Resilynn

I want you to draft up a canonization app for this belief system. Also +1.

I agree that you should limit your role choice to 2 at most of the 3 you’ve pitched (with admin approval, please). I’m going to go ahead and ask a few questions targeting character development, there aren’t wrong answers here so no pressure. How do you intend to express Lulu’s enthusiasm and fairly rambunctious nature without (human) facial expression? Why has Lulu been drawn to studying other species’ oppressed parties and how does she feel about the Jargon Federation in respect to her studies? What is her relationship with her parents given her past as a somewhat difficult child?

Fun irl anecdote: today at work our HoS, Brandon, is coming in and making everyone hotdogs. Terry is doing the HoS work and Brandon is grilling things on the top deck. This sort of thing isn’t even unrealistic.

I agree that drastic job changes are a problem. A cmo should probably not be in as a nurse, a captain probably shouldn’t be bartending, and hop probably shouldn’t be a janitor I think jobs with similar pay scales and skill sets should be fine. If it’s being abused by a character, report them, but there’s no reason a chief engineer can’t engineer or a research director can’t scienctist.

Also: ”Perhaps the biggest thing to note about Voa is that she is very, very happy to have hands. She is obsessed with simple things, such as touch and sensation, so much so that often in social interactions she will forgo social norms to stand as close as physically possible to someone, drinking in their presence and the fact that they simply notice her.” Xetl’s unbound are generally desensitized to pleasure, and their VR is explicitly NOT monotonous. How does Voa fit into this hive? Why does she gain so much joy from physical touch?

How does your c’thur feel about Skrell?

No, which is why all but one screen shots are from the cited round.

Most of the complaint revolves around one round, the ID of which is attached to the OP.

I am 100% sure you would be bwoinked for doing this to yourself as a non antag.

The part you elected to ignore because it was "just stupid."

You posted this on your whitelist application. Do you still agree with it?

Can you please clarify what you mean by ahelp spamming?

Iiiiiii think if we do anything like this, we need to somehow make it exclusive to antags. I can just see cargo doing ghetto magnet surgery in the warehouse. Also, as a general note. We need to stop making it so hard to die. Gunshots SHOULD be a serious wound. I understand they currently fuck over antags much worse than crew members and agree that should be balanced, but we keep making death increasingly difficult and it’s getting a little silly. I survived five gunshots to the head and walked myself to medical a couple weeks ago.

"Additionally, keep your character's goals in mind. For example, as security, during a traitor round, your goal is not to catch traitors, but ensure the safety of the station and provide assistance as needed." You were standing next to him while he was gasping the entire time. That's wonderful that you're involving your vaurcafriend, but you were ignoring a Captain level decision to do so. I'm entertained that you think so. This is what happened to the CSI (a crew member) that was shot in the lobby, she was standing in the way because officers opened fire wordlessly with lethals. The officers in question even profusely apologized, you did nothing about them firing on your own department. As for the rest, viewing the 'command drama' as petty is exactly the problem here. We need to understand the situation so we can keep the rest of the players informed. Security is not secret ops. The fact that you had three command players who are normally in a vague state of odds with one another unanimously in support of your removal speaks wonders. You are not, as you were claiming, acting captain, and command did not need to 'stay in their lane.' You need to know regulations, you need to know your role.

BYOND Key: Resilynn Game ID: b2V-anGr, though it has been an ongoing issue. Player Byond Key/Character name: Outboarduniform, Juan Siganto Staff involved: Alb and garn each took an ahelp about him this round, though there have been previous ahelps other rounds before. Reason for complaint: In brief, I believe Juan Siganto is emblematic of 'shitcurity' in that he mercilessly valid hunts, has a vague understanding of regulations at best, and fails to meet high RP standards. I am advocating for the removal of his whitelist, or, at the very least, an Hos/Captain jobban.

Use the hospital gowns outside of surgery.

There are surgical aprons and caps available in the loadout, there are hospital gowns outside surgery, so that those who WANT those extra steps and that immersion can have them. You shouldn't force everyone into taking 20 steps to do their part in the game because you want it when it's already an option for you.

That round vis just cited was particularly bad, Nanny-AI was constantly bolting and electrifying doors, even after being told not to over command radio. The AI was yelling at a surgeon, Luna Evans, and kept siphoning rooms. Crew members were dying because the bridge was locked down and the AI was being relatively slow to open them. It DID open them, eventually, as a note, but the AI seems to take security's orders more seriously than anyone else's because from a command position, I couldn't get it to open the doors until an officer asked it to. Which pretty much ignores the AI laws.

You’re more of a heckin nerd than we feared....

