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Founded 05/25/2002 by three friends; ended 09/19/2012.

It pains me to say this, but we're done. Thank you to those who have participated and followed along these many years. We had a lot of fun, and your contributions will be remembered for a long time to come.

Strangers and visitors of the future, please respect what is ours. If there is anything in the form of writing or rules you'd like to borrow for your own RP, please e-mail me on the gmail account "onsoku" for permission. Chances are I'll grant it if you are a nice, intelligent person, and agree to just a few small stipulations regarding proper crediting method. But please, leave our characters alone.All fan-made, original, non-SEGA characters, character art, and concepts remain property of their respective creators. Please show respect and don't try to take any of them for your own use.

I hope that some of us will be able to move on and have some more fun writing hobbies in the future. No matter what, we'll stay in touch, and this group will live on, even if it has nothing to do with RP.

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 Post subject: Apex
PostPosted: Sun Jul 31, 2011 7:09 pm 
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Characters: Apex
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This character has been Approved!
This character's wiki page may be viewed here. Everything below this point is just the member's application, and does not reflect the final profile!
To see the full list of approved original characters with their completed profiles, please visit the original characters section of the wiki.


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What is your character's name?

> Apex

Species?

> Humanoid robot

Age?

> Unknown, it has been three years since he was reactivated, most of his memories having been destroyed as a result of fire damage.

Give us a couple paragraphs of general info about your character. For example, what's the character's personality like? What kind of things does he or she do? Why does he or she do it?

> Subservient, dutiful and quick to please, Apex is, at his core, an uncomplicated being. He finds purpose in assisting anyone he thinks is a “good person” with any task they might need and fulfilling it as best he can. This is not so much a conscious reason as a constant mental requirement forced upon him by his programming. Having been found in an old burned house on standby mode it is assumed he was built as a servant of sorts but abandoned in the fire.

Unfortunately since being reactivated he has a hard time convincing people to keep him around. Due to his lack of experience when it comes to social environments, and seeing nothing wrong with creating new “doors” in walls when he needs them, Apex tends to find himself on his own quite often. The only reason he doesn’t end up being made a follower to someone who would abuse his skills is he retains enough willpower to refuse to follow someone he thinks is untrustworthy.

If someone can managed to get past his flaws, Apex is surprisingly human. Being quietly sociable, honest and communicative with others.

Does your character have any skills or special abilities, a gimmick, or anything that makes it stand out as an athlete or fighter? If so, talk a little about it here.

> Having apparently not been intentionally designed for combat, Apex tends to be at a disadvantage when it comes to fighting others. His high stamina and endurance means he can normally afford to wait until his enemies tire themselves out attacking him and then calmly display that he can send them flying with a single punch.

If he is forced to take battles seriously he can integrate weapons and sometimes entire electronic beings into himself to enhance his combat prowess. In short meaning that he can quite easily pick up the weapon from a downed robot or a gun someone’s dropped and use it as a wrist cannon.

This can only be done for a limited amount of time due to the strain it puts upon his power core and because linking with foreign objects for prolonged periods of time can cause his internal data to corrupt. The more objects he fuses with, the shorter the time he has to use them. As this action also tends to drain his reserves of energy, Apex tends to immediately seek out chaos drives to drain them before attempting integration again.

One additional advantage of this ability is that it can be used to strip the raw materials from items and repair any damage he might take during the course of battle. This takes time to take effect but it means Apex does not have to consciously fix every bit of damage he takes.

Does your character have any purpose? (It's okay if you don't have this fully figured out yet, but all the better if your character does have an agenda or some sort of driving force to it to make it interact with other characters.)

> If you were to ask him this he’d have a hard time giving an answer. Serving others has always been his main purpose in life and he has had little time to do anything besides that.

Does your character have an image? You can post it here, if so (as long as you follow the rules mentioned in the character guidelines). If not, please write a description of your character's appearance.

> Standing at a height of 90 cm and having a slightly stocky build due to his obviously mechanical components, Apex doesn't look like much of a threat. His entire body is covered in sectioned large numbers of sectioned plates which part to allow him to fuse with other technology. His limbs are thicker than the average person’s and connected by large ball joints which are just smaller than his head. As for his head itself, it's an almost entirely featureless oval save for two yellow circular optical sensors (eyes). It, along with the rest of his body, is predominantly white with dark green trim.

