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We all have urges, aberrant hungers that we spend our days calculating whether it is to our advantage to indulge or suppress them. The righteous fury that moves one desperate victim to take revenge on the person who wronged them. The fathomless greed for recognition that drives another to seek ever higher achievement. Most societies and cultures caution us to rein in these impulses, to achieve enlightenment through their denial.

But what if we were to let them go? What monsters would be born?

CONTENT WARNING: This game's info pages, premise, plot, and events may involve or make reference to rape, dubious and coerced consent, torture, blood and gore, body horror, disfiguration, murder, cult behavior, medieval punishments, drugs effects, and animalistic sexual behaviors. Game images may contain blood and mild gore or be sexually suggestive.

RUBILYKSKOYE is a dark, horror-themed smut game. Characters arrive in a wooded void-space, naked and without any belongings. They will soon discover glowing runes on their bodies like tattoos, which mark them as bearing a curse that transforms them into monsters if they do not have regular sexual intercourse. The transformation into a beast is painful, and when it is complete, they lose their sense of self, becoming driven only by an appetite for sex and/or violence. In the nearby township from which the game takes its name, characters will discover a cult-like society of similarly cursed individuals with unfamiliar customs centered around the careful indulgence of these urges.

The game will alternate between horror-based and sex-based events. Horror events will draw on various tropes and elements like body horror, gore, violence, psychological horror, loss of autonomy, mistrust of senses, and lovecraftian madness. Smut events will draw primarily on kink tropes driven by the cult-like behavior of the local population.

Opt-outs will vary by event. While players can opt-out of the smut parts of the game, it will intensify the horror aspects of the game for their character, and opting out of the horror parts of the game will generally require more involvement in the smut components.

Welcome to the Rubilykskoye interest check! We are a panfandom, plot-heavy horror-smut game set in a void world populated solely by a vaguely Eastern European castle village! How and why your characters arrived will be answered as characters interact with the town's various NPCs, including the mysterious Duchess living in the castle, and as players proactively engage with events.

Players can expect events to alternate between the erotic and grotesque, though many will combine the two. The game will heavily feature eldritch body horror, religious cult behavior, and animalistic behaviors and urges.

The nitty-gritty:

There is a mod-run storyline with the first 'phase' outlined at about two years;

PC actions can and will influence the outcome of events;

This game is locked and invite-only;

App rounds are monthly;

It has no minimum comment count for AC;

There is an activity rewards shop.

Players can influence the outcome of events in a number of ways. In addition to giving players the chance to thread with NPCs to learn more about the game's plot and world, some events will allow game-wide votes on outcomes, while others will afford RNG opportunities for players to sign-up for an important role. Activity rewards also allow players to exchange their active participation in events for threads with NPCs and other plot tidbits or roles.

Any player who is on

tentamenace or

protects's Plurk friends list is already invited! Invited players who join in the first round are welcome to bring a +1, but should note that they're doing so on our interest check posted in the OOC community. You can also request an invitation on our MOD CONTACT page.

Below you'll find links the FAQ & general navigation pages. We're looking to have the TDM up on the 18th, and we're excited to see you there!

Premise	Taken	Calendar
Rules	Reserves	Activity
FAQ	Applications	Plotting
Setting	Hiatus/Drop	Mod Contact

For those interested in joining us, the form below is designed to help prospective players coordinate with one another in anticipation of the Test Drive Meme. You are welcome to comment to this post even if you don't yet have an invitation to the game.

Name: Your Name & Pronouns
Contact:

username or otherwise
Invite?: Who invited you? Do you need an invite?

Character Considerations: Tell us about your blorbos! Who are you thinking of bringing?
Monster Interests: What kinds of monsters are you interested in? What ideas do you have?
Horror/Kink Interests: Are there specific horror or kink tropes that interest you?
Triggers and Aversions: What should we make sure to warn for?
Any Questions: Let us know if there’s anything we can do to make your decision to join us easier!

Other: Memes & miscellany here~

Name: Your Name & Pronouns
Contact: @username.plurk or otherwise
Invite?: Who invited you? Do you need an invite?

Character Considerations: Tell us about your blorbos! Who are you thinking of bringing?
Monster Interests: What kinds of monsters are you interested in? What ideas do you have? 
Horror/Kink Interests: Are there specific horror or kink tropes that interest you? 
Triggers and Aversions: What should we make sure to warn for? 
Any Questions: Let us know if there’s anything we can do to make your decision to join us easier!

Other: Memes and miscellany here~

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

I say this with eyes wide and absolutely needing to know more: what the good god damn fuck is baroque

OK SO BAROQUE

IS AN ESOTERIC OLD SEGA SATURN GAME THAT GOT A WII/PS2 REMAKE

It is about basically an apocalypse happening. You are the protagonist who wakes up in a town with no memories and no voice. There are these weird semi-human looking residents of the town that all talk to you and tell you to go to the neurotower (this big monstrous building in the distance that is ... HOWLING at you.)

You run into what looks like a beautiful angel with blond hair and wings and he tells you:

1. Everything has gone to shit

2. It is your fault

3. You have to go kill God at the bottom of the Tower

4. Here is a big gun to shoot her with. Dont fail loser. Bye

And then you start the weirdest rogue like of your life that is very grimy, esoteric, rusty and Cult Aesthetic.

You can only learn the truth of what has happened through the half-insane ramblings of the other residents of the world, dying, and going through the cycle of choosing to kill and not kill God. You are basically Unable to Die and are stuck in a Sisyphean loop until you figure out how to find the true ending and learned all you can.

Also you are constantly losing stamina. When all stamina is gone, you start to lose health points. You have to eat drops of monster meat, hearts, and bones to maintain stamina.

"esoteric old sega saturn game" yeah no that basically sums it up right there don't it

But also holy absolute shit I have to track this down immediately??

Well! There are three ways to do this:

The old Sega Saturn version, if you know Japanese, is on the JP switch store for purchase.

https://cdromance.com/psx-iso/baroque-jpn/

If you're savvy with roms, the PS1 ROM has an English patch

If you still have a Wii or a PS2 you can probably ? Find the US release of the remake.

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