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So you're interested in playing on the lljk 1 server and want to have lots of roleplay with your fellow crewmembers? Sweet! This wiki page is a collection of tips put together by the wonderful people in #rp-server on the official goon discord, and is meant to help people roleplay better and make the round more fun for all!
So you're interested in playing on the RP server and want to have lots of roleplay with your fellow crewmembers? Sweet! This wiki page is a collection of tips put together by the wonderful people in #rp-server on the official Goon Discord, and is meant to help people roleplay better and make the round more fun for all!


==General Tips==
==General Roleplay==
 
While the Goonstation Roleplay server is considered Medium-Roleplay, that does not mean it carries the same standards as other MRP servers. Yes, the rules still apply and no, you can't be a racist genociding freak. However, that does mean that whatever style or degree of roleplay you do, you're free to go about it however you wish. You won't get yelled for not roleplaying enough and you won't get yelled at for roleplaying too much. Just try to be respectful of others as different people have a different outlook on roleplay and will play it differently from others.
 
If you're playing with a low population or want to encourage more roleplay, try and be the change by interacting with people and their needs. Look at motives for example. Invite fellow co-workers out for lunch breaks to the Space Diner! Order some food, get some beers and hang around and have fun. Some maps have break rooms intergrated into their departments. Why not use those as an opportunity to relax with people and drink some coffee? Remember that if you stand around waiting for the roleplay to happen, it's not going to. Once you start an incentive and openly invite people to interact, they'll be more than happy to join you.
 
You don't have to roleplay stuff that's in the game you know? You can always use make believe. Think about stuff that doesn't need to be done but you could still do. Quartermasters don't need to keep invoices and manifests of everything, but they could. Janitors don't need to constantly sanitise places like bathrooms, but they could. Heads of Personnell don't need to carry out inspections of the premises, but they could. Let your imagination run wild, the more you do to make the game more of living workplace the more people will be happy to join you in working in it.
 
==General Tips==  
* The more you throw yourself into the RP, the more fun you’ll have.
* The more you throw yourself into the RP, the more fun you’ll have.


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* If you didn’t notice, there is a department inter-comm outside each department that you can use to talk on a department radio without being in that department.  
* If you didn’t notice, there is a department inter-comm outside each department that you can use to talk on a department radio without being in that department.  


* Pay attention to comms! Going about your business as normal when someone is having a mental breakdown over the radio or there's a ship-threatening event is an option, but it's a boring one. Never be afraid to try to get involved!
* Pay attention to comms! Going about your business as normal when someone is having a mental breakdown over the radio or there's a ship-threatening event is an option, but it's boring. Never be afraid to try to get involved!


* Take advantage of the PDA messenger. Not only is it a useful tool for interdepartmental communication and coordination, but it can be a very personal way of communicating with someone. Text your buds about how things are going throughout the round.
* Take advantage of the PDA messenger. Not only is it a useful tool for interdepartmental communication and coordination, but it can be a personal way of communicating with someone. Text your buds about how things are going throughout the round.


* Treat your round like a work day: Take short breaks away from your work area. Go get a snack or drink from the bar. Smoke a cigarette. Make idle chit chat with someone. Complain about coffee prices.  
* Treat your round like a work day: Take short breaks away from your work area. Go get a snack or drink from the bar. Smoke a cigarette. Make idle chit chat with someone. Complain about coffee prices.  
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* If you are a head role, coordinate interaction and cooperation between departments.
* If you are a head role, coordinate interaction and cooperation between departments.


* Proper punctuation is important, but improper punctuation can be useful.  There’s a difference between “We’re all going to die!” and “WE’RE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!!"
* Proper punctuation is important, but improper punctuation can be useful.  There’s a difference between “We’re all going to die!” and “WE’RE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!!


* Use ctrl+m or *custom or me custom to do a custom emote! Pretty nice if you want to get a little more in depth with your descriptions of actions. Example: “Danthony Crimbo shivers.” versus “Danthony Crimbo shivers violently, drops of cold sweat visible on his forehead.”
* Use {{key|CTRL}}+{{key|M}} or *custom or me custom to perform a custom emote! Pretty nice if you want to get a little more in depth with your descriptions of actions. Example: “Danthony Crimbo shivers.” versus “Danthony Crimbo shivers violently, drops of cold sweat visible on his forehead.”


