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[singularitymods]

faq

Daily Life My character has a particular injury, disease or defect. Do I have to get it cured on arrival? Travel through the Rift is a mysterious process; characters may appear wholly, partially, or not at all cured of any physical problems they had at their canon point. Your character may run into drones which provide medical attention if injured on arrival, but the extent to which your character is cured is ultimately up to you. The station’s teleporters will make a record of your character’s molecular structure on every use, so cured ailments are unlikely to return once removed. Do characters all speak the same language? All written text throughout Sacrosanct and station-controlled areas of Asphodel are automatically translated to a character’s native language through the wearable; a similar process is handled in real-time during audible conversation. The insurgency runs its own pirated version of the same translation software, which doubles as an encryption protocol to hide certain transmissions. Both methods have a 99.99999% uptime rate. Okay, so what does untranslated "native" sound like? If you can imagine English and Mandarin having a baby, a mutant baby, that's half verbalized chatspeak, and has no linguistic rules you'd recognize, you'd be getting close. Are there crimes in Singularity? Is there a justice system? There does not exist a universal justice system; crimes that are not easily visible to the public are likely to go unpunished. In closer living quarters, indiscreet actions may be noticed and acted upon by other characters, but the station itself is ambivalent about the enforcement of justice. Any larger criminal acts, such as murder, assault, organized crime, or actions against NPCs, should be arranged with the moderators. Science and Technology How do characters use the wearables? After being escorted out of the Junkyard, characters are given a computer bracelet for their wrist. It's small, thin, clear, flexible, and---don't worry---completely removable. When worn, the bracelet glows faintly with a string of numbers, acting as a taskbar. Pressing them, or flicking your wrist in the right way, will open the first screen of a touchable holographic operating system. This is your all-purpose smartphone, laptop and game peripheral for everything in Singularity. Where appropriate, mechanical characters, people with high-tech suits, and other synthetics/cyborgs might find the navigation system installed on their HUD instead. Even though most will have starter equipment like this, there are plenty of other wearable computing options and upgrades characters can obtain for the same, but more fashionable, network functionality. All characters are issued a network ID that uniquely identifies them; this ID is attached to each transmission and is impossible to spoof or anonymize. Do the things ever go off on accidentally? The wearables will not activate when not worn, and do not turn on by themselves. That said, it’s possible to mess up filters or post options to transmit to the network accidentally, especially if your character is unfamiliar with technology. Additionally, someone with sufficient network access may be able to remotely monitor through the wearable. How versatile is the station's holographic technology? Depending on access to reliable power sources and holographic generators, holograms can range from small video screens to large augmented reality overlays. Holograms are, in general, fully three-dimensional and can be interacted with by touch. The further away from the station’s centralized computing sources, the less sophisticated holograms get; on Asphodel, for example, they are limited to the immediate areas occupied by station-controlled carbon plants. How do network filters work? Messages can be marked as filtered for specific recipients using standard security settings provided by the network; for added security, character with appropriate skillsets may be able to create custom encryption protocols separate from given ones. It takes time to set up a secured connection, but once established, subsequent messages will remain encrypted until the communication is broken. What about filter hacking? Network-provided filters are very robust; only highly skilled hackers may be able to break them. Characters who enter the station with canonically demonstrated hacking abilities have a good chance at reading filtered messages, however, players must obtain OOC permission from the target in order to assume successful hacking. Virtually anything can be hacked, if given enough time, skill, and computing resources. How do characters get around? Teleporters scattered around the station offer the best in long-distance instantaneous travel, as well as providing the only practical option for traveling between zones (the alternative being maintenance tunnels normally only accessible by drones). For travel to and from the planet, short-range shuttles are the only option. There also happens to be a teleporter in the Rift that is still connected to the network, but is physically inaccessible. What happens to characters when they die? Once the station registers a character’s death, it will attempt to respawn that character at some point through the last teleporter that was used. Your character will step out of the teleporter as if having just used it; no memories between teleporter use and death will persist. This happens instantaneously most of the time, but on occasion it could take hours, days, or weeks for a character to reappear. Due to the potential for character death to jumble station records, there is a chance for characters to respawn with mutations or defects, which increases with each subsequent death. What happens to dead bodies after respawn? Assuming no one bothers to dispose of them, dead bodies will remain in the state in which death occurred, with a slow decomposition process similar to what would happen to that character in its home environment. The respawning process is essentially making a clone of that character, so it’s certainly possible for a respawned character to find its own corpse. Gameplay Are there NPCs? There are a number of NPCs in the game, such as entities Sacrosanct and members of the insurgency living on Asphodel. Players may request interaction with NPCs either through missions or plot requests. For detailed information, see the NPC roster. Why is muncesting not allowed, but playing two characters who "go together" is? The primary difference is intended interaction. Players controlling a dual or multiple consciousness character unit can focus their interactions on CR with external characters played by other characters, while muncesting fails to create meaningful interaction with other players. What is the policy on 'adult' logs? Singularity permits logs containing adult themes; all logs of an explicit nature must be placed under a cut tag with clear warnings in the log header. Appropriate warnings must be added and updated as the log progresses. All players and characters involved in a sexually explicit log must be over the age of 18. The mod team reserves the right to notify you for content warnings; please heed instructions if you are asked to do so. So I'm from this sex game where we have to-- Stop right there. Remember the Keep It Tasteful rule. Yes, we allow you to import characters' memories from previous games, but don't go all creeper on the nearest loli about what your character used to do every Friday night. We're not a DR, and we're definitely not a sex DR. I have a question that isn't listed here. Ask in the comments to this post!

