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singularityooc2011-05-18 12:46 am
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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!
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!
AUTORAVE
That's pretty standard.
The only problem is that you're either:
A: a boring, mostly emotionless robot dependent on a human master
B: a psychotic robot probably hell-bent on killing people
Autoraves have vaguely humanoid appearances--Companion models look almost exactly human except for some metal bits. All of them are basically just very powerful, humanoid computers who do assorted service tasks for people. All of them come equipped with a raison d'etre, a reason for being essentially, which basically just translates as their prime directive or core programming. This can either mean that you're bound to serve one particular human as kind of like a secretary or assistant, to be combat-oriented and built like a tank and supposed to generally protect humanity, or bound to provide companionship for a person and act as human as possible.
But since you might not be able to fulfill your raison d'etre, you might be pretty fucked! If you're unable to fulfill this, you'll kind of just go into a BSOD and get extremely lost and confused and probably also somewhat crazed.
OR you might contract the Cogito Virus. It's a virus that makes you sentient! Hooray! Except that sentience means that you actively reject your raison d'etre, become extremely hostile, and be desperately trying to escape the "Dome"--which in this case I suppose would be Sacrosanct. In other words, you're going to be trying very desperately to get the hell off the station. Good luck with that! You might also try to kill any human overlords who try to get in your way. Suddenly having free will and such can make you a bit nuts, after all.