Interest Check

[pyrite_mods]

Interest Check

Everyone has something that they want, and everyone has a price they're willing to pay. Not everyone reads the fine print.

In the haze of your dreams – your inebriations, your insomniac hallucinations or mental breakdowns – a god makes you an offer you can't refuse: anything you could wish for… as long as you are willing to 'sacrifice'. To prove their power, you agree to a small exchange; perhaps you give up your left hand for psychic power, the memory of your parents for a million dollars, your name for the ability to hear the dead.

Sacrifice is the currency of success. You lose one thing, but gain another.

Now, you have to buy into their claim, don't you? They've proven to you what they can do. And so you agree. You sign their contract in blood.

And when you wake, or when you sober up or when you're no longer running on three hours of sleep, the exchange might seem to be less in your favor. . . but, well, you can get everything you could ever want, so. . . it will be worth it, right?

Goals and Overview:

Pyrite is a team game with a focus on characters achieving impossible goals and overcoming difficult situations through effort and sacrifice. Each team resides within the temple of a specific god and the members of that team become (willingly or unwillingly) that god's 'disciples'. All characters that arrive in Pyrite have technically agreed to this premise, even if they did so under the impression it was a joke or a dream or they were simply not in their right mind when they signed the contract.

There will be events and minigames that sometimes pit teams against each other, but others that support community solidarity. Trapped by a rather spurious contract, characters will have a bad time at the behest of demanding gods, and you should expect darker themes typical of ECATS we-torture-our-characters-here games. But it is not a hopeless scenario, and characters are expected to figure out a resolution if they want to reach that Good End.

While Pyrite is a game with a plot designed to run for around two years, much of the day-to-day interaction between characters is encouraged to be player driven. The 'currency' of Pyrite are Coins earned through player-run events like engaging with your team or community activities and can be traded for resources; whether they be basic necessities or luxuries. To make space for this, minigames will happen no more than once a month and often be mod-run, but there will be opportunities for volunteer minigame runners as well.

Interest Check

Please leave a top level in the comments if you think you'll be apping! This helps us to prepare for the anticipated game size, and if you want to spitball who you might app, others could find that interesting too! Tentative interest is FINE, we understand things change all the time.

Timeline

• Interest check (Going on now! Until Jan 14th)
• Applications open (Jan 14th)
• Game launch (Early February 2026)

Campaign Style

• We are aiming to keep the game small – 6 teams of 6.
• Players can app up to two characters immediately, but firsts will be given priority.
• AC does not have a specific comment count but will require 2 threads with teammates and 2 threads in community events (4 threads total), OR one community run post -- this is all just to demonstrate you are staying engaged.
• Mod/NPC Run minigames will be once a month, player run events can be run whenever.
• There WILL be PvP minigames that pit teams against each other temporarily, but this RP is conceived as overall a PvE game. Characters are expected to have a bad time with enforced PvPing while they figure out the larger PvE solution.
• Characters host events/engage with others to earn in-game currency necessary for a variety of small and large resources
  • Hosting an event for the entire community yields higher rewards.
• The pace at which the plot is moved through/overall length of the game is dependent on player engagement. We expect things to go for around two years.
  • Certain events are planned to pull characters into plot, but we also will strive to flexibly respond to impromptu player explorations or actions.
  • That said, engaging in the plot isn't necessary; as long as your character shows up to minigames/posts run by others/helps run a team post now and then, they should have plenty to do.

Expectations & Powers

• The contract that characters signed in blood states that one impossible wish of theirs can be granted in exchange for them helping the god obtain their goal of 'freedom' via 'sacrifice'. In exchange for everlasting life and the god's support, the character agrees to 'never quit until the terms of the contract are met'.
  • Characters can have done this while drunk or dreaming or whatever, maybe even the belief that this wasn't real. However, the contract is now binding.
  • Characters who are super well-read about contracts could even have signed one in their nightmare only to wake up and find out it was real. RIP.
  • You can even sign a bad contract after death! Figure out how that worked for your character but it's fine, dwai.
• Good Ends and Bad Ends are both planned for, but will have to be ICly 'unlocked' so to speak.
  • Characters will get a wish by the time the game ends, and characters who drop early (under certain drop options) can still collect their wish at the time the game ends.
• Character powers will be LIMITED ACCESS; available but at much lower capacity.
• Characters do not heal naturally and regenerative/healing abilities cannot be used/they will not work.
  • Characters instead make sacrifices to either heal themselves or others.
    • I.E. A pint of blood, a lock of hair, a precious memory or momento, in-game currency, etc. Anything can be a sacrifice but it will take multiple people working together to heal one significantly injured person.
    • Death has similar costs to healing, and thus will be used sparsely in game, the intention is to keep deaths rare and meaningful.

The gods

• Each team will be aligned with a specific god who has their own preferences and interests, and will be willing to support your characters as long as they are also getting something out of it.
• A list of the gods and brief profiles can be found here.
• :)

Comments

Questions?

[pyrite_mods]

U can also ask questions if u like

Re: Questions?

[nymphcompoop]

THIS MIGHT BE A READING COMPREHENSION FAIL ON MY PART, APOLOGIES IN ADVANCE.

Am I right to assume before signing the contract the characters have sacrificed [thing] in exchange for [something else], and then, they sign it to obtain [one more thing] in exchange for helping the gods via coming to this play and engaging with the premise?

Re: Questions?

[thefaultinthestars]

Yes! So basically one small thing that hopefully is fun to play with, and then the big wish that is their motivation for being in the game. Wish to be delivered upon the god getting what they want.

Re: Questions?

