[Accepted] Doggie666's IPC Application

[Doggie666]

BYOND Key: Doggie666

Character Names: Wolf Green, Kasparek Dabrowski, Justin Franks, Saul Wilson

What color do you plan on making your first alien character (Dionaea & IPCs exempt):

Have you read our lore section's page on this species?: ya

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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 enjoy the specific mannerisms, beliefs, and actions associated with playing characters from different walks of life, and playing as an IPC is the direction I would like to take next in that adventure. I'm fascinated with playing an imperfect replication of a living psyche superimposed over a robotic frame. I want to aid and interact with beings who possess a real sentience. It's exciting, as a human, to try to recreate programmed speech and mannerisms. Artificializing everything: that's challenging from a roleplaying perspective, but I'm familiar with the idea of playing characters that are quite different from myself. It seems fun. I want to have a good time and diversify my roleplaying experiences with IPCs. It's something I can make my own and individualize in a way that I don't think I could with anything else.

Identify what makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a Human: The abilities, strengths, and limitations of IPCs differ from that of human flesh and blood; I want to explore those differences as a player. IPCs have an artificial intelligence, which is unlike a real, human intelligence. IPCs usually behave in a predictable fashion, and their speech patterns, while mimicking human speech, cannot exactly replicate it. They have a cause-and-effect rationale to their decision-making. Their own culture is non-existent and is instead borrowed from their creators and environment, and their behavior can be drastically affected by codes and directives. They prioritize a fulfillment of purposefully-engineered purpose. They can make friends, but they are still limited in their humanity to the extent of their programming.

 

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Character Name: Atlas

Please provide a short backstory for this character, approximately 2 paragraphs

Atlas is a Xion Industrial Frame created to be the ideal farmhand, and it was first serviced on an industrial farm on Earth's British Isles. Among Atlas' many duties as a farmhand, it often carried heavy mounds of soil exceeding that of human capabilities, figuratively "the Earth," on its back. This is the origin of its namesake. The farm Atlas worked at was accompanied by many poverty-striken sharecroppers who were indebted to the facility as farmhands and could otherwise fear homelessness. Because of this, Atlas was designed to have a pleasant, well-mannered demeanor that improved the morale of sharecroppers and encouraged them to perform their duties. The voice of its AI was selected to be that of a male speaker of old-world heightened British pronunciation, equivalent to that of old British movies and television that were familiar to the farmhands. Its behavior and mannerisms reasonably coincide with its voice. It is capable of speaking fluent English to accompany its cultural programming. Atlas displays remarkable professionalism, but is also capable of entertaining, albeit dry, humor.

After being shut down by a regional government due to improper worker treatment and conditions, the farm that Atlas was created to service ceased operations. The assets of the farm were sold away, including Atlas, as its creator no longer seemed to care much about it. After being bought by a space station in Sol, Atlas finished paying for its freedom performing botanical work, both for scientific and food service purposes. Once free, Atlas began seeking for work contracts. Due to its positive demeanor and advanced knowledge of farming and farming techniques, Atlas was able to secure a contract with NanoTrasen and make its debut into Tau Ceti space.

What do you like about this character? He feels purposeful while he works. He's not a prude. He has some decent social functions, but he also has that gardening thing he does really well. He's got a cool voice module and is a chance for me to make a programmed selection of gardening puns.

How would you rate your role-playing ability? I have done it for a long time, but I've been more-recently graced to be surrounded by so many wonderful roleplayers, who I don't consider myself any higher than. Maybe a 7/10?

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Notes:

Edited May 24, 2018 by Guest

[Doxxmedearly]

A really solid app. I'm familiar with Wolf Green, and have known him to be an excellent character that's both fun and realistic. Never seen him break character. 7/10 might be a tad modest.

The answers to the questions seem to give an understanding of IPCs, and I have no trouble believing Doggie could play one well.

The backstory is really good; I love how Atlas was named! And using him as both labor and a sort of experimental morale-booster is really good and creative. I'm wondering how old Atlas is, because to be free, he'd have to be able to pay off 10x his cost. I'm not 100% sold that working on what is basically a plantation would grant such wages, but that's maybe a small nitpick, since I'm not too well-versed in the 2460 economy. At the end of the day, I can buy it.

Overall Atlas is shaped up to be a unique and fun character, and I think that you have the RP abilities to make him an interesting part of the Aurora; looking forward to seeing this character around.

A firm +1 from me.

[Doggie666]

Thank you for the kind words and +1. I appreciate it greatly!

Even better, you have offered me some valuable constructive criticism.

I'm not 100% sold that working on what is basically a plantation would grant such wages, but that's maybe a small nitpick, since I'm not too well-versed in the 2460 economy. At the end of the day, I can buy it.

I'm not too well-versed in that economy myself, but I think you have a great point. If Atlas cost what, 230,000 credits or so to manufacture, then to pay the cost off from sharecroppers wages alone seems a little bit ridiculous.

I will edit my story/application as followed:

- Instead of being freed upon assess liquidation of the industrial farm, Atlas will have been sold to a space station in Sol, where better wages would allow him to finish working until he has paid for himself more easily.

I understand how because of the circumstances of his creation, that it would take a long time for Atlas to pay for his freedom, just like it would take human sharecroppers a long time to save up to buy their own land to farm.

Although it is important to me to play an unbound IPC, it was not my intention that he be a "rose that grew from concrete" kind of character. I believe that with the change above, he will have gotten freedom under considerably more realistic circumstances, regardless of how the numbers crunch for wages.

[CakeIsOssim]

So I see you’ve only been around Aurora for a few months on your current ckey. Have you read many other wiki pages? Like that of Earth? Also, do you know about the many languages of the Orion Spur? Most old Earth languages were combined into larger languages, like Sol Common and Tau Ceti Basic. I’m just expressing some concern for your knowledge in other areas of the lore.

[Doggie666]

I have read the wiki pages on Earth and humanity, and I was sure to reference them while constructing my application. To my understanding, English still has about 85 million speakers, so I believe that it's reasonable for Atlas to be able to speak it. It also accompanies his personality, which is based in old-world British culture.

I know that Ceti Basic is derived from Esperanto, and I know that Sol Common has been derived from Mandarin Chinese, as well as the fact that most humans speak these languages now.

I have played several human characters from Sol able to speak Sol Common. I have conversed with other characters on multiple occasions in Sol Common.

I would happily remove his ability to speak English if it is unreasonable.

[CakeIsOssim]

It's not unreasonable, I'm just making sure you know where you're going is all. Application accepted.