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Comments

[balancetheblood]

Okay, I gotta ask, because I thought there was something and now I see nothing so maybe I imagined it...

What about bringing in characters that are dead and/or canon updating a character to post-death?

[singularitymods]

Well they're certainly going to be confused, and possibly even a little upset. But we don't have any rules or red tape stopping you from applying a deceased character, or updating them to a post-death point in their canon.

[punchingplz]

Is there a contact info sheet somewhere for the whole game or a who plays who sheet? I've been looking but I can't seem to find one anywhere.

(Plus, solely as a housekeeping thing, the setting page is missing the...well, the setting)

[singularitymods]

The taken page is the closest we have to a contact sheet. Most players have their contact information listed in their applications or on their journals.

We're aware of the setting page being down--it got lost in the shuffle when we moved over from LJ. It should be up in the next couple of days.

[snarkingscribe]

Are malleable protagonists with no canon endings (for the time being) automatically considered AU when apped? (The character in question here is the Courier of Fallout: New Vegas. Bethesda hasn't announced a canon ending to the game, and it can go one of four main ways.)

[snarkingscribe]

Also, what's the process to get a sample thread/log approved for app use, while I'm asking questions?

[battlefront]

So I've got several questions for a character I was thinking of apping. Kind of weird circumstances, so just work with me.

- He would be taken from a canon point where he had actually died in canon, but arrive to where he's not quite dead yet. How do characters arrive, per se, and would he be able to manage it in his state?

- I understand that setting is important to describe, but the canon setting is... pretty darn huge. What is the minimal requirement for listing setting, and how detailed do we have to be?

- Also back to the 'dying' bit. The way it was prevented in canon was by reversing time, and stopping the event from happening in the first place - so... technically it would be a canon-AU, but does that count as an AU as-is?

[singularitymods]

Characters who arrive badly injured (or who are injured on arrival) are found by Hypatia's drones and brought to a medical center for treatment. Sacrosanct's medical technology is advanced enough that almost anyone can be saved. Without knowing the specifics of your character's situation, it's hard to say more.

Again, without knowing the setting, it's hard to say. We definitely need a sense of the scope of the setting--Supernatural isn't nearly as sprawling as Star Wars, for example--and major events that got the universe to the state it's in at your character's canon point. When it comes to details, we need to know about the organizations, cultures, technology, and other things that directly affect your character.

