Bedivere - bwoincognito synth app

[Doc Vulpus]

Byond ID:

bwoincognito

Marine Name:

Octavious Vulpus

Name/Designation of the Synth Character you’re requesting to use:

Bedivere

Are you familiar with the Synthetic Programming and Guidelines (viewtopic.php?f=57&t=14417)?

Yes, I understand that, other then life or death emergencies, synths must get verbal or written approval before preforming tasks in any department.


Synthetic Character Story:

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| ALMAYER DATA ARCHIVES - Mission log LV-426:

Refine search: Synthetic, Designation: Bedivere.
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Complet. Activation time: 1155 | Estimated Deployment time: 1230... Begin recording.
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This is Bedivere's personal recording on the USS Almayer, during mission on LV-426. It has been requested by Central Command Records Keeping.

Synthetic awakens in cryostasis chambers and proceeds to dress and move towards Command Information Center and proceeds to brew some coffee.

-Commanding officer arrives first, entering from her quarters. Commander is holding Ship mascot/pet, Jones, while proceeding to the command bubble, where she rests Jones on her lap and checks the current mission.-

‘’Morning to you Commander.’’ Bedivere, greets the CO, offering a hot cup and smiling faintly.

‘’Good Morning to you Bedivere.’’ The CO replies and accepts the coffee.

Log shortening to synopses till incidents of note occur.

Time: 1200.
Synthetic assists CO in planning out the days mission. Current mission from High Command: Colony LV-426 has reported attacks from Colonial Liberation Forces. Establish a base in the colony, find the CLF base, neutralize all hostile forces. Synth then ordered to assist in requisitions until briefing begins.

Time: 1230.
Only Bravo and Delta squads have been woken from hyper sleep. Squads have been assigned orders: Bravo will defend the colony and set up a FoB, Delta will begin scouting for hostiles, reported to be in nearby mountain range. Synthetic is ordered to assist engineering in initial startup of the generators.

Time: 1235
-Dialogue between Maintenance Technician and Synthetic-
‘’Good day Sargent.’’
‘’Yea, getting woke up from a freezer box really makes it a good day huh?’’ -Said under his breath- ‘’Frikin robots’’
‘’Mmm, I have been se-’’
‘’Yea yea, I heard, just get some tools and get over here, I can’t get them to turn on.’’
-MT is currently looking in side one of the generator, occasionally sticking a hand in side then sighing as the machine still doesn’t seem to work. Synthetic leaves engine room to acquire tool belt. Upon returning, MT is still attempting to fix the same generator. Synthetic moves over and examines the machine.-
‘’Sargent, should these wires be cut?’’
‘’What wi-...I would’a seen them eventually...damn robots’’
‘’I’m sure you would have.’’
-Synthetic then moves on to fix the other generators, completing 6 more before the MT finishes 2 more. Synthetic then moves on to set up the batteries and then do the same for the upper deck generators. -

Time: 1250

Initial deployment has been completed, however, CO is displeased at the current progress of the Forward operating Base construction. Synthetic ordered down to give instructions and assist in it. Synthetic coplies and asks to take supplies from requisitions down, metal, plastisteel, barbwire. They are given what was available by the current awake cargo Sargent.

Time: 1300

Landing via the Alamo dropship, Synthetic proceeds towards Bravo squad lead. ‘’Greeting Staff Sergeant.’’

‘’Ah Bedaviere, yea I heard what the CO said. Feel free to do your tasks.’’ Sargent raises his hand to his ear and states over squad communications. ‘’Alright, Bedaviere is here, engineers and any one helpen em build, listen to him and get this place fixed.’’ SL begins to walk off, but the Synthetic says.
‘’Ahem, it’s Bedivere Staff Sergeant.’’
‘’Eh? That’s what I said Bedaviere’’
Synthetic cringes a bit at the improper pronunciation of it’s name again. ‘’Mmm, well you’re trying. In any event, I’ll be off now to improve the fortifications of your fort.’’ Synthetic doesn’t wait for a reply and proceeds to make its way to the walls of the FoB. It first gathers the engineers together and asks them to provide a rough map of how they were planning to build the area up. Then the synthetic proceeds to make ‘corrections’ to which the rest of the engineers agree to and they begin fixing the walls and barricades of the FoB. CO thanks Synthetic over command coms for ‘fixing that mess’.
Time: 1400
Synthetic has been ordered to stay at the colony and talk to the current colony director on behalf of the CO, as they do not speak english fluently and the CO is ‘quite busy with more important matters’.

