[Accepted] Pikl Command Whitelist Application

[pickled_tomato]

BYOND key: Pikl

Character names: June Zhenya, Moment of Clarity, Ka'Akaix'Gozi Zo'ra, Za'Akaix'Vii Zo'ra, Ka'Viax'Vix K'lax, Bella Avila, Laura Shaw

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How long have you been playing on Aurora?: About two years.

Why do you wish to be on the whitelist?: I believe that it's time that I experience command roles. I have been playing every role for about two years, and I believe that I would like to be able to participate in the higher ranking side of the roles. Namely, I would like an IAA whitelist. I would like to work towards making rounds more enjoyable for everyone, and I would also like to broaden my understanding of the game, and roleplay in general through playing Head of Staff roles.

Why did you come to Aurora?: Initially I had tried certain servers, Low RP, Medium RP, and they had never clicked. I was underwhelmed by the lack of any real meaning. When I tried my first HRP server, Aurora, I found that I rather enjoyed the setting and the ability to actually interact in a meaningful manner. From there, I suppose the rest can speak for itself. I have stuck with Aurora, even through multiple periods of hiatus, because I genuinely enjoy my time on this server.

Have you read the Aurora wiki on the head roles and qualifications you plan on playing?: Of course.

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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:

I think that by comparing what makes a Low RP server Low RP, and what makes Aurora High RP would be a good place to start. In a server like Hippie, there is a lightly moderated chaos. As long as somebody isn't overtly ruining the round for everyone else, players are allowed to do whatever they see fit as long as it loosely follows what they should be doing in their job.

Contrarily, Aurora is quite heavily moderated. There are very set in stone standards to how characters should act during their shift. There is a level of immersion within every shift that, to me, is quite amazing. Every round I play I am writing a new story for a character. An actual story. The events of Aurora rounds have a certain level of standard to them. They're expected to be enjoyable in a decently dignified way, instead of the constant chucklefucking that you may see in a round on Hippie.

This standard that Aurora has is what I like to consider roleplay to be. You very literally play a role, you type as your character, you emulate an actual world. Roleplay is magical to me, in that way.

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

I believe that Heads of Staff serve a couple of roles. Everything that they do sets an example for players to look at and hopefully say, "That person's roleplaying really well! I could learn a thing or two from them!" They're supposed to be all around good players who have the trust of the community to have a large role in how rounds turn out. Heads of Staff show mechanical knowledge, as well as display what is overall expected of most players. They're trusted for a reason. They help drive the narrative of a round, and naturally should be able to show that they're deserving of that responsibility.

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

i believe that Whitelisted players should be able to help other players should they have trouble. They should also as a whole be more involved in what goes on within the world surrounding the IC shifts. If bombardment is happening on their home planet, they should show a level of distress and knowledge that it is happening in game, and within any roleplay that goes on outside of the game. I believe that as a general statement, whitelisted players should be trusted and should not gloat about their whitelisted status. I would do my best to uphold these principals and will not hesitate to call myself out and address my actions if I am unable to fulfill what it means to be a whitelisted player.

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

Character name: Elizabeth Rosetti

Character age: 41

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

Elizabeth started off her life born in a wealthy family who took their residence in Biesel. On Elizabeth's tenth birthday, her relatively safe and stable life turned inside out as her family was revealed to have illegitimately obtained their wealth. Authorities took her home, most of her family had been locked away, and she had been the most exposed to the world that she'd ever been. At first, she hadn't known what to do. Elizabeth and her mother were alone, with a couple hundred credits left. All prospect of her future was seemingly gone.

Elizabeth was able to scrape by on the all of the bare minimums with her mother. She attended school whenever she could, and lived the life of relative discomfort. This went on for several years until her eighteenth birthday. Elizabeth took a placement test for university and, to her surprise, got very good marks. Elizabeth had good enough marks to secure herself a scholarship with most major universities. From here, Elizabeth finally had a way out of the hole her family had dug for her, and she attended university with as much vigor she could muster. She decided to focus on business management.

After much time working diligently, Elizabeth had earned her doctorate in Business Management. From there, Elizabeth was able to steadily work her way up to working for one of the largest corporations around, NanoTransen, as an Internal Affairs Agent.

What do you like about this character?:

She's a relatively stable person. She worked diligently through academia to get to where she was, and recovered from a bad period in her life, which is something that I can admire personally.

What do you dislike about this character?:

I dislike how lucky she was to be gifted enough to get a good education. However, I can mentally justify it given that people who make a lot out of life typically have a degree of luck on their side. Not everyone is able to be a captain, regardless of how much they deserve it.

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

I believe that because of how low she was at one point in her life, she has developed sympathetic tenancies to those who may not be as fortunate as her. Given her position as an IAA, I believe that judgement and openness of mind is an incredibly important trait to have in a character. She is diligent, fair, and intelligent enough to acknowledge if she makes mistakes.

 

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Please provide well articulated answers to the following questions.

