FORCES DIVISION ↠ Assignment-o-matic

[katabasis]

Hi Forces Division! In addition to the usual war table assignments which will continue to be RNG'd, I thought I'd try out some alternative assignment delivery methods with, drumroll, bespoke mini missions designed with your character in mind.

WHAT: Mini-missions geared toward Forces and Forces-related problems. Typically these will be small in scale and may or may not relate to the trajectory of other larger scale player plots or war table assignments that I might be designing behind my Wizard of Oz curtain. Think the Jobs board, except I will be doing my best to give you an assignment that is tailored to your characters skills or is in some way meant to be specifically narratively compelling to them.

WHO: Characters must be in Forces to sign up. Once you receive your assignment, you're welcome to recruit whoever you want to assist you (whether your character would ICly pick that character or not) and we can pretend that they were included in the Official Orders.

WHEN AND HOW: Ideally assignments will be generated on a fairly regular basis throughout the current Leadership Quarter. By signing up, you are putting your character's name on a list to semi-randomly receive an assignment during that period. At some point during the quarter, I will reach out to you to make sure that you have the time and inclination to complete an assignment within approximately a month or two.

If you confirm you have time, I might ask you a few questions and then will develop a mini mission and hand it off to you/your character (either via OOC communication or through an IC thread WOW NEAT!). You will then be responsible for threading something related to it, be it setting up a log or having your character gossip about it to someone else or whatever.

• Filing reports will not be required, but I will keep a log of completed assignments and their results for reference, so please make sure to report back to me with your results (again either OOCly or ICly. Whatever). You're welcome to file a report in the rookery comm if you actually WANT to but I won't make you.
  
• With that in mind, please be aware that I won't be chasing you down for your results. If you confirm that you want an assignment, you're also confirming that you will let me know how it goes. If I don't hear back from you within the agreed upon time frame, I will assume that we are retconning the assignment and that I may later recycle or reskin the idea for reuse.

If for whatever reason you're not ready to run off and have an adventure when I reach out, I will simply move on to the next person and come back to you at a later date. If you're the last person in the current set of sign-ups and there is no one else waiting for an assignment, I will ask if you want to be rolled over onto the next quarter's roster or if you want to be dropped from the list.

GOALS:

• Use these smaller assignments to help develop lead in and establish little details for future war table assignments.
  
• Give individual characters more agency, give IC jobs to people with the IC skillsets to accomplish those jobs. Cool!
  
• Open Flint up to more CR with members of the division. We don't have to thread the (potentially) boring part where Flint assigns your character a job, but having more specific talking points will help me make him more available to your characters in general.
  
• To Have Fun!! :)

Because this is a new thing I'm trying out, for this first round sign-ups will be limited to five characters (first come, first serve). If it seems like a successful experiment, I may expand this in the future. I just don't want to overcommit right at the start.

Comments

QUESTIONS?

[katabasis]

SIGN-UPS

[katabasis]

Limited to the first five sign-ups, first come first served. This will not be RNGd because this is an 11pm impulse decision and I don't want to be responsible for randomization.

<B>Player Name:</b> <b>Character Name:</b> <b>Hey Kid, Got Any Hopes or Dreams?:</b> OPTIONAL. If you have any preferences about what kind of mission you might like, write 'em here. Good examples: 'I would love to write something that involves the fact that my character is an Olympic level swimmer!', or 'I'm really interested in writing action vs. Actually I hate action but LOVE to write camping', or 'I as a player eat failure for breakfast and would love a to be handed a complicated scenario where my character might not be able to succeed', etc.

Plz excuse any errors I'm on my phone

[kantikoy]

Player Name: Era
Character Name: Adrasteia
Hey Kid, Got Any Hopes or Dreams?: I'm terrible at writing combat but I enjoy making the effort; Adrasteia speaks Orlesian; it's midnight and I can't think of anything else specific but feel free to look at her app or info page or poke me for more info

[katabasis]

Stamp of approval, confirmed error free.

[archademode]

Player Name: Cobalt
Character Name: Gabranth
Hey Kid, Got Any Hopes or Dreams?:

Gabranth excels at fighting, and I love writing fighting, so tl;dr I lean towards fighting. That said, the idea of a complex mission that might not be winnable is always on the table in my heart, or even something that turns out to be outside his very narrow comfort zone.

As a side note, also fine with weird or comedic missions?? Doesn't have to all be you know.

Can use magic, extremely stubborn, hung up on honor, v prone to snap judgments (har har), but genuinely wants to do a good job for Flint/Forces/Riftwatch proper.

[wearyallalone]

Player Name: Ammmy
Character Name: Vanya
Hey Kid, Got Any Hopes or Dreams?: I find action harder to write than dialogue, but it's good to stretch myself.

Also he's still technically a side guy, so if you want to favor non-side-guys this round, no hard feelings.

[katabasis]

We'll say side guys are aokay for this!

[muckspout]

Player Name: Lana
Character Name: Edgard
Hey Kid, Got Any Hopes or Dreams?: I'm more a fan of writing stuff that leans on action, mostly because Edgard's not a brainiac, but I would ideally love something that would have consequences. Also if there's a weird or spooky one, I want that one. As far as his skills, excellent aim and great with animals. Could do to develop more skills.

[novokribirsk]

Player Name: z
Character Name: zoya nazyalensky
Hey Kid, Got Any Hopes or Dreams?: i love writing action; good for non-winnable missions; maybe something that forces her to interact with her natural inclination to hate the chantry/chantry-related forces would be cool!

[katabasis]

Re-opening this for two more slots, first come first serve for anyone who wants a side quest that they'll have completed by mid-August-ish.

Here's an example of what kind of thing you might get.

Re: SIGN-UPS

[tender]

Player Name: eppy
Character Name: derrica
Hey Kid, Got Any Hopes or Dreams?: would love an excuse for 1. pirate social connections 2. to cronch and/or zap a bunch of combatants.