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applications: open

Applications will be open from 10:00 PM EST on the 1st of every month until 10:00 PM on the 7th of every month. They will be processed as quickly as possible after they are submitted; if you have not received a response by the 10th of the month, feel free to contact the mod.

Applications will be open from October 1st until December 7th, and will be processed on a first-come first-served basis.

● Please post the entirety of your application in a comment to this entry.

Applications may receive a verdict of Approved, Declined, or Revisions.

● Declined applications can be reworked and resubmitted during the next application cycle. If an application is declined 3 times, it cannot be resubmitted.
● Revisions must be submitted within 48 hours of the revision request being sent out. If this is impossible due to extenuating circumstances, please contact the mod.

● There are currently 58 Character Slots still available in the game.

● While the game is close to character cap, reserved applications will be processed before unreserved applications, with unreserved applications being processed at the end of the cycle until cap is reached.

● Application Queue: All applications that would put the game over character cap will be placed in the queue below and processed on a first-come-first-serve basis. Applications in queue will be processed as drops happen, regardless of whether the application cycle is complete.

● Casts at or close to Cast Cap: Marvel Cinematic Universe: 15/15; Marvel Comics: 12/15

application guide

● Accepted character types: fandom, original, canon AU
● Non-accepted character types: fandom OC, AU
● The character limit is 2, with 2 apps allowed per month; players can buy up to a maximum of 4 character slots with AC bonus points. There is a cast cap of 15 characters per cast at this time.
● Linked samples should be no older than 1 year.
● Application challenges are not allowed at this time, but if you would like to apply for a character that is on reserve, please submit the application with "not reserved" noted in the subject line, and your application will be considered if the reserved application is declined or not turned in.

● CLARIFICATION ADDED 04/02/2017: Applications must fit in ONE COMMENT on the application page. In special situations such as original characters or canon characters without an information link, please try to keep the summary concise and stick to major turning points. If you have been as concise as possible and it absolutely will not fit in one comment, please store the background section in an entry on your journal/musebox/website and link it to keep the application within one comment.

● CLARIFICATION ADDED 02/03/2018: The Strengths and Weaknesses sections are a stand-in for the usual personality section and should relate to the character's personality strengths and weaknesses. These sections should not include anything related to abilities and the weaknesses should not be 'positives in disguise' (for example, stating that a character has a weakness to iron because they are a fairy would not be an acceptable response to the weaknesses section, nor would stating that a character is too generous). Every character has good and bad personality traits, please include both.

● CLARIFICATION ADDED 03/10/2018: Linked samples must be from a publicly available source. Friends-locked samples are not acceptable for use (via screencaps or other methods), unless they have been unlocked and made public.

● A mod-created sample application can be found here. This is an example of a canon application. The strengths section has been filled out in bullet point form, and the weaknesses have been filled out in paragraph form - both options or a combination thereof are acceptable.

● Sample Applications: Ronan Lynch (Canon Character; Written Background), Yuuri Katsuki (Canon Character; CRAU), Derek Hale (Canon Character; CRAU), Tolemi Pagoda (Original Character), Benjamin Holt (Original Character)

player information
● name: your name or alias
● age: your age (generalizations are fine)
● contact: any way to contact you (PM, plurk, etc.)
● other characters: any other characters you play in Riverview

character information
● name: your character's full name, in Western order
● canon: your character's canon, please specify which if there are multiple versions
● canon point: please state as specifically as possible, with chapter/episode reference, if possible
● age: please clarify if your character is not mentally, physically, and chronologically the same age

● (canon) background: this is for canon characters only; link to a resource or give a quick run-down of your character's involvement in canon
● (original) world: this is for OCs only; please give a succinct rundown of your character's world and your character's place in that world, as well as a brief explanation of their history

● abilities: list your character's abilities including any specialist non-superhuman skills they might have; feel free to link to a wiki or other information source that clearly states them; clearly state if any abilities need to be nerfed

● strengths: list at least 3 personality strengths your character has and elaborate on them; this section should not be more than 300 words
● weaknesses: list at least 3 personality weaknesses your character has and elaborate on them; this section should not be more than 300 words

● job skills (optional): if you would like your character to be placed in a job to start out, list three work-related skills so they can be assigned something suitable; this is different than the abilities section, and should only be three words or very short phrases - the character will not be placed in a job if there are no traits listed here; This is something that is asked in orientation, and would be volunteered by your character. But please feel free to specify if they have a skill they might not mention but that you would like considered in their job placement and I'll take it into consideration as a "funny coincidence."
● housing (optional): tell the mod if you have any preference for where your character is placed in community housing

● network username: provide the username that your character will use when accessing the network; the default is in the form of first initial, last name (j.doe) but your character can pick anything else they like; usernames should have no spaces, but periods are fine

● network sample: write out or link to an example of how your character would communicate over the network; this sample does not have to be long, but it must clearly show your character's personality and a good understanding of their voice; links can be from the test drive meme, other games, PSLs (as long as they are not AU), or memes - but should not break the fourth wall (Dear Player etc.)

