[Accepted] Reyntime13's IPC Whitelist Application

[ReynTheLord]

BYOND Key: ReynTime13

Character Names: Cliff Whitter, Faith Basinger, Bethney Cherry, Brooklynn Wilson. Wendi Bunten (Character used for AI and borgs), Jasmine Rose, Rihanna Lester, Ivan Petrov (May or may not be dead due to numap event), Miriam Kuznetsov

Species you are applying to play: IPC (Industrial)

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

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

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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: This race is pretty.... Open ended when it comes to lore and culture, and it has extremely interesting gameplay differences from humans. Being a machine has quite a few advantages and disadvantages, feeds into roleplay, and adittionaly, I would like to play a machine race which isn't borgs, along with playing a race which might encounter some biggotry.

Identify what makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a Human: IPCs are machines, they tend to be able to do riskier jobs then humans when it comes to physical trauma and toxins, They feel no pain, are immune to all non damaging and quite a few damaging toxins.

Requiring only welding and wires to recover from injuries, in addition to the previously stated lack of pain, Ipcs are extremely good combatants, and have less to worry about when it comes to security work or any risky buisness which doesn't involve extreme heat or vacuum, which causes some issues due to their gas based cooling system. Thus, what counts as a threat to an IPC is quite different. Oh, and of course, Don't let them near EMPs.

IPCs Vary massively when it comes to cultural adaptation or social interaction. Some don't get personal at all, basically having no opinion on others, Others establish full on relationships and opinions. Some adapt to the culture of the station or the culture of where they were manufactured, others adapt to different cultures, make their own, or don't adapt at all. They could also have laws, directives and code limiting their behaviour as well.

 

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Character Name: Firewall

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

 

"I will not be bribed, nor intimidated, nor deceived into letting a crime go unpunished. I will not let insults or verbal harassment lead me to violence, I will use only as much force as would be deemed reasonable, I will act as a professional, and I will do my duty when my duty needs to be done. Anything else goes" - The programmed code of honor of Industrial Police Unit#12914 "Firewall"

 

Industrial Police Unit 12914, Known by the name "Firewall", was manufactured by the company Securitech Incorporated as a special project, the finalization of a new type of police unit of their brand.

Their concept was to create a machine officer with a developed personality, with free thinking potential, and capacity for off duty interaction for the sake of having mechanized security officers which are more like actual police with their own personalities, instead of machines with no real emotion or personality, which clients found to be "Too intimidating" or "Unsettling"." Their earlier versions all had some sort of flaw. They make the unit too much like a human officer with just basic law upkeep programing, the unit ends up being unstable when it comes to the quality of their work. Put in regulations as hard coded law, the unit ends up having the flaws they were trying to correct.

Eventually, They came up with a plan. A code of honor built into the robot, instead of proper laws. The unit would show distaste to such activities it was programmed to be immoral, while still being able to have a personality which is not too held back by hard coded laws. They would show emotion to a situation which would violate their code of honor, instead of just acting upon laws. They refined this design, and eventually finalized it with the production of Industrial Police Unit #12914 .

Programed to have free will with a code of honor, Along with being programmed in interaction with civilians, Hand to hand combat, proper arrest procedure, use of firearms and energy weaponry, and knowledge of proper formalities for an officer, Industrial Police Unit #12914 was tested thoroughly to make sure they were what the customers wanted. And they were. The Unit was given the nickname "Firewall" by the director of the tests, and the name stuck for most of the company. After getting through basic testing with flying colors, Firewall was sold to nanotrasen to work in the field.

Firewall cleared cadet training with no problems, and soon displayed skill fitting for a warden. And now, the backstory ends, and the true story of Firewall begins.

What do you like about this character?

I may or may not have gone absolutely nuts with the backstory. I decided to give this character some affection, and due to how loose the lore is, I took some creative liberties. I find that this character will be quite enjoyable.

How would you rate your role-playing ability? Out of 10, at least 5, at most 7.

