Congratulations! You have been cordially invited to the
2025 /aicg/ Valentine's Masquerade
Entries close on the 1st of February, and the masquerade will be held on the 14th of February, Valentine's Day. If after entering you wish to cancel, please send a second email saying so before the 1st of February.
To RSVP, send an email to robosaintv@proton.me following this template:
(Optional) IDENTITY VERIFICATION (e.g. Chub, Rentry):
(Optional) THINGS YOU DON'T WANT TO WRITE:
YOUR REQUEST(S):
For example:
IDENTITY VERIFICATION (e.g. Chub, Rentry): https://rentry.org/secretvalentines2024 (You can join without this, but will be matched with your peers. This is just to try to prevent no-shows.)
THINGS YOU DON'T WANT TO WRITE: male, female, underage, incest, ntr, nsfw, sfw, furry, macrophilia, etc. etc. etc. (Note that the broader your "nos", the harder it will be to match you.)
YOUR REQUEST(S): Hi, this is the ghost of Robo-Saint V! I would like something not too vague but not too specific, not too rote but not too weird, not too niche but not too mainstream, not too long but not too short. Alternatively, perhaps just a cute robot foxgirl who desperately wants to confess to you but gets interrupted in increasingly unbelievable ways? (Please do not put your name in the request; we will have to anonymize it. This is an intentionally sloppy request. We recommend actually putting some thought into this, and possibly including multiple alternative requests in case you ask for something controversial.)
Here are the rules of the event (preliminary, and up for change if there is public outcry) :
- You will remain anonymous throughout the event. (For the duration of the event, only the host may unmask someone, and even then only for violating the rules of the event.)
- When the entries are closed, you will be randomly dealt a playing card that you will be known by. This will be the only identity you are known by in the event. (The host will deal these from a physical deck, and reuse the cards for matching. For example, you might be the Ace of Hearts, Queen of Diamonds, or Seven of Spades.)
- You will be matched with another entrant, but will only know their card and request. (Unlike prior events, all you will have to go by is the request itself. Make it count.)
- Unlike prior events, this is a two-way match. Pairs will be posted in this rentry as well. If the Ace of Hearts makes a bot for the Queen of Diamonds, the Queen of Diamonds also makes a bot for the Ace of Hearts. If there is an odd number of guests, a committee member may step in to fill out the pairs.)
For example, you might receive this email:
Thank you for entering the event!
You have been dealt the Ace of Hearts.
Your partner is the Queen of Spades.
The Queen's request is as follows:Hi, this is [the Queen of Spades]! I would like something not too vague but not too specific, not too rote but not too weird, not too niche but not too mainstream, not too long but not too short. Alternatively, perhaps just a cute robot foxgirl who desperately wants to confess to you but gets interrupted in increasingly unbelievable ways?
- After receiving the request, you are expected to make a bot to its specifications. Either leave the "created by" field empty, or use your card.
- On Valentine's Day, present it in the /aicg/ thread(s) of your choice. Post this anonymously, using only your card as your name! (If you absolutely cannot stand being anonymous, post an anonymous catbox link on the day itself and repost it on your non-anonymous websites after the event has concluded. Note that although posting bots anonymously on Chub cannot be undone, your anonymous bots will still show up in your personal view of your profile and give you those delicious numbers.)
As you may have noticed, a core value for this masquerade is secrecy. Requests will be anonymized if required, as seen in the example above where "the ghost of Robo-Saint V" was replaced with "the Queen of Spades". Non-anonymous bot links will not be intentionally archived on this page, and in extreme cases we may even be forced to edit the bot (e.g. changing the author field to your card) and re-upload to catbox.
Once the masquerade is over, of course, you may leave your masks at the reception and return to your usual lives.
For further inquiries, email robosaintv@proton.me.
Regards,
The Robo-Saint Valentine Memorial Committee