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Applications
Join the Game
ALLOWED CHARACTERS
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- We now operate ROLLING APPLICATIONS that are always open. You can submit 1 character anytime in a month!
- Our application process has become simplified due to staffing changes, please take note!
- As apps are always open, reserves are NO LONGER REQUIRED. Please simply complete the application below and post when you are ready.
- If two people apply for the same character, the first to post their application will be assessed. The second application will only be considered if the first is declined.
- However, we do allow UP TO TWO versions of each character in game. The second applicant would therefore be permitted to apply for an AU version of that character if they so choose.
- Agents of D.E.S.T.I.N.Y. or antagonist applications will open on November 4. These characters are either brainwashed (quick resolution) or coerced (slow-play resolution, long-term espionage) to help usher in the apocalypse. More information here!
OOC:
Player Name: Provide your handle
Age: Indicate you are 18+; players less than 18 years-of-age are not permitted
Contact: One or more of Plurk, PM, or Discord are needed
IC:
Character Name: Mrs. Handsome
Canon: Indicate which version if there are multiple (e.g., book to movie)
CANON POINT: Briefly describe in a sentence.
CRAU: Yes/No, please link the game/musebox the character is from
Age: Note that characters below 16 years of age should be apped with caution, as self-sufficiency/autonomy are extremely important. Heavy interdependency and neglect risks should be OOCly opt-in.
AGENT OF DESTINY: Yes/No, "Brainwashed" or "Coerced." Brainwash agents will be captured in-game and start to remember themselves within 1-2 months of play; coerced agents are knowingly helping the other side but under duress. Antagonists cannot begin gameplay until November 4, 2017, but you may feel free to apply and plot before then!
Background: Brief summary as possible, Wiki links preferred. If you wish to write your own, please us bullet points and be concise, 250-800 words. Please avoid over-describing the world or any jargon, focus more on key points in personality development (see above), changes wrought by CRAU and important CRAU relationships, and events that are likely to be regarded as offensive or sensitive material.
Powers/Abilities: Bullet list preferred. 1-400 words. Include non-human weaknesses/limits and superlative skills. Estimate numerical limits (weight, distance, speed, etc.). At the mods' discretion, destructive capacity may be scaled down based on a maximum lift of 5 tons (~2 full-sized cars).
Starting Equipment: Name your daemon, describe its form (max 50 words), and list any other items the character will be arriving with. Note highly destructive items will be controlled by metaplot. If you have critters that have powers or special abilities, please describe them briefly.
Samples: 1 required, may be from any meme, game, or setting; however, it should have been written within the last year. They should also be written from your preferred canon point.
In-Universe:
Exit Strategy: Maximum of 200 words. If your character is an agent of D.E.S.T.I.N.Y./antagonist, describe what D.E.S.T.I.N.Y. agents did to them (e.g., torture/magical brainwashing, or family held hostage/apocalypse postponed).
For non-antagonists, tell us how the D.E.S.T.I.N.Y. apocalypse and the enemy appeared in their world, then describe the technology or magic the character used to escape their world. Note any characters they are arriving with (i.e., 'group app') including usernames. This may be used for future plot, but don't worry too much about perfect consistency with your group mate/castmates/etc.— adjustments can be made later. We just want you to be thinking about it. All characters start on the beach.
Applications
Who's Allowed?
✔ CRAU, or characters who have experienced life in other games/museboxes. 'Partial CRAU' is not allowed, but if you apply in fresh, you will be able to obtain memories of CRAU during special events.
✔ Original characters
✔ Canon characters who must personally appear and preferably have a speaking role in the material of the canon point (specific episodes, books, films, etc.). You cannot app a minor/supporting character and headcanon the substance of their personality, or extrapolate a character's off-screen activities from material that only their canonmates were seen in
✔ Child characters (see Age warning in the Application section; note that self-sufficiency is important and other characters and players will not be forced to face consequences for failing to take on a dependent without careful OOC plotting)
✔ Multiple iterations of the same canon character are allowed. The two versions must be at least one with CRAU. The current maximum is 2 of each character. This may be raised by 1 if the character exists in another form of media and is determined to be sufficiently different.
