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BYOND Key: The_Ill_Fated Total Ban Length: Permanent Banning staff member's Key: garnascus Reason of Ban: Self-Antagging Reason for Appeal: Forgot to turn off my VPN like I usually do, and I caught someone else's ban from 2018. I'd appreciate getting it lifted. Thanks.

The others got me wanting to do Ririlsk properly, so: Excadrill: Ririlsk's first pokemon, given as a gift by his original father on his 16th as a Drilbur. The two of them have been through it all, and the mole has proven to be a welcome source of optimism during their days as exiles. In recent times, that good mood has improved even more, and it's not uncommon to see him out and about with Ririlsk in public. He is affectionately called "Drillbit" by Ririlsk. Midday Lycanroc: Caught as a Rockruff during a shift in his previous work as part of the Mining Guild. Until the arrival of his third team member, Lycanroc was Ririlsk's confidant in darker/more depressing matters and his guardian in many ways. Be it from incidents in the planetary mines, or attacks by other sinta after his exile, Lycanroc has been there for the sinta. "Kata" is what Ririlsk has taken to calling him; short for Kataphract. Hisuian Zoroark: She is the third member of his team, and one he never expected to meet. In fact, for a time, he hadn't even known she had begun to follow him- the only indication he got was a certain coldness when he slept, and times when those harassing him would suddenly appear terrified and run off mid-sentence. The reasons for why she chose to join him are something he still struggles to understand- though she can speak Sinta'Unathi through her kind's ability to learn and mimic, she refuses to tell him. He has a suspicion why, however. He calls her "Simi", primarily for the fact that she has often been there for him in some of his darker moments in recent days, in ways Kata or Drillbit can't be. Froslass: The fourth member of his team, caught on an abandoned and strangely frozen salvage site after a short battle between her and Simi. A troublemaker in so many ways, she is a recent catch. He still doesn't know much about her- but he does know that, for some reason, she wants to stick around. So, he puts up with the shenanigans. He calls her "Jessie", simply because it sounded nice.

Sunita's six pokemon come from different stages in her life and background. Tinkatuff and Klefki come from the most recent years of her life - Klefki was purchased early on into her janitorial career due to both being useful and fitting her own type tendencies of fairy and steel, whereas Tinkatuff was a largely aesthetic capture that has nonetheless been fronting a LOT for her, especially on the Horizon. Klink and Aron were both catches made during her childhood, especially her time in high school, on Valkyrie, and reflect a different set of priorities but nonetheless that she has always been, in this universe, something of a pragmatic steel-type trainer. Florges and Copperajah, most especially the latter, are rarely seen in public but are overwhelmingly stronger than the rest of her team and only really for emergencies, though she spends time with them privately. They have known her since she was a young child, and are in fact her parents' Pokemon - Florges is her mother's, Copperajah is her father's. Most of Martijn's pokemon are Pokemon that were collected across the two decades of his Romanovich Cloud career - Both Armaldo and Archeops were revived from base form Anorith and Archen from fossils found while out on the job. Beheeyem attacked him fairly early into his mining career and was captured. Claydol was originally encountered as one of a pair of Baltoy out mining with somebody in his backstory; he and this person each captured one Baltoy and raised them. His Corviknight and Golem are different stories, having been with him from Reade; Corviknight was captured as a Rookidee during his brief stint in Reade gas mining as a young adult and Golem was a pokemon he had from a young age, initially a very small Geodude. Servo, as a poor IPC, only owns three Pokemon. Klang was given as Klink to Servo Beta by Hephaestus when they granted him freedom and is on paper his first Pokemon - but the reality is very different, which is why the only middlingly powerful Klang is his weakest Pokemon by an order of magnitude. Golurk and Tyranitar are very old Pokemon that have a very particular relationship with Servo - when he was still an owned IPC himself in New Gibson, and not allowed his own Pokemon legally, he befriended a Golett and Tyranitar and maintained an out-of-ball bond with them for decades. Once he became free, he properly caught them; they're extremely powerful Pokemon, but much like Servo both showing signs of age, wear, and tear.