Initial conversation between, spoken in colony main language.

‘’Good day to you Lord [Name redacted], I am Bedivere of the USS Almayer’’ Synthetic nods slightly and gives a slight smile to the Director.

‘’Ah, Lord? Interesting title you’ve given me, oh please sit sit.’’ The director motions for the synth to take a seat, to which it does so.

‘’Yes, well the CO doesn’t like when I call her M’lady, or your grace, so I take the opportunities to do so when I can.’’ Synthetic adjusts their uniform after sitting and then continues conversation. ‘’As I have been informed, the town has ‘grievances’ with the current location of the Marines fort? I would like to remind you that we are here to help, and have been instructed to state the fortifications are only temporary, and will be dismantled upon completion of the current quest out detachment has been assigned.’’

Colony Director looks nervous a bit, pulling at his collar some. ‘’Yes well, we just, are unsure is all, with all of the..events.. We don’t really want more people forcing their wants on us, you know?’’

‘’I understand Sir, we are doing what we can to protect you and your people from the brigands that have troubled your lands.’’

Conversation continues for 30 more minutes, all while the Director begins looking increasingly worried and nervous. Synthetic I eventually ordered to wrap it up and return to the Almayer. Synthetic then departs the Directors abode and is greeted by it’s two marine escorts.

‘’Heyoo, Bedivere, talks go alright?’’

‘’Hello Private, and the talks we-’’ Synthetic lets out a soft sigh and lowers his head.

‘’What’s wr-’’ Marine is cut off as an armed and very masked individual comes out of the Directors abode, from behind the synthetic. The assailant is armed with a small personal firearm and holding it to the synthetics head.

-Spoken in mostly broken english- ‘’MARINES LEAVE! ALL OF YOU NOT WANTED HERE.’’

Synthetic states, ‘’Ahem, yes, while we weren’t planning on staying, you have made it very difficult for us to ‘not’ stay. What with the raiding of the poor peasantry and very hostile actions towards the footmen sent out into the mountain range.’’

Assailant attempts to shout and make demands?, but his mask hampers his words, unable to pick decipher what sounds like gibberish other then a few ‘Kill him, leave, no talk’’. Marines, already having brandished their weapons, have been trying to circle around separate ways, but have made no progress do to the assailants position in a doorway, but they have reported the event and more marines are enroute.

‘’Bedivere, you really think antagonizing him’s a good idea?’’ one of the marines asks.

‘’Well, people tend to make mistakes when they are scared, angry, ect. For example’’ Synth then speaks next sentence in colony language, ‘’Leaving the safety of one's hand cannon on is a very poor mistake to make.’’

The next moments are quick reactions, assalent, twists their firearm to look at it, and in that moment the synthetic reaches up and pulls the assalients hand roughly downwards. Twisting the firearm in a manner that prevents the trigger from being accidentally pulled in the encounter. Assalent is then pushed into the wall and pinned by the synthetic until the two marines rush forward and assist.

‘’Good work gentlemen, keep him restrained, i’ll alert the sheriff.’’ Synthetic proceeds to alert Almayer Military police to the incident and that a prisoner will be arriving via the Alamo.

Time: 1500

Synthetic has been recalled to the Almayer CIC as the operation begins to wind down.

CO addressing the command staff. ‘’Well, this nearly went south for us, not that command need ever know.’’ She gives a nervous chuckle along with the two Lieutenants at their stations. ‘’Good thing we sent you to talk instead of someone like the CL or the CMO, eh Bedivere?’’

Synthetic response, ‘’Indeed Commander, though I’m sure they outcome would have been the same, just have taken longer.’’

‘’Maybe, though, from what I heard, you basically let him grab you, why?’’

‘’Well, Once I heard that someone was behind me about to do something outright silly, I needed to make sure there wasn’t any more lurking nearby, so the marines assigned to me didn’t get put into any unnecessary risk because of my actions. Engadgeing him immediately would have put them in ‘to much stress’ then allowing them to think they had the upper hand, until they didn’t.’’

