Species Swap Event

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On May 20th, Kaylee and Bro are going to go on a date. Normally, this wouldn't mean anything to anyone on the station except for them, but Kaylee just happens to be a very curious mechanic whose idea of the perfect date involves digging into the wiry heart of the station.

Long story short? The teleporters are about to start malfunctioning. While they'll still get your character from point A to point B, there will also be a solid chance that they will be one of the lucky people who experiences a random teleportation error. This error? It scrambles your character's DNA and they might just come out the other side with fins, hooves, or mandibles. A human is now a salarian. A troll is now a golden retriever. In short: species swap.

The effects will last until the 27th when Hypatia manages to replace the necessary parts to repair the damage done.


A quick run-down of rules are as follows:
-Species will be limited to current residents of the station unless otherwise approved.

-No splicing two or more species together please. We don't need any half-unicorn, half-dragon wolves running amok. Keep it simple. There's plenty enough to wig out over with a total gene swap.

-The swap will occur as a “random accident” upon your character teleporting. If you don't want to take part in the species swap shenanigans, it's safe to assume that your character simply wasn't effected.


To generate CR:
A log will go up on the start day of the event. Should you choose, the teleporter error may also have the unfortunate side-effect of routing your character to Garden Zone 1 instead of their desired location.

Don't fret, though, they won't be stuck and there will be more people behind them, coming through from other parts of the station on a similar detour. It's the perfect rendezvous. Have your character chat with them, gape at their new bodies, or find another teleporter and go on their merry way.

Or have a panic attack. Whichever.


Feel free to ask questions/leave comments in the labeled section below. Let's have fun, guys!

Comments

SPECIES

[singularitymods.livejournal.com]

Please include a description of your character's species (ie. Biology/powers/weaknesses) however long or brief you'd like. This will serve as a reference to other players who might be interested in playing as said species but need to know what it entails. Links are welcome!

DOMESTIC CAT

[blackcatjiji.livejournal.com]

The cat (Felis catus), also known as the domestic cat or housecat to distinguish it from other felines and felids, is a small furry domesticated carnivorous mammal that is valued by humans for its companionship and for its ability to hunt vermin and household pests.

You will become totally adorable and all women will love you.

You will have an inexplicable desire to chase small or fast-moving things.

You will be full of murderous teeth and claws.

I trust you will know what to do.

SPLICERS

[thiswaydaddy.livejournal.com]

Splicers.

So one of two things just happened to you.

First option: your DNA got scrambled up and you can now throw fire, bees, lightning, or fling shit with your brain (only nonliving, not living or dead).

This is Awesome with a capital A.

You're a destructive machine, enjoy it. No really, because after you do this a few times you're going to get tired, really, really tired...and you'll start jonesing for magical genetic heroine. This will be so severe it will seem like a good idea to jam a huge needle in your forearm just to get a fix. There are two ways to get EVE on Sacrosanct because supply is a little low. Either you start chain smoking and drinking, or you decide to take on one of the big sisters. If you kill her, that shit's all yours.

GOLDEN RETRIEVER

[dug-the-dog.livejournal.com]

You are a dog. Dug is a dog. ...Hi there. :D


(Just you try higher level thoughts, I dare you. Welcome to stream of consciousness, my friend. We're all happy, here.)






SQUIRREL.

PROGRAM

[alphaclass.livejournal.com]

Oh. You've spontaneously gained tron lines circuits and are now made of pixels. There is a disc affixed to your back that serves as a second brain (and also a glowing death frisbee). You are either an ISO (self-generated, no directive) or a Basic (programmed by a User; you've got a purpose). Either way, you're pretty much radical, man.

TURIAN

[cmdr-renegade.livejournal.com]

So you want to be a turian? Well then. You're now about six feet, covered in natural armor, and deathly allergic to levo proteins (i.e. anything on the station with protein in it). The good news? You're strong, your reach has improved, you have cool mandibles that freak people out, and binocular vision (ain't predator species grand?).

The probably good news? You have four fingers all of them with razor sharp talons, dual vocal chords for that awesome flange, and you suddenly have the urge to stare at people's waists and consider just how supportive they are.

