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wildermods) wrote2018-01-14 11:20 pm
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APPLICATIONS
APPLICATIONS
Current Player Reserves: CLOSED/b>
Current Player Apps: CLOSED
New Player Apps: CLOSED
Overall Player Cap: 30 players
Characters Allowed Per Player: 3
Because the game is so plot-heavy and involves all the characters working together as a team, Wilderlands has a player cap to keep things manageable.
Cast Cap: 8
Completely original OCs will count as a cast. OCs based on tabletop or MMO canons will count towards the MMO or tabletop canons.
Versions of each character allowed: 2
We allow two versions of the same character in game, such as an AU and the canon version, or two versions from two different incarnations of a canon (ex: comics Barry Allen and TV show Barry Allen).
If your app is for your first character in the game, you cannot put in a reserve. You must app.
New player apps are handled differently when the player cap has been filled vs. not yet filled. If the game has new player slots open, the app will be considered immediately and you'll receive a response within 7 days. If no new player slots are open, you'll be put into a wait queue. Reserves are for current players only, to dibs a character they plan to app so they have time to write the app.
New player reserves: While new players do not have the option of reserving a character, a new player app in the wait queue counts as a reservation. As long as a character is listed in the wait queue, current players and any other new players that come along cannot reserve or app that character.
Regarding cast caps: If a cast is close to being capped, a new player app in the wait queue also reserves a cast slot.
The wait queue is only for new players, and will only be used if the game's player cap has been met. That means that current players may app for a new character at any time, and will receive a response back within 7 days.
If a character has not yet been reserved, and is not in the new player queue, you can RESERVE them. This is available only to current players.
Both new player and current player apps may close on occasion due to RL holidays, mods going on vacation, and other mitigating circumstances. They may also be closed sometimes during particularly complicated gamewide plots that would create difficulties for people introing characters. These closures will usually be temporary.
❧ Before Apping, please visit both the PLAYABLE CHARACTERS and POWER SELECTION pages to make sure your character is appable and to figure out their powers.
❧ You may only app 1 character at a time.
❧ You must wait 2 weeks between apps.
❧ If you only have one character and you're swapping them out for another, please note on your app and your drop post that you're swapping out so we don't think you're giving up your player slot.
❧ If you app for multiple characters from the same canon they must not have a lot of direct involvement (ie they can't be close siblings or SOs or anything like that).
❧ All apps will remain screened until accepted. Accepted apps will be unscreened. Rejected apps will remain screened. If you have personal reasons for wanting an accepted app to stay screened (such as concerns about your contact info getting in the hands of someone dangerous) you may request for the app to stay screened.
❧ For current players, if a character is not reserved or in the new player wait queue, apps are judged for that character as first come, first served.
❧ Do not link to your application. Please post it as comments, it's fine if there are multiple ones.
❧ We don't care if you reuse old apps you've written yourself but if we catch you plagiarizing an app from someone else, you'll be permanently pre-banned from the game. We'll also ban you if we miss it while approving and find out later, because come on.
❧ In the subject of your app comment, please put "NEW PLAYER APP" or "CURRENT PLAYER APP" before the character's name and canon.
Ex:
NEW PLAYER APP | Bugs Bunny | Space Jam
APPLICATION
Player Name:
Plurk Handle: (If you have one. Note: If you have privacy concerns, you may opt out of this or request that the app remain screened)
Player Status: New Player or Current Player
Other characters: If you're a current player: any other characters you play here?
Character Name:
Fandom:
Character Journal:
OU, AU, or OC? Original universe, alternate universe, or original character?
If canon, canon point:
PB: (Played - By. PBs are optional, not required, for instance if you play an OC, your character doesn't have visual media, what visual media they have has ugly art, etc.).
Setting Background: If apping an AU or OC from a made up world or a canon world deeply changed by AU events, please give us some background on the setting here. Leave blank for OU characters.
(Please keep this under 1000 words.)
History: Links are preferred, however if you're apping an OC or AU we do want a thorough history. In the case of an AU please note specific points the AU diverges from canon.
(Please keep this under 1000 words.)
