[@Burning Kitty]
I have interest in participating if you'll take me, but I also have a bunch of questions before getting into things like character writing:

Based on the information on the Artifacts spreadsheet it looks like you're using the word Artifact as just a different way of referring to derivative gear from another series and not in the Ready-Player-One sense where artifacts are unique items with no replications. Is this true?

Is this using the Ready-Player-One sectioning system in any way? Will at any point a character's Sci-Fi gear be nullified by entering a Fantasy zone or a character's spells be nullified by entering a Sci-Fi zone? Stuff like that?

The context of the contest seems interesting, but the roleplay seems to have initiated with Specters Of The Apocalypse already established. Would a non-clanned character being introduced by myself throw things too far out of whack or would that be valid? This seems largely to be a character driven roleplay and introducing a not-entirely-hostile character into the competition setting might get some good content.