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thalassino) wrote2012-09-05 03:44 pm
thalassino) wrote2012-09-05 03:44 pm
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◣ Application ◢
Please note that as of July 28th, Vatheon will start working towards end game.
August 31st is the last day for applying. We will no longer open applications after that. Thank you for your consideration.
» Please make sure that you read the rules, and check the reserves before applying. People who do not read the rules will be rejected immediately.
» You are allowed to apply for two characters per application cycle. You may also reserve two characters. We will try to review each application as soon as possible. If longer than a week has passed and you have not heard back anything about your application, please drop us a message.
» Don't lie in your application. Don't copy / paste things from wiki. Keep what you post in your application strictly you. Sure, it's hard to add your own flair to writing history or a personality, but try to keep from summarizing too much. Show us your shine! Plagiarizing another player's application is ground for an immediate rejection.
» If someone has a reserve for a character, and you want to apply for them, you have the choice of either A) challenging the application with one of your own or B) waiting until the reserve expires and then applying/reserving as the character. If you challenge the original reserver, your application will not be reviewed until the original reserver has submitted theirs.
» Currently, the character limit is five characters. Any more is up to the mods, and must be discussed ahead of time with them. You may only apply for two characters from the same canon.
» Keep spamming to a minimum on the applications. Wait until that person is accepted into the game before holding out a conversation on a thread. Comment spamming here makes things cluttered, and a mod may accidentally miss something important. ( But feel free to comment-spam the Reserve page, if you'd like. )
» Please don't skip over any section of the application below.
» Please finish your application before posting. We reserve the right to decline any applications that are still unfinished when we process them.
» When reviewing applications, we take opinions of our members into consideration. If you would like to make a comment about an app that is being decided upon, do not hesitate. Here is where you can leave a comment with what you thought of another app. All comments will be screened for privacy, and the option to be anon will be left on. Do note, player opinions do not decide if an application is accepted or not, but will be taken into consideration.☆ Player - - -
( Player Name ) : A nickname will work. Whatever you would like to be listed as.
( Personal DW ) : Not your character's journal. Your own, just in case one of the mods ever needs to contact you that way.
( Age ) : No players under the age of 15, please!
( Timezone ) : Just for reference sake!
( Other Characters ) : At Vatheon, that is. Please list in the following format.
Character ( Character's Journal ) | Series☆ Character - - -
( Character's Name ) :
( Character's Age ) : There is no set age limit for the characters, and in fact, this is very flexible. So long as your character is mature enough to take care of him or herself and is mature enough for the game, they can be apped! As a basic guideline, think the maturity of someone around the age of 13 or so.
( Series ) :
( Canon Point ) : What part of the story of the series is your character coming in after? Did he or she just die? Did something traumatic just happen? Is it near the end, the beginning, or the middle? Tell us!
( Playability ) : If you are apping your second person for a particular canon, please give us a quick reasoning on why the characters would not be extensively interacting/how you are planning to avoid any playercest issues. If you are not apping from a canon you already play in, please disregard this section.
( History ) : You may provide us with a link to a wiki-page, or something else that will sufficiently give the Community and the mods background on your canon. If you wish to write out the history yourself, you still may do such.
( Personality ) : Probably the most important part of the application! Tell us what your character is like. We're looking for a well-developed analysis of the character. Perhaps between three to five paragraphs, roughly. Feel free to do more or less, however, if you think that better suits you. Most applications will be closer to the three than the five, and that's completely okay!
Just make sure to hit on crucial aspects of that character. What does he or she like? What does he or she hate? What are his or her motives? What parts of your character's past influenced how they are? Does your character act differently in front of different groups of people? Think of these questions as you write. Feel free to go off the page and focus on other questions. The above questions were just to get you thinking.
( Strengths/Weaknesses ) : So tell us! What can your character do well? What is your character weak against? Any cool spells? Good at picking locks? Anything you can think of, put it here.
( Other Important Facts ) : Have something else important to mention about your character that doesn't really fit in anywhere else? Be sure to include it here!
