Carver

BYOND Key: GMR25 Character Names: Dace Morel, Alfred Preston, Konrad Carver Species you are applying to play: Integrated Positronic Chassis (IPC/Shell) What color do you plan on making your first alien character (Dionaea & IPCs exempt): Exemption applies. Have you read our lore section's page on this species?: Correct. Please provide well articulated answers to the following questions in a paragraph format. One paragraph minimum per question Why do you wish to play this specific race: IPCs offer a mechanically different foundation from which one can build roleplay upon. Extremely different from any other race in the game, it's an entirely new playstyle and a wealth of possibilities. I've never taken the opportunity before to play as anything other than a human, and I'd like to take a chance to try something else for the first time. Identify what makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a Human: A high level of variance in behaviour, depending on the origins of the synthetic, give wide variety from unit to unit as to how they react to a situation. This leaves the one feature they all share in common, their mechanical nature and the according strengths and weaknesses that accompany it. Overheating, a lack of breathing, weakness to EMP, resistance to physical trauma (pre-nerf), frailty in the limbs, lack of pain. For every weakness, a strength, something they must pay heed to that makes them different from any other species. Character Name: Farthing Please provide a short backstory for this character, approximately 2 paragraphs Greetings consumer! We are proud to present to you, the Farthing Model IV AutoMixologist™ - The latest in our long line of synthetic service androids, modelled after REAL service industry professionals! Our Farthing units are individually programmed to tend to the needs and desires of any manner of clientele, from the local cuisines and cultural beverages of Earth, to Biesel, or more! Like our other models, each Farthing unit simulates the courtesy and behaviour of an actual service industry expert, they will never question an order or fail to provide quality service for yourself or your clientele. When you buy our models, you're not just paying for an android, you're paying for a professional. Every one of our Model IV products is guaranteed to last atleast 50 years from time of purchase, or your money back! •Lifelike features and personality, your clients and family won't be able to tell they're being serviced by a synthetic. •Adjustable to a wide variety of needs, including Emergency Medical Care for elderly or dangerously intoxicated clientele, or defense of property in the event of robbery or aggressive patrons.* •Warranted for a period of 50 years against any and all defects. Unusual behaviour or damaged chassis? We will repair or replace your unit at no charge. *The Farthing Model IV AutoMixologist™ is not a Medical or Private Security model, in event of life-threatening trauma or armed robbery, your Farthing unit is programmed contact local Emergency Services from a built-in transceiver! Clients looking for Executive, Residential, or Asset Protection services can contact us for our Protective Services catalogue. What do you like about this character? For starters, it's a very simple concept to begin with and should make for appropriate practice before I try branching off into more complex characters. A line model bartending unit that OOCly provides a base concept for other 'models' in differing jobs, and ICly is just designed to get the job done and put a faux smile on during the act. It's particularly difficult to mess that up in practice. How would you rate your role-playing ability? 7/10. I've RPed over several mediums over the years, and I'm steadily working on adjusting and improving my abilities, taking into account past mistakes I've made and feedback from others, and working on those to better my roleplaying abilities. At the same time, I strive to put time into researching topics before I apply them to roleplay, whether it's history, arts, language, or what the standard employee record form might look like. Notes: Do you need to ask for these words, when I already know the answer? "metallic persimmons"

Make it take an uninterrupted period of like a minute or two for that. Akin to resisting cuffs.

Because it's grindy as fuck unless you play the Inferno variant, which happens to have even less people playing it.

21 on Killerhurtz' test. Not bad.

I don't care if it takes as long as it does in the movie, I want it.

Level X. HellMOO being the main contributor. Though it's arguable I'm more between 4 and X, as I've played more of 4 than of X.

Preferably the neutral colour is one that doesn't make them look horribly bright when given even the slightest hint of colour.

I don't think this would work as well for bugging people who keep a full inventory on them, and who are smart enough to never leave their things about. That 'accessories' suggestion might work as well, if they add an accessory slot specifically /for/ bugs. Otherwise it gets cockblocked by the guy who wears an armband, tie, and holster.

This thread.

Minister.

Accept your responsibilities. Tradition, culture, history, knowledge; these are the most important things one can have and share. Keep them and pass them down to the youths and any who might listen to you.

If you want competition I could start liking all of Frances' posts.

17-85 or so.

I'm protesting the lack of the like button in Off-Topic Discussion by rigging the system. Bring me back my Off-Topic Discussion like button. Don't be jealous because you aren't a likeable person.

Get one of those unlimited household mods, it's a proper Sims run if you're not packing 12-20 people in one house.

This issue could honestly be shared in how nearly every alien race (Vox aside) can wear clothes tailored for humans (And possess the humanesque body shapes required to wear such). One-size-fits-all seems to be the thing for the setting (This is particularly terrible when you think about magboots which /shouldn't/ be able to fit non-humanesque feet).

And yet shoes are universally useful for protecting one's feet, moreso for a 'squishy' amphibian species outside of water which might have more sensitive soles.

First idea, great, limits the potential shenanigans of exosuit-creation whilst opening new opportunities down the line for sabotage and the like (The question always is, what if I e-mag this machine?). The second, bit iffy about having a second version of the cloning machine but I guess it is robutt-specific, though, my questions are: 1) Does it reuse the old body, old paint/customization, etc; like a cryo tube moreso than a cloning tube? 2) Does it rejuvenate, or merely apply a 'band-aid' to the various damages such as lost limbs, 'organ' damage, and so on. 3) This one is probably fairly obvious but it's worth asking anyways, will the head need reattachment before using the machine, or can it just be 'slotted' into the machine along w/ the body? I'm going to assume the former because of how SS13 mob code works, and because the latter would be a colossal pain, but it's a noteworthy question irregardless. 4) The question always is, what if I e-mag this machine?

This is actually kind of a valid question, what if John Doe rolls Nuke Op and he never read the lore for X species, and their race-specific preset gets selected? Or, hell, better example here. I barely know jack fucking shit about cat lore, if the AIT gets selected when I was op (Because not every op is going to vote for the same 'team' I'd imagine) I would have no idea how to RP a cat, and, worse, how to name a cat. I would just be a tad directionless. This is probably even more snowflake code, but maybe have it require atleast one of the ops having a whitelist in X species before that team can be selected? This would let them help out their teammates a little in the lore/naming aspect, so you wouldn't have a bunch of lizards named John, Jeff, and Jim going around and wondering where their guns went and why they have spears.

Do we really need a third/fourth (If you count Vox) species that shuns 99% of footwear?

Allows a legitimate strategy in making an exosuit with two of these things and one of the armour modules and using it as an APC for Security, I like it. (Also beats using the mobile sleepers as ghetto 'passenger seats'.)

Pirates.

This level of hostility in a lighthearted thread is just absolutely uncalled for.

There's already laptops in Baycode, exceptionally useful for people with console-centric jobs who want to work outside of their office. They don't really add anything 'new' though, they just add a mobile option to what's already present. Whilst giving them a built-in chatroom feature might be a bitch (Though seeing people's custom usernames would be amusing), I can't imagine a notepad-esque feature w/ printing would be anything difficult or unrealistic.