Personality: What is the character's personality like? Please take care to talk about both their thoughts and motivations and their outward actions. For AUs, please note how their development diverges from canon.
(Please keep this under 1000 words.)
Canon Powers: If they have superpowers in canon please list a full list of them here just so we have them somewhere.
Freebie Powers: If your character has any powers listed as "freebie powers" list them and their limits here so the mods can decide if they count as freebies.
Power Selection: Please list whether you're choosing "Native Superpowers," a "Magic Weapon," "Magic," or "Roughing It" here. If choosing a magic weapon, list what type of weapon it will be. If choosing magic, list the mage archetype you're choosing.
Game Powers: This will be different depending on what power selection you're choosing.
If choosing native superpowers: List the powers and how they fit the power nerfing rules.
If choosing a magic weapon: List the weapon's special abilities. If it is a cursed weapon, also list its curse effect. (You don't need to list the standard abilities that come with these weapons, like granting the knowledge of how to wield them to the wielder).
If choosing magic: If the character is one of the mage types that start with 3 basic spells, list their 3 starting spells. Make sure to spell out the full extent of damage they cause and try to give a sense of scale. For instance, if requesting a fire ball spell, note that the fireball can cause damage to a single human-sized target, or if requesting a healing spell, note the severity of injuries you want it to heal. (If the character is an Archivist or Alchemist mage type, leave this blank, as they come with set abilities.)
Non-Powered Abilities: Please list any abilities independent of any meta-powers or magic here. Martial arts, wilderness survival, diplomacy skills, etc. If opting out of powers and choosing "Roughing It," please explain how these abilities would allow the character to keep up with powered individuals in the setting.
Setting/Suitability: How do you expect your character to respond to the setting? What do you hope to do with your character long-term? Does your character currently have skills that would allow them to adapt, survive, and do heroic things? If your character doesn't, do you think they'd have the capacity to learn? If they're not used to cooperating with others, what makes you think they'll be able to adapt to cooperating with the group?
SAMPLES
Prose Sample: 200 word minimum. You may use a test drive thread, use the following prompt, or make up your own. Links to RP samples at other games are not accepted, you must either use a Test Drive thread or write up a new prompt, but you may use samples at other games to supplement your samples. If you use a Test Drive thread, at least one post made by your character in the thread must meet the 200 word minimum.
For whatever reason, whether it's a strange nonhuman appearance, special powers or magic, having actual dental hygiene, or wearing a digital watch, the locals have declared your character a witch and want to burn them at the stake. Write your character reacting to the situation in whatever idiom is natural to them, whether it's with appealing to compassion, using logic, fighting their way out, terrifying them by playing death metal on their dying ipod, etc.
Network Sample: 200 word minimum. You may use the following prompt, or make up your own. Links to RP samples at other games are not accepted, you must write up a new prompt, but you may use samples at other games to supplement your samples. Since the test drives rarely use network format, you cannot use a test drive thread for the network sample, only the prose sample.
Your character's inner child has been separated from your character into its own individual entity by a powerful spirit, and your character can speak to them through the game's magic mirror network. The child has been commanded to listen in silence, and in an ultimate test of self-awareness, your character has been told they must talk to them and pass them wisdom and emotional honesty they've gained through life experience. Every time you character lies or is otherwise insincere about something from their adult life, they get zapped with a painful magical shock from the spirit.
Additional info: Any additional info you think it's important to include. You can use this space to ask the mods if certain weapons, gear, belongings, or animal companions can be brought into the game with the character.
CASTS CLOSE TO CAP NONE CANON | # out of # | OPEN/CLOSED NEW PLAYER WAIT QUEUE Character | Canon | AU, OU, or OC | Player Name |
❧ For current player apps, or new player apps that are submitted before the player cap is filled, app review may take up to 1 week. Please do not contact the mods about your app unless 1 week has passed.
❧ For new player apps that are submitted after the player cap is filled, we cannot give estimates on how long it will take to get into the game, as this depends on any natural drops that happen. However, when a player slot opens, we will attempt to process the next new player app in the queue within 1 week of the drop that opened the player slot.