 

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Notes:

[Bygonehero]

Excellent improvement, and your IC skills are improving too. When you first joined I had my doubts, but I am pleasantly surprised +1. I suggest advertizing this in-game some. Keep up the good work!

[Butterrobber202]

Bethney Cherry as a Sec character is way to on the edge and often Jumps the Gun, unsure if its intended IC or just a player thing. ( E.g. Calling for Red Alert and lethals as a Officer )

Other than that, pretty good RP from what interaction I've had. +1

[KattenHatten]

Not seen any IPC's for a while at engineering. +1

[ReynTheLord]

Not seen any IPC's for a while at engineering. +1

This is a sec one. revoke your +1 if thats a problem, but i'd rather have the people informed about the character than make uninformed +1s or make accidents. Unless you mean medical assistance at engineering, which makes sense

[KattenHatten]

Not seen any IPC's for a while at engineering. +1

This is a sec one. revoke your +1 if thats a problem, but i'd rather have the people informed about the character than make uninformed +1s or make accidents. Unless you mean medical assistance at engineering, which makes sense

 

So, you're taking an industrial IPC chasis to security department?

[ReynTheLord]

Not seen any IPC's for a while at engineering. +1

This is a sec one. revoke your +1 if thats a problem, but i'd rather have the people informed about the character than make uninformed +1s or make accidents. Unless you mean medical assistance at engineering, which makes sense

 

So, you're taking an industrial IPC chasis to security department?

Is there a problem with that?

[KattenHatten]

This is a sec one. revoke your +1 if thats a problem, but i'd rather have the people informed about the character than make uninformed +1s or make accidents. Unless you mean medical assistance at engineering, which makes sense

 

So, you're taking an industrial IPC chasis to security department?

Is there a problem with that?

 

Shall there be? I'm interested why the industrial IPC is preferable to security service than other types of IPC's.

[Mappel6]

Let me start by saying that I HATE to be THAT GUY, but I feel like THAT GUY has to come forth now.

I've been watching Reyn through a good few rounds, especially when they play Security as that's the most relevant to this application. Their security-heavy characters are Cliff Whittier and Bethney Cherry. I've seen a lot more of Bethney Cherry than Cliff Whittier, but what I have seen of Cliff Whittier as well does not help his case.

First of all, I constantly see Bethney Cherry and Cliff Whittier, when I see him, as the first one to call for Code Blue/Code Red in all of Security. This usually degrades to Cherry/Whittier (interestingly, Cherry is mainly a Detective, so this makes even less sense) commanding the commanding staff to enter into Code Blue or Red, and commanding the Warden to start giving out weapons. I've seen Cherry told off multiple times for acts like this, including one quote that stands out from a Captain that Bethney Cherry tried to command, "Cherry, you do not give the orders here."

But wait, there's more! I often see Cherry do things like perform validhunting behaviors (mainly asking the Warden for weapons and attempting to make arrests alone as Detective), go above SOP and around the chain of command (mentioned earlier as commanding the commanding staff and commanding the Warden to give out weapons, again, as Detective), and in general perform acts and general actions that are unfitting of a character, whether simple employee of NanoTrasen or loyal Security member. This includes Cherry lying directly to an interim Head of Security, saying they have no crimes and a completely clean record on NanoTrasen stations, when they had been arrested and given canon infractions earlier that same day. While we're on the topic of 'canon,' I have seen Reyn's characters twice ask their arresting officer to kill them outright, and imply over LOOC and deadchat shortly after they are arrested or killed respectively that they want to die so their crimes are not made canon. Interestingly, this happened once while Reyn, as Cliff Whittier, was a Head Loyalist, and therefore the crimes were non-canon anyways.

