Character Feedback Thread - V2

[MagnificentMelkior]

OH look at this

I want honest feedback on the following characters, please:

-Farreipshi Tup'Tesh

-Viridian Chrisocolla/Vermillion Carminite

-Sybil (of course)

-Lua Saudosa

-Ashton Murphy

Farreipshi Tip'Tesh is good. That's zealotry to the regs played straight.

Sybil, well, that's another story. She gets seemingly emotionally heated, and yells over comms like a shrill woman. There was even the time when she assaulted Richter, attempting to forcefully inject him with a clean SE that would ruin his research. The reason for this was I was yelling over comms due to the fact that I was hulked (in my lab). I think its ridiculous that a research director would take the law into their own hands like this and still have a job. And that's not even the worst part. After I prevented your injections with disarm spam, you left and came back with a flash. You either at this time or just after began your incessant death threats against me. "If you aren't clean by the time I get back there I'm going to kill you." Anyway, I disarmed the flash from you and spent a lot of time keeping you on the ground without doing any damage to you because you just wouldn't stop attacking. The attacks only stopped when the captain herself came into my lab and I told her to calm you down, but if you had come in my lab a third time I would have been well within my rights to kill you. As a non antag, I don't think multiple counts of assault with a planned assassination are good behavior for a non antag, especially a head of staff.

[Synnono]

-Sybil (of course)

 

I've only ever interacted with Sybil over the radio and PDA as Zahra Karimi, and she seemed really impassioned about her exosuits. Zahra is totally okay with this and appreciated the messaging, but had no way to know that Rosetta-Sigma was a designation, rather than a fancy surname.

Looking forward to seeing more of her! In the meantime, I have some thoughts about the resultant discussion from that post:

 

The reason for this was I was yelling over comms due to the fact that I was hulked (in my lab).

 

At the risk of going off topic, the nature and hazard of the Hulk gene as represented in the game would constitute an emergency in my mind. I know that Richter basically Hulks every chance he gets, but self-experimentation, particularly with something as dangerous (and canonically unknown?) as this, seems wildly beyond the realm of standard operating procedure for either Medical or Research. The hulk gene is (supposed) to make the subject fantasically strong, and fantastically angry/unstable, which if roleplayed would make me believe as a crewman that there's a real problem in the genetics lab.

If I were in charge of either department, and had the capacity to save one of my doctors or scientists by resetting their genetic code and not otherwise harming them, why wouldn't I do it? It's not a case of law, it's a case of safeguarding the personnel you are directly responsible for, and making sure they aren't doing reckless things. I don't usually play the role, but in my opinion a geneticist's primary responsibility is safeguarding the crew via the use of the cloning and genome technology. Any form of self-experimentation compromises the safety of the geneticist, and therefore, the safety of the crew.

By extension, if the situation of a compromised geneticist cannot be controlled, and there is a clear and present threat to the rest of the department (say, by way of a mythical mutation that makes someone unpredictably strong and violent), action is also required. A terribly mutated human could easily qualify as a non-human threat to safety or productivity (or both), and treating them as such would not be unreasonable.

[MagnificentMelkior]

The reason for this was I was yelling over comms due to the fact that I was hulked (in my lab).

 

At the risk of going off topic, the nature and hazard of the Hulk gene as represented in the game would constitute an emergency in my mind.

No it would not, but I wouldn't mind if lore were changed so that it did.

 

I know that Richter basically Hulks every chance he gets, but self-experimentation, particularly with something as dangerous (and canonically unknown?) as this, seems wildly beyond the realm of standard operating procedure for either Medical or Research. The hulk gene is (supposed) to make the subject fantasically strong, and fantastically angry/unstable, which if roleplayed would make me believe as a crewman that there's a real problem in the genetics lab.

That's not true. I've asked and asked and never been shown official Hulk lore by the admins. All that is really known is it makes your vocal chords have only a whisper and a shout setting, it makes you green, and it makes you strong, and somewhat unable to control your own strength. It does not make you violent. I've been told to NOT rp it as rage mode by admins, when I asked. So this is not some dangerous and spooky evil scientist move. Self testing is part of a geneticists contract, its allowed and expected. Its in fact the only way to get good results. And its not an unknown phenomena either. The IC explanation for rediscovery of genes every round is that the genes decay to your natural state within the day after the shift.

 

If I were in charge of either department, and had the capacity to save one of my doctors or scientists by resetting their genetic code and not otherwise harming them, why wouldn't I do it? It's not a case of law, it's a case of safeguarding the personnel you are directly responsible for, and making sure they aren't doing reckless things. I don't usually play the role, but in my opinion a geneticist's primary responsibility is safeguarding the crew via the use of the cloning and genome technology. Any form of self-experimentation compromises the safety of the geneticist, and therefore, the safety of the crew.