❧ For new players, we consider a new player slot reserved by an app until the entire review process is over, so if we ask for revisions, your slot is still reserved until the mods make their final judgement of the app. However, if we ask for revisions, you will have 2 days to respond. After that, you'll forfeit the player slot reserved by your app and we'll move on to the next app.
New Player App | Simmons | Red vs Blue
Player Name:Zita
Plurk Handle:
Player Status: New Player
Other characters: -
Character Name: Dick Simmons
Fandom: Red vs Blue
Character Journal:
OU, AU, or OC?: OU
If canon, canon point: Shortly past the end of Season 13
PB: Tyler Hilton
Setting Background: -
History: The fandom wiki isn't great, so: Simmons is from a comedy webseries that takes place in a 26th century that culturally resembles the 21st (because it's a comedy webseries). He was a nerdy kid who loved math, science, and scifi/fantasy media. His father was ashamed of him, and made sure he knew it.
Simmons grew up to enlist in the space army to fight a xenocidal alien menace. Due to his anxiety, he scored very poorly on tests. Meanwhile, a highly unethical and secret supersoldier program (Project Freelancer) was taking many undesirable (therefore expendable) recruits to use in training simulations. Simmons became one of them. The soldiers were split into Red and Blue "armies", told they were at war with each other now, and set up in carefully-maintained tactical standstills for the Freelancers to disrupt as needed for exercises.
Simmons was assigned to the Red team in Blood Gulch, a box canyon on a hot, dry planet in the middle of nowhere. Their location was never used for an exercise. He spent three years exchanging gunfire with the Blues, trying to win fatherly approval from their sergeant (known only as Sarge), and having power struggles with an exceptionally lazy fellow-private named Grif. Shenanigans ensued, including a time where Sarge decided the team needed a cyborg and used spare parts, a robot kit, and (apparently) a fax machine to turn Simmons into one. Simmons was not enthusiastic, but also unwilling to argue.
Eventually, some extremely unplanned shit went down involving a rogue Freelancer agent and a homicidal AI. The Reds and Blues worked together to solve/survive the problem. It was an eventful time for Simmons. The Reds got separated, reunited, blown 800 years into the future (or so they thought), received instructions from Command in a language nobody spoke, and there was a memorable incident where Sarge declared Simmons a traitor and kicked him off the team for a little while. He was extremely upset about that part. Still, through the power of... perhaps not 'friendship' so much as 'being temporarily willing to stop shooting at each other', the simulation soldiers stopped the rogue AI and blew up a dropship and the day was more-or-less saved.
They still didn't know their war was a fake, but Freelancer Command separated the Blood Gulch crew across a couple other postings to cover up the mess anyway. If they were away from most of the others and given no free time to really think about it, the secrets were safe. (Meanwhile, Grif was Simmons's boss at their new outpost. Simmons hated it.)
Several months after the relocation, Project Freelancer was forced to send an agent to investigate the incident further when more rogue AI problems started happening. He found and reunited the Blood Gulch Reds and Blues, and they finally discovered what the project had done to them. It was pretty messy and complicated, but in the end they helped two of the surviving Freelancers to take down the Project and expose its crimes. They were publicly declared war heroes for this, and sent home. The alien war had ended while they were still in their box canyon, after all, and they weren't needed anymore.
...Then their ship crashed on a mostly forgotten colony planet called Chorus, where they were stranded for a while before the group was discovered by the locals. Chorus was in a civil war, and both factions were eager to have the famed war heroes on their side. Simmons was among the ones who fell in with the New Republic rebels, unaware that the Federal Army of Chorus had allied with their other friends. Despite the poor quality of the crew's soldiering, they were made captains and given teams to train. (It was hard for Simmons, Sarge wasn't around and his team were all women he struggled to make complete sentences in front of.) The teams mounted a rescue mission to get their friends back from the Feds, only to discover that their friends were perfectly fine and thought they were the ones in trouble.
The Reds and Blues discovered that civil war had been manufactured. A nefarious corporation and the mercenaries it hired were manipulating the people of Chorus. They managed to unite and rally the Feds and Rebels together to drive off Charon Industries. The day was saved and peace was restored.