‘’I guess that’s one way to do it, must be nice to not know fear’’

‘’It makes finding logical solutions easier yes.’’

‘’Alright then, Once we get everything cleaned up time for another trip in the freezer box. Glad to have your help Bedivere.’’

‘’Happy to be of service M’lady.’’ The synthetic grins a slightly as it watches the commander give it a harsh look of disapproval.

‘’Go help Req, stow away the gear and then engineering wind down the power, then you;re dismissed until next op.’’

‘’Very well Commander.’’

Operation finishes up with 7 marine casualties, 1 of which was fatal; 2 civilian casualties, none of which were fatal; 47 CLF forces casualties, 46 that were fatal. Remaining member interrogated and turned over to the Colonial Marshal for trail. Almayer crew recover as much as they can from the colony and depart system for other missions.

Deactivation time: 1630 | Assuming cryosleep for preservation of crew and longevity of the USS Almayer status. End log.
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Syncing Record...
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Syncing complete.

How do you intend to play your Synth (as in, describe HOW you will act/play your Synth and what support roles you’ll mainly focus on, what is your synthetics quirk)?

I plan on playing Bedivere in a 'chivalrous' manner. Will try to not over do it and still keep him militarily professional, even if he flavors his speech with 'ye old terms'. He would be blunt most of the time but can attempt to help keep marines motivated with less then factual words of motivation, not lying to them, just saying that they can win if they do x or y, even if he doesn't think they will be able to do so. I would mainly play him as helping engineering ,Req, and in the CIC as an over watch officer.

How familiar are you with support roles? (ie; Medical, MT, Science, SO)

Very familiar with engineering, cargo, and SO. I know marine laws, haven't memorized the brig times my self. For medical, I know the drugs to treat types of injuries and can preform surgery, how ever, I haven't memorized the way to make the drugs, so would be quite slow on that.

Why should we whitelist you?

As a supply officer and CE, I get the tasks done as efficiently as I can. As an SO, I try to make my SL's /aSL's life easier by anticipating what they need, try and keep in constant communication, and sending them an image of their current roster so they have a better idea of their squads make up. In general, I try to rp out, even fights, at least until typing becomes unreasonable and revert to clicking, to include not shooting people that give up in human vs human events, and in one time I 'tried' to rp a duel with a predator, but...it became unreasonable because aliens kept stopping by to say hi along with other marines not wanting to wait for posts. Not sure I'll try that rp again actually, to fast paced on this server most of the time.

Have you been banned from CM in the last month for any reason (we will check, and lies may result in immediate denial)?

Not in the last month, had one ban I know of for returning fire from ERG, but was a while ago.

Are you currently banned from any other servers and if so, why?

No.

Do you understand that any player - donor or otherwise - can have their whitelist status revoked should they break our rules or the Synthetic Programming Guideline?

I would be sad if donors got special treatment, other then their bling cough, in regards to avoiding bans and getting on white lists easier.


((haven't written this much in a while, hope it's not terrible))

[Jakkkk]

It is really ineffective to have your ship synthetic to be speaking in old English, and Bedivere is quite an odd name.

[Doc Vulpus]

he's not speaking old English, just flavoring some words with it. As far as the name goes, I've seen a synth named Odin, is Bedivere that strange?

[Jakkkk]

For some reason this application just rubs me wrong, but I have no reason not to +1 besides what I have said. You raise a good point of Odin being acceptable, why isn't Bedivere, as well as some occasional phrases being acceptable and personality building.

+1 I suppose, best of luck.

[Karmac]

Honestly don't have any criticism to give you other than what I said in Ritona's application, though I'd suggest at least trying to make your exams look at least a little like you didn't copy from each other. Neutral. I will say I prefer your 'respectful' mannerisms as preferred to a more olden way of talking.

edit: -1

[awan]

You write that you know marine law, engineering medical and everything but there is no way for me to test that because it is to easy to google.
I think synth should be one of the easiest whitelists. But I do not remember playing with you. Hence I am going to stay neutral.