( Sample ) : This can be in first person or third person. There's no limit to your sample post. Just be sure to include your character's voice. Don't just write your character walking around! Be sure to include thoughts, quirks, and anything else that shows us you know your character. How would he or she react to the mark? How would he or she react to waking up some place new? Is he or she still brooding over something? The sample does not have to be set in Vatheon. You may also link to other roleplay threads; just be sure to give us something that shows how you plan to play them and clearly shows their voice! Or feel free to do a few of the above. Whatever you think will best show your characterization.
Please note! If you are linking samples, please make sure that at least one sample is from within the last three months. You are still free to link other samples that are older in addition, if you feel these would help show your ability to play the character, but at least one sample needs to be recent. Thank you.
If you are unable to think of a good starting point for a sample, we collected some prompts of situations that are pretty likely to happen within Vatheon to start you off. You are very welcome to deviate from these prompts or come up with something completely new. This is just something to hopefully help you get started:☆ A new curse has settled upon the city of Vatheon: Suddenly you character realizes they are unable to lie for the duration of a week. How do they react?
☆ What is this? Is that rain? How nice-- wait a minute, is it raining rubber duckies? Seriously?
☆ Suddenly, by the force of Vatheon, an over zealous npc, or even your character's friends playing a joke, your character suddenly finds themselves wearing clothes they otherwise would never wear. What do?
☆ The city of Vatheon is under attack (again). Giant sea-creatures are wrecking the city (again). Time to prepare for battle.
☆ A new plot development has happened and your character has decided to get some more information from one of the NPCs. How do they proceed?
( Questions? Comments? Concerns? ) : Tell us here!
GETTING STARTED: premise ☆ rules ☆ taken ☆ reserves ☆ applications
GAME INFO: faq ☆ the city ☆ the island ☆ nostalgia nook ☆ welcome brochure ☆ information database
OOC INFO: mod contact ☆ player contact ☆ dropping ☆ hiatus ☆ residency
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vatheon ☆ caughtinanetwork ☆ vatheonooc ☆ batheon
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[ Personal LJ ] :
[ Age ] : 34
[ Timezone ] : PST
[ Other Characters ] : Orphaner Dualscar, Sollux Captor
[ Character's Name ] : Cecil
[ Character's Age ] : Unknown
[ Series ] : Welcome to Night Vale
[ Canon Point ] : After the episode "First Date".
[ History ] :
We know very little about Cecil, in any real sense. He is a man who is not short, and who is not tall, not fat or thin, and who may have "black eyes" and wears a tie. He lives in the strange small Southwestern United States town of Night Vale, which exists in the midst of a very hot desert.
Night Vale seems on the surface like a normal town in some ways. It has an Arby's and a bowling alley. People work and go to school and do all the normal things people do. But it doesn't take much to get under that surface. The town is filled with corrupt government and police, demonic presences, shadowy hooded figures, dragons, tentacled beasts, and angels. Regular people engage routinely in supernatural actions, and a blood stone circle is considered a normal and desirable thing to install at a public park. Pens and books are banned, and no one is permitted to question the moon.
Cecil has a show on the local Night Vale Community Radio station. He reports on local news, traffic, and the weather. Much of what he talks about are local happenings, such as PTA meetings, meetings of the city council, or odd power outages. All the bizarre things that go on in Night Vale are announced in matter-of-fact fashion, no differently from mundane happenings.
We know that Cecil once went on a long trip in Europe and visited several strange places, including one city where he was trapped for many years. Otherwise, it seems he's always been in Night Vale. He was likely born there, and will die there.
Beyond that, we know nothing about Cecil, including his last name or appearance beyond the fact that he's of average height. It's speculated by some that Cecil is some kind of demon. I think it's because of references he made to having been on the air "now and forever", but I'm not sure exactly. As canon is ongoing, I won't make any fundamental assumptions of that nature, however I do enjoy a particular headcanon that Cecil looks different to each person who sees him. He's essentially a voice, a personality, and the rest of him is mutable - though each person will recognize him for the same Cecil they've always seen. If it's all right with the mods, I'd like to use this headcanon in Vatheon.
One last thing. From the first episode of Night Vale, Cecil has had a beautiful, precious crush on a new scientist who moved to town named Carlos. In the last episode, Cecil and Carlos went on their first date.
