[Denied]Ender Octanus Head Whitelist Application

[Octanus]

BYOND key:

Octanus

Character names:

Outis, RAMPANCY, Ender Octanus, Helena Octanus

How long have you been playing on Aurora?:

2-3 months, previously played on my other account, SPARTAN-113. Lost the password for it.

Why do you wish to be on the whitelist?:

To have more fun with more roles that I am experienced with.

Why did you come to Aurora?:

I like roleplay, and I like Aurora's lore and consistent playerbase.

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

Hundreds of times. No really, I always play with the wiki up just in case I need an emergency injection of robustness.

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 the ability to portray a person or setting that does not exist in reality. It requires a vivid imagination, and good communication skills. It does little good to experience roleplay if you can't convey those experiences to those around you.

What do you think the OOC purpose of a Head of Staff is, ingame?:

To ensure that the crew have a sense of guidance for their departments, as well as establishing an in-game chain of command. They should also help show players how to properly perform their roles, and how to use the game mechanics. Last but not least, spice things up and make the round fun for your department!

What do you think the OOC responsibilities of Whitelisted players are to other players, and how would you strive to uphold them?:

Whitelisted players should be knowledgeable about the roles they are whitelisted for. They should also be helpful to other players OOCly, and should be held to a high standard to provide a positive impression of the server as a whole.

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

Character name:

Ender Octanus

Character age:

32

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

Ender Octanus had a pretty boring childhood. He went to school and did things that kids do, like play online games and kick soccer balls. He became a leader in his community at a young age however, and so NanoTrasen had their eyes upon him for quite some time due to his exceptional grades and high capacity to learn.

He quickly became the Chief Engineer on an emergency response vessel that did work in the Sol System. Countless stations and ships were saved, though in one incident, Ender's left hand was lost when a Sol Alliance ghost ship revealed its nightmarish secrets.

He and another engineer, along with a PMC, boarded the nameless vessel. The power was off. What the trio could never have known was that the vessel was responsible for bio-weaponry research, and not your normal chemical weapons sort either. The Sol Alliance was always pursuing new ways to return to its former military and economic might. This was one of its initiatives, research into recombinant DNA that would allow them to breed the ideal living weapon.

But such folly never ends well. The crew were slaughtered, and clutches of eggs were laid next to ripped electrical wiring, the resulting electrical fires warming them. The beasts were dormant, for the moment. The only survivor was an unnamed IPC that had entered emergency power saving mode.

When the three responders first encountered the beasts, the marine killed two before being dragged away. The engineer didn't fare much better. Ender was terrified, and ran, as fast and as hard as he could. The voidsuit was heavy, but the terror urged him on.

Eventually he reached a small room, slammed the air alarm that had emergency power, and watched a smaller beast ram into the closing shutter. Ender wasted no time in welding it shut. Once he finished, he was panting for breath, eyes darting wildly for any motion in the room. He had forgotten to make sure it was secured. But the only thing of note he found here was an IPC. Ender approached it, when it activated. After informing Ender that its powercell was next to empty, Ender swapped it out with one he had been carrying. The two began to formulate a plan. They had to destroy this ship, and get to safety.

Outis, as Ender named the IPC, the Greek word for 'nobody', led Ender to the fusion reactor that powered the drifting ship that wasn't supposed to even exist. Under Ender's instructions, the rods were denied their coolant, and the radiation shields were pulled out, to release what would hopefully be a lethal dose of radiation to whatever freaks they'd found. This done, they scrambled into ventilation shafts and maintenance hatches to avoid the worst of the radiation, until they slowly found their way to the ERT ship's umbilical.

They could hear the roars of maddened, frenzied creatures. They had to get out. The ship was going to explode before long. Outis went first, to start the ship's blue-space drive. Ender followed, but a radiation spike led to a voltage spike in the airlock he was passing through. It slammed shut on his arm.

There were two choices. Let himself remain stuck and die, or get back on the ship he came in on. He was still full of adrenaline, and so it didn't take him long to turn his plasma welder on after fumbling a few times. He closed his eyes, and sliced. It was painful, but at the moment, he barely noticed it, while slicing the left hand, suit and all, off.

Free, he runs, feverishly, feeling sick (he had no idea if it was the radiation or the mutilated hand), onto the ERT vessel's bridge. He jumps into the co-pilot seat to discover yet another problem. The umbilical wouldn't disengage. They were effectively attached to the scuttling ship. They were out of time. Ender hits the big blue override button and forces a blind jump. The umbilical simply rips away from the exploding derelict, as the ERT vessel disappears from normal space. Two hours later, after Outis installs its own robotic arm onto Ender's stump, they disengage, and find themselves floating in an unknown sector in the Sol System. Their nav systems were down, due to the EMP. They launch the emergency distress beacon and wait.

It was a NanoTrasen vessel that finds them. Relaying the story of the two survivors to CentCom, an executive decision to cover up the incident in return for a hefty fee from the Sol Alliance was made. In addition, Ender and Outis were hired. First they were sent aboard smaller ships, to serve as crew. Years later they were both transferred to the NSS Exodus.

What do you like about this character?:

He is fun and quirky, but pressure always brings the best out in him. He is rational and methodical, and even when he doesn't know what to do, he can manage to inspire his fellow crewmembers.

What do you dislike about this character?:

He dislikes when someone else knows more than he does, especially when he feels that he has seniority. Ender has a habit of flirting excessively while on the job, and can be very messy and slobbish. Those who do not know him might easily be put off by his bold and down-to-business nature, meaning he has many acquaintances but few friends.

