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is this workable? D:

As always, just do a hard refresh or give the wiki an hour to clear its own cache and register the changes and see your new icons.

HMU when you have a chance, because I have a pic I'd like to recommend for his profile!

Icon 1 - http://string-theory.wdfiles.com/local--files/afchar%3Aroxie/New%20Roxie%2029.png
Icon 2 - http://string-theory.wdfiles.com/local--files/afchar%3Aroxie/New%20Roxie%2028.jpg

If these won't work, there are others on her page. <3 http://string-theory.wikidot.com/afchar:roxie

http://string-theory.wdfiles.com/local--files/afchar:luke/Luke.png

But as always, if you find a better one, feel free to use that instead!

Listing them by age. Oldest to youngest.

Harley - F - 10yr - Australian Shepard mix - Our protector and one of our rescues.
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/858139536482762762/858140097974894602/image0.jpg

Jack (Captain Jack, Jack Cat, Murderer, Asshole, Daddy Cat to Roxie) - 9yr - Rescue. Momma's boy. Bringer of many things and defender of the territory.
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/858139536482762762/858140698309820416/image0.jpg

Roxie - F - 8yr - Chihuahua mix. - Rescue. Barks a lot, but also loves on everyone who will let you.
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/858139536482762762/858140006257917962/image0.jpg

Jaxon - M - 8yr - Pure blood German Shepard - Rescue. Obsessed with balls (hahahaha)
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/858139536482762762/858140368863100958/image0.jpg

Princess Saffronetta con Wigglebottom (Saffy) - 1 yr - Pembroke Welsh Corgi - The baby.
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/858139536482762762/858139831107715112/image0.jpg

Morgana, aka Mona, Miss Pussen, Stinkerpuss, Brat, and Tiny Kitten

Cait Sith, aka Cait, Mister Pussen, Fatty, Big Butt Cat, and Smelly Boy

If you don't see your new icons reflected where you feel they should be, do a hard refresh on the page. (ctrl + f5) That ought to fix it. I hope you enjoy them!

Prime:
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/09/3f/bd/093fbd3a9ae0ca30f689a4d8e5c527d7.jpg
https://2paragraphs.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Quantico-ABC.jpg

Flood:
https://44.media.tumblr.com/7d40976b10c19cf42d5f7b4076f3364d/tumblr_opm8k4xrH91w5qnypo4_400.gif

Thanks!

Edit: Derp, didn't realize the last one was a gif when I posted it, although most of the ones I was able to find were gifs…

http://string-theory.wdfiles.com/local--files/afchar%3Amr-stanley/MrStanleyIcon.jpg

https://i.pinimg.com/236x/0d/29/cd/0d29cdbd311af5d790997d5664dd1174.jpg

Thank you! <3

Your icon is complete. My life is complete. Everything is beautiful and nothing hurts.

https://www.deveauxsociety.org/post/the-rise-of-augmentation-addiction

1 Fusion Character: An SLC-Expressive with two abilities.
2 Expressive Characters: Characters with a single standard SLC-E ability.
2 Non-Expressive Characters: Characters with no superhuman abilities.
1 Augmented Character: A character with superhuman cybernetic enhancements.

Augmented characters aren't just someone who had a limb replaced after an accident or otherwise has prosthetics, an Augmented Character has superhuman abilities granted by technological means. Check out our work-in-progress primer on Augmented characters and give us any feedback you might find helpful! Applications for Augmented characters will open later this year when Volume 4 starts.

Augmented Technology

Augmented Characters are human beings who have been augmented through advanced technology to have extraordinary abilities. This is distinctly different from being SLC-Expressive and possessing a superhuman ability, but instead represents utilizing bleeding edge technology to "keep up" with superhuman people.

All Augmented characters are SLC-N—Non-Expressive—and use technology to gain a superhuman edge (but see Fusion Characters below). This technology may have a multitude of facets and applications and can be, generally speaking, more versatile than SLC-E abilities. In formatting your augmentations, provide a list of what physical augmentations you possess and what they do for you. While there is no hard and fast codification for what limitations there are for augmentations, a rule of thumb is that the more different things your character can do, the less exceptional all of them are.

