TLV - Graduations & Demotions

[bargemods]

GRADUATIONS & DEMOTIONS

Inmate graduation is a vital aspect of the game, and occasionally, warden demotion crops up in play as well. If you're planning to graduate your inmate or demote your warden in the near future, please fill out this short form!

Graduations and demotions are character decisions made at player discretion, but in the rare situation that we find ourselves concerned that a graduation or demotion is premise-breaking, the player will be contacted privately. Once we've read through a comment and confirmed that it doesn't contain anything premise-breaking, we'll reply with a confirmation.

Once a graduation comment has been confirmed, the warden of the graduating inmate should reply to their inmate's comment either confirming that their character will be fulfilling the deal laid out in their application, or - in situations where they changed their mind about their deal during their time in-game - receive a verdict about whether the new deal idea is doable.

GRADUATION

<b>Player Name</b>: <b>Character Name</b>: <b>Path to Graduation</b>: How have they changed while aboard the Barge, and what helped cause this change? What were their key milestones? What have they come to regret about their past, and what are they going to do differently now going forward? If they're going to be staying on as a warden, what do they have to offer an inmate? We're not looking for more than a paragraph or two of basic overview here, but if you'd like to TL;DR at us, feel free!

DEMOTION

<b>Player Name</b>: <b>Character Name</b>: <b>Path to Demotion</b>: What actions or choice(s) are causing their demotion, and how did they get to this point? What makes them no longer suited for wardenhood, and what issues will they need to work on as an inmate? We're not looking for more than a paragraph or two of basic overview here, but if you'd like to TL;DR at us, feel free!

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Comments

[bargemods]

Quick question! These two things sound pretty distinct/separate to us; is there anything about the canon or his situation that connects them to each other in a causal way (ex. would severing his contract automatically grant him the ability to transform into a human)? If not, these would need to be two separate deals, so you'll need to pick just one that he'll be getting in exchange for graduating Xigbar!

[anti_altruisms]

So the only reason Archer is the kind of spirit that he is, is because of the contract he made with Alaya. So with the contract gone, he would either just be dead or revert back to being the human mage that he was. Because he has to be something in game, it made more sense to me that he would revert to being human.

So my rationale behind part 2 was mostly just Archer asking the Admiral to give him some time to adjust to freedom (after many thousands of years of slavery) before he actually reverts to being a human mage.

It’s a lot to process, and he doesn’t have the spoons for it all at once 🥲

So a possible re-wording of part 2 could be, “instead of immediately reverting to being a human mage, Archer asked to remain a Heroic Spirit until a time of his choosing when he is ready to make that transition”.

Does that work better?

[bargemods]

Thanks for the context! In that case, we're cool with it.