about character requests

This is an all-purpose page for requesting the most common things you'd need mod permission for. In general, characters in Singularity enjoy broad freedoms with what they can do and acquire; it's only high-risk, rare and/or questionable items that will need to be cleared in advance. Don't worry-- almost all requests will have no problem whatsoever being approved, and if we have some concerns, we're much more likely to discuss it with you than reject anything.

This is also the page to request canon updates for your characters.

item requests

items from the junkyard

Characters can obtain raw materials from the Junkyard, aka Zone 00, the string room where they appeared when first arriving on Sacrosanct. Scrap metal, raw elements, structures and devices can all be found here. Most of these materials, like metals and normal devices (music players, carpentry tools, computer hardware) do not need to be requested here; just assume your character found them. If it's something more advanced or dangerous, we'd appreciate it if you erred on the side of caution and checked it with us first.

Some items you might find in the Junkyard that you can request (not an exhaustive list):

Guns
Advanced computer equipment
Dangerous and/or fictional elements
Alien technology
Premodern technology
Small dinosaurs

In general, living creatures are okay so long as they aren't pests or very large or dangerous. So, no tribbles, sorry.

To request an item, comment with the form below:

canon updates

Canon updates work a little differently in Singularity than in other games. Instead of characters "going home" and returning, the IC explanation for canon updates is this:

Any character that appears on Sacrosanct is, at the moment before he/she/it comes through the space/time rift, understood to be at the most updated version of their canon. This is a floating state for those characters with unfinished canons. The rift is responsible for concealing memories and even changing the physical forms of those who pass through it. For example, a character who loses their hand and has it replaced by a chainsaw may appear in Sacrosanct with their flesh hand fully intact and no memory of the chainsaw. However, because the rift interacts with the teleporters on the station (there is, in fact, a teleporter just inside the rift itself that seems to still be connected to the rest of the network, but cannot be physically accessed), any time a character uses a teleporter he/she/it runs the "risk" of being canon updated. Memories may appear and even physical changes may occur. So our example character might walk into one teleporter with his hand and out another teleporter with his chainsaw, suddenly remembering the events that led up to it.

How exactly is this possible? Hypatia isn't quite sure and likes to pretend things that are beyond her ability to predict don't exist, and the rift itself doesn't answer questions.

Some players may wish to canon update their characters with new items or equipment. If the item in question is larger than would feasibly fit inside a regular teleportation unit (which is meant to accommodate one or two people at a time), the character being updated will find themselves spat out from a teleporter nearest the Junkyard, and their item will be waiting for them there if the character chooses to go look.

Please note that characters are welcome to request items without requiring a canon update. For example, if you want to request Kevin Flynn's lightcycle for Sam instead of his substandard Grid lightcycle, but don't want to update Sam to that particular part of the movie, the Kevin Flynn lightcycle can be requested as a simple item request without a canon update. In that scenario, however, the piece of equipment in question may or may not be unfamiliar to the character, and that must be reflected in their actions accordingly.

To request a canon update for your character, comment with the form below:

character modifications

Some players employ the teleporters to temporarily change their character, whether to another species, sex, or into another person’s body entirely. For the most part, you are free to do this without requiring mod permission; however, if the modification you’re planning on is more complicated or involves more than immediate CR, please drop it here to let us look it over.

To request a character modification for your character, comment with the form below:

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Your Name: Jayde
Character Name: Barricade
Character Journal:

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Reference Point of the Canon Update: To his drop from Axiom (i.e. when he gets his exit visa and goes home in April 2011), and then to the end of DotM to shortly before is potential off-screen death via the US military. A truncated relevant history is located here in order to keep from cluttering this comment ~~more~~.

How Will This Change the Character?: Barricade will be returning with a lot of damage. As far as physical damage, he has lost three of his four optics to sniper fire, and both of his legs below the knee to two well-placed bombs, as well as damage to his upper legs and torso thanks to shrapnel. The optics will be simple enough for him – or another medic – to replace (though their color balance will likely be off for a few weeks until he gets them adjusted to the proper red), though before they are his field of vision will be significantly reduced and his depth perception will be basically nil. His legs will be a whole different affair. They can be repaired, but it will take at least two months for Barricade to gather the supplies and reconstruct them, and likely a while longer than that to get accustomed to walking again, with no guarantee that he will walk without limping. Until then, he won’t be able to access his vehicle mode, as essential parts are still going to be missing, even with his tires located on his arms and shoulders.

More importantly, he’ll be coming back a whole slew of new psychological damage. Thanks mostly to Decepticon comm lines, he knows that Starscream and Shockwave’s driller were both destroyed in combat; compound that with the loss of Soundwave and Megatron’s inability to function – and the Autobots’ stubborn refusal to die – and the whole Chicago thing starts to add up to a major catastrophe in the making. Barricade is smart enough to realize that his home planet, the thing he’s fought to save the entire war, will likely be destroyed once and for. Surviving the destruction of Cybertron was something he’d never expected to do and he will take the loss outrageously hard. He’ll be openly hostile to those in the military and those that support the military on-station (for what he’s suffered), and will also be more hostile to any of his Autobots that happen to already be on or arrive on the station (for their part in the loss of Cybertron). Thankfully with his memories of Axiom intact, he’s less likely to take out his ire on non-Tyrans… though versions of Optimus Prime are likely to get initial bouts of bristling and angry questioning from him. One can never be too sure if they would go the route of his own, after all. He will be wary of dealing with humans, but it won't stop him from conversing with them. The details of what happened he’s likely to keep from other Tyrans, particularly the Autobots, out of some cruel sense of vengeance. He wants them to find out about Sentinel Prime defecting to the Decepticons and the ravaging of Chicago for themselves.

Additionally, the loss of his legs and subsequently the loss of mobility will be a serious blow to his ego and the feeling of self-sufficiency he’s attempted to cultivate recently. He’s going to be less likely to try to hide his anger and frustration with the whole situation, but do his best to reclaim his independence in whatever way is possible… even if that means engaging in unnecessary cruelty towards whoever happens to have mistreated him recently, and especially if it means trying to sublimate that rage into something useful – most likely building or finding himself a wheelchair built for giant freaking robots.

Any Large Items?: Just one – an energy-firing rifle with a firing action and recoil similar to a shotgun. Unlike his other weapons it is not directly configured from his body parts, and is a held weapon. It packs a considerable punch but – given how close he is when he shoots Que/Wheeljack – likely doesn’t have the range of some of his other weapons. It’s not shown if it stores on his person or what; Barricade will likely find a way to build a holster for it out of leather and a harness to sling it behind his shoulder to deal with this gap.

Approved.

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