* Clarion and Destiny - the main RP maps - have cryo chambers you can use to leave the round at any time. Use of these is much preferred to just logging out, which leaves you exposed. Be sure, however, to place any valuable equipment in your place of work before you leave!
* Clarion and Destiny - the main RP maps - have cryo chambers you can use to leave the round at any time. Use of these is much preferred to just logging out, which leaves you exposed. Be sure, however, to place any valuable equipment in your place of work before you leave!
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==Job Specific Tips==
==Job Specific Tips==
====Engineer====
====Engineer====
As the engineer you have lots of freedom to roleplay, work on new expansions, redo piping, keep the station running well! The sky and your imagination is the limit!
As the engineer you have lots of freedom to roleplay, work on new expansions, redo piping, and keep the station running well! The sky and your imagination is the limit!


* Keep in mind:Most of the RP maps are quite small and the rounds are quite long, so slow, sensible burns are far better advised than hellburns, which can cause carnage. If you do decide to do a hellburn PLEASE ensure you properly vent it, move any nearby welding fuel tanks and have some sort of RP reasoning for it. Remember, your job isn’t only to set up the engine!
* Keep in mind: Most of the RP maps are small and the rounds are long, so slow, sensible burns are far better advised than hellburns, which can cause carnage. If you decide to do a hellburn PLEASE ensure you properly vent it, move any nearby welding fuel tanks and have some sort of RP reasoning for it. Remember, your job isn’t only to set up the engine!


* Idea: Run departmental inspections for safety issues and give suggestions. Is chemistry storing fuel tanks too close to lights or dangerous machines? Is toxins doing dangerous tests or burning stuff too hot? Try to help keep the station safe!
* Idea: Run departmental inspections for safety issues and give suggestions. Is chemistry storing fuel tanks too close to lights or dangerous machines? Is toxins doing dangerous tests or burning stuff too hot? Try to help keep the station safe!
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* Idea: Go undercover and ask the botanist for weed, then arrest them when they give it to you.  
* Idea: Go undercover and ask the botanist for weed, then arrest them when they give it to you.  
* Idea: When you do catch the antag have fun with them! Hold a public trial for a traitor! Lock up the ling in medbay for research! Don’t just gib them/space them/permabrig them.
* Idea: When you do catch the antag have fun with them! Hold a public trial for a traitor! Lock up the ling in medbay for research! Don’t just gib them/space them/permabrig them.
* Idea: Be a bit shady/corrupt, people aren’t perfect, and there’s nothing wrong with being a little...dirty.  Being THAT cop no one wants to deal with can be fun, as long as it’s kept reasonable. Taking a bribe here and there to look the other way or "finding" drugs on someone you don't like can improve RP. However, avoid accepting bribes when dealing with more serious crimes, like murder. Also remember if you decide to do this keep in mind there's a fine line between being corrupt IC and being griefy (Note:If you can be and are the HoS, for the love of god do NOT do this.  The HoS is the one person on the station trusted to not be incompetent/corrupt.)
* Idea: Be a bit shady/corrupt, people aren’t perfect, and there’s nothing wrong with being a little...dirty.  Being THAT cop no one wants to deal with can be fun, as long as it’s kept reasonable. Taking a bribe here and there to look the other way or "finding" drugs on someone you don't like can improve RP. However, avoid accepting bribes when dealing with more serious crimes, like murder. Also remember if you decide to do this keep in mind there's a fine line between being corrupt IC and being griefy (Note: If you can be and are the HoS, for the love of god do NOT do this.  The HoS is the one person on the station trusted to not be incompetent/corrupt.)


======Detective======
======Detective======
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* Tip: When you've found out something worth an arrest, coordinate with Security rather than take them on yourself.
* Tip: When you've found out something worth an arrest, coordinate with Security rather than take them on yourself.


* Tip: A good detective should always be a little bit shady. Unlike Security Officers, they're still eligible for traitor. Play off of that by being selective with the information you share.
* Tip: A good detective should always be a bit shady. Unlike Security Officers, they're still eligible for traitor. Play off of that by being selective with the information you share.