For instance, both a Batman app and a Superman app would need to cover that the DC universe involves multiple superheroes and supervillains, aliens, magic, and high technology, but the Batman app doesn't need to mention Metropolis and the Daily Planet. It does need to explain Gotham and Arkham Asylum, the corruption in Gotham's police force and the general noir mood of Batman's slice of the universe. A Superman app, on the other hand, doesn't require the Gotham details, but does need the Metropolis ones.

We rarely reject based on setting, so if you leave something out, you'll generally just be asked for revisions.

I think I understand what you're asking--since time was reversed further down the timeline, the canon point you want never actually existed for the characters, even though it's part of the story? Time travel is weird, but the event in question is part of the narrative, so you're good. That would count as a canon app.

[stimpakaddict]

So I want to start having Gina here actually performing the job she had as a Courier back home. Does that have to be cleared through the job board, or could she make a network post to the effect "hey, I will deliver things for you, prices negotiable"? I figure it's something she'd do as long as there's demand for it.

[singularitymods]

We would suggest a post to the job board prior to an IC post on the network for sake of documentation.

[redrobinhood]

I have a question about the wearable.

Do characters have a user ID that shows up when they make entries or comment? So, if they post or respond to someone, no matter what method, other characters would know who they were by a user ID or something similar?

[singularitymods]

Yes. All users on the network are issued a specific network ID which is attached to their communications.

[eternalscience]

I'd like to know if it's ok for characters to have parts of them that may move independently from its owner, but hold no personality.

An example of this might be Alan Walker's golem Timcampy from D. Grayman.

Would having a similar object be considered still one in the same as the main character / part of their inventory, even though the object might still do things that would have consequences on cr?

[singularitymods]

Sorry for the delay in responding.

Assuming it lacks the sentience to be an appable character in its own right, it would most likely fall under the category of a pet, which is fine to bring along. There may be details that we would want to hear more about for a specific case, but in general, it wouldn't be a problem.

[manlyphysique]

Psst, the info on who I play needs to be updated.

[singularitymods]

Updated!

[duplicities]

i'd like to request an exception for natasha! rl completely got away from me this month and i dropped the ball here, unfortunately.

[arlenadja]

Two completely unrelated questions:

1. One of my characters' games has several different, mutually contradictory storylines, none of which are "official" canon. How does that factor into AU thingies?

2. About the RP setting, is it possible to go from one Zone to another without using teleporters? (Leaving aside for a moment the likely distance one would have to travel even to reach the border.) I was previously under the impression it wasn't, but I can't find that information anywhere in the info, so I'm starting to think I imagined it up.

[singularitymods]

1. If it's published material from the canon, it would probably fall under "canon AU," the way we count multiple versions of malleable protagonists. It would be judged as a canon app. The "AU" bit is just for record-keeping purposes. Without knowing the canon, it's hard to be more precise.

2. Teleporters are the primary method of moving between zones. Characters can also take shuttles from zone to zone, but that requires chits. Going between zones through any of the maintenance connections is generally not possible for characters, would be dangerous to try, and would require a plot request to succeed.

[extinguishescandles]

Just one quick question involving CR AU characters. It says that critters and items from the original game are not allowed unless carried on the character's person. That being said, do pokemon fit this criteria since they are carried in balls on the character's belt?

[singularitymods]

They would be permitted, however it may be necessary to dampen/nerf their abilities.

[fintastic]

Hi mods! I have a strangely specific question but I wanted to see what you thought before I make any decisions. I play Feferi here in ExitVoid and was considering apping her here with past game memories. However, your Eridan here has brought his memories of Sing to EV and told Feferi about them.

So in theory, if I did app her here and get in, she would already be passingly acquainted with the setting. Thoughts, opinions? Rather I not? (I have other things I could app, if it seems too sticky a situation! Also I already talked to Eridan's player about this.)

[singularitymods]

2X MINDFUCK COMBO

Unfortunately, while I personally find the idea pretty darn amusing, it's not workable within the metaplot of Singularity. If you think it's possible to app Fef with memories of an Eridan who behaves like Amanda's, but just somehow never mentioned anything about Sacrosanct, that would be an acceptable tweak, but if you think that's too much of a stretch given her CR with EV Eridan, EV Feferi wouldn't be a good fit here.