[nymphcompoop]

OKAY COOL, so it's basically "pick your own starting buff/debuff", I see. Ty!!!!

Re: Questions?

[endsjustified]

Is this invite-only or otherwise limited in who can app?

Re: Questions?

[thefaultinthestars]

Nah, I mean don't lure in anyone uncool and we're good

Re: Questions?

[endsjustified]

hella

Re: Questions?

[madidus]

Are horrible OCs allowed?

Are PGAUs going to be a thing?

Can you smooch a god?

Re: Questions?

[pyrite_mods]

YES ALWAYS

and yes pg aus are totally allowed

YOU CAN CERTAINLY TRY TO SMOOCH A GOD, YOU MIGHT NOT LIKE THE CONSEQUENCES

Re: Questions?

[madidus]

Look you KNOW, you know, consequences will NOT stop people from trying to smooch the gods, I had to ask, for The People. (I'm The People)

Re: Questions?

[madidus]

Actually another question; if you character is already in a contract with another god (say, for their soul or actually becoming that god or some other fuckery) how's that work with the new contract?

Re: Questions?

[pyrite_mods]

technically your characters are not trading away their soul, just an undetermined amount of sacrifice so i don't think those contracts are in conflict, fingerguns.

Re: Questions?

[madidus]

More questions: healing powers don't work, which makes absolute sense.

However what if your characters are super into like, cannibalism or stabbing as a kink thing, can they buy kink related healing powers? Limited only to enthusiastically consensual sexy damage so pvp stuff and game harm won't be impacted?

Re: Questions?

[thefaultinthestars]

There will be more details on future doc pages but basically Pyrite exists in a sort of 'stasis' so both healing doesn't work but also injury is not as bad. Like u can probably lose an arm and not die from the blood loss. But you do want to pick up your arm and hang onto it until there is some kind of healing ritual to fix that shit.

So no, I don't think there could be healing that works only for sex, but you could definitely have your fun sexy times, slap a bandage over it so no one sees what happened there, and then just get it healed a few days later/whenever the next opportunity arises (or create that opportunity yourself).

Re: Questions?

[madidus]

Oh cute, good to know.

Re: Questions?

[shadowofourdays]

What's the ruling wrt characters who don't need things like food or sleep in canon? Will they still be able to go without those in game or will that also be powercapped?

Re: Questions?

[pyrite_mods]

They will still not need to eat/sleep!

[protectorofkouka]

I'm intrigued! I just have a couple of questions.

1. Are CRAUs allowed?
2. How would characters who are possessed or share a body with another entity be handled?

[pyrite_mods]

MUCH BELATED:

1. Yes
2. probbbably however you want? we can be pretty flexible there, what would you like to do?

Re: Questions?

[cloversandcranes]

I have many questions! Forgive me if I'm reading wrong/or just missing already answered questions. ^^;

First! What kind of characters are allowed? Other than canon characters. I saw that OCs are allowed but what about AUs? Is there a minimum age requirement? Stuff like that.

Also, how do you choose which god chose you? Is it just by character choice? Or is it what fits the character?

Re: Questions?

[pyrite_mods]

SORRY I'M SEEING THIS SO LATE.

OCs and Aus are allowed, no minimum age (for characters, players must be 18)

the the application page is now up here here and answers a lot of your questions, but you can say which teams you want to prioritize. OOCly your character will be visited by whatever god they end up with but obvs you don't know that for sure at the time of apping.

Questions!

[thedeadtwinofnarcissus]

Hello! The character I was going to bring in, I decided not to. But I want to join this wonderful game. So I must ask more questions!

I know that all ages for characters are accepted. But what about dead characters? Ghosts specifically? And what about background characters? I'm wondering about Gene from Ghost Hunt. Gene is very important to the story but he's in the background of Ghost Hunt and you don't see him much. Would he be appable? And if so, how do you feel about headcanons?

I thought I'd play with him as being a ghost but being able to be touched (especially when he's feeling more alive), and feel pain. So maybe his incorporeal likeness could be tied to his emotions and touch with his humanity? And I could see that he would feel human a lot since he hasn't been a ghost that long (probably a couple of years or slightly more).

Re: Questions!

[pyrite_mods]

We are not worried about how much or little canon any individual character has, especially not in a situation where you are the only one apping from the canon.

Now, dead characters are fully appable but the gods would just resurrect them automatically, unless I guess your character was specifically like 'no, don't resurrect me I want to remain a ghost'. Bringing people back to life isn't a huge deal around here and quite a few people app characters from post-death. So it would be awkward to the internal logic of the world build if for no particular reason Gene only was not resurrected.

But if Gene would use his small wish to ask for something like staying a ghost, or the ability to become incorporeal or something, we can probably work with you.

[protectorofkouka]

Hopefully this will be my last question before I can finish my app orz,

I'm intrigued by the idea of sacrificing your name but how does it work exactly? Would the character completely forget their name and never be able to say it? What if someone else knows their name? Would that not be able to hear it? Or can they relearn their name with other's help?

In Soo Won's case specifically he shares his soul with a youkai. Would she also be forced to forget his name since they are linked?

[pyrite_mods]

You can really play it either way, I would think of it as sacrificing the memory of the name or sacrificing the name itself. If you forget the name, you just have forgotten it, and forgotten any time it's been spoken? so someone could tell you that was your name but it wouldn't necessarily return the memory of it.

If you sacrifice the name itself, I would imagine you simply cannot use it anymore. Even if someone told you your name, you couldn't introduce yourself by it. But honestly it's mostly about playing it in a way that is fun for you.