* Tip: Try to use info and evidence to manipulate people into taking a desired action, whether or not you're an antagonist.
* Tip: Try to use info and evidence to manipulate people into taking a desired action, whether or not you're an antagonist.
====Medical Doctor====
====Medical Doctor====
As a doctor you hold a special place on the station, while you can make your care simply reactive, being proactive is also great for RP! Encourage crew to come in for checkups! Give out prescriptions if somebody has a issue! Hold first aid training! Just have fun with it and try to help others enjoy the round more!  
As a doctor, you hold a special place on the station. While you can make your care simply reactive, being proactive is also great for RP! Encourage crew to come in for checkups! Give out prescriptions if somebody has a issue! Hold first aid training! Just have fun with it and try to help others enjoy the round more!  


* Idea: Host first aid training for the crew, teach them how to use stuff like syringes and patches, don’t be afraid to go into detail about how you use them!
* Idea: Host first aid training for the crew; teach them how to use stuff like syringes and patches, and don’t be afraid to go into detail about how you use them!
* Idea: Use the patient rooms for treating patients
* Idea: Use the patient rooms for treating patients
* Idea: General well-being checkups
* Idea: General well-being checkups
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====Janitor====
====Janitor====
The custodial technician is one of the most important jobs on a RP server. Why? Because they are in charge of making sure it doesn’t look like everything has dissolved into chaos!
The custodial technician is one of the most significant jobs on a RP server. Why? Because they are in charge of making sure it doesn’t look like everything has dissolved into chaos!
* Idea: Be weird and unnerving
* Idea: Be weird and unnerving
* Tip: Put down the damn floor signs
* Tip: Put down the damn floor signs
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* Idea: Assistant has a wide range of meaning. You can act as something of an intern for an understaffed department. You can run tasks for people who don't have the time or ability to perform them. You could be a personal assistant for a high profile figure like the Captain.
* Idea: Assistant has a wide range of meaning. You can act as something of an intern for an understaffed department. You can run tasks for people who don't have the time or ability to perform them. You could be a personal assistant for a high profile figure like the Captain.


* Idea: With the CEs/MDs/RDs permission act as a engineering intern/medical resident/scientific observer
* Idea: With the CEs/MDs/RDs permission act as a engineering intern/medical resident/scientific observer  


* Idea: Try inventing your own job role that the station lacks and running it as a private business. For instance, there are a lot of critters running around and no exterminators.
* Idea: Try inventing your own job role that the station lacks and running it as a private business. For instance, there are a lot of critters running around and no exterminators.
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====Chef====
====Chef====
The chef is a role that really shines on the RP server, so have fun with it! Remember, people need to eat food on 1, so by extension they need you.
The chef is a role that shines on the RP server, so have fun with it! Remember, people need to eat food on 1, so by extension they need you.
* Idea: Make people sign waivers to eat your food
* Idea: Make people sign waivers to eat your food


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====Quartermaster====
====Quartermaster====
As the QM, your main job is keeping every department well supplied, and ensuring that people get what they need quickly, however don't be afraid to deny orders, does the clown really need 10 costume crates?
As the QM, your main job is keeping every department well supplied, and ensuring that people get what they need quickly. However, don't be afraid to deny orders; does the clown really need 10 costume crates?
 
* Idea: Be the King of Red Tape. Write up supply request forms and insist they be filled out before any goods are requisitioned. Demand signatures from department heads. Issue receipts for both yourself and the poor sod in question.
* Idea: Be the King of Red Tape. Write up supply request forms and insist they be filled out before any goods are requisitioned. Demand signatures from department heads. Issue receipts for both yourself and the poor sod in question.


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* Idea: Develop risky experimental drugs and test them on willing crewmembers <del>(or inmates!).</del>
* Idea: Develop risky experimental drugs and test them on willing crewmembers <del>(or inmates!).</del>


* Idea: Develop your scientist character, are you a mad scientist or a safety-obsessed timid researcher just out of grad school?
* Idea: Develop your scientist character; are you a mad scientist or a safety-obsessed timid researcher just out of grad school?


