MISC Topics:

[FG Admin]

In Former Glory there are three types of jobs to choose from. Think carefully before picking your career because it will determine what type of missions your character will take on, and how much they will be paid. Try your best to pick a career that fits your character's personality. Below is a basic description of each job type you can choose from.

All player's will be paid on the start of the new FG day, which takes place once every two weeks. It will be marked on the calendar as an event.

1. OPD:
The Osiris Police Department. You will serve as the basic law enforcement officer to help keep down crime in the city. If a crime is taking place you will be required to stop what you are doing to lend your assistance with whatever is currently happening in the city. You will also be a detective that must solve cases and murders, or be a defensive unit that must protect or run surveillance on a certain area. This is the most action packed job in Osiris, so the risk factor of dying is very high. You will need basic combat abilities to assist you in subduing your target, and a sharp eye for solving tough cases.
Because you have a police radio you will be informed before everyone else about a crime that is about to take place.
Basic pay: $150 a day.
Bonus pay: +$150 per crime stopped or event completed (There is a lot of crime).
The OPD loans out patrol cars for free.

2. News Reporter:
You work for the Osiris Daily Chronicle as a reporter or writer. It is your job to find all the exciting stuff going on in the city, and tell the rest of the world about it. Try to beat the police to a crime scene to get the scoop, or film a bank robbery live while still inside the bank!
The better the story, the more you get paid.
This job isn't very life threatening unless you are going out of your way to get a really good story. For players who like to relax, socialize, and learn about other people's business, then this is the job for you. You won't need any combat skills for this job, but you will need keen ears, quiet feet, and a silver tongue to get the story you are looking for.
Basic pay: $100 a day
Bonus pay: +$100 for writing about story events or crimes that take place.

3. Operative:
This is one of those gray area jobs that are hard to explain. You can be one of three things. With this job type all players will start off working for Hydra corp. If you wish to work for Carson you may choose so by talking to him later on in the game.

Type One: Technician. You will run surveillance using state of the art satellites or cameras to keep an eye on something from afar, or just stand outside and be a look out...
As a Technician you can join Carson, Hydra, or the OPD.
For players playing "Look out" the admin will inform you first about a enemy that is coming in the area, or send a map of the layout of the building so that you can guide the others to where they need to go. This will be done by PM to give this job more importance.
You will also be a hacker or technician expert that gets in to get a computer related job done, and then get back out to allow the other team to do all the killing and fighting. If you have ever watched the TV show 24, then Chloe would be the perfect example because she would be Jack Bauer's operative. For this job you will need to distract people so that they don't notice you and your teammates, sneaky feet to get to places unseen, and computer skills that will help you get the job done.

Type Two: Enforcer. You will work for Hydra corp. to help stop the crimes going on in the city. Hydra will give you a mission, and you will carry it out. If you wish you may also drop in to assist the police, but they may not like you randomly dropping in. If you choose to embrace your more evil side you will be the one making the crime and will be fighting the people trying to stop you. You will work for Carson Wylde at club Exxel, he will have you rob certain banks for money, hijack supply trucks for rare weapons and equipment, or roughhouse a certain somebody that is in your way. For this job you will mostly need combat skills to help you complete your tasks. A few stealth or computer skills may be required as well. This would be the perfect job for superheroes/villains. The risk factor for this job type is very high.

Type Three: Agent. A spy or art thief would be a good example for this type. For some rare cases, you may need a smooth tongue to help you get what you need. You mostly deal in stealing, finding, or overhearing things without being detected. Sometimes talking to someone is the easiest way to gain information, so persuasion or acting would be key skills to have. If you are more of the silent sneaky type that likes to get your hands on rare items, then sleight of hand and stealth would be good skills to assist you.
Hydra Basic pay: $200 a day for working for them.
Hydra Bonus pay: +$200 per crime stopped or event completed.
Hydra also loans high level equipment to their agents for free.

Carson jobs: May pay out up to $1000 a day. However, the risk factor is a lot higher so you may come out empty handed if things go south.


*Other: Cooks, Lawyers, dancers, teachers, ETC.
Basic pay: $200 (No bonuses or perks)


NOTE: Just because the skills are recommended, it doesn't mean that you have to use them. Pick skills that best match your character. You must work for one of the organizations listed above due to the fact that this is a story driven RP. The NPCs you work for will give you missions to help keep the role play fun.

