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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.
Reserve - Barclay Odell | Original (CRAU)
Your Plurk/DW/Discord Contact:
Invited By: Self
Reserved Character/Canon: Original (Eudio CRAU)
no subject
PLAYER NAME: Chinatown
AGE: 25
CONTACT:
INVITED BY: Self
IC:
CHARACTER NAME: Barclay Odell
CANON: Original
CANON POINT: Age 24, rescued from British Naval ship on his way to the gallows
CRAU: Yes (
AGE: 25
BACKGROUND: POWERS: None, Barclay is a mundane human
STARTING EQUIPMENT: Clothes, flintlock pistol, possum-shaped daemon called Flourd
SAMPLES:
- Log (TDM)
- Network
In-Universe:EXIT STRATEGY: An Naval battalion of crimson soldiers set upon Barclay at his dock-side place of work, the Aerie, from the sea. Barclay fought and fell into the water. He was pulled under and then came up offshore from Xistentia, with water in his lungs but unharmed and very much alive.
MORALITY: Barclay thinks of himself as amoral, but that's become less and less true since Eudio, which pried off the callous, cynical expectations and buried his thirst for revenge. He is still rather grey in many ways, prepared to lie, cheat, steal, or kill if it means his survival or that of anyone he loves. However, he odes occasionally stop up against granules of honor or old-fashioned gentlemanly notions that he kept since Naval service. He tends to avoid hurting women and children, certainly, which is inextricably connected to sexist and ageist stereotypes. He has other minor blind spots too-- race, class, all that.
WAR ATTITUDES: Pressganged into military service as a child, Barclay grew up around military men then joined the war himself once he was old enough. He fought the Spanish for Queen Anne and is familiar with many aspects of war, including the corruption of bureaucracy and expendableness of minions such as he, and how ugly and dishonorable many aspects of combat are— a far cry from the dress uniforms and talk of gentlemanly conduct.
INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS: Barclay is currently in an official relationship with Kenzi, who arrived in the first wave. Despite the gap in time, he is very much invested in this. They were in the midst of negotiating the boundaries of exclusivity, so that remains unclear-- he's a malleable fellow as long as he knows he comes first in her heart. However, he is more open now to having close friends and good allies than ever before, having done much healing in Eudio.
COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTIONS: In Eudio, Barclay inherited a workshop and repair station for ships of all types... including steampunk-style airships! Although he stuck mostly to work with aquatic vessels, he started to study up and explore increasing interest in other types of transport and mechanical learning. In Xistentia, he is likely to focus on soldiering (defense, adventure), seafaring (watching the sea for enemy action, as well as fishing, exploring), hunting, and renewing his relationship with Kenzi.
ACCEPTED