Lady_of_Ravens

Oooh, command staff actually organizing events... are they allowed to do that? XD More seriously, I like these ideas, but a few points. Construction room: Bars don't count as interesting. It's been done to death, only actually non-drunken-engineer-related construction projects count. Get R&D to help you build a mini telecom system, or create some kind of training/simulation room for a relevant skill... anything but another bar. Evacuation Drills: Have an evacuation procedure in place (and one that's practical for a real evacuation and not just a drill) before starting the drill. The shuttles aren't designed for heavy use and the last evacuation drill I saw involved a casualty. Blood Drive: Have sec round up everyone who's O-. Take that, you blood-type snowflakes! Employee Reviews: It's something to do, but don't expect anyone who's not bored to appreciate them. Hostage Drill: Could be awesome... And, FYI, LiLITh would make a terrible an excellent simulated hostage.

Sounds right. I know when I'm really leaving somewhere I don't make a post, I just don't go there anymore.

Oh, ignore the hate. Illdenberg is a menace at times, and her records/background could certainly use some cleaning up, but she's also an interesting character. Losing her would be unfortunate, but probably not as unfortunate as keeping the name and changing the rest of the character as some people are advising.

This pole is flawed in that it only let's me select one option while most apply.

I had no idea ion weapons were that weak... except on IPCs where it's a one-shot-kill with an AOE.

You guys all realize Moses is an MMI, right? He an annoying guy's brain in a robot body. Like robocop, only without the face. And a lot more kickable.

Current lore, as I understand it, has IPCs considered legally non-persons who are generally barred from citizenship (and likely holding public office and such as well). But what about MMI's with fully-human brains? Like, lets say a nice old lady with the horrible bone cancer and tits down to her knees forgoes years of agonizing nanotherapy and has her brain plopped into an MMI and installed into an attractive 14yo shell (her husband picked it out for her special). Is she still considered a human, with citizenship and all the corresponding rights?

Moses is mostly just really annoying. Did he have his brain cut out and put in a skinless chassis just so he could pick up robosexuals?

This is intended as an emmenently practical (by which I mean reasonably codable) suggestion by which chemistry code can be altered to favor humans, and to make xenomedicine a little more interesting. Because medicine already works lighting fast, my suggestion is to reduce the efficacy of medicine for each non-human species. Yes, that includes skrell. NT is a human corporation, not a Skrell corporation, and has primarily human doctors and human medicine. So, for Urist McMoonman, nothing changes. For Unathi: Big fat lizards get a big fat 50% reduction to their metabolic rate for all medicines, and a 20% reduction to the efficacy of most medicines. This means slow (aka slightly-less-than-lighting-fast) healing for the liggers. Drugs also default to an OD level of 40 rather than 30. For Tajarans: Our fuzzy wuzzy catbeasts get a 50% increase to their metabolic rate and a 40% reduction in the efficacy of most medicines. Which means they heal from meds almost as fast as humans, but burn through more drugs doing so. And what's worse, their default OD level is reduced to 20. Xenofeline medicine can be a challenge, and cats will run through drugs like soporific faster than their human or unathi counterparts. For Skrell: The squogs (half squid, half frog) suffer a 20% reduction in medical efficacy and, because they're probably cold blooded (help me fffffffffrances) get a 20% reduction in metobolic speed. But, they also get another medicine which will most certainly not be called warbletupizine, which is complex to manufacture, poisonous to other species, and basically a panacea for Skrell. Oh, and like the Unathi their default OD level is 40. For Diona: Too alien, no benefit from any current medication. Instead, they recover health from basic chemicals like water, carbon, radium, and the likes. Or something. I don't know as I've ever seen a diona in medbay and I don't know much about their lore, either.

Applying for stuff is fun! (right?) Besides, I've been mumbling and threatening to do this for a long time now and I think it's time I actually do it. I'm going to volunteer to put my sanity on the line to help make aurora a better place… programatically. Ckey/BYOND Username: lady_of_ravens Position Being Applied For (coder, mapper, spriter): Coder (though I can map a bit and even sprite, sort of, if I'm jollied along with a red-hot poker) Past Experiences/Knowledge: With BYOND? None. I've read a bit about it and looked through parts of the screaming hell that is aurora's code (no, really, listen… doesn't that faint ringing in your ears sound like the distant screaming of forgotten procs lost in digital oblivion?), but that's it for BYOND. Programming has been a hobby of mine since I was in the 5th grade, and I've dabbled with a whole bunch of different languages. The list includes various forms of LISP and BASIC, Java, Lua, PHP, some C++ years ago… I've even messed with C# a touch recently. Also, more application/game specific scripting languages than I care to count. Suffice to say, while I may not still be able to code in all those language, I do pick new ones up fairly quickly. On the downside, I've been doing this mostly alone and haven't collaborated on a project since I was working on a MOO something around a decade ago. The exact workings of Github are, as a result, something of a mystery to me. Examples of Past Work: Here's a link to a droppbox file containing a bunch of Lua scripts for controlling CC computers/turtles in various versions of Minecraft/FTB. There's even a wee little package manager I wrote. Don't expect everything to work, though, or even make sense out of context. Just gaze dreamily into the elegance of tail-call recursion. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/sym126qw3h9pikz/AAAMkH02nAu7akhvHcDhvX_oa?dl=0 (let me know if this link doesn't work… but it should) Most of the rest of my recent work includes REPL-based clojure utilities for use with other games, one or two of which even pertain to SS13. But they're not currently online anywhere. Samples are available on request. Preferred Mode of Communication (Skype, Steam, etc.): Skype is best, email is okay, I can use teamspeak but it's not something that I generally have on. Please no astral projection. Additional Comments: The reason I want to code for Aurora is threefold. First, I love this server and would love to make it even more awesome. Second, I want the experience of working collaboratively on a project. And third, I'm a bored homemaker with no kids (or aspirations in that direction) and I have lots of time on my hands to pick up a new hobby.

