[TRIAL] Tagada's Command App - "Not the CE we want, but the CE we deserve"

[Tagada]

BYOND key: Tagada
Character names: Youssef Hammadi, Benicia Santistevan, Mawussi Kelakaw, Hayat El Sadaawi and Sigurd Babu are my currently active characters.

How long have you been playing on Aurora?: I think my current account started late 2017, after a near year long hiatus. My old account had the key "Anyad" and had played sporadically on Aurora for the better part of two years before. (I had changed accounts because of the length of the hiatus and because I was playing several servers at the time. Nothing shadier than that.)

Why do you wish to be on the whitelist?: I've been on this server for what seems like a long time and I've never whitelisted for anything - In the olden days, I got my command and antag jollies on bay and used aurora for more relaxed, character centric roleplay. When Bay launched the Torch and I left the server, I never got around to applying for a whitelist here. Since summer is coming and I seem to be in a period of SS13 activity again, I thought this would be a good time as any to try. Aurora has roles (like liaison, consular officer, etc) that I've never tried and am curious about and I do miss certain aspects of command play.

Why did you come to Aurora?: Originally because I wanted to find a more receptive, relaxed roleplay environment.

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

Have you received any administrative actions? And how serious were they? My current account has a rather old warning for launching the tesla without containment. I was actually trying something specific and had reasons for it (it did not lead to disaster in any way), but I received the warning some time after the event and never bothered to appeal. My old, pre-2017 account had none, to my knowledge.  

 

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: Perhaps because my first and most basic roleplay experiences come from very open, text-based environments (MUDs, MUSHes, etc), I am one one of those people that believe that our roleplay should be more collaborative storytelling than anything else. Our characters are just narrative tools, projections we use to bring about a specific story, trope or message that we enjoy seeing played out. In this perspective, compromise with others is important, as is unsaid (or explicit) OOC cooperation to 'not' break the flow of our overarching story and to find interaction that works well for all of us. Aurora is, of course, not a purely text-based medium. Games like SS13 compound our task by adding mechanics that we have no agency over, yet directly affect our characters - providing a thematic/narrative frame into which we insert those stories.
 
What do you think the OOC purpose of a Head of Staff is, in-game?: The most important, fundamental OOC purpose of all Heads of Staff is communication. They are meant to serve as hubs of information, players who have the most access and oversight into what is actually happening on board and are thus better qualified to coordinate activity. Without their input and direction, tasks and emergent IC problems are often resolved ad hoc, on an individual basis and make the round's story confusing and segmented for the players and observers. Aside from this, in a very simplistic sense, Heads of Staff carry the OOC responsibility of acting out IC reactions to player activity from the setting itself, helping to establish the frame I've mentioned in my answer to the previous question.

What do you think the OOC responsibilities of Whitelisted players are to other players, and how would you strive to uphold them?: Carrying a whitelist means that the player in question is officially deemed suitable for playing a particular role with additional challenges (like OOC responsibility). A whitelisted player has the natural responsibility to continue living up to that standard, so as to serve as an example to others who want to whitelist.

Could you give us the gist of what is currently happening in Tau Ceti and how it affected your character and their career? The current, worsening Phoron shortage has rendered whole swathes of corporate infrastructure non-viable across Tau Ceti. Energy-generation specialists are in high demand as almost all interests seek to further streamline and optimize their phoron consumption and secure favourable deals with Nanotrasen extraction subsidiaries. Price variation is near an all time high and some days, segments of the system market seem on the verge of collapsing on themselves despite reassuring corporate market protection efforts.

Karim Golshan-Assadi knows that the best tools are forged from the raw matter of chaos, financial, political, societal. Ever on the lookout for talent to add to the engineering legions of Hephaestus (and thus advance his own standing) he rejoices at a posting that allows him to fish from troubled waters.
Irene Nagymarosi was only recently dragged from the quiet, relatively low-demand work of coordinating an alternative energy generation research team and assigned to Tau Ceti as reserve command. Having been a vocal advocate of implementing massive phoron-less power supplies corporation-wide, she feels that the current crisis is just another confirmation of humanity's fatal dependency on the miracle element. She resents her position, but is determined to make the best of the shifting situation through her expertise and other ways that present themselves.

What roles do you plan on playing after the application is accepted? Corporate Liaison for Hephaestus and probably a Chief Engineer (although I don't think we actually need another one right now). I will possibly try other roles in the mid-to-far future.

