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Rifter Applications


RIFTER APPLICATIONS

"Rifters" refers to characters who are from outside of the canon Dragon Age setting and arrive via rift, including canon characters and fandom OCs from other canons as well as fully original characters from their own native worlds. Because rifters arrive via specific events—and because we need to time those based on other events happening in game—apps are open approximately every three months but may be timed differently depending on plot needs.

You can find the most up-to-date information on rifter app periods by checking the dates at the top of the most recent mod post! During arrival months, rifter applications are open from the 1st (12:01 a.m. Eastern) to the end of the 5th (11:59 p.m. Eastern).

Fade Rift has a cast cap for rifters. The cast cap is currently six characters per canon/franchise. Canons/franchises currently at the cast cap are: None. Any changes to the cap and to cast totals will be finalized one week before each application period.

Before applying, please read the FAQ and the Rules. In addition to a lot of other useful information, the Rules page details the caps and restrictions in place for certain character types.

APPLICATION FORM

Please link to your application rather than pasting it into the comment. The subject line of your comment should include your character's name and canon. If you need help with samples, check the the test drive meme for prompts. And note that we do enforce our word count limits, even if you're only a little over!

PLAYER

Name:
Age:
Contact:
Other Characters:
Interests: What sort of RP are you hoping for in Fade Rift? Are there particular aspects of the world you're hoping to dig into? Types of plots or threads you're excited about? Do you love action scenes? Political intrigue? Rescuing lost animals? This doesn't have to be long or complex and there is no right answer—it's to help us make sure our plots stay in line with people's interests.

CHARACTER

Name:
Canon/OC:
Canon Point:
Journal:
Age:

Canon World

In no more than 500 words, please describe the world your character comes from. Don't try to cover everything, just focus on the key points that an unfamiliar reviewer would absolutely have to know in order to understand your character and their abilities.

History

Please provide a summary of key points in your character's history in no more than 500 words. Bullet points are fine. If there is a wiki history for your character available, please also provide a link in addition to your summary.

Personality

Please describe your character's personality in 300-500 words. No need to touch on every aspect of their being, but do hit the key traits and motivations (as you see them) and demonstrate balance.

Strengths & Weaknesses

Basically, what are they best at, and what are they worst at? Where can they help and where will they be a liability? Give us a general idea of areas of expertise and level of ability. While this needn't be 100% exhaustive, any powers/magic/significant areas of expertise not listed here cannot later be used in game.

If your character has superhuman abilities, please describe these abilities in plain terms. Although Fade Rift is based on a video game, we don't write about abilities or attacks as if they are occurring in a video game. For example, characters will not have an ability called "Whirlwind" that enables them to spin in a circle and strike things with a sword. Just tell us they can use a greatsword and they're agile.

Suggested Nerfs

Many (if not most) abilities from other canons will be nerfed or adapted to place them on par with native abilities -- we want rifters to be unique and retain what makes them fun to play, but not so overpowered that they render native characters superfluous to missions. A list of universally applied power limits is in the FAQ (http://faderifting.dreamwidth.org/966.html#nerfs). These nerfs will apply to all rifters unless we discuss a specific exception with you. Additionally, we may place other limits on rifters' abilities to prevent them from being too powerful compared to natives. If you have a high-powered character, we encourage you to use this section of the app to suggest your own nerfs or let us know what's most and least important to you about their powerset so we can take it into consideration when we establish limits.

Arrival Inventory

What will your character have with them in the dream they arrive from? Please go ahead and list weapons, technology, and magical artifacts, though they may disappear in the passage through the Fade. And please note that we do mean what they have with them in their dream; they can arrive in plainclothes with their usual belongings from a dream about buying groceries, or they can arrive in a gorilla suit with a deflated hot air balloon from a dream that was a little less mundane.

'Human'ization

Please describe any ways that your character differs from a normal real world human. Characters who don't closely resemble humans/dwarves/elves/Qunari will be shifted into one of those forms by their passage through the Fade, so if the rules require that your character exit the rift in a different form, what form would you like that to be?

Fit

Is there a reason you think this character would be particularly interesting in this setting? Are there particular aspects of the world you're hoping to dig into? Things about your character you think Thedas will help you explore? Will they have a personal connection to an issue, or act as a foil to another character/group/opinion? Give us a sense of what you think your character will bring to the game world and what you think they might take away from it. Basically, why did you choose this character in this game? This shouldn't be more than 300 words.