● prose/action sample: write out or link to an example of how you write your character in interactions; this sample should be a bit longer and can be done in prose or action bracket style and can be set in the game or your character's canon, though please avoid over-use of NPCing other characters - this is about your character; links can be from the test drive meme, other games, PSLs (as long as they are not AU), or memes - but should not break the fourth wall (Dear Player etc.)

submit an application

Please fill out the information in the form below and submit it in its entirety in one comment to this entry. If your application doesn't fit in one comment, it needs to be trimmed - application standards are weighted to quality rather than quantity.

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revisions

Thank you for your application! Before it can be fully processed, a bit of additional information and clarification is required. Please complete the following revisions within 48 hours and submit them in a reply to this comment.

● While Riverview doesn't generally nerf abilities, Morgan seems to have a wide variety of very powerful abilities that fall under a lot of very different umbrellas. Please either nerf some or restructure his abilities to be more cohesive and less overpowered.

we hope to see you soon

Morgan is a Mage of the Akashic Brother Tradition. Bluntly, this means he can perform 'magick', or in other words, replace reality with a version more to his liking. To put it another way, Morgan believes so fundamentally that he can, for example, heal someone with acupuncture, that his belief is actually capable of making it happen.

Awakened Magick, as this is called, is not a list of powers, but a list of possibilities. Areas of knowledge called Spheres define the possibilities, and what they cover are at this link. Each level of knowledge includes the ones below it, of course.

Morgan can perform any effect he believes is possible, within the range of these Spheres. This is in fact a prohibitive and defining restriction: if Morgan can't conceive of a way, within his worldview and beliefs, that he can perform an effect that should theoretically be within the scope of his abilities, he cannot. Spheres are convenient terms in the RPG to determine possibilities, but what Morgan can ACTUALLY do within the realm of those possibilities is defined by his magickal paradigm.

Morgan's magickal paradigm is, broadly speaking, martial arts. Therefore, his magick is manifested by, and manifests as, abilities associated with martial artists in wuxia and similar fantastical works, or the ki or chakra control one sees in manga like Dragon Ball or Naruto. One practical upshot of this is that a large amount of what he can potentially do to others requires touch or very near-touch, in order to manipulate their ki with his.

In addition, this magick requires some means of performing the magic, called a focus -- meditation, martial arts, acupuncture, some thing he actually does or uses to produce the effect.

Magick has a very distinct tradeoff between duration, power, and scope -- an effect that could give two people low light-vision for an hour could only give three or four that ability for ten minutes, for example. With the exception of healing magick, which is really just restoring the body to the way it should be, and certain creations like forces in which 'permanence' is really a matter of perspective, Morgan is incapable of making any magickal effect permanent, and cannot reasonably make an effect last longer than a few hours without putting a LOT of work into it.

Morgan's Spheres, their full potentials in a vacuum, and Morgan's own uses for them are:

Correspondence 2: Sense Space, Touch Space
Morgan's use for the Sphere of Correspondence is primarily 'blindfighting', in which he can move in an environment even when deprived of one or more senses,

Forces 3: Transmute Minor Forces
Morgan uses this Sphere primarily for adding speed or power to hits, diminishing his visible or audible presence for stealth, preventing hits from reaching him, or elemental manipulation (a fiery punch, or putting out a dozen candles with the wind from one punch). Although flight is technically possible with this Sphere, he has never mastered that technique.

Life 4: Alter Complex Patterns, Transform Self
Primarily used for healing, Morgan uses acupressure or acupuncture to treat others. He does not know how to transform himself and has never managed to wrap his head around how he could turn himself fully into another animal through martial arts. He can use this to increase his own strength or speed, but rarely does -- he's already pretty good in those departments and returns diminish. This can harm others in martial-artsy ways (blocking chi to shut down the ocular nerves, for examples).

Mind 1: Empower Self
Morgan uses Mind magick to speed up his own thoughts, making him react faster and handle information better in combat.

Prime 2: Weave Odyllic Force, Fuel Pattern, Enchant Patterns, Summon Prime Weapon, Activate Quintessential Matter & Forces
As complicated as this Sphere sounds, it really boils down to a few things: detect magic, add to Forces so he can make forces out of 'nothing', trade his life force for magickal energy, and form a blast or blade out of magickal energy if he has some.

Time 3: Time Manipulation
Morgan uses this sphere primarily for two purposes: speed himself up in combat, and anticipating the actions of others. He cannot rewind or loop time, or view time in the past or future much more than a minute or two away.

accepted

Thank you for your application and welcome to Riverview! Please see the arrival page for an explanation of what will happen to your character on arrival.

● Morgan will be housed in Communal Housing; Floor 10, Bed 1.
● Morgan is more than welcome to join the Perimeter Guard, and if so, please fill out the information on the Perimeter Guard Page. However, if you would like a more personalized job, just reply here and I will put some thought into it!
● Threads for Activity Bonus Points can be submitted here.

● Please respond to this comment with your character's journal.
● Join the communities riverview, riverviewlogs, and riverviewooc.
● Make sure to set up an ic inbox, permissions or info link, and hmd on your journal.
● Optionally, you may also set up a Friendr entry (code on the arrival page).
● Add your character to the Taken Characters list.
● (Optional) Introduce yourself on the OOC community.
● Post an entry or tag in to the current intro/event log.

welcome to riverview quarantine

Here, to no one's surprise, is his journal!

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