Without the above quote this section has no weight to stand on. I've already addressed self testing, it is necessary.

 

By extension, if the situation of a compromised geneticist cannot be controlled, and there is a clear and present threat to the rest of the department (say, by way of a mythical mutation that makes someone unpredictably strong and violent), action is also required. A terribly mutated human could easily qualify as a non-human threat to safety or productivity (or both), and treating them as such would not be unreasonable.

Yea, If I busted out of the lab punching walls or people. But simply getting the hulk gene is not grounds for being considered an active threat to the station. Monitoring, and preparing a way to take me out? Wouldn't be a problem, even if its a bit paranoid. But that's not what happened.

[Synnono]

I'd enjoy to discuss this with Richter's player at length over forum PMs, BYOND, or their own forum request for character feedback. In the meantime, I'll discontinue this discussion here because it isn't on the topic of Killerhurtz's characters.

On that note - Sybil engaged me once, and I liked her. I would need to see her more to determine how true I think she is to the character you are trying to put forth. On an individual basis, I really did enjoy my interaction - it was just brief!

[ChevalierMalFet]

I would welcome feedback on any of my characters, particularly Sarad Amrapurkar, Subash Gokhale, and captain Patel (his first name escapes me at the moment.)

I would be happy to give it as well , but alas, no keyboard.

[Bath Salts Addict]

My character isn't prominent enough to get his own thread, so I'll post it here.

I know I as a player haven't been around for long, but does anyone remember any interactions with an eccentric Warden or Roboticist named Adolph Hammerstein? Probably ranting about his racial superiority, trying to pay Vaurca to perform surgery, or just wandering around the Brig finding ways to game the atmos system so he can gas unruly prisoners.

What a swell guy. Here are his records: http://aurorastation.org/r/records/index.php?uid=bathsaltsaddict_r?ntgenvonhammersteiniiph.d.

[Guest Menown]

I feel like his charge of 'failure to execute an order with serious consequences' would probably be something that'd result in a court martial and hard labor if not life in prison. I mean, he technicially commited murder by refusing to follow the order, getting a whole bunch of people murdered, even if they were prisoners.

[Mofo1995]

My character isn't prominent enough to get his own thread, so I'll post it here.

I know I as a player haven't been around for long, but does anyone remember any interactions with an eccentric Warden or Roboticist named Adolph Hammerstein? Probably ranting about his racial superiority, trying to pay Vaurca to perform surgery, or just wandering around the Brig finding ways to game the atmos system so he can gas unruly prisoners.

What a swell guy. Here are his records: http://aurorastation.org/r/records/index.php?uid=bathsaltsaddict_r?ntgenvonhammersteiniiph.d.

Well, I'm going to try to ignore the records and apply my appraisal of your character strictly through the context of my interactions with him. I've pretty much never had any interactions with Wardens, or indeed, security beyond trying to visit/petition for the release of Seon-rin.

BUT seeing as though I work strictly in science, I have met with Adolph during his work as a roboticist. He's not the best roboticist I've ever worked with (that still goes to Faranight as Talia Gauss) but something seemed "off" about him, in a good way. All though my interactions with him were somewhat limited, my first impressions were that he seemed interesting and far from bland. Eccentric really does describe him, but I guess I missed out on the racial superiority part.

[CampinKiller]

My character isn't prominent enough to get his own thread, so I'll post it here.

I know I as a player haven't been around for long, but does anyone remember any interactions with an eccentric Warden or Roboticist named Adolph Hammerstein? Probably ranting about his racial superiority, trying to pay Vaurca to perform surgery, or just wandering around the Brig finding ways to game the atmos system so he can gas unruly prisoners.

What a swell guy. Here are his records: http://aurorastation.org/r/records/index.php?uid=bathsaltsaddict_r?ntgenvonhammersteiniiph.d.

 

Oh man, played with him a round when he was Warden, and when he was EMT. Love him.

[Bath Salts Addict]

I feel like his charge of 'failure to execute an order with serious consequences' would probably be something that'd result in a court martial and hard labor if not life in prison. I mean, he technicially commited murder by refusing to follow the order, getting a whole bunch of people murdered, even if they were prisoners.

 

The way I see it is this: there's failure to execute an order and outright refusal. Seeing as the whole situation was chaos, no one could have realistically sat there while Adolph performed his task. They could have just chalked it up to circumstances making it so he was physically unable to carry out the order, resulting in the deaths.

Either way, that was his last post before joining up with Nanotrasen.

Edit: Now that I looked over the records again, I realize the way I typed it implied that Adolph actually did refuse the order. Fixed to make it seem more accidental now.