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July's Voicetest and Enabling Post [a twofer!]
Here be rules and explanatory things!~
1. Taking part is not mandatory! If you wish to test-drive a new muse, here's the place, but if you'd rather app them without testing - that's perfectly legit, too. :3
2. There are suggestions for scenarios behind the cut. You can use the RNG to roll a relationship and a situation, but you are absolutely free to come up with a scenario of your own. It's more like a friendly suggestion/bit of inspiration from out side.~
3. You may voicetest as many characters at once as you like, and testing them here doesn't make apping mandatory. It's supposed to help you get a hold on the character's voice and to help you decide whether they would fit into the setting or not.
4. Please, keep the following in mind:
a) nothing that happens in this meme is canon or has to be taken into the game. This applies to both the CR and the situation at hand - though if you like it? Talk about it and make it canon once your muse got in.~
b) taking part does not assure that your muse will get into the game.
c) it's just a meme. It's here to help and to have fun, nothing more, nothing less.
5. For the voicetesting characters only: please fill out the short form below:.
Player name: Your name/online alias
Character name: Your character's name.
Character Rank/Suit: The rank your character holds and the suit they are in.
Short description: Three to five short sentences that will give some basic information on your character. This could include their occupation (or whether they are new to the deck), mention existing relationships to characters already in the game (as long as that has been discussed with the character's muns) and maybe a few words on the character's personality. Don't link to an already written app/the character's whole history/an essay on their personality. It's just supposed to be a synopsis.
The information given here is not yet set canon, so you are perfectly free to change it for the actual app.~
6. You can also post a character that is already in the game so people can bounce their voicetesting characters off of you! Actually, this is very much welcomed. Do it! :D If you want to.
As stated above, here is a list of the relationships and scenarios you can roll out in case you don't want to come up with something else or just like randomness a lot.
Relationships
1. Acquaintances - You have seen each other around, but rarely exchanged more than a couple of words. Time to chance that!
2. Friends - What it says on the tin. Maybe you've known each other for a long time, maybe not - whichever works best.
3. Colleagues - For some reason, you two work together a lot - be it cross-suit work or inter-suit things, you keep ending up doing important stuffs together.
4. Lovers - What it says on the tin. Secret or not, just crushing or close to married, it's The Wuv between you two.
5. Exes - When No. 4 went bad. This may or may not get awkward.
6. ENEMIES - You hate each other. That's all there is to say.
7. ??? GO WILD!
Situations
1. Surprise!assignment - For some reason, your King/Queen/whoever decided you two should work together on agloriously random project. Even crackier when it's off-suit.
2. Suddnely, date. - Can be a blind date, an assignment taking a funny route or an Actual Date (or whatever else, really). Go out, have fun. Wheee.
3. Challenges! - Either that person challenged you, or you challenged that person, or you are going to challenge soon or ... whatever challenge-related scenario you want to have here.
4. Morning After - What happened last night? Where are we? I have no idea, you play it out.
5. Party, PARTY! - It's time to celebrate a thing! IDEC what thing! Maybe it's a masquerade or a fun evening at the Four Suits Pub...
6. Bad Day - For all your emo needs. One person has a bad day, the other comforts them. Or makes it worse. Or anything else.
7. ??? GO WILD.
ALSO: If you would like to be enabled into creating a new character or if you have a requested character (or character type or face or whatever) you'd like to see in the game...post them under the comment thread titled "enabling requests". :) OR if you just want to see them put in a![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
musemostwanted post in a few days before we open apps, we'll be posting some descriptions of wanted characters there. :)
1. Taking part is not mandatory! If you wish to test-drive a new muse, here's the place, but if you'd rather app them without testing - that's perfectly legit, too. :3
2. There are suggestions for scenarios behind the cut. You can use the RNG to roll a relationship and a situation, but you are absolutely free to come up with a scenario of your own. It's more like a friendly suggestion/bit of inspiration from out side.~
3. You may voicetest as many characters at once as you like, and testing them here doesn't make apping mandatory. It's supposed to help you get a hold on the character's voice and to help you decide whether they would fit into the setting or not.
4. Please, keep the following in mind:
a) nothing that happens in this meme is canon or has to be taken into the game. This applies to both the CR and the situation at hand - though if you like it? Talk about it and make it canon once your muse got in.~
b) taking part does not assure that your muse will get into the game.
c) it's just a meme. It's here to help and to have fun, nothing more, nothing less.
5. For the voicetesting characters only: please fill out the short form below:.
Player name: Your name/online alias
Character name: Your character's name.
Character Rank/Suit: The rank your character holds and the suit they are in.
