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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.
Application
PLAYER NAME: Ellie
AGE: 31
CONTACT:
INVITED BY: my own damn self
IC:
CHARACTER NAME: Jaden Cosgrove
CANON: OC
CANON POINT: Three years after the massacre; before meeting Ephram
CRAU: No
AGE: 20
BACKGROUND:
POWERS:
- Shapeshifting; from human to wolf and vice-versa. Has to on a full moon, but otherwise can control and shift at will.
- Enhanced regeneration
- Enhanced strength (limited to lifting a small car)
- Enhanced speed
- Enhanced senses
- Infectious bite
STARTING EQUIPMENT:
- The clothes on his back (jeans, white tank top, leather jacket, grey beanie hat
- A Daemon that is an exact replica of the moon, but with a 6-inch diameter, called Celestiald
SAMPLES:
Sample #1 (Action; in-universe)
Sample #2 (Network)
In-Universe:
EXIT STRATEGY: It starts with natural catastrophes where there should be none. Seismic shocks far away from any tectonic activity, spontaneous tornadoes and hurricanes forming over land. Like a plague, it spread, more or more, until the world couldn’t cope anymore. Crisis cells opened everywhere, cities were evacuated, but to no avail. They blamed it on global warming, they blamed it on the wrath of God, they blamed it on nuclear waste. Jaden didn’t know who to blame, but he knew he wanted to escape it; he sought one of the many portals to the other dimension; they weren’t easy to find, but when he finally found one, he went right through, without a single second of hesitation, only to end up in Xistentia.
MORALITY: Jaden’s morality compass points towards Good, generally. He was raised right, after all, and most of the things his parents taught him - compassion, manners, honesty, bravery - he has retained. But his few years in a darker place have also taught him that the world is far from being as black and white as he used to think, and he has come to terms with his own violence. He wouldn’t hesitate to kill if the situation required it, but said situation would have to be very extreme, and the fact would haunt him afterwards.
WAR ATTITUDES: Jaden did a fair share of bounty hunting back home, so taking on missions and fighting is something he’s very used to and will appreciate being able to go back to. At first, he’ll definitely be more inclined to help in that way rather than with the whole community building/making connections part of things because he is not very used to making connections anymore.
INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS: He thinks he is not interested and he will struggle with making connections. But the thing is? He kinda craves them, too. He’s a very ‘one and done’ type of guy, but it worked for him in the past because he was so nomadic. In Xist, being stuck in one place and building relationships with the same people, he might very well forge bonds faster than he’d expect. He’ll definitely have flings if that’s something that occurs, and he’s absolutely not closed off to them - he likes sex and doesn’t plan on stopping having it, it’s the whole… actual deeper, meaningful relationships thing that he is not very good at. But he’ll probably try, because he’s actually kinda craving human interactions and connections.
COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTIONS: well, Jaden is a pretty good fighter; he’s happy to go exploring and do such things, especially as a wolf. He can hunt. But also, in something a lot more niche, and yet a lot more mundane, Jaden, for years, learned the art of tailoring from his father. His father was a reputed tailor back in Boston, and Jaden spent countless days, weekends, hours after school, in the store with his father, learning how to cut fabric and sew it back into beautiful garments. How to pair a body to the right suit or dress. How to choose the right colors and the right shoes and the right tie. How to measure a body. He wouldn’t necessarily want to open a tailoring business - at least not at first, but it would be something he could be working towards and would be willing to help the other Xistentia residents with. Meanwhile, he would absolutely be looking into ways to still get his revenge!
ACCEPTED