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enodiamod ([personal profile] enodiamod) wrote in [community profile] enodia_ic2023-05-26 10:27 am

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!

    nolitangere: (🩺002)

    Shadow jutsu questline completed?

    [personal profile] nolitangere 2023-05-26 10:08 pm (UTC)(link)
    After she's done with her evaluation, Jack does offer Minty a little prepackaged brownie he got from the commercial center this morning. He thinks obliging is funny and it was only a buck fifty. Also, she said "posthaste," so...
    exacutus: (Default)

    Shadow jutsu questline completed?

    [personal profile] exacutus 2023-05-26 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)
    If Minty looks annoyed it's because she is, but it's not because of Dr. Radish Man (fortunate for him). She huffs at the offering before eyeing the brownie, knowing exactly where it's from and how much it cost. But she really can't turn her nose up because people who are only slightly above average deserve mediocre brownies.

    So she takes it, only the last shreds of her dignity keeping Minty from pouting as she does so. "I suppose no one can say you're not efficient."
    Edited (minty "an average of 75% is failing" payne) 2023-05-26 23:18 (UTC)
    nolitangere: (077)

    Shadow jutsu questline completed?

    [personal profile] nolitangere 2023-05-26 11:38 pm (UTC)(link)
    Hm, Minty seems mad. Jack smiles sympathetically, feeling a little bad—as if he's accidentally kicked her while she was down. "The radishes make me efficient," Jack replies. He tucks his hands in his pockets, trying to determine if Minty is mad because he's a personal irritant (fair) or mad about something else.

    "Good job on your evals, by the way," Jack offers finally. He (foolishly) thinks this will be helpful.
    exacutus: (Default)

    Shadow jutsu questline completed?

    [personal profile] exacutus 2023-05-27 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
    "Did you see my scores?" Minty's voice is a touch shriller than usual even as she attempts to keep it at bay. "There's nothing to congratulate!" And now, if it seems like her world is ending—well, it feels that way!
    nolitangere: (🩺013)

    Shadow jutsu questline completed?

    [personal profile] nolitangere 2023-05-27 02:28 am (UTC)(link)
    Oh. Jack groks on to the fact that suggesting her scores were actually pretty decent will not, in fact, be helpful. He wants to remind Minty that she’d just told him she wouldn’t be inconvenienced in any way—but he doesn’t know how to say that nicely and encouragingly, versus it sounding like another put-down.

    He tries anyway, smiling: "It’s just a minor setback. Barely even a setback. There’s always next time."
    exacutus: (095)

    Shadow jutsu questline completed?

    [personal profile] exacutus 2023-05-27 05:20 am (UTC)(link)
    Minty's eyelid twitches dangerously. A split second later it's as if she was never bothered to begin with. "Hm. Yes. Next time." She wants to strangle someone, but the Radish Man doesn't deserve it. "Until then I'll be eating brownies and practicing my stabbing."
    nolitangere: (133)

    Shadow jutsu questline completed?

    [personal profile] nolitangere 2023-05-27 05:27 am (UTC)(link)
    "Yeah," Jack grins. He has no idea how close he was to danger just now. "Exactly. Stab away, Shikamaru."

    At that, he gives Minty a little wave and returns to his post.
    exacutus: (131)

    Shadow jutsu questline completed?

    [personal profile] exacutus 2023-05-27 05:32 am (UTC)(link)
    nolitangere: (136)

    Shadow jutsu questline completed!!!!!!

    [personal profile] nolitangere 2023-05-27 05:33 am (UTC)(link)
    Edited (^ Clueless.) 2023-05-27 05:33 (UTC)