IntegerMan

sorry No worries. It was a fantastic way to go!

You know how traitors can get the objective "Die a glorious death"? That's kinda me as a non-antagonist every game. It's a bit of a wash for me if I escape on the shuttle and haven't been a paitent in medbay at least once. Last night, I even got lobotomized! It was fantastic! Splitting headache after that, but a liberal application of frag grenade to the forehead seemed to have cleared it up.

Thanks Skull. You guys are pretty classy. Think I got a concept sorted out as well.

Makes sense. It'll be annoying, but perhaps the name correction bit can be played for laughs eventually. Perhaps it's a motivator to pick a really undesirable first name that my character may find embarrassing or annoying in of itself. Eustace or Quentin or something odd like that. Thanks!

So, I'm considering using a second character slot to have a monk type of character for Chaplain, Librarian, and possibly even Psychologist or Botanist type roles. I've not settled on a name, but my preference would be on something like "Brother Cavill" (not going to go with that since it's a subtle Battlestar reference, but you get the idea). This does break the name guidelines however, as stated that character names should be firstname / last name. I'd prefer that my character be referred to simply as "Brother [lastname]" 99% of the time, or simply his lastname, and I feel like this sort of honorific may be character appropriate. Would this be an exception to the naming rule or should I stick to first name / last name and then get snippy with anyone who uses my first name and insisting on the proper form?

Just popping in to say hi and cease lurking in the forums. I'm a new player, just a few weeks into SS13. I'm insanely non-robust and quite okay with that (though I do wish to gain in competency in job-related skills, I could care less if the mice could maul me to death or if I'm just cannon fodder for the antags). I've tried a number of different servers and each one has their plusses and minuses, but I'm really starting to settle in on Aurora (previously I've played semi-regularly on Yog, Bay, Paradise, and maybe Citadel). So far I only play Charles Rifler, a squirrely "sanitation technician", though I think I'm going to make a new character for some other roles and give Chaplain, Librarian, and Psychologist a try. Maybe a monk type of character. My favorite aspects of SS13 are the feeling I get when I notice things going wrong with the station: people going missing. Blood trails mysteriously appearing without any bodies, entire departments going quiet, signs of sabotage, etc. This is probably why Janitor is my favorite role thus far (well competency factors in too, but I genuinely like the solitude, freedom to roam, and ability to interact with many departments while remaining vulnerable to antags and on the front lines of discovering what lurks in the shadows). I also love having my character unwittingly aid antagonists. Incidentally, on the topic of being an esteemed Sanitation Technician, I love them light-up hazard signs. Good job adding that blink code in there. I do miss the soap, but having the janitor not get soap encourages me to use a mop and bucket, so that's fine, I suppose. I also appreciate how Janitor has expanded access on the server. Janitor definitely needs medical access and needs to be able to get back into the security corridor to clean up the red emblems of justice that regularly appear back there. I do hate the code that makes the tiles get dirty. Even if I clean the halls of the layer of grime late into a match, it just magically reappears there a few minutes later due to the cumulative traffic it's gotten over the round (not since the last time I mopped) so I have to pretty much not care about the grime and just focus on the blood. Anyway, y'all are pretty decent folks. Thanks for your kindness and patience with a newer player. I wiki, but the learning curve is high. On an OOC level, as an antagonist, feel free to mess with my characters however you'd like. Outright murder, maybe a little less encouraged unless it's well played, but,.. you've got a decent lattitude to do whatever aids your schemes or tickles your fancy (within reason) and causes chaos.