Fire and Glory

Idly checking. You can't really understand basic if you're deaf, no?

Greetings, new people! Someone seeking to make an impression early is nice to see. Thanks! I played janitor a lot back in the day and in my experience people generally do not see the signs coming, which was Bad because people actually slipped on wet floors at their default walkspeed back then. So I made them blink, it is questionably useful now that people don't slip nearly as much but it is cool. Funny thing about that, it's actually Beepsky's fault, the little robot who wanders around. He retreads the same tiles in the hallways so much that it gets dirty frustratingly fast, that's why it's usually a big streak in the middle of the hallway that's dirtiest. (Try ordering janitor crates from cargo, if you extract the cleaning grenades and space cleaner from four or so and then use them everywhere, you can clean up a station-wide mess pretty fast, and you can send the stuff you don't need in the crate back to cargo.)

Last but most certainly not least, as a mouse it is your assigned task to chew every cardboard box on the station, even if it obviously doesn't have food in it.

By 'end game room' I assume you mean Odin/Central Command/That place the shuttle docks at the end of the round. It's mostly because when people get there, they don't really want to play. They probably voted for the round to end and they want to get on the next one, and dragging the round out so certain people can faff about on the Odin (which doesn't have properly simulated power, atmospherics, and countless other things) doesn't really conduct well with that.

It's actually pretty hard for me to correctly write responses to this application, I keep having to rewrite my stuff because I keep seeing a new way to look at what you've written down, but I'll try at any rate. Apologies if anything I say seems a bit lazy, but by this point I feel like I shouldn't try to comprehend the thing too much lest I find out that the detailed analysis I make turns out to be working under yet another incorrect assumption. Alright, so, I was going to say that I didn't really think that the lower class was treated particularly badly buuut... I think I see where you are coming from. So, for all I know, this is probably what it was like outside the Hegemony, there's not exactly any writing on what the non-Hegemony kingdoms were like so that is why I was confused. But I do believe that inside the Hegemony, things aren't really that bad for the lower classes, regarding treatment they get from those in a higher position, (unless you are the lowest class, Guwan.) I gathered that from the little things I've read and seen without there really being anything that actually says for or against, so mayhaps ask Jackboot about that somewhere. Those're my thoughts on the subject anyways. I do like the comparison you made about knights and crossbow's, by the way. As a quick observation, I think you could benefit from making your clan's affiliations a bit more obvious, it took me a bit longer then I care to admit to realize that they were probably subjugated or threatened as part of a non-Hegemony kingdom that fought in the Traditionalist Coalition, but maybe that is just me. I'll avoid getting too drawn into the thing and skip to the end instead, because I really am not confident in anything I know about those outside the Hegemony. So, it's not written anywhere, but I believe that the act of officially denouncing a Unathi and titling them as a Guwan is really just an Izweski/Hegemony thing, and the clans outside the Hegemony deal with undesirables as however they personally see fit, from banishment to executing the guy because they're savages. But this is another thing I just gather from tidbits of information, so I suggest asking Jackboot about that. This feels a bit abrupt, and I'll show you something that actually is written down for once to say why. https://aurorastation.org/wiki/index.php?title=Notable_Unathi Nanotrasen and spaceports have no real presence outside the Izweski, so going to space with the big corporation doesn't really just happen if you're on the outside. Describing the process in which Crox enters the Hegemony (Traditionalists and refugees in general do cross over although my inexperience with that dictates that I don't really know how it works.), and ends up going to space would probably do you good, describing his new experiences with the advanced Hegemony and then the literally alien culture he encounters would probably do you better.

It seems close enough that just editing the post'll do.

nooooooo This one. https://aurorastation.org/wiki/index.php?title=Unathi

Any petty feud you have with another crew member must be kept and continuously acted on for the entire round, no matter what.

we don't even have 'major crew victories' or 'major antag victories' though

So, some custom items, mostly just clothes in general, can bear obvious features that you can't actually depict on the sprite, and the only way to see these features is to either get it shown to you by the wearer or to examine the item when it's not being worn. This can be an issue because people are unlikely to take off what they're wearing to show people the obvious features on it. One of a good many such clothes as an example: I propose making a function similar to this. The form it'd be in would read something similar to this: [Greytideson examines cat wearing snowflakey stuff] This is snowflake kitty cat! He's wearing a snowflake kitty uniform. Take a closer look. Due to the can of worms it could potentially open with some clothes possibly having concealed details on them, implementing the function for all clothes probably isn't ideal. However, making it an option for custom items and letting people know it's an option would be pretty great, perhaps an option on the custom item application format.

In the past if you examined a borg it'd display a list of its module slots and what's in them, the sprites remained the same.

