Jargn

jargn · February 24, 2025, 10:23am

In-game Username: jargn
Discord username: Scented_dead_flowers
Characters you play: Jack Jargn

On average, how many hours do you expect to admin per week: 8-10, maybe more depending on my energy but I typically enjoy having lizard open in the backround to see what silly shit people get up to while im up to writing or other hobbies.

Days you are available to admin on: Mon-Sat.

How old are you? 21

Do you have any SS14 experience outside of Wizard’s Den servers, or any SS13 experience? Most of every hour I’ve clocked has been in wizden, but time to time I do enjoy playing on frontier and Harmony.

Do you have prior administration experience (SS13/SS14 experience preferred, please also post a way for us to verify this)? Ive done a few things here and there, but its mostly just been filling in for friends when they’ve had to take month long hiatuses and whatnot, but nothing important enough to the point where I can site something as reference.

Have you ever been banned from any SS14 or SS13 servers? Never.

What are you primarily interested in doing as an admin?
I enjoy helping out when and where I can, being a generally helpful presence would be very nice.
Plus, popping raiders like grapes in a microwave is a nice bonus.

What are you least interested in doing as an admin?
Interpersonal conflict that spans over meta, i.e Urist really hates Uriel because he valid hunted him 4 rounds ago, so he does everything he can to gib them once he rolls antag again.
Generally I feel when actual, real spite kicks in, not temporary annoyances, just actual distain, I feel like its best for them to talk it out in private with permission, or at the last actively avoid eachother as much as humanly possible within gameplay.
It is a video game, it should never be the host for real strife.

Detail Questions

What role do you think game admins serve on our servers?

Generally speaking? To provide the final say on matters and make sure the rhetorical machine runs well.
To elaborate on what I mean, space station is alot of moving parts so there are times where people will get too caught up in the flow.
Admins act as an impartial party removed from the current round, god knows I have gotten caught up in the goings-on to where I lost a bit of my sense.
This provides a much more coolheaded view of a situation as you arent so stuck in the story your making for yourself in that round.

Why do you want to become an administrator for SS14?

Nothing too grand, I just feel like helping nourish a game thats captivated me in recent times and since I dont know how to code, I feel I can put my skills best to work in a position like this.

How do you feel about the current roleplay status on the servers?

On lizard theres alot of people who are exceptionally fun to interact with and some who dont play a character, but theres alot of stand out cases who make it more than worth it to go there.
Mander has alot of fun people but I feel its too calm at times, that said it does lead to interesting roleplay as people can actually think a situation out rather than just “GO GO GO GO GO!!” all the time.

Have you ever had a negative experience in the game or with a game admin? If so what, if anything, would you do to prevent other players from experiencing this?

I was playing as HOS, the HOP had hired someone onto sec who I didnt give the okay on, in addition I didnt get to screen him, first I heard of him was the start of the situation.
There was an occasion in which I had been put in the middle of an extremely rough situation, I was dealing with a syndie interrogation that only I could do for the simple reason that nobody else had the knowledge of the full scenario but one of my officers had been transphobic. (Joe Schmo to be specific)
The victim was understandably very very upset.
I told the guy that it was gross to misgender someone and went to wrap up the syndie situation real quick, afterwards the victim had begun to demand I do it that instant accusing me of agreeing with him and just wanting to let him off the hook.
This went on for 5 minutes, of me saying “please let me wrap this up and I will demote him.”
I fully intended to do so because outside of his gross conduct, he was also an extremely shit officer, demanding a search on green and arrested when declined, he stunned them ans hauled em to jail.
So I had to take a step back to recompose myself as I was starting to become extremely panicked.
I step away for 3 minutes to take a moment to myself and then handle it, I then get boinged because the victim had pointed the admin to me.
The sec force and lawyer beat her to death.
Alot of the blame was put onto me, treating me like I was the one to do everything mentioned.
Afterwards I had a full blown panic attack and was no longer capable of handling any situation.
She kept blaming me, the admin kept blaming me, I kept blaming me, so I just kinda cracked, so for the rest of the match I was just completely non functional.
A dragon showed up so I tried to kill it but everything felt so hazy I couldnt focus anymore.
Afterwards I just got in bed and layed face down on the pillow for 3 hours.
The admin didnt warn me or anything and I know for the future if anything similar happens I will just shoot the bastard and then ahelp, but it was very very early into my gameplay, my third hos round so I wasnt familiar with what I was and wasnt allowed to do.
I really do not feel the admin tried to understand what was happening with me in the situation, I was not blameless but I was not the one who caused it nor did I try to protect it, I wanted to resolve it but I was still learning so I choked extremely hard and for it, I was treated as a direct contributor.

Have you ever had a good experience with the game or a game admin? If so, what was it?

There was a detective who broke the meta shield (it was still in around this time), she had begun screaming at me (hop) and a REALLY good lawyer saying we ruined her round alongside her day with our “meta gaming bullshit” and how shes gonna ahelp us in looc.
She than ran out and cryosleeped, the admin asked for the specifics rather than jumping to conclusions and ended up understanding we werent bullying her, she was just breaking the rules.
It was overall very pleasant.
Assuming we are counting admemes, two come to mind that I look back on very fondly.
On Convex, I was trying to announce something but the machine just didnt work properly for some reason, the admin was confusing it for the typing bug but after trying it themself, they got extremely confused because it was broken as hell.
After a good chunk of trial and error, they said “try now?” To which I got on and just picked a word at random.
“Cock”
Afterwards I was forcibly made into a cat boy with most accents.
I then had to drink 20000 units of weh juice but the hos broke it.
Still one of my favorite rounds.
That or the “plot twist round”
The admin hosted a poll, it succeeded, I was playing captain at the time so they said “wanna be the plot twist?”
They then made me a loneop.
I tried to treat it as more of a performance than a battle afterwards, leveraging the fact that im captain and whatnot.
It was an extremely fun and unique moment.
Overall, I would say I’ve had alot more memorable good moments than bad moments with the admins.

Scenario Questions

Scenario 1

It is the start of the round. There are 60 players on the server. The game mode is traitors, traitors have not been selected yet. There are three players who decided to observe the round instead of join it orbiting you. Two of them are encouraging you to “do something funny”.

Well this depends on a few key factors, chief of which being “do I feel like I can actually think of something funny and has it been a while since I did a small amount of goofin?”
If no, I just decline and move on, if yes I will do a little something like randomly putting cat ears in the bridge whilst some heads are talking, or taking one of their hats off and putting it in space outside their office, if everybody is laughing and it doesnt disrupt anything too badly, I feel its fine to do stuff like that time to time.
But nothing too disruptive like “Bokay, lets make everybody traitors!”
Stuff like that is best decided in the pregame lobby with a poll.
I feel like in the middle of the round itd be okay to host a poll asking “summon Gilgamesh? The first hero?” Or something mild.
The goal of something funny isnt to disrupt the entire round, just a little “hehe, okay that was funny..”
I do not know the situations of everyone in the lobby, what if a person finally rolled captain, its been god knows how long and they can only cram in a match a week or so.
If I did something like “okay lets kill this guy in particular”, that would completely shit on their free time.
This is assuming its Lizard, if its Salamander I would just outright decline, that or say “okay check this shit out” and just act like I normally would.

Scenario 2

This scenario takes place on LRP. The Head of Security has decided to coup the Captain. The Head of Personnel agrees with the Head of Security and has taken up arms in case it is necessary to aid in effecting the arrest of the Captain. The Captain is hiding with the Quartermaster in the cargo shuttle to avoid the Clown who has stolen the captains saber as a non-antag. There are five people named in this scenario. Please describe what actions, if any, you would take in relation to each, and why.

This is a tricky situation because theres alot of factors at play.
Besides for the clown, the clowns just bein a bastard, based off the wording it seems the clown was menacing the QM and Captain, so thats a warning at the minimum, likely a temp ban.
I would begin by trying to get to the root of the situation, did the captain actually fuck up or is the HOS just up their own ass.
Assuming “taken up arms” means literal guns, I would either warn or temporarily roleban the HOP and HOS for over escalation in any event as simply arresting and demoting the captain is a viable thing that can happen without admins.
And the Captains fate entirely depends on if they actually fucked up, at which case I judge that alone, completely unrelated to the events as hiding on the shuttle is a reasonable thing in the case of the clown.
The quartermaster, 9/10 times is fine here though, they are just listening to their captain afterall.
Figuring out what actually happened would be tricky and take a while but all sides of the story is NEEDED here.

Scenario 3

You are ahelping a player about an issue. The player has no prior noted issues. A few days earlier, an admin had told you that this type of situation should result in a temporary ban for a first offense, and you are confident that this situation is not substantially different from the type that admin was describing. During the ahelp, another admin pings you on Discord with a link to the ongoing ahelp and tells you to just indefinitely ban them and make them appeal. Excluding trialmins and headmins, all admins are equally “ranked”. A headmin is not currently available.

I would ask them to elaborate on why this is different to the one I was told about.
Once I understand it what they mean, I would explain my point of view on the topic, whether it be “Ah, alright. On it boss man!” Or “I really do not feel like thats right.” In which case I would do it the way they suggested and then talk to other admins later to further my understanding.
If I still dont feel like it was right, I would discuss it with the head admins and ask further about it.
Overall, I would be inexperienced so I wouldnt be able to have a full say on it without it being extremely tainted by personal bias and lack of experience.

updated 8/10/2025
changed some opinions around and also my age as my birthday passed.