Will you be around to play your character regularly? (i.e. Keeping daily tabs on any threads you involve yourself in, and posting whenever it's your turn?)

> If I can’t be on one day i’ll be guaranteed to be on the next and making enough posts to make up for it. If I’m going to have to go missing for a while or things are getting incredibly busy i’ll let you all know a few days before I have to disappear. So, expect daily attendance from me.

Do you live in or near the Americas, or elsewhere? (It may be difficult for you to participate in any of the fast-moving sessions if you're only online when the rest of the group is asleep. So, we ask this just to be aware of any potential problems.)

> Ah. That might be a slight problem. I live in England and while I can be up and posting at some of the same times other people are on, experience has taught me that some of the more active hours take place at about 3AM for me.

Are you okay with having your character information and image on this website (such as on the wiki) for as long as you're an active member?

> Perfectly fine with me.

What is your name? (Don't post your last name! This forum isn't private!)

> Malcolm, but i’d prefer to be called Galan on here to avoid confusion.

Lastly, by submitting this, you acknowledge your understanding that, even though we want things to be as friendly as possible here, this is a character review process. This involves critique, which is intended to point out and iron out any possibleproblems in character profiles. (In other words, it doesn't mean we don't like you or your character if we point out issues, so chill, and don't get too worked up about imaginary cartoon characters on the internet. Capiche? Let's go.)


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 Post subject: Re: Apex
PostPosted: Mon Aug 01, 2011 4:23 am 
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Two things, neither of which have anything to do with the character itself:

1. You may be disappointed to hear that we're in a bad, unwelcoming position story-wise right now. A lot of the cast is currently committed to a storyline with strange circumstances (see: deep space) that may make it difficult for new characters to get involved until said storyline concludes. It's still possible, of course, but just consider this fair warning that it may take some patience and collaboration to sort out.

2. The location thing. The good thing is that RP posts here can happen almost any hour of the day, since people just post when they're able to. The bad thing is that whenever we do have actual bursts of activity, it's usually in the evening hours (probably ranging anywhere between 6PM and midnight, GMT -5). Plus, actually getting meaningfully involved, both in-character and in a community sense, may be tough if you're never able to come around to the chat and get to know people.

As far as the character itself? We haven't had a chance to do our usual thing where we run it past all the admin-folk, but I wanted to reply ASAP so as to not waste your time, in case you don't want to deal with the story and timing crap mentioned above. Still, judging by the quick once-over I gave the info, everything looks good, so unless someone else spots something I didn't, it's safe to consider the character accepted.

So, what are your thoughts on all this?



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 Post subject: Re: Apex
PostPosted: Mon Aug 01, 2011 5:39 am 
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Admin wrote:
1. You may be disappointed to hear that we're in a bad, unwelcoming position story-wise right now. A lot of the cast is currently committed to a storyline with strange circumstances (see: deep space) that may make it difficult for new characters to get involved until said storyline concludes. It's still possible, of course, but just consider this fair warning that it may take some patience and collaboration to sort out.


That's no problem, if it's an awkward time for new people to join I can quite happily wait a few weeks until that storyline ends.

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2. The location thing. The good thing is that RP posts here can happen almost any hour of the day, since people just post when they're able to. The bad thing is that whenever we do have actual bursts of activity, it's usually in the evening hours (probably ranging anywhere between 6PM and midnight, GMT -5). Plus, actually getting meaningfully involved, both in-character and in a community sense, may be tough if you're never able to come around to the chat and get to know people.


One of the reasons this character has such a subservient personality was to try and help deal with that problem.
It would be entirely in character for him to stick at the back of the group keeping quiet and let others make most of the party do the important decision making work. That might solve a few problems and if not I do not mind someone taking control of him for brief periods of time if they need him for plot reasons.

I can be up late enough to get onto the chatbox when others are on here, but the main problem at the moment is trying to get Trillian to work on my PC.

EDIT: There is one thing I would like to quickly apologise for right now. Looking at Apex's profile again it looks like there were a couple of obvious grammatical errors and typos left in. I didn't have time to properly proof read it so apologies for that before hand. If I am allowed to edit that post at a later date i'll correct those mistakes at a later date.