How would you rate your own roleplaying?: I would rate my roleplaying 5/10, as I always have in the past. I see the ceiling of how good someone's role-playing as nearly infinite, and as such I believe that I will always view myself as a 5/10. I believe that I have a good amount of experience as far as roleplaying goes, but I can see myself improving as time goes on, of course.

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Extra notes: I asked Abo beforehand if I could create a character for the application that I haven't yet played, and he said yes. As an extra note, I'm always open to feedback as I know there's always room to improve as far as applications go! Please don't hesitate to critique my application!

Edited April 3, 2018 by Guest

[AmoryBlaine]

I'd love to see Pikl as an Affairs agent. I think they undersell their RP abilities, really. Their Officer remains in my memory even though I saw very little of them. I think that's a pretty good sign.

+1

[DeadLantern]

Just by observing a few rounds of Pikl milling about as one of their excellent characters, I can tell that they're an exquisite, perhaps even Robust player. Pikl boasts knowledge of many things, including RP. My only gripe is that the character seems overdone-- I've seen the character type in not only Aurora, but mainstream media. This type is the: "They came from nothing, and look, now they're cool and have a lotta power! But look--They're also wise because they were poor once!" I hardly believe that Pikl will fall into this trope, however.

It is a solid +1 for me. They deserve this role.

[Eve]

I've been talking with pikl on Discord for about two months now, and for the sake of not being biased, I'm not going to mention anything regarding their personality, or any behavior they've shown on any medium except the station.

First off, I do not know what to feel when I'm faced with a long-gone player returning and immediately applying for a higher position. I do not know how you were before you've left, but seeing that you were a moderator and a member of the CCIA, unless I'm wrong, shows promise.

But even then, you've said yourself how you've forgotten most things, and I did witness that when I was playing a Chief Engineer, and you an Engineer. You were not bad, but you've lacked the practicality, and sometimes with even the most basic things.

Where I'm connecting this is, I would rather have you wait at least a few more weeks and accommodate yourself into the hang of things, and I am yet to trust your capabilities as a member of Command.

However, your strongest skill, by far, is communication. You are amazing at co-operation, and most likely better than I am, at this point. During the few rounds we were together, I could fully trust understand you with what you were doing, and so could everyone else.

But it all boils down to the part where I'm conflicted about, IAA shouldn't need a whitelist application, because the job by its entirety is unnecessary and its one and only rule is to not be a fun police, while also not being disrespecting to NT and its interests.

Would I trust you with IAA, with your existing wonderful communication skills? Absolutely.

Would I trust you with any other Command role? Not yet.

If only IAA apps were separate from Command whitelist apps would you get my unfaltering support, but sadly, as they are together, I'll have to have a neutral stance.

I also urge you to stick to IAA for a while, if you do get your whitelist accepted, and try to (re-)master other Command roles before playing them.

[pickled_tomato]

However, your strongest skill, by far, is communication. You are amazing at co-operation, and most likely better than I am, at this point. During the few rounds we were together, I could fully trust understand you with what you were doing, and so could everyone else.

But it all boils down to the part where I'm conflicted about, IAA shouldn't need a whitelist application, because the job by its entirety is unnecessary and its one and only rule is to not be a fun police, while also not being disrespecting to NT and its interests.

Would I trust you with IAA, with your existing wonderful communication skills? Absolutely.

Would I trust you with any other Command role? Not yet.

I also urge you to stick to IAA for a while, if you do get your whitelist accepted, and try to (re-)master other Command roles before playing them.

Thank you! I was hoping for fairly neutral responses. I understand how it seems with me being away for quite a while only for me to come back and make a head whitelist application. I don't feel like I'm fully ready for some head positions, though I do think that IAA was a good choice on my part to try for.

When I played a lot more, I either played a lot of civilian roles or security. I believe I played research and engineering the least. As you mention, I'm okay at communication, which is retrospectively what I used primarily in my security playing. I need to work on my mechanical knowledge, as I made up for it lacking with knowing what to say to certain people.

I'm actually not sure what command positions I'm ready for besides IAA. I made this app in hopes to learn the game more through playing IAA, and possibly HoP later on. I wanted to learn the inner workings of command and, when I felt ready, work myself up towards the other command roles. If there's one thing I trust myself with, it's holding myself back if I feel unsure about whether or not I'm able to do it.

I plan on maintaining old levels of activity of playing whenever I'm available, like I have these past few days.

[Azande]

Wasn't Pikl a CCIA for awhile?

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Wasn't Pikl a CCIA for awhile?

 

Yes, I was.

[Synnono]

I remember June from early days on staff. Pikl is consistently thoughtful of other people, friendly, humble, and receptive to feedback as a player. I enjoyed them during their brief stint as a mod, and I'm definitely happy to see them back! IAA is certainly a gentle introduction to whitelisted roles, and I feel like they'll make a good one. We need more! The role needs to be played by more people so they and we can develop it a little.

Specific to this application, pikl has answered the OOC-themed questions with the things I like to see: supporting a round's narrative, making things enjoyable for everyone, being there to help players, and helping set the tone of the roleplay for people who look to them for information. Everything mechanical can be learned.

Welcome back! You have all my support.

[Coalf]

Application accepted.

Welcome back pikl.