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faq.
Most likely, yes. This is a private game, but we have an invite request process - think of it as an individual interest check. You’ll need to answer a few short questions (no essay needed, honest) and the mods will get back to you, usually within three days. Request an invite here!
We are pretty open as far as the types of applicable characters goes for this game. Since rifts in space and time are all over, potential passengers come from all realities. OU and AU (canon or fan-made) fandom characters are allowed, as are original characters. Tabletop campaign characters? Why not. CRAU/previously played characters? Absolutely! Characters with limited canon? If you can write a convincing application, go for it.
Fan-made AUs, malleable video game protagonists, and fandom OCs will be considered on a case-by-case basis, with input from any existing cast members at the time of application.
Our current hard "no"s for applicable characters are: pregnant characters; fandom OCs with close surprise relationships to canon characters and/or outrageous abilities; child characters who are not reasonably self-sufficient; and real people, unless from a fictionalized canon.
Multiples are allowed but must have a significant enough difference that would distinguish them as separate people instead of clones/copies.
There is a 30-day waiting period before applying for a character/canon point from newly released media, including episodic media.
That's perfectly fine! While the name of this game is teamwork, it would be boring if everyone got along perfectly from the start. Building CR through overcoming obstacles is going to be more of a power boost for the Navigator than if everyone has an easy time all of the time, so please, bring us your assholes if that's what your heart desires. Chaos is fun!
Each player can play FIVE characters, provided they are from different fandoms. In other words, no player may play multiple characters from the same fandom; this is to keep things fair, due to the cast caps being set small. Players may play multiple original characters, provided they are from different worlds/universes and do not have IC knowledge of each other.
To start, the game has an overall cap of 50 characters, and a per-cast cap of 7. (Fandoms with multiple installments, such as Final Fantasy, Persona, DC/Marvel, etc. will be treated as a single cast for cap purposes.) The overall number of original characters allowed in the game is 17, i.e., one third of the game cap, to keep a good balance with fandom characters.
Please note: these are initial caps. Depending on player interest, both the game and cast caps may be increased.
Once caps are reached, you are still welcome to submit an application onto the waiting list, and wait-listed apps will be reviewed when and if a slot opens up or caps are increased.
Players may only submit one application at a time, and must be in good standing with activity (i.e., passing AC) before submitting an application for a second character. This means you must pass regular AC with a thread of content, not just create the new character AC link, before applying for character #2. Applications from players on hiatus will not be considered until after the player is off hiatus and has passed the next activity check. Players clearing a strike may not apply for a second character until the strike has been cleared.
Yep! On being brought to the ship, any dead/dying characters will be placed in the ship's Neogenesis Chamber, where they will be revived/healed. Reviving dead characters is a significant strain on the ship, however, so it's generally recommended y'all try your hardest to stay alive. You definitely don't want to cause the ship to malfunction due to exhaustion!
Yes - again, any characters who are killed through gameplay will be placed in the ship's Neogenesis Chamber, where they will be revived, but see above re: strain on the ship. Revived characters will also be subject to memory loss - that is, they will lose one memory for every time they die. (Characters who are dead on arrival are exempt - the first time.) Please carefully consider the costs of killing your characters!
This ain't a luxury cruise! Characters will arrive with whatever clothes they're wearing and whatever they are carrying on their person - so no luggage, no backpacks, no duffel bags. Weapons are allowed, as long as they are small and portable, i.e., knives, daggers, pistols are allowed, but battle axes, swords, machine guns are not. Ammo for guns will be extremely limited - there is no weapon system in the ship itself, so there are no weapons stores kept. You may encounter weaponsmiths on planets when the ship docks, but the chance that they will carry replacement ammo for your specific type of gun is extremely slim. Weapons that are part of the character are allowed, as are summonable familiars that are meta/physically bonded to the character. Pets/other companions will be considered on a case-by-case basis, so please consult a mod for suitability. For a general example guideline, Personas are fine, Luna from Sailor Moon would have to be applied for as a separate character.
