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foundationmods) wrote2019-06-07 12:34 pm
foundationmods) wrote2019-06-07 12:34 pm
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Round 4 AU Workshop
In Round 4, all characters will be veteran Agents. That means they have been Agents for at least 6 months, and up to 2 years. This post can be used for sorting out that AU history.
Arrival at the Foundation
Arrival at the Foundation will generally follow this pattern:
1: Your character won't remember exactly how they were removed from their world. As far as they know, their memories just 'cut off' abruptly at whatever canon point you choose for them. They will have the feeling that there is a gap in there somewhere, but they won't be aware of how long it is or what happened during that time. Their first memory after this gap will always be the same: waking up naked in a cold room with a large, strange machine nearby. Regardless of what they were wearing before, they will now be wearing an orange jumpsuit.
2: Shortly after awakening, they will be taken from the room with the strange machine and brought to what looks like an interrogation room. In there, they will have their intake interview. The interview will vary based on how your character responds to being questioned, but in the end they will either agree to be an agent or end up being subdued and locked away in a cell until they agree to cooperate. Here are some examples of the intake interview: (1), (2), (3).
3: After the intake interview, characters will be taken away for training. This will vary based on what your character already knows, but by the end of it they will be proficient in the following: technology use (on par with 2019, as well as the use of Foundation-specific tech), reading and writing (in English, which all characters are suddenly able to speak), firearm use, containment protocol basics, and testing/training in using their powers. This process could last as little as a couple days (long enough to test out of all the training) to a few months (for people who know none of that and need to learn everything).
4: After their training is done, characters will start being assigned on missions. Characters will generally be assigned to tasks that fit their talents, but you can expect any mission they are sent on as D-class agents to be very dangerous. Casualties will be common.
Rankings
If a character survives being a D-class agent for long enough, they have the potential to become a C-class agent. C-class agents are generally given better assignments (to Safe SCPs with well-known containment protocols), and often are expected to be the 'leader' for groups of D-class agents.
For this round, your character can potentially be a C-class agent if they meet the following qualifications:
1: They have been at the Foundation for longer than 6 months.
2: They have been generally cooperative with the Foundation.
3: They have a particularly useful skill (mundane or otherwise) or a useful power.
If they don't fit those requirements, go with D-class to be on the safe side.
AU personality
Depending on the length of time they have been at the Foundation, a character's personality may be somewhat different from how they are in canon. This is to be expected, given the kind of work the Foundation does. However, characters should still be recognizable as themselves, and all changes in personality need to be explained on your app.
Any AU history or personality changes that are not listed on your app will not be considered canon for this game!
TL;DR -
- Characters will be agents of the Foundation.
- They can be there for anywhere from 'six months' to 'two years'.
- You must write up a summary of their AU history.
- You must also explain how this AU history has affected their personality.
- Time matters! Someone who only did the intake interview will be pretty much the same as they are in canon. Someone who has been with the Foundation for a few months will have Seen Some Shit, and their personality will probably have changed a bit.
As a final note, you must seek permission from other players before you may use their character in your character's AU history! If you want to have your character trained by Atsushi, for example, then you must ask Atsushi's player for permission, and we will seek confirmation from that player. Apps that fail this step will be automatically rejected!
So go ahead and get planning!
Arrival at the Foundation
Arrival at the Foundation will generally follow this pattern:
1: Your character won't remember exactly how they were removed from their world. As far as they know, their memories just 'cut off' abruptly at whatever canon point you choose for them. They will have the feeling that there is a gap in there somewhere, but they won't be aware of how long it is or what happened during that time. Their first memory after this gap will always be the same: waking up naked in a cold room with a large, strange machine nearby. Regardless of what they were wearing before, they will now be wearing an orange jumpsuit.
2: Shortly after awakening, they will be taken from the room with the strange machine and brought to what looks like an interrogation room. In there, they will have their intake interview. The interview will vary based on how your character responds to being questioned, but in the end they will either agree to be an agent or end up being subdued and locked away in a cell until they agree to cooperate. Here are some examples of the intake interview: (1), (2), (3).
3: After the intake interview, characters will be taken away for training. This will vary based on what your character already knows, but by the end of it they will be proficient in the following: technology use (on par with 2019, as well as the use of Foundation-specific tech), reading and writing (in English, which all characters are suddenly able to speak), firearm use, containment protocol basics, and testing/training in using their powers. This process could last as little as a couple days (long enough to test out of all the training) to a few months (for people who know none of that and need to learn everything).
