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wildermods) wrote2018-01-14 11:20 pm
wildermods) wrote2018-01-14 11:20 pm
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.
Re: NEW PLAYER APP | Revan | Star Wars Legends
Prose Sample:
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.
"Wait, you do that?" Revan, a woman from a universe without witch trials, favors her accusers with a look equal parts bewilderment and revulsion. "Burn people alive?"
That doesn't seem to be the reaction anyone had been expecting, and confusion ripples through the crowd. Most wouldn't be so sanguine about their impending painful execution, but most can't cut through a pack of farmers with pitchforks like they're harvesting the wheat those farmers are neglecting while busy meting out a little mob justice. Still, they're scared peasants, not Sith, and Revan's at least going to try to resolve this peacefully.
"I'm sorry I frightened you," she says, spreading her hands in a conciliatory gesture, "but is that really a capital crime?" The old Revan could talk tears from a stone. The new one's not there yet, but she still radiates innocence wronged--made easier by the fact that this time she really hasn't done anything--and as much compassion as she can stuff into a conversation with people trying to murder her.
"What have I done besides be a stranger?" She looks over the crowd, gauging both their visible reactions and the ones she can feel from their minds, not to mention scouting out the best place to break through their lines if this goes badly. "If you were traveling far from home, how would you feel to get a welcome like this?"
Something about having all eyes on her is familiar, energizing, and Revan stands straighter without realizing she's doing it, confidence flowing from a source deeper than the knowledge she can win a fight with this entire town if she has to.
"Ugly things are happening out there, yes." She turns a little to indicate the dark forest outside the village, and to get them used to her moving around. "It's good that you want to protect your town, your families...and that you're brave enough to do it," she adds with a nod and a smile to the nearest of the armed men, diplomatically leaving out the fact that twenty-on-one does not, as a rule, meet the definition of bravery.
"But this," she sweeps her arm across the entire scene, "protects no one. Fear feeds on itself, grows stronger when you give in to it. Today, you turn on a foreigner. Who will it be tomorrow, when killing me has helped nothing? Who will it be the day after that?"
The mood of the crowd is shifting slightly, threads of hesitation and uncertainty and even a few of true courage now woven through the tapestry of fear. She hasn't got all of them, but she doesn't need all of them, just enough to turn them from a mob into people again, and for a few seconds she dares to think something might actually end peacefully for once.
Her mistake.
A sudden surge of anger from the back of the group alerts her in time to deflect the stone that comes hurtling towards her head paired with a shout of what she's starting to realize is a stock phrase: "Burn the witch!" That burst of very visible telekinesis does not help her case in the slightest, and the crowd regains the courage of numbers and the unthinking ferocity of a mob, a taut moment snapping as her would-be executioners charge her, yelling various threats they're not capable of carrying out.
"Fine." She sidesteps the first pitchfork and drops its owner with a sucker punch to the gut. "We'll do it the hard way."
How long does it take a Jedi to beat up a couple dozen farmers and shopkeepers? Less than five minutes.
"Unbelievable." She tosses aside someone's broom, the final makeshift weapon she confiscated in the fight, and gazes around the square at her former attackers, all of them in various stages of inability to get back to their feet. Revan sighs and pinches the bridge of her nose. "Does anyone need a bone set? I'm pretty good at that."
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.
[It takes quite a few shocks--several more than any reasonable person would put up with--for Revan to realize she's not getting out of this one.]
You know my "adult life" is about six months, right?
[She's reached the point where she's not even surprised when total strangers demand she prove herself, but is is a new one. Logistical questions about amnesia notwithstanding, the...whatever-it-is doesn't seem inclined to chat further, so Revan sighs and turns back to that impossible mirror hanging in the air before her.]
Wisdom? You're at the wrong office, kid.
[Honest if not useful, which doesn't seem to be enough for this particular test. Revan regards her younger self for a moment, getting her thoughts in order, such as they are. Head cocked, her younger self regards her back in the sort of patient silence Revan suspects the genuine article only displayed when fast asleep. It takes real determination to strip away the protective layers of sarcasm, but...]
People are awful. They're selfish and afraid and they do terrible things. They'll use you, lie to you, try to kill you.
[Some real Jedi compassion there, Revan.]
It doesn't matter. You do the right thing because it's the right thing.
[Thaaaaaat's better.]
The second you start making excuses for yourself is the second you've started towards the Dark Side. They shouldn't call it falling. It doesn't happen all at once. It's little step after little step, until one day you just...stop making excuses.
[Revan shakes her head.]
The right thing is hard and thankless and it'll probably get you killed, but the alternative is a galaxy filled with pain and suffering for everyone...so, your life is a small price to pay.
[Cheerful! With a visible effort. Revan shakes off her bleak mood and gives her younger self a cockeyed grin.]
Oh, and when you get to lightsaber training? Dual-weapon is the way to go.
Additional info: Revan will be carrying a pair of lightsabers and a comlink and have whatever pocket cruft there is in Star Wars. None of the tech will work, though the crystals in the lightsabers will likely detect as faintly magical to a spell or mystical perceptions.
Also, I'm perfectly okay with being fourth-walled by characters from canons that have the movies, but only with general knowledge like the existence of Jedi/the Republic/Wookiees/whatever and not plot-specific details, not that even nerdy characters would necessarily know the plot of the KotOR games.
ACCEPTED