faderifting | Voice Testing Apps

VOICE TESTING

Current game members have the option of submitting a short-form app for native OCs they'd like to voice test within the game itself. If your voice test app is approved, you'll receive access to the communities for that new character and have up to three (3) months to test them out before you submit a full application.

APPLICATION

These applications are short and meant to encompass just the broad strokes of the character concept (they are essentially identical to the previous side character apps). It's fine to flesh aspects of the character out as you go and add events or elements as long as they don't substantially depart from the concept described in your app. E.g., you can decide while writing a thread that your character spent a few years of their youth studying in Antiva, even though it wasn't mentioned in the voice testing app. But you can't decide they're actually a Merchant Prince's bastard heir or secretly an apostate mage when there's no mention of that in the app. If you make major changes of that nature while RPing without getting advance permission you may be required to retcon them later.

If you do stumble upon a big change you'd like to make or major element you'd like to add after submitting the voice test app, you'll need to either contact us to talk to us about your options, or refrain from mentioning it IC until you've submitted a full application and we've approved it there.

Please post your app in the body of the comment rather than linking it.

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CHARACTER

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Mage?:
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About: In 100-500 words, tell us generally who this character is—key background facts or personality traits, opinions, skills or connections, etc. You don’t have to have every detail worked out, but you do have to tell us anything that’s hugely important, controversial, rare, or plot-relevant in advance. Otherwise, think of this like the elevator pitch section of a CR meme: what are the essentials that make your character who they are and set them apart?

FULL APPLICATION DEADLINE

The deadline to submit a full application will always be three months from the date your voice testing app is approved, and we will not be providing reminders. If the deadline passes and we haven't received a full application, we'll remove the voice test character's account from the communities and you won't be able to continue to RP them until we approve a full app. So if you want to be sure there's no stretch of time where you're barred from tagging with them (and save us the admin work of adding and removing your accounts multiple times), make sure you keep track of that deadline and apply for real before it expires.

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Name: MJ
Other Characters: Bastien, Kostos

also I am reusing a username from the last time I tried this & don’t yell at me

Name: Nicola Levati
Race: Human
Nationality: Antivan
Mage?: Nope
Age: 30ish
Affiliation: Riftwatch now
Occupation: Fixer
About: The Levatis own most of the coastal city of Sirone, but Nicola is from the half-disgraced outskirts of the sprawling family tree, already some degree removed from those holding authority before his grandmother's indiscretions with an elven Antivan Crow and Nicola's elfblooded father were added to the equation. The scandal propelled them to the bottom ranks of the family, but not out of it entirely. Nicola managed to wind up close with a cousin, Sibilla, who in turn secured him the good graces of her father, until recently Sirone's governor. After a youth spent bookkeeping and minding the seediest of the family-owned establishments, by his twenties Nicola was earning his keep as essentially the family fixer, sent to handle things that required secrecy and loyalty, like threatening unruly business associates, relocating inconvenient bastards, interfacing with the Crows about unsavory details, and pulling his spoiled young relatives out of danger or scandal.

The governor was assassinated recently. Venatori were involved, precise details TBD. Nicola is coming to Riftwatch now for a lot of reasons, including (1) seeing what might be done about revenge, (2) getting eyes on things in general, and (3) removing himself from Sirone, where the power vacuum is being filled by relatives less inclined to trust him with both what he knows and a pulse.

So here he is! He can be reserved and solemn around the face, especially when he's working, but he has a lowkey flair for the dramatic and loosens up considerably off the clock, like to the point there is a visible shift as he walks out the door. He cares a great deal about his family the way patriots care about their countries, loyalty divorced from whether he likes any of them in particular. The handful he does love he'd rip out throats for (or try anyway). He makes the socially necessary gestures toward humbly accepting his place but has a streak of pride, apparent when he declines to exhibit any shame about his ancestry, and a pinch of ambition.

He has the tastes and hobbies of a man who's accustomed to some luxury but also knows exactly how much it costs, keeping up an appearance of wealth by the grace of his relatives without much liquidity of his own. He rides an expensive horse but tends to her himself, and he only wants to see good theater from good seats even if that means affording it rarely. He's not a violent man by profession; he's broken up his share of barfights and has a hobbyist's skill with a sword, but his real work was more about dealmaking and discretion. Nicola's approach to diplomacy combines good financial sense and a willingness to be both subtle and deadly direct in turn. If the easiest way to solve a problem is to kill it, he has the Crows on speed dial, and he does not understand why you are yelling at him to hang up the phone.

APPROVED

Your voice test app is approved! Feel free to join the comms and get started. You have until August 18 to provide a full app if you decide this is a character you want to keep in the game.

Voice Testing Apps

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