Wabidons Head of Staff Whitelist

[Warbidon]

BYOND key: Warbidon

Discord Username: Warbidon #1495

Character names:

Fros'Qerr Vel-Rena, Joe Bennett, Arielle Auriel-Qerk

How long have you been playing on Aurora?:

I have no idea how long have I been n the Aurora server. I would guess around 2014-2017 under the wer6 pseudonym.

Have you received any administrative actions? And how serious were they?
I have been previously permabanned from both the server as well as the head of staff position.

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

What do you think the OOC purpose of a Head of Staff is, ingame?:
The purpose of the head of staff is to have responsibility for the department. This takes place on both a narrative and emblematic level. to expound on the first part of my previous statement, The head of staff is responsible for making sure that new players are taught, the department is being run acceptably, and that the personnel both inside and outside the department are categorically immersed into the roleplay environment that the head of staff will cultivate in the department. In addition, the player's character acts as a role model for how a member of the department should act. Though this second facet is less important, as the dichotomy between boss and subject can come into play, it still matters to an extent due to how few people there are in comparison to leader staff.  The head of staff's duty is to make sure that both the crew and the antagonists get a figure to point their ire, duty, and questions at, in addition to the ideals and culture of the department as a whole.

What do you think the OOC responsibilities of Whitelisted players are to other players, and how would you strive to uphold them?:
The OOC responsibilities of whitelisted players is multifaceted. in essence, they are held to a higher standard in comparison to other players due to their expanded capabilities in taking positions. Its the players role to enable the roleplaying game to have first and foremost a good and fun scene for other people, a vehicle for both the player themselves and other people to have fun while playing the game. to that end, a whitelisted player has the important role of playing their head of staff correctly in order to keep the role. in addition to acting as a vehicle for the previously mentioned ingame purpose of the command staff, I will try and keep to this responsibility by doing my best in playing immersive, real characters that follow these guidelines. I wont play head of staff when unable to deliver this responsibility to people.

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 has recently survived the shattering to the Solarian "Empire" as spurred on the the Violet dawn, also known as the burning of mars. Tau Ceti has weathered this instability by hardening its military forces under the assistance of the conglomerate of corporations. Biesel is a melting pot of various species and peoples, being a end point for immigration due to its incredible phoron-deprived wealth that is coming to an end due to the exhaustion of mining resources. In this tumultuous era, A Skrell named Fros'Qerr Vel-Rena immigrated a decade and a half earlier as a wet-behind the ears tadpole with a dream of getting a second degree and becoming a surgeon. Under the baby-baptism of a almost comparable-to-skrellian university and residency at the greatest Odin station that NT could over, Fros'Qerr became a upcoming talent of a surgeon  that has experienced both Sol Invasions, having lost a apartment on the Odin by the first Frost derived invasion. Fros'Qerr also secretly participated resistance operations against Federation after the events of the last archive decryption contest, which ultimately resulted in her arrest by the federation, and after a brief week, her return to the Aurora. A intervention by her associates in the resistance had resulted in her being deprogrammed and the event largely smoothed over by other factors resulting it eventually becoming a non-issue for her promotion to head of staff.

What roles do you plan on playing after the application is accepted?
I plan on playing as a Chief Medical Officer with Fros'Qerr Vel-Rena, as well as probably resurrecting my old HOP whose name was Hanira Yishu, with a different name that fits the lore.

Have you familiarized yourself with the wiki pages for the command roles?
Yes, I have looked at the wiki pages for the command roles.

Characters you intend to use for command or have created for command. Include the job they will be taking.:
Fros'Qerr Vel-Rena -- Chief Medical Officer

A head of Staff Skrell whose name I have not decided yet.

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

Have you linked your byond account to the forums? 

Yes

Extra notes:
My favorite song is Superhuman by Superhuman by Jonathan vd Wijngaarden

I plan on changing the records of Fros'Qerr Vel-Rena to be more sensible with regards to her eligible to being a head of staff.

Edited January 22, 2022 by Warbidon

[Faye <3]

I cannot endorse this application. -1.

Without trying to be harsh, Fros'qer is perhaps one of the most frustrating characters in medical. I vividly remember them going AFK silently at their desk without warning, and having a hell of a time trying to get them to do surgery on a consistent basis.

Additionally, I believe that they are very out of touch with proper Command play. Last night, for instance, they took interim CMO at the start of round and immediately began to push unnecessary and, quite frankly, harmful changes to medical. The most aggravating one of these was the concept of "first and second responder'. They designated one first responder as the 'first responder', and the other (full disclosure, my character) as the 'second responder'. The second responder was only allowed to go out if the first responder was overwhelmed, but in exchange had first-dibs on any EVA rescue. However, we had zero miners that shift and only two engineers. The likelihood of an EVA rescue was incredibly small, and true enough, one never happened. In effect, had the two first responders not outright ignored Fros'qer, I would not have been able to play my role and the other FR would have been forced to do everything themselves.