Mmmm dat supportive waist.


...You also have the inexplicable urge to use airquotes on a regular basis. Huh. Odd, that.

SALARIAN

[cmdr-renegade.livejournal.com]

You are now a six and a half foot tall salamander alien who talks like the wind. You've never had this much energy. Sound the alarm, you're uncomfortably energetic. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRuNxHqwazs) You've also gained about double the processing power of the human brain. This might be due to the gratuitous amounts of energy. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-3qncy5Qfk)

Enjoy your brief foray into salarian genius.

You know what also helps with this foray? Your reproductive system is no longer hormonal. So the only outlets for your energy are all going to be PG. PG13 if you get violent. I'd apologize, but you're getting so much done. So. Much. Done. Who needs sleep? There's SCIENCE.

CYBERTRONIAN

[knight4darkness.livejournal.com]

TRANSFORMERS; ROBOTS IN DISGUISE (http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Transformer).

You are now a giant robot, or maybe not so giant. Either way, a Transformer (commonly known as Cybertronian, seeing as they're from Cybertron - think Human/Earthling, both names being acceptable in common usage I THINK-) is a fully sentient robotic species that is capable of shifting from one form to another. Sometimes this 'another' is a car. Sometimes it is a tank. Sometimes it is an airplane! But the latter would probably be scaled hella down because mass shifting aside, you should remain around 18 feet at max.

It is very possible you come with weaponry. But seeing as you're also very possibly bigger than most others on this space station, it's debatable whether or not you'll actually need it.

Also your soul is tangible, called a Spark, and (usually) hangs out in the middle of your chest powering your processor (brain) and chassis (body).

Carcharians

[suckitimashark.livejournal.com]

Shark-faced assholes. Carcharians look physically similar to humans, except for the rows of serrated teeth that line their mouths and dormant gills along their ribs. They have average vision and hearing, but little to no sense of taste.

Abilities:
-Carcharians are physically hardy, and fare well against radiation and most poisons. They can eat just about anything as a result. Also: lose a tooth? No problem. They grow back.

-Exposure to water will activate their gills, giving them the ability to breathe under water.

Weaknesses:
-That marvelous physical hardiness? Makes it really hard to judge safe dosages for medication. Also: can't get drunk easily.

-Them gills? Those puppies will open up in a rain storm. Have fun concentrating on primary respiration.

-Having the throat grabbed will render a carcharian largely immobile. It has some relaxing effects, but really... if someone is grabbing you by the throat, the last thing you want is to have a nap, right?

DRELL (This would be what Thane is, non-ME people.)

[cmdr-renegade.livejournal.com]

Congratulations, you're a drell! You're now a humanoid lizard person with fused index and middle fingers, colorful scales, and a severe aversion to water. Don't go swimming. Drell...not so good at that when they don't have cybernetic lungs. Also, if people lick you or you engage in too much bodily contact, they're gonna trip again. Your skin is LSD.

It is also pretty important to note that you now have a memory that puts most video recording equipment to shame. Everything about everything, you will remember, in perfect clarity. This is pretty boss for recalling where you left things, but has the unfortunate side effect of Solipsism. You will, every so often, flashback and get absorbed by your perfect memories, often reciting them for any passers-by in obscure, half-cocked and occasionally over-informative sentences.

Have fun with that.



Protip: It's great at parties.

HUMAN

[cousinisdeeeead.livejournal.com]

MAN WHAT IS UP WITH THEM.

TROLL

[circuitry]

So, I notice trolls aren't listed up here yet. This needs to be fixed.

Trolls are grey-skinned humanoids with candy corn colored horns, sharp teeth, and yellow eyes. Their blood runs a gamut of rainbow colors, which denotes where you fall on the social ladder. Trolls come in two flavors: land- and sea-dwelling. Land-dwellers are your average, run-of-the-mill trolls, whereas the sea-dwellers are typically nobility, with fins, gills, and blood that runs up on the higher end of the hemospectrum.

