Sparky_hotdog

On the one hand, this is super exciting, and I'd love to see some of the cool stories that comes out of it. But I do have a concern with the lack of being based anywhere. Things like the Personal Terminal discord work because there's this planet nearby where most people live, which allows for RP outside of the workplace. With everyone living on a ship for prolonged periods of time, that would probably be lost, which I'm not a huge fan of. But hey, still super stoked for it.

Having now played a round with Wasp as HoS, I really like the character and their role on the station. They implemented a really cool and helpful code over the security comms, which helped us when they became compromised. Overall, from my experience, they did a good job roleplaying and making the round interesting. +1 from me.

I have edited the backstory again to remove the dual personalities. Thank you for pointing out the issues with my application.

The idea is indeed for you to start with nothing but a shirt (at least until the modern jacket is sprited). The whole range of options in the wardrobe is already available. It's called the loadout. You can pick and choose the attire you want from there (including the noir gear that is being moved from the detective's locker to the loadout) If that is the case, then surely more stuff should be added to the locker. Also as a side note, for this to work, you need to change the wiki, as it basically coerces you into Noir aswell.

Surely the best compromise here would be for you to start with nothing but a shirt, and find a whole range of options in the wardrobe?

I thank you for your feedback. As Doxmedearly said, the fins were damaged and unrepaired, so there is no need to represent them. The second personality was added for research aswell, but into philosophy. As for the phoron research, I would need help from the lore team before I could say what Aqua could have found out.

As I have said I would, due to the repeated complaints about Aqua's mental disorder, I have changed the backstory concerning it. Please let me know if you are happy with the new one

The modifications were unique. It's like asking a nuatical engineer to fix an aeroplane. The split personalities may have been coded in by a researcher, but not to Aqua's knowledge. I wrote the backstory as everything Aqua know. Why they would keep them unstable? They aren't, and Aqua now reject any treatment for their condition. Finally, their outlook on phoron is just data they have in their memory banks, but still valuable.

Okay, first, the modifications damaged weren't just "retractable fins". Second, Aqua was one personality, which split into two when it was left in solitude. Third, NT wanted to keep Aqua's personalities for their knowledge and views on phoron research.

I may consider removing DID from Aqua's backstory if more people express concerns. I would like an opportunity to try roleplaying this, but I wouldn't want to do this if it has a high chance of offending someone.

Made a complete rework of their backstory now, so hopefully your concerns have been adressed

I believe I have fixed your lore issues. Thanks for the pointers

BYOND Key: Sparky_Hotdog Character Names: Audrey Catleay, Fadil Mikhailov, Terrell Parker, Yasir Al-Barik Species you are applying to play: IPC Have you read our lore section's page on this species?: Yes 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: I would like to play as an IPC because of how different they are to every other species. They have no home planet, no place they can say, "That belongs to me and my fellows". The next, and most obvious reason is the fact they aren't organic, they have laws and directives they must follow, and aren't accepted as being fully sentient. Identify what makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a Human: Playing an IPC is different because of their inorganic state. They have strange mannerisms created as unexpected side effects in their coding. They experience what could be considered "Space Racism", yet they are incapable of understanding that they are being biassed. They speak, think and act in the most logical sense they can. Character Name: Aqua Please provide a short backstory for this character, approximately 2 paragraphs 04/12/2450. The experimental 4Q-U4 modified Xion Industrial Frame was given a positronic brain. 4Q-U4 was a trial of a new idea, and extensive modifications had been made to it. The researchers on the water planet Grothix-9 had modified the agile frame for underwater exploration and research. The scientists had added retractable fins, one on the top of their head, each side and back; one on each arm and leg; and four on their back. Cylindrical extrusions were added to the back, with propeller inside for quick and agile control while submarine. And of course, the whole frame had to be water-tight. 08/05/2456. After years of training and testing, Aqua’s machine learning was finally deemed fit to be put into use. The IPC explored the waters of Grothix-9, and was tasked with finding the ideal location for an underwater colony. During this time, 4Q-U4 developed their personality. The IPC became very unethical after months of solitude, and while effective, some of the scientists' concerns grew. 09/07/2457. The Gothrix-9 scientists received a signal from the submarine frame. The specifications for the colony had been found, and the coordinates were sent to the researchers. After it had retired back to mission control, the scientists dispatched new modified Hephaestus Generation 2 Industrial frames to build the colony, and sold the IPC who had named themselves Aqua, to NanoTrasen, who sent Aqua to another ocean world: Tybez-12c. 13/03/2459. After several years of researching submarine phoron pockets, a privateer ship crash landed into a phoron pocket near Aqua. Aqua was critically damaged in the resultant explosion, but the privateer survivors rescued the IPC. Unfortunately, while Aqua was repaired, the modifications couldn't be fixed by NanoTrasen, as they didn't have the schematics. While they contacted the original researchers, and due to their unique perspectives on the topic, Aqua was reassigned to NanoTrasen's primary phoron research station, NSS Aurora. What do you like about this character? I like this character because I haven't played much in science on Aurora, and feel a robot would be perfect to try this out with, while also providing some interesting roleplay. In terms of the character themselves, I have taken care not to refer to them as he/she, to symbolise the fact they don't believe in gender, or at least any difference between them. The fact that their second personality could also provide some interesting roleplay as well is also really cool. How would you rate your role-playing ability? About a 6/10. I've played quite a bit if this server now, and other RP games too. Notes: Thank you for considering my applocation