For example, a character with eye augmentations that can see in varied spectrum of light from night vision to infrared likely also won't have tremendous superhuman strength. When designing your augmentations, consider versatility versus specialization.

Lastly, please consider the potential drawbacks of your augmentations. What conditions they tend to fail in, things they can't do or don't do well. Don't think of these as a balancing act for power, but rather interesting narrative hooks that can come up to present your character with new and unique challenges in the process of a story.

An example drawback would be that a character who possesses dermal enhancements that allow him to shrug off knife attacks becomes incredibly stiff and inflexible in extreme cold environments. Think about ways in which technology can break down and what kind of limitations that can present.

A good rule of thumb when designing your augmentations: The closer your augmentations bring you to an SLC-Expressive ability (superhuman strength, regeneration, etc) the less augmentations you should have.

When designing your augmentations, feel free to draw inspiration from cyberpunk and posthuman media such as Shadowrun, Cyberpunk 2020, Deus Ex, and other sources.

Universal Limitations

Augment technology is in its infancy in the String Theory universe. Superhuman augments are not yet widely available to consumers and are relegated to military and corporate laboratories around the world. As such, you must consider where your character gained their augmentations as a part of your background.

Furthermore, individuals undergoing human cybernetic augmentation all suffer from a universal neurological disorder known as Kauper-Engel Syndrome due to their way their components interact with the human nervous system. In order to combat Kauper-Engel Syndrome, characters must regularly take an anti-rejection drug. Presently this drug is difficult to come by and goes for extreme prices on the black market, allowing corporations and militaries around the world to control those with augmentations by controlling their access to essential medical care.

Sponsorship

Gaining cutting-edge cybernetic augmentations is the province of people with incredible corporate connections, military history, or otherwise access to organizations with multi-billion dollar finances. While your character is likely not wealthy, if they are augmented they may have an ongoing or past allegiance to an individual or corporation who is. The easiest way to gain access to these augmentations is by sponsorship from a corporation of military apparatus. Below are some suggested examples of corporations with cybernetics divisions that could have sponsored your character's augmentation. If your character is from a military background, it is still useful to determine what corporation was responsible for their augmentation. At present, the US Military does not have its own cybernetic augmentation program and no affiliated augmentation relationships.

Major Corporations

Major corporations drive the story of String Theory and are major players in the game's universe. It is recommended you take a major corporation sponsor

• Yamagato Industries: The largest and most player-facing corporate faction, Yamagato Industries is one of the most powerful tech companies in the world and has been experimenting with cybernetic augmentation since the middle of the Second American Civil War through Monica Dawson. Following their success with the YX Cestus prototype Yamagato Industries began exploring more widespread applications for cybernetic augmentation starting in 2019. Characters with sponsorship ties to Yamagato Industries are likely to be lifelong corporate employees who operate on a secret battlefield of corporate warfare against Yamagato's rivals.
• Crito Corporate: Crito Corporate has secretly been experimenting with cybernetic augmentation since 2012 but only achieved their breakthroughs in cybernetics in 2018. Crito Corporate's dark secret is the company's connection to the now-deposed Mitchell Administration of US Government that started the Second American Civil War. They paid for and operated inhumane experiments in the American desert resulting in horrific mindless abominations. Characters with sponsorship ties to Crito Corporate may have been unwilling participants in human experimentation that later escaped or villainous characters working as enforcers for Crito Corporate's personal anti-expressive agenda.
• Renautas-Weiss Nanotechnology: A newcomer to the field, Renautas-Weiss' cybernetics tend to involve advances in nanotechnology and are less visibly overt. Characters with a sponsorship tie to Renautas-Weiss Nanotechnology are likely volunteers for experimental programs, later offered jobs within Renautas-Weiss that leverage their newfound augmentations. You were likely a carefully-selected candidate with valuable skills and knowledge.
• [REDACTED]

Minor Corporations

Minor corporations have small story footprint and characters with associations to these smaller companies should speak directly to Manhattan about the implication of aligning with them.