SAMPLES

Please provide 2 samples. It doesn't matter if they're written or linked and we don't care if you prefer brackets or normal punctuation, but at least one must take place in the game world, and at least one must be a log rather than network tags (or their setting-appropriate equivalent). They can be of any length, as long as they provide a sense of your character's voice and internal narrative. If we feel they aren't sufficient, we'll ask you for more.



CANON UPDATES

Once in Thedas, rifters don't return to their home universes unless they are dropped and later reapped by the same person. However, your character may acquire new memories from time after their originally apped canon point while asleep and traveling in the Fade. (If your character is a dwarf, please contact us for alternate options.) Your character will not change physically--no new scars, no overnight aging--but the memories will feel as real as if they've experienced them directly. This option is available to both canon and original rifter characters.

If you would like to use this mechanism to update your character, you can do so by submitting the following form as a comment during the rifter application period.



APPING PREVIOUSLY PLAYED CHARACTERS

We allow reapps of dropped characters by both the previous player and new players. Unless killed off by their players prior to dropping, dropped rifters will have disappeared mysteriously from Thedas. Previously played rifters may be reapped by their previous players with their in-game memories intact, or by both previous and new players with a clean slate.

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Re: REVISIONS

[personal profile] swordproof 2018-06-05 07:16 pm (UTC)(link)
That's no problem at all! Please excuse how sincerely long this is!

PALADIN ABILITIES
DIVINE HEALTH The divine magic flowing through Six makes her immune to disease. This does not include the Darkspawn taint or magical disease, just your run of the mill sicknesses.

DIVINE SENSE: Six can sense "strong evil and good" when she focusses hard, but only a number of times a day (six, with her canon update!) This essentially means she can sense strong evil and powerful good, with evil registering like an odour and good like music in her ears. In a Thedas setting, since there aren't really any celestial good creatures for her to sense this would be nerfed immediately. In the case of evil creatures she would be able to pick up on the undead (like the Redcliffe zombies). She would not be able to pick up on Darkspawn, because that's a Grey Warden thing and it should stay that way. Attempting to use this ability more times than she can with her daily limit will cause severe head pain/migraines, and using it up to the limit and a bit before her limit will tire her out and make her head ache in a way that cannot be cured by magical means.

LAY ON HANDS Her blessed touch can heal wounds. Six can use a special pool of her magic to heal people, but only a limited amount each day before she gets tired/exhausted and cannot do it anymore. This is 40HP, which would translate to being able to stabilise, but not completely heal, someone, or heal a series of smaller wounds rather than one big one. It's not an unlimited pool and she has to rest before she can use it again after she's 'spent'.

DIVINE SMITE When Six hits an enemy with her weapon she can use her Paladin powers to deal specialised radiant damage. For this to work transferred into a Thedas-type setting with the Dragon age world damage types (where radiant doesn't exist) and with Six's powers coming from a spirit, it would mean she can use her Paladin magic to add a little extra Spirit-type damage power to her attacks rather than it being radiant. As this smite counts as using a Paladin spell slot, she wouldn't be able to use it constantly with every attack - she has a limited amount of magic she can use and this power would draw on that.

AURA OF PROTECTION People around her/in her aura are able to better dodge the effects of spells, but only within ten feet of her and not always successfully - it's an ability that protects people passively in D&D, but transferring this into Thedas might make it better used as a limited, active ability. This would mean that if Six concentrates with her magic she can help protect her allies with a thin barrier as long as they stay within ten feet and in eye line with her, otherwise the aura falters and fails.

AURA OF DEVOTION People around Six as less susceptible to being charmed by magical means. As this isn't something that's a natural occurrence in Thedas it won't really have much of an effect unless someone she's near is being specifically targeted by some magic that might control their mind.

SACRED WEAPON Whatever weapon Six is using can be imbued with her energy, making her attacks a little bit stronger for one minute. The weapon also lights up (in a 20ft radius) and becomes a magical weapon for the period of time. If she goes unconscious or loses the weapon the magic ends. She can only have the weapon "enchanted" like this for a minute at a time and the fact that the sword lights up is a disadvantage in most cases as it makes her a glaring target.