Trolls are generally more aggressive and violent than humans, both due to their culture and their natural instincts (although this isn't the case for everyone, obviously). Some also have psychic abilities -- Sollux and Aradia are telekinetic, and Vriska is able to manipulate people's minds.

You will also have ridiculously complicated romantic entanglements. No one will have any idea what is going on at any given time. No, not even you.

UTAH RAPTOR

[screeee.livejournal.com]

Utah raptors (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utahraptor) are about a thousand pounds of scaly, knife-toed, predatory goodness. Roughly the size of a grizzly bear, Utah raptors are scavenging predators that rule their territory with an iron claw.

Seriously, who would mess with them? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5nO7rf0vzM)

INVIMANUS

[tempus-mutantur.livejournal.com]

Pink hair/eyes. Kitty-cat horns. Murderous urges and extra limbs. All of this can be yours with a simple genetic swap.

Those extra limbs are called rays and they come out of your back, all transparent and ghostlike (http://images.wikia.com/elfen-lied/images/5/56/Elfen_Lied_ep2_Vectors.jpg). You have telekinetic control over them and can cut through just about anything, including people. You can also reach inside people and blend their organs, if you want. Or. Just grab stuff. They're arms, after all, and insanely strong ones at that. Your range is about ~2 meters, maybe a little less than that -- it tends to vary with the individual. You have four in total. Concentrate hard enough and you can make the shit you touch explode, but be careful. Abusing that tends to HURT.

Anyway, ~murder~. There is literally a voice telling you to kill people. It's part of your genetic programming and very hard to ignore. Humans suddenly disgust you for some reason! And offing 'em will sound increasingly tempting as the week drags on. You may find yourself hallucinating about it in advance, or about anything that might've caused you distress/guilt in the past. Talking to yourself is TOTALLY normal, really.

That's the short version, sob. If you have more questions I am happy to answer, and also, check this (http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ll51riOExu1qifs93o1_500.png) out, trollpeople. It was floating around on tumblr.

DRAGONNNN

[notaneggbaby.livejournal.com]

You are now a dragon. Is this awesome?: y/mfy.

Some stuff about dragons from Conrit's world, now that you're joining them:
1. You can breathe fire! How about that.
2. Your scales come in six interesting shades: Black, green, gold, red, blue, or brown. Dragons vary in size based on their scale colors. From largest to smallest: Brown, red, blue, black, green, gold.
3. Your blood now has butane in it. It's highly flammable. Try not to bleed everywhere and then sneeze on it, bad things will happen.
4. Your diet is now charcoal. Eat anything unburnt and your furnace is going to fire up to burn it down and you're going to wind up burping up gross-tasting smoke for a while. Sushi and ice cream will probably make you puke. Sorry.
5. You can flyyyyyy! FUCK YEAH BIG OL' DRAGON WINGS.
6. You can still talk like normal, though some new growls and rumbles have been added to your normal soundboard. Magic and skills are possible so long as you don't need thumbs for them. If you do, well, I hope you know transformation magic.
7. You want shiny things. All the shiny things. The urge to collect them and then sit on them will be there, but I'm sure you can fight it off. Right? Right. (in b4 all the robots get hoarded and sat on)
8. Young, pretty girls/women are now walking, talking bacon cheeseburgers. Resist the urge to nom them. Or don't. Your call.

RADIOACTIVE IGUANA

[atomic-breath.livejournal.com]

You have basically just become a giant, radioactive lizard mutation. Roughly 10-15 feet tall. You sport some tough-as-nails scales, sharp teeth and claws, and a tail that can whip a Spartan off its feet. You can burrow into the ground at the speed of a cartoon rabbit. No, seriously. You love to swim in the water (and you can hold your breath for a really long damn time) and eat only fish. No substitutes allowed.

Oh, and you can breath green fire. Wicked, amirite?

NOBODY

[poisonousflame]

Hey, look at you! You're a Nobody. Good job, genius! It'll be tons of fun.