[FG Admin]

NOTE: No matter what job you choose all Sensitives will start here.

Introduction:
Welcome to the Former Glory Hydra tutorial. Here you will learn everything you need to know about the role play. You will start off by role playing out your character finding their teacher, walking over to her and talking to her. You will have your character introduce them self, and then let your teacher know that you are ready to start your training. If you have any questions about anything, don't be afraid to ask your teacher about it to get a better understanding. Although you are role playing in character, you will be learning a lot of things out of character.
Sometimes NPCs or other players will have a long wall of text, instead of having your character stand silent through the whole thing, post as if they had had a back and forth conversation, and that they had responded to what the other person was saying all along.
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Hydra corp is mostly an all white building, like a hospital or a lab. It is very clean and smells like disinfectant. There are a few plain black leather chairs, dark wood or glass coffee tables, and a few clusters of plants decorating the room. The walls are completely bare with no art or marks on them, and the floor matches it with it's plain white tile floors. The farther you walk into the building, the plainer it gets.
A few other new students are in the room, talking to one another or with their teachers. Others were more advanced students that were lounging around and watching the new students. Not too far away you spot Glory standing by the wall, waiting for you to start your training. Her arms are crossed and her face a mask- literally, showing no emotion or facial expressions. She notices you standing there and turns her attention to you, but doesn't make any motions to come towards you.

[FG Admin]

Introduction:
Welcome to the Former Glory Police tutorial. Here you will learn everything you need to know about the role play. You will start off by role playing out your character finding their teacher, walking over to him and talking to him. You will have your character introduce them self, and then let your teacher know that you are ready to start your training. If you have any questions about anything, don't be afraid to ask your teacher about it to get a better understanding. Although you are role playing in character, you will be learning a lot of things out of character.
Sometimes NPCs or other players will have a long wall of text, instead of having your character stand silent through the whole thing, post as if they had had a back and forth conversation, and that they had responded to what the other person was saying all along.
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After passing your basic training you finally make it to the real thing. The police HQ building is pretty much the way you would imagine a high end police station to be. There are comfortable and inviting chairs, coffee tables with magazines, and a few clusters of plants decorating the room. The walls have art hanging from them and small little windows to see outdoors, and the floor matches it with a few rugs or carpets to help make the place look more inviting.
A few other new police officers were in the room as well, talking to one another, drinking coffee and eating donuts, or getting some work done. On the opposite side of the room inside his office, was Boss Murphy sitting at his desk and writing some type of important document. Rage and anger seemed to vibrate off of him and fill the rest of the room. No one set foot near its door.
When he saw you staring at him, he recognizes you right away as the new person. He quickly stands to his feet and yells out, "New person, get your sorry behind in here pronto! I don't have all day!" Everyone in the room with you stopped to stare, and then hurried away so that they wouldn't have to face Murphy's wrath.

[FG Admin]

Introduction:
Welcome to the Former Glory Reporter tutorial. Here you will learn everything you need to know about the role play. You will start off by role playing out your character finding their teacher, walking over to her and talking to her. You will have your character introduce them self, and then let your teacher know that you are ready to start your training. If you have any questions about anything, don't be afraid to ask your teacher about it to get a better understanding. Although you are role playing in character, you will be learning a lot of things out of character.
Sometimes NPCs or other players will have a long wall of text, instead of having your character stand silent through the whole thing, post as if they had had a back and forth conversation, and that they had responded to what the other person was saying all along.
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The Daily chronicle building is pretty much the way you would imagine a high end news building to look. There are comfortable and inviting modern looking chairs, nouveau designed coffee tables with magazines on top of them, and a few clusters of art statues and plants decorating the room. The walls have modern art hanging from them and many large windows over looking the city below, and the floor matches it with a few rugs or carpets to help make the place look more inviting.

The building was clustered with people all talking to one another and rushing around to get some work done. Boss Bianca Saint-John was sitting at her desk in her office, writing some type of important document. When she saw you staring she recognized you right away as the new person. "Hey, new person." She waved eagerly at you with a big smile. "Come here, quickly." She stood from her chair and walked around the desk to watch you come over to her office.

