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voidtreckernet2020-04-30 09:05 pm
so_dark_a_road) wrote in voidtreckernet2020-04-30 09:05 pm
Orange Team Questionnaire [ Video ]
A little late, but finally ready to go! This is a questionnaire for Team Orange, but other teams should feel free to copy and make use of it for their own teams it if they wish, and they can certainly edit it if they'd like to make changes.
The purpose is to take an inventory of each team member's possible future contributions to mission goals or to team projects. Eva and I think it will help the whole team to know who is good at what, when we're organizing to get any team effort going, whether it's a mission or some project we create aboard the train. Here's the final draft, so go ahead and fill it out, Orange Team!
I've filled out mine, so it might be useful as an example, and it is here. [ He reads the questions aloud first, and then he runs through them a second time with his own responses, as seen below in the first comment to this post. ]
Orange Team, you will find copies that copies of this survey have been shoved under your cabin doors, and you can return them to me when you've filled them out. You can also read them aloud right here and now, if you like, just to give everyone a preview of your skills. Don't hesitate to give it a dramatic reading! [ Chuckle ]
If you want to read all the returned questionnaires, contact me or Eva. We'll be keeping them in a folder, which I or possibly Eva can bring to the Standard Coach or wherever you want to read them. We think this would be a good idea, since as I've said, it would help us with team-building if each of us had an idea of what skills and abilities the others have.
[ OOC: Responses from Team Orange characters may be posted below, which we will assume means that the paper copies were returned to Curufin. Your characters don't need to fill out the survey in as much detail as Curufin did, unless they want to. Just use your own best judgement, and be funny or witty if you want! If you have any questions, feel free to PM this journal or plurk me at![[plurk.com profile]](https://plurk.com/favicon.ico)
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The purpose is to take an inventory of each team member's possible future contributions to mission goals or to team projects. Eva and I think it will help the whole team to know who is good at what, when we're organizing to get any team effort going, whether it's a mission or some project we create aboard the train. Here's the final draft, so go ahead and fill it out, Orange Team!
I've filled out mine, so it might be useful as an example, and it is here. [ He reads the questions aloud first, and then he runs through them a second time with his own responses, as seen below in the first comment to this post. ]
Orange Team, you will find copies that copies of this survey have been shoved under your cabin doors, and you can return them to me when you've filled them out. You can also read them aloud right here and now, if you like, just to give everyone a preview of your skills. Don't hesitate to give it a dramatic reading! [ Chuckle ]
If you want to read all the returned questionnaires, contact me or Eva. We'll be keeping them in a folder, which I or possibly Eva can bring to the Standard Coach or wherever you want to read them. We think this would be a good idea, since as I've said, it would help us with team-building if each of us had an idea of what skills and abilities the others have.
[ OOC: Responses from Team Orange characters may be posted below, which we will assume means that the paper copies were returned to Curufin. Your characters don't need to fill out the survey in as much detail as Curufin did, unless they want to. Just use your own best judgement, and be funny or witty if you want! If you have any questions, feel free to PM this journal or plurk me at
read aloud & filed in the team folder
Personal information:
What’s your name? Curufin Fëanorion
How old are you? 2805 earthly years (that is, solar years)
Do you belong to any group that is talented in particular skills or has any special talents or abilities? This group could be an ethnicity, a nationality, a family or clan. It could also be a profession, vocation, occupation, or career. The skills could be in craftsmanship, the arts, the sciences, the magic arts, or anything else you think might be useful:
I'm Elvish, and all Elves have special abilities. My clan is the Noldor, and we're known for our craftsmanship. I myself am a forge master. But many of the Noldor also have some sorcerous skills. My people don't call it magic, they call it "art." Nor do they like the term "sorcery". . . but, um, in my case, that's kind of what it is?
Skills and abilities:
What are your particular skills and abilities? Professional, technical, crafts, magical, physical, weapons skills, etc.? List them below:
(1) My crafts are as follows: Metalsmithing, gem-cutting, prospecting and mining, carpentry, stone masonry, architectural skills, and boat-building. Modern skills: mechanical and electrical engineering.
(2) I can also sail and navigate that ship after I've built it! I hardly ever get lost or sink the boat in a storm. Similarly, I have nav skills on land -- I think that's called geographic memory.
(3) Highly proficient with weapons -- sword, spear, bow. Also some modern weapons such as pistol, rifle, and shotgun. If we're fighting side by side, I promise I won't accidentally shoot you in the knee!
(4) I've been a battle commander and I can think tactically and strategically and prepare battle plans. (But don't hold me responsible for the Fourth Battle of Beleriand! I swear, that was not my fault!)
(5) Excellent horseman. But alas, my horsie left me for another! *sob*
(6) Skill with languages. The Noldor usually have this; it's a clan characteristic that we chatter in multiple languages. Though I won't subject you to any but this Common Speech the Voidtrecker translator gives us -- unless you're another Elf, and then prepare to faint from language confusion. Haha!
(7) Sensitivity to the thoughts, feelings, and motivations of others in the sense that all Elves are, and the Noldor in particular. The term used is sanwe-layta. An ability that is not identical with telepathy, but is somewhere in the ballpark. I can also communicate mind-to-mind at a distance. . . but not astronomical distances.
(8) A positively sorcerous ability to conjure a vision in the minds of others, using voice and language as the vector of this magic. The result is a hypnotic trance that may be lasting. (Finrod's people threw my ass out of Nargothrond for that type of mischief.)
