I N F O ; C O N T A C T . & . F A Q

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C O N T A C T . A N D . F A Q : mod contact ; Your mods at Singularity are all available to answer questions or concerns about the game. Note: All mods play the station AI, Hypatia (ascens). You can direct questions about her to any of the moderation team. C O F F E E ; tallwhite also plays ; BLU Sniper (itsdecaf) im ; bugger this thing B R I G ; haneshinohara also plays ; Arbiter (arbitrating), Private O'Brien (sniperbitch), Eko (temerate), Marcus Wright (equalsdeath, and the NPC Twosix-six (bastione) im ; BrigantineFranke L A I N I E ; gayistheway also plays ; Black-One (oneliners), Catherine-B320 (nobletwo) im ; literally nailed M O U S E ; emeraldmouse also plays ; Red (screeee), Virgil (suckitimashark), RED Pyro (up_in_flame), Jack (i_would_kindly im ; whatuhflamer All mods can also be reached at the main mod email, singularityrpg.mods@gmail.com. Please allow 72 hours for response. app team contact ; Your mods and app team at Singularity are all available to answer questions or concerns about the application process. Note: App team members use the journal singdemimods for their announcements. Please consider a response from this journal, especially towards applications, to have the same weight as a reply from a mod. All applications are reviewed by ALL mods and app team members. O D D ; gorebite also plays ; T-800 (terminatenomore), Black-Two (blacktwo), Zaeed Massani (gawdamn), Fluttershy (shiesaway) im ; electricbeararms V I C ; mechaphilia also plays ; 686 Ebullient Prism (creepersphere), Grid (dismembers), Legion (cohesions), Jorge-052 (noblefive), The shadow (harpocratic), Nue (dimidiate), Michael Altman (reunified) im ; vicioushallway faq ; Q: My character has a particular injury, disease or defect. Do I have to get it cured on arrival? A: Occasionally, Hypatia may decide to leave a particular injury or defect untreated, provided it's not life-threatening, if she finds it makes the visitor more "interesting." So, yes! You can absolutely say Hypatia left something untreated. However, any injuries sustained in the Junkyard will still be seen to. On the flip side, if your character is coming in with a health problem or such that would impede play, like having terminal cancer or being poisoned, you can choose to have Hypatia remove this. Use with care, because you can't decide to give your character their illness back at a later time. Q: How do characters use the bracelets? A: After being escorted out of the Junkyard, characters are given a small wearable 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. Q: How versatile is the station's holographic technology? A: It's the closest thing to magic. In any given location, indoors or outdoors, in residential or garden zones, characters can create fully 3D, touchable holograms, from vidscreens to augmented reality overlays. The holographic capabilities at Asphodel's station-controlled carbon plants are a little more limited, but mostly the same. Q: Do the things ever go off on accident? A: While it is possible to mess up the filter or post options to post something accidentally, the devices don't ~*~turn on by themselves~*~. In particular, they will never activate when not being worn. That is, unless there's a Hypatia Is A Creeper event going on... Q: What about filter hacking? A: The standard security settings for network filters are incredibly strong. Your character needs to be canonly gifted at hacking to do it, though of course they can learn or receive help over time too. Q: Do characters all speak the same language? A: All written text throughout Sacrosanct and station-controlled areas of Asphodel identify the user's language and automatically translate. A similar process is handled in realtime during conversation. All of this is run off characters' wearables, so removing or deactivating them will render all text and speech incomprehensible, except in languages they already know. The insurgency also 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, but you never know when a Tower of Babel event will come along... Q: Okay, so what does untranslated "native" sound like? A: 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. Q: Are there NPCs? A: The only NPC on Sacrosanct is Hypatia. On Asphodel, in addition to Lev, there is the human insurgency which might number in the hundreds. They're hard to find, though. Players are free to handwave interactions with them but need permission to kill any since, well, they won't replenish. :( Q: Are there crimes in Singularity? Is there a justice system? A: Despite her namesake, Hypatia isn't usually interested in punishing visitors, unless they do something to piss her off. Crimes committed against the insurgency usually come back to bite the character in the ass, so things like murder and assault should be inquired about on the Requests page before being implemented. Keep in mind, however, that just because there isn't mod regulation of criminal activity does not mean characters are not accountable if other characters have a problem with yours. Q: What happens to dead bodies after respawn? A: They don't combust or vanish, if that's what you want to know. Respawn is basically cloning, so revived characters are fully capable of stumbling upon their own corpse, which will decompose at the normal rate. The same goes for Underworld NPCs, who don't respawn at all, because they don't use teleporters. Q: Are characters at all aware that they've died and been respawned? A: Nope! The action involved in respawning and teleportation is absolutely the same, so there's no immediate way to discern between one and the other. They will not even be aware time has passed. Fortunately, their wearables will respawn with them, and immediately synchronize with station records as soon as they exit the teleporter, so while your character himself might not know what happened, a quick check of the public surveillance cameras will hopefully get him up to speed. Those gifted in programming can also create routines that analyze surveillance footage and user biostats to send a message to the programmer in the case of death. Q: All these job listings on the Job Board aren't possible for my character. How can I earn work credits? A: You can also ask another character to do the job for you and transfer the credits in exchange for a favor or item. If your character is gifted electronically, they might also be able to counterfeit credits or get what they want by illegal means. The listings on the job board are always changing, however, so if your character's the straight and narrow kind you might find a suitable one soon! Q: Why is muncesting not allowed, but playing two characters who "go together" is? A: It's a difference in intent. Let's use the characters 3 and 4 from 9 as an example: they function as basically the same person in two bodies. Their major interaction would not so much be with each other as with other characters. That is why it must be done responsibly: players found to be interacting too heavily with themselves will be asked to stop, or failing that, to drop one of the characters. Q: Why are "adult" logs with players set at 18 and above, but can involve teenaged characters as long as they're not "obviously" underaged? A: Because characters are fictional, no matter what Canada says. And for as controversial as it sometimes may be for RPers, the "age" given to certain characters, especially in Japanese media, is incredibly arbitrary. It's often a matter of audience appeal more than realism. That said, you can have a shotabait 19-year-old just as much as a worldly 12-year-old, which is where the Keep It Tasteful rule comes into play. We don't want to sit around debating what is offensive or not. If a mod asks you to cut or warn for something, do it. If we ask you to stop or move a thread or log to a journal/musebox, please follow instructions. Failure to do so may result in mod action. Q. So I'm from this sex game where we have to-- A: 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. Q. I have a question that isn't listed here. 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Comments

