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passingmod) wrote2012-01-05 03:02 pm
passingmod) wrote2012-01-05 03:02 pm
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Applications
| ONE PASSING NIGHT ↓ rpg thought ooc spam quick facts rules & setting FAQ mod contact theme suggestions credits reserves applications taken characters hiatus post dropping potential apps wanted APPLICATIONS ↓ what to know misc. rules application in detail blank form sample app how we review |
WHAT TO KNOW |
Applications are ALWAYS OPEN, and will be processed as they are received. They must be posted in the comments, NOT linked to. Before applying, read the rules & setting page and this post in their entirety. Use the potential applications page or the FAQ if you have any questions about the process. There is also a sample app and an explanation of how we process apps if those interest you. The wanted characters list may also be helpful. In general, however, we would rather have a shorter, better written application than a longer one, every time. That said, length is one of the least important factors in our applications. We look primarily at the voice samples, then the personality section and writing sample. The voice samples are by far the most important section, and we prefer that these be thread links, because they give us a sense of how you play the character rather than simply how you write an application for the character. The application page from the former site can be found here. |
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MISC. RULES |
We do allow challenge apps, but we wait the duration of the reserve for the other app to come in before processing them against each other. Applications or parts of applications (such as the initial comment containing contact information) will be screened on request. There is a one week grace period for dropped characters during which applications for them will be held pending. The former player can choose to pick up those characters at any time during that week without re-applying. If you are asked for a revision, you have one week to submit them before your app will be automatically declined. You must resubmit your app in its entirety if that happens. Always feel free to ask us to clarify what we're looking for on revisions; we won't bite. If you are rejected, we encourage you to re-apply. We like seeing players that have taken our critique and worked on improving their portrayal. The exception is a character rejected on the grounds that they would be difficult to impossible for others to play with. Playability is an important factor. Our plagiarism policy is as follows: the first offense will be met without consequence. The second offense results in a one month ban from apping. Subsequent further offenses will be dealt with on a case-by-case basis but most likely incur longer bans, up to and including indefinite bans. |
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APPLICATION IN DETAIL |
Your name: Your journal: A sock is fine, or a commonly used character journal if you don't have a personal one. Just please be consistent with your identity for ease of reference. Contact: AIM/plurk/email/etc., whatever you prefer to be contacted. Other characters played at Passing: Character name: Character fandom: Version: V1, V1.# or V2+ should be the only options. Canon point: What point of their timeline you're taking them from. Importing development from old game? If yes, where from? Background: Link to the Wiki entry on it, or if the series has its own wiki, the character's page. A comprehensive fan site is an acceptable substitute. If you cannot find one of these that works well enough for us to get a good grasp of your character from a third party, please write out the standard 'history' section for this on your own. Please include this even if applying for an AU version of the character. OCs need the history section written out as well, obviously. In general, though, this should be a link whenever possible and not a written history. We use it to compare an unbiased third party account against your represented version of the character. If you include a written history, we will ignore it completely and look up whatever is available for that character on Wikipedia ourselves. Changes from canon, if AU: What it says. Detail here how the AU world is different from canon, or what events have happened in their previous game that have lead them to be different. Personality: The meat of the application, and self-explanatory. We want to see that you understand what makes them tick. If AU, try to include explanation for where and why the character has changed from canon. Abilities: What are they particularly good at, or if they do have superhuman powers, what are they? A bullet point list will suffice. Writing sample: At least 200 words of your own writing in third person prose, preferably about the character you're applying for. Samples about others are allowed, in any setting. This is to gauge your writing style and technique, not your grasp of character. That's the next section. Voice sample: You may either write 200 words of your character speaking to himself, or you may link to threads, or you may request to thread with a mod character. Regular voice sample: If choosing option one, the standard first person sample rules apply. The word count applies only to spoken words, not action in brackets, and since 200 words is a lot for some quiet characters, more than one different samples are allowed. Linking to threads: If you are linking to threads, make sure they are lengthy ones that demonstrate your understanding of the character. We don't need a million of them, but remember that this is as a substitute for a sample, and we will evaluate it the same way. Threads that took place in other games, museboxes, or ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small} dear_mun are all fine.Threading with a mod character: You may also request to thread with a mod character - please do so in the body of your application when you submit it, rather than contacting a mod privately. The first available mod will respond back as soon as possible and discuss with you who your character would be best suited to play off of of their characters, and then you will agree on a time to sit down and crack out a thread. These will be 'quick log' style in brackets and not prose to make them go faster and keep the focus on dialog. These do not have to be masterpieces of wonder, but your application will not be judged until you have finished the thread (at least 20 comments on your part), so think carefully before choosing this option. The mods will make every effort to respond to your tags quickly. |
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BLANK FORM |
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Kieri Phelan || The Deed of Paksenarrion || v1.1?