Broadly, yes, but anything world-ending or game-breaking will be nerfed or suppressed. For example, if your character is a teleporter, they can teleport inside the ship only, not out into space/another planet/home and back. Time traveling abilities would be similarly limited. We strongly suggest you include a separate permissions post for any characters with intrusive abilities such as telepathy/mind control, destructive abilities like pyrokinesis, etc, or combine it with your general permissions post. Please include all powers in your application for mod review - anything not listed will not be allowed in-game.
To demonstrate that you have thoroughly read and understand both the rules and the FAQ, please include the phrase “In space, no one can hear you scream” somewhere in your application.
We’re aiming for a medium-ish pace with mod-run events, usually either one weird rift-caused on-ship event or a visit to a planet per month. This should allow plenty of time for thorough player involvement, as well as breathing space for player-run plots and general CR-building between characters. We try to keep the tone of events varied; some will be more lighthearted, some will dip into more serious genres like horror. We also welcome player suggestions for events!
The AC requirements are laid out over yonder on the Activity Check page.
We all know life comes at ya fast, so if you need to take a break, please drop a comment on the hiatus post [link coming soon]. You can either autopilot or have your character be taken by ship drones into a temporary stasis/cryosleep. Hiatuses will not be counted if they are not logged on the hiatus post. Hiatused characters will be exempt for the month if the hiatus is two consecutive weeks in the same month but a player on hiatus will still need to respond to the AC post noting the hiatus.
If you can't make AC and can't hiatus due to extenuating circumstances, please get in touch with a mod. We are willing to work with players within reason!
If you can't make AC and didn't post a hiatus, you may also request a strike on the AC post, which will be cleared with two consecutive months of meeting AC, but if you strike twice in a row or fail to respond to AC, your character will be swept, i.e., placed in long-term stasis. Reapplication for swept characters will be considered on an individual basis and are granted by mod discretion.
We'll be sorry to see you go! But it happens, we understand. Just fill out the drop post. ICly, dropped characters from players in good standing are placed in long-term stasis for the remainder of the journey. They are not counted toward cast or game caps, so they can be applied for by another player as a new addition. If eligible, you may reapply for a character you've dropped as a CRAU version, keeping in-game memories on awakening from cryosleep.
Characters who are ineligible for reapplication will be removed from the game in a method of mod team's choosing.
Nope, sorry. The rifts do not function like a revolving door. Once you're here, you're here to stay.
WELL I AM GLAD YOU ASKED. Since the Navigator is an empathic being, it draws strength from the emotional bonds of its passengers. Characters will be assigned to pairs (or potentially a group of three, but no more than three), and paired characters will recognize each other by their glyphs' behavior (more on that in a minute). ICly, the pairings are made by the Navigator, based on what it's able to sense about its passengers; OOCly, this is done by the mod team with player input.
Characters from the same canon will not be paired, either temporarily or permanently. Temporary pairings will be made every other month, and are a good way to test out the waters with character compatibility. CR doesn't necessarily develop immediately, and part of the aim of this game is to encourage character development through these partnership bonds. So what may seem like an oil-and-water pairing can work out to be extremely emotionally fulfilling with some effort. Everybody wins!
Players can request temporary pairings or be randomly assigned by the mods. Permanent pairings must be requested and confirmed by the players of both characters. Mosey on over here for partner pairings.
Glyphs are markings that all characters will have upon waking up in the ship. Each character will have the same glyph, in the same place; it looks like a set of three concentric circles inside of a downward-pointing triangle with three lines radiating inward to the centermost circle from the points of the triangle (see icon above), and it will be placed on the back of each character's dominant hand (or pick one, if ambidextrous). It looks mostly like a tattoo, but it doesn't hurt or feel weird in the slightest.
The glyphs serve as a link between partners. Here's how characters will recognize their partners for the first time: their glyphs will light up a blinking blue until synced, then solid (think Bluetooth pairing), and there will be a slight tugging sensation toward the partner character. When partners are working especially well together, they will feel a strong connection to each other, and their glyphs will glow a steady green. If a character is in extreme distress - for example, if they've been kidnapped and are being menaced at gunpoint - their partner's glyph will blink rapidly in red, as a warning. Glyphs also enable a telepathic link between partners - think of it as a two-way private comm line. It's not intrusive; partners should not be picking up on each other's thoughts at all times, only when there's a focused intent to communicate.
