Interest Check

[collectedmods]

Welcome to the first interest check for COLLECTED!



We’re so excited to share what’s in store with you! (Pun intended.) Here are some quick links to get you started: FAQ, PREMISE, LOCATIONS. The TDM is tentatively set for June 12th, with Reserves opening on June 15th, and applications opening on June 19th. These dates are subject to change! But we’ll keep you updated via our game plurk, collectedrpg.

In a nutshell, Collected is a game about survival, the post-apocalypse, mystery, and the supernatural. This is a horror game that will force characters to survive in an abandoned mall left behind in a world wrecked by environmental decay. There’ll be eerie happenings left and right that seem almost like they’re meant to make them suffer… especially now that their wounds mysteriously heal on their own. It’s up to the characters themselves to find out what’s the deal with this creepy mall, and whatever happened to all the people who used to come here.

Sound fun? Post a comment using the code below, and we can get this party going!!

<font face=georgia><big><b>name:</font> The handle you go by! <font face=georgia><big><b>contact:</font> Plurk, discord, or any other form of contact you prefer. <font face=georgia><big><b>who invited you:</font> Please note here which of the mod’s plurklists you’re on, or who is inviting you as their +1! <font face=georgia><big><b>character/canon:</font> You know the drill! Feel free to post more than one character to the interest check. <font face=georgia><big><b>a little bit about them:</font> Tell the class a little bit (or a lot!) about what your character is like! Their personality, their abilities, etc. <font face=georgia><big><b>etc.:</font> Are there any specific horror themes/tropes you're looking to see out of Collected? CR you're looking for? Favorite store in the mall? If all else fails: gifs and memes go here!!

Comments

[globs]

name: Sib
contact: machaera
who invited you: i live here

character/canon: Cinnabar / Houseki no Kuni
a little bit about them: depressed rock who is poisonous and rude but secretly longs for friendship and will latch onto the smallest sign of compassion in an embarrassing way. shy. tsundere, probably
etc.: WELCOME TO MY KITCHEN

[oomfies]

i can't wait for lottie and cinnabar to get their second chance at tru friendship 🥺

also for her to explain jewelry stores 🥺🥺🥺

[oomfies]

name: lili
contact: snottie
who invited you: i also live here

character/canon: lottie person / snotgirl
a little bit about them: she's an fashion blogger with a heart of copper 🥺 who very much needs friends and has to learn how to not be addicted to the internet!
etc.:

[lifespanned]

NOWS FINALLY MY CHANCE TO PLAY A CHARACTER WHO WILL ACTUALLY BE FRIENDS WITH LOTTIE

[stanchion]

name: haru
contact: plurk @ ilium
who invited you: on both

character/canon: gaelio bauduin / as the gundam turns iron blooded orphans
a little bit about them: happy purple aristocrat boy pre-roomba stage (ie. not vidar vidar). snob. racist towards martians. he's gonna be sad he can't fit his gundam in the mall.
etc.: his favourite stores are teavana and nespresso

[bats]

him........the Boy....... you have good taste

[brothered]

name: elia!
contact: tuchanka / elia#6729

who invited you: i'm on the plurklists of sib and lili and jamie... y'all the realest
character/canon: i am considering dolores from westworld... and felix fraldarius from fire emblem: three houses! two wildly different energies, but both are, in elia tradition, softer than they appear at first glance.

a little bit about them: let's see here:

• dolores is a host (android, w/e w/e) who's seen the best and worst humanity has to offer! she was stuck in a wild west-themed park for the first, oh, thirty five years of her life, but she gained sentience, started a revolution, and entered the real world in a BIG way. she's a wild mix of caring so, so deeply for her kind/those she knows, and being unbelievably ruthless when it comes to getting what she wants. she's great to have on your side! she's not so great to have as an enemy! whew!!!
• felix is a cold, somewhat aloof swordsman from the ye olde holy kingdom of faerghus. you can always count on him to tell it like it is tbh! he prefers working alone because hey, who needs to show that they care about people, amirite? but felix cares... deeply. so deeply. and while he claims to hate chivalry, he just so happens to embody key chivalric values, sO!

etc.: give me everything... i love horror games, i love forcing characters to work together, chef! kiss!!!
or

[lifespanned]

DOLORES SOUNDS SO COOL i love android ladies... and badass android ladies are even better 👁️👁️

i need to play through fe3h at the speed of light so i can get the true Felix Experience in his canon, but i would love to see him here! let misa and felix argue over all the dumbest stuff possible, she is so good at dealing with cold and aloof types by: not processing they're cold OR aloof

[lifespanned]

name: jamie
contact: lunarians
who invited you: i ALSO also live here

character/canon: misa amane / death note
a little bit about them: we all know the goth gf queen herself... but she's a model with a killer notebook! a great actor! super in love with her bf! AND she has great eyesight and handwriting. she'll be so, so bad at surviving here
etc.: i don't have anything funny to say I HOPE YOU ALL ENJOY and have fun !!