Short description: Three to five short sentences that will give some basic information on your character. This could include their occupation (or whether they are new to the deck), mention existing relationships to characters already in the game (as long as that has been discussed with the character's muns) and maybe a few words on the character's personality. Don't link to an already written app/the character's whole history/an essay on their personality. It's just supposed to be a synopsis.
The information given here is not yet set canon, so you are perfectly free to change it for the actual app.~
6. You can also post a character that is already in the game so people can bounce their voicetesting characters off of you! Actually, this is very much welcomed. Do it! :D If you want to.
As stated above, here is a list of the relationships and scenarios you can roll out in case you don't want to come up with something else or just like randomness a lot.
Relationships
1. Acquaintances - You have seen each other around, but rarely exchanged more than a couple of words. Time to chance that!
2. Friends - What it says on the tin. Maybe you've known each other for a long time, maybe not - whichever works best.
3. Colleagues - For some reason, you two work together a lot - be it cross-suit work or inter-suit things, you keep ending up doing important stuffs together.
4. Lovers - What it says on the tin. Secret or not, just crushing or close to married, it's The Wuv between you two.
5. Exes - When No. 4 went bad. This may or may not get awkward.
6. ENEMIES - You hate each other. That's all there is to say.
7. ??? GO WILD!
Situations
1. Surprise!assignment - For some reason, your King/Queen/whoever decided you two should work together on a
2. Suddnely, date. - Can be a blind date, an assignment taking a funny route or an Actual Date (or whatever else, really). Go out, have fun. Wheee.
3. Challenges! - Either that person challenged you, or you challenged that person, or you are going to challenge soon or ... whatever challenge-related scenario you want to have here.
4. Morning After - What happened last night? Where are we? I have no idea, you play it out.
5. Party, PARTY! - It's time to celebrate a thing! IDEC what thing! Maybe it's a masquerade or a fun evening at the Four Suits Pub...
6. Bad Day - For all your emo needs. One person has a bad day, the other comforts them. Or makes it worse. Or anything else.
7. ??? GO WILD.
ALSO: If you would like to be enabled into creating a new character or if you have a requested character (or character type or face or whatever) you'd like to see in the game...post them under the comment thread titled "enabling requests". :) OR if you just want to see them put in a
musemostwanted post in a few days before we open apps, we'll be posting some descriptions of wanted characters there. :)
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"You will be having no problems accepting orders from younger person?"
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Somewhere in the depths of his file, there's an administrative remark about him refusing orders to do a certain job without the recommended safety gear. It was when he was a Four, the first time.
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She pushes his folder aside. "Follow me, please." Rising, she strides out door (never looking to see if he obeys) and marches short distance down hallway to empty office, empty of people, but not of file folders, haphazard Post-it notes and various reports. A computer (nearly covered with said notes) sits in one corner of desk. "Trial by fire. Let us see your organizational skills. I will give no further direction. I am certain once you peruse items you will see what needs be done."
A mock office, full of mock paperwork and mock names. Some obviously would be considered confidential even need-to-know, some urgent, some not. Inside top desk drawer rests appointment book in need of triage. Part of his test is to see if he finds it.
"I will leave it to you. Return when you are finished." She waves lazily down corridor. "Public lavatory is down there. You may of course take breaks when needed." She has no need for someone who makes mistakes because they refuse to refresh themselves.
TL;DR!
It starts with making piles, taking everything off the desk and out of the desk, organizing it by type: Post-its, file folders, loose papers, non-paper items. The staplers and pens go into the desk drawer, and then his real work begins.
What will end up happening first is a re-piling by apparent subject matter. Post-its with phone numbers and emails will be matched with reports on the people they belong to. Plans for events will be cross-references in the appointment book. And once he's satisfied with the state of these piles, he turns the computer on.
The appointment book becomes a calendar in Microsoft Outlook, with alarms for the most vital appointments. Contacts are added, with rank and suit preceding name in standard notation: 2D, 4S, 7C.
And the files and other papers are filed in the bottom drawer, with the most urgent, "to be acted on" set in the upper lefthand corner of the desk, opposite the computer.
He surveys the room, and takes the time to vaccuum the carpet and take the trash out before picking up the urgent folders and returning to Katya's office. Time elapsed? Five hours.
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She leads them back to spare office, noting the vacuumed carpet--above and beyond call of duty--as well as neatly organized items. Appointment book transformation she particularly notes with the thought Meghana would approve.
"Very good. Time was beaten by nearly half hour before." She smiles, "but applicant failed to prioritize work or transfer appointments. I would say your is superior. Have you ever considered becoming PA?"
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