mayfield_ooc | Applications

• Please read over all the rules and information before applying in order to minimize any confusion before joining.

• If applying for a character that has already been dropped, it would be a good idea, though not required, to know something of their previous interactions. You are also free to pick up a dropped character with no memories of their previous time in Mayfield.

• All content for the personality and sample entry in your app must be written or roleplayed by you; for the personality section in particular, we do not accept copied text from wikis or other sources. Obviously, you may not copy your app from other players, whether in Mayfield or other games. Application plagiarism will result in a ban from the game.

• If you wish for your character to be placed in a specific house, please mention this in the relevant section of the application and specify that permission was obtained by the PCs already residing in that house. We will be operating by the Honor System for this, and there is no need for others to comment their permission in this post!

• Other special requests would also best go in the beginning of the application. Remember, grammar and spelling are important -- if your app contains errors, you will be asked to revise.

• Please post all applications or canon updates in this post; posting them elsewhere and linking to them from here may cause them to get changed later. Posting them here keeps us from having to save them.

When Applying, Fill Out the Following:

Name: Not the character's name, but yours or however you'd like us to refer to you.
Personal Journal: If you have one; a journal on another website is fine.
Contact Info: Any other way of contacting you. IM screen names, e-mail address, etc. AIM appears to be the common link between most players, so having a handle on AIM is preferable.
Other Characters Played: Any other characters you play at Mayfield, if applicable.
Preferred Housing: We encourage random matches, but if there is a particular house you want, you will need to contact every person in the house for permission. Please post your app AFTER doing this. If you cannot get in contact with any one person, please wait a week after contact and we'll accept it as a good faith effort. It is not necessary for those you received permission from to comment; we believe you! If you have no housing preference, simply put "N/A".

Character Name: Names, nicknames, whatever is applicable. In western order, please. If the character has no last name (adult males especially), you are free to either make one up or let us do it.
Character Series: 
Character Age: 
Background: We will accept copy/pastes or links to Wikipedia or another source, provided that the source reasonably explains the canon. This section is necessary, so if you can't find an explanatory source, you'll have to write something up yourself.
Personality: The more detailed here, the better. This lets us get a good feel for the character. Please try to back up your details with canon examples when you're getting past their basic character and more in-depth. Generally, we want to see at least four good-sized paragraphs.
Abilities: This section may end up being optional for you. If your character has any abilities or powers, such as magic, they'll be taken away upon arrival in Mayfield. These will come back over time, though.
Sample Entry: Please write as if you've already been accepted and writing an ordinary post from your character during their stay in Mayfield. Using an "introduction" post is fine, but we tend to discourage it, as the typical "who am I where am I what is this crazy place" format doesn't really give us a good grasp of how your character will behave on a daily basis. If you have trouble writing sample posts, we allow links to museboxes or other RPs to demonstrate as a sample. However, you'll want to post with the account you'll be linking to in that situation. Please make sure that your app is written in first person (!!!), as that's the format that will be used in the roleplay. Generally, we want to see at least five sentences, if not more. Prose log style samples will not be accepted. If you're confused about the distinction, we will be happy to explain. Remember, we're looking for FIRST-PERSON format; prose narration is fine, but it cannot make up the bulk of the entry.

When Applying for an Original Character, Fill Out the Following

Name: Not the character's name, but yours or however you'd like us to refer to you.
Personal Journal:
Contact Info: Any other way of contacting you. IM screen names, e-mail address, etc. AIM appears to be the common link between most players, so having a handle on AIM is preferable.
Other Characters Played: Any other characters you play at Mayfield, if applicable.
Preferred Housing: We encourage random matches, but if there is a particular house you want, you will need to contact every person in the house for permission. Please post your app AFTER doing this. If you cannot get in contact with any one person, please wait a week after contact and we'll accept it as a good faith effort. It is not necessary for those you received permission from to comment; we believe you! If you have no housing preference, simply put "N/A".

Character Name: Names, nicknames, whatever is applicable. In western order, please. If the character has no last name (adult males especially), you are free to either make one up or let us do it. 
Character Age: 
Background: For OCs, we require a detailed background to be fully written out. Please make sure to describe both the character's specific, personal background, and the world the character is from. If it is exactly like the real world, you'll still need to describe the location and the specifics of the society the character lives in (also please note here that we no longer accept 'Canon OCs,' so if this world is not one invented by you, the character is not appable).

This section will need to be somewhat long; there's no specific length we want, but we want to have a very clear feel of the character's backstory, so that we can compare it to the personality section.
Personality: This section is probably the most important. We're looking for at least six or seven paragraphs, but what's more important is that this be comprehensive and detailed. We want to see what makes your character tick, and we want to see that you understand what makes them tick and have fleshed them out as a character. Some things we will need to see include their important relationships and the major events in their lives and how these have shaped them, how they tend to interact with others and the world around them, their strengths and weaknesses, and what motivates them, among others.

