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

[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.