The Proposed Timeline for EMPLOYEE's

I decided to create a timeline of important events that happened in the world of EMPLOYEE, from the beginning of time to the latest event related to the current 2023’s #dungeon23 which I changed it to #Office23, which also being postponed since last March (sorry about that).

This timeline is based and inspired by three ultra-short play-tests that I did with my friends at the office during our free time. They only cover 20% of the timeline. The other 80% is based on my own imagination and the foundations that I set for #Office23. You can treat this timeline as canon or not - it’s up to you.

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DATE	EVENT
4Million B.C.	Kame-kami lays its eggs and one of it hatched Nüearth.
0 A.C.	The First documented Clash of the Moons on Nüearth - Helen & Romeo. The moons stucks for 5 years before they finally separated. Sea level's disturbed, causing many continental drifts, sinks and emerges.
Circa 600 A.C.	The Solomon - a group of geniuses from various school of knowledge - was formed and leads Nüearth to its Age of Wisdom.
Circa 800 A.C.	The University of Nüearth was established. The first university on Nüearth that produced many brilliant inventor, fearless leaders, and breakthrough scientists.
Circa 1200 A.C.	The Brain Wars happen. Casualties were both being a collateral damage or as a experimental objects. The war last almost for 49 years.
1253 A.C.	Ministry of Public Safety established.
	Ministry of Science established.
	Ministry of Scientific Policy established
	Federal Magistrate of Nüearth established.
Circa 1300 A.C.	Heervith University was established.
1593 A.C.	Andrianus Gunarha and his colleagues successfully conducted a human cloning attempt.
	Codename "Lima" was born at the Laboratorium of Heervith.
Circa 1600 A.C.	Andrianus Gunarha start his personal experiments regarding the Soul-Splitting.
	The disappearance of "Lima".
	Dr. Mellisa "Fox" Mentare successfully inventing the auto-regeneration drugs called "The Afterlife" or FX-30.
1700s - 1800s A.C.	The Brain Wars 2 erupted.
	Col. Xanders is the first human subject that took FX-30 under the surveillance of Dr. Mellisa.
	FX-30 become a standardized ration for the infantries during the war.
	Nüearth was divided into three nations: Utara Nations, Great Lands of Marsupi, and United Nations of Morotan.
	The great riot happened on Federal Magistrate of Nüearth, killing all the Chairman except one - Vivian Keys.
	The Ministry of Defense was established under command of Vivian Keys and new selected members of Federal Magistrate of Nüearth.
	Andrianus Gunarha was missing, considerable killed during the war.
1859 A.C.	Dr. Mellisa was found dead near Univeristy of Nüearth.
	FX-30 took it's first victim - a Brain Wars 2 veteran.
1925 A.C.	"The Night of Fox Die" happen. Killing almost half of the populations of Nüearth. Mainly war veterans.
	The Afterlife or FX-30 was banned.
	Andrianus' human cloning machine and soul-splitting device was stolen.
1960s A.C.	The Whitelands are emerging from the seas of Nüearth due to its temprature decreases.
	Maurice Bartie Jr., took 3 years to explore all continents on Nüearth.
	The Age of Exploration begin.
1979 A.C.	Neil Handstrong, Buzz Alderon and Michael Callin are the first men that walked on the surface of Helen.
1985 A.C.	Nüearth Re was established.
Circa 1989 A.C.	Andrianus Gunarha joined Oasis Pharmaceutical as researcher.
1991 A.C.	Andrianus Gunarha successfully cloned himself in his secret bunker on Utara Nation and named her "Sarah Aura Dunning". He also successfully soul splitting himself to Sarah Dunning.
	Baby Sarah was dropped infront of Mother Helen's Orphanage House.
Circa Mid 1993 A.C.	The Night of Rogue Robots Massacre is happened inside Oasis Pharmaceutical. According to press, there are no survivor from this disastrous event.
	Andrianus Gunarha survived the massacre. He injecting a virus into the main server of Oasis, waiting for all to happen, removing the database of OASIS and leave.
Circa 1994 A.C.	Andrianus Gunarha joined Nüearth Re.
	Andrianus Gunarha starting his new secret experiment inside an unused room inside Nüearth Re.
Circa late 1994 A.C.	A huge explosion on Nüearth Re happen at weekend. While having no casualties, but the building are need heavy renovation and rebuilding.
	Ministry of Defense treats the explosion as the probability of terrorist attack.
	Andrianus Gunarha silently piggybacking the renovation to creating his own secret laboratorium under the building.
1996 A.C.	Andrianus Gunarha successfully done his last experiment - a humanoid with the capabilities to regenerate itself. The humanoid codenamed "Ares" was kept dormant.
Mid 1999 A.C.	The Solomon's Right - an idealistic extremist group of scientist contacted Andrianus. He joined them short after.
January 1st 2000 A.C.	The Solomon's Right's first act of evil commence : mass hoax regarding the end of the world, while sending time-released toxic gas in a form of a canned foods to a small undeveloped country on each nations. High casualties and drove panics to everyone on Nüearth.
	The Night of Y2K happened.
January 2nd 2000 A.C.	The Ministry of Defense conducting an investigation regarding the recent terrorist attack, but unable to pin point the cause and the one behind it.
	The Solomon's Right decided to lay low.
	Andrianus Gunarha faked his death on the terrorist attack. And deciding to lay low. He no longer listed as employee on Nüearth Re.
Circa 2008 A.C.	An infiltration-suicide mission of a member of Solomon's Right to Nüearth Re, in order to waking up "Ares" from his deep slumber.
	A fire broken in Nüearth Re, which followed by explosion from underneath the building. Happening in broad daylight, employees and people surrounding assumed it as a terrorist attack.
	Federal Magistrate of Nüearth is announcing a super soldier program, under the surveillance of Ministry of Defense.
	The Research of FX-31 started.
2010's A.C.	Scientiest from University of Nüearth predicting that Helen & Romeo will in clash again in 12 years.
	The Solomon's Right start to mass-producing Andrianus' Ares in several secret laboratories, under Andrianus' supervision.
Circa Mid 2016 C.A.	Sarah Aura Dunning joining Nüearth Re.
2022 A.C.	Day 1 - The Game Start
December 31st 2022 A.C.	The Clash of the Moon 2
January 4th 2023 A.C.	MegaEarthquake across the Nüearth, creating fissure at three nations. Estimated millions of casualties and financial loss happens in five minutes duration.
January 5th 2023 A.C.	Office23 mysteriously erected on the middle of the chasm that split Utara Nation's Business District into two.
February 10th 2023 A.C.	A cleanse team of twelve lead by Colonel Yoosuf "Shields" Syndock entered Office23 by the order of the Utara Nation's Ministry of Defense.
March 8th 2023 A.C.	Shields trying to escape the megaoffice of Office23.
	All researchers and Tactical Teams of Shields were dead.
	ARES-21 was released to hunt Shields and eventually killed him.
	Mysterious figure "Lima" try to prolong his decay and evacuate Shields through the megaoffice.
March 12th 2023 A.C.	Colonel Yoosuf "Shields" Syndock was found dead outside the Office23.
March 19th 2023 A.C.	The Night of The Riot

