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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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[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.

[battlefront]

Would that initially be logged, or does something like that have to be handwaved? I don't mind either way, but it's just that I don't want to get ahead of myself if he does get in, haha. SPOILERS: this is a quick summary/edit of what happened.

I think I get what you're saying - as many planets and galaxies there are in canon, I would only need to list the ones that impact the plot the most. There's one galaxy that's not... *as* important, but someone who plays a part in plot much much later lives there? She'd still need a mention, yeah?

Also, how much headcanon is allowed in an app? Because... okay, I'm gonna say it. I'm going to be apping Ratchet, of the Ratchet and Clank franchise, but one of the later games taunted that 'Ratchet' was not his real name. They... never really expanded on that in the following games, though.

[singularitymods]

The final boss fight in A Crack in Time? (One of us is reasonably canon-savvy on Ratchet & Clank.)

I assume you mean Angela? You certainly don't need to go into detail about the plot of Going Commando, but you should mention Megacorp and the Protopets, because they add a lot of color to the R&C universe, which is essentially comedic and over-the-top.

Generally, if you want to log a near-DOA, you could either ask in your OOC intro if another character would be interested in finding yours, or contact a mod to ask for one of the NPCs. Neither is required, however.

If you're going to include headcanon for something like a name, please call that out in the application. It's okay if you want to have it, but when you're making up facts about the character, we and eventually other players need to know.

[battlefront]

Oh! Well, that saves me from trying to be all vague then, haha. Sorry about that - not too many people I know can catch what I'm talking about.;;

And yep! I say this because she does somewhat tie into the plot later on, so just a brief summary of Bogon would suffice? Solana and Polaris would be the bigger ones to get into, I'd think, since most of the series takes place there.

I was thinking of doing that just before intro'ing him, actually. But I wasn't sure if near-DOA characters would have to be taken away by the droids, if that makes any sense? I'm altering it just a tiny bit so he would actually be... playable, while still expanding on the 'alternate timeline'.

And can do! It's not that he'd outright remember it ingame anyway (except for special events or anything), but I'd still like to include it anyway.

[singularitymods]

Yes, you should touch on Bogon, but you certainly don't need to be exhaustive, since it only features as the backdrop to Going Commando.

Badly-injured characters don't have to be found by drones, but if you don't make other plans for the intro, they will be, since having new characters pancake in the Junkyard would be counterproductive to keeping a game going.