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thestewards) wrote2018-12-09 06:30 pm
thestewards) wrote2018-12-09 06:30 pm
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A Gentle Night uses rolling apps. You may post your app at any time as a comment, using Character Name | Canon as the comment's subject line. Paste your full application into the comment. Do not link to your app. Be sure to make your application friendly to those who may be canonblind by explaining canon specific terms.
Apps will be reviewed beginning on the third Thursday of each month, usually over the weekends.
Our Jewel RNG is permanently open, and you may request a Jewel via RNG at any time. If you don't want to try your luck, you are welcome to choose your own Jewel as long as it is no darker than Opal. Any app requesting RNG (the mods will not provide Jewel options at the time of application) OR any app submitted with a Green, Sapphire, or Red Jewel that did not receive that Jewel through RNG will be automatically rejected. All applications will be screened. Please make sure your Jewel roll was made in the app round you're apping in. If you rolled in February, for example, your roll is no longer valid and will need to be re-rolled.
Want to see what we're looking for? Check out these applications for:
Applications will open 5/9/2019 at 8PM EST. Applications will close 5/15/2019 at noon.
characters 19/60
MAY APPLICATION QUEUE
CHARACTER
Name Your character's full name.
Canon Your character's canon.
Age Your character's age. Remember: your character must be at least 16 years old or have the mental capacity of a 16 year old.
Birthright Jewel Your character's Brithright Jewel, determined either by you on your own or RNG when you placed your hold.
Dreams made flesh What boon does your character ask for from the Queen of Hayll? Remember, she is not a god and cannot alter reality.
Canon point Describe the point in canon from which your character was pulled. You may lead with an episode name/number or something like "the end of book 2," but please also provide context.
Canon Powers Use this section to talk about your character's superhuman powers. Any mundane skill that can be learned (like being especially sneaky) doesn't need to go here. This means that a character like James Bond or Batman wouldn't need to put anything here, because their abilities (while top-tier) aren't superhuman. Consider how your character's Jewel may impact powers, either by increasing the potency of an ability or weakening it. Remember that Opal is the equivalent to canonical powers, and the Jewel essentially acts as a battery and power source for all powers or magical weirdness. Please do not link to wikis in this section, as the mod team would largely like to see powers divorced from in-universe jargon and such things as game mechanics (for video games and TTRPGs) as those do not exist in Draega.
Personality Describe your character's personality, considering what strengths made the Queen of Hayll select them as a hero and how their weaknesses can be utilized as a character arc for obtaining their Jewel of rank. You need not be explicit about either of those things, but this section of the app should be written with those concepts in mind.
History A link will do just fine. If informational material is scarce or is written laden with canon-specific jargon, please provide a short summary as needed.
SAMPLES
Network Sample Provide a sample of a first-person network-style post. This can be one part of a conversation over psychic threads, or a text or video message via Far-caster. It should be at least 100 words and strongly showcase your character's voice. Test-drive threads used for this sample do not require a single post of 100 words, but should be a minimum of 5 comments from your character and strongly showcase your character's voice.
Log Sample
Provide a sample of a third-person post, either in long form prose or action spam. It should be at least 200 words and strongly showcase your character's voice, personality, and mannerisms. Test-drive threads used for this sample do not require a single post of 200 words, but should be a minimum of 5 comments from your character and strongly showcase your character's voice.
PLAYER
Name Your handle.
Are you 18 or older? Yes/No
Contact How you prefer to be contacted, whether by email, plurk, pm, or other.
Current character Any characters currently in-game.
Name Your character's full name.
Canon Your character's canon.
Age Your character's age. Remember: your character must be at least 16 years old or have the mental capacity of a 16 year old.
Birthright Jewel Your character's Brithright Jewel, determined either by you on your own or RNG when you placed your hold.
Dreams made flesh What boon does your character ask for from the Queen of Hayll? Remember, she is not a god and cannot alter reality.
Canon point Describe the point in canon from which your character was pulled. You may lead with an episode name/number or something like "the end of book 2," but please also provide context.
Canon Powers Use this section to talk about your character's superhuman powers. Any mundane skill that can be learned (like being especially sneaky) doesn't need to go here. This means that a character like James Bond or Batman wouldn't need to put anything here, because their abilities (while top-tier) aren't superhuman. Consider how your character's Jewel may impact powers, either by increasing the potency of an ability or weakening it. Remember that Opal is the equivalent to canonical powers, and the Jewel essentially acts as a battery and power source for all powers or magical weirdness. Please do not link to wikis in this section, as the mod team would largely like to see powers divorced from in-universe jargon and such things as game mechanics (for video games and TTRPGs) as those do not exist in Draega.
Personality Describe your character's personality, considering what strengths made the Queen of Hayll select them as a hero and how their weaknesses can be utilized as a character arc for obtaining their Jewel of rank. You need not be explicit about either of those things, but this section of the app should be written with those concepts in mind.
History A link will do just fine. If informational material is scarce or is written laden with canon-specific jargon, please provide a short summary as needed.
SAMPLES
Network Sample Provide a sample of a first-person network-style post. This can be one part of a conversation over psychic threads, or a text or video message via Far-caster. It should be at least 100 words and strongly showcase your character's voice. Test-drive threads used for this sample do not require a single post of 100 words, but should be a minimum of 5 comments from your character and strongly showcase your character's voice.
Log Sample
Provide a sample of a third-person post, either in long form prose or action spam. It should be at least 200 words and strongly showcase your character's voice, personality, and mannerisms. Test-drive threads used for this sample do not require a single post of 200 words, but should be a minimum of 5 comments from your character and strongly showcase your character's voice.