Glyphs also function as a link between the Navigator and the passengers. The Navigator has the same glyph on its forehead; it communicates telepathically with all passengers, and enables the same the other way around.
All characters will be implanted with speech modulation nanite on arrival; this is done by a drone while characters are unconscious. It is a quick, painless process, and it's so small it's undetectable under the skin. There is no way to remove it. This enables all characters to understand each other, regardless of what language they're speaking.
Written languages will remain untranslated unless read aloud.
There will be a portable comm device available to each character for text, audio, and video transmissions, found on a dock inside their cabins; likewise, characters can use the ship's intercom system to address everyone on board at once. These devices are impossible to disassemble or hack, and since they're actually part of the ship itself, it would be pretty rude to try.
Device transmissions can either be on an open channel or sent to a specific individual, but cannot be made anonymously. Device broadcasts will be identified by a default serial number identifying each character, which can be changed to a custom user name, but it will be up to characters to provide their actual names to each other. In other words, if you play a lying liar who lies and gives an alias, there will be no way for other characters to know this at a glance, as there is no shipwide manifest.
Log posts for in-person activities, in addition to intercom, device, and glyphlink communications, should all be posted in
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In a word, it's organic-tech; the ship is a living, sentient creature, and the interface is called the Navigator, or Navi for short. The Navigator is an agender being with a humanoid face and many limbs, and is fused to the command chamber. The same glyph that is on the backs of passengers' hands is also on the Navigator's forehead.
There are five decks with cabins and various other common spaces, and a sixth deck below for characters kept in stasis. The walls of the ship are smooth, a metallic grey color, and a solid material - more organic than metal, warm to the touch. If you happen to be a barbarian and decide to try carving some graffiti into the walls, they will bleed a blue-green viscous fluid, and the Navigator will give you a sharp reprimand.
Throughout the ship, there are a number of small drones of varying sizes and shapes. These perform various functions, from injecting speech modulation nanites into new arrivals to placing characters into cryosleep.
Please see the setting page for more details about the cabins and common rooms on the ship.
Leave a comment below and we will answer as soon as we are able!
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1. How large is the ship?
2. Are there any limits on the food? (i.e. rations)
3. What is the physical size limit on characters?
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1. it's 6 floors, 5 floors have 10 cabins each, i'd say the cabins are small apartment sized, maybe 400 sqft? and each floor has common rooms on either side of the cabins. as far as what that means for the ship's overall size ... bigger than a breadbox, smaller than a death star? i'm not super sure how that translates. if there's something more specific about the size you're curious about just let me know and i'll try to explain better.
2. no real limits on the basic food rations, which are boring protein bars, those will always be in plentiful supply. anything fancier probably just lasts from one planet visit to another.
3. physical size limits for characters ... i'd say maybe 14 feet tall max?
let me know if any other questions come up!
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If we want a specific power nerfed, can it still happen even if it's not world-destroying?
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yes, 14 feet is the max height for the ship. there isn't an automatic downsizing or humanizing mechanic in place for the game's setting - characters are brought in via random wormhole, and it's supposed to be somewhat realistic-ish ... for a scifi setting. that said, we can certainly work something out with magic/tech on a planet visit with the right timing.
same thing with the power nerfing - we can work something out. we like to allow players to decide their own nerfing of the high-level powers in how they play their characters but if it's something that would need to be suppressed because it would be ooc for the character not to use it, we can find a workaround.
hope that's helpful! let us know if you need any other details or have more questions. c:
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Also would they count as inventory?
Thank you.
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Since Personas are part of the character's soul and not appable as a character in their own right, they'd just be considered part of the character, not inventory. Pocket dimension access is also OK as long as there's a defined parameter - we have a couple characters in game already with access to a small pocket dimension.
ignore me using my other Lady journal
And for the app should I just make a note of her personas skills as well as how the pocket dimension would work?