4: After their training is done, characters will start being assigned on missions. Characters will generally be assigned to tasks that fit their talents, but you can expect any mission they are sent on as D-class agents to be very dangerous. Casualties will be common.
Rankings
If a character survives being a D-class agent for long enough, they have the potential to become a C-class agent. C-class agents are generally given better assignments (to Safe SCPs with well-known containment protocols), and often are expected to be the 'leader' for groups of D-class agents.
For this round, your character can potentially be a C-class agent if they meet the following qualifications:
1: They have been at the Foundation for longer than 6 months.
2: They have been generally cooperative with the Foundation.
3: They have a particularly useful skill (mundane or otherwise) or a useful power.
If they don't fit those requirements, go with D-class to be on the safe side.
AU personality
Depending on the length of time they have been at the Foundation, a character's personality may be somewhat different from how they are in canon. This is to be expected, given the kind of work the Foundation does. However, characters should still be recognizable as themselves, and all changes in personality need to be explained on your app.
Any AU history or personality changes that are not listed on your app will not be considered canon for this game!
TL;DR -
- Characters will be agents of the Foundation.
- They can be there for anywhere from 'six months' to 'two years'.
- You must write up a summary of their AU history.
- You must also explain how this AU history has affected their personality.
- Time matters! Someone who only did the intake interview will be pretty much the same as they are in canon. Someone who has been with the Foundation for a few months will have Seen Some Shit, and their personality will probably have changed a bit.
As a final note, you must seek permission from other players before you may use their character in your character's AU history! If you want to have your character trained by Atsushi, for example, then you must ask Atsushi's player for permission, and we will seek confirmation from that player. Apps that fail this step will be automatically rejected!
So go ahead and get planning!
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He's literally the worst at settling down so there's no partaking in hobbies here unless he's settled down with a comic or napping or something, but it's funny because even if she's there to contain him I feel like they'd get along just because of her attitude and stuff. There's a lot of his canon CR that's also meant to contain him or conditionally ordered to eliminate him one way or the other that he's close to so it's just this hilarious weird trove of CR with him.
Anyway, half his canon manhandles him anyway so while he'd be hissy about contact at first it's possible for him to get used to it if they've known each other long enough and things. /o/ She is also welcome to pat the doge since she'll be on missions with it lol.
Also he complains all the time so feel free to use him as cover for normal venting, Nora is the type with zero filter who just yells about how much the Foundation sucks and he hates X or Y agent because they suck so that's a thing. I'd say he can help with texting but he's impatient and texts like Moriarty so maybe not.
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With someone like Nora, I think she might be a little more abrasive if he's doing a dumb thing! So she might yell at him a little at first about breaking stuff and then start offering food bribes to try not to destroy as much. Seeing as they both joined around the same time, he could have definitely been on the receiving end of pats before she broke the habit, but if he came to be okay with it she'd probably just continue to give him pats /o/!!
Rather than vent at him, she might just go ahead and sit while he vents with her head on her hand, occasionally nodding along. She won't voice if she agrees, but hey, he gets to blow off some steam and also better he say it than her.
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Honestly he's used to that too?? LMFAO one of his closest CR in canon is just them both yelling at each other nonstop any time they meet but they still look out for each other (while screaming insults and pretending they aren't, honestly pretty sure Barik is where he learned a lot of his tsun from) so this'll just be like the milder version of that. Nora is defs just as fine responding to yelling as he is to food bribes. And honestly yeah like, if they've known each other long enough Saki can totally get away with casual contact, just don't call attention to it so he can ignore it properly. /o/
And hey, letting him blow off steam is good, this is clearly bonding. He could go on for ages about how stupid the Foundation is and she might get to hear a little about back home too because he likes complaining about them too.
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Goodnatured heckling is definitely something she can do too, so enjoy that, Nora. And bonding over venting, yes please!!
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Good-natured heckling is sometimes his life, most other times it's ill-natured heckling, so this is almost a step up?? ???? Gosh. Maybe she'll even get some gossip, these dog ears hear more than you'd expect even if he's more prone to listening in on dumb stuff like which agent totally failed their mission and who else got eaten by an SCP and also the agent who keeps bringing fish into the office because y'all that's even smellier for his poor nose.
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