[mechaphilia.livejournal.com]

What's the policy on apping characters from games where they have different bodies? Such as if I was to app a character who is canonically robotic, but due to the nature of the game they are/were being played in they have been given a humanoid organic form--would they show up in that organic form, or revert to their canon robotic body?

[no-pen-writer.livejournal.com]

Okay, please accept my apology in advance for this as I try and make it make sense.

In regards to AU's and your reasoning of staying away from gender changing and such I agree with. However it thus made me uncertain on a certain aspect I wanted to try for a character. I play in the Transformers fandom and considering their size, as you have stated, it makes it hard for them to be played in games.

What I want to know is if I could AU a character from one continuity into another to make them physically fit into the game itself.

As in my character would basically be the same personality wise from his medium, just with an edited history to allow him to fit in another continuity to use a plot device from it. (Taking Red Alert from the 80's cartoon and transplanting him into the 07/09 Live action movie universe to use an aspect called Pretenders. Which are basically transformers who instead of being large robots who change into cars, they are instead human size robots that are 'technoorganic' as they pretend to be humans.)

I would even be willing to link to a source to show the original history/personality that is displayed in canon as a comparison to show I'm not just making an OC with a canon character's face.

If it's not allowed I understand and will just go the normal route of him being shrunk down.

[kinduvabigdeal.livejournal.com]

Question about language/translation -- Pyro isn't really supposed to be understandable, so if he wore his bracelet outside his glove (which he'd do, because taking the glove off all the time to turn the thing on and off would be a pain, and it can't exactly project holograms through rubber, right), would the translation functions cease to work, as it's not in direct contact with his skin/DNA/whatever? So it wouldn't be keyed to him any more or something (assuming bracelets auto-key themselves to whatever genetic record they're touching/reading, so people would be able to accidentally switch bracelets and still have them work instead of having to find their "own" etc).

HAHAHA, I'm just trying to find a way to make it so that he IS mostly unintelligible because that's kinda the point...

[starshipcommand.livejournal.com]

Is... there a reserve page? ._.

[screeee.livejournal.com]

OKAY SO

If a webcomic artist apps one of their own characters, does it count as a canon character or an OC?

[grindcore.livejournal.com]

Question: do you guys allow canon OCs, in the specific instance of, like, a video game enemy given a personality and background via (mostly) headcanon?

I'm sorry for how long this is. I have this LJ name for a reason. 1/2

[teal-deer.livejournal.com]

I see that we can make a choice as to which form we want our characters to take, but, er, the character I'm thinking of apping is a complicated case.../



The character in question is Starscream from the Transformers G1 Cartoon, and the game I played him in was Cape and Cowl. The issue is what form this version of Starscream would take upon arriving in the city. In Starscream's native canon, he is normally a Giant Space Robot, but from the point I had originally apped him in from (post the episode Possession in Beast Wars, if that means anything to you) he existed only as a disembodied ball of nearly indestructible energy, called a Spark.

