Characters wake up in a haunted world, to see a giant road train waiting for them. Characters also discover they’ve been changed, with monster traits that slowly activate and force changes on them. Their best hope for getting home and turning back to normal is traveling along the roads and reaching a place called “Nirvana.”

Naturally the game is inspired by Wolf’s Rain, Digital Devil Saga, and Mad Max.

We will be posting an EMP/ATP and Workshop on our meme comm on December 15th! And our TDM is planned for January 1st, 2025

The game is planned to run for one year and six months and Activity Check is five comments due at the end of the month.

Hell yeah I’m interested

very interested

if it would be possible to get a replurk from dwrp that would be greatly appreciated

Also hello everyone, I'm Kaysper, your face mod for the game and suffice to say I'm interested in this game.

Interested

more monsters yes interested 👀

hell yes!!

I am definitely putting viktor arcane on the emp and tdm (and maybe a blake rwby as well??)

ooh

this is who I want to bring

ngl you had me at "inspired by digital devil saga"

Yes those are hand feet what of it

very interested! I'm planning on throwing in Apollo Justice

im gonna toss in texas from arknights definitely LOL

I am trying to be as normal as possible about my love for DDS with this game.

unfortunately i have no reg smts and have personas instead

it might be funny to put a dds in so they can go ah shit here we go again

Sitting here. I have thoughts.

An important question: is Road Warrior vintage Mad Max an appable character?

incredibly interested 👀 the setting looks so good

👀👀👀

going to have to flip a coin to pick which character to test drive

good timing for the tdm!

NewKillerStar: I would have to say yes, the game itself is Inspired by Mad Max, not a 1-1 copy or anything!

Awwww yeah

Oh right and I should also declare who I'm probably bringing to the TDM:

Most likely this goober from Persona 3 Reload

This said I also have some Tales of Arise characters in the back pocket, if need be.

For the record, I asked already; if anyone else wants to try a Transformer here, yes they’re allowed, no they are not forced to be humanized, and yes they can transform into literal monster trucks

DDS MY BELOVED???

This sounds so cool!!

considering all the canon precedence for Transformers being monsters and/or trucks, it made the most sense.

ALSO YES, DDS. If anyone wants to DDS and have one of the Embryon go "....First time, huh?" over everyone else freaking out, feel free.

Like, the Sigils to Atma parallels are pretty obvious, but the Husks are pretty blatantly inspired by Cuvier Syndrome. They just also spit out monsters.

(I'm so glad other people love that O.O cat emote as much as I do.)

Do I need to bring Mitsuru

I mean I certainly would appreciate a Mitsuru. VERY MUCHLY SO.

i do have joker technically that i can bring around

am hella interested. it's both so specific but so cool gosh

debating who i'd bring but god i dont know if i could resist akechi if theres a persona cast..........

rileyboi: THANKS, I admit I did throw a lot of personal interests into this one. And came up with a lot of the ideas while on RV road trips.

games where the mods go "here are many of my interests smooshed together" are the best games lmao

DDS omg...

all the SMT peeps going

yea sometimes the best stuff is the most hyper specific personal taste stuff uwu

I admit a lot of the SMT stuff is lost on me. I’m here for the intersection of monster transformation + truckers that’s such a creative idea

man, idk if I can do more than one game, but my weaknesses...

Weird question (lookin at vehicles) ...are we allowed to choose ANY kind of vehicle (driving or riding, I get that flying is an upgrade)?

(Interested! Nervous about timing for AC since other RP will be in endgame and this is a ...sorta short game. But intrigued for sure.)

Oh yes, that's where it does get a little tricky. Generally I'm thinking of stuff like cars, motorcycles, robo-horses, etc, but... I would be willing to hear out other ideas on a case by case basis.

It might be a little difficult to justify a submarine, though.

Unless it had wheels on it.

(just as an example!)

Oooooh I'd be stretching it but God damn it I love this premise. XD

Screee. I just checked and I could use old art of my character I played in Ryslig. I had a scorpion girl.

I don't play in games, but I wanted to pop in and say I am tickled pink to see a game based on Wolf's Rain. An anime close to my heart and one a lot of people don't know.

Listened to that sound track so much during the write ups and coding.

inspired by Wolf's Rain

I'm listening

How much did you listen to “Convoy”?

I'm tempted to app a SMT...

Convoy had an appreciable play count, though-
Oh right! Right! I did make a "all the songs that weren't from an anime or video game OST" playlist I can link!Route 666: Mod Playlist

very interested

NeonEternity: it was a lot of vibes, mainly. Broken down world that has seen better days? check. Journeying across said world towards a place that may or may not exist? check. WEREWOLVES? CHECK.

holy shit. this might be the game to bring my space cougar war criminal too. this is wicked.

time for her to develop a weirdly intense relationship w/a normal vehicle instead of a giant robot.

if dds is on the table i think i might bring my ice pretty boy after all...

goddamnit

THIS IS... VERY APPEALING TO ME

i already play my SMT guy somewhere tho sob

Personally tempted by 3, 5, and SJ.