[swagneto]

Hello modly people c:

I have two questions regarding CR AUs.

1) I plan on apping in Erik from Counted Stars, and it was there he and Charles had rebuilt the Blackbird (aka that stupid ship everyone crashes in almost every movie/episode/issue). Would I be correct in assuming they couldn't bring this over with them to Sing?

2) In between Erik's point at said previous game and Singularity, I want to canon update him again. Should I just mention such a thing within the app canon point as well as setting or like......... something else entirely ]:?

[singularitymods]

1) The Blackbird isn't an automatic no. If Erik were in the plane when he got caught in the rift, he could crash in the Junkyard with it, and I do mean crash. Controlled landings when being dumped through the rift just don't happen. If you want to do that, you'd need to lay out the Blackbird's capabilities in the Inventory section, and we might ask for it to be toned down, especially if it's stuffed full of Star Wars tech.

It would probably work better to request it as an item later. This would need to be a purely canon version of the Blackbird, not the one from Counted Stars, but other than that, a character having a plane, even a military one, isn't a problem beyond needing to make sure it's not overpowered.

2) Just give us his canon point from the movie, and explain what the deal is with his own personal timeline shenanigans in the AU section.

[thefighterjock]

My character has an item called an omni-tool, which is pretty common in the Mass Effect universe. In essence, it functions almost exactly like the computer bracelet, though it can create items utilizing trace elements in the surrounding area, scan its surrounding area, and (In this character's instance) create heat strong enough to weld. Is this something the character can keep?

[singularitymods]

The omni-tool itself can be brought in on arrival, but many of its functions (communications, scanning, etc.) would be superseded by the communications bracelet. I mean, the omni-tool is great. But it doesn't have Portal Fortress or Everbreath of Fantasy! Weapons such as the omni-blade can be shunted to a requested upgrade for the bracelet or the more-or-less defunct omni-tool after arrival.

That said.

ESTEBAN, GET IN HERE.

[fe_male]

I'm looking to app this Tony in on the day the reserves switch over to apps, and was wondering if I could get like, a couple day extend there to come back and add a bit of the Avengers to his history, because I know that if I app him in as is, post IM2, and then go see the Avengers two days later, I'll lose my mind trying to not have that be in his history.

Is that possible or do you guys have a simpler solution?

[singularitymods]

If you have him on reserve we'd wait for your app to come in before looking at any Tony apps. I'd suggest reserving the character, then submitting the app once you've decided what you're going to be including in it.

[demon_brat]

Quiiiick question about the batbrat. Since for various reasons he seems to be going a bit feral and doesn't want to be as predictable/visible as to live an apartment, and his assassin training makes him prefer living in the shadows when he's not in the middle of the most luxurious setting possible:

Would it be okay for him to spend the 'off' hours inside the maintenance connections? I'm not talking about actually going between zones through them, but with his small size and good training, he probably will be able to move deep enough into them to consider himself safe. Annnnd I just wanted to make sure if that's something I can play out.

[singularitymods]

That's fine.

[guiltapalooza]

Is it possible to app in a character with memories from another game that is themselves an AU? In other words, can someone be apped that is both a regular AU and a CR AU?

And if so, what should they be apped as?

[singularitymods]

While we accept both AU and CR AU applications, but to date we have denied the inclusion of both for one application in our rules. This is not to discourage your interest in Singularity; merely that we practice an "either, or" ultimatum in these situations.

If you have any more questions, please contact one of the moderators.

[eagerbender]

Passing question from an oh-so-curious one though it'll probably involve finale spoilers?

[spoiler]So my question is if I app Korra here just before they all go south to visit Katara to see if she can heal Korra's bending abilities, would I be able to - at a later date - have her hit a new lowest of lows and have Aang and her past lives pop up to renew the bonds between her and the rest of her bending abilities?[/spoiler] In game of course!