(9) Foreknowledge -- I get intimations of the future, and sometimes vivid visions of it. This can be in dream or waking.
(10) I can play several instruments, harp, viol, flute, and acoustic or electric guitar. I can also sing, and I write songs, though I'm not the family Bard. That would be my brother Maglor. But I can entertain you on open mike night or at the karaoke bar, especially if I'm drunk enough.
(11) The Elvish body comes with certain perks: near-immortality, lack of susceptibility to physical illnesses, resistance to injury, and a tendency to heal rapidly when injury does occur. Thus, I can still fight when I'm spouting blood from multiple wounds, as my poor worried brothers could attest.
(12) Elves do not necessarily need to sleep. I can rest by dreaming with my eyes open. My roomies and those of you who have run into me in the Garden Coach in the middle of the night know this already. No, I'm not drunk or comatose, I'm dreaming!
How did you use these skills and abilities in your own world or other worlds before you came to the Voidtrecker Express?
Stars of Varda! Do I really want to answer my own question??? Fuck, no. I wasn't a nice guy in those days.
The only things I'm really proud of were as follows. After we left Valinor, the Land of the Valar, the angelic spirits who were the earth's protectors, I used my crafts skills to help build a new civilization on a new continent. For more than four hundred years, I held the Pass of Aglon against our great enemy, Morgoth, the enemy of all Elves, Dwarves, and of the mortal race. Also, I taught my son Celebrimbor all my forging skills, and that helped him later when he made the Three Elven Rings, which saved the greater part of the Elvish people in the Second and Third Ages.
Have you been on any Voidtrecker missions yet?
Yes, five of them: (1) The one in which a city was attacked by goblins mounted on flying wolves. (2) The one in which a planet was tearing itself apart and we had to save not only the people but some endangered species. (3) The one in which an evil scientist mounted a machine on a platform with a maze hiding it, and that diabolical machine caused monsters to form from ice and snow. (4) The recent space adventure, where the Empire of Stars was trying to annex a planetary system that didn't belong to it. (5) That short mission to evacuate the people of an endangered city, on a world that I strongly suspect was destroyed, before we Void Warriors could complete our aborted mission.
If so, did you use your skills or abilities to further the goals of the mission? Hell, yes!
How did you use them? Were you successful?
(1) I used my swordsmanship and my other fighting skills to protect people against the goblins and their vicious wolves, and on that same mission, I used my firefighting skills to get people out of burning buildings.
(2) I used my language and my comic skills for animal-herding, to round up the lindusi, those toothy Velociraptor-creatures, and get them into pens and aboard the ships. I have to say, that was fun, grinning and teasing them and getting them to chase me. I was lucky I didn't get my ass chewed, though.
(3) I used my geographic skills to find my way through Dr. Chill's maze and reach the machine. However, I don't have software skills. It was Kaito who hacked the machine and got it to stop devastating the country.
(4) I used my fighting skills against the Empire soldiers, my engineering skills to repair the damaged shield stations, and my nav skills to pilot a couple of fighter craft. I did figure out how to use the ships' guns, but mostly I let others do that while I flew. I used my vision-casting sorcery to distract the Empire soldiers from noticing Red Team sneaking up on their shipyard with the mega-weapon in it.
(5) I used my ordinary social skills and my entertainment skills to persuade the people to pack up and come to the south gates of the city, where Blue Team could take over escorting them.
#1 through #4, very successful. #5. . . well, I can't call that a success. I think we left those people to die.
Oh, right, I forgot. I had dream visions before several of these missions, and though it wasn't directly useful to the teams, I think it gave me a sense of what to expect and what to beware of.
Miscellaneous:
Do you have items in your inventory that you have used to help with train projects or mission goals? Magical objects, weapons, communication devices, or any other useful items?
~ I have my tool kit from my world. It doesn't contain my whole workshop, just the tools I use most often.
~ I now have a couple of swords and knives from the goblin world.
~ My father Fëanor made a Palantir, and then I helped him make a few more. These are seeing or scrying stones, and they make it possible to see what is happening in far distant places or to communicate over distances. He gave one to a member of each of our teams so that we can keep track of each other. I had one in my possession until I went to help Red Team locate the mega-weapon and shut the second wormhole. Nerdanel has it currently, but I can borrow it back.
~ My flute! I don't think it counts as a weapon, strictly speaking. But I might be able to use music as a vector of my vision-casting ability. Besides, it could be used for all sorts of team projects, if we wanted to have concerts and theatre.
Do you have ideas about how you'd like to contribute to missions in the future?
I'd like to keep fighting, as that's essential to me, and I'd like to continue doing tech repairs. I'd also like to do some kind of craft or construction work, whether that's making weapons before a mission or while on it, and the same for construction. I really can construct a building, or or dig a well or build a boat, or for that matter, build a generator.
Would you like to receive training in skills you don't currently possess? If so, which? These can be any skills whatsoever that you think might be useful to the team or to missions.
I have engineering drawing skills, but I'm not all that proficient with color work. I'd love to learn how to paint a picture. That might be useful for some team project, probably not for the missions. Unless we are sent to a planet that is going to hell unless it has enough artists to paint murals on the walls?
Do you have any skills you'd like to teach?
I can teach the sword, spear, or bow. Also, how to have an ordinary barroom brawl with fists and feet. I can teach firefighting skills. If I have access to the right facilities, I can teach forging. I'm also a good distiller, if anybody wants to produce and drink some of the strong stuff.