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If you can just note how you decide to work it in the app that'd be cool! No need to get super technical on the mechanics since I'm canon-familiar. c:
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Languages - you said the implanted chip translates spoken languages. Can someone bypass that intentionally in the short term? What I mean by this question is that Kaylin is very proud to be multi-lingual. It is pretty much her *one* academic gift. She sadly uses that largely to swear. (I use ***** when she does, so that won't be a ratings issue. Swearing probably bothers me more than anyone else in the game, so I work hard to play her so that she is IC but no one OOC has to read swearing.) And she loves learning to speak/swear in other languages. Could she make the effort to speak in a way that isn't translated?
Familiar - I am not sure if he familiar counts as a summonable familiar. In canon her familiar - Hope - insists that she summoned him. She insists he hatched out of an egg that was born during a chaos storm. He is not a familiar that vanishes into her or anything. Now that she summoned him, she's stuck with him. Would he count to come with? (I can do a whole write up on Hope if needed, he's... complicated.)
And if yes to Hope, and connected to the linguistics question... there is a running gag (though that term seems odd to use in this context) where Hope speaks mostly in squawks and other animal sounds when in his small form (he looks like a small cat sized dragon that Kaylin can see through and other's mostly can't.) In that form he can make whoever he wants understand him EXCEPT Kaylin - much to her frustration. And sometimes only one person in a crowd will actually get words from what he said. When he takes one of his larger forms, generally ONLY Kaylin can understand what he is saying. Since this is magic and he's also there as familiar not as passenger, would this still work?
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1. No, there is no way to circumvent the language translation chip. All spoken language is automatically translated so it's understood by the other parties. Only written language remains untranslated. The chip is part of the onboarding procedure, so there is no way to opt out of it.
Side note: Plenty of our current characters swear openly so if that is a serious issue for you, this game might not be a good fit. :\
2. I'm not canon familiar but it does not sound like Hope would NOT be able to come along for the ride. A summonable familiar needs to be tied to the character's essence somehow; I use Personas as an example because they are a facet of the character's soul, so they can't be removed. We had a DMC character previously who had familiars that were linked in a similar way.
Hope that helps!
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1. Okay, Kaylin will be ****ed but ticking her her off seems to be par for the course with me. Does the implant change how they speak, or how they hear, or how they interpret? If she tries to speak Leontine or Dragon, will her throat hurt? Since volume is a key component of Dragon, if someone else speaks it, will she hear it at ear hurting volumes?
Re: side note - I have a filter on my browser that auto turns swear words into **** when it displays on my screen. So hopefully I should be okay there. Thank you for the concern.
2. Hope says he is tied to her essence, but I am not really sure how to explain it in short form. And there isn't another canon I can really point to as an analogy. Best I can come up with, without a huge TL;DNR is that he is ancient but can only exist in a world if he is attached. Everything he can and cannot do is set by who he is attached to, and he cannot be attached to anyone else while she lives. He is hers for as long as her life persists. He can, in theory, find her wherever she goes, across any plane of existence and follow her, he can read her mind, and he can change the way she sees things - as in what she actually sees, not metaphorical point of veiw.
But I can accept her not having him, this isn't argument, this is an attempt at explanation. She's been in few if any games where she's actually had him, though for most games the sticking point is sentience, lol. I'll edit him out of her TDM post. Ty for the speedy response!
(Related: I presume charas from Shugo Chara are acceptable, since they are a part of their character's actual soul. Would I be correct?)
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As for Hope, if he’s attached to her on a metaphysical level that is permanent and is able to follow that bond through dimensions, I’d say tentatively yes, he’d be able to arrive with her. I’d just need a thorough explanation in the app before making a final ruling.
I don’t quite understand the last question, however. Is that the canon name or a location in the canon, or something else?
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Ah sorry, Shugo Chara is an anime where kids with strong enough dreams hatch eggs that are born from their very souls and are a representation of who they want to be. Those eggs hatch into charas (Handspan high people like creatures with big heads that float and can only be seen by certain other people). The charas encourage and cheer on their chara bearers - their child. Some charas (most of not all) can temporarily take over their child or push their child. And some charas (few if any) can fully merge with their chara bearer into what is called Chara-change which is basically a magical girl/boy transformation. I have not settled yet on canon point, so not sure if Nadeshiko/Nagihiko could chara change or not. But I've learned the hard way that they don't do well in a game where they can't have their charas with them. So I always want to double check.