PLAYER
Name Your handle.
Are you 18 or older? Yes/No
Contact How you prefer to be contacted, whether by email, plurk, pm, or other.
Current character Any characters currently in-game.
APPLICATION CODE
no subject
Sen's world is quite similar to ours, save for the caveat that a hidden war between two aliens has been influencing the fate of the planet.
The Progenitors are vast alien lifeforms that take up residence on planets of suitable temperature and condition. They carry Authorities of their own and are in turn subjected to rules set down by beings even higher than their existence. One Progenitor made landfall on Earth billions of years ago and diffused into the crust, where it lay dormant until life emerged within the primordial sea. Then, it used its Authority of Time to encourage the life forms to evolve and gain complexity. Over time Gaia's health became intertwined with the condition of the ecosystems, turning it into the Earth's sentient representative.
All Progenitors are bound by the Authority of Time, which enables them to perform impressive feats. However, the caveat presented by this Authority is that it forces them to obey entropy, eventually resulting in their death. Gaia sought to surpass death by imparting parts of its life force to the planet it resided on, giving the animals residing on it higher and higher intelligence.
Several million years ago, a second Progenitor arrived in the Solar System. This progenitor had decided to stave off death by siphoning the life force of its compatriots, and Earth was its next feeding target. Naturally, Gaia mobilized its defenses against the other Progenitor's attempts at cannibalism, thus Gaia and Alaya were at a standstill for a long period of time. Unable to directly consume Gaia, Alaya had to resort to indirect strategies to gain nourishment.
Eventually, Alaya decided to implant seeds of its will into the newly-evolved human race, granting them further intellect. Humans became differentiated from other animals by carrying a soul - Alaya's mark, in addition to their native vitality and sentience (which were given by Gaia). This soul would be harvested at the time of the human's death, carrying the mana and vitality that they had accumulated over their lifetime back to the unseen body of Alaya within the moon.
Alaya also sent down messengers to Earth, masquerading as angels and divinities to gain humanity's trust. Gaia countered this threat by forming spirits from nature, who acted against Alaya's agents. Thus began the millennia-long conflict between the Progenitors. The influence of Gaia and Alaya seeped into humanity's cultures. Angels spread word that criminalised earth spirits, leading to them being named as demons. Other cultures embraced the Earth and based their philosophies upon protecting nature.
This persisted even unto modern day. Angels masquerading as humans can be found within corporations and the government, infiltrating within to carry out Alaya's will. On the contrary, demons congregate within more eco-friendly factions and NGOs in a bid to preserve the lifestream within the Earth. Both factions are under a creed to not reveal their existence to mortals, as it would result in great upheaval and damage to the territory they are fighting over and the humans (cattle) that live upon them.
The courts of angels are divided into two factions, the Dominion and the Harmonious. The Dominion faction espouses victory at all costs, while the Harmonious faction prefers to give allowance to Gaia's agents in pursuit of sustainability. Currently, the Dominion hierarchy holds more influence on Earth. As a result, Gaia's life force is declining at an alarming rate, and soon the slumbering Progenitor may be pushed into breaking their creed of secrecy out of a need for self-preservation. Both the Harmonious faction and demonkind seek to prevent this from happening, as Gaia's awakening has the potential to fracture the entire planet. It is a race against time to stave off the prophesied doomsday.
Humans cannot become angels even if they hold an angelic soul, as they lack a vessel given by Alaya. However, by rescinding their soul, they are able to form a covenant with Gaia and become half-demons. Some humans end up inadvertently becoming half-demons due to their strong identity and emotions that they experience at the time of death, causing their soul to linger within their corpse and not travel to the Moon. Sen is a product of this process.
Sen's life as a human was a difficult one. She was born as a boy in early 20th century China, and lived in the countryside helping out the village farm. He was caught in the conflict between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, where his father was forced into conscription by the Communist army. Sen followed his father into the army, and died in a skirmish during the Long March. His strong will caused his soul to be trapped within his body as he burned to death. Gaia beneath him sensed his resentment and recorded his spirit, giving him new life as a half-demon.
He remained within the Earth's mantle while his mind recovered from the traumatic ordeal. After almost half a century, he was deemed fit to be released on the surface again and awoke in Shanghai under the care of two senior demons. He spent a couple of years coming to terms with himself before deciding to pledge his cause actively to Gaia's preservation, earning the title of Forneus - Authority of the Flame. He also forged his human form to a female one, which was closer to his identity.
Unlike angels, demons do not answer to anyone except those they respect, or to Gaia itself. Thus Sen took on an assistant's job to her mentor and was eventually dispatched overseas to America, joining forces with the demons amassing against the Dominion hierarchy's plans to taint the continent further. She arrives in January 2016 to assimilate into the Californian branch and conduct monitoring on the coastline.
SAMPLES
Network Sample
TDM
Log Sample
TDM
PLAYER
Name Eon
Are you 18 or older? Yes
Contact PM
Current character N/A.
ACCEPTED
Welcome to A Gentle Night. Queen Fayura is pleased you answered her summons. You are welcome to stay in the Queen's Residence for as long as you need to get settled in the city of Draega. While you're waking up and trying to decide just how your trippy dream became a reality, please take care of the following items:
► Join: agentlenet, agentlelog, and agentleooc
► Comment on the Taken page
► Once you've been added to the comms, introduce yourself in this month's OOC intro post
Once again, welcome. And remember: there is Darkness in all of us.