[oomfies]

damn... i can't believe this is the first time misa and lottie will actually have real life cr

this is a dream come true!!!

[quicktimed]

name: Laura
contact: jojoveller
who invited you: Sib!!

character/canon: let me just make a teeny list
constantin d'orsay | greedfall
connor | detroit: become human
phos | sad rock manga

a little bit about them:
constantin is a millennial but from the 17th century, he's hungry for Adventure
connor is the licky robot from that quicktime events game
phos caused 500 problems and will cause 500 more. also is a rock

etc.: is there a rainforest cafe

this is an image for all three of these characters trying to think about anything

[lifespanned]

i see you are also a person undergoing suffering at the hands of ichikawa... i would love to see phos here!!

i'm going to say there is a similar themed animal restaurant somewhere if just for the sake of old decrepit animal animatronics still being there

[teaserving]

name: alba
contact: albaaulbath | Alba#4125
who invited you: jamie!!

character/canon: leone abbacchio | jojo's wacky outing
a little bit about them: cranky gothic ex-cop drunk turned gothic mafioso drunk. hates kids named giorno giovanna, has a stand (don't worry about it) that's basically a living security camera
etc.: honestly the entirety is my jam, i've missed post-apocalyptic games so this is like a dream come true!!

[lifespanned]

at least here abbachio will be free from working at FAKE italian restaurants... only can look at the remnants of one that was there BEFORE

[decoder]

name: pia
contact: ships
who invited you: sibberly

character/canon: robin buckley / stranger things
a little bit about them: baby gay ice cream slinger who knows a thing or two about a horror mall. band nerd, polyglot, film buff, soccer player, snark factory.
etc.: give the girl a smoothie place and an fye please

[lifespanned]

knows things about a horror mall you say... she will need to teach the public her wise ways!! i'm totally canonblind to stranger things but i hope she'll enjoy this horror mall more than the last 😔

[pierless]

name: Kit
contact: kitnkat
who invited you: I'm Laura's +1!

character/canon:
Jiang Cheng | The Untamed
Haymitch | The Hunger Games
Greed | Fullmetal Alchemist
a little bit about them:
JC: A very angry, very emotionally stunted man who fights ghosts and shit. More family issues than Oedipus. Very lonely. Nice cheekbones, though, which is why he gets the shitpost.

Haymitch: Old alcoholic mentor, deeply traumatized, just wants to raise geese and drink in peace.

Greed: He's greed, he's greedy, he's only recently learned he might have emotions beyond that.
etc.:

[lifespanned]

i've been meaning to read mdzs for a while, so it's cool to see jc, even though i only know purple + whip as far as his character goes 😔 also: greed... one of the best fma characters. greedling was always one of my favs!! i'd be excited to see any!

[unification]

name: Marion
contact: canarycry@plurk.com
who invited you: jamie & lili

character/canon: Villanelle from Killing Eve
a little bit about them: be gay do crimes. she can be ur angle... or yuor devil.

trained assassin, kills people for cash money to go on shopping sprees across europe. comes off as an aloof weirdo because she has zero social skills, but is slowly learning how to actually care about people who are not her? it's weird but maybe having friends can be fun too! definitely somewhere on the psychopath/sociopath spectrum but she mostly just kills for $$$ so it isn't likely she'll actually knife anyone here. will definitely whine about her how GIRLFRIEND isn't here, gosh it sucks that her GREAT GIRLFRIEND, APPLE OF HER EYE IS NOT HERE!!!!!

(they are definitely in love, true romance, don't say otherwise)

etc.: i hope this mall has only the ugliest clothes, this is her true horror nightmare, thanks.



(also dreamwidth i guess forgot i changed my password for her during the Email Apocalypse last week and kicked me out of using her account, so this is just my main one!! HI GANG)

[lifespanned]

ME RIGHT NOW but the text says villanelle ... i love her so much!!👁️👁️ and hello can we get a club started for blonde fashionable serial killers obsessed with their detective "s/os""""

they can suffer over all the ugly, dingy clothes here and whine about light and eve 😔

[bats]

name: Katy
contact: gaelio
who invited you: Sib!!

character/canon: i have two choices!! because i am a 1.5 trick pony or some shit. so i'm probably more likely to start with wataru but!! i am a thinky think. maybe in the future if nobody else is interested i'll go with the other? WE'LL SEE.