The Reds and Blues were granted a place to live on Chorus's moon (because even if the people of Chorus do love them, they're exhausting and frustrating people to be around) and declared themselves "retired" as heroes.
Mostly, Simmons is back to seeking Sarge's approval and bickering endlessly with Grif. They're just a little friendlier with the Blues these days. Getting by on stubbornness, luck, and the power of friendship with some people for long enough will do that.
(This corresponds to just after the end of Season 13.)
Personality: Simmons, more than anything else, desperately wants to be respected. Failing that, and he's always failing that, he will settle for being liked by someone who is. Unfortunately for Simmons, he's not much better at this either. As a result, he's usually pretty miserable, has a lot of insecurity to deal with, and tends to pick out authority figures to follow around. In a way, he's still struggling to find a replacement for the approval he could never get from his father.
Another problem he has is with control. Simmons is used to having very little control of things in his life, so he latches onto what little he can get with a vice grip. He's a neatfreak and a rules lawyer. He reads all the fine print nobody else does, memorizes the manual, and tries to bludgeon his way into a position of respectability by knowing how things are supposed to be done. It frustrates him that the world is not an ordered place and people don't always live by the rules (because it's often impossible). To make it worse, it's extremely hard for Simmons to let things go or relax. If people around him disregard the rules and like to leave things a mess, Simmons won't hesitate to take his (admittedly ineffectual) frustration out on them and engage in potentially years-long petty power struggles over it.
When Simmons tries to do something, he tries very hard. He will burn himself out if allowed to, and tends to break under pressure. He was raised by a man who was never proud of his accomplishments, and it left Simmons with impossibly high standards for himself and incredible anxiety about not meeting them. This anxiety is what wrecked his test scores and got him thrown in with the Reds in the first place, and he can't even talk to women sometimes without becoming a stammering wreck. Even though he knows this about himself, he still aims high. He fantasizes about being in charge and having power (which would also give him the security of control he's never had), but Simmons would be a terrible leader because of this. He's too insecure, too nervous, and too willing to fall back on blame and micromanagement to try and make up for it.
Despite it all, though, Simmons is not actually a pessimist. Yes, he gets frustrated and upset and snappish sometimes. Yes, he has a thankless job and is constantly foiled in his attempts to keep things tidy and running tight. But ultimately, Simmons still believes the world is a good place and it's possible to make it better. His frustration comes from a very earnest belief that following the rules can make that happen. While his position would have worn many people down, Simmons still cares very much and is doing his (admittedly not always impressive) best.
Simmons can be an exhausting person. He's very needy and he has a whole slew of bad coping mechanisms. At his best, though? He's an enthusiastic, sincere person with a good heart. Simmons is fearful, but he's still the kind of person who volunteered to go fight aliens for the safety of humanity, questioned the rest of the group when they were going to let one person stand behind to fight (and possibly die) alone for them, and who grew up loving stories about heroes overcoming their fear to help others. Given all the human nastiness Simmons saw in Project Freelancer and the alien threat/emotional neglect he grew up under, he could really be doing a lot worse than this.
Canon Powers: He has robot parts, but they don't let him operate beyond a human capacity and honestly kind of suck.
He also has a set of space army armor, but all the technological aspects of it won't work in the game.
Freebie Powers: The robot parts probably count as a cosmetic difference from most people.
Power Selection: Magic - Monk
Game Powers:
Thematically, magic Simmons picks up is centered around clarity and order in the world.
- Restoration - Basic-level healing, able to cure a cold or close cuts and scrapes, but unable to do more than lessen the severity of serious ailments. He needs to be within physical reach of a person to do this, and while he doesn't have to actually touch them, it helps.
- Shackle - Glowing chains of order-magic can bind someone of roughly human size and strength in place for about 10 minutes. Works within line of sight, but is easier to set when he can touch the objects being bound and give it a few seconds. Smaller uses of the binding might last longer, such as shackling someone's wrists and not their whole body, but not indefinitely. Shorter and weaker chains are easier than ones that need to be longer and/or stronger. The glow is a distinct and highly visible gold-white.