FUN FACT: A group of British people is called an "Innit" On a more serious note: Bavs here would be a steel-fighting kind of lass (with no pokemon that fit both types at the same time): Galarian Weezing: Bava smokes and isn't really pleasant to be around. Also british. Hitmonchan: it punches real hard Machamp: it punches real hard x2 Tinkatuff: Tinkatink was actually Bava's first Pokemon, that for whatever reason didn't evolve until recently. It's now on a pretty steady corse to become a Tinkaton (wonder why) Perrserker: currently Bava's favourite pokemon Corviknight: smaller than other Corviknights due to living in enclosed spaces

jia would just pick the pokemon she likes and also be really bad at pokemon

Pham's mostly in it for pokemon they like instead of what's optimal. Lilligant's been her childhood friend since before they evolved in my mind's eye. Alusuxa has the Idris provided team.

The so called "Defenders of Operations", starring Casey Wildkins: Garchomp for the extra ouch, Amoonguss (lol!) for the support, Corviknight as a solid flyer, Lanturn because we cannot forget a fish + water and electric, Gengar because Gengar and lastly Ferrothorn because of the massive defense...

Ckey/BYOND Username: TheStripes Position Being Applied For: Deputy Lore Developer, Skrell Have you read the Lore Team Rules and Regulations wiki page?: I have, yes. Past Experiences/Knowledge: Most recent experience was working with Shiptest in a lore writer position for a few months. Examples of Past Work: Most public facing example is the wikipages and writing for the species Kepori, which I was primarily tasked with writing to extrapolate faithfully off of the original writer's notes to make cohesive pages and lore docs for. Other examples are primarily rewrite PRs on GitHub, all of which can be provided on request. Lore Proposal: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gCdcUJ3nZnMLNuyhdd0qi8KADdD8uj72WKxpkXt6t28/edit?usp=sharing Why join the team?: Honestly, I just really enjoyed my time reading through the setting when I first considered joining Aurora, and I want to help contribute to it now that there's a need for more volunteers. Skrell lore is what I've read the most and enjoyed the most of, which influenced by decision to try and pitch in. Thoughts on lore?: Skrell lore has a wonderful amount of details on more mundane and domestic aspects that made me fall in love with the setting -- they're endearing and alien. If I had to decide on one area of the lore needing improvement, it's that the Nralakk Federation as an entity could use maybe a little more of its active hand displayed. The Golden Deep's interactions with Hieroaetheria could provoke some reaction from them, news on the front regarding potentially utilizing C'thur's Cephalons (and maybe something on the front of their progress on cracking their VR?), as well as more mundane interactions with its citizenry. Useful skills: Base level of familiarity with VSC and SDMM from past work on other servers, but I wouldn't call myself a coder or mapper without more experience. Some work on wiki page editing and creation.

@Kelnor gives a masterclass here in the concept of OOC vs. IC feelings and IMO it raises broader points about what the point of Command is. If Slaughter's player acted within the rules (which they did) and improved the quality of the round (which according to the two main parties involved in this 'overstep', they did): That's awesome. They played their role well. As long as it creates a better story and follows the rules, I think it's awesome. It can be organizing some kind of training, event, having a meeting, putting someone in line, being out of line, making someone challenge their beliefs, and so on. The possibilities are almost endless as this is a roleplaying game. Circling back to the first sentence, Kelnor demonstrates perfectly that your character doesn't have to be having a good time for you as the player to be having a good time. I, among a lot of others, enjoy heavy and nuanced roleplay. Constructing a character and then immersing yourself and thinking as them to decide how to react to given situations. A great point of information from @CatsinHD as well about the Chain of Command.

I'm chiming in because I was the security officer that got bullied there. It's still too early for me to endorse the app one way or another but that interaction was fine. He raised an eyebrow, I intentionally OOCLy ignored it because she was playing a video game. Mbong then lied about Slaughter ordering the "training." I forced Mbong to get Captain Level auth. We had an argument about whether the XO had this, as it turns out Mbong was lying anyway. She went with an injunction for the paperwork, which is fine, slaughter signed it, which was a mistake but it's fine, especially for a new XO getting played by an experience suit, it makes sense. We then got to do some funny RP of Mbong giving me Ettiquette training. Eventually Haller showed up mid situation, and watched for a bit, then shut down the injunction when me and mbong hit a brick wall and couldn't really continue without shouting the same thing back and forth. It was good fun and that situation shouldn't be held against Slaughter at all OOCly.

