NewOriginalSchwann

CCIA Staff Application Basic Information BYOND Key: NewOriginalSchwann Character Names: Oh man, here we go. Age: 23, and not getting younger. Timezone: Eastern Standard Time What times are you most available?: Generally in the mid afternoon and evenings EST, though I am more free on the weekends. I am a full-time graduate student so classes and research make up my main responsibilities. How long have you played Space Station 13?: About a year and a half now, to my memory. How long have you played on Aurora Station?: Since May/June 2019. It’s definitely my favorite server I’ve played on thus far, and I don’t believe I’ll leave any time soon. How active on the forms, Discord, and/or server are you?: 1). The Forums: I sometimes post on it, but I’m not the most active. 2). The Discord: I am active on it, and some of the affiliated Discords. 3). The Server: I’m on it almost daily, really. It’s kind of an issue! Have you ever been banned and, if so, for how long?: I have not been banned, have no warnings, and only a handful of notes. Have you ever volunteered as moderation staff for any other servers, SS13 or otherwise?: I have not, but you must always start somewhere. Do you have any other experience that you believe would be relevant to a position in the CCIA?: I am a graduate student pursing a master of the arts degree in political science, so I am no stranger to writing, investigating, and making my case. Furthermore I have played a great amount of security and command, and I am quite familiar with regulations and procedure. Personality Why do you want to join the CCIA?: To improve the environment of the server as a whole and allow us to continue to solve in-character problems in an in-character manner. One of my major issues with Baystation12 was (and is) that in-character issues had to be solved in an out-of-character manner due to the lack of continuity. Aurora solves these issues in an in-character manner, and I wish to be a part of that. What do you think are the most important qualities for a CCIA Agent to possess?: The most important quality for a CCIA Agent to have is the ability to maintain a level head and remain unbiased in situations. You cannot effectively be an agent while being biased. An Agent must be logical, calculated, and reasonably detached from the situation you are dealing with. What do you think the purpose of a CCIA Agent is in an ongoing round?: The purpose of a CCIA Agent in an ongoing round is to assist in the flow of the round and any ongoing gimmicks inside it. A CCIA Agent can make or break a round’s flow through their ability to coordinate with both the administrative team and the antagonists and, when all three groups work together, the results can be incredible. Aside from this, there is also their ability to conduct IR interviews during a round. What do you think the purpose of a CCIA Agent is outside of the server?: Handling incident reports is the most obvious one. However the agents of the CCIA also work to clarify and uphold directives, regulations, and station procedure. Some of these regulations are somewhat vaguely written, so the role of a CCIA Agent is important here. How do you handle stress?: Quite well, honestly. I would not be a graduate student about to receive a master’s degree at 23 if I could not handle stress. How well do you work autonomously?: Quite well – I am trusted to work alone on human lore as one of its two deputies, and am trusted to study a wide variety of topics independently as a graduate student. What I start, I finish.

Kyres is an excellent fit for this position, has previous experience, is highly motivated, and is a pleasure to work and talk with. I have nothing to give to this application other than my support.

How will this impact IPCs, which experience emotions and fears differently from other species?

Works for me! I support this application.

I just have one question. With this being a Hephaestus-owned machine, what job do you intend to have it work aboard?

Good responses, particularly #1. I support this application, and wish you luck on your trial! Schwann put the +1 here but remember to make it look nice BEFORE you post.