First and foremost, you'll notice a lack of emotions. Terrifying, right? Not really: fear is something that's preeetty hard to feel, when you, y'know, can't feel. Happiness, sadness, fear, lust, friendship: they're all things of the past. If you're extremely lucky, you may feel the shadow of an emotion, like something so muted it's almost hard to recognize. But primarily, the only thing you feel is empty.

Why do you feel so empty? Because you don't have a heart! How are you alive? Well, you're not human, or whatever else you were before: you're just the shell of that, still 'existing' by sheer force of will. Shells don't really need hearts. So, have fun with that.

You may be thinking, 'Well shit, if I can't feel and I'm just a shell, what's to stop me from walking off a cliff?' Good question! Fortunately, you still have a sense of self-preservation. You'll do pretty much anything to keep yourself going: fight, bribe, beg, etc. You don't want to feel so empty: you want whatever's missing, and you need to keep on going to get whatever-it-is. Your body is also still quite capable of feeling pain, so you'll avoid getting hurt whenever you can.

Gravity-defying hair (to whatever extent you choose) is optional, as are random zippers suddenly being added to your wardrobe. B)

(If you've got any questions, like what happens if a Nobody gets hurt or something, fire away!)

Dragons: The How to Train Your Dragon Edition

[ysonightfurious.livejournal.com]

NOT ALL DRAGONS ARE THE SAME YOU RACISTS

Currently, there are two species of dragon on the station. Astrid's Deadly Nadder (Blue) and Hiccup's Night Fury (Toothless)

Nadders:
Something like birds. Nadders have two legs, no arms and small-ish wings, though they can still fly. They have flattened down spines along their tail that can be raised and shot at enemies with the whip of a tail. They have an eye on each side of their head, and a blind spot RIGHT IN FRONT OF THEIR FACE.
Read More... (http://howtotrainyourdragon.wikia.com/wiki/Deadly_Nadder)

Night Furys:
Herp derp derp derp
Okay, no, seriously.
Behavioral and vocal cross between tigers, housecats, horses and dogs. Mostly nocturnal. They are always black because they need to blend in with the night sky. Flamse are actually shootable timed explosives. Made for flying at RIDICULOUS speeds and doing SICKNASTY air acrobatics.
Read More... (http://howtotrainyourdragon.wikia.com/wiki/Night_Fury)

UNSC-FLAVORED AI

[alaspooryork]

You are a little chip with an attached mini-holoprojector. I hope you have someone to carry you around or a nearby mobile platform to take over, or you're popping out of the teleporter and sitting on the ground for the duration of the event.

But if you don't, it's still okay! Thanks to the pervasive wireless network and the millions of holoprojectors throughout the station, you can use the network to instantly appear anywhere in your chosen holographic form. The default size is about action-figure sized, but you can control this and appear as large or small as you want. Each AI has a unique appearance which is self-determined, and it can be as human, abstract, or monstrous as you like. For example, Auntie Dot from Reach is a series of glowing crosshairs.

Capabilities! Your chip can be inserted into any compatible neuroimplant slot, which are currently only possessed by York, Washington, Tucker, Black-One, Black-Two, and Black-Three (although any other Spartan or hell even Rookie or O'Brien could get their neural slot modified to take an AI with minimal difficulty). If you're synched with someone, you'd get access to their memories and their brain's procesing power and if you're strong-willed enough you can take over their body - seems like a raw deal for the human until you realize they're about 150% more efficient with an AI running their equipment, and controlling someone's body with faster-than-human reflexes can be awesome if the AI is on your side in a combat situation. You're also designed to be able to pilot starships and can control virtually any large mechanical device including robot bodies, computer databanks, etc.

Downsides? You're a Microsoft product. You go insane in 7 years. Sorry.

SPRITE

[featheryasshole]

Congratulations, you are now a sprite! What that means is basically an AI in a ghostly body. You suddenly have a head full of coding and information about this really weird game, along with a massive feeling of confusion because sprites aren't actually supposed to exist outside of said game.

The fun part here is the prototyping. Normally, sprites can be prototyped twice. The first prototyping is you; the second would be the first thing you touch after that. For convenience's sake, let's say that normal prototyping doesn't work outside the game. If you want to have your character be a weird mashup of themselves and something totally random/ironically appropriate, it's happening in the teleporter.