- Illumination - Light radiates from part of the body (usually a hand) or an object being held. At a basic level, it's about equivalent to a candle and has no unusual properties. Order-magic uses light as a clarifier of circumstances, illuminating things so they can be seen and understood. A possible way for this spell to grow would be to start exposing things that are hidden, or to force weak-willed creatures to tell the truth.
Non-Powered Abilities: Simmons is a soldier from the 26th century. He's from a group specifically selected because they're terrible, but that was due to his extreme test-taking anxiety more than a true lack of ability. (He's still not great, but.)The magic tries to restore a body to its natural working order. If/when the spell gets more powerful, it will start to show a serious lack of flexibility about what it considers "natural order". It may do things like fade tattoos or try to close piercings. It takes concentration, care, and time to try to keep it localized away from such things. (Simmons will have to be very careful with it on himself as it strengthens. It's sort of a delicate miracle that his body even works, and it's very much not safe in the hands of order-magic trying to "fix" it.)
He has some weapons skills, but mostly with future weapons. He's actually pretty good with computers and wrangles a mean spreadsheet, but that's noooot probably gonna come up at all here.
What might benefit him here is his genre savvy from years of being a goddamn nerd. This man is going to die when they meet some Tolkien elves.
Setting/Suitability:
Simmons is going to love this. I mean, being out in the woods sucks, but Simmons is a huge nerd. He's on a fantasy quest with magic and that's the best, oh my god. He'll fumble a bit at first because of the low tech level, but the Blood Gulch crew are nothing if not weirdly resilient and adaptable. He's accustomed to doing teamwork with people he doesn't like very much, so it shouldn't present a problem.
SAMPLES
Prose Sample: Here
Network Sample:
Your character's inner child has been separated from your character into its own individual entity by a powerful spirit, and your character can speak to them through the game's magic mirror network. The child has been commanded to listen in silence, and in an ultimate test of self-awareness, your character has been told they must talk to them and pass them wisdom and emotional honesty they've gained through life experience. Every time you character lies or is otherwise insincere about something from their adult life, they get zapped with a painful magical shock from the spirit.
[ This has to be a joke, right? Simmons feels like he's being mocked, if not by this spirit then at least by the universe. What the fuck does Simmons know? …Okay, a lot of things. But what does he know about life? ]
Oh god dammit.
[ How could he have done life better? He doesn't know how any other path would've gone, and what if it's worse? His history is a litany of bad luck and frustration, much of it that he had no real choice about anyway, but some of it's good and maybe it's not the worst and he just can't get a handle on the underpinnings of how it all fits together.
Especially not here, with a face he'd almost forgotten in the mirror, a pale and weedy kid who looks just as uncomfortable about this whole thing as he is. He remembers being that age. It makes the artificial heart in his chest clench, and he feels a familiar tingling numbness crawling down his scalp and neck and shoulders.
Simmons takes a long, deep breath and lets it back out as a heavy sigh. Fuck. Pull it together. Say words. ]
I don't… I don't know.
[ It's almost harder to spit that out than it is to deal with maybe being shocked. ]
I don't know what to tell you. There's a lot of things you just don't know and are never going to, and it's not the end of the world.
[ Even if it sure does feel that way, sometimes. ]
I'm probably supposed to tell you what you should do different than I did to make your life go better, but the thing is that so much stuff gets messed up I'm not even sure how you could fix it. It's not your fault that stupid things keep happening to you, they just do.
[ Comforting! Cheerful! Great! He imagines being that kid again and hearing this, and just winces. ]
It sucks. But you're going to make some really good friends, and at the end it's going to help a lot of people. It's not going to be what you wanted…
[ And he's still not over that, really. ]
But sometimes, it turns out you want things that are really bad for you anyway. You get to be a hero to people. And that's a pretty good way to be.
[ He should say something else to this kid. He knows how much it hurts to be Dick Simmons, age… whatever age this is. When he's honest, it still hurts. ]
And… the things that are bad right now aren't forever. So go easy on yourself sometimes, okay?
[ He knows he won't. He still doesn't. But even if it's hollow, there is meaning in the act of trying. ]
Additional info: LMK if anything doesn't work re: my ideas for projected spell growth, or anything else.
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