Office Documents 1

These are several documents that players might find in EMPLOYEE when they play or are assigned by the Referee as Human Resources staff as their initial job. Even though the files at Human Resources are strictly confidential even for a new recruit in HR itself, let's assume that the players granted the access for the majority of these files. Some are locked and encrypted, which means they need the authorization of their supervisors to open this kind of files. Or they could try to decrypt by themselves, but with heavy consequences if they failed.

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Rummaging the existing folders inside the computer assigned for them at their desk, players could find these files. Some might be well hidden, while some are open in plain sight. Some are locked and encrypted, some are freely open files.

There's a lot of types of files inside the computer, from the number-filled large sized spreadsheets to a tiny sized low resolution file of image.

Legends:

[xxxxx] -> filename

Lorem ipsum…-> description and summary of the files, either in visual terms or in transcription if the files are audio (and transcriptable).

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[employment records - (month) 20XX]

A spreadsheet filled with names, date of births, employee ids, job positions and any other relevant data regarding the employee's personal and working information. Some rows of cells are highlighted green while some are colored with red. Some other sheets are listed alongside the DATA sheet, which includes TURNOVER, CERTIFICATION, CONTRACTS and PLANNING. Another sheet titled 4ROOM is present but by having a padlock next to it, it is inaccessible. Players could find pretty well documented and organized files of employee records from 1985 to present day.

