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"Can Cry" – Fixed Term Mystery/Action Game Interest Check
- Can Cry a fixed-term, semi-private panfandom game based on the PS4 RPG Crystar, though no pre-existing knowledge of the game is needed to play. Characters awaken suddenly to find themselves as residents of Purgatory, the limbo of the afterlife that souls occupy before moving onto their next lives. As they investigate their circumstances, it emerges that something has sabotaged the Cogs of Renewal at the bottom of Purgatory and no souls are able to pass through. Missing the memories of their own lives, characters become Executors to gain the power needed to descend the seven floors of Purgatory and uncover the secrets lingering in its depths.
Can Cry takes elements from teamnesia games, murdergames and other types of jamjars while mixing in lots of unique mechanics of its own. Characters have their canonical powers replaced with setting appropriate ones and will have to use them to dive deep into the game's setting, battling lost souls, bosses and their inner demons along the way.
You can view the FAQ here to get more information on the game's premise and systems and more information about the setting and mechanics will be going up in the next few days.
Please note that as this is a semi-private game, you will need to be on the main mod's (
This is not an official signup post! As of now, it's just an interest check to see what sorts of characters people are considering and what they'd like to do in the game to give me an idea of what to set up.
Just fill out the following form, plop it down below and that's that!
If you have any questions, please feel free to drop them in with your comment.
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Have you played in any of my previous games?: Murderweek and PhanRift.
Character: Mercy Moritz.
YOUR HOPES AND DREAMS: Just fuck us up.
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Referral: try and stop me
Have you played in any of my previous games?: no actually
Character: i am removing the previously discussed OCs from consideration following the clarification that this game is about Dying And Being Dead, but still very likely a three houses character if i've finished all the routes by then, maybe Clarisse Fireemblemnewmysteryoftheemblem if i haven't
YOUR HOPES AND DREAMS: WAIT WHAT'S FANTASYLAND FOUR WEEKS OF WHAT
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this is all i got bc i'm on my work computer and i can't beat it anyway
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Have you played in any of my previous games?: ye
Character: Leaning toward Anna Fugo from GRANBELM (envy or wrath) or Sawatari Makoto from Kanon (sloth or gluttony).
YOUR HOPES AND DREAMS: I'm just here for happiness and friendship and occasionally sobbing my eyes out.
Anything else?: I'm on the road, I don't have memes...
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Have you played in any of my previous games?: Ya
Character: Thinking about Archer, Unfortunately,,,,, but I'm also taking the opportunity to look at some of my more obscure/hard-to-play-long-term characters that I wouldn't otherwise try. But Archer's the frontrunner here.
YOUR HOPES AND DREAMS: WHO'S YOUR COOKING MAMA NOW??? Also Archer's sin is definitely Envy.
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Have you played in any of my previous games?: no i am new and foolish to this wide world of claire games!!
Character: Either Teenage Shithead Dante Rantanen (Recolle-flavored Riku) bc I Have A Problem or the Precious Daughter Lunafreya Nox Fleuret bc. I love her.
YOUR HOPES AND DREAMS: I LIKE THINGS. AND FUN. I am legit up for p much anything; I will play out giant worldshaking plots and I will play out two bros accidentally setting each other on fire bc they got startled by a deer DESTROY ME I'M HERE 4 IT
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Have you played in any of my previous games?: yea bitch
Character: this one RIGHT HERE maybe she'll be balance crau idk don't quote me. maybe I'll consider elsa or katniss too
YOUR HOPES AND DREAMS: jsut fuck me up please im begging you
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Referral: I AM POWERFUL ENOUGH TO REFER MYSELF
Have you played in any of my previous games?: ask mu and......... shit what was the name of that npc in phanrift arianna was gay at I can't find any evidence of her in my inbox
Character: Arianna? One of my Precures? An OC?
Chloe from Glitter ForceYOUR HOPES AND DREAMS: I want to do something extremely stupid.
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Have you played in any of my previous games?: hm hm nope you are a stranger to me totally never played with any of your shit before hm!!!
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s o n i c go!Fuck man probably Church bc I love throwing him into horrible awful amnesia stuff and his sin is super duper wrath but can be argued into about any sin? Ignis is always a good choice, I could bust him wide open here in a place where he doesn't feel beholden to Noct. Consider Ardyn. Shadow's done the memloss thing before like twice but thrice can be a charm. I could bring Malcolm tho I'm nnnot sure if he'd be a good fit but hey consider a live action in the midst of this Anime Nonsense. Kaiba...maybe memory-less Kaiba wouldn't be such an unholy dickbag...Basically I have no idea but there are Options.
YOUR HOPES AND DREAMS: So long as whatever fun powers and shit we get to play with, we actually get to play with. (I'm looking at you, Balance!)
