Dionae and you: an exploration into why the tree is talking to you - DtheSnek's Command Whitelist

[DtheSnek]

BYOND key: DtheSnek

Discord Username: @dthesnek

Character names:

Soaring Above Forlorn Hope

FRIEND

How long have you been playing on Aurora?
A bit over two years

Have you received any administrative actions? And how serious were they?
One warning. Minor issue.

What do you think the OOC purpose of a Head of Staff is, ingame?
The role of Head of Staff is to be the planner of the department. Each role has a task, and while that task may overlap with others occasionally, they tend to limit the scope of their focus to what encompasses their job responsibilities. The heads do not possess a specific role, allowing them instead to overlook the entire department without the distractions of a specific job, helping to move the staff where needed, organize them to be most effective, and help pair up interns with experienced staff who can help them learn on the job.

The second part is being a large source of general knowledge. Heads are expected to possess a basic level of familiarity with every part of the department and therefore should know what to expect their staff to be being and help guide them if they are not. They also are able to competently understand and communicate both the status of their department to Command and the relevant goings on of situations to their staff and make sure they are prepared to handle their response to that situation.

What do you think the OOC responsibilities of Whitelisted players are to other players, and how would you strive to uphold them?
I think that the responsibilities of whitelisted players are to help integrate newer players into the game by being a source of knowledge and guidance and by helping to maintain good roleplay. The two go hand in hand, knowing how to do your job or working with trained personnel to help you get trained in your position, and the head of the department can help get interns paired up, assess the crew to see if someone should be advised to keep to an intern role due to lack of skill, or even step in themselves as needed, as they should have a basic knowledge set for the department they are leading. A Head of Staff can also help facilitate roleplay by creating scenarios to help with stagnant rounds, such as creating a mock emergency to test the crew’s skills or just doing individual assessments under the guise of a regular job assessment or something similar. Another thing that certain roles, such as Chief Medical Officer can do to help maintain higher levels of roleplay is that they can check records of the entire crew, working with them if they notice a lack of records to not only advise that they should make some for their character, but even create roleplay opportunities to help assist them with creating the records IC, through things like a medical checkup and questionnaire and handing them a copy of a record they can add into the character creator and use as a valid record.

Explain how the recent events in the Spur changed your character and how they came to be employed on the SCCV Horizon.
Being formed on United, EUM, Forlorn Hope had been through the refugee rush and has gotten news of the various conflicts happening in the Corporate Reconstruction Zone and various other places throughout the galaxy. Having both a desire to help and travel the galaxy to bring back experiences from outside their home, they signed up with the IAC, who helped them with the relevant training and blood needed to turn them into a fairly capable surgeon and shipped out to assist where they were needed. As the conflicts wound down, and still desiring to travel, Forlorn Hope would be able to make their way onto the Horizon though the mutual co-operation that the IAC had with Nanotrasen in the Coalition, allowing them to be transition onto the research vessel to assist the crew as well as assist wherever they may dock.

FRIEND is just a beep-boop make like a week ago now, so he’s just happy to help. Beep Boop.

What roles do you plan on playing after the application is accepted?
Chief Medical Officer, Liason

Have you familiarized yourself with the wiki pages for the command roles?
I have read over the Command section and perused the various sections for each specific job.

Characters you intend to use for command or have created for command. Include the job they will be taking:
Soaring Above Forlorn Hope – Chief Medical Officer

Do you understand your whitelist is not permanent, and may be stripped following continuous administrative action?
I understand, fail to do your duties proficiently enough or just be a big enough general fuck-up and get the big bonk.

Have you linked your BYOND account to the Forums?
It would be rather strange to have gotten the Diona whitelist without it.

Extra notes:
I am aware there is far more nuance to being command, but it is better to do those kind of things instead of me trying to cobble together shitty sentences in an attempt to explain it.

[CasualMemer]

+1 I love Soaring Above Forlorn Hope as a character and they roleplay really great.

