[Accepted] Allakai's Command Whitelist

[Allakai]

BYOND key: Allakai

Character names: oh boy well here ya go:

 

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How long have you been playing on Aurora?: Since September of 2018… so… give or take… six-ish- seven-ish months?

Why do you wish to be on the whitelist? : I feel as though I am ready to finally become a member of the community that is qualified for a command role. I wish to be a member of the community that new (and veteran players alike) can look to and trust. Especially given with the explosion of new players I would enjoy being one to teach people how to play and be a command role.

Why did you come to Aurora? : Well the long story is pretty long and kind of silly. I did not have a ‘reason’ to come to Aurora. When I first downloaded SS13 (I actually came from Barotrauma haha) I saw Aurora, saw it was high roleplay, and joined. I stuck with Aurora because I enjoyed the atmosphere and the high roleplay, the community was pretty nice and everyone was really friendly even when I was a goof.

Have you read the Aurora wiki on the head roles and qualifications you plan on playing? : I have.

Have you received any administrative actions? And how serious were they? :  I am not aware of any serious admin actions. I have done things wrong and I believe at the worst I might have a warning for some poor choices. Yet I do not have any serious admin action.

Please provide well articulated answers to the following questions in a paragraph each.

Give a definition of what you think roleplay is, and should be about: Roleplay, in the literal sense, is to play someone you are not in real life. Roleplay is exploring different characters, personalities, and living in a world that you do not. While certainly in some aspects you aren’t what you are roleplaying you certainly take on that personality of who you play as.  Roleplay is something that is used to describe elaborate and crazy stories of things that suspend our disbelief just long enough to truly create powerful emotions. Roleplay should have emotional impact on the people who play their characters, and on those they interact with.

What do you think the OOC purpose of a Head of Staff is, in game? :

In the OOC sense, a head of staff is meant to a mentor. If you’re brand new to the game, or an old player coming back, everything is pretty damn daunting. If I were an engineering apprentice, I would turn to my Chief Engineer for guidance and what to do. If I were a cadet in Security it would be the same thing. A head of staff is also meant to drive a story of a round or just in general meant to keep the round going. If things are going down the head of staff is meant to keep a round from stagnating, to keep their department and its occupants safe.

What do you think the OOC responsibilities of Whitelisted players are to other players, and how would you strive to uphold them? :

As I said before my responsibility as a whitelisted player is to be what could best be described as a role model. I am meant to be the one people look up to and say “Yeah, that guy knows what he’s doin’.” It’s a privilege to be allowed to be a whitelisted player that people look up to for guidance. I would uphold my position by being easy going, understanding, and fair. Nobody likes an anal boss that has such little humor that it feels like you’re talking to a brick wall. Yet I will still put my foot down and bring order when it is needed.

Could you give us the gist of what is currently happening in Tau ceti and how it affected your character and their career?

Tau Ceti is in a state of shaky panic if that makes sense. Currently the reigning government is the Republic of Biesel but things are a little wonky. There are many many different types of species and cultures mixing and interacting there. While it is mostly an equal republic and place to live, some species are still discriminated against. Particularly IPCs and Vaurca. Along with major events such as the Solarian threat as well as the Vaurca threat. People still go about their own lives, politics, etc and so on so forth. Many of my characters live there on Biesel. Particularly my Tajara.

They live in District 6, Imperial Plaza/Little Adhomai, it’s often a hectic and rough living there. Yet despite what they live through, they keep going because it’s better than nowhere. My particular Tajara, Zahra Mrakiizar has accepted where she lives and even is a frequent listener of electro swing and frequents clubs.

My newest character, Samantha Mayfly has recently moved to Tau Ceti with her flotilla during the off-worlder event. After being hired by NanoTrasen she has interacted with the people of Tau Ceti. Given she has very literal interaction and struggles with the multiple cultures and her difficulty in speaking Tau Ceti Basic there are some issues. Yet generally she is fine living in Tau Ceti, despite the poor living and cramped conditions of the Odin Apartments.

What roles do you plan on playing after the application is accepted? :

Chief Engineer

Head of Personnel

Maybe Head of Security
 

Characters you intend to use for command or have created for command. Include the job they will be taking. :

New: Kaalii Rajaar-Akhii (Hrrarar Tajara, HoP)

Will think of a skrell ‘gineer, maybe Tajara CE that’s a Najrir but in the meantime I have no name for one.

How would you rate your own roleplaying? : I would feel my roleplay quality is very high. I do my best to always maintain a high level of roleplay to give a realistic feel to my characters and the roles that they play.

Do you understand your whitelist is not permanent, and may be stripped following continuous administrative action? : Of course. I fully expect that my actions have consequences and if I do wrong. I will accept my faults.

Have you familiarize yourself with the wiki pages for the command roles?: Yes. I have familiarized with command roles and I understand the responsibility I am willing to take.

Extra notes: If it helps I have been command roles on other servers and I feel as I am ready for this huge request I am making.

[Wigglesworth Jones]

I interact a lot with some of Allakai's characters - namely, Zahra Mrakiziizar, Nayah Ha-Fay'Medmaya, Faizah Ha-Ye'Rimizaah, and Samantha Mayfly. Allakai from what I've seen is a very good RPer, and I enjoy talking to them OOCly as well - though he does get snarky at times. From the back of my head I don't recall any negative experiences I've had with them (though to be fair I wasn't active for the past 2-3 months.) The characters I have interacted with I find to be unique and interesting, with realistic flaws, even if they may feel similar at times personality-wise. While I myself have only recently gotten active again, I've seen him playing SS13 almost every day since he joined.

I personally believe that Allakai would be a good Head of Staff, for the reasons I stated above. +1, if that's important.