✔ Non-human characters (greatest height in all directions is 30 feet; weird genitalia is fine as long as no one has to deal with it if they don't want to)
✔ Agents of D.E.S.T.I.N.Y., allowed as of November 4
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✘ Characters who must kill sentient beings (compulsion, physical appetites/dependence, etc.); there are limited NPCs and escalating ICC may render your character unplayable
Players should consider introducing themselves to players of close canon CR before they app. However, this is only required in the case of a group application (castmates arriving together from the same version and canon point of their world), or if you are apping the second version of an existing canon character. The purpose of this is not to mandate approval, but to initiate and encourage intra-cast communication.
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PLAYER NAME: Adelai
AGE: 27
CONTACT:
INVITED BY: Chinatown
IC:
CHARACTER NAME: Amanda Perry
CANON: Stargate Universe
CANON POINT: Post-1x16 (with a year of CRAU 'canon')
CRAU: Yes
AGE: 34
BACKGROUND:
POWERS: Nothing supernatural!
STARTING EQUIPMENT:
Daemon: African gray parrot, Graced
Her Eevee Hedy
This shirt, blue jeans, sneakers, and the star earrings and moon bracelet she got in Eudio.
The handsfree-enabled tablet she pulled in her first purposeful act of dream thievery
SAMPLES:
1. Eudio net sample
2. Xistenia test drive third person sample
In-Universe:
EXIT STRATEGY: As quakes began to destroy Eudio, a portal not entirely dissimilar to the iris of a Stargate opened in her apartment. Given the world she was in, and the fact that she had scattered bits of her work computer containing notes on Gate technology (thanks to her first unconcious act of dream thievery) Amanda did not question the portal's appearance in her apartment and trusted it to act like the Gates she knew and simply jumped.
MORALITY: While she can appear to be an absolute goody twoshoes and often is, Amanda will lie to protect and help people she cares for (as she later does in a very huge way in canon to help Nick), and tries very hard not to judge people who might steal/commit other crimes without knowing their motives first. However, she could never intentionally hurt someone physically or emotionally, and she would never take something from another person that she could absolutely do without. If it came to her pulling the literal or metaphorical trigger for someone she loved, Amanda would be deeply conflicted--she would panic and try to insist there had to be another way, a better way, as much as she could. Having spent a lifetime relying on other people for her most basic needs, having to trust that they would not take advantage of her inability to defend herself, has left her with a desire to make sure that others are not taken advantage of in desperate situations.
WAR ATTITUDES: Amanda's worked for the military for a good part of her adult life, although not in a combat role She knows that some of her knowledge has been used in some capacity to (supposedly) defend humanity back home, so while it would be difficult for her to take any kind of active role she would only have a little hesitation in using her programming skills to help protect other worlds and people. However, she is definitely not a physical fighter and would certainly be better in a support role.
INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS: While less difficult for her than it would have been before her time in Eudio, Amanda still has some difficulty becoming really close with people. Although teh baggage of her past disability is far lighter than it used to be, the fact she spent most of her life in academia (and was homeschooled for a good part of her childhood) means that she has difficulty connecting with people who don't have an immediate shared interest. She does, hower, want to connect and has made great strides in getting better at that during the year she spent in Eudio, becoming friends with people who are certainly not academics nor romantic interests. While being in will make her long more for the 'it's complicated' thing she has with Nicholas Rush back in her home universe as she worries for him, she is not adverse to being friends and possibly trying to flirt (horribly) with others.
COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTIONS: Amanda's chief expertise is mathematics and engineering, and she's very good at repairing and modifying electronics and machinery. She's also, surprisingly, good at thinking about the problem at hand under pressure (shown by how well she handled needing to repair a fried FTL drive before the ship got stranded in the black, and still found time to flirt with her not-boyfriend). She once manned the defenses of a ship she had only been on for a few weeks, and past her present canon point would even fly that ship with only a few hours preparation, so she will learn any new technology pretty quickly.
She's also very willing to teach anyone who wants to learn how to use technology that might be foreign to them, as she knows that anyone could prove to be a genius programmer (or whatever else they might want to be) given the chance. She's also a pretty good listener and tries not to judge others for how they might deal with the present trauma or any they might have experienced back home, given both her own past and how she saw her not-boyfriend become a pretty giant jerk after his wife died--she knows that trauma affects everyone differently, and that people need to have the space to work that out however it works for them, and she'd be more than willing to be a comfort, an adviser, or just a silent ear for anyone who needs to work through some stuff
ACCEPTED