[Minimike]

I've seen Octavius in game before, seemed pretty good. Interesting quirk, would like to see how it plays off in game with other people. +1

[Wubs4Scrubs]

I really like the formatting of your story, however I think that an inherent weakness of having the synth backstory in the form of a log or record is that they tend to feel very bland as it is just a recording. Additionally the style has been done numerous times at this point so nothing in your story really stood out to me as being unique. However, your backstory was effective in showing how you intend to play your chosen quirk so that's definitely a plus.

I'd have to say that my main issue with the app is that your quirk and the way you intend to play the synth is incredibly similar to how Mortimer plays his. Mortimer speaks in proper English and is styled to act essentially like an old timey butler. From what I can tell it seems that you'd essentially be doing the same thing as in your story you both have Bedivere bringing officers coffee and being overly polite. So between the format being similar to other applications and the very similar quirk I have to say that nothing really feels unique or particularly interesting here. By choosing a fun and interesting quirk you give yourself a lot of fun to be creative in how you RP and be different from other synths. If you act and talk exactly like other synthetics it sort of defeats that purpose.

As for your qualifications they all look really stellar. You evidently have a lot of experience across the departments which is an assured positive. I would suggest that you get some experience practicing with making chems in medbay though as it is certainly something that I have been asked to do before as a synth and if you're taking a long time to do anything as a synth it sort of breaks immersion if that makes sense.

I can't speak for how you are in game so hopefully other players who are more familiar with you can step in and fill in the gaps.

In conclusion, I think that you've put together a competent application however nothing really stands out to me as being different from other applications. Ironically these backstories and quirks are beginning to get so similar to each other that they're resembling the exact reason why W-Y puts quirks in synths in the first place, to avoid them all from seeming the same.

-1

EDIT: So I touched on the fact that the app was really bland and similar to other apps I've seen in the past. I just now looked at Alky's application and my goodness they are like identical in style. I don't think plagiarism is the right word however it's abundantly clear to me that not much effort went into actually building up a backstory and it seems to me that you're just plugging in the pieces for your application. Changing my vote to a -1.

[Doc Vulpus]

I'm not sure why it's bad to reuse some type formatting if I felt it looked really nice? Also it's it's really just the headers and footers that are the same for the 'log' portion. the rest is a template that pops up when you hit create new topic for here.

As far as the 'bland quirk', I guess if there's another synth with a 'Similar quirk it might be seen as repetitive, but that doesn't mean they will act out that quirk in the same way. I might not have written it well in the post, but the part with the MT and Bedivere being passive aggressive towards them for being a prick, unless Mortimer does that as well?

As far as producing a story vrs a log, the log seemed much easier to write up the needing to structure a short story for the new character. It's also asked to create a story / description of a previous mission for the synth, and with using the 'log' format, it seems a more fitting way to me, considering it makes it look like someone is wanting to review a assets previous actions to see if they are fit to continue working, versus a character study / autobiography of a person, but that's just my opinion.

[Lukey111]

Even though you did copy another persons format, I have seen you around and you look competent, but I am also going with a neutral leaning towards positive on this one.

[Doc Vulpus]

I feel like you all are making it sound like I copied some ones background story word for word. That's not what I did. I used the template that auto populates in the new topic tab, and I did, take a log template from another post, but the insides of my story is different. I even changed the dates and locations.

[Jakkkk]

I might not have written it well in the post, but the part with the MT and Bedivere being passive aggressive towards them for being a prick, unless Mortimer does that as well?

This just entirely changed my opinion on Bedevere being a synthetic. Synths are NOT supposed to be passive aggressive in any regard, because they simply do not care the person is a prick. If a synth is in a room with 4 people calling them a dumbass toaster, after the experience they may avoid contact with the people because the synth believes it will lower their morale to be around him.

Passive aggressiveness usually results from being offended or upset with the person, but synths do not feel that. They treat everyone on the ship the same, from the dick PFC to the friendly CMO.

Also, looking back on it now I can see how similar our synthetics are, and in the long run its a bad idea to have a repeat of synthetic quirks.

-1.

[Kavlo]

It was looking good until you basically shot yourself in the foot and about being passive aggressive. As far as USCM synthetics go they shouldn't be passive aggressive ever really unless altered by an outside source maybe. In fact reading over it again the synth seems to show a fair amount of emotion which he shouldn't really be having.

-1

[Doc Vulpus]

hmm, just close this then.

[Emeraldblood]

Resolved - Closed on request app host.