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Application Cycles While we do not require a reserve to be placed in order to be applied for, if a reserve for the same character exists, you will not be able to submit an application for that character (unless it is a variant media type - see the Application FAQ for details). Therefore, a reserve is highly recommended! APP PROCESSING TIMES The usual time frame for app processing will be 48 hours after the app is received. High app volume or any extenuating real life circumstances may delay these times, but the modteam will make the utmost effort to let people know about the delay and a revised time frame when applicable. GUIDELINES Any player (new or current) may submit up to 2 applications at once. Applications will be responded to with either: Accepted, Revisions or Declined. Acceptance comments will have all the information you need to join the game and introduce yourself and your character, Revision comments will outline the changes we will need to see, and Declined comments will include our issues with the application. Please run the application through a basic spelling, grammar, and formatting check prior to submission. The mods reserve the right to reject an application that is too difficult to make sense of due to any of these areas. Apps may be submitted either in the comments or in a link to a different journal; post the application to this page as a new comment with the following information in the subject line: Character Name | Canon | Reserved/Not Reserved. Please note that we do not accept challenge reserves or challenge apps. Application Template • Player Information • Name: your handle; something to call you Pronouns: Please share your pronouns if you are comfortable doing so. This field is OPTIONAL. Age/18+?: we do require that players be 18 years of age or older. Beyond that, we aren’t particular. Contact: The easiest way to get a hold of you. Many people use plurk, but it isn’t required; all we need is a method of contact to which you typically respond to within 24 hours. Other Characters Played: Any other characters you have at Khu Ioduan. Most Recent AC Link: If you're new, just leave this blank. • Character Information • Name: Their name and any aliases, if applicable Pronouns: Please share the character's pronouns if you are comfortable doing so. This field is OPTIONAL. Canon: Canon name and media type Canon Point: What pull point are you taking them from? Age: Physical and apparent, if they differ significantly Type of Character: Canon, Canon OC, OC, or CRAU Reference: Links to the best references for your canon. Canon wikis preferred. If OC, use this space to tell us a bit about your character’s story and setting conceits, since we won’t have any other references. Personality: The most important section; should be the bulk of the application. Examine the character's motivations, their strengths and flaws, and how they interact with friend and foe, and their world. Appearance: A short description or a link to an image will do. This doesn’t need to be exhaustive. Abilities: What skills or strengths do they have, either both extraordinary abilities and/or notable non-magical ones. Please note that game-breaking abilities may need to be limited, and that abilities which affect other characters against their will (like mind control) will require permissions posts. Suitability: Give us an idea of how best you think your character suits the setting. For example: How will your character handle being in Aifaran? What kind of plots are you interested in pursuing with them? What sort of organizations would you like them to get involved? Do you want them involved in big, overarching stories or are you more interested in slice of life or exploration? Inventory: Are they bringing any special items that they had on them at their pull point? If so, tell us about them. Talent Preferences: What are your (the player) top three choices for Talent schools: Alteration, Conjuration, Destruction, Illusion, or Restoration. Please list them in order of preference. • Writing Sample • Minimum 300 Words We require one sample for an application, and it must be set in-game. This can be structured either as an in-person interaction (whether prose or brackets), or as a network post. Keep in mind that regardless of the formatting, we are looking for a character's introspections, thought processes and reactions to stimuli, and the sample must contain a minimum of 5 dialogue sentences (whether written or typed). This is how we get a feel for your grasp of the character's voice! You may use a link to a Khu Ioduan test drive meme thread, provided it has at least 5 comments from your character. Additional Character Types If you are applying for either a CRAU or Canon OC character, please add the respective field to the bottom of your application. This is not necessary for canon characters or original universe characters.
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Re: REVISIONS
Chariot wanted, from a young age, to inspire people to believe in and love magic. While she was in school, she came across an artifact called the Claiomh Solais, which she promptly called the Shiny Rod. She used this in magic shows and had magical adventures that weren't terribly detailed; she was also trying to access world-changing magic through the Shiny Rod, which could raise the overall level of magic in the world. But, she was more concerned with making people happy with magic, under the reasoning that doing so would make them believe in it.
