the_measurers | Application

Entanglement has switched over to a dressing room format for now, so applications aren't needed for the time being.

FANDOM CHARACTER APPLICATION:

Mun: Your Name: Your Journal: (optional) Your Email: Your AIM: (optional) Character: Character's Name: Character's Fandom: Character's Home Universe:(Please either describe a bit of your character's universe or link to a wiki that does so) Canon Point you're taking him/her/it from: (If your character's spent a signifigant amount of time in the game universe, please include it here, including whether they've been on Senburu-Trati'salan a while) Method of Arrival on Station: (see the FAQ for a list of options) Physical Appearance: (You may link to a picture if you like. If they'll be gaining new clothes upon arrival, describe them here) Personality: (at least two paragraphs) Abilities and Skills: (Both human and superhuman. Optional section.) Sample: (At least three good sized paragraphs. Please set this within the game's multiverse. You may use NPCs or characters already in the game as foils for your character in this sample if you wish. Format is prose, either third or first person. You may also use a musebox post or one in <lj site="livejournal.com" user="testrunbox"> as your sample. This post may be slightly shorter than a sample written here, as long as your total length of writing (initial post+your tags) fits the length guidelines.)

ORIGINAL CHARACTER APPLICATION:

Mun: Your Name: Your Journal: (optional) Your Email: Your AIM: (optional) Character: Character's Name: Character's Fandom: (if an original universe based OC, put 'OC' here) Character's Home Universe:(Please describe it. What's it like? Magic? Technology? What is their home culture like?) Method of Arrival on Station: (see the FAQ for a list of options) Physical Appearance: (You may link to a picture if you like. If they'll be gaining new clothes upon arrival, describe them here) Character History: (Their life up to arrival on Senburu-Trati'salan. You don't need to tell us every detail but enough that we get an idea of what shaped them into who they are today.) Personality: (at least two paragraphs) Abilities and Skills: (Both human and superhuman. Optional section.) Sample: (At least three good sized paragraphs. Please set this within the game's multiverse. You may use NPCs or characters already in the game as foils for your character in this sample if you wish. Format is prose, either third or first person. You may also use a musebox post or one in <lj site="livejournal.com" user="testrunbox"> as your sample. This post may be slightly shorter than a sample written here, as long as your total length of writing (initial post+your tags) fits the length guidelines.)

Whichever application you're posting, please put the character's name, if they're an OC, and their fandom (if any) in the subject line.

Note again that you are allowed to use musebox posts and posts on testrun_box for your sample. In that case, your total amount of tags written will be added up, so the initial post can be shorter than normal for a sample. You're still required to use a prose format and set the sample in the game universe though.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Abilities and Skills:

Limited Flight - Lieutenant Talbot is equipped with a full set of Marsec Power Armor. This armor's systems are powered by an Elerium microfusion generator, and allows it to generate an antigravity field that can be switched on and off at will. However, the field isn't very powerful, so he can't go zooming about like Superman - think of it as more like hovering, with movement speed roughly equivalent to a fast jog.

Marksman - Talbot's skilled at taking out enemy forces from long range; his preferred weapon is the LSR-15, a high-accuracy laser rifle with integrated telescopic sights.

Sample:

May 04, 2090
Malachite Base, Mega-Primus

"You're sure about this, Colonel? That's their main shipbuilding facility?" Talbot asked, looking at the map before him.

Colonel Sanchez nodded. "Looks like it, Lieutenant - though the boffins say that the ships aren't so much built as grown. Some weird organic tech or other, the like of which X-Com's never encountered until this latest incursion. It's completely unlike anything from the First or Second Alien Wars."

Talbot nodded, bringing up a schematic that the probes had put together during their recon sweeps through the Alien Dimension. "Well, it looks like they've got transport arrays on the main floors - here, here, and here. We'll need to take them out to keep them from bringing in backup - and with those down, we should be able to keep the exits clear of Eek troops."

The Lieutenant rotated the schematic, pointing out a few other areas of interest. "These things here, these . . . trunks, they look to be load-bearing. A vortex mine on each should destabilize the structure enough to bring it crashing down on their lumpy heads, though I'd want to seed more vortex mines and some explosive charges throughout the genesis chamber here as backup - if the mined supports don't bring the building down, we can sure wreck their shipbuilding that way too. Either way, I'd set the mines and HE for remote detonation - that way, we can blow them once the teams are in the transports and on their way back."

Colonel Sanchez nodded. "Pick your teams, Lieutenant. I want that factory gone for good!"