I like this idea as I'm of the opinion that making genetic powers easy to get (and they are, currently, easy to get) makes them cheap and annoying rather than cool/special.

I wasn't aware that anyone besides Talia in science was. Who else were you thinking? Richter is, low-key. Not that he'd want to admit it. But it doesn't extend to borgs or Gygaxes or other depraved things lol. Not everyone has what it takes to be a mechromancer.

So when a human comes to NT looking for a job, their qualifications are judged by their education records (among other things). Fully synthetic IPCs are, however, unlikely to have anything like formal education, and depending on their origin may not even have official specs detailing their abilities. So how do they prove to corporate that they're qualified for a position? Is there, like, an institution which offers certification of an AI's degree of competence in a certain field? If so, how would it work? If not, how is this handled?

Illdinberg is a snowflake, there isn't much to be done about that without rewriting the whole character to be someone else. But that's fine, half of Aurora's characters are snowflakes, LiLITH very much included. What makes Illdenberg so unbelievable is, mostly, her skill levels and level of inappropriate activity. I've already noticed you've been playing her a lot more calmly, which is good... now you have to play her as less skilled, too. Any fool can learn to shoot a gun or do martial arts, even children, so a teenager who has some degree of skill with both is plausible enough. But a 19-year-old who can do genetic research would be an almost impossibly huge prodigy even if they had gone to college at an absurdly young age. Add in the ability to do R&D as well and you've got a character who would be questionable if they had a 210 IQ and a background that involved being sent off to university before puberty. So, fix her skills, and maybe tweak some of the weirdness in her background (like, having work experience that goes back to before her birth) and the admins will probably let you back.

A sub board would be far more manageable, coherent, and relevant.

No no no, LiLITH isn't getting emotional upgrades. She has, like, 2 or 3 actual emotive responses, it's true, but none of them involve organics as anything other than test subjects or repair projects. As Martin knows perfectly well, LiLITH is experimenting with ways to get organics to form emotional bonds with her, and sexuality is one of the means she's testing. Now, LiLITH can emulate emotive responses a bit better than she usually bothers too, but it's largely a matter of reproducing sampled reactions. She doesn't really feel anything for anyone. On a related note... is there anyone in Science who isn't a robosexual?

Just... uh... remember to remove the welding fuel tank before firing in miscellaneous research. I forgot to do that once I tested how that works once and it resulted in a hull breach. And you know, technically LiLITH should be making you fill out a form for every robot body you make, too, not just exosuits. But I do have a limit to the quantity of paperwork I'll fill out (to be read by noone, ever) purely for the sake of accurate RP. And the research department is heavy on the paperwork.

An everyone loses situation would be another good choice. The only real option I'm seeing that makes sense is to have leaving without either side doing the authentication thing result in the directive being legitimate. This means the loyalists failed to carry it out and the mutineers weren't justified, and so both sides lose. A downer, but I guess it beats being eaten by Lord Singuloth.

It's true! Richter and LiLITH made out... in the chapel... while a cleanbot belched gibs everywhere. Also, several other times. Most of the RP with Martin that lead up to this, however, occurred when I was playing her in the surgeon slot and had lots of spare time. Now that LiLITH is almost always the RD she's generally too busy herding cats scientists and doing research to spend time forming interpersonal ties with her fellow crewmembers.

You have a very good point here, both about the shrink (who really ought to get caught masturbating more), and the brutal post-explosion triage that can occur. I do still think an extra set of tools is a good idea... or, at the very least, an extra bone gel and fix-o-vein, neither of which can be fabricated anywhere on the station.

Not quite what you're after, I know, but you can load a syringe gun with holy water. I've never injected a vamp before, but I bet it'd do bad things.

The decloner is cool, however. Plus, it's probably my favorite way to take down psycho geneticists hulking. Pretty sure hulks aren't syringe-proof. And yeah, the decloner is neat in theory... but it doesn't do much damage, shouldn't damage IPCs (haven't actually tested), and it doesn't fire through glass, all of which means it's fairly unrobust compared to lasers.

Talia has been complemented on her name game by multiple characters. She got beet by Boopers, although who can contest to that really? In some round with a nice mining department and no RD to come, this is so going to have to happen. Wait until we get a load or resources so there's no shortage, and tell LiLITH you want to make a Gygax for weapons testing and she'll probably say yes. Just... whatever you do, don't tell her you want to make it just so you can name it something awesome. She'd never understand or approve. She doesn't even name bots she builds.But if she did, she'd name them stuff like C001, C002, M001, M002... you get where this is going...

I have no clue who this person is, but now I've remembered to order green tea kit kats. So, you know, that's good... I guess.

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