Her shows were aimed at this. Her friend Croix, who combined machines and magic, gave her a way to make her shows jaw-dropping and keep up with public expectation: a technology called Dream Fuel Spirit. Chariot thought it drew energy from her audiences; it actually drained their capacity to use magic. At her last show, she used it to power up the Shiny Rod and blasted the moon and drained a lot of magic from a lot of people. The Shiny Rod withered away, marking an end to her time as the person chosen by ancient powers to bring magic back, and Croix wiped people's memories at the show and then split.
So Chariot lost, in short order: the Shiny Rod which she felt was a symbol of her now-forfeited destiny, her best friend (who also had betrayed her, using her as a guinea pig for magical technology experiments), and her goal of making people believe in and love magic by taking it away from them. And they couldn't even remember it. In short, she felt she was a complete failure, and that she should have held herself back.
She suppresses those parts of her personality because she feels that, if she tries to be outstanding, or fiery and passionate, or put herself at center stage, it will somehow go wrong and hurt other people. She blames herself for what happened (though she understands, intellectually, that Croix is culpable for what occurred, too). She wants to help people, and that means she thinks she should hold back so she doesn't hurt them again. Chariot became Ursula as a way of creating a clean break from her past.
It's also a way to lie to herself, and build a person that she thinks she should be.
This is not really healthy for her, and I apped her at that point so she hasn't really had to tackle those issues, and can address them in-game. Please let me know if there is anything else you would like!
ACCEPTED
AFFINITY: Your character's randomized starting ranks for all seven Affinity areas have been added to the tracking spreadsheet! Be sure to bookmark the link for future reference, since Affinity will be part of your Activity Checks.
TALENT: Upon arrival in Aifaran, Ursula has received an ability from the school of Conjuration! She will find this image somewhere on their body in a location of your choice, and you're free to decide how your character discovers the specifics of their new power: Create Homunculus: Lifrasir!
Level 1 Skill: You have made a tiny friend. Though small, they are bursting with potential and will only grow more powerful. At this stage the homunculus's abilities are very weak, but they are promising of what's to come. Lifrasir can make little flowers bloom.
ARRIVAL, HOUSING & NETWORK ACCESS:
Your character will appear somewhere within the city of Aifaran, as it is the concentrated center of the archipelago's power. They should be able to easily find their way to the Dreaming Bridge, since Dreamfolk arriving clueless and confused is a regular occurrence here! Once there, your character has been assigned to the Quayside Wing in Room # 07 and can get settled in. The Dreaming Bridge also provides characters with a basic stipend of various necessities and a small allowance of funds (around the equivalent of $50 worth), since meals are provided at the Bridge for all residents (although it's basically cafeteria food). If your character has any special needs (dietary, mobility, etc), the staff will help them with these requests.
An Opara Core technician on-site will also provide them with their network login information, and will help them with some basic tutorials if they seem unfamiliar with this style of technology. They'll also be issued a mobile handset (a "yimo") at this time and shown how to charge it off the stationary terminals. Remember that your character won't have access to the network without getting a login, so while they may have been able to view some other people's broadcasts, they won't be able to reply or make their own until they've gotten their own login.
To officially become part of the game, please complete the following steps:
JOINING:
1. Reply to this comment with your character's journal name, even if you used it to post the application; your character journal will not be added to the comms before you have done this step.
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2. Join
3. Go to the Taken Characters page and complete the New Character Addition form. Remember to create an IC inbox entry if you haven't already, and you may link to a permissions post for your character, which is optional (but encouraged) unless a permissions post was a stipulation of this acceptance, noted above.
Specific tags have been created in the Network and Logs communities for when you post and tag posts with your character. Once you've completed these steps, feel free to introduce yourself in the OOC community and dive into the game! If you have any questions, please let us know and we will be glad to assist.
Re: ACCEPTED