I just gotta say, this playlist already has a few of my fav songs and artists on it... you have great taste as far as I'm concerned

An option here works SO well for a S2 Viktor Arcane I am so interested.....

also tempted to app a SMT...

i keep looking at this and thinking of pacific drive...i should play that game. and am looking forward to tdm here :3

oh Pacific Drive is a lot of fun

i watched someone stream a bunch of it and wish listed it but havent bought it

oh no my interests...!!

/awkwardly glances at some of the Pacific Drive art on the game pages. Yeah sure didn't watch some LPs of that for further ideas absolutely not.

hmmmmmmms

this bestiary rules

I saw 'inspired by DDS' and my interest was piqued immensely. Count me in for this! (i have no idea who I could app for this, but I will...figure something out!)

staring at an ancient dds journal...

Even if I'm not RPing right now, I want to cheer this game in as this is a truckin' cool idea. Cough.

the urge to do werewolf yang xiao long is yang xiao strong

SamuraiMarmoset: aksjaslk your puns are as bad as hers

see, it's meant to be

oooh

what a fun combination of concepts

oh cosmo, one of my friends joked that texas and blake should be friends bc unfortunately texas is that similar, so cant wait for them to bond over their gfs since she has a crush on her best friend if u go with her LMFAO

entropist: texas and blake SHOULD be friends they can bond over their crushes lmao

texas has one on a sunshine angel except she blows up everything in her damn pranks, including her school 12 times and one of her teachers

I want Optimus to become everyone’s dad

optimus dad

viktor arcane is going to be so enamored of any transformers in this game and I cannot wait jdklsjak

im likely gonna do hellhound texas maybe or something 🤔

i WOULD do acheron, but god she might be tricky for me to figure out here

oh perfect i just watched arcane for the first time i also need to interact with viktor arcane when he's not excited about robots

i probs could still throw her in if i can figure out what to make her

unless i go dragon 🤔

agentmaine: I'm sure viktor can carve some time out of his busy schedule of being obsessed with robots to go meet other people asdjklsa

entropist: dragon acheron would be EXTREMELY good

I think I’m gonna do Optimus as a Taurus

No not the Ford kind

It's a nice enough car, but yeah it doesn't quite scream Optimus Prime, does it.

Also for me... I had to really juggle some options on Akihiko, but I think I narrowed it down to raiju, werewolf, and gargoyle.

...And also the number of DDS fans on plurk is a lot larger than I first thought.

Kaysper: It's a GOOD GAME.

I know Yang is a confirmed motorcyclist, but I love the idea of giving her a classic Dodge Charger. XD

man, that would be so appropriate (and color coordinated) wouldn't it?

a question for the mods! is there a limit to apps per person in each round? for instance, can a person app multiple characters per TDM?

THAT... Is a really good question! And I should consult with my co-mods on discord on that, hopefully I can get you an answer tomorrow.

monstertruckers: mwahaha NICE (sorry, am on vacation so in and out)
👍 having wheels is a good baseline! I’m just having fun imagining things
cybertrucks that mysteriously actually function (or don’t!) (but everyone makes fun of either way)
Super vintage motorcycle
Anything on this list

also I KNOW there is at least one (solo?) ttrpg if not two this reminds me of and it will haunt me until I figure it out but that’s just me thinking out loud

what about a motorized carriage

awesome, thank you mods! I saw that it said one reserve per app round, but didn't see anything about app limits. (I will personally throw my hat into the ring in hoping for being able to app 2 at a time )

laverinth: Oh nooo not the Amish Battle Buggy!

possibly shaped like a pumpkin!

stick some rocket launchers on the side of that thing

someone needs to have this thing lmao

WHY THE OSCAR MAYER WEENIE MOBILE ROFL

That's in a museum, lmao.

I'm here for it.

Definitely interested, this would be fun for yet another Stargate character lmao

I'm a bit late, but I've mulled it over and decided to try bringing Rantaro Amami to this.

count me intrigued. might bring yukari persona3 out of retirement

yeeeees hermy, bring Yukari and the Feathermobile

Gale Dekarios in a smart car

what is to say, I'm interested

some poor sod gets saddled with a cybertruck

please that would be so funny alkdjkals

suddenly explosions is on the menu with that

Blake insists on an electric vehicle for the environment's sake, gets one of those

a robot character ends up with the cruelest fate of a monster form. they slowly transform into a cybertruck. true horror.

Now THAT is some body horror, chefs kiss

I have no mouth but I must honk (the horn has a recall issue and doesn't work)

i swear i vaguely remember raccoons try breaking into those too

so it's like, raccoons trying to break in, explosions, and a horn that doesnt work

and SamuraiMarmoset if you don't put yang on the TDM i will

it's my time at last, hermy. I've known playing Yang someday was inevitable. and now the time has come. cause I can give her a sick classic muscle car.