➤ Hibiki Wataru from Ensemble Stars!!
➤ Todoroki Shouto from My Hero Academia

a little bit about them:

wataru: oh god where do i start. theatre kid. recently graduated from high school idol. his brain is super broken and he is very bad at acting like a real person but he is doing his best. extremely high energy and talks about love and dreams and anything that makes people say amazing! 24/7. also a stage magician and he WILL pop out of nowhere and sometimes explodes with doves/roses when he is excited. if you don't like him that will only make him like you MORE. extremely dramatic and loves it when people are mean to him/try to kill him, and is nearly incapable of disliking anyone.

shouto: he looks cool but he's actually very uncool. dark trauma past and now he's working through it. he is very calm and takes things way, way, waaaaay too literally. he wants to be a hero!! his brain is also a bit broken and he's bad at making friends but is slowly improving. i'm not joking about taking things too literally it's kind of bizarre.

etc.: can i get some werewolves. thanks. really though i love... everything horror!!

[prison]

it occurs to me i need to tag wataru with ren and see what happens. nothing good, i assume

[finethanks]

name: Ash
contact: PM or discord Ash ★#0110
who invited you: Katy’s +1!!

character/canon: Honestly probably Eichi Tenshouin from ensemble stars but I also have journals for a few other enstars such as tatsumi or hokuto!
a little bit about them: He’s a sickly idol boy so he might seem like the worst fit but he also started a dramatic war and speaks like he’s 70 so it’ll be great
etc.: Honestly I was just crying abt wanting a new horror game so I’m super excited to see one crop up!! I guess for favs, things that have lasting consequences are always best!

[regale]

i am once again here to will smith meme your own joke

[skeletonize]

name: Vee! (my handle, also known formerly as alex, which is my irl name ... either is fine!!)
contact: lycanthropic / sharisper#0002 on Discord
who invited you: Sib!!

character/canon: Lady Harrowhark Nonagesimus, Reverend Daughter of the Ninth House — anyways, she's from The Locked Tomb trilogy by Tamsyn Muir, specifically pulling from the first book, Gideon the Ninth.
a little bit about them: I was sold on this series with the following phrase: lesbian necromancers in space! Harrowhark is the scion of a House well along its way into oblivion, facing a dwindling population and a bleak future outcome. She answers the call of the King Undying, the Necrolord Prime, to go to the House of the First to become a Lyctor — one of God's immortal Hands — in order to secure a future for her House without allowing it to become an annex to another. She's also got some other reasons, but let's just say that's the primary one.

Truth be told, Harrowhark is kind of a terrible, nasty, ambitious little shrew, but she's also wonderful? She has very high standards for herself and everyone around her, especially in a survival situation ... she is absolutely fraught with potential for negative CR, as she is impatient and acerbic, but she's also (slowly) getting to a place where she can place some small modicum of trust in others, so there's that!

As for powers: she's a necromancer, and she's specifically a prodigy with bones & skeletal constructs. 🦴
etc.: This place reminds me of the horror games I used to play in years and years ago, so I'm very excited!
(also: PLEASE read gideon the ninth, u can thank me later)

[ambitionless]

YELLS OVER HARROW and her perfection

I sat down with this book like two days ago and I'm 100 pages away from finishing. It's super griping and I love her, she'd be bomb in this setting.

[prison]

name: lynne
contact: eden#4466 / sansdormir
who invited you: lili & jamie hello!!

character/canon: very tentatively ren amamiya / p5r.
a little bit about them: charged with assault by an unruly politician for saving a lady from being molested. persona 5 is kind of an awful game that gets its message lost in its massive boner for boobies, but out from it is ren amamiya. strong sense of justice. natural leader. loves long naps, coffee, curry, and big burgers. he's also a persona user, someone who can materialize their spirit of rebellion into the form of avatars to fight for them- not sure how that would work here, so maybe i'll run to the faq. he has a cat purse, carries a full-sized cat around in said purse. has fought a literal god. was pretty cool.
etc.:

[oomfies]

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES

[ambitionless]

name: laura
contact: vampyers
who invited you: Lili!

