TLV - Character Applications (OLD FORM)

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CHARACTER APPLICATIONS
Applications are CLOSED until 12:01 p.m., January 1, 2011.
[0 out of 20] total app slots filled.


Application Periods are held for the first full week of every month.


ETA 2/1/11: Please note that the guidelines for applications have been revised; we now expect at least five solid paragraphs for the personality section of applications. The application form has been revised to reflect this. Also, as of February 2011, we will only allow THREE APPLICATIONS PER FANDOM IN ONE APP CYCLE. This means that if one fandom receives three applications during application week, any additional applications for that fandom will not be accepted and will need to wait until the following application cycle.


Please read all rules and guidelines before submitting an application. Be sure to check the Taken Characters List and the Retired Characters List before posting an application here.

NOTES:

1. We are no longer accepting apps for fandoms that are less than a month old. If you're unsure about something-- such as an episodic fandom-- please ask the mods for clarification.
   
   
2. Trade-In Apps: Current players have the option of trading in a current character for a new one. Trade-In Apps will NOT count against the App Slots, so even if all slots are full, you can still trade-in for a new character. However, bear in mind that trade-in apps are not guaranteed approval for your character. If your trade-in application is rejected, you don't have to drop the character you were willing to trade in.
   
   
3. In the interest of keeping a balanced and diverse cast list, we are presently not accepting applications from the following fandoms, due to a high volume of characters present in the game already. This list is subject to change, so please don't think it means you can never apply for a character in these fandoms!
   No fandoms are capped at present.
   Applications for members of all other large casts are accepted on a case by case basis.
   
   
4. New characters will not be accepted unless your existing ones are reliably meeting the activity requirements. This also applies if you have just come off hiatus; you need to demonstrate for two weeks that you are suitably active with existing characters before apping a new one or it will be rejected without reading it.
   
   
5. As of February 2011, we will only allow THREE APPLICATIONS PER FANDOM IN ONE APP CYCLE. This means that if one fandom receives three applications during application week, any additional applications for that fandom will not be accepted and will need to wait until the following application cycle.

APPLICATION FORM

<b>User Name/Nick:</b> <b>User LJ:</b> <b>AIM/IM:</b> <b>E-mail:</b> <b>Other Characters:</b> <b>Character Name:</b> <b>Series:</b> <b>Age:</b> [This is important; it doesn't seem likely that a 12 year old would be a warden, for instance.] <b>From When?:</b> [At what point in their timeline were they brought aboard the Barge? Inmates must have just died or were about to die.] <b>Inmate/Warden:</b> [Choose one and say why they're this way. Wardens--Why does the Admiral think your character would be useful as a warden here? What do they bring to the table? Regardless of their good/evil/neutral motiviations, do they have the capacity to help an inmate achieve graduation? Inmates--What does your character still need to change about themselves? How can working with a warden on the Barge help them?] <b>Item:</b> [Wardens Only -- What Gives you Your Information While Here? Examples -- a compass, a book, a palm pilot, a tarot card, etc.] <b>Abilities/Powers:</b> [Remember that Inmates will have reduced powers] <b>Personality:</b> [Please write at least 5 solid paragraphs. The more depth and detail, the better! Keep in mind that other players will use this section to determine if your character is a good match for potential Warden/Inmate pairings, and this may be their first exposure to your character. You might also include how they are going to react to the Barge. Please write this in complete sentences, and in paragraphs as you would in any normal area of the application. Do not divide into sections and label each with adjectives. This makes it seem choppy and harder to read.] <b>Path to Redemption:</b> [(INMATES ONLY) Please outline possible ways a Warden can get through to them, possible triggers, methods, motives for them to change. This section can serve to give Warden players some idea of which route to take in working with your Inmate. While we don't expect every Inmate to become redeemed, they have to AT LEAST have potential for it. Irredeemable Inmates are not acceptable.] <b>History:</b> <b>Sample Journal Entry:</b> [5-10 sentences, 1st Person POV] <b>Sample RP:</b> [3-5 paragraphs, 3rd Person POV] <b>Special Notes:</b>

Last Updated: 5/10/11

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Application 1/3

[magdaleina.livejournal.com]

User Name/Nick: Rei
User LJ: magdaleina
AIM/IM: AIM - SchmooeyFoo
E-mail: weirdophreak17@yahoo.com

Character Name: Captain Morgan Adams
Series: Cutthroat Island
Age: 31
From When?: Post-Film, pre-PotC referencing.