Talbot grinned. "You know me, sir - I'll get the job done!"

We felt your application was overall very good. However we'd like to ask for one small revision and have one question for you before we can accept it.

1: Quite a bit of your character's personality actually falls under character backstory. This is largely our oversight as mods for forgetting to include a separate history section for OCs and we apologize. Nevertheless we'd like to ask for an additional couple lines of personality. You can post that as another comment.

2: Does the sample take place in Entanglement's setting?

1) Sorry about that. I'll get that done and posted sometime tomorrow. (I was actually thinking of appending something about his prejudices and attitude during/after missions while I was at work today.)

2) The sample's based more on one of the Alien Dimension missions from Apocalypse (specifically, the one where you have to destroy the Organic Factory, which serves as the aliens' main shipbuilding facility - though such missions might also be undertaken against the Fey'lians).

(And on a completely unrelated note, I chuckled when I saw that the cook was a Soviet Giant Squid from Red Alert 2.)

We'd like to ask for another sample or an altered version of this one, in the game's setting. (All military conflict will be with Loyalist locals, rather than the Fay'lian themselves, as the crew is operating at a tremendous military disadvantage. Most of it will be guerilla warfare and targeted assassinations. Expect lots of political snarls as pacifism gets debated.)

(Glad to be of help)

ADDENDUM

Extract from X-Com Personnel File #484.368.252.689.266 (Talbot, Guido, Lt), dated 11/04/2085:

. . . Lieutenant Talbot stated that he has a marked dislike of the latest batch of recruits - all volunteers from the Mutant Alliance, a political organization comprised mainly of human-Sectoid hybrids. His basis for such dislike seems to stem from family experiences during the First Alien War, particularly counterterrorist operations against Sectoid/Cyberdisk attacks on civilian populations - many of which were severely hampered by the highly-developed psionic abilities of the Sectoid race, according to the surviving records from the aforementioned conflict.

Though Commander Stark believes the recruits from the Mutant Alliance to be a valuable addition to our ranks despite their physical frailty, the Lieutenant fears that they might turn their greatest asset - namely, their psionic abilities - against the members of this organization, either intentionally or due to Alien influence.

Sadly, Lieutenant Talbot is not an isolated case within the ranks of X-Com, as many members of both the combat and R&D staff have expressed similar opinions.

We shall make every effort to ensure that such prejudices do not impinge too heavily upon X-Com operations, but it will be very difficult to overcome such well-justified fears.

Sample v2.0:

"This is the audio log of Lieutenant Guido Talbot, late of the Mars Security Force and currently assigned to the Extraterrestrial Combat Unit. Time and date: approximately June 11th 2091, seventeen hundred hours local time.

"This place, this . . . Hub, they call it, is . . . Well, I'm not sure exactly what to make of it. It's a hodgepodge of ships and modules, all bolted together with no real plan. It's easy to get lost here - very easy.

"I'm kind'a wary of some of the inhabitants, though - I think there's a Sectoid colony in one of the lower modules, truth be told, and I really don't trust those little grey bastards. Cost X-Com a lot of good men back in the First Alien War, what with their mindbending and all.

"And then there's the head cook. Sure, she's one hell of a cook - she's done stuff with the rations here that I don't think even the best-trained human chef could even hope to match - but she's a giant squid! She's damn good at her job, and she can be a real sweetheart too, but . . . it feels kind of weird seeing a giant squid cooking your food."

Talbot shook his head. "On another note, we'd heard that the Fey'lians - or possibly some of their allies, we're not sure which yet - were going to be making a move soon. Something about setting up a base in what we've been calling the Alien Dimension, though the people here call it something else. Don't know where exactly, but I thought it'd be best to make note of it. Forewarned is forearmed, after all- and if I find out where this action's supposed to be taking place, it might be worth sending a couple of Dimension Probes out that way to get a good look around. Good intel is in short supply these days, it seems.

"I don't know if the boffins back home have finished their research into replicating the Dimension Gate tech that the Mega-Primus Eeks are using - but they have, we might be able to use that to our advantage. A fleet of Retaliators or Annihilators would be a great help in this war - hell, I'd bet that even a handful of Avengers retrofitted for interdimensional travel would be useful, and certainly a lot better than some of the stuff we do have."

He leaned back in his chair rubbing his temples. "That's pretty much all I have to report this time around. I'll try to make sure that a copy of this log gets back to Malachite Base in time to be of use.

"End entry."

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