character/canon: Got two potentials here: Trevor Belmont (Castlevania) & Alex Benedetto (GANGSTA.)
a little bit about them:
Trevor → a sad washed up son of a monster hunter legacy who recently got his groove back. He’s a sarcastic, rude and witty smartass with a heart of gold.
Alex → a former prostitute with a slew of memory problems and a fine singing voice. She’s very sweet and a pushover but she has a stubborn and brutal streak that can flare up every now and then.
etc.:


hell yeah

[oomfies]

laura!!! i think u know who my vote is for as much as i love alex 🥺 let these two be crabby at each other

[bestaround]

name: Anais!
contact: deltaserver
who invited you: Sib(erooni n cheese)

character/canon: I too am a one trick pony... I'm debating between 9S from Nier: Automata or Alphinaud from FFXIV. I dunno which one yet!!
a little bit about them: I'll be really brief here:
9S is an android from Earth's very very very very very post-apocalyptic future, built in fight in a war that has plagued the planet for some several thousands of years. He's a huge nerd.
Alphinaud is an elf elezen from ye olden fantasy land and goes on the sort of adventures you could expect from a Final Fantasy character. He's also a huge nerd, but with carbuncles.
etc.: idk i'm here to get fucked up and maybe fuck stuff up yeyea

[prison]

i think 9s and ren would make for amazing cr. he pretty much had to deal with a weird robot in royal canon, collecting flowers for him to drink... it's weird, but ren would collect weird flowers for 9s.

also hi anais!!!!!

[grilletto]

name: Roman!
contact: doitsun or wryyyligion#8888 on disco
who invited you: LILI!!!! (And technically Jamie????)

character/canon: My current options are all Jojo disasters:
Diego Brando, Guido Mista or Anasui
a little bit about them:
Diego: local man proves that dinosaurs can be jockeys too, he’s a baby with baby feelings so he thinks that everyone else should have baby feelings with him or smth. Not inherently bad but not really a good either

Mista: mafia disaster boy, afraid of the number 4, good with guns unless you don’t want him to shoot himself in accident, probably nicer than the other two even if he’d still kick your ass for saying the wrong thing about an actor ???

Anasui: Florida man proclaims plan to marry local prisoner, he’ll take apart your watch and maybe you too, doesn’t like anyone but he’s beautiful while he does it, worst fashion sense of the three and he could stand to be in any mall (even if it’s the apocalypse)

etc.: Honestly all of this sounds amazing and super fun and I’m here for it. I don’t have any clever pictures right now so have a picture I drew when I was a child, ig:

[teaserving]

honestly i kinda love it there's a lot going on in this picture

[iblistriggered]

name: Fishbone
contact: DrFishbone, Fishbone#3416
who invited you: this is sib's fault you can blame her

character/canon: Silver the Hedgehog!! from... sonic....
a little bit about them: LOOK! He's a talking hedgehog! But he's totally up for this whole apocalypse thing! He's been there. He's done that. He's fixed his timelines!! Sort of! He's basically future trunks but a furry and also a psychic ok don't @ me
etc.: you may have heard of his meme

[oomfies]

SILVER THE HEDGEHOG??? HELLO!!

i'm not sure what kind of cr i can offer (although i'm sure she will be Shocked to the Core) with my fashion blogger but i'd LOVE for these two to meet up!!

[fireglowup]

name: Lex
contact: cerebrah
who invited you: Sib!

character/canon: Honestly I'm up for quite a few options, here's my muselist, but my strongest interests are the top four because I haven't tried them in games yet. But I could be talked into most of these lol.

• Zuko - ATLA
• Hubert - Fire Emblem
• Linhardt - Fire Emblem
• Snake - Zero Escape

a little bit about them:

• Zuko is an angery hothead who's just Going Through A Rough Time Right Now
• Hubert thinks he's a Netflix Castlevania escapee
• Linhardt will at least be marginally interested in investigation
• Snake can solve puzzles and creatively insult people

etc.:


Also I desire a cursed Spencer's.

[blankstares]

hubie.....

[impostersyndrome]

name: Dandy
contact: dandywonderous
who invited you: I'm on all three mods' plurklists there's no escape

character/canon:
Prompto Argentum (FFXV)
Santa (999) (I'm on the fence between them but I'm leaning more towards Prompto, but I'm just adding him anyway)
Akira Kurusu (P5R - this is a pretty down the list pick since I know others are interested in this character)

a little bit about them: Prompto is a pretty normal 20-year-old who is real good at shootbangs. He's got fake it till you make it confidence and loves photography. He's also bffs with a prince who he would do anything for so that's pretty cool. He accompanied said bff on a road trip to his wedding but that didn't go as well as anyone hoped. At least he got some good pics out of it?