Characters you intend to use for command or have created for command. Include the job they will be taking.:
 I've oft said that Youssef Hammadi won't ever get to command. He is an excellent engineer and coordinates well, but is mistrustful of security and is rather foul mouthed. If you think he would nevertheless make a CE worth playing and can be bothered to say it, do. I'm taking opinions.
Otherwise:
- Karim Golshan-Assadi (Heph Liasion)
- Irene Nagymarosi (Chief engineer)

How would you rate your own roleplaying?:
I'm an enthusiastic roleplayer and have roleplayed as a hobby for rather long time, both on and offline, on a myriad supports. I believe that when not otherwise motivated, I am a fair roleplayer with plenty of experience, used to having to tell coherent, enjoyable stories and fill out blanks on the fly.

Do you understand your whitelist is not permanent, and may be stripped following continuous administrative action? Of course.

Have you familiarize yourself with the wiki pages for the command roles? Yes.

Extra notes: I've always main'd engineering on any server I've been on and have gone through several characters in that department on Aurora. I would like to reassure anyone who needs it that I regularly play other roles, other departments and am not in any way limited to engineering as a wheelhouse. It is however what I have the most game knowledge about.

Edited July 13, 2020 by Tagada
grammar!

[The7thLain]

Fine engineering RP'er with a great knowledge of engine mechanics specifically. Certainly qualified enough to make a Chief Engineer character and do very well at it. +1 from me. Good luck if/when you get a trial Tagada!

[sebkillerDK]

i think Tagada would have a nice shot at being a CE and a command member, the few interactions ive had with their chars have been good overall, and they are a pretty chill person OOC'ly. they also know a hell of alot about engineering, and i think they could easily learn other departments too.
So +1 from mee

[Cnaym]

Amazing roleplayer, one of the best engi-main we got, super chill OOC and has always taken up the mantle of teachin the new and old. You'll do great as command!

[armrha]

He RP good +1

[Screemers]

That guy showed me in-game some important part about engineering that really helped me become a Chief Engineer. Also he have a great roleplay and I can't do anything else than giving my approval for this applicaiton.

Honestly, I'm surprised that he don't have Command access already.

+1

Edited July 13, 2020 by Screemers

[ShesTrying]

Trial time! Starts today, 07/13, ends on 07/20.

Remember to keep gathering feedback!

[JoeTheBro]

this chump may be the widest elyran i've ever seen, in all seriousness good RPer and a fun dude +1

[MissFox]

Yea they get a +1 from me, good CE. and fun RP

[Redoktober12]

Tagada is already one of the best engineers on the station, and is otherwise a really agreeable, chill player with a pile of experience, and a great attitude to the game. Very enthusiastic plus one!

[StationCrab]

+1 - Had a really enjoyable cult round with them, saved the station. Seems to know what they are doing.

[CatsinHD]

+1 I've played multiple rounds where they're the only command staff on. They know how to keep engineering a well run machine where sec isn't worried about it.

[SooshyFish]

I've interacted with Tagada on a few of their characters now, including Irene as CE, and I must say I've enjoyed each experience. The characters feel well played out and fun, and they seem like a good player both IC and OOC

, so a big +1 from me!

[The7thLain]

Their xenobiologist was made an iRD, so I felt the need to comment here as to their gameplay. It was during a huge crisis round where we had lings, ghosts, and ling ghosts flying all around and throwing stuff at people with their minds. Long story short, the situation was fubar. I was playing my PRA Commissar Consular Officer and well, needless to say, he was not keeping it together with all these raskariim events going down. The captain made Tagada's xenobiologist iRD in this time of crisis, they kept a level head, gave resources to security and myself, namely ammunition for firearms as the captain had ordered new ones to deal with the threat. They were efficient, cool headed, and managed to keep some good dialogue and RP going all the while. Also saved my ass when I got toolboxed by an invisible ling-ghost. 

+1 nice guy haha

[Warbidon]

+1

His Corporate Liason Karim golshan-Assad is very authentic, the few (two) interactions Ive had with them, especially the very humerous, and in character responses to the questions I gave them when they tried to recruit people for the hephaestus gig.

[Jupiter Storm]

This is a very belated bump and endorsement, I don't tend to use the forums overly much - sorry about that! Regardless, I think a Head of Staff position for Tagada is well overdue and they have demonstrated exceptional ability in Engineering and general knowledge of the game, as well as interesting and interactive characters. Having witnessed Tagada's Chief Engineer on many shifts, I have absolutely no doubt that they would be a valuable addition to any command team. Cool, collected and well versed in how a realistic station should be run.

[ShesTrying]

Trial passed! Welcome to big boy chairs, Tagada!