Okay, Point 1. I have been in a game with 2 forensic techs, and I realise now my mistake about the detective. Point 2. It's frustrating as a chaplain to change the holodeck to and from the chapel. But as I said, that's another issue.

I've been thinking ever since the map change, and I've got one complaint that is bothering me. As someone who used to play as a Forensic Technician almost always, I can vouch for how fun and interesting the job is, but it requires a lot of space, in the lab particularly (At least I need the space). This used to be fine on the old map when we had a massive lab to do all our testing in, and yet now, in the new map that can take two forensic techs and two detectives, we are left with a tiny lab. I hate this and would actually be fine with a smaller regular office in exchange for a larger lab. Other than that, the new map's awesome (Minus the lack of chapel, but that's another issue) Keep it up, guys.

I've decided that I will continue to play humans for now until I have a better understanding of this race, then re-apply

I've submitted a better backstory too, I hope you like it more than the last

I've edited it o fit with the first of your suggestions, and I'm writing a better backstory a the moment. I took on your advise about the unbound

BYOND Key: Sparky_hotdog Character Names: Audrey Catleay Species you are applying to play: Tajara What color do you plan on making your first alien character (Dionaea & IPCs exempt): A Beaver Brown Hharar Have you read our lore section's page on this species?: Yes 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: Because the Tajara have a very interesting history and homeworld and I want to try and push my RP capabilities to include these Identify what makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a Human: They experience space-racism and they struggle to speak Ceti Basic because of their anatomy and you need to include this in speech. Character Name: Fadil Mikhailov Please provide a short backstory for this character, approximately 2 paragraphs: Fadil Mikhailov was born on 12/4/2422 to loving parents Nura and Hakeem Mikhailov. He spent his early years living in a small house outside of the nearby village of Tak’shin. He often fancied himself a scientist, watching the odd, alien creatures that walked past with other Tajara. He knew they weren’t from Adhomai, because they didn’t speak anything remotely resembling Siik’maas and their bodies clearly weren’t designed for the native climate. When he was 4, he got a small fright when he went up to one to ask questions, who, instead of answering him, slapped him, knocked him down, and walked away making an odd sound that seemed almost happy. When Fadil was old enough, his parents moved to a larger town to make it easier to get to school. He studied hard, and developed an early creative and imaginative mind in both Junior and Senior school levels. In his second last year of Senior, he had an epiphany. He didn’t like learning about new species, that didn’t make sense, he hadn’t spent years studying the Nav’twir or Zhsram. He realised that he liked learning about the Humans, as he now knew that was their name, because of their language. Even with 2 years of Senior left, he managed to just pull together the qualifications to apply for The Nal'tor College of Career Excellence. He was accepted and went on to complete a degree in literature on 14/6/240 and being perfectly fluent in Tau Ceti Basic as well as in Sol Common. His education was interrupted by the uprisings, which reached his area at the end of his Junior level. He supported the rebels as he still admired Humans greatly. He was part of a raid on a noble safehouse, which was very successful up until the commander disagreed with high command’s orders to destroy the supplies and tried to steal them instead. He set of a proximity mine, which in turn set of a variety of other safety measures, eventually leading to the whole building collapsing. Fadil was one of the only three survivors to make it out, but he lost both his arms, his left leg and one of his eyes, all of which were replaced with mechanical prosthetics, including the fully functioning eye. He was then allowed to leave service with many medals of bravery and honor, which he quickly discarded as they had no worth to him. He then moved back to Tak’shin to work as a book translator. In his spare time, he started to write books. His first book was about a boy who ran away from home in a blizzard one night and started a small outpost in the wild. He took it to the publisher to be published, and they said it was a great piece of work that they would gladly publish. A few days later, the publisher decided it would be in their best interests to publish no more than 50 books a year, and Fadil’s didn’t make it onto the short list. He didn’t give up though, and he wrote a second book, this time about a Human revolutionary who changed earth for the better. He felt that one of the things that let him down on his first book was its lack of exportability, as he had written it in Siik’maas, so it couldn’t be exported off world. He instead translated this book into Ceti Basic and Sol Common too. He handed it in to the publisher and within the week it was on shelves. He wrote another 3 books, all stemming of the 1st. What do you like about this character?: He's proud and determined, and even after his 'incident' with the humans in his early years, he still finds them fascinating. How would you rate your role-playing ability? 5/10? I've only been playing SS13 for a couple of months, but Aurora was one of the first servers I joined. I have also played a couple of other roleplaying video games and quite a lot of D&D, so the concept of RP isn't new to me, it's just learning through experience now

