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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[dog_eat_dog]

Player Name: Jenn
Character Name: Tess
Path to Graduation:

Tess came to the barge a petty, vindictive person who looked at any opportunity to "scale up" and seize upon it, no matter how dangerous, reckless or low-reward, even at the cost of others' lives. She had minimal interest in helping anyone unless it benefitted her personally, and despite her ability to be sociable and friendly, she harbored an intense suspicion of everyone around her. She looked at her own long-suppressed desires for a more hopeful world with cynicism.

On the Barge, she played at all of this for a while. She used other inmates to start a bootlegging operation, blackmailed her warden for a weapon, and got up to nasty shit for a while, only to discover the unsettling truth that the dog-eat-dog philosophy that worked well for her at home didn't serve her outside of that environment. With a warden who came from his own intensely criminal background and a few tight friendships, she learned that there was actually no reward to acting like an asshole, and in the relative peace and quiet of the barge, her guilt over her own actions caught up with her. Suddenly the justifications for her own brutality and violence ceased to make sense to her. If something doesn't serve you to survive now, did it ever? Was anything she ever did "necessary" to her survival?

Tess knows she fucked up, and that the horrors of her world aren't just things that happened to her, they're things she very seriously committed to advancing. Her own last-ditch effort for a redemption before her death was made in a foxhole, and now, on the barge, she's discovered that she is capable of community-building and looking out for others without needing to sacrifice. It's just a choice you can make every single day, even if it's hard, even if it frustrates you, even if it doesn't always work out. There will always be bad people in the world. Their existence isn't carte blanche to do whatever she wants as long as she's a little less bad. Being a good person matters and has value, and she wants that to count each and every day.

She intends to stay on as a warden. She's never going to be a "nice" person, but she's sure that she can apply what she's learned (and her own criminal background) to help someone else. She's apprehensive that she won't be able to be as patient and accepting of her own inmate as Arthur was for her, but she's positive that she can be a worthwhile guiding hand for someone who needs a kick in the ass in the right direction. It's all for a worthwhile cause, after all: even if she can't undo the damage she's done, she can help someone else and get a deal to cure cordyceps, giving her world a chance to rebuild. From here on out, she's committed to something bigger than herself.

[bargemods]

Unscreened! Please have Tess's warden comment here to finalize what his deal will be.

[stand_unshaken]

Arthur's deal is that his friend Abigail will be saved from the Pinkertons, and his other friend John will be brought back to life so that the both of them can have a good life as a family with their son. He was actually alive this whole time, but he doesn't know that.