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Author Topic: Roll to Work at GenCorp! Tuesday: The End: A New CEO.  (Read 60256 times)

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Roll to Work at GenCorp! Tuesday: The End: A New CEO.
« on: September 14, 2011, 11:03:50 am »

This is an RTD based on the… less... awesome parts of my previous professional experiences.

Spoiler: Disclaimer (click to show/hide)

It’s that time of the year again: end of the summer, back to school, back to work, etc. and so forth.

Perhaps you don’t have to go back to work? Perhaps you don’t have a work to go back to? Perhaps your work is excruciatingly tedious (at times)?

Why not come and Roll to Work at GenCorp Research?! We have exciting office work available for all you ambitious young types willing to work your way to the top! Or further from the bottom! It may be excruciatingly tedious (at times) but it’s a foot in the door!

What could possibly go wrong?



The aim of the game for you underpaid and underappreciated assistants is simply to make it to the next working day whilst trying to balance your morale and your sheer failure-ness. Fail too hard? You’ll get sacked. Be the worse failure at the end of each day? You’ll get sacked. Morale too low? You’ll probably get sacked, if your boss notices. Morale waaaaay too low? You’ll probably resign in a fit of depression and go back to live at mum and dad’s. At least they won't get you sorting, photocopying, stapling and then filing six thousand sets of questionnaires in a basement archive with no windows and the new guy who only eats lentil dahl.

Your Failure Rating will go up when you fail at your simple tasks. Your Morale will go up as a result of various things – perhaps that hot new colleague didn’t totally ignore you this morning when you went to make a coffee. Perhaps the dude at the desk next to you didn’t whine about people not taking their turn washing the office cutlery. It will more probably go down though.

Rules are simple. You will be asked (or not, you’re probably unimportant enough to get ignored for a few hours at a time) to do office work. Hour by hour the day will go by. You will fail. Your morale will drop. Sometimes the boss will check up on you. You will fail. Your morale will drop.


Spoiler: Sample Character Sheet
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Ackowledgements:

Thanks to SeriousConcentrate for GenCorp.

Thanks to Toaster for providing a game walkthrough.

Thanks to Accidental Toilet for in-game musical content.

Thanks to MC Alfred for providing the GenCorp Staff Statement:

Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die.
Into the valley of Death
Rode the secretarial sub-under-assistants.

« Last Edit: November 24, 2011, 03:05:44 am by lawastooshort »
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Re: Roll to Work at GenCorp!
« Reply #1 on: September 14, 2011, 11:04:48 am »

CEO:
4 - Ochita
Spoiler: Daniel (click to show/hide)
Failure Rating: 11.
Morale: -8.

Banned from the premises:
2 - Frelock - quit his job after vomiting all over the boss without having completed a single task in the one morning he was employed.
Spoiler: Fredrick Miller (click to show/hide)
Failure Rating: 19.
Morale: 5.

5 - Tosca_cake92 – accidentally decapitated after leading a violent employee insurgency without having completed a single task in the half day he was employed.
Spoiler: Toby Raah (click to show/hide)
Failure Rating: 47.
Morale: -12.

1 - Dwarmin - jacked it all in after realising her professional life wasn't going anywhere and that Kosher Sandwich shops are, without having completed a single task in the day she was employed. Reestablished sisterly bond. Indirectly responsible for Toby Raah's death, as well as that of several hundred of her colleagues.
Spoiler: Kathryn White (click to show/hide)
Failure Rating: 21.
Morale: 8.

6 - SeriousConcentrate - suffering from pigeon fatigue, decided to live his dreams of customising bikes and fixing electrical appliances and so quit, without telling anyone. Actually completed many tasks successfully. Haz date. Killed many pigeons.
Spoiler:  Matsumura Satoshi (click to show/hide)
Failure Rating: 17.
Morale: 11.

3 - Toaster - having worked hard all morning, fell into alcoholism, then a lift shaft, and then love, prompting him to sell all his possessions and tour the country with his new found love in a camper van. Deliriously happy.
Spoiler: Larry Thrakor (click to show/hide)
Failure Rating: 27.
Morale:15.

