Memory Book/Sky Blake (Deliera Jay)

I'm Deliera Jay, and I play - well, that's if I'm not playing a heap of PNPCs - Skyleena Blake.

Characters

I seem to have a habit of creating a lot of PNPCs, but my main PC is Skyleena (who is otherwise known as "Sky", "Lee", "Leena", or just plain "Blake" as a lot of people know).

Sky is . . . how do I put it? . . . a pain sometimes. While she is working on her issues, she can still cause a lot of trouble.

Real Life information

In real life, I'm a good writer - I write as a hobby. I sing in a chior which has got me far in music, I play piano and I also play guitar. I live with my friend Rhiannan, but when Dad's gone somewhere with work, I go back home and help mum out around the house. This includes things like helping my younger brother with his homework, help clean the house, attempting to keep the pool a color that is preferably not green - which I have succeeded at doing a lot, actually.

My profession is pretty much music. I go to different schools and help out music teachers and students there. I spend a lot of time at high schools in Victoria (Australia, 'cause that's where we ride on Kangaroos (lol)). Although I'm still learning guitar chords and trying to dodge horrible finger-tying issues on the piano, the students and teachers find me easy to work with.

I used to be a runner until an incident broke my left leg badly. I won't get into details, but both bones in my leg had really bad jagged edges (it was like a jagged spiral twist in my bones, one just below the knee, and one just above the ankle). It took me about six months to walk again, and it has left me with a permanent limp - not that you really notice it unless it's pointed out - and I also get pain if I leave it in the one spot for too long - like a long car trip. It doesn't stop me from doing cartwheels and short sprints, though, so I still keep in shape (if you thought I didn't, I'm horrified).

At some points in time, I DJ functions with the help of my dad, mostly because he's been doing it for much longer than I have and most of the time I freak out when the computer freezes and deletes a play list right before the function.

How you came to UFOP: SB118

It wasn't actually me who came across SB118, it was my friend Deanna Jerman. She plays Renae Sullivan, and I think she kept on talking about it. In the end, she begged me (literally begged me on her hands and knees) to join up. I think she got the vibe that we were going to be posted on the same ship.

History

After I finished the training, I was assigned to the Challenger-A under Captain Tel-ar. We had a few issues. Nothing major, just things like me not actually being added to the IC group, and then accidently being taken off the OOC after I was put on the IC (I noticed this because I thought everyone was awfully quiet). Luckily, my First Officer was kind enough to fix all of the problems, and we got back on track in no time.

Simming seemed to come easily too me, although, my Captain noticed that I wasn't really simming much. I was putting diologe in for my character, but I wasn't really getting much of the action. So, and I remember very well, he devised a way to fix that - bring in a Klingon that had a bad case of physical puppy love for Sky. Thankfully, the Klingon didn't get a taste of her, but it certainly brought me into the action.

Sky seems to be able to get stabbed . . . a lot. On the last mission of the Challenger, Sky got a bad case of a knife in her spinal cord. Of course, this rendered her paralyzed. So, Ed and Nathan (the players of Diego Herrera and Deven Zell) devised a way of how to actually find a way around it. They suggested Thalaron particles turning into Metaphasic particles. We didn't entirely have much time because the Challenger was going to be decommissioned, and the crew was going to be put into Ed's hands, so treatment was pretty quick, but the recover wasn't for Sky. This also somehow won me my first promotion.

Luckily, when I was posted to the Ronin, I was under Captain Tallis who was played by Ed! Not to mention the rest of my crew including my OOC faithful friend and IC war buddy Ken who plays Hannibal Parker and Nathan who plays Deven Zell (Sky's new love interest). At this point in time, we have a lot more new faces who we are enjoying writing with.

Writing the fun with Writers

I've had the pleasure of learning and socializing with a lot of talented people, but my time in SB118 has been fantastic! Nothing beats the good read of a post from one of my crewmates in the morning. I love reading what our characters get up to.

It's not just that, too. I keep trying - well, maybe pushing, but just a little! I swear! - to make sure that all the players attempt to socialize on the ship's OOC thread. Wheather that means that I "demand" how the day is for everyone, or suggesting a new plot twist for everyone to say, or giving the unwanted idea of if Deven and Parker don't behave themselves, Sky'll do something they don't want to do at all! It's seemed to have worked and it's put a lot of conversation in.

Not only that, but I talk to a few of the crew members on the forums too. We have discussions involving . . . well, everything. What we look like IC, the current mission, things like that.