Inmate/Warden: Warden -- In Morgan's long life as a leader she has always felt she's contributed the most when she's had people to give something to. She wants to do good, and to help.
Item: A Compass
How Long Have You Been Here?: Morgan has been aboard the barge for the length of, by her reckoning, a year. She has already Wardened two Inmates who have since gone on.

Abilities/Powers: -able rider, swordsman, swimmer, and gunner
-has rudimentary knowledge the keeping and running of a full ship and crew
-can read English, but also has a decent understanding of maps and charts
Personality: Morgan is nothing if not determined. When she wants something, it is simply only a matter of time before she gets it. Brave and impetuous, she often will undertake difficult tasks without either taking into consideration that she may be placing herself in danger or really caring. She has little fear of pain, and she keeps a cool head in a conflict. Being accustomed to getting into trouble, she has a tendancy to plan for the worst to happen, and contingencies will fall into place to bolster her safe escape.

Application 2/3

[magdaleina.livejournal.com]

History: Daughter of Black Harry Adams, Captain of the Morningstar, Morgan has always been quite familiar with a mariner's way of life. When she was still very young, her mother took ill and eventually passed away; her father chose to bring her aboard and look after her himself rather than find someone on land to see to her care. He simply could not trust anyone else to do it with her mother gone. Much of her childhood and adolescence was spent under the watchful eye of Glasspoole, a sailor aboard Harry's ship whose eventual sole purpose would be to keep an eye on Morgan and protect her. She served in her younger years as her father's 'servant' (since she could hardly be called a cabin boy) until she was big enough to work ondeck, when that occupation was conferred to a new member of the crew, a boy by name of Bowen. By that age, she was also large and able enough to go seeking her own mischief. It seemed that every port they stopped in, she was up to some sort of trouble -- whether stealing or picking fights (their story, not hers), and it seemed by cunning and providence alone that she made it back to her father's ship safely each time, Glasspoole and Bowen always seeming to follow just a few paces behind her. By the time she'd reached full adulthood, there were as many bounties for her arrest as there were for her father, the most notable being a hefty sum offered by the governor of Port Royale.

After leaving the ship for a little time to herself, Morgan received an urgent summons from Black Harry to return. She finished what pressing business she had as swiftly as she was able, not realizing that her delay meant he would try to come looking for her himself, leading to the capture and boarding of his ship by one of her uncles, Captain Douglas 'Dawg' Brown, seeking one of three pieces to a treasure map that he happened to possess (unbeknownst to Dawg, it was tattooed on the man's scalp). The map would lead to a remote island known as Cutthroat, where an ancestor had hidden a vast and enormous treasure, concealing its location and splitting the map in three pieces -- one was left to the three elder of his four grandsons.

After escaping Dawg with a mortal wound, Harry told Morgan to shave his head, take the map piece, and go seeking her uncle Mordachai for the second piece (the third, Dawg possessed). He also left the Morningstar to her, despite the controversy this would start with his crew for bypassing laws of rank. Her mission: find or steal the other pieces of the map, and get to the treasure before Dawg. Though some friends encouraged her to leave the ship and do as she pleased, she chose instead to take responsibility for an unhappy crew, months from their last good plunder, and go seeking her father's final wish. This required first securing a person who could read the latin inscriptions on the map pieces, and they stopped in to Port Royale to look into the slave trade (it was common practice at this time for all ruffians of various sorts who were not sentenced to death be sold into slavery instead -- this included pirates and other scoundrels).

Here, she purchased a con-artist by name of William Shaw, who had been recently jailed for dressing above his station, sneaking into the Governor's home during a gala and stealing from several of the women there, whom he had charmed with much finesse. Proving he could read latin, and claiming to be a Doctor, Morgan bought him (while incognito), then escaped with him back to the Morningstar. They journeyed then to find her uncle, Captain Mordachai Fingers, in Spittlefield Harbor of Jamaica.

