for a group of characters (approx. 3 to 5, depending on runner capacity) where characters who go on the journey will be ~~left at the mercy of~~ guided through by a player or mod who is running the CYOA. These normally require fairly quick tagging and we ask that players who are chosen for CYOA prioritize their CYOA tags for the week they are chosen to go. Pacing will be adjusted based on the players who choose to go, but we do ask that you do your best to keep up and communicate with the runner what your schedule is like if you’d like to participate!

Reveals: More information will be shared after the first Reveal happens! It’ll be fun. Trust us. :) During this time period, we will be asking players be around to boomerang a few threads just for their own enjoyment!

Character Inboxes: Not feeling up for setting up a log but just want to have a silly little one-off thread? Feel free to use character inboxes for this game! Use them for action, text, voice, we’re not the boss of you. This is included in this section just to confirm that players have the freedom to do as they’d like with their inboxes.

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