I like Bear a lot as a player, despite Yahir being a terrrrrrrorrrrrist, and know he can definitely RP and manage responsibility. I honestly thought he had a command whitelist already, oops. But, as I have come to despise giving empty +1s, I do have some questions. There are no real right or wrong answers here, and I just want to gauge your response. 1). As the research director, you are given a handcuffed and sedated changeling. You have two xenobiologists: one is a good player that you know, and the other is one of the players that the head of personnel gets a warning notice about at the start of the shift - they have five charges for minor infractions like abuse of communications and petty theft. The good player has a lab assistant assisting them, and the head of security urgently wants you to get the changeling into xenobiology. What do you do, and how do you ensure that your trouble xenobiologist doesn't hamstring your efforts? 2). As the head of purrsonnel (I'm sorry) you shut your office to go visit cargo, and see how they're doing. Along your way there a drunk assistant, in a grey jumpsuit and all, begins harassing you for being a tajara. You're presently outside medical's lobby and he's verbally aggressive, but not physically violent yet. However, he has said that he has a knife. What do you do here? Remember that the head of personnel gets an energy pistol and .45 pistol loaded with flash rounds. 3). As the captain a wizard warps into your office and tells you that he is here to fire you and assume control of the station on orders of central command. It's around fifteen minutes into the shift, and you have two security officers along with a detective the obligatory SSD cadet. The only other head of staff is a chief engineer, who may or may not be Oliver Roadman in this example as I rarely see anybody else playing the job. What do you do? 4). You have four officers and need to get armory access and a spare person to swipe. Three officers are very good at their job and are established security names that are generally respected, but are contractors. The fourth is a NT officer but is obviously quite new and barely speaks English, and was just charged for excessive force. How do you get armory access and the additional swipe now that there's no good candidate for interim head of security? 5). What do you plan to do on elevated alert levels as the captain or head of personnel? I look forward to your responses!

All my questions have been answered so far, which only leaves the question of how Borya is going to make a waifu out of a seven foot tall insectoid creature. +1 RKG (Real Kool Gamer)

I like the application and I like the answers. Uaine can definitely RP and unathi on the other HRP server - you know, the one with the salutes - and I am excited to see what they can do here with the species! Here's my vote of support, and my +1.

If it's good enough to get security's attention, it's good enough for a chaplain. My own jokes aside, your answers are good. Have my support. +1 BUT ALSO POUR ONE OUT FOR HADII

Wigglesworth is a good lad that can definitely roleplay effectively, and I like the application. However, I have a question. While your character concept is good, and you've definitely read the lore, how do you intend to put yourself out there - so to speak - as a priest? It's a role a lot of people tend to discard, unfortunately, so how do you intend to create a presence? I look forward to your response.

OOC Note: Lancer said this was a-okay, considering the events that have happened surrounding this IR. This may very well be all, folks!

Like with my fellows, I don't really have a lot to add. Good item, good character, good justification, good roleplayer, unrobust. +1

Alright hello yes, I am here to give feedback. I played a revolution round earlier with @Wigglesworth Jones and at one point we (an assistant and detective) needed to get into maintenance for The Gimmick (blowing up the ATLAS-loving representative's consulate with a fuel tank bomb). The result: 1). One ashed hand 2). Five instances of shocking ourselves 3). Zero instances of us doing the gimmick successfully 4). One maintenance hatch destroyed by a maglite and lunchbox While I absolutely despise seeing a security officer perform a maintenance sweep "for security" at the start of every round, there has to be a better solution to this.

I will miss the old AMI, but these are very good. It will also be way easier to find dead xenoarcheologists now, great work!

Excellent responses, I support this application. Take my BIG +1.

FREN is a good stationbound and I like the sprites, and the reasoning for the sprites. I'm here to add in my +1, and really have nothing else to add beyond that.

I've had good interactions with Solis and Feufer, so I have no doubt they can both RP and do their departments. However I absolutely despise giving empty +1s, so I have a few questions for the positions. 1). How do you intend to handle the upcoming changes to medical as a CMO? 2). You are the CMO and it is a somewhat hectic round of vampire. You have a lot of patients on low blood and not enough O- to go around. You are fairly well-staffed with two pharmacists, a surgeon, a nurse, a paramedic, and a rescue robot. How do you manage this? 3). How would you handle an officer using excessive force on a detainee in an in-character manner? 4). A traitor purchases a central command update and it's absolutely absurd what they use it for. It's full of contradictions, misspellings, and weird orders. How do you respond to this as a head of staff? I look forward to your responses!

The sprites are good, and the item fits the character. It's a helmet, it protects your skull from impacts. This one just makes you look like a goon at times. I support it, and really have nothing else to add.

While I also understand it's kind of questionable for somebody with no characters to apply for a species, and understand it is ultimately up to the lore dev, I can vouch for Aticius being an exceptional roleplayer. They played one of the best (if not the best) unathi I interacted with on Baystation12, and have always gone to great lengths to play believable characters. I am both eager and excited to see their take on unathi in Aurora's setting.

I honestly had no idea it was not a rule until today. It should be one.