In Cape and Cowl, he was initially given a human body with superpowers (as all nonhumans in that game are), but starting early this past year, he upgraded himself into a new technorganic Pretender shell (see this post (http://loltraitorlol.livejournal.com/9088.html#cutid2) and also this one (http://loltraitorlol.livejournal.com/8648.html#cutid1) for details; you can ignore the bits about him having extras on hand because he obviously wouldn't have that in Singularity, at least not for a VERY long time). By the time I dropped him, this shell had lost most of its organic parts, and was a fully robotic though non-transforming body (and a... somewhat terrifying one).

When I dropped Starscream there, his last thread involved him being permanently killed. Due to the method of his death, his body vaporized, and according to CnC rules, he would have been sent back to his own home dimension... which in his case means floating in between the stars as a disembodied orb of energy.

So, my question boils down to: What the hell body would Starscream have on arrival to the station? Would he remain a disembodied Spark (as he is now?)? Would he have his somewhat terrifying robot body from just before he died? The entirely human-looking robot body he used shortly before that? His fully human body from earlier in CnC? His original Transformer body?

As a spark, he has the following abilities:
he can only be destroyed by high-level energy beings (ie, supernatural beings or creatures like the Q from Star Trek or Vorlons/Shadows from B5 otherwise Sufficiently Advanced life forms) or by a shard of unstable crystaline energon shoved through the center of his spark.
He is insubstantial and has no physical presence or ability to move things
He can speak
He can posses machinery (including sentient robots) in much the same way a ghost possesses people
If a machine he is possessing is severely damaged or destroyed, or indeed simply rendered temporarily nonfunctional, he is ejected from it.
In Cape and Cowl only, he also had the ability to posses organic life forms, with the limitation that he could only leave those bodies if the body died, was rendered unconscious (not asleep, but actually unconscious) or if a spark extractor was used on him.

A spark consists of some sort of highly ordered energy matrix of positrons and positive-spin tachyons composed in such a manner that it can contain and convey data and energy. Most sparks are instantly destroyed when removed from being housed in a Transformer without special equipment; Starscream's has some (unspecified by canon) crazy mutant quality that lets him do this stuff. If he's stuck as a spark, would he have any of these abilities?

If he has the human body he had in CnC, would he have his superpowers at all (they're not THAT powerful, honestly, you can read about them in that same post with the stuff about his robot body (http://loltraitorlol.livejournal.com/9088.html#cutid1) and I do have a technobabble explanation for how they work [mostly blah blah electromagnetism]) or would he be 100% human?

[grindcore.livejournal.com]

'NOTHER QUESTION UNRELATED TO THE LAST ONE I ASKED:

I was considering apping a character that needs to eat living tissue for sustenance; could that be canceled out here? So he could just eat normal food, or something.

[noblefive.livejournal.com]

ONE OF THE MODS CUSSED ME OUT ON SKYPE

what do

[techno-rockstar.livejournal.com]

I want to app this guy from Osmosis Jones (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osmosis_Jones) who is basically a virus and I've got a couple of questions.

- Would it be okay to just size him up? Or would I have to app him as an AU?

- In the the case that it's just a size issue, would he keep his powers? As a virus he can infect others and I'm not sure if that falls under the stuff that would be "treated" upon arrival.

[first-of-13.livejournal.com]

I'm wondering - how much canon does a character have to have to be accepted?

And robots can be placed into a human looking body if we wish? I ask as I'm considering apping a robot who has like one/two media images, if that. :( If I can get him/her into a human looking robot, will make life easier.

[ridgedstructure.livejournal.com]

Will you go to the prom with me?

[http://users.livejournal.com/_sabriel/]

I'm sorry if I sound like I haven't read any of the info pages but I just want to clarify something. You already have a 'canon' version of Megatron from TFA; would you also accept Megatron from Shattered Glass? If I app him I'll take him straight from the Shattered Glass 'canon', no AUs of that.

[heart-of-all.livejournal.com]

...Would a trapped-in-a-human-form-with-limited-ability!Kingdom Hearts (as in the actual heart in the sky) be allowed, and would it be considered a canon or what? (For an idea, think Kingdom Hearts getting the Tia Dalma treatment.)

[sarasarus.livejournal.com]

Hi, I have a question that seems incredibly similar to a question asked previously, but it differs a bit and I'd rather ask just in case! Would a customisable player character be considered an OC? e.g, the Grey Warden in Dragon Age, the Lone Wanderer from Fallout 3... etc.

The character I had in mind was The Courier from Fallout: New Vegas, if it helps!

And I apologise again for bothering you all.

[kevanick.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen anything regarding this so... I'm curious what you do with characters from say Digimon 02 (or pretty much any Digimon series) and a character's partner Digimon. Would said character not have the Digimon with them?

[sgt-crockets.livejournal.com]

I'm gonna leave this question here until I can catch a mod via IM.

