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applications.
Applications are currently: OPEN.
As of April 2021, Redshift is a sandbox game! We still have apps for some degree of quality control, but the form has been simplified to streamline the process for new players. Here's how it works:
▶ New Players joining us after April 2021 will need to submit an application for their first character coming into the game by using the appropriate form below. This is so we know who you are, and so we can make sure your character will be a good fit for our players!
▶ Returning/Current Players who have been with us since before April 2021 or are coming back to us only need to claim their character using the form below to bring in new characters. New players may do the same after two months.
▶ Returning/Current Players who have been with us since before April 2021 or are coming back to us only need to claim their character using the form below to bring in new characters. New players may do the same after two months.
Application Guide.
▶ Submission Format: All applications must be posted to this entry, and must fit within one comment with a subject line in the format of "CHARACTER NAME | CANON | RESERVED/NOT RESERVED." While applications should not be linked in the entry, players may link to an alternate source such as a wiki for the character's history and powers; for original characters, the world history may also be linked from an alternate source such as an entry on the character journal.
▶ Accepted Character Types: Fandom Characters, Original Characters; CRAU is welcome and encouraged. Please see the Rules & Game Standards page for more in-depth explanations of appable, non-appable, and case-by-case characters.
▶ Application Verdicts: Applications will receive a verdict of ACCEPTED, REVISIONS, or DECLINED. 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 team. Declined applications can be reworked and resubmitted during the next application cycle. If an application is declined 3 times, it cannot be resubmitted.
▶ App Challenges & Reserves: Redshift will not have application challenges, 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 by the end of the application cycle. Applications will be processed on a first-come-first-served basis.
▶ Character Limits: Players may have a maximum of 3 characters in the game; the option to increase the number of character spaces may become available at a later date. A player may submit up to two applications at a time.
▶ Samples: Linked samples should be from a publicly accessible source, and no more than 1 year old. Screencaps or transcripts from locked sources are not acceptable as samples, unless the character is being apped as a CRAU from a locked game, and in these cases permission from the other participant(s) in the thread must be obtained and submitted as screencaps along with the sample. All samples should represent the character as they are being applied for; for example, samples cannot come from an AU setting or break the fourth wall (Dear Player, etc.) As long as they meet this criteria, samples from other games, museboxes, memes, other websites (Tumblr, Insanejournal, etc.) or any other source are acceptable. For CRAU samples a link from the character's original game would be preferable, in the form of a link to their tag on the relevant communities, or specific thread links.
Submit an Application.
To submit an application or claim a character, please fill out the information in the appropriate text box below, and paste it in a single comment in response to this entry. Applications should not be linked, though portions of them may be if a bulky history or world section would put them over the character limit for one comment.
Carlisle Longinmouth | Original | Reserved
Name: Grimme
Contact:
Current Characters: n/a
Name: Carlisle Longinmouth
Canon: Original
Canon Point: A few days after his "reawakening."
CRAU Timeline/Game(s): He was in
World Description: here
Character History: here
Personality:
In life, Carlisle was an anxious, cowardly man who desperately wanted to live up to his family's legacy, and despite knowing he'd never have the time or means to do it properly, he certainly did try. Guilt-laden over being the failure of his bloodline -- and the last of it, the one rumored to have brought misfortune to the rest -- he made what amends he could for his accursed existence via his dedication to his goddess and his healing. In death, not much has changed, save for that part about not having time. Now that he doesn't have to worry about dropping dead due to a magical affliction, he has all the time he needs... for better and for worse.
Since reawakening, the bitterness and anger that animated the Blight Heir have receded, his original identity reemerging -- which isn't to say that he's not still bitter and angry, but that he has new things to be bitter and angry about. He thought he knew exactly what was waiting for him: a miserable, unavoidable, early death, one he hoped to mitigate in any way possible by appealing to his goddess and spending what little time he had in repentance for even existing when he should have died. Though afraid of his demise and the languishing his tainted soul would do in the Land Beyond Living, he'd accepted his fate as inevitable. As it turned out, he had worse coming: his body animated upon death, turning him into somewhat of a natural necromancer, and he became the most infamous Longinmouth of all by bringing ruin to the homeland he'd hoped to sustain like his family before him.
And now that he finds himself as himself again, he's not terribly happy about these circumstances. He finally established his place in the bloodline as anything but a failure, and it's for abhorrent, albeit tragic reasons.
With only sparse memories of what he did as a Revenant, he's determined to make up for as much trouble he caused as possible, if for no other reason than to assuage his endless guilt. He still serves his goddess, but has to do it in an entirely new way, as his healing gifts have shifted toward the necrotic. Unsure of how he rose as an undead in the first place, his confidence has taken a kick in the teeth -- not that it was ever very high. He was known as the one Longinmouth who wasn't an adventurer and who didn't battle tremendous beasts with weapons or magic. Now that he's known as something else, he lives in perpetual fear that someone will recognize what he is and what he's done -- and that they'll bring permanent end to him before he's had a chance to make up for half of it.
Despite his superstitious and high-strung nature, Carlisle can be a reasonably diplomatic, fair-minded individual and good improviser, which once helped him serve as a trusted mediator for the town despite his curse. Though usually willing to lend an ear to even the most unsavory of people, as is common for clergy (former clergy, in his case), he tends to be callous and irritable when it comes to those who don't take him seriously, especially to those who take their lives for granted. Much like his fears, he tends to wear his aggravations on his sleeve, and doesn't particularly mask it when someone is an annoyance. The same goes for enthusiasm and excitement, both of which are rare treats he experiences sparingly; the undead should be incapable of such emotions, but there's undeniable humanity still lingering within his bones.
Powers/Abilities: The long version! In short, he's a magical undead who was once a healer, and is now basically an accidental necromancer. As a guy who worked for a church, he's naturally thrilled about this development.
Inventory:
❧ morningstar (traditional weapon of his order)
❧ exorcist's outfit (quilted pants & gambeson with attached mask, overcoat, veil with crown, leather boots and gloves, accessories)
❧ wooden talisman of the holy symbol of the Camisou
❧ badger-skin satchel in which he keeps the following:
❧ ink pen
❧ x12 paper sheets
❧ a smooth stone
❧ "Alchemy for Beginners" by Pendlebrook Brimstone (autographed copy)
❧ flask of Dwarven ale (only slightly enchanted to refill when emptied)
❧ seed of an Oriachne's Tear (a seed of a magical plant)
❧ the final annals of Meriweather Brown, Chronicler of Bear Den
Anything Else? I'll make sure to put up a permissions post for his compulsion abilities! Given his morality, he's not likely to use them except by accident, but I like to have my bases covered in case someone absolutely wants to avoid playing that.
Prose/Brackets Sample: here!
Accepted.
▶ Join the communities:
▶ Add yourself and your character to the Taken Characters page.
▶ (Optional) Introduce yourself and your character with an entry to the OOC Community, or tag in at the monthly event log.
▶ (Optional) Join Redshift's Discord server by clicking this invite link.
▶ Activity Check Link: Please submit all activity for this character in the character's thread on the activity check post.
▶ For your character's experience upon arrival, please see the Arrival Page.