Appability/Arrival/FAQ

[modsofsheol]

CHARACTER APPABILITY

₪ We accept fandom characters, AUs and OCs. However, we do not accept post-game characters. The line between the two is up to mod discretion so try not to go overboard.
₪ Fandom OCs should not have a close relationship to any existing fandom characters.
₪ Duplicates are acceptable if they are from significantly different AUs.
₪ Since the robots are incapable of bringing people back from the dead, you cannot app a dead character. However, you're free to take a character from before they die or from an AU where they survived their wounds somehow.
₪ That said, undead characters are appable, as are any other characters who are dead but somehow still have a conscious physical form.
₪ If you want to app a canon AI without a physical form, however, they can be given a robot body.
₪ At this point in time, you may app up to two characters.
₪ You must wait two weeks after introing a character before apping another.


ARRIVAL

The first batch of characters will get a big group intro and go through this ICly, but check back to this spot for future batches!


FAQ

Is there a powercap? To a certain extent. Characters should not be able to destroy the environment but otherwise they have a lot of freedom to keep their powers. Basically just don’t be a dick about it and talk things through with other players before you go using powers on them. If you have specific powercap questions, this post is the place to ask them! Powers may be capped (or added to~) during games at the discretion of the gamerunner.

Can I app non-humanoid characters? Yes, in general you can app them exactly as they are. If you have questions about how a specific character would be able to function in the game please let us know and we can work something out.

Can I humanise a non-humanoid character? Not unless you make them an AU. Basically, if there’s no reason for the robots to interfere with your character’s physical form then they won’t. If the character is city-sized or has some sort of unique requirement then we can sort it out on a case-by-case basis.

Can I app a character with an illness? Yes, and you can choose whether the illness is stabilised or healed or accidentally skipped over because it didn’t happen to show up on the scanner.

Is death really permanent? Yes, death outside of virtual reality is really permanent. Inside of virtual reality, characters will experience "death" and then either wake up in their actual body or wake up still in virtual reality at the game runner’s discretion based on the needs of the game.

What’s the IC:OOC time ratio? There isn’t an official one right now. We’re going to be keeping an eye on this and it may change in the future but for now the general idea is that every post should advance time a bit.

Can my character bring their super-cute pet with them? They sure can! As long as it's not an appable character in its own right, your character may have one pet from home.

What about a my soul-bonded headmonster/Persona/daemon whatever? Those are fine, too.

Have more questions? Comment to this post!

Comments

[mirroredvalue]

So, uh. I have a character who's roughly 90% robotic in mind, and that's kind of... destroying his heart? And this is kind of a key component behind a lot of his actions, so I don't exactly want it to go away, either. The problem is, this also means that unless there's some method to... getting a mechanical heart, he also has maybe a month before he dies off due to heartsplosion.

That is to say that his heart will literally explode from the force the body puts on it. That is a thing that happens.

So, I guess the question is... what alternative methods are around for those who are "accidentally skipped over" and looking for treatment ICly?

[modsofsheol]

So if I'm understanding right, the problem is that you'd rather he get a mechanical heart rather than just have his original biological heart get fixed as he comes into the game. In that case, he should be able to get a mechanical heart as he comes into the game as part of the medical check, especially if that's the simplest way to keep him from dying. If you want to play out him not having the heart for a while then we can say he was skipped over as he came in but as soon as he brings it to Metatron's attention it can happen. Life-saving medical treatment is always going to be free for characters, so there's no need for him to have to earn points or anything for it.

[mirroredvalue]

Understood! That works, then. I might have to shoot for an early heart game so I can get it in during the brief moment of time while he still has an ordinary biological heart before it comes out, though.

Hm. That would actually make for a good way to bring that information to attention, actually...

Hm, I should probably still think this through a bit more, but it's definitely something to think about. Thank you for clearing things up!

[modsofsheol]

Heart games don't require that the character has an actual biological heart to run or anything, it's a metaphorical thing and it's really more going into that character's mind than anything else. So you don't have to worry about the timing from that point of view at all unless it's something you specifically want to do.

[mirroredvalue]

Whoops, yeah, I probably should have explained better. The inevitability of his death is kind of a big thing for him, so that would have been a big part of his heart run. If I was going to have his heart replaced, it would have to be after a heart run to be able to catch that. I thought it might also be a good way to make the AIs aware that it's even a thing, too.

I think I might be overplanning, though.

[swordedpast]

Dead characters are a no-go, but is it acceptable to say that a character arrived with some weird magical mortal wound which was then healed by the robots?

[weeabird]

Sure is!