TURN THE UNHOLY Using her magic and when holding her holy symbol, Six can force fiends or undead (zombies/etc in Thedas) to run away from her. This frightens the creatures she prays against and makes them want to get away from her as quickly as possible. As there aren't really a huge amount of undead creatures for Six to fight in Thedas this naturally isn't going to be as useful to her as it might be canonly, and is generally a means of escape, as any damage done to these creatures will make her spell on them end.
LEVEL ONE SPELLS
PROTECTION FROM EVIL AND GOOD One person Six enchants is protected against her choice of creature (which, in Thedas, would be limited to the undead). It makes them harder to be seen by these creatures and they cannot be frightened by them. If they're already frightened then they're no longer scared. The spell also includes effects like charming and possession, but those effects won't or be relevant in the context of undead creatures in Thedas so will be nerfed immediately. She can also only use this spell if the person she wants to protect is within touching distance. It also only last ten minutes and as a concentration spell she cannot use it with any other spell that requires her to concentrate on it.

SANCTUARY Using her magic, Six can ward an ally within eye line of her from attack. It makes them slightly more difficult to hit by ranged and magical spells, but in Thedas won't be particularly effective against melee attacks. It will act as a kind of magical shield to help deflect attacks. It lasts a minute and once one attack has been defended against it ends.

CURE WOUNDS Like her Lay on Hands ability, Six can use cure wounds to heal injuries. She can use this spell to heal minor wounds, like deep cuts or fractures, or use more of her magical power to heal a more dangerous wound. She cannot use it constantly, however, as her pool of magic will exhaust her eventually and she will run out of strength to do it. The person she is curing must be within touching distance of her and it won't work on anything with undead elements or spirits.

SEARING SMITE Using this spell Six can make her blade incredibly hot to the touch and deal fire damage to her target where, in rare cases, she can set the target on fire as a result. If the person she sets on fire is on fire then... They take more fire damage until her spell ends or they put out the fire themselves. The spell itself lasts for only a minute and is a concentration spell, meaning she can't use it with any other spell that requires her to concentrate.

THUNDEROUS SMITE The first time (and only the first time) Six hits a target with a melee weapon it makes a cracking noise like thunder echoing around her. The use of her magic like this means that the target takes damage from a thunderous shock to their body and is pushed away from her, but only by ten feet.

SHIELD OF FAITH For up to ten minutes Six can put a barrier around a person to protect them from damage. It will not survive an onslaught of attacks and will eventually falter. It is a concentration spell, so she can't use it with any other magical ability that requires her to concentrate and the person must be in within eyesight for her to be able to use it.
SECOND LEVEL SPELLS:
FIND STEED Essentially, Six can summon a magical mount. While in D&D this is expended to a list of different animals, in Thedas it would be limited to only a horse, and only one that is big enough to carry her. It's not a very clever animal and can only understand one language (Trade/Common). It takes Six ten minutes to cast this spell and if the horse takes damage it disappears. Since fey/fiend/celestial isn't a thing in Thedas, the horse should appear as a kind of spirit animal. She also won't be able to communicate with it telepathically anymore and will have to use her words. It's not necessarily a useful spell in as part of the Inquisition as she's going to have some access to live horses, but can be used if she needs to travel somewhere alone.

BRANDING SMITE Six can imbue her sword with radiant (now Spirit) damage, dealing extra pain to someone she's attacking. If they're invisible, she can turn them visible as a result. This spell lasts for one minute only and as a concentration spell she cannot use any other concentration spell at the same time of it or she will lose the effects.

LESSER RESTORATION She can touch a creature and can end either one disease or one condition afflicting it. The condition can be something like being blinded, deafened, paralyzed, or poisoned by magical/herbal means. The condition has to be something from a poison/spell and it can't be a long-lasting medical effect like a disability.

ZONE OF TRUTH Six can create a 15 foot sphere centred where she chooses. Until the spell ends creatures cannot speak a deliberate lie while within the sphere. If the person knows the sphere is there they can avoid answering questions by being deliberately obtuse and talking around the topic. This would require opt-in from players and it can "fail" on those that don't want it to work on them for IC/OOC reasons in order to make this workable in an ingame setting. It only lasts for ten minutes, on people within those fifteen feet of her.

PROTECTION FROM POISON She can touch a creature and if they're is poisoned, she can neutralize the poison. If there's more than one poison, she neutralizes one she knows is present, or one at random. For one hour, the person is more resistant to poisons and less able to be made sick because of them.
Six has seven spell slots, which means she can only cast seven spells a day (four of her first level and three at second level). In the Thedas setting this would be a limited pool of magical strength that, when she's used all the magic she can, would exhaust her mentally and leave her with her still decent physical fighting abilities. A good deal of her spells are concentration spells, meaning she can't use two of them at a time without one or the other breaking/ending. Her magical healing abilities aren't at the level of a spirit healer or someone with specific training in magic, but she can work well instead as a quick-healing combat field medic, healing a handful of small wounds or one big wound. All her spells would also require the target to be at least in eye line with her and in the case of anything to do with healing/poison they have to be within touching distance.
Edited 2018-06-05 19:47 (UTC)
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NOTE

[personal profile] faderifting 2018-06-06 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks so much for doing this! Before we review it all, we wanted to direct you to this post, as we're making some changes regarding how we handle these things and setting up a chance for powers in general to be revised (including incorporating Six's Paladin spec) before we start charging for specializations or something. If you would prefer to go ahead as-is without those potential revisions, that's also fine—just let us know.