Application 3/3

[magdaleina.livejournal.com]

Though their meeting was interrupted by Dawg, Mordachai killed, Morgan and her crew managed to escape (though not without being wounded, herself), and she came to discover that Shaw had managed to steal Mordachai's map piece. They came to discover that Shaw was not, in fact, a doctor, and had been intending to steal their piece of the map for himself, along with the one he was hiding on his person, so he was thrown in the brig. Even without his help, Morgan was able to divine the location of Cutthroat Island, but as the route took them into a great storm, much of the crew (including Tom Scully, the man who would have been captain were it not for her) mutinied and set her and the remaining loyals adrift. Shaw escaped, and followed them. After the storm passed, and daylight broke, they found themselves within swimming distance of the island.

They were followed, as Dawg had made a deal with Scully to see to it the two mutually benefitted from the capture of the final map pieces. When they came to the island, Shaw stole Dawg's map piece and when reunited with Morgan was able to redeem himself for his trickery by giving them the final key to discovering the treasure. They discovered it too late, however, and were forced to take to the water to avoid capture. Dawg made off with the treasure, and Morgan and Shaw were separated. Shaw was taken aboard Dawg's ship, and Morgan had to reunite with her own crew and reclaim the Morningstar. That achieved, the two ships engaged in a harrowing battle, finally ending only when Morgan (sustaining many injuries) managed to kill Dawg (by firing a canon at him nearly point-blank), and she and Shaw escaped his ship with the treasure in tow.

Departing from there, with her now emboldened crew, for Madagascar, Morgan would eventually go on to become one of the most imfamous pirates of her time, known to eventually be one of the two Captains to pen the Pirate Code for which the first Brethren Court would fly their banners under.

Sample Journal Entry: Captain's Log -

It has been a full week since my last assignment ended, and I have received no new word from the Admiral regarding a new assignment. New passengers came aboard today, and I'm already antsy. It was a full month before I was tied to a new Inmate, and I remember how eager I was back then. Now, I'm hoping my next did not come in with this batch. I'm enjoying the quiet far too much.

There are only so many times a person can endure a place like that ash-infested cesspool, and once should have been enough. That one always gets them, always turns them, and with what it is, it's really no wonder. I just wish we didn't have to expose them to places like that to get them to open their eyes. You have to dangle a person over the fires of Hell before they'll ever learn.

It's wrong.

Application 4/3 waha fractions

[magdaleina.livejournal.com]

Sample RP: Morgan pulled her gloves tighter over her fingers as she emerged ondeck. It was dim -- always was. Rather than a full night sky, the outside of the Barge seemed constantly trapped in a moment of twilight, where blue swirled into the black, and just the faintest snatches of pink and dying sunlight could only be caught out of the corner of one's eye, but never there when one turned to look. Once, the sight of the stars all above and below her had filled her with wonder and dread, to look overboard and see not true waters but only the shade of them, more like whisps of smoke, where spirits and glimpses of happier and sadder and grimmer worlds passed them. Now, she relished a moment where she could come up top, breathe in the strange, scentless air, and gaze at all the worlds passing them by, below them rather than in the distance and on the horizon.

She had to admit that she missed the smell of salt, but at least she still had the wind. It blew her wild, curling hair back out of her face, and for just a moment, if she squinted, if she shut out the phantoms below and just let the tiniest pinpricks of the stars enter into her vision -- then it almost felt like the Morningstar. She could almost feel the brush of King Charles' tail about her neck, or Shaw's arms slipping around her waist from behind as he snuck up -- just like she'd always told him not to.

The Barge had been quiet lately. It'd been like this the first time she'd been there to stop in Silent Hill, too. Afterward, so many of the Inmates moved on, and many Wardens tended to follow, feeling far too unfond of those Ports that failed to differentiate between the ones the Admiral employed and the ones he found Guilty. She'd survived two, and there were few that could say the same. Most of them were lifers -- Wardens who'd been around for years because they wanted to stay there; some had even been Inmates before.

Special Notes: I like pie.

Re: Application 4/3 waha fractions

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Accepted!

Welcome to the Last Voyages!

Now that you're a member, here's a few things you should do!
1. Create your Character Journal and comment here!
2. Join and Watch lastvoyages, lastvoyagesooc, and lastvoyageslogs.
3. Post in the taken characters list here (http://bargemods.livejournal.com/1079.html).
4. Post in the Cabin List here (http://bargemods.livejournal.com/1886.html).
5. Post in the OOC Community, introducing yourself.
6. Apply for a Warden or Inmate to be grouped with here (http://bargemods.livejournal.com/2432.html).

Re: Application 4/3 waha fractions

[gimmethemap]

Thank you, self! *salute*