Myphicbowser's Command Application

[Myphicbowser]

BYOND key: Myphicbowser
Character names: Katha Mars, Za'Akaix'Vak K'lax, Zaqix Zixquu, IRU-Kathy

How long have you been playing on Aurora?: I’m actually not sure, but consistently for the past fourish months
Why do you wish to be on the whitelist?: Consular and RD, I think both would be fantastic and touch on lesser touched heads of staff
Why did you come to Aurora?: Heard about a good friend who migrated here, wanted to branch out anyway
Have you read the Aurora wiki on the head roles and qualifications you plan on playing?: Perchance
Have you received any administrative actions? And how serious were they? None, am good boi I believe

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 is about telling a story that makes sense, Roleplay should however be about fun as well, we all come here to have fun but we need to adhere to certain rules to make sure that everyone is having fun and no one is infringing on fun. Roleplay should be about the players just as much as the characters.

What do you think the OOC purpose of a Head of Staff is, ingame?:
The OOC purpose of a head of staff is twofold; to keep players interested within their own departments and to keep characters adhering to regulations and rules that all should beholden to ICly, to prevent action that is deemed irresponsible and otherwise manage these players in a reasonable way and handle issues through the IC chain of command and with central command.

What do you think the OOC responsibilities of Whitelisted players are to other players, and how would you strive to uphold them?:
If a player is granted power above average players and chooses to employ them, they are taking it upon themselves to impact the round for the better, to be an addition to the command structure and hold themselves to a higher standard of roleplay. The best way to uphold these and the steps I would take with this whitelist are to make your characters have clear and concise goals and relations, make sure everyone is having fun and you are handling things in an IC way, not be overbearing or an annoyance, I would be there to add RP to those who were willing and have fun for .

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 climate is, and I will be answering this for my Research Director character by the way, quite an issue for them I would imagine. As a leader of a department that thrives off of usage of phoron for construction of advanced components and the debatably unneeded Phoron Research portion of the lab dedicated to exploding phoron, the biggest change in their day to day would be about conservation and maximisation. While they should have always limited certain fields of research, they are now more aware of the limits of Phoron and how expensive it is, so that would be the biggest change. They would most likely respond in kind by putting a greater effort into mining tools to locate more phoron quickly. But besides the shortage, nothing else affects them as they are a Skrell, and largely the changes would be purely altering to their research methods.

What roles do you plan on playing after the application is accepted? 
Research Director and Consular.

Characters you intend to use for command or have created for command. Include the job they will be taking.: 
I planned on using my incredibly old skrell, Zaqix Zixquu, and promoting them to Research Director from Xenobiologist, using them I would put more of an effort on Phoron Conservation and the usage of Xenobiology and Botany to bolster the resources of the department and make it more self sufficient, and of course I would love to use the Research Shuttle more.

How would you rate your own roleplaying?:
I never know how to answer this portions, as it either sounds like I’m breaking my arm patting my own back or condemning myself. I feel as if I am a good Roleplayer. I give antags a reasonable amount of doubt to allow them more freedom in their actions. I can hold discussions about character motivations and keep it interesting. I keep myself restrained in a believable manner while also creating some conflict with some differing ideals, nuance is the key to a good character as the world isn’t in black and white.

Do you understand your whitelist is not permanent, and may be stripped following continuous administrative action? 
I understand that if I continually make mistakes, I will rightfully have my whitelist removed.

Have you familiarized yourself with the wiki pages for the command roles?
I have read the pages in depth for the roles I plan to play and read the pages for the roles I do not plan to play with a quick glance, if I ever decide to play them I will read them in depth beforehand.

Extra notes: Ha ha, command go *injunction *IncidentReport *stamp
 

[Connorjg1]

Big +1

 

Myphic is a very good player who puts roleplay first in seemingly all situations as well as consistently being kind OOC. He has my full support for a command whitelist.

[Caelphon]

Dude's on a speedrun.

Anyhow, I have roleplayed quite extensively with Myphicboweser's characters (through most of my unknown characters). I'd like to see how they in a Command trial. 

[stevIII]

how dare you try to play Research director, thats my spot.
Also, good roleplayer in their characters I've interacted with (Namely Kathy and Zaqix) plus they're always a delight to have on antag team.. not that thats an especially good thing for a command member.

Since I don't want to just be that dude who says "good roleplayer plus 1" I have some questions/hypotheticals for you.

1: If antags are invading the station with some strange and unexplainable but mildly believable faxes, what do you do?

2: If the captain goes rogue and starts trying to act above the law, what do you do?

3: Lastly, if there is no captain yet you need a captain level decision such as suspending a head of staff or invading the diplomatic offices, what do you do.

[Myphicbowser]

Thanks for the love and slightly bullying about RD

Let me throw your questions back with some great answers
1.  I would Fax Central back to ask for clarification, but I would not deny them ICly because if I caused a delay I'd probably be in trouble, but OOCly I want their gimmick to take off
2. I would discuss with other heads of staff and use our right to force them to step down, if everyone agrees to it and we have the power to actually do it
3. I would pull in other heads of staff and elect a temporary captain for the choice to be made, then whoever was elected temporary captain would hopefully give up that power once the situation was handled yah know?

[stevIII]

Everything's fine, excluding point one which is a common, but rather bad mistake.
 

1 hour ago, Myphicbowser said:

1.  I would Fax Central back to ask for clarification, but I would not deny them ICly because if I caused a delay I'd probably be in trouble, but OOCly I want their gimmick to take off

It's normally not a good idea to fax for clarification, as CCIA gets very angri about it, since you're questioning their orders, and that's a bit of a weird thing to do, even if it is a weird announcement. Normally a command member is meant to just take it on face value, and fax if it happens to do something very strange/if its utterly ridiculous, such as nuking the station

Apart from that, good answers, +1

[MattAtlas]

On trial until 20NOV2020.

[MattAtlas]

Well. Very belated, but accepted.