If we do not have a strong sense of personality or it doesn't seem to match up with the background or sample, we will not accept the character even if your writing is strong.
Abilities: This section may end up being optional for you. If your character has any abilities or powers, such as magic, they'll be taken away upon arrival in Mayfield. These will come back over time, though.
Sample Entry 1: We're looking for a first person sample here; prose or action log format is not acceptable. If you write a sample, please write as though your character has already been accepted and is in Mayfield. You may write an introduction or first post, but we tend to discourage this, as the typical "who am I where am I what is this crazy place" format doesn't really give us a good grasp of how your character will behave on a daily basis. You may also use a link to a post in a dressing room, another game, or a musebox. We're looking specifically for a clear sense of character voice; spelling and grammar are important, but showing strong voice and characterization is more important than anything else. Remember, we're looking for FIRST-PERSON format; prose narration is fine, but it cannot make up the bulk of the entry.
Sample Entry 2: In this sample, we'd like to see a different side of your character than we saw in your first sample. This sample also needs to be in first person, but you may do a sample heavily based on introspection and action as long as it shows us a different side of your character and your first sample was strongly focused on speaking voice. For this sample, we will ask you to write something out as though your character is already in Mayfield. Please do not link to a sample elsewhere or use their first post/waking up in Mayfield here. That can go in the first sample instead.

• Before applying, please look over any applications that were recently accepted to get an idea of what we're looking for.

• If you apply for a character that has already been reserved, we will inform you and ignore the application until the reserve runs out. You may not apply for more than two characters from the same canon. For the sample entry, you may write your own entry, or use a post from a musebox, dressing room, or other game. We recommend testrun_box if you prefer the latter!

• After you're accepted, please follow all of the instructions given. You will need to reply to the acceptance, post your journal to the friend add page and your canon post, join the communities, and use the friend add page to update your journal. Once you're accepted, please introduce yourself on the community when you're ready to play.

• If your app is "Pending", do not freak out! This means that we need you to make some revisions, and does not mean you're rejected. We generally give players a chance to revise before rejecting them, but we will reject apps that do not address the concerns stated when we asked for a revision. If you have been rejected, our reply will clearly state this to be the case. If we have not gotten back to you yet, under no circumstance does this mean you are rejected. If it has been over a week since our last reply, it would be a good idea to contact us with a reminder, otherwise, please be patient!

• If you have received a "Pending" notice, you will have one week to supply us with your revisions, or your reserve will be considered expired and that someone else is free to apply for the character.

• The typical wait for a reply on apps may be anywhere from a day to a little over a week. If any part of your application requires a pending, it may be another week after your reply to that before we can get to you. We process a high volume of apps every round, so please be patient.

• If you have not heard back on a pending for over a week after apps close, please send a PM directly to the mod account.

APPLICATIONS ARE CLOSED.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Name: Ash Blaze/Knux
Personal LJ:

ashs_stash
Contact Info: AIM - HyprKnux1
Other Characters Played: Nozomi Yumehara, Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik
Preferred Housing: N/A

Character Name: Tom Servo
Character Series: Mystery Science Theater 3000
Character Age: 10 + about 500. It's a long story.
Background: In The Not-Too-Distant Future, Next Sunday A.D...

When Dr. Clayton Forrestor and Larry Erhart captured Joel Robinson and shot him into space on the Satellite of Love, Joel discovered that the Satellite had a number of parts to use in building something for him. While he could have had control as to where the movies began and end, he used those special parts to make his robot friends - Crow T. Robot, Gypsy, Cambot and, of course, Tom Servo. Over the course of the years, Servo ended up getting a number of changes to him - a modified voice, a temporary new head (that proved to be more of a bother than not and others. However, Servo's life was flipped when Joel was launched out of the Satellite by Gypsy (mistaking an attempt by Forrestor and his new assistant TV's Frank to kill temp worker Mike Nelson) and was replaced by the aforementioned Mike.

Within two years of Mike being sent up, everything fell apart - for the bad guys at least. TV's Frank ascended to Second Banana Heaven while Dr. Forrestor's plan ran out of funding Forrestor pulled the plug and attempted to destroy the Sattellite of Love through reentry, but Crow and Tom were able to pull themselves out of it and shot themselves to the edge of the universe, becoming energy. 500 years would pass before Servo and the others would return to normal (well, five minutes for Crow, but this isn't his app, now is it?) and returned to Earth, discovering that it was overran by apes and the leader was Pearl Forrestor, Dr. Forrestor's mother. When a group of cultists discovered a powerful missle and accidentally had it armed, the crew of the Satellite escaped before the Earth was destroyed, but not before Pearl started chasing after him, taking Professor Bobo, the last ape with her. Throughout the Endless Chase, the group bounced from world to world (Mike accidentally blowing them up in the process, including the homeworld of the Observers, who professed that Servo himself was probably one of the most intellegent creatures they knew. Besides themselves, of course.) before ending up going through a wormhole and ending up in Ancient Rome, where Servo and the others were hailed as gods... until Bobo blew Pearl's cover. Thankfully (or unthankfully), the groups escaped and made their way back to present times.