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Have you played in any of my previous games?: I don't think I have? I have a bad memory lol
Character: Nana Daiba (Revue Starlight), Mami Tomoe, Rouka Numachi (Monogatari), Eruna Ichinomiya (Mikagura), or maybe an older character like Katherine (... Catherine) or Megu-nee?? Who knows.
YOUR HOPES AND DREAMS: I'm leaning towards Nana or Eruna the most because that means having them cook or even hold singing/dueling competitions that other characters can join in and bond over maybe? Also I have no major hopes or dreams other than getting ready to potentially suffer and cry a lot
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Have you played in any of my previous games?: Murderweek before life ate me alive
Character: Lenore Neschast'ye (DnD Kenku Paladin OC, gentle Russian bird mom) Zerinda Radeucan (Dragon Age tabletop OC, feral mage lady who lives in a swamp and makes kissy faces at her pet wyvern) or Sasha James from The Magnus Archives
YOUR HOPES AND DREAMS: I WANNA GET ON MISS CLAIRE'S WILD RIDE
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Have you played in any of my previous games?: I have merely gazed from afar ;~;
Character: fem!Terry Bogard of those SNK fighting games (a.k.a. this journal), or token not!child Marion from the Gunbird series, or maybe even Five from Drakengard 3... just, one of my obscure blondes probably!
YOUR HOPES AND DREAMS: I just want some memory/identity loss shenanigans and bonding experiences along the way tbh, I miss that kind of shit
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Have you played in any of my previous games?: i haven't and i wanna change that!
Character: I'M CONSIDERING A LOT HONESTLY. uhhh i'm considering Vaya from The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys (apocalypse gremlin; sloth), Mr. Nobody from Transistor (sword boyfriend; maybe wrath?), or Party Poison also from The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys (rebel leader; pride)....maybe an oc??? I'M MUSING IT OVER i'll have to ruminate on the setting some more
YOUR HOPES AND DREAMS: hey. hey claire. are kids allowed. because if so that opens up even more considerations for me :>
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Referral: BEECH I AM THE REFERRAL
Have you played in any of my previous games?: I’ve RUN games with you before
Character: maybe the.... forbidden oc... or an fgo...... actually could you fucking imagine Eree of all fucking people being in purgatory lmao
YOUR HOPES AND DREAMS: I just want to play with you and our friends again 🥺
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Have you played in any of my previous games?: no i have never had the pleasure!
Character: cardia beckford from code:realize, i gotta put my Certified Otome Game Scholar status to use somehow
YOUR HOPES AND DREAMS: i'm mostly looking forward to using cardia's memories like a fuckin sledgehammer but UHHHH i think the main thing i would say is strong IC incentives for characters to both fight during the on months and socialise during the off months
Anything else?: cardia at the beginning of this game is just gonna be
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Have you played in any of my previous games?: Murderweek
Character: Magnus Burnsides is a strong consideration because I'm awful enough to inflict more memloss on him. Could also be one of my OCs or one of the various DW characters I haven't done anything with yet. Or maybe I'll just accept my role as That Guy With One Character and bring Penny, who knows.
YOUR HOPES AND DREAMS: Just fuck me up fam
...though I guess assigned roomies or bunkmates are always fun in this kind of setup, if that's even a thing? Also sounds like eventually there'll be room for dream/memory sharing stuff in the dungeons, that'd probably be fun.
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Have you played in any of my previous games?: nope
Character: akane kurashiki from zero escape or 2B from nier automata. there's no way to finish my canon review in time and I 100% lack the confidence to pull it off but consider: BEATO...............
YOUR HOPES AND DREAMS: I just wanna solve puzzles and cry. perhaps make other people cry. play some good (?) girls. those are my goals
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Have you played in any of my previous games?: wait sorry claire who
Character: too fucking many, like? like do I play greed? am I gonna be that bitch and get out one of my supervillain muses? eizen??? how many more angry troubled boys can I name???? I'll decide on one eventually i promise
YOUR HOPES AND DREAMS: I want you to ruin me. listen. listen claire. claire. I am handing you a gun. I've loaded it personally and I am now guiding you to aim it directly at my chest. shoot me directly in the heart as many times as you can. there's spare guns in the cupboard don't let up
basically I want you to murder me emotionally. also I guess like hoping for those good found family feels and character development but mainly kill me
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Have you played in any of my previous games?: Nope! I am completely new here.
Character: MOST LIKELY...Van Grants from Tales of the Abyss. Since I have all these icons and he's already dead to make my life, his unlife nice and easy.
YOUR HOPES AND DREAMS: Honestly I just saw "teamnesia-like game based on Crystar" and started vibrating intensely and crying at Michelle to let me in.
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Have you played in any of my previous games?: not reeeeally, I mean I was in Phanrift for maybe 30 seconds
Character: god. fuck. god. don't ask me questions. Boromir? Rose Quartz? Full-on nostalgia trip with Stan Pines? An actual child? it could be goddamn anything. Just not Max, which is why I'm posting with him.