[technical competency_(division)_upd20XX]

Another spreadsheet files that are filled with numbers, names and level of competencies for each name listed. Several files are listed with different names of division and different years regarding when the updates had occurred. On the list of names, some names can be found highlighted with red color, some are yellow, some are green.

[employee contract - (name) - (period)]

In the not so hidden folder, there are files filled with contracts wording for every employee existing, both those still working and those who already left the office due to resignation or death. Old data from the old days are stored as document scanlations, while the newer and latest ones are already in digital portable document format.

[durahan.exe]

This file truly is a virus application. It dates circa 1990s when the office starts to implement computers and servers as standard peripherals. If the players run the program, a notification will pop up on their screen, noticing that this file is already scanned and flagged as a virus program and already stored in the antivirus vault.

[request on IT support regarding Durahan’s Infection]

A scanlations of a document requesting Office’s IT team to solve and prevent further effect of Durahan.exe. The file was dated 10 March 1991.

No : 00049/HRD/60/██████/03/1991

Date : 10 March 1991

From : Human Resources Division

To : Information Technology Division

Subject : Request on IT Support regarding Durahan’s Infection

Regarding the situation that been happening in ██████ involving the mass corrupted data, ransom files and the possibilities of data leaking that might been used irresponsibly by other party that might not affiliated by ██████, we asking for IT team to conduct a deep and thorough investigation, analysis and actions regarding the infections of Durahan.

As additional information, Durahan virus was initially engaged and run by one of our employees while accessing ██████’s server. The virus was mimicking one of his files. As per this letter, there are eight divisions of fourteen that report the infection of Durahan already infiltrating their dedicated division folder inside the server.

We are looking forward to this being solved immediately.

Human Resources Division Head

██████████ █████ ████

[file requests]

Files under this name are mainly filled with customized data that is provided by Human Resources Staffs by the request of other divisions. Usually it is filled with either the data of employee’s demography, training history, cross-table spreadsheets, list of names, list of vacant positions, presentations or the list of employee’s birthday.

[4ROOM - (month) - (year)]

This file is heavily encrypted and well hidden. Players that took time to dig up the folders one-by-one, especially on their supervisor’s folder, might find one of these (with the risk of being caught-up of course). When the player successfully decrypts the file, it contains a detailed list of names that are currently being a member of the “Fouroom”, from the date they joining, what Fouroom that they join in, their position inside the Fouroom, what are they contributing to their Fouroom and so much more.

[riwpoalksdj_dasnalksd_934u023jdas]

a text file. The file was created circa mid 1995 and well hidden inside a folder within a folder at Human Resource's server. The file hasn't been opened since it's last saved which also the day it created. It remains a mystery who wrote the note in the first time.

“I hope no one read this file before I was gone. No one understands me anymore. All of them called me crazy, but I’m not. Everything I said, they’ll just let it slide away. I’ve tried so many ways to convince them that I’m still competent here. The accident was just an ordinary accident. I even tried to convince the Directors. But I guess the words are already like wildfire. Uncontrollable. I guess I just have to wait for the time to come. Right after that day, my life is different. I see things. Things that are not supposed to be here. Walking among us, untouchable but present. I see some people in this office can see them too, but they can communicate with them. When I asked them about it, they said I’m already incurable and they don’t want to talk to someone that crazy as I am! I’m already beyond madness. That’s what they said. I wish I’m not taking extra time that day. I wish I could stay at home, watching tv, and eating food that I am bored of eating. I wish Gunarha didn’t ask me about that damn office blueprint. I wish. I wish I didn’t see that bright red being.”

Office Politics in EMPLOYEE

In real life, office politics are inevitable. It will always present in every shape and size of a company. From only one small group that could steer the whole company due to their vocal and massive influencing power, to a multi power-sided group that could steer the whole company into one humongous stew pot of ideology, visions and each different mission. From the clicks of janitors to the board of commissioners - everyone had their own vision they dream about and missions they want to achieve.