1. Skrell arcs. God, we need Skrell arcs. Or politics. Or anything. Unathi have had translizardism in the last year, Vaurca had the lii'dra, Tajarans have had their usual adhomai winter wars, IPCs are having an arc right now, Dionae got to mysterious disappear which... counts, I guess. I've been on this server for 3 years or so now and I haven't seen Skrell do a damn thing expect show up, occasionally, in other species' lore. 2. I want Paradox to be maintainer. His essay was amazing and he actually has anything resembling an idea of what he's doing. I also want to make seductive eyebrows to be his deputy ahead of time. I 100% intend to keep this up as a deputy application, or to repost if I have to. I know they're not open yet and I know it's silly, but, well. It's what I'm doing. If I have to be a maintainer, I completely believe I can do it. I'm great at project tackling and navigate pretty easily through red tape, but I would vastly prefer to help someone more experienced. I'm not going to lie, I'd be incredibly flattered to be maintainer given my lack of experience. And if I were maintainer, I'd be opening deputy slots to find someone experienced to help me pretty much immediately. For all my jokes about being a narcissist, I know that I would do better with help. I also know I CAN maintain lore if it's asked of me. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1/3. One of the neater things I've seen Skrell players do in the last year or so is have varying levels of apprehension towards AI- some even secretly being in favor of its development. Naturally, the Skrell as a whole are going to be fairly cautious of AI, if not vehemently opposed, given their history. But I see so much potential in those secret beliefs, and secret research projects, and secret circles of support. I think it would be a great place to explore some conflict in Skrell society where there currently is very little. 2. I like the psionic aspect of Skrell, and I would like to move forward in fleshing it out a little further. I have no intentions to change any of the recent lore, I've been a pretty big fan of its direction lately. I think the current lore CAN be expanded on to include psionics, right now it's only barely touched upon. I imagine it's a craft that takes a lot of practice, as it takes a lot of focus. I think it'd be interesting to include the history of psionics, from when it was just used as a 'FOOD' or 'DANGER' or 'HAPPY SOCIAL TIME' broadcaster in early Skrell history, following its development into a learned language, so to speak. I think it'd be neat if honing psionic skills was something Skrell really had to work at, taking study and practice and years of devotion- the same way music is, for us.

Behold, a long post on the general direction I'd like to help move Skrell-

Exactly this. I'll answer your questions now, I'm still preparing my little list of things I'd like to do specifically. 1- This is not something I still intend to do, no. In CCIA I've shown a willingness to abandon ideas that the community doesn't like- a good example of this are proposed changes to contraband. I gathered feedback, saw that the feedback was mixed, and decided not to move forward without majority approval. In that last application, most of the feedback mentioned that players were not interested in altering the timeline of skrell events, and I respect that feedback. I've always firmly maintained that the community should come first in staff decisions, and that is true here. 2- I've agreed with how you've handled whitelists so far, you've laid out exactly what you're looking for and you've been communicative about your standards. I'm not sure I'd call it strict, or lax, but I would call it communicative. In terms of flexibility I am absolutely willing to let people explain why they believe their character fits within the guidelines you've laid out, but I will resolve to adhere to those guidelines. I would like to emphasize that I prefer whitelists relatively easy to get, but easy to lose if you are not following the standards laid out for you. When I got my skrell whitelist, I had to write three separate character backgrounds for one character to demonstrate I was capable of playing more than one skrell character- this was in the days of Loow, when Skrell whitelists were considered the hardest species whitelist to get. I don't think that was necessary, and I think the way whitelists were handled then had a lot to do with the low number of skrell players at the time. I am more interested in facilitating players' ability to involve themselves in lore than I am in keeping a species elite. I think you could expect to see me talking with players one on one to help them keep their characters lore friendly before removing whitelists, but I am willing to remove whitelists if needed. 3- Skrell are supposed to be the most technologically advanced species, but we do very little to demonstrate this in lore and mechanics. Sleepy did a fantastic job in giving skrell neat mechanics (telepathy and srom), but those mechanics were biological in nature and I think we can do even more with loadout items. I'll expand on my ideas to improve this in my 'essay', but it is currently one of my biggest gripes. Also, the reason I made this application, skrell are no longer represented in the religious mechanics of the game just implemented today. I would like to fix that, and have a few neat ideas to do so (coming soon in an essay near you).

Getting there, it'll be up by the end of the day.

Ckey/BYOND Username: Resilynn Position Being Applied For:: Skrell Helper (lore dev) Past Experiences/Knowledge: I've been around for forever, I've held canon events using my CCIA powers. I've helped Kyres brainstorm quite a few arcs and whatnot, and I've written a tiny bit of random pieces of lore. I'm familiar with the setting, especially the squidbois. I'm particularly interested in them because their tech is more advanced than human tech, making them pretty unique in the species lore. Also they love stars, and I'd love to apply my astronomy knowledge to Skrell lore. Lastly, I think it'd be nice to have a hand in both CCIA and lore, since the two have every reason to be very interconnected and generally just... aren't. Examples of Past Work:

There is no regulation on speaking basic on comms. If you’re being punished for speaking anything else, file an IR. With notable exception of if a head of staff instructs you to use basic. At this point, it’s covered in regulations under following orders (even though it’s minor), and you can be charged for it