I am more or less satisfied with the changes.

Alrighty, lets get to it then. no he's not This sounds a bit weird and I don't really understand it, if you mean a Head of Staff is claiming a department as their own clan and running it as such then such a Unathi would probably be declared to be on some line of bonkers. This also sounds weird, it's not every day that you can show people what an honorable lizard you are. So what disgraceful act or series of disgraceful acts would these dishonorable incidents be? I'm mildly skeptical that he'd just decide he's not honorable and pack up one day, unless it was a set of escalating events stemming from him starting to not care. Basically I want to know what the guy actually did. Personally I think even for a sheltered Unathi, you'd have to be pretty dense to think of battles going to be one on one. Of course, I'd imagine it's perfectly plausible for him to be unprepared for the Izweski's fairly pragmatic approach to warfare, just not...one on one. Maybe you want him to have been especially dense in those early years but that's my two cents anyway. Personally I'm wondering what he was doing for 9 years, but I don't see that as too important as some of the other things I'm bringing up. This sounds a bit...eeh. Although I haven't conferred with Jackboot, I do not think Unathi see humanization as that much of a tangible bad thing compared to Tajara, overall it sounds like a somewhat bizarre punishment, "For your dishonorable crimes, you must live with humans and adopt their culture!" It just sounds off. (especially in that they consider this to be worse than death.) I suggest rephrasing it as something along the lines of forcing him to never see his home again, not being able to live among his kind in familiar surroundings, etcetera. Although the result is the same, forced to leave and live with unfamiliar aliens, it sounds a bit more convincing a punishment, forced to leave all that you could call home instead of forced to adopt alien culture. However, as Jackboot said on Discord, such an exiling is a really light punishment for something like desertion. As such, I suggest bringing the brother back into things, (if you're going to go with my suggestion of changing the context of the punishment anyway) they sounded pretty close, no? Perhaps his brother survived all those years later and returned, and was distraught with the prospect that Zanun'kza might be put to death. So he protested and managed to convince his clan that he should be banished from Moghes instead. I think it'd be a bit more plausible overall anyways. This also sounds a little off to me, in my opinion Nanotrasen operates by temptation when it comes to workers, all those poor Tajara on Adhomai seeing it as just a better option, the same applying to various Guwans. (Certainly not tracking down random people down in the dumps and offering them some sort of devil's bargain at any rate.) So how I would do it, would be to say Zanun'kza can't find a good job in Tau Ceti, some people don't want a Unathi without a tangible education, they're violent y'know, others might not want a Guwan, they're all exiled criminals y'know, and so on, and then he finds Nanotrasen, big human corporation, they're willing to take him in, he doesn't need to do much, just clean this and pick up that, and holy hell the pay isn't half bad compared to his other options, so he readily accepts. Maybe you could say that counts as being manipulated into signing on but I wouldn't say Nanotrasen "noticed" him at any rate. And that's all I really have to say, consider me neutral for now.

Yeah, stealth suiters have all the rest of their heister buddies to bail them out, but either way, Ninjas 'ought to be silent.

The objectives for the majority of the contest were very very wonky, "points to the pro-synth's for doing nothing at all because nothing is going to happen to Robotics or this IPC", etc, and as far as I know these weren't corrected, not to mention with how long the contest went, I imagine everyone lost enthusiasm and couldn't be bothered to fight for one side or another, wouldn't be a decent judge of how well either side was fighting.

...Isn't that what this change is meant to do? It's meant to make the Station less of a 'Mass Cloning facility'. Hell, I don't know, never mind.

I don't really like the idea of just making it take longer to treat clones, that'd just make things take a bit longer and be a bit more of a pain in the ass before we can shit out the clone to take part in the clone army. I do like Delta's and in part Ezuo's line of thinking where clones are disorientated and otherwise not working at 100% for some time, which can't be fixed with a magic shot of the medicine drug or a special operation.

