Workings of the Embassy: Difference between revisions

This page tries to offer a wealth of information on how to be a player with the Embassy group. The website and the wiki offers a wealth of IC info about the Embassy setting and the Star Trek Universe, but hopefully this page can act as your first port of call when you have a question on being a player or what to do!

==Aims and Goals==

[[Embassy_Themes_and_Plotlines|Themes and Plotlines]]

[http://http://www.starbase118.net/forums/index.php?showforum=154 Brainstorming Forums]

As we move on as a crew their are three main goals which we ought to all walk towards:

* The Embassy group will always be tolerant and understanding: Open to all races, sexualities, ages, religion and gender etc. This is both IC and OOC.

* Do not be afraid to seek out new ways of simming or offer an original of looking at the Star Trek universe. Everyone can have an idea and its up to Ensigns and Lt.Jg to lead a mission on in its plot just as much as a LT.Cmdr.

==Two Tiered Simming System==

Those Part Timer (henceforth referred to as PT) remaining at the Embassy will therefore be able to continue simming at a slower rate without holding up an actual mission. Our planet based Embassy setting allows for something exciting: contrary to what might usually be the case with being a PT.

To give you an example, Lt.Cmdr Jenkins (a made up person,) has been playing with the UFoP for nearly 4 years and is a great writer who has ties to the Embassy group and other players there; she does not want to quit and won't transfer. But she has to revise for exam and work 40 hour weeks and cannot keep up with the mission pace. So she take on her PT embassy based role. What I expect from her (and other players in that situation,) is that when she writes a sim it should not just be about her pottering about the Embassy complex but it should go and explore the Duronis II setting seperate from the mission... so for example she could go shopping round a market in Lokesh or she could go witness a coven or she could meet an old man and talk about what life on Duronis II was like before the revolution!

In establishing a planet based sim we have done something new. But the novelty need not end there. In addition to running our regular missions, we sometimes like to try out a new way of simming within the standard format accepted for our usual mission.

The other new mission we did was insert a diferent type of puzzle into a sim. The crew could only overcome the obstacle blocking their mission once a player completed the puzzle and included their solution in their sim  

===OOC: Sent to Everybody===  

This Morning Lt.Jg Furlong was due to report for work at 08:00 hours. When she did not show, the Administration Offices were unable to reach her and as per standard procedure Embassy Security were notified.  

Scans traced Lt.Jg. Furlong’s com.badge to the Captains’ Library. This is one of several Libraries in the Embassy however it is reserved solely for Officer’s of Captain Rank or above. As such only Rocar and any visiting Captain have permanent access to the room.

These are the suspects:

You will shortly each receive three details regarding the murder. These three pieces of information must be incorporated into your sim. It is up to you how you do this –for example you may send each detail in a separate sim, or you may choose to sim both details at once. You may also decide to reveal only half a detail and then reveal the second half of that detail in your next sim.

You should volunteer your pieces of information through dialogue in your sim –for example simming your character going up to one of the security officers and telling them something you feel is significant. Likewise, if someone tells you something that doesn’t quite make sense you should ask everyone else if they know anything else.  Eg. If Lt. Johnson tells you “She was murdered using the Andorian death grip,” then you may ask if anyone knows what an “Andorian death grip is?”

You are all detectives as we at the Embassy wish to catch the murderer ASAP. Your pieces of information will make little sense on their own –but once combined with other peoples clues they should point clearly to the murderer. In a week and a half/ 2 weeks (or before depending on how quick we sim our details,) Rocar will call a meeting in the conference room and you each have to say who your character’s investigation has led you to believe is the guilty culprit.  

Have fun!

Captain Rocar

Your character must go the the library and examine the corpse.

2. On medical examination of the corpse: the cause of death was a heart attack, though there is also a stab wound (that could have caused shock and cardiac arrest.

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1. After collecting your child from the Rocar residence on the night at the ball (at the Embassy several weeks ago) you walked back to yours. On the way you walked passed a shuttle hanger where you saw Webb and Furlong together, very close and she was in her night clothes.

3. You were talking to Lt.Webb till 10pm on the evening of the murder (about your wife and the mission etc)

Creed -Intelligence Officer -Terran

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Torrance -Chief Administrative Officer -Terran

2. Furlong told you several weeks ago that she knew something about her ex-husband that scared her...a dark secret he'd never want to get out.

Dar -Chief of Security -Bajoran

3. Furlong's ex-husband has a security record of violence though he has never been convicted due to lack of evidence or prosecutors.

1. Whilst on an evening stroll with her husband (in the garden), at 7:45 you saw Webb looking at Furlong talking to her husband (in the garden) and sensed a pang of jealousy.

3. You sensed a sudden pang of shock/surprise and pain from Furlong who was otherwise calm...suggesting she was surprised by someone she knew and not a stranger. This was at 9:25 and you thought little of it as you were in the bathroom, the emotion soon passed.  

You must go to the crime scene and run tricorder scans!

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Sheriden – Deputy Chief of Mission -  Terran

===Details kept on record but not sent out: time of the night:===

Rocar

7pm argue with Furlong

???

910 seen with a clean knife

945-1030 in bar with Torrance

9-9:30 in meeting with Xoet

* The Advertising Team (helping to promote the UFoP and ensure we get new players)

===Socialise accross the Fleet===

Also you may wish to join one of our guilds and meet people with similar specific interests:

==Survival Material==

===Details in Sim===

Most of us don't notice these things, but those that do get irritated by them. So even if Paramount cannot remember how many decks a ship has from one page of script to another...we should at least try to do better and get continuancy in our sims.

Also, if we're using a vessel -make sure you check up on what vessels we have available to us:

Not only does this tell you what craft we have but it also allows you to gain access to:

===Know thy neighbours===

Our Website also has some key info:

This includes:

*Planetary Geography: Background on the planet's country-states and their geography.  

*The Laudeans: An exploration of the Laudean people and their culture.  

*Laudean History: A brief background on Laudean history, including information up to the Revolution.  

in keeping with what we've established so familiarise yourself with this:

The [[Zalkonians]] are diferent all together. Once again, theres very little canon stuff on them so you have free artistic license to make it up. This is a diferent kind of simming to simming the romulans who have such a wealth of canon facts at your disposal.

Do however bear in mind things we already established about them in previous sims (for example that the Zalkonians are a Suzerainty or that they're socially inept and slightly xenophobic) and of course the canon facts,

You'll see from the above article that some Zalkonians are evolving into to non-corporeal life-forms. But you must remember that the Zalkonian people were frightened by those undergoing the change and their government began exterminating anyone showing symptoms. As such a member of the Zalkonian delegation would not be walking around and have omniprent powers/ be turning non-corporeal.

==The Mentor System==