What do you think makes this character fit to be a head of staff?:

Ender puts his life on the line everyday along with those around him, and when a life-or-death decision comes up, he is always the first to act. Though this could be a bad thing in some situations, his quick responses often tip the scale of disasters.

He has a quick wit and often has very unorthodox solutions to problems, which also comes with lots of skepticism from his peers. His job comes before everything else.

Please provide well articulated answers to the following questions.

How would you rate your own roleplaying?: Very good. Extremely experienced, but naturally always learning! I have been roleplaying for just under ten years, in many different settings and atmospheres.

Extra notes:

Been playing SS13 since early 2010.

[Arrow768]

I think this is now the 3rd time you put up that application.

The first time it has been denied for lying about the time spent on the server and for the lack of constructive feedback.

The second time it has been denied for the lack of constructive feedback.

What makes you think that this time (A few hours after the second one has been denied) you will get more feedback ?

Back on topic:

I have seen Ender Octanus around, but I am not sure if it was a positive encounter.

But I will be sure to keep and eye out for him in the future.

[Youbar]

What makes you think that this time (A few hours after the second one has been denied) you will get more feedback ?

 

The problem with a feedback based system is that it's very rare you'll find somebody who'll go out of their way to deconstruct your application and say what they like and dislike about it. Getting people to just vote is hard enough, and that's usually ignored if there isn't enough detail in it. Even if you go out of your way to post in-depth feedback on an application, you won't see them returning the favour at all. Some applications had been sitting here for half a year without a response, for example. Nobody had even bothered to put in a "-1, haven't seen you" in those specific cases.

In that regard, it's honestly just your best bet to put out the same application over and over again, and then sit back and cross your fingers, hoping somebody will say something.

[Octanus]

I think this is now the 3rd time you put up that application.

The first time it has been denied for lying about the time spent on the server and for the lack of constructive feedback.

The second time it has been denied for the lack of constructive feedback.

What makes you think that this time (A few hours after the second one has been denied) you will get more feedback ?

Back on topic:

I have seen Ender Octanus around, but I am not sure if it was a positive encounter.

But I will be sure to keep and eye out for him in the future.

Well, I understand your sentiment. I don't think that I had any negative feedback honestly, just didn't have enough positive feedback. So I don't see a reason to stop trying at it, you know? I did however add upon the backstory, which was incomplete (which I actually had not noticed). So I feel that this application is actually an improvement on other attempts anyway

[Octanus]

I think this is now the 3rd time you put up that application.

The first time it has been denied for lying about the time spent on the server and for the lack of constructive feedback.

The second time it has been denied for the lack of constructive feedback.

What makes you think that this time (A few hours after the second one has been denied) you will get more feedback ?

Back on topic:

I have seen Ender Octanus around, but I am not sure if it was a positive encounter.

But I will be sure to keep and eye out for him in the future.

Ah, also, I never lied about anything. As I noted before, I have another ckey, one I lost the password to. However, my computer broke, and so I stopped following the forum.

[VileFault]

+1 I played AI in a round were Ender was an engineer. The CE had tried to rig up the engine to combust phoron with a zipo lighter. Needless to say, shit hit the fan. Ender and Dina (already whitelisted) both seemed pretty competent and got the supermatter that the CE stuffed in a closet far from the station before it delaminated. I even recommended Ender as a replacement CE after the old one fatally irradiated himself on the aforementioned supermatter. IMHO, the backstory is a tad over dramatic, to the point of being a bit absurd. Interesting things can happen to people without them being crazy one-in-a-billion coincidences. Then again, who am I to talk.

[Nikov]

Why do you wish to be on the whitelist?:

To have more fun with more roles that I am experienced with.

Wrong answer.

-1

[Octanus]

Why do you wish to be on the whitelist?:

To have more fun with more roles that I am experienced with.

Wrong answer.

-1

I play and role play for fun. If you want some dumb cheesy answer, then sorry. Heads of Staff are there to make the role play run smoothly, giving a sense of order to things with the goal being the enjoyment of the players during that round.

So, yeah, I'd say that having fun is a pretty good reason.

[Octanus]

+1 I played AI in a round were Ender was an engineer. The CE had tried to rig up the engine to combust phoron with a zipo lighter. Needless to say, shit hit the fan. Ender and Dina (already whitelisted) both seemed pretty competent and got the supermatter that the CE stuffed in a closet far from the station before it delaminated. I even recommended Ender as a replacement CE after the old one fatally irradiated himself on the aforementioned supermatter. IMHO, the backstory is a tad over dramatic, to the point of being a bit absurd. Interesting things can happen to people without them being crazy one-in-a-billion coincidences. Then again, who am I to talk.

Thanks for your feedback

That was a wacky round to be sure, but was a lot of fun. Anyway, I do understand your point about the dramatic background, and I don't think you are wrong about normal backgrounds being fun and creative.

I think that I just see it as the way I view roleplay. I don't have some sort of superhero bio, Ender isn't a genius, and he has his bad points. But sometimes things go wrong, very very wrong, and Ender is sort of, to me, the embodiment of that sort of roleplay.

I made that bio to sort of reflect that. Ender is one of those, "Fuck, hull breach? Get me some duct tape," sort of characters who just cares about results. He'll go to extremes to do his job, and doesn't always do it the safest way. For example, you might see him using a fire extinguisher to fly around a big hull breach instead of spending the time to put support lattice down to walk on.

[Loow]

This application has been up for far too long with a little too little.

This backstory is on par with the plot of 80's sci fi horror. While a really interesting read, it's not exactly what we're looking for in heads of staff. He's an action hero who fought "the ideal living weapon", cut off his own limb, and ultimately became the last surviving member of his ERT unit.

This CE ERT is a little too extraordinary.

Application Denied.