Staff

Quick Break Down
Staffer	Primary	Secondary	Factions
Brooklyn	Headwiz	GMing	Homeland Security
Bronx	Code	Bein' cool.	N/A
Chinatown	Player Relations	Wiki-Fu	Phoenix
Ellis	Apps	NPCing	Linderman Group & Ferrymen
Manhattan	GMing	NPCing	Triad & FRONTLINE
Rockefeller	Apps	Player Relations	Humanis First
Rose	Code	Apps	Ferrymen & Company

The String Theory Staff

This is a listing of the current and active staff on String Theory, along with an overview on our areas of expertise and knowledge, what we take control over and what we are here for. We have streamlined our duties into two areas, our Primary specialties and our Secondary specialties. The purpose of this is to give the players (and ourselves!) an idea as to who to turn to for specific issues, questions, and requests.

It should be noted that these are specialties rather than what we only ever do - we share the workload pretty evenly and so the majority of us will look at apps, for instance, or have a handle on most thematic questions. So please feel free to approach any of us about whatever you need. However, the table above and explanations below can serve as an indicator as to our strengths and preferred functions, so hopefully that is helpful.

Our primary function, overall, is to keep the game working and players playing. Our secondary function is to rock.

Brooklyn

Brooklyn is current head wiz of String Theory, which basically amounts to overseeing the staff mechanics or lending a voice (or final say) if one is needed. If you have need for her in a headwiz capacity (such as complaints or anything you don't want to put into a +request), then please feel free to contact her via page or @mail. Her secondary specialty is GMing - running scenes of a larger scale, whether in or out of storyline and volume arcs. If you require assistance in scene-running, you are welcome to contact her whether for direct involvement or ideas.

If you have any questions concerning Homeland Security, a faction that is largely staff run, Brooklyn can strive to answer them or act as an NPCer regarding them. She can also assist with other factions, notably Ferrymen, FRONTLINE, and formerly Vanguard, as well as the informal non-faction that is the Staten Island crime population.

Her NPCs include Nathan Petrelli and Thompson, and are available for use depending on the scene. Original NPCs include: Sarisa Kershner (CIA operative with ties to FRONTLINE), Grant and Lee (Company agents with regular Homeland Security covers), Tristan Bentley (FRONTLINE soldier), Zhang Bai-Chan (Ferrymen-adopted orphan), Delphine Kuhr (bringer of trouble), Francois Allegre (historical do-gooder and backstory extraordinaire), and Richard Kenneth (Company psychologist). All of these are available to players at any time (depending on what is needed as they all have their separate function, and if there isn't a PC available) and to push along plot, so please ask if you require their services.

You can page or @mail Brooklyn in relation to any of the above, or if you simply require a staffer for brainstorming or general help. Her hours are most evenings EST, pretty much every day.

Bronx

He's our code guy. Respect.

Chinatown

Chinatown helps out with Player Relations, the Wikidot, and the catalog of other abilities where all wizards converge and overlap. She is available most evenings, in the timezone CST (EST - 1).

By the first thing, player relations, the reader may take to mean that if or when there is some sort of interpersonal problem involving players or staff, China is probably going to be tapped to assist with a meeting or other mediation, and whereas all staff members will try to make themselves available for consultation with your concerns, she is likelier to have a direct hand in their resolution.

Chinatown has been Wiki-ing for some time now, and while she doesn't know much CSS or server-side, generally she can get layouts looking the way you want and is available to create basic character pages and logs or assist with errors in tags, formatting, linking, etc. For more complex or larger issues such as structuring catalogs or suggestions regarding the Wiki's overall layout, she will be able to forward you to another, more appropriate party.

She also helps fachead players in the infamous knitting circle of terrorists, AKA Phoenix, allied with the Ferry, one of the game's more active pro-Evolved and protagonist factions. If you would like to find a place or pick a fight with the burning bird, help is here.

All that aside, Chi-town has also been known to throw NPC pirates and +requests and applications at players and characters who want them. GM work, theme questions, charting out RP hooks or potential character storylines, creating icons and other Photoshop work, voting in on +requests and reading new character submissions are all within the scope of her duties. You know. The usual stuff.

NPCs Chinatown plays include: Mu-Qian the healer/resurrectionist, Baxter the cop who can FLY, and the artist formerly known as Auggie, storyline as yet unconcluded. She also occasionally puppeteers Noah Bennet and Tyler Case as needed. Also, pirates.

Ellis

Ellis is the staffer whose primary responsibility is staying on top of player applications and ensuring that they are returned in a timely manner. Players who have a concept in mind but aren't sure if it's thematic or just need some general help with the process should either page or @mail her at their convenience. Presently, she is also the staffer in charge of NPCing Daniel Linderman, Bob Bishop and Angela Petrelli should any of these characters be required for plot purposes. Players seeking to get their characters involved in either the Linderman Group or the Ferrymen should consider initiating contact with her so they can be roped in as desired, but general queries about how to get characters involved in other plot arcs and storylines are always welcome as well.

Availability varies between days, but she can most easily be reached after 9 PM EST. If online, consider on-duty.