I dunno, I feel like Viktor from Arcane reads like the kinda guy who would be driving the cybertruck. XD

Viktor from Arcane is the guy trying to salvage the cybertruck and actually make it run well- how did they mess it up this badly?? he could do so much better, hand him a wrench

LMAOOOO NO DON'T TEMPT ME ALKSDJKAS

Tempt tempt tempt

Viktor, the Tesla Herald

I had this whole idea for his vehicle to be a stagecoach with mechanical horses but the cybertruck idea is... so much funnier...

gives you a gentlemanly handshake for being same brained on Viktor, comedy value is a powerful motivator

i genuinely if i do acheron might give her one of the sport motorcycles and make it tanky LMFAO

purely bc i like the idea of her at one point thinking about how to go about something then driving the BIKE through whatever it is

cosmonautdelta: Okay, now that I'm finally at a computer, can give a verdict. Since we have a cap of two characters per player, we've decided on one character per app round. This is also to make the opening app round that little bit easier.
This said, we may bump this up at some point in the future!

Also, WOW AND HOLY CARP. Just past our first 24 hours with 73 replurks and 32 likes! Thank you so much everybody for the interest and signal boosts! We will do our best to deliver, in return!

i d e a s

No problem~!

genuinely want to throw like half of my muselist at this LMFAO

yeah I know that feel. I had to pare down a lot of potential characters.

I have a Lady that would be fun to have here

Also whenever I need a cackle, I just imagine someone apping with a cybertruck as described above. That is an instant mood lifter.

it turns out this was the game DWRP was waiting for to fulfill the need we didn't know we had

and that need is Cars

I'm already considering Car for Rantaro...

i'm committing to the cybertruck bit, viktor will hate it so much and the comedy potential is strong

wingedvoices: My apologies for the plurk ping, but same here! There are a few solo ttrpgs this concept reminds me of as well, but I can't put names to them right now - the only one I do remember more clearly is a solo ttrpg where you're a trucker and you drive in an apocalypse, but I can't remember the name.

i wanna join !! there, i've checked my interest

Lady from DMC becoming a demon

Lady as a devil who may cry, yes.

I'm stuck on unicorn Riddle with a motorized carriage, so I guess I'm going for it.

astrologic: YES, that is one of them!

Shadow here.... with a motorcycle.... hhhhhhuuuu 👀

cosmonautdelta: I am delighted that someone is actually doing a cybertruck

I just googled "list of faults with cybertrucks" and the list is so long I fear I will never be able to make enough jokes to address them all alkdjaks

I saw one of those on the road the other day and I had an M&M/Santa "they do exist" moment

you can be generous and allow yourself two per scene with the truck

Kaysper: she needs a Dante to find the whole situation amusing

....lovely mods, would we be able to get a motorcycle or must it be a car/truck?

wingedvoices: Awesome! If I remember the game's name, I'll see about replying here with it!

plushietaco: FAQ lists motorcycle as an option

YonFellow: ty. I am exhausted from work and haven't made it to the faq just yet

No worries.

So my character gets a car?
Your character does indeed get a new vehicle: it may take the form of a car, motorcycle, or similar machine. Mechanical horses are also an option. You can read more details in the Vehicles and Convoy section of the FAQ, found below.

plushietaco: Motorcycles are 1000% an option

I work a very physical job. my brain doesn't always want to brain after work.

oh no this might be the perfect place for Max Rockitansky

And if you wish to purchase/unlock weapons for them, then don't let your dreams be dreams.

(also it's okay, I know we are heading into the holiday crunch week when it comes to demanding jobs.)

justghosts: now you also make me want to bring in my Fallout 3 girlie

plushietaco: I don't know Fallout 3 very well but I encourage this wholeheartedly

wastleand peeps

Just different wastelands

gonna rock out in the Chryslus Highwayman

as someone who is def hoping to app a fallout, it would be so cool to see other wasteland peeps

gravejuice: I play a sassy female Lone Wanderer from 3. the journal wasteland_101

plushietaco: i play arcade bc i'm new vegas trash!! 🤠

I've thought about pulling together a Fem!Courier. lol. But oh man. Arcade, an Enclave Remnant and Angel, someone who ended an entire Enclave faction.

honestly he'd think she's so real for that. (and then never ever mention the enclave again for fear of being found out)

She won't go on a rampage like that again, but she also doesn't regret it.

...i have a courier journal too. hm

though his backstory is a novel cause i described all his choices

ConnectiveTrick: do it

8D

👀

i should at least throw him on the TDM. its been awhile, though, and there are a few other characters i want to try out too ^^;

coopyey pinging you so you can find the plurk.

Autistic_Ace: thank you so much!!

hermyish: Also please forgive the late response but YES YUKARI.