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 Post subject: Re: Apex
PostPosted: Mon Aug 01, 2011 1:00 pm 
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Oh, psshh. Don't worry about the grammar thing. I'm still finding and editing mistakes out of my profiles... But, yeah, you can make all the adjustments you want to on the wiki.

Anyway! Your patience with the situation is super appreciated. And, you definitely thought through how this whole thing would work, so that's pretty cool. I'll just go ahead and stamp this one and start a wiki page for you.

Apex

I used the robot template for it, but if you'd rather just have a normal character profile template, we can easily change it over. It's up to you.

You can log into the wiki with the same info as your forum account. If there are any problems with it or questions about it, don't hesitate to ask. Welcome aboard.


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 Post subject: Re: Apex
PostPosted: Mon Aug 01, 2011 1:13 pm 
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Oh, psshh. Don't worry about the grammar thing. I'm still finding and editing mistakes out of my profiles... But, yeah, you can make all the adjustments you want to on the wiki.

Anyway! Your patience with the situation is super appreciated. And, you definitely thought through how this whole thing would work, so that's pretty cool. I'll just go ahead and stamp this one and start a wiki page for you.

Apex

I used the robot template for it, but if you'd rather just have a normal character profile template, we can easily change it over. It's up to you.

You can log into the wiki with the same info as your forum account. If there are any problems with it or questions about it, don't hesitate to ask. Welcome aboard.


Well, he is a robot so it's probably best his profile uses the template designed for him. I'll get to work on filling it out now since i'm going to have the time to spare. Cheers for creating that page by the way and for letting me join up despite the whole timezone thing.

Thanks for the compliment as well, it's always nice to hear when something has been done right.


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 Post subject: Re: Apex
PostPosted: Mon Aug 01, 2011 8:51 pm 
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No problem; thanks for coming around and being cool about everything.

One thing I forgot to say before: Give us a poke here whenever you're done tweaking your wiki profile so we'll know to take a look and slap the big, fat approved tag on it. You have pretty much all the time in the world, though, so no rush.


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 Post subject: Re: Apex
PostPosted: Mon Aug 01, 2011 9:20 pm 
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Characters: Apex
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No problem; thanks for coming around and being cool about everything.


No worries, this is not the first long time roleplay i've joined part way through and having run one in the past I know know complicated plots can get.

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One thing I forgot to say before: Give us a poke here whenever you're done tweaking your wiki profile so we'll know to take a look and slap the big, fat approved tag on it. You have pretty much all the time in the world, though, so no rush.


Got it, it'll probably be a week or so before it's finished though. There might be a few layout changes to make it easier to read and make it look a bit more professional.

There is one thing I thought to mention though, there were a couple of additions added to the profile since it was first posted in here. Most of them are just trivia bits to give Apex a few character quirks, but one small bit was to his abilities giving him a reason to have minor acrobatic skills. You can find it under Other features/equipment. This was to stop his agility falling into negative stars and to help balance it out I specifically weakened his toughness.

I'm sorry for not running it past you first but it can easily be removed if it's a problem.


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 Post subject: Re: Apex
PostPosted: Mon Aug 01, 2011 9:48 pm 
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Nah, stuff like that's just natural development of the concept as you flesh it out, you know? I mean, I haven't looked yet, but it sounds like no big deal. The only time we've had problems with that was when people... did really random stuff, like suddenly trying to throw completely unmentioned magical powers on their characters after getting to the wiki stage, and stuff like that. (Yes, it's happened.)

So, no worries.


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 Post subject: Re: Apex
PostPosted: Tue Aug 02, 2011 5:13 pm 
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Well that's a good thing to hear. It doesn't give him anything which would otherwise seem out of place or the ability to instantly beat people, it was just so that his agility wasn't entering negative numbers.

I'm somewhat curious as to what powers were added to the characters you mention. Did they change each character's entire bio to try and justify them or was the fact they could suddenly fire lightning bolts from their eyes suddenly added without any hint as to why?


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 Post subject: Re: Apex
PostPosted: Tue Aug 02, 2011 5:59 pm 
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It's pretty funny, but I'll PM you so as to not publicly shame any former would-be members.


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