Fax Responder Application - ItsMarmite
What is your BYOND key?
ItsMarmite
What is your Discord ID?
ItsMarmite
What is your timezone in UTC?
GMT0
Player Name You Use Most?
Oswald Aalto
Ban Appeals, Whitelist and Staff Applications:
ItsMarmite - Commanding Officer Application - #42 | Accepted.
No bans.
No staff applications.
Have you been banned in the last 3 months?
No.
If so, why?
N/A.
Have you read the role guidelines and expectations?
Yes.
Why do you wish to become a Fax Responder?
A few reasons really.
One of the most obvious ones is, it gives you something to do to contribute towards the overall tone of a round.
If I’m being completely honest with you, it additionally gives me something to do in the background if I’ve not rolled what I’d like to, or get killed.
I’m primarily interested in high command and provost fax responder, and I’d quite like to help sort out some tricky appeals that don’t end up getting a response some rounds.
I don’t have the hours, as of yet, for WY fax responder I don’t think? (Unless bodyguard counts, in which case I think I would?) although much like any CL player I think I’d echo the round being a little more interactive when your faxes get a response.
What do you consider the purpose of this role?
The purpose of the role is to respond. The fax responder isn’t there to inject itself into a situation or disrupt the round, but instead to provide the illusion of there being a wider world around the Almayer and the colony. From providing survivors with a point of contact, to feeding into the Liaison’s plans, to telling the correspondent ‘good job’ or more, the role exists to expand the narrative of the round outside of platinum RFN’s frag on young queen.
When would you consider it appropriate to use your phone?
At risk of directly quoting guidelines, in a situation where correspondence needs to be made urgently where a fax would otherwise not be viable.
Doing so is the exception, not in any way the norm. Its a fax responder, not a phone responder.
If playing WY Responder, what objectives do you consider within your power to give the CL?
New CLs are often in a directionless situation, they join as a Jr Executive and are often ignored by most people on the ship as just another corpo. This typically leads these CLs to get themselves arrested, like immediately, for bugging CIC or otherwise.
As a WY Fax Responder I’d say the following could be interesting to give to the CL.
- Increase company standing across the ship, attempt to persuade certain members of command, or otherwise to become more company aligned.
- The typical forms, asking survivors/command to sign NDAs - nothing particularly original here.
- Responding to updates from the CL, and giving feedback when required.
- Securing fluff objectives from the colony (blackbox, corporate assets or otherwise)
If playing Press Responder, what objectives do you consider within your power to give the CC?
Often times the CC won’t even know they can fax the press, and I admittedly, have played very little CC.
In theory, a press responder would be able to provide objectives to interview specific people on the Almayer, to capture specific photos and to find out the stories of the survivors from the colony.
I say in theory, as most CCs tend to run around with a camera doing starship troopers larp but for the few civilian CCs that do want to fax I’d say keep the objectives thematic, and to the point. They’re not ‘secret UPP spies’ and attempts from the CC to betray the USCM should be met with discouragement.
What is your playtime in Command Roles?
CO - 272, XO - 145, ASO - 42, SO - 477 (936 total)
What is your playtime in Military Police Roles?
CO - 272, CMP - 0, MP - 124, Warden - 2 (398 total)
What is your playtime in Corporate Liaison?
CL - 45.5 (I do have a good number of hours in Bodyguard, although its currently not on TM so I’m unable to get that number at this time.)
What is your playtime in Civil Roles?
CC - 9.5 hours.
What, if any, is your playtime in Special Roles?
WY Director - 0.2
Corporate Executive Supervisor - 0.3
Corporate Executive - 0.9
PMC Site Director - 1.4
CMB Marshal - 10.8
USCM Observer - 8.1
UPP Komandir - 4.6
UPP Starshiy Leytenant - 2.2