Lastly, I'd like to add one more slight comment in. I've interacted with Reyn's character Wendi Bunten as well, this was during the event where the NSS Aurora, then known as NSS Aurora II, was announced to the NSS Exodus's crew. I was playing as Roboticist, Masuno Kukarumo. When the head engineer of NanoTrasen came aboard the ship and began their speech, there was a period of time where a bunch of people were PDAing each other and ringers were going off left and right. Masuno proceeded to shut off his PDA's ringer, keeping the messenger on. Lo and behold, I got a message in the middle of the speech from Wendi Bunten, a simple "heya". I ignored the message until after the speech, when I proceeded to message Wendi Bunten back asking what the message was about. They responded saying that they 'just wanted to hear what their (Wendi's own) ringer sounded like.' I proceeded to try to RP with them, thinking that they were perhaps somebody completely new to the game but got nothing after. I'd like to say 'to be fair, Reyn may well have been new to the game at the time,' but this was less than two weeks ago by my count. In my opinion, somebody who was new to the game then should well be considered to be at least fairly new to the game now.

I think I've given enough examples to make a very good case for this. People who know me know I will usually give people who are good in general, or just need some improvement, a +1 on their whitelist apps. However, after seeing Reyn's constant behavior, after looking into their fairly recent actions including a very recent permaban appeal, and seeing this app, which implies that Reyn's wish to play an IPC are primarily for mechanical reasons such as to lessen the amount of what will actually hurt them, I'm giving this a strong -1. I've seen enough of Reyn's behavior to potentially even file a player complaint but I really do not want to go that far, however if an admin feels a need to look into this, I am willing to talk. I would however much rather see Reyn get a simple reality check and placed on the right path when it comes to roleplay, than have actual actions taken against them, because despite the amount of negative I have seen with this one player, I do believe effort can be made to improve their actions and their roleplay ability in general.

[ReynTheLord]

Let me start by saying that I HATE to be THAT GUY, but I feel like THAT GUY has to come forth now.

I've been watching Reyn through a good few rounds, especially when they play Security as that's the most relevant to this application. Their security-heavy characters are Cliff Whittier and Bethney Cherry. I've seen a lot more of Bethney Cherry than Cliff Whittier, but what I have seen of Cliff Whittier as well does not help his case.

First of all, I constantly see Bethney Cherry and Cliff Whittier, when I see him, as the first one to call for Code Blue/Code Red in all of Security. This usually degrades to Cherry/Whittier (interestingly, Cherry is mainly a Detective, so this makes even less sense) commanding the commanding staff to enter into Code Blue or Red, and commanding the Warden to start giving out weapons. I've seen Cherry told off multiple times for acts like this, including one quote that stands out from a Captain that Bethney Cherry tried to command, "Cherry, you do not give the orders here."

But wait, there's more! I often see Cherry do things like perform validhunting behaviors (mainly asking the Warden for weapons and attempting to make arrests alone as Detective), go above SOP and around the chain of command (mentioned earlier as commanding the commanding staff and commanding the Warden to give out weapons, again, as Detective), and in general perform acts and general actions that are unfitting of a character, whether simple employee of NanoTrasen or loyal Security member. This includes Cherry lying directly to an interim Head of Security, saying they have no crimes and a completely clean record on NanoTrasen stations, when they had been arrested and given canon infractions earlier that same day. While we're on the topic of 'canon,' I have seen Reyn's characters twice ask their arresting officer to kill them outright, and imply over LOOC and deadchat shortly after they are arrested or killed respectively that they want to die so their crimes are not made canon. Interestingly, this happened once while Reyn, as Cliff Whittier, was a Head Loyalist, and therefore the crimes were non-canon anyways.

Lastly, I'd like to add one more slight comment in. I've interacted with Reyn's character Wendi Bunten as well, this was during the event where the NSS Aurora, then known as NSS Aurora II, was announced to the NSS Exodus's crew. I was playing as Roboticist, Masuno Kukarumo. When the head engineer of NanoTrasen came aboard the ship and began their speech, there was a period of time where a bunch of people were PDAing each other and ringers were going off left and right. Masuno proceeded to shut off his PDA's ringer, keeping the messenger on. Lo and behold, I got a message in the middle of the speech from Wendi Bunten, a simple "heya". I ignored the message until after the speech, when I proceeded to message Wendi Bunten back asking what the message was about. They responded saying that they 'just wanted to hear what their (Wendi's own) ringer sounded like.' I proceeded to try to RP with them, thinking that they were perhaps somebody completely new to the game but got nothing after. I'd like to say 'to be fair, Reyn may well have been new to the game at the time,' but this was less than two weeks ago by my count. In my opinion, somebody who was new to the game then should well be considered to be at least fairly new to the game now.