[FG Admin]

The main hanger for Hydra corp. This is where Hydra corp keeps their FMWs and vehicles. You cannot loan one out, this is only for storing the ones you already own. You must show your ID card to the guard stationed at the main gate to allow you access to the hanger area. If you are working you can come here to take one of the FMWs or vehicles out of the garage to get around, or have it shipped to you by one of the operatives. Just make sure you get permission from either the cataloger or your commanding operative before leaving.

FMW loadout code
Copy and paste the below code to customize your FMW machine. This is only for players that have already joined the FMW program. You will receive more information when you get started.

[b]((<-FMW LOADOUT->))[/b]

[b]Money: $1000[/b]

[b][size=2]FMW Body Gear[/b][/size]

[b]Head gear (0/2:[/b] None (Used for placing weapons/items on FMW head).
[b]Body gear (0/2):[/b] None. (Used for placing weapons/items on FMW body).
[b]Leg gear (0/2):[/b] None.
[b]Foot gear (0/1):[/b] None.

[b]Left/Right arm Weapons (0/2)[/b] NONE.

[b]Total attack power bonus:[/b] 0
[b]Total defense/health bonus:[/b] ((Based on your FMW life and defense stats))

[b]FMW Abilities:[/b]
[b]1.[/b]
[b]2.[/b]
[b]3.[/b]

[b][size=1]NOTE:[/b] A player cannot use their character skills while piloting a FMW. The machine will be restricted to using whatever it is equiped with.[/size]


[amethyst]

-YAAAAAWN-

The huge yawn was complimented by that particular sound aluminum cans made when opened. It was only 10:42 in the morning, and this was the third can of Gnasher energy drink she was having. It had been a long night: a DDoS strike to a nearby server, AND a raid in a popular MMORPG. Yep, busy stuff.

Aileana gulped the drink voraciously, emptying its contents in exactly a hallway and a half. She wore a white dress shirt and cyan pajama bottoms with matching slippers. Her hair a wrangled mess and the bags under her eyes characteristically low. Not looking her best, but she didn't mind. The blank walls along the way attracted none of her attention, nor did the floor's perfect slants. The place was drab, but she'd taken no heed of that: maybe she was drab herself?

With a creak, the wooden door opened, the chatter that could be heard outside was now fully audible, and the smell of cleanliness and fresh wood hit her like a ton of bricks. "Ooh." It was only a few seconds later that she was abruptly awakened from her trance, with the disconcerting glance of Glory's masked visage. There was something about it, but she couldn't pinpoint what for the life of her.

Uneasy, Aileana approached. "Good morning, miss." Politeness above all, she turned her body to throw the drink's can into the garbage bin, not without keeping her eyes fixed on Glory's own though. That face... "M-My apologies. How are you?" She remembered the phrase and its purpose from 'The book on people' she'd read at some point to try and be less awkward around people.

[Glory]

1. The basics of living.

Glory nods her head at Aileana. "Good morning. I'm fine, thank you. Nice to see you up so early." There was sarcasm in her voice, even though her face was covered it was clear that she was smiling. All the other students had awaken earlier at around 6:00 AM, Aileana was nearly walking in around 11:00 AM. A lot of the students began to snicker at her pajama pants.

"Well, let's go on and start your basic training for the day. Let's not waste any time. Normally the first thing we would have learned today would have been talking and interacting with other people, but I think you already know most of the basics. A bit of review never hurts, right?
"Talking to people is the most important part of the job. Make sure that you try to talk and interact with as many people as possible to share and gain more information about what is going on in the city. We will start off with using quotation marks. Most role play sites have you use them to let the other players know when you are talking, from when you are performing a action. Seeing how you already started the conversation with me I can tell that you already know how to use them, so we will move on. When it comes to your thoughts, you will put the text in "Italic", there is a button at the top of the post window to put words in italic, bold, or underline them.
And when you are talking out of character to make little comments about the story, towards a player, or asking a question, use a double Parentheses. Remember, this is only for out of character. The double parentheses are normaly put at the very top of your post, or at the very bottom of your post so that it doesn't enterfere with the other things you type. It should look a bit..."