[singularitymods]

[spoiler] This is going to have to be a tentative no, because we don't see Korra being able to have access with the spiritual world in an entirely different universe. Korra is more than welcome to start with only her airbending, but if she wishes to regain full use of her abilities it will have to be handled through a canon update.[/spoiler]

We look forward to seeing her in Singularity!

[avengerofjade]

Officially requesting an exception this round for Wistala here and Starfire must_feel_flight.

I moved, transferred jobs, and failed to properly file a hiatus. Whoopsie. :c

[singularitymods]

Granted. Hope things have settled down for you!

[amberdrake]

Hey there, quick questions.

I'm considering apping this guy with some previous game memories intact. But I'm also toying with advancing him in timeline -- I played him just after the first book on that other game, but I'm considering playing him from just after the second book now.

The old game worked fine with this because he could have easily been sent back to his own world, but with his memories accidentally left intact (the old game's staff has no qualm with this), and then this game could nab him 12 IC years later.

Would that be an acceptible way to go about it? I wanted to check before I wrote in a whole second book's worth of summary.

[singularitymods]

That would be fine!

[aroihkin]

Out of curiosity, since this is sort of a grey area... I know you guys say you don't take "fan characters", but you take Shepards and Hawkes and presumably Grey Warden PCs from the various Bioware RPGs. Would you guys entertain a possible app of a WoW PC with a solid canon backstory? He's a Death Knight, so there's just as much potential customization and just as much canon data on his expected backstory as there is for, say, Hawke.

I promise he's not the long lost son of Arthas and Kael'thas, or some such garbage. I'm a DK lore nut and I used to help with apps in a well-respected DK RP group based around that same canon lore, so there's quite a bit of framework in place.

[singularitymods]

Thanks for your question! I'm not terribly familiar with WoW past general osmosis (this is the new mod, hello!), but from my understanding a WoW PC falls more under the line of fandom OC than anything else, since the character's name and personality is largely determined by each individual player. Shepard and Hawke, in comparison, are malleable characters with a limited number of choices and paths available to them, all of which are shown to play out within the scope of the game.

It's a fine line, for sure, but from my understanding a WoW PC is more of a player-created character? I don't want to say no outright because I'm not clear on if WoW PCs have something similar to Bioware RPGs' character development or just backstories. I know we just accepted a SWTOR app recently, but not being an MMO person I don't know too much about the differences personally.

So if you could expand on it a little, that would be great! Just so you know, though, I am planning on closing up apps at the end of this app cycle (9/15) until sometime in October so that we can work on restructuring the game and running through our upcoming plot.

[ghostsinthemachine]

Uh, so question: Would it be kosher to app a Tachikoma from Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex television series and Major Motoko Kusanagi from the Ghost in the Shell films?

Canonically, these are two separate "versions" of GITS; the Tachikoma only exist in Stand Alone Complex, but the Major exists in both. So this version of the Major would not recognize a Tachikoma except as "a tank whose model is somewhat reminiscent of others I've seen in use", though the Tachikoma would probably recognize the Major as "almost exactly like the former coworker I know and am mildly terrified of".

[singdemimods]

Thanks for your question! Unfortunately, we would have to ask that you app one or the other and not both characters, as they would be expected to interact with each other, since one has some significant knowledge of the other. This is especially true because the Tachikoma knows the Major is its commanding officer and would likely defer to her while on Sacrosanct, and despite that the major does not know the Tachikoma she would likely recognize the similar technology.

[littlebloodandgum]

Hello! I'm thinking of apping a Rise of the Guardian character, whether it be this one or another but my question applies to both. They rely on people, children in particular, to see them. Adults generally don't, for obvious reasons. If they were to arrive here, would they automatically be seen or would they need to get people to believe in them first before they are actually seen?

[singularitymods]

Thanks for your question! In the interest of generating CR, we would prefer if adults were able to see these characters. However, you're welcome to play around with what level of perception adults have of them, if that's something you're interested in. (If you're interested in something else, let us know; we're happy to work with you.)

Thank you for your interest in Singularity, and feel free to ask if you have any other questions!