I'd Like to change the Backstory. Please provide a short backstory for this character, approximately 2 paragraphs: Ka'Viax'Won, or Ka'V as the short name he quickly developed, was always different. Not that anyone noticed, but he was more passive than the other Warriors, yet he was physically better than the workers. This was only revealed when an unbound was visiting one day. Even after advanced augmentation, nothing had changed, so he was pulled aside, and for no reason known to him, thrown out of the hive. A NanoTransen recruiting party was nearby and saw potential, so took him on, and he was sent on the first shuttle to the NSS Exodus, after they had updated his augments of course

BYOND Key: Sparky_hotdog Character Names: Audrey Catleay Species you are applying to play: Vaurca What color do you plan on making your first alien character (Dionaea & IPCs exempt): Green (as in the unbound K'lax colour) Have you read our lore section's page on this species?: Yes 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: Because I think it would be interesting to role-play a species with a hive mind and that has some challenging flaws Identify what makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a Human: Because their only reason to get up every day is the dream of one day being plugged back into the VR paradise they came from. Character Name: Za'Akaix'Won K'lax Please provide a short backstory for this character, approximately 2 paragraphs: Za'Akaix'Klax Zo'ra had everything. The perfect body. The perfect house. The perfect house. The perfect life. He never thought that anything could be different. He was wrong. He was sunbathing on the top of his house when everything went dark. He felt a sharp pain in the back of his head as something was removed from it. Then he heard someone whisper “Follow your destiny”. Then he opened his eyes. He stepped out of the chamber he was in and looked around. He saw lots of creatures do the same as him, except they were ugly, unlike him. He looked down at his hands to reassure himself of this and screamed. He was ugly too. He fell to his knees. “This must be a dream, this must be a dream” he told himself. Then a light came from the end of the platform he was on. “This is not a dream. This is reality. Your past life was a dream. If you want that again, serve us.” Zaw, as he had been called for short in his apparent ‘dream’ knew he would do anything to go back. “What is my destiny?” He asked I unison with the others. “To be warriors.” What do you like about this character?: Probably the fact that he thought he was special and unique, and is now realising that he is far from that. He is also very open to lots of jobs. How would you rate your role-playing ability? 5/10? I've only been playing SS13 for a couple of months, but Aurora was one of the first servers I joined. I have also played a couple of other roleplaying games such as Deus Ex and Wow (on an RP server obviously).