====Regional Director====
====Regional Director====
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* Remember, you do have the authority to relieve the captain if he is being incompetent, however keep in mind that he may decide to have security arrest you, so be careful. If you do decide to go down this path have a good RP reason:  
* Remember, you do have the authority to relieve the captain if he is being incompetent, however keep in mind that he may decide to have security arrest you, so be careful. If you do decide to go down this path have a good RP reason:  
:* Awful “Lol fired”  
:* Awful “LOL fired”  
:* Bad “He isn’t doing his job correctly”  
:* Bad “He isn’t doing his job correctly”  
;* So-So “He’s refused to work with NT to improve productivity”  
;* So-So “He’s refused to work with NT to improve productivity”  
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* Interact with your victims and be creative with their deaths! 10 wordless revolver shots to the head is less fun for you and your victim then a long Bondsian monologue in a secret outpost on the debris field, ending in a complicated death.
* Interact with your victims and be creative with their deaths! 10 wordless revolver shots to the head is less fun for you and your victim then a long Bondsian monologue in a secret outpost on the debris field, ending in a complicated death.


* There’s no rules saying how a particular type of antag need be played, only that it be fun. Feel free to break the mold of what’s expected for your antag type: lings that don’t eat, vampires that are trying to kick their blood habit, NT-contracted traitors.
* There are no rules saying how a particular antag needs to be played, only that it be fun. Feel free to break the mold of what’s expected for your antag type: lings that don’t eat, vampires that are trying to kick their blood habit, NT-contracted traitors.


* Remember, objectives are optional. You should always strongly consider ignoring them and doing your own gimmick instead, however if you feel your gimmick might have some problems remember it never hurts to talk it over with a admin!
* Remember: Objectives are optional. You should always strongly consider ignoring them and doing your own gimmick instead; if you feel your gimmick might have some problems, remember that it never hurts to talk it over with an admin!


* Just because you're an antagonist doesn't mean everyone has to be your enemy. Make friends with certain players. They can be useful in helping you out of a situation by vetting you as someone who is helpful. In turn, you can use your antagonist status to take out people giving them grief.
* Just because you're an antagonist doesn't mean everyone has to be your enemy. Make friends with certain players. They can be useful in helping you out of a situation by vetting you as someone who is helpful. In turn, you can use your antagonist status to take out people giving them grief.
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* Idea: Roleplay as a scared creature that just escaped from a lab and kill scientists for their involvement in what happened to you.
* Idea: Roleplay as a scared creature that just escaped from a lab and kill scientists for their involvement in what happened to you.


* Idea: Hint at the fact that you aren't human in conversation, make little mistakes, IE: "Hellllo... Captaiin" Think G-Mans voice from the Half Life franchise.
* Idea: Hint at the fact that you aren't human in conversation, make little mistakes. Example: "Hellllo... Captaiin" Think G-Mans voice from the Half Life franchise.


====Traitor====
====Traitor====
* Manipulating, extorting, and bribing crewmembers can get you way farther than using a gun; tell crewmembers that you know what they did that night on mars and you’re not afraid to tell everybody! Pay off the HoP to give you a bit of extra access! Steal an item with sentimental value to a crew member and hold it hostage! The sky, and your imagination, is the limit!
* Manipulating, extorting, and bribing crewmembers can get you way farther than using a gun; tell crewmembers that you know what they did that night on Mars and you’re not afraid to tell everybody! Pay off the HoP to give you a bit of extra access! Steal an item with sentimental value to a crew member and hold it hostage! The sky, and your imagination, is the limit!


* Try to create a motivation for your traitor round. Are you a infuriated worker, angry with lower pay and trying to start a working class revolt? Are you an agent of a rival corporation, spying on science and trying to steal artifacts? Or are you just a random joe who can’t pay the bills with his janitor salary and needs a bit of extra cash so he took up a offer from the syndicate? Your imagination is again the limit!
* Try to create a motivation for your traitor round. Are you a infuriated worker, angry with lower pay and trying to start a working class revolt? Are you an agent of a rival corporation, spying on science and trying to steal artifacts? Or are you just a random joe who can’t pay the bills with his janitor salary and needs a bit of extra cash, so he took up a offer from the syndicate? Your imagination is, again, the limit!