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Franciszek Letnev's All Metal team Probopass Electrode Magneton Metagross

The Brian's (Brian Pinkman) team: Paras (his first pokemon) Kricketot Bidoof Eevee

Funnily enough, pretty much each of my characters has a Showdown team I keep updated as I develop them. A weird quirk of mine to get to know their vibe, I suppose. IRU-Shepherd's team as decided by me a long long time ago (so pretty much law)

A simple question that I thought up the other day: what would your character's pokemon team be? It can be any six pokemon, and doesn't have to be six if you don't want it to be. I'll throw Ririlsk out as a start: Ririlsk's Team: H!Zoroark Midday Lycanroc Froslass Excadrill

Oldest IPC Record Shattered Mendell, Republic of Biesel, Surprising news today as a NanoTrasen IPC maintenance facility in Mendell reports a record breaker for oldest continuous Positronic functioning. During a requested maintenance check, positronic specialists found that Mr. Val Tezzani, formerly MAU-155, had turned 56 in the past month. Mr. Tezzani works as a mechanic in a NanoTrasen operated speeder vendor and attended this maintenance check after several of his coworkers were worried for his mental faculties. However, upon inspection, positronic specialists were astonished to find no sign of the telltale wear consistent with IPCs nearing the end of their life. IPCs have a typical life expectancy of 50 years, with rare occasions stretching out to 53 or even 55 years with good maintenance. Around this time, positronics are known to reach an ‘information overload’, where they assumedly run out of operable memory, with their core processes being overwritten with the intake of further data. This event causes the slow inevitable shutdown of a positronic, leading to what many equate to as death by old age. Alternatively, some positronics are known to enter a dormant state where they technically are alive, but it is assumed that an underlying directive of their Self-Preservation directive activates, in order to save the positronic from overwriting itself, rendering them inactive. Either way, the end is the same for most positronics. Specialists who examined Mr. Tezzani however note no observed overload in the postronic’s memory banks, making the statement: “It is as if he was just made-And we know he wasn’t, because his posi definitely dates at 56. No one just replaced Mr. Tezzani. It’s amazing! He’s like a brand new man for the old bloke he is!” When asking his coworkers about their initial suspicions and reason for reporting Mr. Tezzani, one Gabriel Jackson had the following to say: “Well. Val’s great, I’ve been working with him for years. Hell, he even came when I got my citizenship! But recently he was just slowing down, you know.. We knew he was old. Getting up there in the years. We saw it in his work that he was forgetting. Tripping over nothing. Falling over nothing. I watched him hold up both hands and stare at them like he was reminding himself what they were for.. It was just.. Sad you know? He stopped showing up for work for a few days so we sent in the notice. His wife, Marianna, didn’t want to talk about it. And then a-a couple days before the appointment he turns back up all right and chipper! It was a real miracle! Maybe Marianna got him blessed or something you know? She’s one of those Trinary types. I don’t really care, I’m just glad to have my bud back.” Mr. Tezzani declined a personal interview, but attributed his health to ‘regular maintenance and good puzzles’. Marianna Tezzani, Mr. Tezzani’s roommate, provided the following tear-filled message to BitByte: “He really had me scared there! But-But I knew through faith and dedication we’d make it through! I’m just so glad to have him back. I prayed and prayed and I just-.. I knew he’d be okay! There's just. I wish I could thank them... again and again.” The Mendell church of the Trinary Perfection made no comment, but wished Mr. and Ms. Tezzani well. A spokesperson from NanoTrasen made the offer to compensate Mr. Tezzani if he would like to undergo a study, quoting the ‘breakthroughs in positronic health’ that could be found, but Mr. Tezzani has so far refused. Mr. Tezzani is a self-owned Baseline IPC living in Mendell City, with no records of having ever been wiped. BitByte would also like to wish Mr. Tezzani a belated Happy Birthday. Further Reading: Spur: Echoes of Burzsia, where did the escaped IPCs go? Entertainment: New Movie ‘Escape From The Shell’ breaks the box office in Konyang Crime: IPC damage claims up 36% in Sol due to ‘street hoodlums’