I would argue that whitelist applications are less for judging whether someone can make an interesting character and more for judging if they actually have an understanding of the race, the lore, etcetera, so they don't try to make a lizard from the moon planet of Greenville inhabited by a clan of amazonian lizard warriors. I don't really think Unathi 'ought to be a special clique of carefully selected players who 'give something to the Unathi community'. But anyways, onto the application. The title of course is immediately obvious, but so long as people can actually tell what race you're applying from the title alone I don't really think it matters all that much. At the mention of tribalism I think I can hear Jackboot getting triggered. Anyways, the application calls for a paragraph format and I get the feeling you can probably do better anyways, I'd personally like to see expansion on the second one, though you do seem to have generally put down the bones of what's notable for Unathi. After reading this, what really stands out as iffy to me is the name, I'm not completely sure how name changes work after marriage, either IRL or in spessmans, but as far as my knowledge goes, if she is a woman who was born into the clan Vasaki, and then she was betrothed and married to someone from another clan...I think her last name would default over to the name of the clan she married into. I'm not really sure if I like or don't like the backstory, maybe that means it's bland. But Unathi women on a human station are rare because most of them are either married or controlled by their clans, and from what I'm reading, it's plausible/believable for this woman to be working in space due to events in her life being what they are. So basically the story strikes me as being reasonable, it's not horribly offensive to my willing suspension of disbelief, I'm not seeing much of an issue with it. I don't have anything to comment on for the rest of the application. OOCly, I think Bokaza can be really salty sometimes and a bit of a stick in the mud, but my experiences with them in and out of game say that they're not the sort to be something of a chucklefuck with their whitelist when they have it. Literally none of my own whitelist applications were conducted entirely with straight-laced seriousness after all, so I don't think it's something to judge too much.

Now that the application is done, you might want to revisit the name and think of something else while you wait for judgement the application to be visited by the loreman, but it doesn't honestly matter much. Anyway, I like your responses, more of those good tones, I get the feeling your idea of your character certainly extends past what's written down, and you can roll with most things to form the idea as needed. Personally this strikes me as a little odd, though, as someone who never had the right abilities to be good in a fight, he would've been tempted at one point or another to go for firearms, no? So he'd probably be in a position to understand why others would go for it. Or maybe he just feels smug because he didn't give into the temptation, but I'll admit I'm prompting you into responding because I want to hear more.

'Ello, your application has piqued my interest so I'll be running through its length. I don't recall ever seeing you around but that says more about me than it does about you these days. You seem to have good comprehension of the Unathi themes and what stands out when compared to humans, this is good, you also didn't bother listing off any of the actual mechanical differences or the fact that lizardmen hiss, brownie points from me. what an awful name tbh This doesn't say as much as I'd personally like but I can understand the desire to have a blank slate, so I'll hold off on interrogating you. I don't really see that much of an issue with this, it strikes me as a solid foundation to add other things to, although the absence of said things is a bit noticeable, (what was his family and youth like? Is the move to Tau-Ceti with their strange humans striking him particularly hard? Etc.) but again, it looks solid, I especially like the themes that Jolss is just a bit soft overall, and the backstory strikes good tones with me. Most of the characters I've made for my own whitelists typically jerked onto a different path for their personality and themes immediately after I started playing them so I can see why you'd want to avoid setting everything into stone. It seems your character is believable while still remaining as a foundation to add other things onto, so mission accomplished. Humble and honest, I like it. I can't make any comment on your abilities while playing but you've obviously put thought and effort into your application, and I'm getting good tones and vibes from it, so I endorse this application.

Keep in mind that such a character doesn't have a fully prosthetic body, mechanics-wise they can still bleed if they're stabbed in the chest or head, they can still be poisoned, they need oxygen, and so on. Playing an IPC and pretending it's a full-body-prosthesis would be just as accurate (or in my opinion, even more so) as playing a human with every organ and limb turned into a prosthetic and pretending it's a full-body-prosthesis. I don't really have too much to comment on the rest of the application, it doesn't seem egregiously bad, personally I don't think Nanotrasen would really bribe someone with the position of leading their personnel for the sake of just keeping them around, but that's more of a 'me' thing and not really something I can weigh against the application. While the character could plausibly (although don't quote me on that) exist in the world (we have cyborgs which are simply brains controlling mechanical contraptions, after all.), how you're currently playing them doesn't really do it enough justice to not cause issues.

That is rather...iffy, and probably liable to make you end up butting heads with administration staff sooner or later. IPC whitelists give you access to humanoid robots with and without human-like skin, and although the brain itself is also robotic, you're obviously willing to push the boundaries of what shows up in-game and what can be interpreted. I'd advise talking to Cake (who is the synthetic lore-person and whose jurisdiction characters like this would fall under) about full-body prosthetics and whether pretending about that sort of thing would or wouldn't be acceptable in-game, as well as making an IPC whitelist for such a character like this. For the head application here, I would advise either submitting a different character or withdrawing it for now.

Um. Is Celeste, mechanically in-game, a human?

Vampires get hilariously powerful the longer they exist while actually giving people the succ, so they're a growth based antag if anything. 1/10 awful guide

I had observed a good quantity and have my own opinions but I do not particularly care to weigh in, I only wanted to state that the primary reason Richter had two laser rifles was because I stuck mine into his suit slot when I elected to run to cryo.