APPS OPEN!

[modified_device]

APPS ARE NOW OPEN!

☢ I'll be taking them for most of the next week! Try and get them in by midnight on Friday the 27th (PST). If you squeak one in before I wake up on Saturday, I'll probably be nice and look at it anyway, but no promises!

☢ Apps will not be officially accepted until the 28th. In case of duplicates, the stronger app will be selected. Once your app is accepted, please wait until your team has been assigned and your team intro post has gone up before playing. The game will open on Sunday the 29th.

☢ I'll have world/location/map info (as well as brief descriptions of the sorts of things one can find in the laboratory to make the game more accessible to canon-blind players) up closer to the game opening.

☢ I'm sure a lot of you have questions about your characters' specific circumstances in going from a sparkling snowflake to an ordinary human (or human-ish) clone. I didn't put up a lot of guidelines on that subject specifically because I knew there'd be no way to cover all of the different scenarios, and I wanted to see what kinds of things would come up before writing up something more comprehensive. In other words, now is a good time to ask about that! COMMENT AND YE SHALL RECEIVE.

☢ ETA: ALSO BECAUSE I AM CLEARLY THE BIGGEST DERP IN THE WORLD! I am planning for this RP to last around 1-2 years (depending on pacing). There will be a plot with a beginning, middle, and end. :3c

Comments

[prideofabh]

So, what about people who play physically non-human characters with biological abilities?

In other words, if I apped Lafiel here, she has an extra sense that lets her see behind her (that works via a third 'eye' on her forehead). Is she just blinded in that sense? If I were to app a winged character, would his/her wings just be clipped so s/he can't fly? Or, heck, another character on my list has webbed fingers/toes and can hold her breath much longer than normal -- does her clone just have that bit of her genetic code changed so she is more like a human (and can't swim circles around everyone)?

Also, since it might come up, what about characters that are immune to alcohol*?

* ... You all are just lucky that I don't have the time to canon-review Babylon 5. Minbari are not immune to alcohol; just instead of 'drunk', they get 'berserker rage'.

[modified_device]

I would say, they can keep their basic attributes, but anything "dangerous" would be removed. Your venom sacks, Pokemon attacks, and so on. Wings would be clipped, claws would be removed. Basic strength should be toned down to something in a "human" range (and that goes for characters who are apping from canons in which humans can do all kinds of weird stuff, too; take it down to actual human levels).

An immunity to alcohol would be just fine. That's just a physiological thing.

As for Lafiel's third eye, that really is just like a sense and not a psychic power, right? Even if it may not be strictly physical. It's a little fuzzier, but I'd let it pass.

I guess a good bottom line would be to think about the clones as a power cap - superhuman fighting abilities are the ones that should be cut the hardest, and then psychic/magical powers. Other things, like genius-level abilities or senses, can be dampened or unaltered (also relevant is the thread I had with a potential Dollhouse player over here).

[prideofabh]

Yeah. Pretty much it's described as 'she can see behind her and has a generally good sense of her surroundings', so it's pretty mild as things go.

[zidane]

Should we app dead characters from before their canonical doom?

[modified_device]

That is a good question I clearly should have thought of. I'm going to say that technically yes, that would be preferable! But you can app them like half a second before they actually die. Even if they have already received a fatal wound, for example.

So there's no reason for the character to notice that they DIDN'T die.

[zidane]

Awesome, thank you!

Also, how cognizant are the characters of them being clones? Is this like James Cameron's Avatar in the sense that that they're remotely operating clone bodies, or is that something they'll have to figure out? Will memories transfer from clone to clone (i.e. are you gonna have to 'reintro' every time you die)?

[modified_device]

A new body will take a day or so to totally sync up (will be sluggish, etc) and any power losses are probably immediately obvious, but in general it doesn't feel any different. So most characters probably wouldn't figure it out without being told.

That having been said, GLaDOS will be more than happy to inform everyone of their clone-iness fairly early into the game.

Memories are transferred between clones, yes. The basic idea is that their real body is off in storage somewhere, and their mind is being remotely projected. So when a clone body dies, all that does is break the connection with the still-living character.

[modified_device]

Unless the character is a ghost or something. I mean that's probably just a different container to put them in, right? Hella Ghostbusters style.

That is also an "unless" to your previous question, though if the character didn't have their afterlife shown in canon, I think it'd be better to go the other way. That and a ghost character would have to be given a physical body anyway.

[unwieldyfate]

This probably won't be relevant until it comes into play, but what happens with things like phantom pain from scars (that I assume the clones won't have, physically)? And what about characters with very poor vision or things of the sort, will clones also suffer from that?

[modified_device]

I'll leave it up to the player whether their character feels phantom pain for missing scars and the like. I imagine it'd probably fade the more they sync up with the new body, but that's something you can play however you like.

And yeah, the clones probably aren't improved versions. If they needed glasses before, they still will now. Though of course exceptions could be made for characters who would have serious playability problems otherwise.

Though it occurs to me if a character lost an eye or something, there's no reason it wouldn't grow back. Hmm, that seems like a problem for eyepatchy characters. :|a Maybe a helpful robot goes around and puts it out for them while the clones are still incubating.

[unwieldyfate]

SCREAMS, that is a beautiful horrible image. But yes, that answers my questions, thank you! I'll bug you again if there's anything else I can think of.

[bitethehand]

I have a question about glasses! Will Kubota need team points to get them, or will he arrive with them, or could his clones have slightly better vision than the original...? This is important because it's implied in canon that his eyesight is really bad (and also because lol icons), so I was wondering about my options.

[modified_device]

The clone will still have bad vision, but he'll get a free set of glasses with his first uniform.

[toolate]

Hey! idk if you have this decided yet, but when will apps be open again? Will it be monthly or so?

[modified_device]

Apps will be open continuously until further notice!

[toolate]

Oh, so you do acceptances on a certain schedule but apps are always open? (Sorry my reading comprehension is so bad right now, sob!)

[modified_device]

Right! Apps will be looked at on weekends. The cut-off listed above is for people who want to be in the game when it opens.

[toolate]

Got it! Thanks!