((Like this))

Glory places her hands behind her back and begins to pace back and forth. "Alright, for the most part I think you understand the basics. Let's move on to learning about your storage bag, how to add and subtract your money, and how to purchase items from the shops. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me about it now. If not, follow me to the next training room." Glory waves her hand to get Aileana to follow her. "Come on, little one."

[amethyst]

((Is present tense the standard here? I'm accustomed to simple past tense to role-play, but I can adapt if it's necessary.))

Normally one would have been stung by the sarcasm in Glory's voice. For Aileana, this was not the case however, as she shrugged and tilted her head, a weak smile painting her visage. She listened intently and wondered where her notebook and pens had hidden today: she had a reputation for losing them... Then finding them under piles of Gnasher cans and dirty clothes.

"Talk... To people... Mm-hmm." It didn't really go well with her; most people offered very little when compared coldly to a computer. They had no games, no music -on most cases-, very few stories that actually mattered, and most certainly they couldn't be hacked. Not with codes and overrides, anyhow.

So italics, and double parenthesis... My English isn't too shabby, but why are we reviewing punctuation?

"Storage bag and money, yes!" She exclaimed not too thrilled, but following The Book on People to the letter. Repeating a fraction of what was said to you, particularly any keywords, as denoted in chapter 3, will give the psychological effect that you are indeed, paying attention.

"I'm coming!" The spontaneous, loud blurt made easily half the class explode in laughter from the sexual epithet. Unknowingly, she tried her best to fit in by giving a hearty chuckle. With that, the slippers clapped on the floor as Aileana went after Glory to continue training.

[Glory]

((Most of the time I use past tense. You may use whichever writing style you are most comfortable with. I some times switch up depending on who I am playing to make it like I am a whole new person. But there is no standard form.))

2. Item storage and buying supplies.

Glory walked out of the room and into the next one. The next room they walked into was similar to the last one, except there was a counter up agaisnt the far wall with items lining the wall from top to bottom. A young woman was behind the counter, running the small store within the building.

Glory stopped walking and turned to face her new student. "Here is where we will practice buying items. At the bottom of one of your posts inside of your signature is a quick link that will take you to your item storage page. Near the top of your storage page will be your money, you will start off with $1000 to use on whatever you want, but I will give you 50 extra dollars for your training. You may have noticed that within everyone's bag is a ID card, these cards will be used not only as an identification card for people to find out who you are, but also as a credit card, and a work ID all rolled into one. Your task will be to purchase two VBS Stimpacks from the store clerk over there." Glory points at the store Clerk behind the counter.

"You will first walk over and greet the NPC, telling her what you would like to buy, and then handing her your ID card so that she can scan it. You will then wait for the NPC to post a reply and give you the items you asked for. If the NPC does not give a confirmation post that you bought the item, then you cannot add it to your bag. Once you have the items in your bag you will make a final response acknowledging that you took the items. At the very bottom of your final post type:
((Subtracting $50 from bag, and adding VBS items.))
in bold letters to let the other players and Admin know that you edited your item storage and money already. Make sure to actually edit your items and money, and not just say so in your post, because if you post the message that you edited your items without actually doing it, then the Admin will give you a warning for it.

Alright, I hope that's not too Confusing. After you are done buying the item return to me to move on to your next task."

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Not far away from where you are standing you notice a small counter with a woman standing behind it. A large variety of items is located behind her. She smiles when she sees you look her way, and steps slightly to the side so that you can get a better look at the items on the wall.

[amethyst]

"Signature, bottom... Money... ID... Stimpacks... I got this. No problem. I just need to talk to--" Her mumbling was abruptly cut off by the thought of talking to the clerk. Aileana fouEnd the clerk somewhat familiar. She'd seen the woman on a leather couch a couple of days ago, most certainly.

Aileana walked, awkwardly twiddling her thumbs as she approached the clerk. Thankful she'd made eye contact, because that meant she wouldn't have to speak loudly. "Good morning! How are you doing?" A smile followed the question: sincere, but it didn't really help her case, as her voice couldn't shake off that little bizarre touch.

Eager for his reply, she went over the instructions in her head. Ask him for two stimpacks, show her the ID card... The clerk's shiny hair caught Aileana's attention for a moment, after which she was set to state her needs. "I need two VBS Stimpacks, please." A lanky arm stretched out with the card in hand, the pallor of her skin being noticeable when the wrist protruded from the dress shirt.