==Supplementary Video==
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So you're interested in playing on the RP server and want to have lots of roleplay with your fellow crewmembers? Sweet! This wiki page is a collection of tips put together by the wonderful people in #rp-server on the official Goon Discord, and is meant to help people roleplay better and make the round more fun for all!

General Roleplay

While the Goonstation Roleplay server is considered Medium-Roleplay, that does not mean it carries the same standards as other MRP servers. Yes, the rules still apply and no, you can't be a racist genociding freak. However, that does mean that whatever style or degree of roleplay you do, you're free to go about it however you wish. You won't get yelled for not roleplaying enough and you won't get yelled at for roleplaying too much. Just try to be respectful of others as different people have a different outlook on roleplay and will play it differently from others.

If you're playing with a low population or want to encourage more roleplay, try and be the change by interacting with people and their needs. Look at motives for example. Invite fellow co-workers out for lunch breaks to the Space Diner! Order some food, get some beers and hang around and have fun. Some maps have break rooms intergrated into their departments. Why not use those as an opportunity to relax with people and drink some coffee? Remember that if you stand around waiting for the roleplay to happen, it's not going to. Once you start an incentive and openly invite people to interact, they'll be more than happy to join you.

You don't have to roleplay stuff that's in the game you know? You can always use make believe. Think about stuff that doesn't need to be done but you could still do. Quartermasters don't need to keep invoices and manifests of everything, but they could. Janitors don't need to constantly sanitise places like bathrooms, but they could. Heads of Personnell don't need to carry out inspections of the premises, but they could. Let your imagination run wild, the more you do to make the game more of living workplace the more people will be happy to join you in working in it.

General Tips

  • The more you throw yourself into the RP, the more fun you’ll have.
  • BUREAUCRACY: Almost every room has paper and office supplies and the computers have a lot to offer as well. Leave a paper trail and keep up with electronic records.
  • If you didn’t notice, there is a department inter-comm outside each department that you can use to talk on a department radio without being in that department.
  • Pay attention to comms! Going about your business as normal when someone is having a mental breakdown over the radio or there's a ship-threatening event is an option, but it's boring. Never be afraid to try to get involved!
  • Take advantage of the PDA messenger. Not only is it a useful tool for interdepartmental communication and coordination, but it can be a personal way of communicating with someone. Text your buds about how things are going throughout the round.
  • Treat your round like a work day: Take short breaks away from your work area. Go get a snack or drink from the bar. Smoke a cigarette. Make idle chit chat with someone. Complain about coffee prices.
  • Utilize station facilities. If your clothes get dirty wash them in the laundry machines. Make stops to the bathroom after eating or drinking. Get a haircut. Play cards with someone. Take a pool break.
  • If you are a head role, coordinate interaction and cooperation between departments.
  • Proper punctuation is important, but improper punctuation can be useful. There’s a difference between “We’re all going to die!” and “WE’RE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!!”
  • Use CTRL+M or *custom or me custom to perform a custom emote! Pretty nice if you want to get a little more in depth with your descriptions of actions. Example: “Danthony Crimbo shivers.” versus “Danthony Crimbo shivers violently, drops of cold sweat visible on his forehead.”
  • Clarion and Destiny - the main RP maps - have cryo chambers you can use to leave the round at any time. Use of these is much preferred to just logging out, which leaves you exposed. Be sure, however, to place any valuable equipment in your place of work before you leave!

Job Specific Tips

Engineer

As the engineer you have lots of freedom to roleplay, work on new expansions, redo piping, and keep the station running well! The sky and your imagination is the limit!

  • Keep in mind: Most of the RP maps are small and the rounds are long, so slow, sensible burns are far better advised than hellburns, which can cause carnage. If you decide to do a hellburn PLEASE ensure you properly vent it, move any nearby welding fuel tanks and have some sort of RP reasoning for it. Remember, your job isn’t only to set up the engine!
  • Idea: Run departmental inspections for safety issues and give suggestions. Is chemistry storing fuel tanks too close to lights or dangerous machines? Is toxins doing dangerous tests or burning stuff too hot? Try to help keep the station safe!

