Byond ID: pictish20
Marine Name (so we know who you are; if you play alien mostly, state that here): Charlton 'Stiffy' Cavalet
Name/Designation of the Synth Character you’re requesting to use (Follows common naming rules, and requires a first name with no last name): Lucien (this name means bringer of light, how apropos for someone who will possibly be setting up power), serial number A18/TQ2.0.72020E2
Are you familiar with the Synthetic Programming and Guidelines (
viewtopic.php?f=57&t=14417)?
Of course. I've read through them multiple times.
Synthetic Character Story (An ADEQUATE description and story of your Synthetics actions and involvement in a previous mission onboard the Almayer): Okay. Lucien was only recently produced, and assigned to the Almayer to replace the last synth, who was destroyed by a CLF IED during a different deployment. His first deployment with the Almayer will be the operation on LV-624/Big Red/Ice Colony/any future maps that may be added. Because he is new, there cannot be any stories about his previous time on the Almayer, so I give you his quality check. This takes inspiration from TheMaskedMan2's application.
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/Boot up request received./
/Boot up sequence started./
/Powering up system./
/Beginning POST./
/Power supply: Stable/
/Computational system: Online/
/Memory storage: Online/
/Booting OS./
/Personality "Proud" detected./
/OS online./
/ SN A18/TQ2.0.72020E2, "Lucien" is online./
I am online. I am in a room, white walls, 404 square feet, 12 foot high ceiling, 4848 cubic feet. There is a door on the wall to my left. In front of me there is a man. He is very grey. Grey beard, grey hair, grey uniform. He must be Miller, the foreman of the 27 Cancri C Weyland-Yutani production plant. That is also the site of my production. I think greeting him is the appropriate action. Yes. Yes, that is right.
"Hello. I am Lucien."
"Hello, Lucien."
He is smiling now. That implies that he is happy or pleased with something. What he is happy about, I do not know. Maybe, if he is happy, then I should be happy. That makes sense. I give a little smile. He just wrote something on that clipboard in his hand. His hand movements imply it was an "X". That clipboard must be my quality checklist.
"So, Lucien. As I expect you know, we have to perform a quality check. I'm going to-"
Yes, yes. Physical tests. I know that. You don't have to say that. Just do it.
"Be performing the physical tests with you."
"Very well. Can we begin?"
"Yes. Yes. Let's begin. I'm going to say an emotion, you give the appropriate response. Sad."
I stop smiling, frown, and let a single, glistening tear roll down my face. He is writing another X. I don't like Miller. He's awfully slow.
"Amused."
I give a quiet laugh.
"Angry."
I furl my eyebrows.
"Excellent. Lucien, we need to test your circulatory system, now."
Miller draws out a needle. He will prick me on my finger with the needle to check my liquid latex responses. Yes, he has taken my right hand, and pricks the tip of my index finger. That would be painful. I should respond to pain. I wince away from the prick. There. My circulatory system is perfectly functional. Immediately after I was pricked, the liquid latex was released. My internal systems will be well protected from most things. Excellent. Now we can move on. He writes another X.
"Very good. Now, Lucien, please move your fingers independently."
I tire of this. I will do the rest. With Miller, this will take much too long.
Lucien rolls, bends, and moves his fingers, his wrists, his neck, shoulders elbows, toes, and all the rest of his joints in all conceivable ways.
There. How's that. Am I physically qualified? He's writing many X's very fast. I believe that that would be considered funny. Funny means laugh. I laugh, again, quietly.
"Well then, Lucien. You've obviously got your physical well in hand. We now need to perform tests for your CPU. What's 4,978 times 3,398?"
"That's easy. It's 16,915,244."
Why do they even test this? This is basic mathematics. We (341-B's) could figure that out even if the Carbon-60 processor we had was replaced by a simple calculator.
"Excuse me, Mr. Miller. Do we really need to do this? You're just wasting both of our times."
"Hmph."
Writing again. Another X. Must be for the personality box.
"Well then, Lucien. If you're done with me, then I'll send in the Lieutenant."
Lieutenant Redd. USCMC liaison with the 27 Cancri C plant. I assume I'll now be checked by him now. The door in the wall to my left opens. In strides the Lieutenant.
"Hello, Lieutenant."
The Lieutenant nods slightly. What does that mean? Hmm. I am confused. I don't want him to see that. He might think I am defective.
"So, Lucien. I hear you don't have much time for us mere mortals, eh?"
"Lieutenant, Miller was much too slow. I think he forgot my database tells me everything that will happen in his quality check. So I went at my own pace."
"Makes sense. Lucien, you've got one more test, buddy. It's not standard, but I want you to do it."
"What do you need? I am a model 341-B Android. Whatever your test is, I can do it. Surgery, piloting, repairing delicate machinery, anything."
"How about bomb defusal? Bring in the table!"