• Praxis Heavy Industries: Collapsed in 2020 following a joint military operation on their United States branch, Praxis Heavy Industries was once the world's leading supplier of military cybertechnology augmentations. Praxis Heavy Industries had its hand in nearly every international military operation in the world with its primary focus in China and the Middle East. Numerous private military companies with cybernetically-enhanced fighters trace their augmentations back to Praxis Heavy Industries.
• Celerity Technology: Based out of Madagascar, Celerity Technology is a leader on replacement limb prosthetics and body-enhancing modifications. Celerity is a Pro-SLC-E corporation and as such does not provide augmentation support to nations or organizations with known anti-expressive sentiments.

Fusion Characters

SLC-E characters who possess two abilities (see our fusion characters helpfile) they may not also be augmented. An SLC-E character with a single ability and cybernetic enhancements takes up your Fusion character slot.

PYGMALION Characters

Players who volunteered for the Like Pygmalion storyline will have other options available to be discussed at a later date.

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As previously discussed, Chris' new icon has overwritten his old one, due to the PB recast. Jac's new icon is named jac_icon.gif.

And yeah, adulting ;; I've got a job and a mortgage now, woe

uh

insane stuff. Hit someone up in DMs (A staffer, or hell, me), and someone'll give you the new server info.

As a note, we do things a lot differently now. Since everyone is older and has *grumble* adult responsibilities, almost all RP happens in GoogleDocs, with all chatter happening on discord these days - the MUX server is mostly for apps and requests at the moment. Scenes can take longer to get done since people have less time to dedicate to them,. but it's still a good time and the game is going pretty strong!

I would love to brainstorm with people if there's anyone else who remembers the kid who died but got better xD

Done!

the name is Bright

1) A more serious one for Tasha if you can pls make it look like she's not wearing scrubs <3
https://www.raiplay.it/cropgd/300x400/dl/img/2019/07/04/1562235534065_1536x2048.jpg

And some npcs:

2) Toussaint (mystery man~)
https://magarticles.magzter.com/articles/14341/269832/5ab1263e09dac/1521558423930.jpg

3) Reeves (shh I have a problem ok)
https://media.comicbook.com/uploads1/2015/08/simmons-season-2-promo-146746.png

4) Hugo
https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1019355647328935937/_tMbGDXT_400x400.jpg

Thanks! <3

Basically, Magnes will be retired at the end of volume 3. He won't be dying or anything, but will be gone from the city.

This is largely because I feel that Magnes has been brought to near his narrative conclusion, once I've tied up these loose ends. While there's always a slim chance I decide to do differently, my mind and feelings are pretty set on this happening. I ultimately feel as if there's not much more I can really do with him, and, as I've mentioned many times, Magnes was a character I'd basically retired after String Theory closed. It was nice being able to play him again and bring him to his full potential, but I really think it's time to formally put an end to things across this volume.

This post is for if anyone has any lingering things that they want to do with him. They will have the entire volume to do it, so there's no immediate rush. I felt everyone should have a chance.

As for what I'll be doing after Magnes, I'm basically adapting the OC I played for many years after I was done with Magnes. He never quite worked out where I played him, but was a character I had as much energy for playing as Magnes, who I don't believe ever truly reached his full potential. I always believed he would be great on String Theory, but never adapted him for a number of reasons that no longer apply. Consider it the stars aligning. I've discussed this character and adapting him with Manhattan, but I'm largely keeping it a secret until it's closer to the point where I'll be formally apping him. I do feel this character fits my modern play style more than Magnes did, given how old I was when I created Magnes, so I look forward to showing you this character who I have a lot of inspiration for.

But yeah, that's all. This isn't anything negative, there are no real negative feelings involved, and it'll otherwise be business as usual with all my other characters. This is more me making what I believe is a necessary creative decision for myself, and I hope that we can all have fun with Magnes with this time we have left!