Security officer

Playing the security role on the RP server isn’t just about finding the antagonist in the most efficient way. It’s about creating an interesting experience for the antag, yourself, and the crew. That doesn’t mean that you can’t catch the antag, just remember to keep it fun for all!

  • Idea: RP as the station sheriff/constable and recruit a staff assistant as the “deputy”. Talk westerny and get drunk in the bar often.
  • Idea: Roleplay as a mall cop and hand out tickets for littering/running in the halls. Other titles: Hall Monitor, Paul Blart Jr., Segway Champion 2008
  • Idea: Go undercover and ask the botanist for weed, then arrest them when they give it to you.
  • Idea: When you do catch the antag have fun with them! Hold a public trial for a traitor! Lock up the ling in medbay for research! Don’t just gib them/space them/permabrig them.
  • Idea: Be a bit shady/corrupt, people aren’t perfect, and there’s nothing wrong with being a little...dirty. Being THAT cop no one wants to deal with can be fun, as long as it’s kept reasonable. Taking a bribe here and there to look the other way or "finding" drugs on someone you don't like can improve RP. However, avoid accepting bribes when dealing with more serious crimes, like murder. Also remember if you decide to do this keep in mind there's a fine line between being corrupt IC and being griefy (Note: If you can be and are the HoS, for the love of god do NOT do this. The HoS is the one person on the station trusted to not be incompetent/corrupt.)
Detective

Remember, your role as Detective is only nebulously related to Security. You're better suited for information gathering rather than arrests. So avoid becoming a mini-officer and keep in mind your revolver is for self defense.

  • Tip: Information and misdirection are the biggest weapons in your arsenal. Spy on everyone. Periodically use the cameras to check areas of interests. Take photographs. Slap microphone stickers in places or on people you want to keep an eye on. Record conversations. Wear disguises.
  • Idea: Take on private investigation work outside of Sec. If someone gets their ID stolen, offer to track it down for a fee.
  • Tip: When you've found out something worth an arrest, coordinate with Security rather than take them on yourself.
  • Tip: A good detective should always be a bit shady. Unlike Security Officers, they're still eligible for traitor. Play off of that by being selective with the information you share.
  • Tip: Try to use info and evidence to manipulate people into taking a desired action, whether or not you're an antagonist.

Medical Doctor

As a doctor, you hold a special place on the station. While you can make your care simply reactive, being proactive is also great for RP! Encourage crew to come in for checkups! Give out prescriptions if somebody has a issue! Hold first aid training! Just have fun with it and try to help others enjoy the round more!

  • Idea: Host first aid training for the crew; teach them how to use stuff like syringes and patches, and don’t be afraid to go into detail about how you use them!
  • Idea: Use the patient rooms for treating patients
  • Idea: General well-being checkups
  • Idea: Therapy
  • Idea: Produce vaccines for the flu/other illnesses!

Janitor

The custodial technician is one of the most significant jobs on a RP server. Why? Because they are in charge of making sure it doesn’t look like everything has dissolved into chaos!

  • Idea: Be weird and unnerving
  • Tip: Put down the damn floor signs
  • Idea: Handle things outside of just cleaning. Do general repairs like replacing light bulbs or damaged floor tiles. Keep a belt full of tools for this.

Assistant

You are ostensibly here to assist. Load up on light tubes and sheets and throw yourself at minor problems no one else has time to deal with. Interact liberally with higher-ranking crew and demand tasks to be set on.

  • Idea: Be an annoying bugger who won’t stop pestering the same person nonstop for something to help them with. If they ignore you for too long throw a temper tantrum.
  • Idea: Assistant has a wide range of meaning. You can act as something of an intern for an understaffed department. You can run tasks for people who don't have the time or ability to perform them. You could be a personal assistant for a high profile figure like the Captain.
  • Idea: With the CEs/MDs/RDs permission act as a engineering intern/medical resident/scientific observer
  • Idea: Try inventing your own job role that the station lacks and running it as a private business. For instance, there are a lot of critters running around and no exterminators.
  • Idea: Play games!
  • Hide and seek
  • Tag
  • Scavenger hunt

Chef

The chef is a role that shines on the RP server, so have fun with it! Remember, people need to eat food on 1, so by extension they need you.