Manhattan

Forged from solid steel and sixty feet tall, Manhattan brings a galvanized robot justice to the String-Theory administration. Hailing from the distant world of Awesometopia this rock and roll robot dispenses plot and explosions with equal measure. Due to being made of cold and calculating computer parts designed for nothing but the dissemination of story and pyrotechnics, Manhattan does not handle player relations that cannot involve flame throwers or grenades.

Manhattan's iron chassis handles String-Theory's major plot development and is the head designer of most storylines and volume arcs. He is also responsible for the handling of a vast majority of NPCs, including NPCs on request from players requiring ones for a scene. Primarily an indestructible GM made of plotonium, Manhattan will throw story at you until you drown happily in it.

Manhattan is available reliably 7 days a week from 11:00pm to 6:00am Eastern Time. If Manhattan is logged on at any other time of day, it means he's on the clock and is available for your questions or other needs.

Manhattan's NPCs
Name	Faction	Description
Canfield	None	Former Moab Prisoner Stephen Canfield, adapted from Heroes season 3. Available for application by a player.
Knox	None	Former PARIAH member, off-and-on ally of Phoenix. Adapted from Heroes season 3. Available for application by a player.
Maury	None	Former Company founder, fugitive. Adapted from Heroes season 2 and 3. Available for application by a player.
R.Ajas	None	Technopath. Formerly Micah Sanders. Adapted from Heroes season 1.
T.Monk	None	Technopath. Formerly Richard Drucker. Adapted from Heroes graphic novels.
West	None	Former PARIAH member. Journalist of liberal newspaper. Adapted from Heroes season 2. Available for application by a player.
Zimmerman	None	Scientist and researcher. Adapted from Heroes season 3.
Bill	humanis-first	Father of Helena Dean
Else	None	Musician and precognitive.
Feng	None	Mercenary for hire, hunting remaining members of the Vanguard.
Liu and Song	Triad	Flying Dragons leaders. Crazy.
Michael	Frontline	Frontline Unit-01 leader.
Mitchell	None	Vice-President of the United States of America.
Rickham	None	Former President-elect, on-again-off-again Phoenix ally.

Rockefeller

Rock is the latest addition to ST staff. She's mostly involved in reviewing apps and hammering out issues wherever they crop up IC and OOC, but can also make icons, reverse engineer solutions to wiki problems, NPC and offer general help wherever it's needed. She doesn't actually watch Heroes except for the second half of Season 3 because Brooklyn tricked her into tuning in to the episode where Noah gets date raped by Mohinder and Matt and it wound up being so magical she accidentally fell in love with it.

Feel free to page or @mail her with questions, requests, random observations, imperative statements etc. at any time. Her role within Humanis First is more consultant-like than factionheadesque owing to the way it's ICly organized, but questions about the group or more generalized criminal activity can definitely be directed her way. As far as NPCs go, she can offer up Vincent (NYPD Internal Affairs), Boxer (Moab Escapee), Butch (Humanis First) or generalized one-off bad guys as needed for single scenes or short term plots.

Her online times vary. More often than not she's open for staff business during the weekdays from mid-morning to late afternoon, but she's more completely present, attentive and RP-OK on the weekends and during the evening from around 8:00 PM EST to 2-3:00 AM.

Rose

Rose's primary responsibilities include coding and application review, particularly with respect to ability and general thematic concerns. Of course, as is the case for everyone on staff, Rose has her hands in a good part of what goes on to some degree or another. Whether it's concept or plot brainstorming, finding RP hooks, sanity-checking an idea against the theme and setting, assistance with research and references, playing an NPC (or more than one), running an event/GMed scene, wiki or code questions… or honestly anything else you need assistance with, feel free to leave her a page or @mail.

The Company and the Ferrymen are the factions that primarily fall under Rose's purview; she can field general requests relating to most of the others as well. If you need an NPC (one-shot or long-term) or a GMed scene, Rose can also handle them if asked.

Due to recent move and timezone change, along with a new job and later on a new courseload, Rose's regular hours have yet to be defined. At present, she expects to be available weekdays in the early morning (before 8am Eastern) and evening (6-10pm Eastern), and weekends early morning and after noon.

Extant NPCs Rose can be tapped for include:

Rose's NPCs
Name	Faction	Description
Alistair McKeon	Ferrymen	ex-Air Force Ferrymen logistics coordinator and Hangar safehouse operator
April Silver	ex-Company	time-traveler from 2019, ex-Company, loose end
Carla Dove	general	Director of the ReGenesis Foundation and the Suresh Center
Darla Hurst	Ferrymen	Ferryman errand-runner, among other things; Foxhole safehouse operator
Erim	ex-PARIAH	former PARIAH, former Shedda Dinu, pro-Evolved loose end
Kathleen Brooks	ex-PARIAH	former PARIAH, Tamara's sister, loose end
Naomi Mitchell	Law Enforcement	Homeland Security agent; former FBI, former civil service
Ruth Crow Dog	FRONTLINE	Army noncom assigned to FRONTLINE Unit One
Sabra Dalton	Company	Interim director of the Company's NYC branch
Stephen	Ferrymen, general	Volunteer coordinator at St. John's Cathedral, Ferryman contact
Victoria Pratt	ex-Company	former Company bioscientist, Company Founder