The Ohio River Fire

• On September 02, 2020 a fire broke out at the ruins of the Nova Chemicals Plant in the ruins of Monaca, PA. It spread to roughly 800 acres. (http://string-theory.wikidot.com/report:ohio-river-fire-causes-evacuation)
• On September 15, 2020 the fire had spread 23 miles southeast along the Ohio River toward Pittsburgh, driven by strong winds. (http://string-theory.wikidot.com/report:ohio-river-fire-consumes-pittsburgh)
  • The fires in Pittsburgh are causing explosions and toxic smoke. There is fear the fires might eventually reach a nuclear reactor in a neighboring town.
• The fire isn't a threat to the Safe Zone or Providence. Provided it can be contained the worst effect that may be felt is smoky air for a few days.

The current spread of the fire.

What's the status on the black ops research they were performing, and what was done with the information? Was it all turned over and exposed, or?

• None of that information was exchanged in the asset forfeiture to Yamagato. The majority of information on their biotech experiments was leaked in the Praxis Papers by Hull, but not all of it. Nothing regarding the anti-entity drones, the nerve agent they nearly deployed over Detroit, or anything like that was revealed.
• News about their human trafficking involvement and ties to the Ghost Shadows went public between April and June as a part of their ongoing legal battle with the US.

• Yamagato's subsidiary corporation Renautas Inc also has access to tech schematics to see if anything inside the production pipeline could benefit their ongoing research. Yamagato has off-loaded research on SLC-Expressive interfacing technology to them, since it is not legal to research in the United States. So their investigations into the Compass tech (with a ban on production of the Compass) and ways to obfuscate Compass tech remains ongoing.

Can a little insight be provided there?

• How many former members/leaders of Praxis are now working for Yamagato? How classified is this information? (Is it something chattered about by the common folks, like "wow, we're working with our former enemies now??", or something only leaders like Marlowe and Kay might know of, and know to keep quiet on?)
• Are those persons (i.e. Keller, Kravid, etc) relegated to only work in certain geographic areas to avoid the arm of the US and Chinese laws?
• What's the status on the black ops research they were performing, and what was done with the information? Was it all turned over and exposed, or?
• What is being done with any proprietary tech from Praxis? Were some scrapped, some moved forward, etc… Are there new tools for Yamagato folks to play with in their dev boxes?
• Especially, what happened with Alcatel Lucent and the lightRadio network? Is it gone? Is the GhostNet stronger than ever thanks to a combining of the two systems?

• 2020 Election to be Historic First
• Harding Joins Presidential Race
• A Civil War of Words

In 2020, we're doing it again and hosting another in-universe presidential election!

For 2020, we are going to have one "televised" debate that you will be able to write in questions for on September 29th. This will be a "live" broadcast played out on #radio on our Discord server. While there won't be a "call-in" segment, you will be able to feed live follow-up questions throughout the event.

For those who haven't been following along with the in-world politics, we've provided a cheat-sheet for you on who is running and what they represent as well as some relevant news posts and blog posts to help you get up to speed.

2020 Presidential Candidates
Libertarian	Independent	Democrat	Independent
Cedric Hesser	Joshua Harding	Frederick Medina	Raymond Praeger
Primary Policy Stances
SLC-E Registration
Registration laws should relax.	Maintain status-quo	Stricter Registration Laws	Maintain status-quo
Gun Control
Lax Gun Control	Return to Pre-War Gun Control Laws	Strict Gun Control	Return to Pre-War Gun Control Laws
Marijuana Decriminalization
Decriminalize and lets states decide on legalization	Legalize Federally	Anti-Decriminalization	Anti-Decriminalization
Additional Taxes on Wealthiest Americans
No	Yes	No	No
Foreign Policy (Does America need to intervene and combat Mazdak internationally?)
No	No	Yes	No
Should US Cancel Existing Student Debt
No	Yes	No	No
Climate Change (Do You Support a Congressional Plan to Tackle Global Warming By Investing in Sustainable Energy Sources)
No	Yes	No	Yes
Immigration (Should America Continue to Accept SLC-E Refugees From Other Nations as Asylym Seekers)
No	Yes	No	Yes
Healthcare (Do You Support Medicare-For-All)
No	Yes	No	No
Changes to Democracy (Do you support eliminating the electoral college in favor of the popular vote?)
Yes	No	No	Yes

And of course our other arrangement still stands, when you're ready to tap that card.

And we discussed the other thing and I am so excited. <3