Edited August 3, 2023 by CasualMemer

[MattAtlas]

On trial until 10AUG2023.

[Noble Row]

+1, a very level-headed and caring character and CMO. Knows what they are doing and coordinates effectively with command and their staff to get the job done. Would love to see them stick around more often!

[Ramke]

Hi, neither a +1 nor a -1, just some constructive feedback.

I've just played a round with you and noticed that you generally treated patients.. very quietly. Without a word, even. I think some of the patients even got mad at you because of wordlessly dragging/shoving into scanners. I fully understand if it's hectic or critical, but it would be a good impression if you roleplayed with your patients a bit more and let them follow you around or enter scanners on their own by request, rather than ctrl click and dragging them around when they don't have crippling life-threatening problems during green alert. The chef is what I've personally witnessed.

The medical channel was very quiet and we had to figure out most of the information ourselves, but I'm not sure if that's because Command wanted to keep it quiet and away from Medical's knowledge so I'm not passing judgement there, but it keeps the department engaged if they generally know more.

[DtheSnek]

2 hours ago, Ramke said:

Hi, neither a +1 nor a -1, just some constructive feedback.

I've just played a round with you and noticed that you generally treated patients.. very quietly. Without a word, even. I think some of the patients even got mad at you because of wordlessly dragging/shoving into scanners. I fully understand if it's hectic or critical, but it would be a good impression if you roleplayed with your patients a bit more and let them follow you around or enter scanners on their own by request, rather than ctrl click and dragging them around when they don't have crippling life-threatening problems during green alert. The chef is what I've personally witnessed.

The medical channel was very quiet and we had to figure out most of the information ourselves, but I'm not sure if that's because Command wanted to keep it quiet and away from Medical's knowledge so I'm not passing judgement there, but it keeps the department engaged if they generally know more.

That silence on the situation was due to command not wanting to instantly spread out the fact that jani pizza was being made in the kitchen, and yeah, I suppose I should have let them walk themselves into the scanner, but I'm coming from the surgeon route of medical, so most patients are critical, so coming out of that mindset will take some time when I'm directly involved in the treatment process.

Appreciate the feedback, I hope I do enough right otherwise to fill the role effectively.

[ARandoDude]

+1 After all the chaos in a round was done CMO pulled us in for a de-brief which i liked. And also was pretty good at doing their job.

[MrGodZilla]

I did not personally play this round but I felt you displayed a pretty important trait of command, especially CMO, so I'm here. Medical is one of the more mechanically intensive departments and sometimes your mistakes hit a little close, especially if the people around you point it out and make it a point of contention. Most of the time this is just characters being characters, but there are times where it's obvious that the criticism is you, the player, fucked up.

In this particular round, two Ninjas bit the dust after a brief conflict with security. Circumstances aside, the FR was given harsh, pointed criticism by one of the other medical staff. The obvious answer to this as CMO is to shut it down immediately, but you went the extra mile to have a chat with the FR, reassure them that they did fine, and held a brief meeting to remind everyone that medical is a team and nobody should be singled out and mocked as the weak link.

I can't personally speak to your medical ability, but this shows that you'll communicate positively with your team and bring people together. That's incredibly important for CMO because you're the face of medical. Playing and especially learning medical becomes miserable if the team is at each other's throats - a good CMO will address that.

+1

[Siccero]

+1 CMO was good with relaying to the station what was going on and was keen to aid new players

[hazelmouse]

Supported goofy engineering shenanigans very actively last round, even going as far as performing surgery on a monkey we injured in our disposals experiments, and was generally fun to interact with. +1

[Farofafeijao]

Hope is a solid CMO, always caring for the well being of medbay, and displays desirable characteristics for a command member. 1+ from me.

[ReadThisNamePlz]

While this is overdue, we’ve decided to deny this application. Due to lack of playing, and some OOC conduct. Reapply in a few weeks.