What server are you applying for: SCP-RP USA
Your Username: VortexPit
Your SteamID: STEAM_0:1:68764325
Discord Username: @VortexPit
Age: 26
What's your current playtime (type !time in-game): Total Playtime 24d, 16h over the course of about 4 and a half months
Do you have a mic: Yes
Your characters name: Walter Smoth [Foundation] | W. Cortex [Civ/MC&D]
List all the names of the characters that you use (Foundation, Civillian, e.t.c.): Walter Smoth [Foundation] | W. Cortex [Civ/MC&D]
Is this the first application you made? If no, link all previous applications: No, passed previous application however failed interview
Have you received any kicks/warns/bans, and if so, why: Yes, NLR in my first few weeks on the server as I did not fully understand the rules | FearRP for pulling a gun out as a parawatch when a member of the Foundation had me at gunpoint
How many hours can you be on everyday: 3-6 hours daily
Do you have any previous experience as a Gamemaster/Event Manager in a community: No experience for a community, however I manage, plan, and design DnD campaigns within a couple of small online groups.
Do you have any advanced skills that would benefit the GM team, such as PAC-3, dupes building, art creation and others? If yes, give us your best example of putting that skill into practice: I do not have any major skills, however I am averagely adept at blender, pac-3, and dupe building, and I have a small background in graphic design where I have previously created promotional material for companies I have worked for in the past. I pride myself on being a quick learner and am willing to learn any additional skills that would assist me in being a GM.
Your Username: VortexPit
Your SteamID: STEAM_0:1:68764325
Discord Username: @VortexPit
Age: 26
What's your current playtime (type !time in-game): Total Playtime 24d, 16h over the course of about 4 and a half months
Do you have a mic: Yes
Your characters name: Walter Smoth [Foundation] | W. Cortex [Civ/MC&D]
List all the names of the characters that you use (Foundation, Civillian, e.t.c.): Walter Smoth [Foundation] | W. Cortex [Civ/MC&D]
Is this the first application you made? If no, link all previous applications: No, passed previous application however failed interview
Have you received any kicks/warns/bans, and if so, why: Yes, NLR in my first few weeks on the server as I did not fully understand the rules | FearRP for pulling a gun out as a parawatch when a member of the Foundation had me at gunpoint
How many hours can you be on everyday: 3-6 hours daily
Do you have any previous experience as a Gamemaster/Event Manager in a community: No experience for a community, however I manage, plan, and design DnD campaigns within a couple of small online groups.
Do you have any advanced skills that would benefit the GM team, such as PAC-3, dupes building, art creation and others? If yes, give us your best example of putting that skill into practice: I do not have any major skills, however I am averagely adept at blender, pac-3, and dupe building, and I have a small background in graphic design where I have previously created promotional material for companies I have worked for in the past. I pride myself on being a quick learner and am willing to learn any additional skills that would assist me in being a GM.
Please list one RP Enhancement for a Foundation Department/MTF: A site staff member is hosting a spelling bee in lecture hall and requires additional props/assistance to set up the area.
[GM Tools] As a GM I would set up a stage within the lecture hall area with a microphone and multiple seats behind it allowing for the staff to hold their spelling bee
Please list one RP Enhancement for a Non-Foundation Group: The pinewood mayor has had enough, and has decided to enact a toll to anyone passing through the Pinewood Area.
[GM Tools] As a GM, I would set up multiple toll booths along the roads in pinewood utilizing dupes for the mayor and his rangers to enact tolls on anyone passing through.
Please list one Event idea for the United Nations Global Occult Coalition: A Gambling house has opened just outside of Pinewood, under normal circumstances this would not be an issue. However, there has been reports over GOC comms that the gambling house seems to be captivating it's patrons. Upon further investigation, it seems that the Gambling house is housing a cognitohazard, causing anyone who enters to feel incredibly compelled to gamble, and subsequently spend all of their money.
[GM Tools] A GM would need to set up a build/dupe of a casino, preferably utilzing GM objectives for a few slot machines to allow players to interact. The GM would also need to be present in order to announce to players as they approach that they are 'captivated by the Casino' and feel as though they are compelled to gamble. By choice of the GM, the players may actually spend and earn money within the casino, or it could be purely RP based and not affect the economy in any way. The GM monitoring the event will also need to send a comms mesage out to GOC about the casino, and allow for them to handle the situation as they see fit.
Please list one Event idea for the Chaos Insurgency: A message is received by CI stating that they have been sent a new chemical formula, synthesized specifically for use by their specific sector. CI Command is informed that this new chemical has been specifically formulated to cause an increase in aggression in a very specific, gelatinous SCP. CI are tasked with infiltrating the Foundation and injecting this new chemical into the SCP.