  • Idea: Make people sign waivers to eat your food
  • Idea: Create a menu for people to order from. List several entrees and side options
  • Idea: Employ a waiter, the bartender, or staff assistant to take orders to run back to the kitchen and to serve guests

Quartermaster

As the QM, your main job is keeping every department well supplied, and ensuring that people get what they need quickly. However, don't be afraid to deny orders; does the clown really need 10 costume crates?

  • Idea: Be the King of Red Tape. Write up supply request forms and insist they be filled out before any goods are requisitioned. Demand signatures from department heads. Issue receipts for both yourself and the poor sod in question.
  • Tip: Turn a profit by reselling items you've bought at a slightly higher price to the crew.

Scientist

You are a role that really shines on the RP server!

  • Idea: Write up artifact research reports.
  • Idea: Recruit crew members to explore ruins on the lava/ice moon
  • Idea: Develop risky experimental drugs and test them on willing crewmembers (or inmates!).
  • Idea: Develop your scientist character; are you a mad scientist or a safety-obsessed timid researcher just out of grad school?

Regional Director

A gimmick job with some authority, the regional director can be played in a lot of different ways depending on what other crew are available.

  • Idea: If the captain’s around, go bother them with paperwork about performance reports, quarterly updates, and give them the latest information about what corporate is focusing on.
  • "We’re focusing on plasma research this quarter, I’d like to see what your current facilities look like and how we should direct funding.”
  • “We noticed a 10% increase in your ship’s medical supply expenses in the last month with only a 2% increase in crew, can you explain or look into why and get some people together to work out how we can get that back down?”
  • Remember, you do have the authority to relieve the captain if he is being incompetent, however keep in mind that he may decide to have security arrest you, so be careful. If you do decide to go down this path have a good RP reason:
  • Awful “LOL fired”
  • Bad “He isn’t doing his job correctly”
  • So-So “He’s refused to work with NT to improve productivity”
  • Good “The captain has on multiple occasions disrespected senior officers and under his command the clarion has failed numerous productivity goals, he is incompetent and a drunkard that continually smears our reputation, we need him out of the picture”

Antagonist Tips

  • Interact with your victims and be creative with their deaths! 10 wordless revolver shots to the head is less fun for you and your victim then a long Bondsian monologue in a secret outpost on the debris field, ending in a complicated death.
  • There are no rules saying how a particular antag needs to be played, only that it be fun. Feel free to break the mold of what’s expected for your antag type: lings that don’t eat, vampires that are trying to kick their blood habit, NT-contracted traitors.
  • Remember: Objectives are optional. You should always strongly consider ignoring them and doing your own gimmick instead; if you feel your gimmick might have some problems, remember that it never hurts to talk it over with an admin!
  • Just because you're an antagonist doesn't mean everyone has to be your enemy. Make friends with certain players. They can be useful in helping you out of a situation by vetting you as someone who is helpful. In turn, you can use your antagonist status to take out people giving them grief.

Changeling

  • Idea: Giving victims control can always be fun and increase RP.
  • Idea: Leave husks out to be found. Use the voice mimic ability to increase paranoia
  • Idea: Roleplay as a scared creature that just escaped from a lab and kill scientists for their involvement in what happened to you.
  • Idea: Hint at the fact that you aren't human in conversation, make little mistakes. Example: "Hellllo... Captaiin" Think G-Mans voice from the Half Life franchise.

Traitor

  • Manipulating, extorting, and bribing crewmembers can get you way farther than using a gun; tell crewmembers that you know what they did that night on Mars and you’re not afraid to tell everybody! Pay off the HoP to give you a bit of extra access! Steal an item with sentimental value to a crew member and hold it hostage! The sky, and your imagination, is the limit!
  • Try to create a motivation for your traitor round. Are you a infuriated worker, angry with lower pay and trying to start a working class revolt? Are you an agent of a rival corporation, spying on science and trying to steal artifacts? Or are you just a random joe who can’t pay the bills with his janitor salary and needs a bit of extra cash, so he took up a offer from the syndicate? Your imagination is, again, the limit!

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