[ Personality ] :
Cecil is a product of his town. He vocally supports the city council and sheriff's secret police, because anything else is a thought crime. He is unskeptical about all of the bizarre things that happen, and takes everything from dinosaur attacks to alien invaders in stride. He works for an unknown, violent tentacled monster called the Station Managers. All of this is completely normal to him, and he reports on it in that spirit. He tends to be quite optimistic as well, reporting on rather horrific events as cheerfully as happy ones.
Death is commonplace in Night Vale, and it doesn't seem to give him great pause. Once he made an error in reporting zero deaths after a dinosaur attack, when in fact there were 38 deaths. When he discovered the error, he reported it in the same tone he might report the mis-pronouncing of a name. He expresses condolences and sympathy at the deaths of his interns, but there's no true sorrow in his voice during those times. His most powerful emotion comes at times of personal stress. For example, when he's in personal, mortal danger, his fear is obvious. Furthermore, when he meets his doppleganger from Night Vale's eternal, bitter rival town, Desert Bluffs, he shows unbridled hatred and disgust, as well as horror at the blood-spattered state of the Desert Bluffs radio booth.
Cecil is also quite philosophical. For all that he seems to be overall cheerful and unbothered by the deaths of innocents, he does seem to care about his listeners. He offers tips and warnings sincerely, and often gets rather "personal", making editorials about real issues like being a good neighbour. At times, he voices personal concerns, such as when he had a rather solipsistic crisis and worried he was the only one alive in the world. He also expresses sincere emotion whenever he talks about "beautiful, perfect" Carlos. Sometimes, he reflects aloud about the nature of life, or death, or what the moon might be.
Finally, one definitely doesn't want to cross Cecil. He tends to take certain things personally, and to greatly dislike individual people in the town. People who might actually be vile, he passes over completely (such as the mayor, who probably consorts with demons, or is one herself), while people he finds to be "spoil sports", are "bigots", or who want to "ruin the town" he speaks about with vitriol, and publicly calls them off when they're being jerks. Telly the barber is probably the worst of these, as Telly cut Carlos' hair short, and Cecil publicly called him out on the radio with venom in his voice, implying that he should be punished for his transgression. A few episodes later, Telly had gone mad and wandered into the desert. It's unknown whether his madness is related to Cecil's anger or not, but it very well might have been.
[ Strengths/Weaknesses ] :
[ Other Important Facts ] :
[ Sample ] :
[ Questions? Comments? Concerns? ] : My plan for Vatheon is for him to cover the end game by making weekly or biweekly posts on the network as if he had a radio station, and to possibly actually get himself a radio gig. I'll ask players to submit interesting or funny happenings for him to report on, and do short posts in the vein of WtNV. Of course, he'll reply to comments, because it's a network post, not a radio monologue, and at times he'll also participate in logs in person.
Revisions
☆ Revisions - - -
Before we can accept your app, we'd like to request some revisions. We would like to request an additional sample (either first person, or third person) set in Vatheon.
If you respond to this comment with your revisions, we'll look them over ASAP! You'll have until 8/10.
LOL that sure was some big font
[The voice post begins with Cecil sounding quite...uncertain, even frightened] H-Hello? Night Vale? I certainly hope you can hear me.
I hope...someone can hear me.
I seem to have fallen through some kind of interdimensional portal into a strange underwater city. I'm extremely wet, which is quite irritating since my captors don't appear to have packed me a suitcase. But... I don't appear to be in any pain, or any obvious danger, actually. [His voice is slowly becoming stronger, and actually sounds quite normal at this point, sonorous, and calm]
I have arrived in a plaza at what I surmise to be the approximate centre of town. According to the literature the natives have provided to me, the coral at the centre of the plaza is named Lamufo, and is the dark god of this strange place.
The natives all appear to be extremely pleasant. At this point, I can only assume that this is meant to lull me into a false sense of calm, before they devour me or sacrifice me to their deity. I certainly hope that I can find a way home before they do so.
If this message reaches you, Night Vale, please accept my apology. It seems that you may be deprived of my show for some time. Perhaps even...forever.
that was fast
☆ Accepted! - - -
Congratulations! Your application has been accepted into Vatheon.Now that you're in the game, please follow the next few house-keeping steps.
If you have any further questions or comments, please head over to the FAQ.
Congratulations again, and we hope you enjoy the swim!
I already kinda had his intro in mind anyway, so