(I say them but they are one person, they just often think of themselves as teo. the short version is Nagihiko was forced into a female role as a small child - Nadeshiko - and was forced to be her nearly 24/7 until she turned twelve. Then she went on a trip around the world and Nagihiko returned in her place to learn how to live as a boy. He's basically seperated himself into two and still keeps the fact that they are the same person a secret.)
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Are we back to Kaylin and Hope? Or Nadeshiko/Nagihiko and their Charas? If they can't have their charas, I understand. I feel that they are fundamentally part of them, and as I have tried to play them without the charas before and it has not gone well, I probably will simply pick someone else to app. Which is fine. I am just unsure as to who you mean.
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I saw your plurk and just wanted to confirm that you were holding open applications until the 30th.
Aside from that - I have a question. How do you handle items that grant access to something like a hammerspace. I'm looking to CRAU Senku from Voidtrecker and he has an arms band (shaped as a ring, bracelet or band on his arm, it changes depending on how he wears it) that allows him to store unlimited items. (But limited on weapons, I'd be able to explain how it works in detail if he can have it.)
Would he be able to keep the ring? Is there a limit to what can come in it? Would it be empty to be refilled?
Thank you very much!
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As for your question, our policy with high-powered abilities and items is "go for it as long as it doesn't break the game." We like to trust players to be reasonable, so yes, a hammerspace accessory would be fine to keep. As for the specifics of what the hammerspace contains - does it typically only hold things that have already been physically acquired? If that's the case, then yes, that should be fine, as long as there's nothing game-breaking in the inventory. c:
Let us know if you have any other questions!
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As for the items in the arms band (and I'm definitely not going to bring all of it - he's been there a year, his inventory is insane) he had to physically acquire every item. Aside from the hammerspace the only restriction/magic comes with weapons. There's a limit of three melee weapons. (He has zero) And one projectile weapon. (He has a crossbow he made) The magic comes in in the ammo. He made the first arrow, and the band gives unlimited best quality ammo.
He's not a fighter, it's an emergency thing for him so it's not necessarily fundamentally game breaking, but if that is an unreasonable trait for the arms band, I have no problems changing that to something more reasonable.
And my friend who plays his canonmate/spouse in the game who'd like to come, also reminded me I should ask about his pokemon. I know that could fall under pet so I'm not sure how you would handle it.
None of this is a dealbreaker or anything. Senku and Gen would love to travel through space. It's only Senku's dream!
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As for Pokemon, because of how they’re transported, we would allow up to 6 to come along, but we’d need to see the official list to make sure they’d be a good fit on the ship - no legendary types, physical size isn’t too big for the ship, etc.
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I just have a question or two re pokemon first!
1/ Pokemon can still be trained/ level up? Eva comes with a lot of OP pokes, so I would accept that hers are limited to like, one level every two months or something, yet say someone has a level 5? would that be able to grow like say 3 levels a month until a like a later level then be scaled? I am willing to go into detail re what I mean as required. I am well aware of how OP pokemon can become/are
2/ Can pokemon be regained as an item? (Eva has two she'd want to regain (and that's all I'd be looking at). If so would they count towards the 6 pokemon limit?
--I ask, because one of Eva's pokemon (Skeeta) is very much NOT a battler. Skeeter is basically a pet/emotional support poke lv 20 that is not trained to fight/respond to commands. with the rest of Eva's four pokemon, the lowest is lv 56, the high lv80.
--also because Eva would attempt it, can a pokemon be found and given to another character? (obs it would be a lv 5 poke at max)
-- Please note, I am NOT trying to get around this. These are all IC concerns of Evas. I can OOCly work ith whatever limits I find. :)
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- yes, you can still level up pokemon. we trust players to go at a reasonable pace so no hard limits on that.
- yes, you can regain pokemon, and they would count toward a total of six.
- yes, pokemon can be acquired and gifted to another character.
let us know if you have any other questions!