LEADERSHIP EVALUATION

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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!

<b>NAME:</b> <b>EXPLORER DIVISION?:</b> Yes (Primary/Returning), Yes (Supplementary/Returning), Yes (Primary/New), Yes (Supplementary/New), or No <b>EXPLORER LEADERSHIP?:</b> If your character is a returning Explorer, have they ever held a leadership position before? <b>POWER CONTROL:</b> On a scale of 1-10, how proficient is your character with their powers? Can they reliably control them and utilize them? <b>PHYSICAL ABILITY:</b> On a scale of 1-10, how physical fit is your character? Are they particularly strong or agile? Do they get fatigued quickly? <b>MENTAL ABILITY:</b> On a scale of 1-10, how intelligent, analytical, or strategic is your character? <b>EFFORT:</b> High, Medium, or Low. How hard is your character trying really? <b>ANYTHING ELSE?:</b>

» 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!

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Comments

Rye's Regrets, Interrupted

[lenzpolzin]

This, finally, is enough to catch Lenz off guard and he laughs in surprise. The sound is light but has an undercurrent of wry bitterness. Then he moves to take a seat across from Rye, fixing his pale eyes on the younger man. "What, because I'm Security? Don't be stupid. I came here on probation. With an ankle monitor on and IRIS breathing down my fucking neck. You think I'm the one that's going to lock you up? At most, I'm a holding cell."

Rye's Regrets, Interrupted

[artificialgravity]

Rye's unmoved. His expression stays lax, but... somehow still guarded. It's a default setting of tired mistrust, ready for the other shoe to drop and then kick him for good measure. "Sure, why not?" he says with a shrug, eyes glinting with defiance — the most life they've shown all day. "You wouldn't be the first to flip. Don't even know anything about you. Maybe you're lying."

Rye's Regrets, Interrupted

[lenzpolzin]

Their eyes now level and locked, Lenz finds himself recognizing that look. It's something he can understand. More than he understands just about anything else about the younger man. Though, that doesn't stop it from pissing him off a little. He clicks his tongue and considers. He could deny the bullshit accusations. He could point out that Rye knows nothing about him because, up until now, the guy's barely said more than three words to him at a time. He could cut all this short and leave since wallowing now seems to be the last thing on his roommate's mind.

Instead, he's quiet for a moment before asking flatly, "You ever been to Zürich?"

Rye's Regrets, Interrupted

[artificialgravity]

Rye stills, body language frozen like a deer caught in the headlights of a truck sure to ruin his life. But... he's curious. His eyebrows draw together in confusion as he tries to hide his interest. The results are mixed. He doesn't trust Lenz. He doesn't even think he likes Lenz. He hates his hair and the way he acts all superior.

But Rye's still curious.

"Like, Germany?" he asks, watching Lenz uncertainly. "Do I look like I've been to Germany?"

Rye's Regrets, Interrupted

[lenzpolzin]

"Like Swizterland," Lenz retorts, not even bothering to answer the younger man's other question as a black void appears beneath the pair of them. A portal. In an instant they've fallen through the darkness and find themselves...somewhere else. Sitting on Münsterbrücke in the middle of the night, surrounded by water and a sprawling European city filled with lights. A warm summer breeze rolls by, tousling their hair and clothes.

Seemingly satisfied with this outcome, he stands and glances up the bridge, waiting.