The only powers all sprites have in common are the aforementioned game knowledge and flight as a standard mode of movement. Any further abilities are determined by the prototypings. I kind of go by the headcanon that power levels are adjusted when necessary, i.e. if you're already powerful, you'll keep those powers, if not, you'll get eye lasers or the ability to produce baked goods out of nowhere or whatever seems appropriate.

I'm probably making this incredibly unclear and leaving out tons of important stuff, so feel free to hit me up on aim (theatricalWraith) and demand clarifications.

ROBUTTS

[sensiturret.livejournal.com]

WELCOME TO LIFE AS AN APERTURE SCIENCE INVOLUNTARY MECHANICAL EMPLOYEE!!! You will find yourself unable to do such unnecessary things as talking, but that's okay, because you're a robot and life as a robot is really cool. You have been made from components just generally lying around in Aperture Science - a defunct turret, a failed personality core, a....cubey cube - but that's just efficient! You're cool with it! And what you're especially cool with is science. You want to do science so bad. In fact you will probably find performing and completing tests gives you a rush of pleasure, perhaps akin to orgasm.....or maybe just shooting up some really good drugs. Careful, it's addictive, and you'll find that you need to do more and more dangerous tests to satisfy that science-y urge!

Side effects include burning curiosity to the point of suicide, never resting ever, a callous disregard for life or harm in yourself and others, listening to really bad people as long as they give you tests, a rapidly self-evolving personality, and a compulsive need to find your One True Testing Partner.

PONY

[mylittlebrony.livejournal.com]

Since no one else has done it!

You are now a pony from the magical land of Equestria. There are three sub-species of pony, but all of them are four-legged hoofed equestrian creatures with a vegetarian diet. You're also fairly small, compared to everyone else. About 12 to 14 hands (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand_(unit)) in height. You are also innocent, cute, brightly colored, and possess an identifying mark on your flank known as a cutie mark. This symbol is associated with something you do well or a particular skill and can really be anything: butterflies, diamonds, lightning bolts, hour glasses, apples and so much more.

On to your three sub-species.

Pegasus pony: The coolest of all ponies. They have a pair of wings which lets them fly. They also have a minor magical ability which allows them to walk on clouds as if they were solid earth. They can also manipulate clouds, pushing, pulling, making it rain, etc.

Unicorn pony: These ponies have a single horn on their forehead. This allows them to use magic, the power of which varies depending on the individual. All unicorns can apparently use this magic as a form of telekinesis to lift and manipulate objects, and other spells involve shape-shifting, growing moustaches, and other awesome stuff.

Earth pony: The most boring of ponies. They don't really do anything except be hardier and stronger than other ponies. That's about it.

TAMARANEAN

[glorystars.livejournal.com]

Eh might as well.

YAY YOU ARE NOW A TAMARANEAN, which means you are a humanoid alien which gives you powers such as flight without needing any wings or anything like that, the ability to shoot bolts of energy from your hands and super strength so super you could easily pick up something huge like a bus. (Also be careful with those handshakes and hugs at first so you don't accidentally crush your friends okay.) SEE HERE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHa9U0-kUIs) FOR TAMARANEAN-NESS.

Also also, Tamaraneans have orange skin and are typically red haired with green eyes. Starfire's sister in the video there is just a special case. But you could roll with that too if you want. /o/

ZONE-DROP PLOTTING

[singularitymods.livejournal.com]

Need an excuse for some species-swapped CR? You're under the right heading.

Re: ZONE-DROP PLOTTING

[emberandash.livejournal.com]

I don't even... know what I'm going to make her yet BUT THAT CAN BE DECIDED; DOES ANYONE WANT TO PLOT?

QUESTIONS

[singularitymods.livejournal.com]

Have questions? Need clarification? Drop 'em here.

POTENTIAL SPECIES?

[eighttotwelve.livejournal.com]

Was wondering if I could have Thane turn into an elcor from Mass Effect. While it's not a species present on the station, they are very apparent in the Mass Effect universe.