(Servo's being picked up at the end of season 8 - "Space Mutiny")
Personality: Between himself and his "brother" Crow, Tom is probably the more sophisticated of the theater-going bots. He has a sense of style and prestige that isn't really apparent with the other bots. Like his creator Joel, Tom tends to be the one to modify himself to suit his own needs and has even built a few things, like a "peaceful" Death Ray - which he promptly used to shoot Crow with. He also has a thing with science and knowledge, as he's done a planetarium show using his body (which Crow ruined with "Uranus" jokes), scolded Mike over poor encyclopedias and has even shown to be able to speak a bit of French (or perhaps Canadian French)

However, despite the more sophisticated tastes, he has a very petty and arrogant side. He's snapped at people for minor infractions and even attacked people because of those infractions. Most of those have been aimed at Crow, though. For example, Crow ruined a planetarium show with "Uranus" jokes. In retaliation, Servo attacked Crow with a biplane, shooting up his snazzy new car. He's even told Gypsy, when she made mention that she "doesn't understand", that "No one understands me. I'm the wind, baby!" As well, when Crow attempted to start working out, Servo ended up racing in incredibly buff and ready to rip the wind out of Crow's sails. He's even gone so far as to taunt Mike from time to time, such as Mike's admittance that he wet his pants during a 10K run when he was a kid and taunting him over destroying the Hubble Telescope. He's also been known to steal and use Mike's credit cards from time to time, much to Mike's annoyance. However, he doesn't do this to Joel, mostly because Joel's his creator and he holds him in a much more higher esteem than Mike, who's more of a brother figure to him.

As well, he's very sensitive about his short-comings. Despite being a sophisticated robot, he's also very short. And his arms don't work. He's had a number of modifications done in order to make himself look taller (mostly by building up his hoverskirt) and tends to add in muscular arms from time to time. However, all of these changes are purely cosmetic and he's brought down to Earth very painfully (such as soothing him by forcing and rubbing Vasoline in his mouth for the skirting modding and by Gypsy kicking him in the back of the dome (again, don't ask)) and he's quickly back to normal before long.
Abilities: Servo is basically a 1-2 foot tall robot made of a gumball machine top, a "Barrel Full of Monkeys" barrel, slinky arms that don't work and a hoverskirt. And he talks. And hovers.

However, Tom (like the rest of the series) runs on the MST3K Mantra (the last lyrics go "If you're wonering how (Joel/Mike) eats and breathes/and other science facts (La, La, La!)/Just repeat to yourself "It's just a show,/I should really just relax/for Mystery Science Theater 3000!" (TWAAANG!)"), which means if something odd and out of place happens, don't worry about it - the people running the show aren't. This is how someone like Tom can type on typewriters, pilot airplanes and spacecraft, build Death Rays and drive cars with ease when his arms don't work at all.
Sample Entry: [Well, isn't this a surprise - hovering around Mayfield is a robot of sorts that looked like it wandered out of the junkyard. It might have at one time, who knows. Either way, his head darts back and forth, looking at the city around him.]

Bright, bland, the same thing. Jeeze, did that wormhole drop me off at the "Leave It To Beaver" set? Or even worse, one of those 50's informational shorts! Brr! [his body jerks around in a shiver!]

Mommy! Look! It's a pig!

[Servo turns to see one of the drone kids pointing at him. He's quite indignent at what he was just called]

A pig?! Well, I NEVER! I have you know that I am a robot and probably a lot more sophisticated than you are, you little brat!

And the pig talks! He's funny!

I am NOT a pig!

[Before Servo can go any further, he's cut off by the sounds of barking - a dog has taken notice of him and has decided the poor robot is going to be his chew toy!]

AUGH! RUN! MAD DOG! [and the little red robot hovers off at top speed, the dog running after it. People might find him a few minutes later, a happy chew toy.] I've never been so humiliated...!

Welcome to 948 Beulah Street, Tom Servo! Please reply here with your character journal. Once you've done that, complete the following:

• Join

mayfield_rpg,

mayfield_ooc,

mayfield_logs, and optionally

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• Add your info to your canon post
• Add your info to your household! Use the street list to find your house.
• Make sure to tag your first post with the !intro tag, as well as your character's personal tag: c: tom servo

Go ahead and introduce yourself in the main comm and tell people where your character will be living!

The game will be open for new entries on January 16th

Oh, I knew I forgot something! D'oh!

Applications

Tom Servo | Mystery Science Theater 3000 | Not Reserved!

Accepted!

Re: Accepted!