Searching on office politics on the internet, the main ideas are always referred to 1. To improve someone or some group status and 2. To pursue a personal or group agenda with or without a chance of sacrificing others. Power is the most frequent thing that drives and feeds office politics. Some use communications, networks and information. It can be positive office politics (that are usually being pulled off in order to increase employee performances for example) or negative ones (gatekeeping significant information for themselves or blackmailing a particular employee they want to control). Office politics is inevitable. It is always present, can’t be absent.

Translating it into a game feature, office politics may be translated and treated just like clans and factions in larger table top RPG settings. In EMPLOYEE, the “world” that players explore is the office itself - Nüearth Re. GM/Referee/Dungeon Master could expand the size of the building as far and big as they want - will it be a 10-floor buildings or pentagon-sized width buildings, will it have a basements or even become an office complex with several smaller building scattered on its ground for each divisions existed. Will it be a simple mundane office building or not, office politics will always be there.

For creating some office feud and heating up some political movement and “relationship” between the factions, first you need to create a faction or clan or in EMPLOYEE we call it "Fouroom". You need decide which things that they want to get grasp on their hand as their main mission or we can say what is the main driver they existed:

1.     Sole Owner of Power and Authority (Power)
2.     Center of Knowledge (Information)
3.     The Hive of Connections (Network)
4.     Anything except those three above - it can be about wealth, status, public perception, public affirmation, or recognition from other employees.

After deciding on what their main mission is, you can flip a coin to determine if they are against the current "Management"or supporting them. For example, a fouroom of network is against the management. They will significantly bad-mouthing the current management to the fellow clients and stakeholders. Or another example is a fouroom of information that helps the current management. They will do a market surveillance, human resources monitoring program and any other actions that might supports the current management to survive.

Like many other clans and factions, Fouroom also had their mutual alignment. This alignment is attached to the fouroom itself, not to the members - their alignment is expected and can be perceived as the same as the fouroom they belong to. But some employees can exist inside two or more different and opposite fouroom. The alignment of an employee is not always mirroring the alignment of the fouroom they joined or involved. GM/Referee/Dungeon Master could refer to basic 9 moral alignments to be implied on the fourooms.

After deciding the foundation of a fouroom, GM/Referee/Dungeon Master could decide on what approaching method this fouroom will be used in order to achieve their target. Will it be a silent / guerilla operation that is kept in secret; optimizing and piggybacking the current flow of corporate actions; or executing plans and pulling strings under the shadows. It might take time to achieve the main goal, but it is steady and subtle. Or will it be a full frontal operation that can be witnessed and might involve the employees like strikes; or confronting the opposition’s or the current management’s action plans with their own actions. Bold indeed, but might lose some employee’s interest or sympathy if the operations are too risky and could severely hurt the company. Covert operation and diplomatic operation could also be options to consider. Covert operation is literally a spying action involving kidnapping, blackmailing, hacking, sabotaging oppositions or current management. This also involves information leaks that might hurt and damage the opposition's status and existence. Diplomatic operations on the other hand involve a peaceful approach to the opposition. Communication (and ass-licking) is the main skills needed to engaging a professional, well-mannered negotiations to oppositions - they can asked them politely to step up the way with some incentives as a reward; negotiating with one of significant member of opposition to join their fouroom; or maybe seeking for help to the opposition for some unsolved problems they currently had. Diplomatic operations is one of several slow-paced but high success rating operations because it might involving the highest rank member of the fouroom to negotiate - we’re talking about a conversation between head honchos.

In EMPLOYEE, there’s no exact numbers on how many fourooms could exist. The more fouroom you have in your game, the more complex the relationships will be. It is impossible for a company to only have one fouroom, but also a chaos if there are 20 fourooms inside a 200-employee company (for example). If you thought “man, I don’t have time to set up a lore to build for a single fouroom..”. Fear not fellow adventurers, I prepared a simple table generator below if you just want to roll-and-create a fouroom. It WILL be random, and I believe some aspects might cancel or contradict each other. But hey, at least they are quick and easy.

dn	Target / Mission	Sentiment	Alignment	Approaching Method
1	Power	Againts	Awful Good	Silent / Guerilla
2	Information	Supports	Neutral Good	Full Frontal
3	Network		Chaotic Good	Covert
4	Other		Lawful Neutral	Diplomatic
5			Neutral	Other
6			Chaotic Neutral
7			Lawful Evil
8			Neutral Evil
9			Chaotic Evil