Goonhub
12-12-2024, 06:48 AM
I think the idea and its implementation in round has been at its best (there's been some pretty funny hall monitors. Tweaking this or not I think their inclusion has been a positive) when it's been someone thoroughly without power exercising what little power they have, or being dragged into something well over their head.
I apologise to whoever I didn't get the name of for this, but I'll cite your amazing round as one, where you found a husked corpse, ticketed it for "littering" and then spent the round complaining and investigating the changeling threat not because it was a changeling, but because -someone- was cluttering the halls. A highlight was seeing you custom emote and I paraphrase from poor memory "mutters nearly under their breath about how difficult it is to get bloodstains out of maintenance halls"
So I think the role's working when people have what I'd call "School hall monitor" mindset very well. I think it even plays well when a hall monitor pretends to have authority they simply don't. I think that gets muddied significantly when they have a security hotline. The metaphor for the teacher's lounge is a good one: It's a role you give a good student with a pretense of power much like the school council, and much like the council it doesn't actually -get- to pass through the veil of actual authority, it's a toy copy of it.
I apologise to whoever I didn't get the name of for this, but I'll cite your amazing round as one, where you found a husked corpse, ticketed it for "littering" and then spent the round complaining and investigating the changeling threat not because it was a changeling, but because -someone- was cluttering the halls. A highlight was seeing you custom emote and I paraphrase from poor memory "mutters nearly under their breath about how difficult it is to get bloodstains out of maintenance halls"
So I think the role's working when people have what I'd call "School hall monitor" mindset very well. I think it even plays well when a hall monitor pretends to have authority they simply don't. I think that gets muddied significantly when they have a security hotline. The metaphor for the teacher's lounge is a good one: It's a role you give a good student with a pretense of power much like the school council, and much like the council it doesn't actually -get- to pass through the veil of actual authority, it's a toy copy of it.