Lord Fowl's Head of Staff Whitelist

LordFowl · September 13, 2015

BYOND key: Lord Fowl

Character names: ASIMOV, SOLO, Blaktoof, Collect, Ohm, Johnathan Hill, Maximus Crane, Two Birds Beaks Together, Elisnah Karjei

How long have you been playing on Aurora?: Since Christmas of this year.

Why do you wish to be on the whitelist?: To exercise executive power, to take charge and to lead my fellow crewmembers to great efficiency!

Why did you come to Aurora?: In short, because Unbound Travels was experiencing technical difficulties for a few days, and this server hooked me in far better than it ever did.

Have you read the BS12 wiki on the head roles you plan on playing?: Yes.

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 full immersion into an imaginary or semi-imaginary world, weaving from the provided point of view articulated stories that are simultaneously coherent and believable. The fine line between a good roleplayer and a bad roleplayer is a judgement I don't often feel comfortable making in concerns of others, but I strive to maintain my own credibility at all times.

What do you think the OOC purpose of a Head of Staff is, ingame?: The head of staff player is obligated to maintain their function vigilantly, to be a stalwart example of roleplaying, and to serve as an example to all in character subservient and unwhitelisted players.

What do you think the OOC responsibilities of Whitelisted players are to other players, and how would you strive to uphold them?: The OoC purpose of a head of staff is to utilize the extra power afforded to them to further the roleplay of others at any opportunity, so as to maximise the enjoyment of other partisans of roleplay.

Please pick one of your characters for this section, and provide well articulated responses to the following questions.

Character name: Maximus Crane

Character age: 74

Please provide a short biography of this character (approx 2 paragraphs):

Born into a moderately affluent family in Mendell City, Maximus Crane would've experienced some of the better things in life - not the best, by any stretch, but not the worst. However he was unfortunately born with a genetic defect that carried through his mother's genes, a deformity in the legs that caused partial dwarfism and extreme pain. His legs were thus removed as a child at the base of the thigh. As such, he has spent the majority of his life in a wheelchair. While disability by no means robs a person of enjoyment out of life, it seemed to have a despairing effect on Maximus, which hampered social development. However, his parents were not ones to idly sit by as their son devolved into a crippled loner, and so they actively put him on a track of education that advanced both his academics and social skills, and over the course of his adolescence he advanced to become a premiere student of his class.

Spending the rest of his early years in various universities developing his skills in terms of physics, he geared himself towards helping design engine patterns so humanity could move through the stars. He moved to the planet Luthien to do some work for NanoTrasen in this regards, and it was here where he heard the knews of the Skrell. Initially excited about this, he grew jealous of their intelligence, and was infuriated that they had solved the issue that he and many others had spent years trying to discover. How to travel; Bluespace Engines. Content however that the issue of the energy crisis was not resolved, he refocused his efforts on that, attempting to optimize the nuclear reactor by making it smaller and more portable. Unfortunately, as he was finalizing the designs on this, the element plasma was discovered. He was transferred off of Luthien to one of the mining stations in the Romanovich Cloud, where he helped the scientists research plasma. He was among the staff that discovered its bluespace properties and develop schematics for bluespace gates based off of the research. He was called back to Mendell City when his father died, but return to work soon after. He continued working with NanoTrasen in the Romanovich Cloud, researching plasma, when personal bluespace travel was discovered. Moving his designs to that area, he became a certified telescientist. Soon thereafter public disposition towards NanoTrasen began to plummet due to discontent with their acquisitions. He personally agreed with the sentiment that NanoTrasen was growing far too large far too rapidly, but kept to himself, afraid of losing his job. During the course of the economic recession, his mother was driven from Biesel for lobbying against seceding from the Alliance, and their financial stability was cut. Again, afraid that relations to anti-NanoTrasen people would impact poorly on his job, he rejected all ties with his mother. He was shortly transferred to the freshly constructed NMSS Odin, where he resides in to this day. His sub-assignment was telescientist on the NSS Aurora.

However, as a scientist he was introduced to many other vulgar, dangerous, and rude co-workers. Mocked for his disabilities and faced with near-disasters on a weekly basis, he transferred to the medical research department of virology, and then once again to the civilian department. Discontent with packing boxes, he sought to prove his analytical abilities to his utmost, so as to achieve advancement as soon as possible. On this day, September Twelfth, 2457, he applied for promotion to Head of Personnel.

What do you like about this character?: Maximus Crane is one of my very first characters, and I've always enjoyed playing him. His mindsets, mentalities and predispositions come easily to me, and if any character is going to develop I naturally favour him.

What do you dislike about this character?: His attitude sometimes make him the butt of derision, which sometimes affects me OoCly when it shouldn't this sometimes makes me sad, and so playing him can be difficult at times.

What do you think makes this character fit to be a head of staff?: His analytical behaviour makes him excellent for the position of head of personnel, although his crew relation skills are lacking he shows a dedication to most jobs assigned to him. At the very least he is a hard worker, at the very most a worker with unique dedication to his job.

Please provide well articulated answers to the following questions.

How would you rate your own roleplaying?: I rate myself a 1/2.3, of course leaving room for improvement.

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Edited September 13, 2015 by Guest

LordFowl · September 13, 2015