Cynthia Xeonyr HoS Application

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Heya RaccoonPope, Clonesec sounds like a fun gimmick! I had a look through your app and took a bit of time to watch a few rounds and wanted to give some feedback. Please bear in mind I'm not a regular sec player and it's all just my opinion so yours may vary. I'll break it into a general observations, then some details about a specific round and then a final summary for those who don't want to read the whole thing. 

General observations

• pretty chatty and receptive in terms of communication with the station as a whole. There's times where you've been a bit distracted from something happening in front of you but every time I saw that it was also because you were focusing on something else, so understandable and something we all do.
  
• I know it sounds silly, but you do seem to really enjoy playing. Not a hugely important observation but having a positive attitude is always going to reflect on others and can never harm the playing experience.
  
• Seem relatively competent in every department I caught you in. 
  
• You seem to understand security very well. Knew how to adapt to different threats from different antagonists. Know the importance of your tools and so on. 
  
• I have either been unlucky or it hasn't cropped up, but I haven't had the chance to witness a lot of training opportunities, there's a "kinda" scenario in the specific round below but it's heavily caveated. I'm not saying you're missing opportunities as they just didn't crop up in the rounds I saw you play, but definitely make use of any opportunities you can to train where appropriate.
  

Specific round stuff

This all took place in a very recent round on cogmap 1, for reference, you took a brief visit to the void at one point. 

• Good basic opening procedure, but I like that you had a nice side chat with the chef while you were getting organised in the nearby outpost. It's not a huge thing but keeping in contact with the general populace when it's not in service of the job is nice RP and reflects your general willingness to engage with people which was reflected throughout watching you.
  
• I have a note that says "What's with the screaming?" I only just realised right now you had mildly mutated which was what the visit to genetics was about. But it lets me segue into the fact you stay in your lane in rounds: let the docs do their work and asked for assistance rather than self-medicate. Again, not a huge HoS thing but a good general practice as the HoS you are the example to follow. 
  
• This part is very subjective, so feel free to toss it out, but there was what I'd call a "Hyper vigilant" Security assistant working on the team that to me was struggling a bit with pacing their vigilance and being a little too proactive (again, very subjective) on spotting antags. I feel you and the team did well to absorb and communicate that but not also jump on the bandwagon to act on it and behaved organically to find evidence on non-humans instead. Another example of "lead by example" there though the team on in the round in general was good with this. Might also be a good opportunity to chat with them and offer to shadow them but it's fine you didn't and they never intimated they wanted training.
  
• Listened to your HoS, then beat your HoS for getting Raj'd but I appreciate you RPd it out post-treatment with them. 
  
• Some more specific "stuff I'd like to see from HoSes" you were good in general this round with relaying and communicating what you were doing and communicating/delegating to others: You would say what you were doing, the results of that when done, and if you found a thing for the detective to investigate you delegated and set the body up for them in the morgue. Good stuff. You also remembered after being busy to come back to dropped leads like this. Keeping up the communication seems to be something all HoSes recommend so that's always going to be a plus in my book. 
  
• I don't know if it was intentional but I'll talk about it anyway because it might be a good trick to use anyway: you arrested the chief at one point and brought them in for some fairly low-level antagonism. You offered to get them some tea and walked away that point to do it. You didn't rush that process, and incidentally gave them kind of enough time if they wanted to to escape. I feel like this is a pretty clever way to offer a bit of an escalatory path for an antag that's not quite done their bit yet, and also made the interrogation process a bit of an "opt-in" arrangement so everyone is happy to RP it out and spend a bit of time doing so. If it was an accident, it's something to keep doing I think, if not, it's a smart idea. It's not going to apply for every situation but it was a good one here.
  
• In turn, good avoiding "Sec clustering" around an event. An example, when you captured the clown and sent them to interrogation, you responded well to a call for assistance, but noticed when the interrogation was very crowded to go do something else. This is always I feel a tricky thing to do, we all want to be involved in a major thing but remembering you've got other people and leads to chase up (and you did) especially when you were the arrestee is always a good sign to me of someone with the right mentality. 
  
• You got dunked in the void at one point and then as a side thing got hamstrung with some EMP issues. It happens! But I appreciate you didn't get upset or break character and just go on with it. It's going to be an important skill as sometimes security doesn't win them all and you have to pick things back up. 
  
• Good snap judgement on the rajah'd Sam by bringing a doc out to you guys in the hall. Good work from the team in general on that one.
  

Summary

It's all pretty positive stuff. I think ultimately seeing some training opportunities (and if you're doing it and I got unlucky, hearing about them from other people giving feedback) is important, but from what I saw while watching and your general mentality I'd be pretty comfortable with you as a HoS. The one area I didn't get to see is how you handle things if it goes really pear-shaped, but (and don't take this wrong) hopefully I will and I can give feedback on that. I'm leaning fairly towards +1.