YOUR HOPES AND DREAMS: I'm just a slut for found family bonding times
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Have you played in any of my previous games?: Murderweek!
Character: Jasper Dragonquesteleven seems like he’d be fun to play in this, given the sin theming! (it’s envy, good lord is it ever envy.) I guess maybe I could swing Seteth Fireemblem somehow but I am not sure if the sin I’m thinking of there is a square peg in a round hole.
YOUR HOPES AND DREAMS: Just Fuck Me Up, actually, I want to suffer
Anything else?: A summary, for those unfamiliar:
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Have you played in any of my previous games?: no
Character: i honestly feel like i could leave this blank and you would know, but it's Sandalphon from Granblue Fantasy
YOUR HOPES AND DREAMS: I WANT HIM TO MAKE FRIENDS AND CRY NOT NECESSARILY IN THAT ORDER
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Have you played in any of my previous games?: murderweek SPEAKING OF WHICH
Character: literally any fuckin fma manga homunculus but probably Pride, Thomasin from the Vuhvitch, someone from Orphan Black? rpattz in the lighthouse just to continue a bit that has never been funny to anyone or indeed for anyone but me?? jasper???
YOUR HOPES AND DREAMS: pain
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Have you played in any of my previous games?: nope
Character: Rose Quartz (Steven Universe), pre-timeskip Edelgard (Fire Emblem Three Houses), and Marina (Splatoon) are the ones I'm considering right now, but I could always make a sudden swerve.
YOUR HOPES AND DREAMS: found family, messing with the whole memory loss thing, and if I could get some sweet sweet trauma with my happiness that would be good
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Have you played in any of my previous games?: Nope
Character: Maybe Crow, or Campanella or maybe Siegfried from GBF or surprise person but I'm currently in Kiseki hell, so lol.
YOUR HOPES AND DREAMS: I'm not sure, just go wild.
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Have you played in any of my previous games?: uhhhhhhhhhhhh I don't believe I have? Unless you were in LA for a hot second and I've forgotten
Character: Lukas [last name incoming did you know you can play a character through an entire tabletop campaign and NEVER FIGURE THAT OUT BOY I SURE JUST REALIZED]
YOUR HOPES AND DREAMS: I'm just here to be a himbo my man, I'll take everything on offer
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Have you played in any of my previous games?: I have not
Character: Shinjiro Aragaki from P3
YOUR HOPES AND DREAMS: I've never done memoryloss without AU and I feel like it'd be really fun, especially with this premise and a canon that has so many Death Themes
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Have you played in any of my previous games?: i have not!!!
Character: Ann Takamaki (Persona 5), Lotus (Zero Escape), Duck (Princess Tutu), MAYBE BALANCE CRAU SAYORI IF I FEEL RLY WILD??? who knows
YOUR HOPES AND DREAMS: i want to hurt people and also for people to hurt me
also memshares. i'm always a slut for memshares
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Have you played in any of my previous games?: I.... EXISTED in Murderweek??
Character: I could be completely predictable and throw Pyrrha Nikos into ANOTHER thing. Orrrrr maybe Dinobot
YOUR HOPES AND DREAMS: Pain, suffering, found family nonsense. I know I just listed the same thing three times but-
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Have you played in any of my previous games?: Phantasmal Rift
Character: I'm considering Teyud za-Zhalt (In the Courts of The Crimson Kings), Alice (Alice Grove), Isabel Guerra (Paranatural), Mustrum Ridully (Discworld), Andromeda (OC), or Avanti Kadam (OC).
I think I got a bit carried away. We'll see how many of those I can actually brain some TDMs for
YOUR HOPES AND DREAMS: Mainly I just want to have adventures and experience the story you have created and maybe hug some people
Anything else?: I tried to embed it but it didn't work so just click for musics
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Have you played in any of my previous games?: Phantasmal Rift
Character: I am considering Pascal (yes, that's her full name in a setting where most people have two part names) from Tales of Graces, because a difficult-to-repress ball of sunshine is just wonderful to have around!
YOUR HOPES AND DREAMS: Pascal getting to use her engineering talents to create something both ridiculously cute and extremely effective for a specific task is a core thing in canon that I'd love to see her replicate at least once.
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"Sometimes I get into serious thought... About how I should think about things more seriously!"
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Referral: binch you dared me to join this game
Have you played in any of my previous games?: between Cosmographia prior to the Doritopocalypse and Phanrift prior to some jerk suddenly ending the game here's to my joining this game not being a sign of it
blissing outgoing Beyond the PaleCharacter: Meredith Baker, now with the serial numbers filed off and in her own brand spanking new postapoc feels powered mecha canon, Children's Crusade
YOUR HOPES AND DREAMS: I want her to help people, remember that her canon is bullshit so she can cry about it (eyyyy) and also for a girl her age to make her completely unable to weave
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this is Merry, at all times: