Sorry for bumping, and so on. Edit: Ooh, I didn't, someone else got there first.
I’m thinking about running an RTD based on the… less... awesome parts of my previous professional experiences (thanks to whoever I got GenCorp from…):
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! It may be excruciatingly tedious (at times) but it’s a foot in the door!
What could possibly go wrong?Well, I might not be able to run two light hearted but realistic simulations of life at once, in which case this one gets dropped, or you might get a [1], [1], [1], in which case you’ll die in some self-idiocy-inflicted-severe-injury-causing way. Bummer. Oh, and you’ll probably get sacked (some people may call this “being fired”).
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.
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.
Rules will be, surprisingly, 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. Your morale will drop.
Sample Character Sheet:
Name: Brett Jenkins
Age: 26
Job Title: Secretarial Under-Assistant. If it sounds glamourous - well, it isn't.
Skill: Making Hot Drinks (+1). Well, you can’t fail hard at everything.
Weakness: Late Sleeper. Well, you must have at least one – you’re working here after all.
Bio: Brett works as an under-assistant to a GenCorp secretary to a Professor of Things You Just Don’t Understand. What the hell did he do with his education?
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.
Any interest? I’m only going to accept two pre-ins and five starters, I think, to be more open and stuff, and anyhow I'd anticipate a lot of sackings.
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