Regardless of what you decide, your canon update's narrative aspects will be approved for this month, and power changes will take effect as soon as we nail those down. You won't have to wait until August or anything.
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[personal profile] swordproof 2018-06-06 05:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Hey guys! This is all really awesome and this might be tl;dr as I try to pin down all of what it means for Six!

As I didn't discuss what level she might get to in FR in her app, I thought it might be a good idea to expand on that now so you have a good idea of what she could reach in about 12 months of FR time! I would expect straight off that anything that is Paladin specific (so Paladin-based abilities) will require the use of a Specialisation to upgrade/bring them to Thedas. Since I doubt she'll get higher than Paladin level 14 in the span of 1-1.5 years (and anything more than that would require another canon update!), this would be the following:
AURA OF COURAGE Six and people around you are less likely to be frightened by the enemies attacks, including spells that cause fear/frighten the target. They still work, it's just harder/takes more mana/effort!

IMPROVED DIVINE SMITE Her Divine Smite ability just gets a little bit stronger (it deals more damage when she uses it as a 'spell' rather than as a normal ability) and all her weapon attacks include an element of 'smite' to them, powering up her melee strength.

CLEANSING TOUCH Six can use her magic to end a spell on herself or a willing target she touches.
I'm not sure how you'd like to handle spells, on the other hand, as they're abilities she just learns levelling up but since they're not 'Dragon Age' spells they might also come with the necessity of a specialisation. When she hits her highest level she'll learn four extra spells, three at third and one at fourth level:
3RD: BLINDING SMITE The next creature Six attacks is blinded and takes extra radiant (spirit) damage from her attack. This is a concentration spell that lasts for a minute.

3RD: REMOVE CURSE As it says on the tin - Six can remove a curse affecting an object or a creature she touches.

3RD: ELEMENTAL WEAPON Six can pick from acid, cold, fire, lightning and thunder damage. For up to an hour a non magical weapon deals damage of her chosen type.

4TH: STAGGERING SMITE When she attacks with a melee weapon for one minute her sword does psychic damage to the target. This would mean that the person she hits would get horrendous head pain, almost as if they've been cleaved, and would suffer from that pain for a minute or until something knocks Six's concentration. It makes the target less likely to attack because the pain is strong, but strong-willed people can of course overcome it.
She also gets four new oath spells (first two soonest, 9th level, the last two at the end, 14th level):
3RD: DISPEL MAGIC Six can attempt to dispel a spell or enchantment on a creature within touching distance of her. The stronger the spell the less likely it is to work and if the spell is more magically powerful than she is then it doesn't work at all.

3RD: BEACON OF HOPE Any people within range of her (30ft / eye line in Thedas) get bestowed with hope and vitality. They're healed from some of their wounds and anytime someone casts a healing spell on them it works a little better than it might have before.

4TH: FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT For an hour, someone Six touches can move through difficult terrain (snow, desert, etc) with ease and spells that slow them aren't as effective. They are also better able to escape from magical restraints.

4TH: GUARDIAN OF FAITH For eight hours Six can summon a spectral/spirit guardian in a space that she can see within range (30ft / eye line). It carries a sword and shield emblazened with Sarenrae's symbol. Anyone that gets within 10ft of the guardian takes radiant damage as they're attacked by the guardian; after three attacks it disappears.
She'd also get D&D 'constitution' upgrades for her ability score upgrades which just means she's a little bit hardier and less difficult to cut into ribbons.

I'm happy for any of these future abilities to cost a Specialization upgrade and if Six needs to use one of her slots to come in from her canon update with the above listed abilities (with the eye line / DA-Thedas version of being able to use them as much as a native mage might) that's also fine with me! Just let me know.

Thank you for working with me and I'm sorry for the horrific drama that is the D&D canon!
Edited (I FORGOT HER OATH SPELLS I'M SORRY) 2018-06-08 19:18 (UTC)
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