[Yuri Daruski]

Personally I'm a fan of Allakai, I've interacted with many of their characters and I havn't had one that I've felt has been a bad RP experience, whether I had known it was them at the time or not. Many of her characters retain a sort of humanity that is lost is some other characters. Some individuals have gotten on their back early on in their space station experience about a few deep lore nitpicky things, but as far as I know they've since rectified any or at least most problems with that. which if I have any criticism against a head role it would be a sense of relative newness to the station. Granted we are still talking seven months or so, which didn't really occur to me until this point but, I digress, time flies. In summery I have full confidence in their ability to perform well in their position, and to set an example of good role play to the rest of the crew, especially the newcomers as of late. 

+1

[VTCobaltblood]

Allakai is a good person and a good roleplayer that can, in my opinion, be trusted with a Command whitelist. They've played for long enough, and know what makes this game tick, and what makes rounds flow good. +1

[Allakai]

Thanks a ton for the support guys. I appreciate the comments. With Wiggles point that is quite valid that I times I can be snarky in OOC. Yet I do not mean it. If I ever do actually upset someone I realize what I did and will attempt to apologize. 

[Juani2400]

We've read over the application, and the positive feedback you've received, so we have decided to move into the trial phase of the process. It will last for a week, until the 06/APR/2019.

Your application will be reviewed again at that time. Please continue to advertise your application in order to gather feedback of the trial phase.

Enjoy!

[Resilynn]

I have some concerns with how you handled a recent extended round.  You tried to host events for the crew, which is awesome, but you got OOCly angry when people chose to do other things instead.  We can't enforce fun in command, and while I appreciate what you tried to do, the way you reacted to your plans not working has me seriously concerned- It's just extended.  

Everyone salts in OOC.  I salt in OOC more than most, but these are worrisome to me, especially where you are yelling at a player for 'taking your slot'.  We don't have slots.  I am, by far, the most played CMO character but if I don't roll CMO I don't yell at whoever did (except occasionally in jest, if it's chirp, fuck that guy).

 

 

 

So I guess my question is whether you think you'll keep acting like this, because I mean, it's a game.  We don't always get our slot, we don't always get the crew to do what we want, but yelling at people about it is just... not very cool.

 

 

Edited March 31, 2019 by Resilynn

[Allakai]

30 minutes ago, Resilynn said:

I have some concerns with how you handled a recent extended round.  You tried to host events for the crew, which is awesome, but you got OOCly angry when people chose to do other things instead.  We can't enforce fun in command, and while I appreciate what you tried to do, the way you reacted to your plans not working has me seriously concerned- It's just extended.  

Everyone salts in OOC.  I salt in OOC more than most, but these are worrisome to me, especially where you are yelling at a player for 'taking your slot'.  We don't have slots.  I am, by far, the most played CMO character but if I don't roll CMO I don't yell at whoever did (except occasionally in jest, if it's chirp, fuck that guy).

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So I guess my question is whether you think you'll keep acting like this, because I mean, it's a game.  We don't always get our slot, we don't always get the crew to do what we want, but yelling at people about it is just... not very cool.

 

 

This entirely I will admit was my fault. Certainly I did not mean to become so angry, and I will admit my reaction was uncalled for. But certainly I felt a little attacked personally. And the "taking my slot" I actually say as a joke, that entirely is NOT serious behavior and was only as a joke given as I am on trial and would like to play command. Yelling at a player is not true for taking my slot as it was entirely a joke and not meant to be taken seriously. Saying I am being uncool over an OOC joke is a bit of a stretch as I actually do not mind if people take "my slots".  Never once do I honestly care if people take a command slot given I am on trial.  Again, I will say this : I DO NOT care if people take my slots, I know Fresh is a meme, and I was playing along with such.

 

Onto the actual matter at hand. Yes. I was incredibly upset at an event I was trying to run from a statement I made in my very own command application

On 25/03/2019 at 23:53, Allakai said:

If things are going down the head of staff is meant to keep a round from stagnating, to keep their department and its occupants safe.

The round in question where I am being salty, yes I was very upset, was what I had believed to be an honest to god rev round due to me not understanding some as simple as a piece of paper that said "raise morale and promote those that are loyal to the company." So with my earlier mindset, I took it upon myself to... do a gimmick. To actually do something to promote player fun and not keep what I feared to be a slow and stagnated rev round, to not be that very word. 

 

I pulled together a basketball game as an intentionally cheesy and bad attempt to cause fun, the problem was, nobody wanted to play along, sure fine, that entirely was the point. However what you leave out is WHY I was so upset, sure I didn't make it clear but the fact that my attempt to make some fun during a round was trampled over and I felt personally attacked in OOC. Especially when you had gone out of your way to refuse to talk to anyone in command when it was obvious I was trying my hardest to cause some intentionally bad trouble, and in fact if you had said anything in the command channel during the round in question "Hey I set up a pool party" I would not have at all been upset. 

 

It was a stressful round as I felt entirely alone in command and what I felt was to be something fun for other players was made fun of in OOC and I am mocked by some players for something I honestly wanted to give people to do. Saying my behavior is uncool and "worrying" is frustrating especially when taken out of context and the entire situation of the round at hand is not given. I was very upset, and in my opinion, rightfully so. Yet I still played my role as command perfectly fine, I interacted with crew, I promoted a story for the round, and I did my job.

[Resilynn]

27 minutes ago, Allakai said:

I still played my role as command perfectly fine, I interacted with crew, I promoted a story for the round, and I did my job.

After we talked privately, I'll point to this as solid evidence in your favor.  Keep trying hard to make things fun for everyone, but try not to take it personally when it doesn't work.  It's always hit or miss in command with this sort of thing.

[Juani2400]

After some discussion, we've decided to go ahead and approve this application.

Congratulations!

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