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LEADERSHIP EVALUATION
LEADERSHIP EVALUATION
Exploring the Riftlands can be a dangerous endeavor, even for Liminals, so it's always important that members of the Explorer Division keep their powers honed, their bodies fit, and their minds sharp. It's also important to ensure that those most qualified to be in charge are placed there. To that end, Samuel J. Thornton has called all the members, both primary and supplementary, together for their first Leadership Evaluation.
Thornton holds these evaluations every few months to determine who will be placed in charge when the Division divides into smaller groups to carry out different missions and investigate different areas. The evaluation has three parts: combat practice, an obstacle course, and the (much dreaded) written strategic/leadership assessment. The evaluations tend to take a few hours and moods among the Division members run the gamut. Some take it quite seriously, studying and training ahead of time and giving it their all. Some act as if it's just another requirement from Thornton and treat it like any other training session to be overcome or endured. Some only show up because they know if they don't Thornton will put them on administrative leave (ugh). Regardless, it's a big day for the Division.
During combat practice, each member will face off against a handful of robotic combatants with customized programming based on Thornton's assessment of their skills. This is held in a moderately-sized training room in the middle of the hall. During the obstacle course, each member will be given places to reach and tasks to complete throughout a maze of obstacles that run the gamut from shifting walls to collapsing floors to blasts with a numbing (and gradually paralytic) effect and beyond. The engineers in Operations and Security have really outdone themselves this year! This is held in the enormous training room at the end of the hall. During the written strategic/leadership assessment, each member will take a long, comprehensive exam designed to assess their reasoning, their empathy, their strategic prowess, and their leadership ability. This is held in a moderately-sized training room at the beginning of the hall that has been filled up with desks.
Non-Explorer residents from across the Station are also welcome to participate if they want to test their mettle, though they may find themselves being recruited by Thornton if they do exceptionally well. Otherwise, they are welcome to show up and watch the action through a series of monitors that line the basement hallway. Even the room with the written exam appears on one screen for some unknown reason. It's a bit of an event. [Non-Explorer Character A] even brings refreshments and has printed up some little flags and trinkets featuring the names of some more impressive (at least in their opinion!) contenders. Are they trying to be supportive or psych someone out or just trying to make a buck? It's hard to say.
» THE EVALUATIONS: Complete the form below to have your character's leadership evaluation scored. Only characters that comment here are eligible for leadership roles.
HOW THIS WORKS
Every few months, the Explorer Division will hold Leadership Evaluations. These evaluations will use player forms and RNG to determine which characters are going to be placed in leadership positions during upcoming explorations of the Riftlands. This doesn't translate to any particular power or authority in the game day to day, but is something for players to play off of and will change throughout the course of the game.
IC all characters in the Explorer Division must complete this evaluation. Even if a player doesn't complete this form OOC, it will be assumed that their character competed unless specified elsewhere.
Thornton is notoriously strict and difficult to please, so it isn't uncommon for evaluation scores to be absolutely brutal. But don't take it personally. He's just trying to help you realize your potential!
Fill out the form below to see how your character handles the evaluation!
» DURING THE EVALUATIONS: For those lingering in the halls waiting on their results, those watching the challenges play out on the monitors, and anyone else that's hanging around.
» AFTER THE EVALUATIONS: After the evaluations have wrapped up for the day.
» OOC - QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, CONCERNS!
Thornton holds these evaluations every few months to determine who will be placed in charge when the Division divides into smaller groups to carry out different missions and investigate different areas. The evaluation has three parts: combat practice, an obstacle course, and the (much dreaded) written strategic/leadership assessment. The evaluations tend to take a few hours and moods among the Division members run the gamut. Some take it quite seriously, studying and training ahead of time and giving it their all. Some act as if it's just another requirement from Thornton and treat it like any other training session to be overcome or endured. Some only show up because they know if they don't Thornton will put them on administrative leave (ugh). Regardless, it's a big day for the Division.
During combat practice, each member will face off against a handful of robotic combatants with customized programming based on Thornton's assessment of their skills. This is held in a moderately-sized training room in the middle of the hall. During the obstacle course, each member will be given places to reach and tasks to complete throughout a maze of obstacles that run the gamut from shifting walls to collapsing floors to blasts with a numbing (and gradually paralytic) effect and beyond. The engineers in Operations and Security have really outdone themselves this year! This is held in the enormous training room at the end of the hall. During the written strategic/leadership assessment, each member will take a long, comprehensive exam designed to assess their reasoning, their empathy, their strategic prowess, and their leadership ability. This is held in a moderately-sized training room at the beginning of the hall that has been filled up with desks.
Non-Explorer residents from across the Station are also welcome to participate if they want to test their mettle, though they may find themselves being recruited by Thornton if they do exceptionally well. Otherwise, they are welcome to show up and watch the action through a series of monitors that line the basement hallway. Even the room with the written exam appears on one screen for some unknown reason. It's a bit of an event. [Non-Explorer Character A] even brings refreshments and has printed up some little flags and trinkets featuring the names of some more impressive (at least in their opinion!) contenders. Are they trying to be supportive or psych someone out or just trying to make a buck? It's hard to say.
» THE EVALUATIONS: Complete the form below to have your character's leadership evaluation scored. Only characters that comment here are eligible for leadership roles.
» DURING THE EVALUATIONS: For those lingering in the halls waiting on their results, those watching the challenges play out on the monitors, and anyone else that's hanging around.
» AFTER THE EVALUATIONS: After the evaluations have wrapped up for the day.
» OOC - QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, CONCERNS!
THE EVALUATIONS: Annie Song
EXPLORER DIVISION?: Yes (Supplementary/Returning)
EXPLORER LEADERSHIP?: No.
POWER CONTROL: Annie's ability to transform into her insect form is a 10. She has never failed to make the transformation on command before. When she was younger, she would sometimes struggle to return to her human form but that hasn't happened in some time. She has less control (8) over her secondary powers (heightened senses), or rather, she has a limited ability to use those powers in a helpful way. It's just ambient sensory overload that she can dampen or sharpen with an 8 out 10 level of skill. She has 0 control of her loyalty manipulation and I can't imagine it works on robots anyway!! Although, it may cause others at the evaluation to feel lightly compelled to jump in and help her. Feel free to say your character experienced this compulsion -- it's easy to ignore, so no pressure either way.
PHYSICAL ABILITY: Annie the human's physical ability is like... a 6? She takes care of herself and jogs regularly but she's petite and not particularly agile. Annie the bug is like an 8. She's stronger, more hardy (hard shell), and alarmingly fast. She's a little more like... physically dumb, though? She has a more difficult time making multi-step decisions when she's a bug, so an obstacle course with any level of puzzling involved would be difficult for her as a bug.
MENTAL ABILITY: Annie is highly analytical and doesn't have test anxiety. If this test is like... logic puzzles, I'd give her a 9. That said, she's maybe too empathetic and will select 'retreat' as an option at the slightest provocation. She's reading All Quiet on the Western Front right now and that is really coloring her willingness to put others in any level of harms way. So, if a good score on this test means being a motivating leader under any circumstance, she's like a 3. Sign the peace accords with the Undying Asphodels!!!
EFFORT: High. She doesn't want to be an exploration leader but she wants to give Thorton a completely accurate picture of her abilities.
ANYTHING ELSE?: She tries to hype people up on the side lines!!!
THE EVALUATIONS: Annie Song
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