Additionally, this round had active antagonists and a bomb-threat in medical. During the aforementioned bomb-threat in medical, Fros'qer gave no orders or instruction to the department, and instead chose to taste the Vaurca Consular's V'krexi Taffy flavors and soda in the holodeck while there was a bomb in her department. Medical had to take their own initiative throughout most of the round because there was next to no leadership shown.

 

 

Edited January 22, 2022 by Faye <3

[Warbidon]

I appreciate the critique that you have given me, @Faye <3

However, I wanted to give to you context of the round that you were frustrated in. I was giving out orders, I was trying to give the department a objective, and I felt that I was doing my best in being active and engaged during that round. However, I felt that almost every order I gave was either ignored or one of the two paramedics took the initiative away from me seconds before I finished typing it out and coming to the same conclusion that I had. The one successful example of an order I gave was moving the temporary zone of operations that would act as a replacement medical bay from the holodeck to robotics, which was empty and ready to receive while being farther away from the supposed bomb threat in medical. I had coordinated with security in finding out when the bomb threat was over and had given the greenlight to return to medical as well.

Regardless, I don't think I shined very well on that round, largely due to the initiative I had seen work on other servers. Either I expressed my intent incorrectly or it was truly a not very good fit, and I did backtrack and allowed what was going on as naturally. From that point on, I had no real chance of changing anyone's mind because I made that blunder. I never had been given a chance to actually express a command because the current situation was that the paramedics assumed I was a non-entity and delegated the responsibility of giving orders to themselves and actually ignoring me. I would've had to say to the paramedics "hey man, let me do the orders." and I felt that wasn't conducive to to the situation and  would've painted me as an incompetent and maligned boss figure which I did not want. So, I had decided to just give orders and hope that the medical staff would listen. There was no real chance of me organizing any specific role and interaction between paramedic --> Physician --> Surgeon because I was the only surgeon and there were no physicians.

Secondly, although I was in the holodeck, I did not taste any of the taffy flavors or sodas in the holodeck, that is complete nonsense. I was listening and engaging with the medical department in parallel to the conversation with the consular during the incident with the bomb threat, and I have no idea why you are saying I quote " gave no orders or instructions to the department." The radio-logs of the round would prove otherwise (I did not save them.) I even tried to get in contact with your character to ask for feedback and to clarify  and get in-character feedback about the first-second responder thing but you didn't give me a chance.

Edited January 23, 2022 by Warbidon

[CourierBravo]

I'm hesitating to give a -1, as I believe that people can improve if they choose to. But,

My major concern here is that you're a little notorious for going AFK playing Fros'Qerr Vel-Rena. Going to over a year ago I can think of a time you went dormant while the only medical person on station. If you're gonna play command, in my opinion you /gotta/ be there for the whole time unless something IRL comes up and you have to step away, not just because nothings going on last you checked. or at least say "hey going afk" so people know whats going on, y'know?

Other than that, while I didn't particularly enjoy the stated above round, I think that if someone learns the tools to be good at command, they can actually be good at command. And apart of that is just playing and problem solving. I dont know if you really play any of the medical roles other than surgeon, but I'd spend a good few hours in each and learn their needs and wants and how that kinda thing goes. Other than that, things like communicating and giving clear and firm orders is really appreciated.

Consider this a very neutral feedback. I think you might wanna re-evaluate your skill set and how well you know the rest of the department. Maybe take more interim positions as Fros'Qerr Vel-Rena, so you can practice and get a better feel for command? Other command players would be a great resource to ask about these kind of things, pick their brains for ideas and feedback. Its very easy for me to say what I think you should work on without providing any lead on how you can do that.

Edited January 23, 2022 by Bejewledpot
thought of something to add after posting

[Warbidon]

Alright. I don't plan on playing as a head of staff at any time I an liable to go AFK. My job requires me to be on call late in the day on a couple days of the week in addition to my propensity to lose interest in SS13 mid round, so I already plan on not taking up the high position when I know I wont be able to confirm my reliability, and if not, I'll just head to cryogenics instead of letting people down.

upon self reflection, I will follow your advice on taking time to familiarizing myself with the other roles, however I don't think you need to worry about me for the chemistry aspect as I have played quite a bit of chemistry on adjacent code servers and have memorized most recipes and know how to quickly look up the rest. (I just find the repetitive aspect of making chems every shift a seething event and don't envy a chemist.)

[MattAtlas]

This application is denied. You may contact me on Discord (mattatlas#0230) for more information.