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

Noah & Sal, Neither of Whom is Disappointed at All

[stophit]

Sal doesn't feel better, exactly, but his anger at himself has cooled into something more manageable. He doesn't feel like going back to his room, with the irritating presence of his roommates, nor does he feel like finding a medic to tend to his injuries. Really, it's better for everyone that his wrist is too jacked up for him to writing shit on the network right now.

So he just paces around outside, talking himself out of quitting this whole thing a week in. Like, he's not a fucking quitter. But also this is all bullshit, right? Why would anyone think he's meant to work at a research station as a glorified mall cop? Except Evan and Rye and Taby would probably be pissed off at him if he left? Fuck. Fuck!

"Dude." Sal stops in front of the mopey-looking boy on his second or third circuit around this area. "You eating all of those cookies yourself?"

Noah & Sal, Neither of Whom is Disappointed at All

[bubble_boy]

Though Noah had been content to mind his own business and eat too many cookies in silence, Sal's interruption isn't unwelcome. He knows talking to someone about literally anything will get him out of his funk sooner. Even if the other young man seems to be in about as good a mood as him.

Before he even says anything, he holds a cookie out to Sal. "I was, but your charming attitude has made me reconsider." He immediately eyes his very fucked up looking wrist and arm. "You just going to ignore that?"

Noah & Sal, Neither of Whom is Disappointed at All

[stophit]

"Yep." Sal takes the offered cookie with his good hand, and flops down next to this guy with little apparent self-consciousness. Like a wild animal, he's easily won over by food. "It's my thing. Doesn't even hurt." He eyes his companion—Sal has a bad memory for faces, but he remembers the man with a prosthetic arm and leg during evaluations. "Is it always like that? The tests, I mean." Sal pops the entire cookie into his mouth.

Noah & Sal, Neither of Whom is Disappointed at All

[bubble_boy]

Noah, after a long, considering moment, just shrugs. Sal is an adult, and is apparently resilient to this, so who is he to push? Others will do it, anyway. He shifts to set the cookies down on a napkin in between them, a silent offering to share the rest of his haul.

"They're always tough, but it felt a little rougher this time. Maybe it's just from being rusty. No robots at my parents' place to practice with." Almost subconsciously he flexes his prosthetic hand.

"Sucks to kind of eat shit regardless though." It's a reference to both of them, as far as Noah's concerned, but he's not going to fuss about clarifying unless Sal takes offense.