Game Info
Powercap/Items
Characters are powercapped to mundane human levels, unless the use of their powers is for ~romantic~ purposes, in which case they will mysteriously work. The definition of 'romantic' can be as flexible as you like as long as it doesn't extend to anything useful like breaking down doors or escaping.
You can arrive with one personal item, though if it was magical all magic properties are similarly powercapped. If it's too large to have been on your person when you arrived it's in your dorm room.
Activity/Drops
Every week you should, at a minimum:
- Thread your date
- Fill out your hot or nots
- If you're up for elimination, show up for at least some time in the elimination period.
If you will genuinely not be available for something one week, let Vector know ahead of time we can work something out. If you don't want to play anymore at all, please comment to the drop post! Please don't make anyone harass you or idle you.
If characters are dropped/idled, they will be ‘disqualified’, and either have been sent home, put into limbo until endgame, or sent to the elimination getaway (if you’re still interested in threading that).
If something comes up and someone doesn't fill out their hot or nots, all their votes for that week will count as "NO OPINION". Their date rating will be set at mod discretion. Please do your best to not have this happen!
Date mechanics
Each week, players will submit their character's rating for everyone in the game - HOT, NOT, or NO OPINION. These ratings will then be used to match characters for dates.
- HOT-HOT pairings have priority.
- If there is no available HOT-HOT date for a character, HOT-NO OPINION matches will be made.
- NO OPINION-NO OPINION, HOT-NOT, NO OPINION-NOT, and NOT-NOT will not form matches.
Characters who do not have an assigned date are up for potential elimination. Immediately after dates are assigned, the list of elimination candidates will go up. Everyone in the game votes to eliminate, and the top two voted characters will be removed from the game and sent to a romantic getaway to try and get a little better at dating.
Characters who do have a date will also be assigned a date location! They will have one week to thread it out. Along with their hot or nots for the next week, each player will submit a rating of their character's opinion of the date from 1-10. Each character has a score which is the accumulation of the ratings they've gotten on all of their dates; however they can only get points from a character once. Characters can date the same person more than once, but the second time on will not affect their score. For this reason, we will try to match people who haven't been on a date together yet, but you may still be matched a second time if there are no other options (since at least you're safe from elimination that way).
Note that the ratings are an OOC assessment of your character's real feelings. ICly, your characters will not be aware of the rating/matching system, and will be paired/scored based on ~apparent chemistry~.
The game will end after six possible dates, regardless of how many characters are left in the game.
Private posts
Players are responsible for making private posts in characters' journals for both official dates and any unofficial dates (i.e., any other private conversations you want to have). Posts should be made with access filters including the characters in question plus
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chinhotta and chincoola, and submitted here as they happen.Schedule
The game will run for seven weeks, from 2/15 to approximately 4/5.
Thursday
- Your rating of the previous week's date and your hot-or-nots for the next week's date must be in by Thursday, 6pm PST.
- Date assignments will be out by approximately 9pm PST, and you can start threading your date together in private at any point.
- A post will also go up around that time with the list of dateless people eligible to be voted out in elimination.
Sunday
- Elimination votes are due by Sunday, 10am PST
- The week's mingle event will go up shortly after.
Dates ICly happen sometime on elimination day, although they can be threaded all week.