I support this, engineer is more of a white collar role when compared to what we have on the station. The only engineers aboard should be the chief, and some science employees such as mechatronic engineers. Station Technician is a much more fitting title, in all honesty.

BYOND Key: neworiginalschwann Game ID: b35-a7bd Player Byond Key/Character name: Alvin Mildred Jaydon Lafortune Leila Alamuddin Genevieve Francois Staff involved: N/A - However, I was told Cnyam handled some things in-round. I am, however, uncertain what was done. As such, after consulting with my fellows, I have decided it is appropriate to make this complaint. Reason for complaint: In brief: aggressive ganking, powergaming, and horrific attitude in OOC resulted in a round that made me believe I was back on /tg/-Sybil rather than on Aurora. Several cultists displayed a pretty horrific attitude overall and poor respect of escalation overall. Jaydon Lafortune, in particular, was an egregious offender. I would like to, finally, state that this is not a salt complaint because the the antags won. Now, the long-hand complaint. This was a fairly low-population round, a bit after midnight Eastern Standard time. Security was pretty decently staffed compared to most other departments, and I late joined at around twenty or thirty minutes in. Twenty minutes later almost every member of security was dead from cultists or a cultist themselves, and fifteen minutes after that Nar’Sie was summoned and the game was over at 1:14:00-ish. So how in the name of heck did this all happen? The main strategy of Alvin Mildred was to stun talisman somebody with his starting cultist buddy then cuff, gag, and remove their headset before converting them. One cultist actually did lead-up RP to an attempted stun-cuff-gag-deheadset-convert but did it in plain view of security and got caught. The head of security managed to get a bit suspicious after two officers disappeared near Mildred, and told the AI to track him. This allowed us, the ISD, to catch him, one of his assistants, and eventually a third unrelated individual. We brought them to the brig for questioning, flashed and cuffed them, then one managed to break her cuffs and summon a sword and then all hell literally broke loose. At around 00:40 the brig turned into some kind of bizarre 2D version of the Fortnite: Battle Royale Halloween Special as cultists began destroying the hands of the three non-cult security members, a cadet got stunned and then gibbed, a reporter armed herself in order to desperately survive, and the ISD got completely wiped aside from cultists. Following this the cult basically had free fucking reign of the station and easy access to weaponry. Any resistance was crushed in an exceptionally horrendous manner: Jaydon Lafortune would run up, stun talisman them, and then drag them to a sacrifice rune. For those of us not familiar with the mechanics of cult, the sacrifice rune instantly gibs you. Persons I have spoken with say that Francois assisted in this, so I have named them in this in order to get their story. Having seen it utilized three times in a row by Lafortune, assisted by Francoise, I can assure the reader that this is fairly difficult to counter. The attitude of Lafortune's player in OOC following this did not help, as his attitude could be summarized as "cry about it." Alamuddin’s player was also involved in this absolute round-robin of an OOC fight, so I have named them here. In order to further explain this round I call to the stand the following witnesses: @BoryaTheSlayer @Wigglesworth Jones @Bear @Rosetango @Brutishcrab51 @HighAdmiral Memetastic Productions (I don't know if they have a forum account) Did you attempt to adminhelp the issue at the time? If so, what was the known action taken by administration/moderation? I did not, no. Approximate Date/Time: 5 November, 2019 Additional Notes; I have the logs of the round, and can provide them if needed.

Something as strong as the stun talisman has no place being as cheap as it is in a team antagonist. It's a one-hit stun that's long enough to cuff, gag, and de-headset a person with. It has absolutely no place in a game that's trying to move away from one-hit KO combat. Honestly, it has no place at all as it presently stands. A stun baton takes 3-4 hits to down somebody and this takes one (1) hit, then you're dragged off to a forcible D&D session as conceptualized by Chick Tracts (I mean you should have backup, but it's just going to result in the cultist bringing two instant-stun runes). Please wipe this accursed ability from the face of the Earth.

Hey just coming by to say Soulthief, despite having an odd name, is a pretty swell dude that plays interesting characters and RPs very well. I've been especially impressed with how he's integrated Sterben's demotion into the character. Definitely the kind of person we want to see in command again. I particularly want to see Copperfield suffering as captain again - he is always a pleasure to work with. Edit: Oh yeah +1 I guess.