9 – Firelordsky – sliced to pieces by a man with no arms, legs or head after suffering a heart attack and a stroke! Suffered Process B after defying Bruce Halford. Bravely stood his ground.
Spoiler: Alex Klag (click to show/hide)
Failure Rating: 11.
Morale: -3.

7 - Powder Miner - limbless and headless, asploded in a shower of BERSERKCUTTER'S SLASHRAGE, slaying Ryan Lovecroft and a herd of robovelociraptornators. Probably killed more people, trees and dinosaurs than any other employee.
Spoiler: Powder Woodcutter (click to show/hide)
Failure Rating: 28.
Morale: 8.

11 - Noodlerex - decapitated Powder Woocutter and then paid for it with his life! The second contestant to be slain by the headless wonder. Professionally was quite a success.
Spoiler: Ryan Lovechild (click to show/hide)
Failure Rating: 9.
Morale: -9.

10 - Yoink - witnessed a murder and paid for it with his life, but at least got to live out his dinorobot fantasies, which alas all ended tragically. Broke his arms in a pterodactyl crash and then licked one of them off. Died of a split brain.
Spoiler: Danny (click to show/hide)
Failure Rating: 17.
Morale: -10.

8 - Theodolus - murdered a fellow receptionist because she was fat and pursued the witness until he died of a fatal tv accident in a long running death vendetta. Horribly disfigured. Inferno Stare! pioneer. Died of being smashed into tiny pieces.
Spoiler: Tracy Arkins (click to show/hide)
Failure Rating: 38.
Morale: -8.

12- Sinpwn - quite a late comer, Sinclair earned renown as the ender of the Halford family line: Slayer of Bruce and Anna Halford. Pioneer of robolimbs after the violent severing of his arm, leg and ears. Died of being exploded in a jet.
Spoiler: Sinclair Sleen (click to show/hide)
Failure Rating: 10.
Morale: 0.
« Last Edit: November 23, 2011, 04:10:03 am by lawastooshort »
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Re: Roll to Work at GenCorp!
« Reply #2 on: September 14, 2011, 12:19:17 pm »

This sounds like fun.  I'll join up.

Name: Fredrick Miller
Age: 34
Job Title: EWOP (Engineer WithOut Project)
Skill: Master of Chaos (+1 to causing confusion)
Weakness: Completely incompetent at actual work
Bio: Fredrick has never really done anything in life.  He got through college...somehow.  He got an engineering job, but somehow has been able to avoid actually getting assigned to any projects.  He's lazy, irresponsible, and rather rude, but still hasn't been fired yet...

Failure Rating: 10. Well, it’s not gonna be zero is it – you’re working here after all.
Morale: 0. Well, it’s not gonna be 10, is it – you’re working here after all.


I'm basically going for Wally from Dilbert; seems like an effective strategy.
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Re: Roll to Work at GenCorp!
« Reply #3 on: September 14, 2011, 12:25:46 pm »

Name:  Larry Thrakor   (Tends to go by his last name.)
Age:  29
Job Title:  Help Desk, Level 1 Support
Skill:  Nerd (+1 to computer-related tasks.)
Weakness: Pansy (-1 to social confrontations)
Bio:  Thrakor (as he prefers to go by) is that guy you call when you forget your password.  Regularly passed over for promotions to Level 2 Support (who fix actual problems), he just there answering the phone all day.  He'd probably get that promotion if he had stood up and objected the three times someone clearly less qualified than him (admittedly, not by much) got the promotion instead, but alas, he has no backbone.

Can he survive?  Will he ever get the promotion?  Will he just get canned?  Or will he just stay at his current job and fade into obscurity?

Failure Rating: 10.
Morale: 0.
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Re: Roll to Work at GenCorp!
« Reply #4 on: September 14, 2011, 01:45:17 pm »

Name: Daniel 
Age: 23
Job Title: Research sub-assistant assistant
Skill: Easy-going (+1 to social checks)
Weakness: Clumsy. Well, you must have at least one – you’re working here after all.
Bio: Daniel was a promising high-school student. Before it turned out he didn't have enough money to get into higher education. He signed up for GenCorp, and his life spiraled out of control, landing him in his current job, and with almost no other prospects.