I think I've given enough examples to make a very good case for this. People who know me know I will usually give people who are good in general, or just need some improvement, a +1 on their whitelist apps. However, after seeing Reyn's constant behavior, after looking into their fairly recent actions including a very recent permaban appeal, and seeing this app, which implies that Reyn's wish to play an IPC are primarily for mechanical reasons such as to lessen the amount of what will actually hurt them, I'm giving this a strong -1. I've seen enough of Reyn's behavior to potentially even file a player complaint but I really do not want to go that far, however if an admin feels a need to look into this, I am willing to talk. I would however much rather see Reyn get a simple reality check and placed on the right path when it comes to roleplay, than have actual actions taken against them, because despite the amount of negative I have seen with this one player, I do believe effort can be made to improve their actions and their roleplay ability in general.

 

Alright, lets disect this for a sec.

But wait, there's more! I often see Cherry do things like perform validhunting behaviors (mainly asking the Warden for weapons and attempting to make arrests alone as Detective), go above SOP and around the chain of command (mentioned earlier as commanding the commanding staff and commanding the Warden to give out weapons, again, as Detective), and in general perform acts and general actions that are unfitting of a character, whether simple employee of NanoTrasen or loyal Security member. This includes Cherry lying directly to an interim Head of Security, saying they have no crimes and a completely clean record on NanoTrasen stations, when they had been arrested and given canon infractions earlier that same day.

YOu do realise that i can choose if that's cannon or not, right...

Lastly, I'd like to add one more slight comment in. I've interacted with Reyn's character Wendi Bunten as well, this was during the event where the NSS Aurora, then known as NSS Aurora II, was announced to the NSS Exodus's crew. I was playing as Roboticist, Masuno Kukarumo. When the head engineer of NanoTrasen came aboard the ship and began their speech, there was a period of time where a bunch of people were PDAing each other and ringers were going off left and right. Masuno proceeded to shut off his PDA's ringer, keeping the messenger on. Lo and behold, I got a message in the middle of the speech from Wendi Bunten, a simple "heya". I ignored the message until after the speech, when I proceeded to message Wendi Bunten back asking what the message was about. They responded saying that they 'just wanted to hear what their (Wendi's own) ringer sounded like.' I proceeded to try to RP with them, thinking that they were perhaps somebody completely new to the game but got nothing after. I'd like to say 'to be fair, Reyn may well have been new to the game at the time,' but this was less than two weeks ago by my count. In my opinion, somebody who was new to the game then should well be considered to be at least fairly new to the game now.

We were fucking about at that point anyways

/b] While we're on the topic of 'canon,' I have seen Reyn's characters twice ask their arresting officer to kill them outright, and imply over LOOC and deadchat shortly after they are arrested or killed respectively that they want to die so their crimes are not made canon. Interestingly, this happened once while Reyn, as Cliff Whittier, was a Head Loyalist, and therefore the crimes were non-canon anyways.

This was pretty much always when i was antag, and if it wasn't, i'll try to fix it.

I've seen enough of Reyn's behavior to potentially even file a player complaint but I really do not want to go that far, however if an admin feels a need to look into this, I am willing to talk. I would however much rather see Reyn get a simple reality check and placed on the right path when it comes to roleplay, than have actual actions taken against them, because despite the amount of negative I have seen with this one player, I do believe effort can be made to improve their actions and their roleplay ability in general.

I've been improving. Trust me.

But hey, i don't blame you, hell, i even appreciate the criticism.

[ReynTheLord]

Yes. I understand there is an acceptable level to voiding, and i am making efforts to both minimize my voiding, and minimizing situations which I HAVE to void.

[CakeIsOssim]

Application accepted.