So, for me (RED Soldier-mun), would apping a BLU Soldier from an alternate universe setting still go against the "a player can't play the canon and an au version of the same character at the same time" rule? Technically speaking the BLU and RED Soldiers aren't exactly the same in terms of canon history, but they do generally have the same personality traits so I'm not sure what counts. I would just hate to have to drop RED Soldier to play this particular muse.

To help clarify, the AU I was thinking of was one I've constructed where all the classes of Team Fortress 2 are species of cartoon anthropomorphic "bugs", meaning the BLU Soldier in question has a different perception of the world as well as different biological abilities (capable of flight and is essentially blind while using antennae to sense the world around him). I don't think there's a chance for any muncesting because the only interactions I see happening is RED just swatting and killing the BLU bug which I would just handwave.

Anyway, one last question. These bugs are no more than 3 cm tall, and if I can't app the BLU Soldier I may still app another class from the same AU (the Soldier would be more convenient because he can fly, so isn't as limited as other bugs of the universe who lack flight sans the Pyros), so I'm curious as to if their size would change in the station or if they are able to have a device connected to the network even at that miniature size, like nanotechnology.

Anyway, sorry for the TL;DR. Thanks for any info.

[machine-god.livejournal.com]

Okay so... re: mobile platforms.

What sorts of things are available? Especially in regards to humanoids/human-looking robots...?

Main reason i'm asking is that SHODAN needs a way to continue to at least semi-pass as human, so as to continue to fool certain people. It shouldn't be perfect - if she can pull it off with a combination of holograms + appropriate body, so much the better (even if she has to keep people from touching her)

[end-of-empire.livejournal.com]

I have a quick question regarding apping a Mass Effect character. I noticed you guys already have a female renegade Shepard; would it be possible for me to app a female paragon Shepard as well? Also, if I applied for Joker, would he necessarily come from the same universe as the already existent Shepard, or could he come from one where Shepard was male, or paragon, etc.?

Thank you for all your help!

[judau-ashta.livejournal.com]

I was wondering what is your policy on mobile suit pilots and their mecha. Judau here for example pilots the ZZ Gundam, and I was wondering if it could be used in this RP.

[i_like_your]

Could one character's teleportation destination be read by another, if they walk up to it immediately after?

[barkstabbark]

Just a few character specific questions because lol yes I just have to pick the most ridiculously overpowered character ever /sobs

1. Jack is omnipotent, so he's pretty damn powerful. I don't have my app finished yet but I do have an abilities section from another app available if you don't know the canon, BUT basically he can teleport, spy on people, has insanely fast reflexes and can blow up entire fucking planets. What sort of dampening should I expect for that? Obviously he won't be blowing up planets any time soon, but things are a little more iffy around stuff like teleportation and whatnot. I kind of laid down some rough pros/cons in the other app I linked, but since I'm less familiar with the power dampening stuff here I figured it'd be better to get some kind of mod opinion first. I don't plan to use his powers to godmode people and will be putting up a permissions post for spying/suddenly appearing behind you ohgod, for what it's worth.

2. What sort of punishments are there for murder/destruction of property/other crimes that Jack will inevitably commit on day one of his arrival? I'm totes fine with him getting his ass handed to him by the justice system in the end but it'd be nice to know what I should expect if I get him in :(a

3. How much harder would it be to use the bracelets with only one arm? :I i mean if its just a thing that floats over his wrist he kind of can't touch it orz

[talkingsoup]

Pretty basic question--how compatible is external technology with Singularity's tech? For instance, I'm apping Gamzee from Homestuck, and in the webcomic every character has a sylladex--sort of like a huge, semi-computerized semi-magical indexing system that's just sort of...there. The exact mechanics are unclear. The rules governing the sylladexes do seem to be related to the Homestuck world itself. So I'm wondering if a thing like the sylladex would actually work in-game.

[ruo-fidelis.livejournal.com]

Quick question, I know that you stated in an earlier comment about pets being accepted.

I wanted to check in regards to Ed and Ein from Cowboy Bebop. Ein is a data dog, basically a dog that is extremely intelligent and capable of hacking the network if given the means; as is seen in the Brain Scratch episode. Would he be one of the cases that you mentioned that would require a second app, even though there is really not means of communication beyond barking like a usual dog.

[squishyarms.livejournal.com]

So this character I'm apping, Riza Wildman, she's a half-werewolf. That means her supernatural powers are directly tied to Earth's moon. Understandably, that's gonna create some problems for her here. Even though it's a pretty great excuse for power dampening/removal, I'm still curious about something. Is there some sort of precedent for characters like her (werewolves, vampires, other moon-reliant creatures) in this game? Have you set rules on how other such characters' powers work before? And I guess to cover my bases, are there any lunar bodies surrounding Sacrosanct or Asphodel that might affect Riza's powers otherwise?