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about 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.

items from asphodel

The Underworld is a nomadic black market and insurgency group which continually changes locations in the tunnels of Asphodel. This is the place to find all the illicit things you aren't likely to find in the sterile environment of the orbital. These include everything from harmless but illegal program mods to stimulants, hardcore drugs, experimental body modifications and prostitution.

Characters looking to augment their bodies or find illicit space-aged substances can find them here. Of course, keep in mind two things: everything comes at a price, and not everything can be smuggled back onto the station.

Some items you might find in the Underworld that you can request (again, not exhaustive):

Artificial limbs
Artificial organs
Body armor
Pet automatons
Drugs

Pornography and small to medium amounts of drugs do not need a request form. Large amounts of drugs meant for dealing, however, will need approval.

To request an item, comment with the form below:

canon updates

Canon updates are going to 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:

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Your Name: Kari
Character Name: Dave Strider
Character Journal:

timeturntable
Nature of the Action: Permanent mutations, resulting from the SHODAN plot (http://community.livejournal.com/singularityooc/2314.html?thread=1151498#t1151498).
Explain in more detail how this will work: In the course of the SHODAN plot (towards the beginning, even), Dave would get hooked by a Alternia-based parasite worm after charging blindly into battle to rescue his bros/friends. This would start the mutation process; Sollux, however, will manage to lead Dave to him through the nanite-network, de-worm him before a full transformation occurs (using the knowledge he'll have gained from SHODAN), and both will escape the sector. (For a more complete rundown, https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NqCH_2GKsC8hllRSQ0zz7tt2DHpaQQ7JKzr9DgVHK3w/edit?hl=en&authkey=CI3-7LoF# has all the details of the plot.)

Before Sollux unhooks him, Dave would be gaining a functional set of external gills (displayed here (http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQf9zy8VtoMKfvv-pDvyH_XyHAIJHchm_AqWAnyH2opFPYLurn1vg&t=1) here (http://www.determinismsucks.net/archive/feferi_go_to_bed-(n1291711089557).gif), or here (fanart; noncanon) (http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2010/306/e/f/mspa__eridan_by_skepsisfox-d3225ng.jpg)), an orangish-yellow troll-horn from the center of his head, and slightly enlarged/sharpened (to the point of severe inconvenience and probable visibility, not danger) top and bottom incisors.

Since he'll be using the teleporter to get Sollux and himself out of the area, the request here is to see if the proposed mutations could remain on Dave's person from that point on for additional weird/angst/awesome.

When do you expect this action to be carried out? Whenever the SHODAN plot goes down; likely, late April or so, possibly May.
Is this illegal and/or sure to have negative consequences? For Dave, yes, definitely negative consequences. Getting used to the additions to his respiratory system will take a while, and even then it's likely he's going to have some breathing problems above ground. For everyone else, not really - it only affects Dave.
If so, do you have a plan for what's going to happen to your character? He'll be a mutant. 8|a
Does this involve characters other than your own? Aside from reacting to his newly mutated status, and the SHODAN plot itself (which Sollux and SHODAN are required in), nope, not at all.
If so, have you gotten the other players' permission? Both SHODAN and Sollux approve heartily of these ideas.

Edited 2011-02-23 16:04 (UTC)

Approved! Mutation and ensuing angst are a-ok.

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Far in advance, as Teal requested we run all mutations from SHODAN-plot by the mods;

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