[GM Tools] A GM will need to send out the message to CI command about the new Syringe, along with setting up a GM objective in the CI research wing. Utilizing either a GM swep or having the GM follow the CI team, the CI will move to inject SCP-999 with the chemical compound. Upon injection, SCP-999, whether player-run or GM run, will be given an attack swep, whilst being followed by the GM member. Upon 'killing' anyone, SCP-999 will be scaled slightly with each kill, wreaking havoc upon the foundation until eventually recontained.
Please list one Event idea for the SCP Foundation: RAISA has announced to the foundation that they will be hosting a job/information fair within the EZ Lobby of Site-65. Multiple regular departments from the foundation will have senior personnel available with their own booths to speak with Site Staff & D-Class, along with some lesser known departments being available to speak with.
[GM Tools] Multiple GMs or volunteer actors will be required for this event, Sr. Personnel from multiple departments will be required to host their own booths, as well as GMs or volunteer actors being present to represent some of the lesser known departments, such as The Artificial Intelligence Applications Division, The Department of Entomology, The Fire Suppression Department, The Telecommunications Monitoring Office, or The Department of Procurement and Liquidation. A GM will need to utilize props or a pre-made dupe to create booths around the EZ lobby for these departments and actors to set up shop, along with a facility announcement to all Site personnel that this is taking place in EZ lobby. Optionally, the GM could also allow for Nu-7 & DEA to allow Civilians into the EZ lobby area to look at job opportunities, albeit having an amnestics checkpoint set up for any civilians who decide not to take up a job within Site-65 and instead decide to go back to Pinewood.
Please list a Major Event or Map Change idea (Involving all sides and the entire server):
[Pencil Pushers Inc.] This is a major event spanning multiple days across a few weeks. The event primarily follows an anomalous corporation, named Pencil Pushers Incorporated, that has appeared across both Pinewood and the facility, hiring site staff, civilians, and GOI alike.
[Day 1] Multiple posters are put up across pinewood and around D-block of the foundation, listing a recruitment offer for Pencil Pushers Inc. promising high pay, low hours, and great benefits!
[Day 2] Civilians, enlisted members of GOI, and D-Class begin being visited by men in suits, asking if they would like to sign up for the job, upon accepting the job offer, they would be given a desk, a chair, and a new suit, being immediately put to work.
[Day 3] More people are recruited to Pencil Pushers Inc., along with doors being found across surface and the foundation, leading to an office setting with a set of cubicles, with groups of employees diligently working at their desks. Site staff begin to go missing as they go to work for this corporation, CI begins to coax people into joining the organization, GOC attempts to shut down and destroy the company.
[Day 4] Pencil Pushers Inc. CEO comes to Pinewood, declaring that he will be conducting a 'performance review' on all of his employees. Any employees working under Pencil Pushers Inc at this time will be taken by the CEO to a confidential meeting room, and subsequently disposed of.
[GM Tools] Multiple GMs will be needed for this event. Throughout the course of this event dupes, posters, GM Objective doors, and such will need to be created. A GM actor will also be necessary for most of these events. GMs will also need to monitor each faction on the server to allow them to interact with the event as they see fit and facilitate RP and adjust the event as the GM team sees fit accordingly based on how each faction is moving. Ultimately, the end goal should be for the Foundation and/or GOC to shut down Pencil Pushers Inc. and save as many of their staff who have been turned into employees. Any players who decide to willingly join Pencil Pushers Inc. will need to have their model swapped to that of a man/woman in a suit, and subsequently given a desk to work at, whilst being told by the GM that 'you have lost all emotion, you only feel the need to file paperwork at your desk and will not answer to anyone until your paperwork is finished being filed'
What elements can make an event unenjoyable? Include one example, avoiding the typical answers if possible.
There are a lot of moments that can make an event unenjoyable to the player base. One of the primary examples of this are exclusivity, occurring when only players higher ranking within each faction are able to participate. As well though, when an event too heavily disrupts regular gameplay whilst not providing enough optimal gameplay for the unincluded players, an event can especially feel out of place. This can happen when an event is designed around a certain faction and causes an imbalance of players throughout that faction, such as taking all of the online researchers to the event, whilst not including any D-Class leaving the D-Class to not have any RP opportunities, or causing a surface war and leaving Civilians unable to play the game lest they be caught in the crossfire.
And finally, what do you wish to achieve by becoming a Gamemaster?
As a Gamemaster, I hope to be able to help facilitate more RP opportunities within the server. Especially on the US server, a majority of the gameplay revolves around combat, with constant CI or GOC raids, SCP breaches, or D Class Riots. Whilst there are definitely plenty of players who do enjoy this type of gameplay, there are just as many players who still want to do meaningful RP within the server and actually have a 'purpose' to what they are doing. I would like to assist these players especially, even if it be holding smaller events just in order to facilitate RP or create more RP scenarios so that these players who especially enjoy the RP aspect of the server can still enjoy their time on CivilNetworks without feeling burnt out by the constant combat orientated gameplay.
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