Santa is a surly 20-something who really wants the world to stop trying to kill him. He's technically psychic but only in the lamest way possible. The kind of guy who will definitely hang out in the H*t T*pic smoking weed. Loves his little sister and pretty much no one else. Also Santa is not his real name but his real name is a spoiler? If you want to see his journal it's whitesanta.

etc.: I couldn't find a Prompto meme I liked so here:

[fireglowup]

If it makes uhhhhh any difference whatsoever I also happen to have Snake (low) on my short list.

[madjesty]

name: Ruby
contact: pinkgrasshopper
who invited you: Elia's +1 and/or Dandy's +1 depending on the character?? what a filthy two-timer.

character/canon: Considering Dimitri from FE: Three Houses and Akechi from Persona 5/Royal!
a little bit about them: Murderboy princes with repressed anger issues and unquenchable thirst for revenge. May or may not be Schrodinger's Cats. Come with fun toys and some cool powers.

Only one of them is genuinely nice.
etc.:

[brothered]

boar boar boar boar boar

what better place to work out their 93284 issues than an abandoned mall, am i right?? fight him in the food court. let him kick dima's ass in the middle of the playground

[abandonware]

name: Robyn
contact: godsibb
who invited you: Sib!

character/canon: I'm debating either Miss A2 Nier Automata from award winning robot crying simulator, Nier Automata, or a Final Fantasy character! Likely Fang from XIII or someone from VII (OG canon so as not to spoil on remake). I haven't decided yet on that so for now I'll talk about the first two!
a little bit about them:

A2 is an android from a horrible, wartorn earth that has been engulfed in an endless battle between androids and machine lifeforms. She's a fugitive, and has severe wartime related trauma and ptsd; her life sucks. She's surly and quiet but secretly very sensitive and kind... a lot of tsun, a sprinkling of dere. She has also never done anything wrong in her life.

Fang is from a magical fantasy Australia and a sexy chad who has tried to destroy the world like three times for one person because of a magical fantasy cursed tattoo sent from the gods. That being said she's much more outgoing than A2 and at least initially pretty friendly for someone who is lowkey crazy.

Both of them are like one bad day from just going ham and eggs on someone so a horror setting would be great for them.
etc.:

[globs]

robyn i am absolutely losing my shit at that image oh my GOD

[blankstares]

name: Ammay!
contact: tsarcasm
who invited you: Lili!

character/canon: byleth eisner | fire emblem: three houses -- verdant wind route
a little bit about them: The child of a clone designed to house the soul of her world's creator goddess, Byleth has no idea what to do with things like emotion but she's working on it. Sometimes learning how to be human is extremely difficult. Leading a bunch of children into combat, however, is not.
etc.:

[jeanboy]

name: lin
contact: capsu
who invited you: Lili and Jamie are on my plurk.....

character/canon: I'm still deciding between Jean Kirstein from Attack on Titan and Shinobu Kochou from Demon Slayer.

Shinobu will have to be next month since I haven't had any time to review the canon but Y e a h. I'm just here to dick around on the TDM and see what happens.
a little bit about them:
Jean is a normal lad from a really shitty world where giants eat people??? He's a bit prickly and sarcastic and also a huge tsundere. He likes asian girls but we don't discuss this here. He saw a seashell for the first time recently ......

Shinobu is a tiny woman with a pleasant voice and sweet mannerisms but she is also Angry and will cut some people up if so required. She kills demons back home it's very cool. scary mom friend??? yes

etc.: Neither of them have ever seen modern people things or know what a mall is so that's ...gonna be fun.



all the guys i play are like this

[iblistriggered]

JEAN. omg. yes.

[wafts]

name: Beck
contact: backagain
who invited you: Lili!

character/canon: Oh Lordy, there's a couple!

• Tenzin | The Legend of Korra
• Tony Stark | MCU
• Marianne | Portrait of a Lady on Fire

a little bit about them: Son of Avatar Aang, Tenzin is the only Airbending Master (as of his late!S1 canonpoint!) in the world, pulling triple duty as a husband, a dad to four kids, and a teacher to Avatar Korra. Tony Stark is... Tony Stark. Marianne is a cool and collected French painter from the late 18th century, who falls in love with the woman whose portrait she's been commissioned to paint. Together, they fight crime!

etc.:

[firelords]

tenzin. pls. we've talked about this at some point ages ago!