singularityooc | Species Swap Event

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!

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Have questions? Need clarification? Drop 'em here.

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.

Yes, Thane could be an elcor. Have fun taaaaaaaalking. really. sloooooow.

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eighttotwelve.livejournal.com - 2011-05-18 06:18 (UTC) - Expand

Would Skyfire here fall under the category of "Metahuman" or "Cybertronian"? Technically he is both... and should I write an entry for one or both?

I'm gonna go ahead and throw one up for Cybertronian.

Re: QUESTIONS

notyourchauffer.livejournal.com - 2011-05-18 06:21 (UTC) - Expand

SO do we 'claim' species by tagging under the threads above, or...?

If you'd like to post under the species threads to let people know your plans, feel free!

Any odds on getting a Spartan turned into one of those techno-geek engineers/huragok-types by any chance...? :D

Sounds good! Just be sure to write up a good description as there doesn't seem to be one available on Halo's wiki

Re: species derpery?

thom-293.livejournal.com - 2011-05-18 20:39 (UTC) - Expand

Uh. Would it be okay to make a separate account for a species-swapped character and join the comms with it for the duration of the event?

I just want appropriate icons without deleting any of my existing ones okay

Is that so wrong ;____;

P-pretty much...

We won't be adding alternate journals into the comms, but you can use them.

since the teleporters will be affected all week, is it possible to have species switched again midweek? ~~its not that i cant decide between solpony and solvimanus nooooo~~

Yep! If a character makes frequent trips through the teleporters, it's possible for them to get switched to something else or back to their original form early.

~~Good because I wasn't going to ask that question because I'm not waffling between Trollnon and Salarianon.~~

God Sollux

Stop copying the Daves

Oh wait shit

Just checking - it's okay to have people turning into sprites, right?

Yep! His code would be saved in the database.

Azula's just a regular human, buuuut she's a human who can control fire and lightning. Would that ability be able to be transferred over to anyone, or not?

As it's (as far as we can figure) a genetic ability, fire bending would be available! Feel free to write up a heading. :3

emberandash.livejournal.com - 2011-05-18 16:26 (UTC) - Expand

nobletwo.livejournal.com - 2011-05-18 17:28 (UTC) - Expand

emberandash.livejournal.com - 2011-05-18 17:34 (UTC) - Expand

Juuust in case someone was curious. Are there any hard and fast rules for going Human to AI(Like SHODAN, GLaDOS, etc)? Let's double that question for Human to Tron Program Dude too.

This got seriously tl;dr, so I posted it in the species thread. Let me know if that doesn't take care of your questions?

braveboldsphere.livejournal.com - 2011-05-18 17:52 (UTC) - Expand

puppetfetishist.livejournal.com - 2011-05-18 19:01 (UTC) - Expand

Okay so

For a long time there was rampant speculation as to what Jade would eventually prototype her sprite with

One of the most popular fan speculations was this:

Dawgsprite (http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/2565/brosprite.png).

I'd. really love it if Bro could end up at some point in the week as this.

The Problem:

He's prototyped with This guy. (http://mspaintadventures.wikia.com/wiki/Bec)

This'd give him basically the same powers Jack Noir had when he was here (not the AU jack, the horrifying teleporting Jack.) On the downside, he'll 1. suffer from the same issues Davesprite had (game knowledge in his brains) with the additional nastiness of having the Green Sun (massive powersource in the HS universe) burned into his eyelids.

I can shove him through a teleporter again pretty quickly after this just because the powers will give him the mother of all headaches.

idk thoughts? Okay/not okay/derp?

Since Jack has a roboarm/eye, I assume that would transfer to any humanoid species he gets swapped into, but what about totally nonhumanoid species? Would the roboparts get reshaped to fit or would they just fall off and he'd be down an arm/eye again :|a

singularitymods.livejournal.com - 2011-05-19 14:49 (UTC) - Expand

Any potential for a wee Spartan to be even luckier and made Grunt-tastic (http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Grunt)?

Re: More species derpery

singularitymods.livejournal.com - 2011-05-22 00:23 (UTC) - Expand