szymonalex1231 - Synthetic Application

Synthetic Application - szymonalex1231

What is your BYOND key?

szymonalex1231

What is your Discord ID?

szymonalex1231

Do you usually play a specific character? If so, who?

Randy ‘Contraband’ Pratt | GB-XXX | Ce’urka Ktal’t

What whitelist applications have you previously completed?

I put in a good bit of applications, so I’ll just put in the most recent ones of this year

szymonalex1231 - Synthetic Application - #6 | Withdrawn
szymonalex1231 - Synthetic Application - #7 by Tito123a | Denied
szymonalex1231 - Synthetic Application - #4 | Withdrawn
szymonalex1231 - Fax Responder Application - #5 | Accepted
szymonalex1231 - Synthetic Application - #10 | Withdrawn after being advised by the former council to do so

Synthetic Info:

Name of the Synth Character you wish to play:

Mitch

Provide a short description of your synthetic’s backstory

Mitch is a third generation synthetic manufactured and produced by Weyland-Yutani Corporation, with his primary purpose being labor work, specifically centered around welding and/or other metalworking positions. His model served in several workshops and factories fabricating products made out of metal, such as tables, racks, tools, and so on.

Describe your synth’s personality without mentioning their skills or previous professions

Mitch is usually seen as a cheerful with a positive attitude, tending to compliment crew members, encourage them and chitchat with personnel whenever the situation fits it. He takes personal preference to magazines and comic books, often sharing them with others, as well as talking about what he reads. His mood is usually energetic and carefree, happily performing his day-to-day duties and other tasks, with a smile on his face!

How would your synthetic interact with enlisted personnel, officers and civilians? How could you involve your personality into these interactions?

He would refer to civilians by ‘Mister’ or ‘Miss’, His cheerful personality would still apply to civilians, enlisted and officers.

Towards enlisted, he would use their rank, commonly followed by their surname. He would try to chat with the enlisted to improve relations and lighten the atmosphere overall.

With officers, he’ll use either only their rank, or the rank followed by the officer’s surname. He would limit chats depending on the situation, but their energetic and happy mood would still persist.

Why do you want to be a synthetic/why should we whitelist you?

I took interest in the synthetic WL a bit ago, dating back to the WL event and even a bit before that. I started putting in effort after seeing the potential for roleplay and gameplay that the whitelist could provide, both with content and the roles provided.

What is your most memorable interaction with a synthetic?

Synthetic Character Story:

Skills:

How familiar are you in CMs support roles such as medical/engineering/requisitions/command and which of them are you more and less proficient in?

Requisition and medical are the two departments I’m the most skilled with. Engineering is JUST below those two. I understand how to fix APCs and build barricades, but I still struggle with barricading certain LZs on some maps. Command is the least proficient for me, but in my time as SEA and sometimes XO/SO, I understand how the terminals and other mechanics work in CIC.

What are some scenarios that you can perform combat in? Give us a brief example.

Scenario one - Delta alert, hijack. During hijack, which is one of the examples for Delta alert, you can attack the threat, but you can’t neglect the crew or other duties, like medical or those in need of other help. For example, you’re chasing a xenomorph, and you run into a team of injured marines. In this case you should stop the pursuit and assist the marines.

Scenario two - Frontline. On the frontlines, the self preservation programming is essential to the synthetic to prevent the loss of the unit, this makes medical treatment and providing safety to others priority. An example is instead of engaging contacts at friendly fortifications, they need to continue providing aid and call out the contacts if marines did not yet notice the attack. They can however drag xenomorphs a tile or so back to prevent them from melting barricades, if marines aren’t already attempting to stop the acid spewing xenomorph.

Scenario three - Backline. While the synthetic unit is moving through the backline, specifically in a group of 2-3 marines, they are still allowed to defend themselves, provided assistance from marines around the unit is not effective enough or has not yet arrived. During the protection of wounded, any invasion of personal space is deemed as a hostile action. Even then the unit should not chase the aggressor, as protection and deterrence is key, as the unit is meant to remain with the marines.

Scenario four - Synthetic Survivor. Before an ERT arrives, in this case being marines, the synthetic unit is under Delta alert circumstances, as being left stranded without rescue qualifies as such circumstance. When the synthvivor engages in combat, they should ensure the threat to them, human colonists or other infrastructure is disabled. This does not mean the unit is allowed to chase them down across the colony though, because then you aren’t looking after your own self preservation and that of colonists or the infrastructure. The unit is holding with the survivors, and one colonist is being harassed outside of the barricades, this allows the synthetic to deter the threat within reason and their own preservation, even chasing them down for a small bit while remaining in sight of the other survivors.

Final Info:

Have you been banned in the last month?

No

Do you have anything else you would like to include about your application?

N/A

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will have to read the story later.

+1 cool player, very level, knows enough about Synth Things (exemplified by mentor knowledge), and has used yautja whitelist to create good RP and combat moments with high regard for honor code. i have no worries about how szymon would perform on synth WL.

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+1 I have seen Pratt around when i was playing corpsman or XO and most of the times he has the ability and time to actually RP and give his best even if we are getting hijacked

Someone help he has my legs

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+1 Pratt is a cool guy and a cool SEA and a cool roleplayer and he knows lots of stuff

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+1 Used to moderate with this lad in Foundation 19, dude was a good mod and a good roleplayer. seen this dude a good roleplayer in CM to

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I kind of finished myself by playing support the past two weeks, so I’ll hold off for now unless synth council needs me to play more of it

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+1 Chill dude, seen him around plenty. More than proved his mechanical knowledge and RPs well.

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Hi, thank you for applying to the synthetic whitelist.

Unfortunately, your application is being denied for a variety of factors. The main one is primarily how your description of your synthetics personality is not really shown by the story - yes, your synthetic talks about having them, but it’s more “I have this and you can borrow it”, with thirteen total lines of dialogue (there is no hard limit, of course - but it is hard to demonstrate a personality fully when most of the dialogue is just ‘I can share this with you’.)

The best way I can describe it is to imagine that you have a friend who is always willing to share his things with you but does not know what is in them, and is otherwise energetic and happy - there’s not really much you can tell about it. Why are they recommending this to someone, whats inside of it that they might like, et cetera.

Tying in your synthetics backstory as a labourer/fabricator by having them construct the shelf IS a nice touch, though, and is a good aspect of your story - it is a little bit of extra characterization and possibly something for you to talk about, for if/when you apply again.

Your combat answers are fine albeit mostly copy-pasted from the guidelines page itself.

Ultimately in attempting to observe you as well, while there was some roleplay observed, there were also occasional LRP incidents - which given some of your prior history, is going to be under heavier scrutiny than usual (albeit is still not acceptable for any applicant, obviously.)

If you require further information, you are welcome to reach out to me on discord, and the council would be more than happy to help you with your story further/discuss it with you.

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