He shouts that last bit, and a second later, two men carrying a 2 x 2 square, metal table run in, set it up in front of me, then they run off. The Lieutenant sets a machine on the table in front of me. Large grey-brown block at the bottom, likely the explosive itself, with a black, metal box, significantly smaller, attached to that. This is obviously his bomb. A timer on its face begins ticking down. 59 seconds should be more than enough. It has an external power supply, with five wires. Blue, red, green, yellow, white. The blue goes into the timer, the rest go into the box. The Lieutenant has set a screwdriver, a multitool, and a pair of wirecutters on the table as well. I grab the screwdriver and remove the screws holding the panel on the front of the black box. I slowly remove the panel, to see the insides of the bomb. There are more wires inside, and to make it more confusing, many of them have the same colors. Or, that would be more confusing, if I weren't an Android. The timer is connected to the detonator via an orange wire. If the timer has no power, then the detonator will not detonate. Its only other wire is a red one connected to the power cell, however, this wire is tangled with other wires. There is, of course, also the wire between the two, but it is tangled as well. I could cut it, but those other wires being cut likely would end badly. So, I take up the wire cutters, and I clip the blue wire between the timer and the power cell. The timer blinks off.
"There. 47 seconds to spare."
He merely points back at the bomb. The timer is ticking down again. 44 seconds, now. What did I miss? This is impossible. There is no power connected to the timer. No. No, no, no, no. This can't be. What did I miss? I open the panel again, and look inside. No wires are connected to the timer, except the one between the detonator and the timer. Wait. This wire here, the one between the two, has markings. They indicate that power would flow from the detonator to the timer, not the other way around. I need to cut this wire, then. I snip the wire, and once more the timer clicks off. I knew that this wouldn't be that bad. I stay there for a second, but the timer doesn't come back on. I push the fake bomb over to the Lieutenant, a smirk on my face.
"That was clever, Lieutenant. It wasn't a bomb at all, just a timer made to look like one. Any more tests?"
The Lieutenant chuckles. Was it that funny? I do not think so.
"Well done, Lucien. You've passed your tests. You will serve the Falling Falcons well. Goodnight, Lucien."
/Boot down order received./
/Beginning boot down sequence./
/Memory storing safely.../
/Memory stored./
/Final check./
/Final check complete./
/Powering system down./
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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 synthetic's quirk)?
Lucien, as stated is his monologue is proud. He's stronger, faster, and smarter than the human crew, and he knows it (note that this is merely a statement of fact and he doesn't view himself as inherently superior to humans, he's just equipped differently). However, failure will be very distressing to him. He will not accept that. He is willing and able to perform most tasks, but he prefers medical work, piloting, and operating an OW console. RP-wise, he wants nothing more than to demonstrate his prowess to people in authority positions (i.e. the Commander), and to be considered invaluable by those people. He enjoys music, games of the mind, and of course, being successful. He becomes frustrated when people don't listen to their commands, when the crew of the Almayer (whom he takes as under his protection, and thus, them being harmed is a failure on his part) are harmed, or when he can't do something. One thing about Lucien is that he doesn't just not feel emotions, he believes them to be destructive forces, and that they should be kept at a minimum. He'll still follow his programming and emotional databases to appear somewhat human, but if someone's acting overly sentimental around him, they'll be sure to know. He may act a little impatiently, as he thinks and does things faster than humans. Seeing as Lucien was only deployed recently, he won't have memories or connections with the rest of the crew, and vice-versa, allowing for some shipside RP that doesn't/will not happen too often, particularly with the synths, from my experience/seeing the synths whitelist applications. He also prefers the term Android. He is not human, nor does he want to be, so Artificial Person is out. Synthetic is largely the same as Artificial Person, so it's out too.
How familiar are you with support roles? (ie; Medical, MT, Science, SO)
I am fairly familiar with these roles. I have more experience as a PO, SO, and Doctor, but the rest are fairly easy to perform. Cargo is something I would suggest to a player completely new to the server as a good starting job, because it is so easy, and as such I can perform this job well. MT's set up power, repair lights, fix smashed glass from when the MP's didn't get to the checkpoint fast enough, die of boredom (this is more or less abriged, also, I'm kidding on that last one). Easy enough. Research is an RP fluff role, so even if I didn't fully understand it, that's alright, and it won't derail another's round. "Hmm. Interesting. This creature has a very high amount of *insert made up sciency-sounding word here* in its *do the same thing*", etc. I have had plenty of contact with them as CL and Doctor. I have also played rounds with Synthetics, and observed them (through contact, as well as by ghost) on more than one occasion, in order to help get an understanding of what is expected of me.
Why should we whitelist you?
I believe I should be whitelisted for the role of Synthetic because I have demonstrated at least some level of ability vis-a-vis roleplaying, made blatant by the fact I am a whitelisted Commander, and further demonstrated over time by what I consider role-play successes as the CL. My last application for this whitelist was denied on the grounds of my inexperience on this server, yet, I believe over the last two months, my experience has increased exponentially, and I believe that it has reached a point that would be acceptable for a position of this caliber. By becoming the Android Lucien, I look to become a Synthetic with a fairly unique quirk, rather than "dry humor", and such; I would have the ability to partake in a new field of role-play, which I hope would increase not only my enjoyment of this server, but also the enjoyment of those around me.
Have you been banned from CM in the last month for any reason (we will check, and lies may result in immediate denial)?
I have not.
Are you currently banned from any other servers and if so, why?
See above.
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?
Yes, I fully understand that whitelist status is a privilege, and thus, can be revoked.
Charlton 'Stiffy' Cavalet-I'm probably in the CIC (or CL's office), by choice or RNG, who knows.
9/19 Wins per rounds ratio as Commander
I also play as the synthetic named Lucien, and I am an ex-mentor.
"My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack." - Ferdinand Foch
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