His elven cousins say that he, at this age, was full of fear with a core of bitter anger. It takes him many years to fully conquer the anger inside of him, but the fear he mostly overcomes quickly. Kieri can be easily frightened by an adult's anger, especially if it's directed at him. He's learned to expect to be beaten, or worse, and knows there's nothing he can do to stop it. Even with that, he's not a coward. He'll take beating after beating, yes, but only until he learns that he can hit back. Once he learns that, he'll fight until one of them is out cold.
The fear of what an adult will do to him is the only fear he has. Aside from that, he's fearless. Once he learns he can fight back, he'll do even that without any fear. He'll dare anything and do just about anything to prove himself and impress people. While he never starts up into mischief, he does become so certain of himself that he never thinks he'll lose a fight. He isn't quarrelsome and won't start a fight, but he will by gods finish it. He'll push boundaries and push boundaries until he's attacked, and then he'll fight back.
He has a deep thirst for knowledge and will learn anything that is presented to him. He doesn't rightly know how to read yet, but once he learns, he will be reading everything and anything he can get. As an adult, Kieri is fiercely determined. Once he wants something and has a goal, nothing stops him from gaining it.
He's exceptionally loyal and once someone had earned his loyalty, he will do anything for them, all they need do is ask. Even as an adult, he will spend a percentage of his earnings from a campaign to have magical cures available to his cohorts so that people who would die don't necessarily. He can't use them on everyone, but those he can, he does.
Even as an adult he still has that seed of anger, but from what the Halverics say of Kieri as a child, he never really gives into it. The most he really does is push people into attacking him and then beating them soundly (after he learns he can fight back, anyway). It does lead him to not think things through sometimes and take unnecessary risks.
Abilities: He can do all manner of manual labor that would exist in medieval times. Chop wood, clean, deal with kills (animal kinds). He can also track and is quite capable of surviving on his own in whatever conditions he needs to.
He has elven skills and powers (called taig-sense), but he has no knowledge of them and he has no idea how to access them. Since he doesn't know that he is half-elven, he wouldn't even know to try.
Kieri Phelan || The Deed of Paksenarrion || v1.1?
He was running, turning left down one alleyway, right down another. His heart was pounding in his ears and his breaths were coming so shallowly in his lungs. He could hear his pursuer's footfalls behind him. They never fell farther behind and they always seemed to be catching up to him. Kieri couldn't be certain of who was behind him, but he still knew. It was Baron Sekkady. Or something of his.
He turned again and ran down another alleyway. This one would bring him somewhere safe! The Grange was just after this alleyway. He could make it! He could-
The end of the alleyway was walled off. It didn't even register in the dream that this wasn't right, just as the door suddenly appearing to his left didn't seem strange. It was a way out, a way to escape the Thing behind him.
He dove through the door and pulled it shut, leaning against it in the darkness. It wouldn't find him in here. It couldn't, even if that had been the only way out of the alley. But the smell of the room he'd gone into - blood and fear - broke into his thoughts.
"Artfiel," came a soft but cold whisper behind him.
Kieri turned, unable to stop himself, and looked at the speaker, and the room beyond him which was suddenly torch-lit. Sekkady. And the dungeon. Liart's altar. A place he had been far too often before escaping and a place he always feared being dragged back to.
"You shouldn't have run, Artfiel."
He shrank against the door and screamed. Maybe he could wake up. Maybe this really was just a dream.
Maybe...
Voice sample:
Thread between Kieri and Queen Cassidy
Thread between Kieri and Lady Duroc
Thread between Kieri and Rapunzel
Thread between Kieri and Shrek
ACCEPTED
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