HoS application: Ishmael Belmont (attempt 2)

[SomeOlFellow]

While I can't comment on their experience with teaching, leading, or anything of that myself due to the schedule that I have kept for a long while now preventing me from running into Ishmael much, I would like to share an experience I had with them that has led to a minor concern after mulling over it on and off a small bit over the last couple of days. The concern being that they might, currently, be a bit too hasty in their judgements and/or actions. This stems from an interaction I had as an NTSC in a changeling round. Instead of allowing medical silicons, and potentially a doctor (room was incredibly crowded at the time) operate to remove a headspider that had just lept into me, the path chosen was to shoot directly at me with lethals, and not just once but multiple times over the course of the next half a minute or so, and even as medical were trying to hastily operate to remove it on the spot. This could absolutely be a one off event, but it stuck out to me as a rather hastily made decision that attempted to prevented others from contributing, and stuck out as a concern as to how they might act in a larger role.

I feel this scene needs a bit of added context, and I'll provide an explanation for my actions here, as I'm replying. A changeling had eaten the Head of Security without our knowledge; I ended up in a private encounter with them that I only survived thanks to a mix of genes and security's (along with AI and the cyborgs), great response time. This resulted in our second shambler fight of the day, which resulted in you being spidered. I will admit, I was tense, and the initial shots were indeed hasty as I had forgotten table surgery was a thing in that moment and didn't notice the medical borg initially until they spoke up, saying to place you on the table. I gave them some time to work it out, but they couldn't figure out how to remove it. They then moved you to a bed, and still couldn't remove it (I believe this was due to you not being unconscious, a requirement for table/bed surgery). So I then made the decision to kill to prevent you from also being turned, if not already, as they had tried numerous times and failed to do an impromptu surgery. I did ask them if you were still in the infection stage at one point to which they said yes, I gave them some time to try to remove it, but given the wildly unpredictable nature that is changeling headspider conversion speeds, which can range anywhere from 30 seconds to five minutes I knew I had to be prepared and eventually made the decision myself. (I have witnessed BOTH of these, having fallen victim to the former).

The initial shots were indeed hasty, but I gave them the time to work once I noticed them. I eventually decided to prevent total conversion, a decision I thought out over the minute after the initial chaos that was you being spidered and the time they were working on you. It was a tough decision, and one I feel could be justified both in and out of character. I could have given them more time, knowing the risks, but I did not take that risk as the round was already very high octane, and the given spider had managed to kill a lot of people before we even had an idea who they were.