Failure Rating: 10. Well, it’s not gonna be zero is it – you’re working here after all.
Morale: 0. Well, it’s not gonna be 10, is it – you’re working here after all.
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Re: Roll to Work at GenCorp!
« Reply #5 on: September 14, 2011, 02:44:37 pm »

Watching.
Otta be fun.  :D
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Re: Roll to Work at GenCorp!
« Reply #6 on: September 14, 2011, 03:01:40 pm »

Eh, what the heck.. May as well try to participate in this, even though my shortcomings in English will surly screw this up!  ;)

Name: Toby Raah
Age: 20
Job Title: Paper Flipper (what, somebody has to do it!)
Skill: Mischivious (+1 to planning pranks on fellow co-workers)
Weakness: Procrastinator (-1 to actually doing his job)
Bio: Slacker, with no ambitions in what to do with his life. Were forced by parents to move out, get a haircut and find a job. Due to low grades in HS, the only place he was eligible to was GenCorp. His days is often spent in his cubical, planning and scheming his newest pranks on his co-workers. This often takes valuable time from his work and would certainly get him fired.. if it weren't for him being practically invisible in the mass of thousands of employees.

Failure Rating: 10. Well, it’s not gonna be zero is it – you’re working here after all.
Morale: 0. Well, it’s not gonna be 10, is it – you’re working here after all.
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Re: Roll to Work at GenCorp!
« Reply #7 on: September 14, 2011, 03:31:36 pm »

All in. For the Glory of Bruce Halford!

Still open for new applicants.
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Re: Roll to Work at GenCorp! Monday:8am
« Reply #8 on: September 14, 2011, 04:14:41 pm »

Monday: 8am

BEEP BEEP BEEP
BEEP BEEP BEEP
BEEP BEEP BEEP


Ah man - it's your alarm clock going off. First day in your new post, don't want to be late now. You hurridly throw on your cheap polyester suit after the quickest of showers and wolf down some breakfast as you get ready to leave. You've got to get to work for 9am - you've got 45 minutes.

How are you getting to work this morning?
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Re: Roll to Work at GenCorp! Monday: 8am
« Reply #9 on: September 14, 2011, 04:22:38 pm »

Daniel decides to take a bus for most of the way there, then walking the rest.
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Re: Roll to Work at GenCorp! Monday: 8am
« Reply #10 on: September 14, 2011, 04:32:56 pm »

Kathryn White carpools with her chatty, religious sister in their co-owed little sports car-her sister doesn't have to work till 10.... Remember to smile!
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Re: Roll to Work at GenCorp! Monday: 8am
« Reply #11 on: September 14, 2011, 05:00:45 pm »

Signing up for the waitlist. ^^^ Edit: I was told if I post an action I'm in, so...

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Sato, having finished his breakfast and changed into his standard issue uniform, hopped onto his bike and started heading for work. He didn't have enough money yet to afford a car and he felt a bike was both better for the environment and travel; he could easily just pedal past everyone stuck in a traffic jam.
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Re: Roll to Work at GenCorp! Monday: 8am
« Reply #12 on: September 14, 2011, 05:30:32 pm »

Toby takes a slow and comfortable walk, while musing over several scenarios of mischief that he is going to unleash upon his new workplace. On his way, he stops for a coffee on the go, just to sharpen his mental abilities
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Re: Roll to Work at GenCorp! Monday: 8am
« Reply #13 on: September 14, 2011, 09:35:40 pm »

Frederick puts on the same shirt he always wears, squirts a little toothpaste on it to give it that fresh minty scent, and goes to catch the train.
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Re: Roll to Work at GenCorp! Monday: 8am
« Reply #14 on: September 14, 2011, 10:37:36 pm »

Thrakor walks.  He lives in a cheap apartment not too far from the office, so why not?  It's a nice day.
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