Ahana - Staff Report: Enforcement Action Taken - Segrain
What’s your BYOND key:
Ahana
Round ID:
22579
Your character name:
Vivian Mercer
Their BYOND key:
Segrain
What are you reporting?:
Enforcement Action Taken
Description of the incident:
To begin, I’d like to make clear multiple things were going on this round that were chaotic and I have no idea why they happened. I would appreciate it if there were any open ends about my deeds or questions, or a reason you think I’m wrong, that I am given a chance to reply properly and with reasoning. I unfortunately did not record this round, or I would provide clips.
Starting with the initial corrupted hive - yes, I did self-authorize them. I explicitly only allowed one. I told researchers not to yell about them on comms until we got a translator chem to negotiate with them and notify CIC. The Captain, Warden, and CMP came early, just as the translator chemical arrived. I did not create the hive alone. All other researchers were involved with it as well.
My note begins here. A Mess Tech trespasses and follows the CMP, Warden, and Captain into research. I ask he is removed, and I am ignored. I proceed with discussing the situation at hand with the captain. The mess tech then proceeds to run up, and mag dump the window, and run around while I try to forcefully remove him. I eventually drag him away and go back to the captain, to which he runs back in and I flash him as he runs towards his gun again. I sit there until the warden grabs him, and ordered his arrest for sedition. This is where Segrain lies. Segrain claims that it was a researcher who turned me in, and whom I had arrested. It was a mess tech - Joe Beasley - who had zero business in research, randomly tried to break the window, and ran back out. Segrain then also continues to lie in my note that the window is bullet proof. The window is not bullet proof. It is a breakable wall in the code - only with guns and explosives. It is immune to xenos and melee weapons. You can find the code here.
I also question how, a MST of all people, knew that corrupted were being worked on? He was not in containment, nor did he have access to cameras. There was really zero clue on how he got there.
Regardless, once detained, I spoke with the Captain. I told him I self-authorized the one, and wanted his permission for more. The Captain and I discussed it while more researchers came in, who then began negotiating on our behalf. I stopped their negotiations of growing the hive larger without CIC permission. I closed the shuttered and removed them and continued to speak with the Captain. Eventually, the Captain agreed. I’d like to make it clear, I gave the Captain a choice, in private (with no one else around, and the queen unable to hear) to terminate the queen while she was still young. I also informed him that I was going to call him down once we got a translator chemical. The Captain still approved of the xenos, and told me to negotiate with them to get them to help us. My goal was not to grow a giant hive without authorization. I only ever planned, and permitted, a single one. I explicitly stopped and instructed researchers no more without CIC permission.
Segrain then makes a giant leap in logic and completely ignores about half the round in my note, going on to say “When a MP came to arrest her for said sedition, repeatedly disarmed him and let xenos devour him. Later ran away into maintenance and called over radio to start mutiny and asked corrupted queen to gib the CMP.” Unfortunately I need to continue with the story, but though this was relevant for now.
Eventually, the Captain leaves. I begin negotiations with the queen - giving her strict instructions. I did not permit her or her brood to weed outside of research and medbay, and that they would deploy. She was beginning to discuss when marines began blowing through the southern containment wall. This is where I think metacommunications may have been going on with Joe Beasley and these privates who joined, seemingly randomly, to attack research and mess with me.
I run out to meet the privates who are blowing down the wall, and they say the XO told them to do it. I ask the XO, who does not respond. I ask them to confirm, and they say the delta SL (?) told them to do it, even though the SL was on the ground as far as I know. I tell them to stop, and they do, and I leave them with a researcher as I return to containment to further negotiate with the queen.
As I begin negotiating with the queen, again, I hear gunshots - again. This time, they blast through the wall, completely. I walk over and flash one, while the other runs out into the hallway, which I proceed to knock down and throw into a wall until an MP takes them into custody. After getting shot accidentally, I go back down to medbay and get treated. Again, after about 5 minutes, I go back to the queen to try and negotiate.
And again. Shooting begins in research, with MORE privates. I go over to flash them and get shot, to which an MP nearby and researchers go over and begin to mob them. I run back inside briefly to heal, and run out into the ARES hallway which they’ve breached from. I see a decapped researcher and MP, and watch them mow down the other MP and researcher. There’s more than 2 here to which I believe is a mutiny going on (I didn’t have much time) so I screamed “mutiny” over comms. I then die before I can respond anymore while the gunfight continues. In my ticket here, Segrain accuses me of calling for a mutiny during this, even though I was just calling out what I perceived to be a mutiny.
I eventually perish in the gunfight trying to run away, but am eventually revived by the SEA. I immediately tell command that I got gunned down, and tell the SEA that I need to get back to the queen because she was getting agitated from the marines trying to breach. I think I lied to the queen here and said they were getting executed by MPs or whatever but I don’t think that matters much because they were aslept permanently aside from one.
For the fifth time now, I return to research and begin negotiating with the queen again. At this point, I give her the monkeys because she’s agreed and was obedient. Then, an MP then starts shooting and killing 2 of them, to which I leave her and go to stop him. The MP continues trying to pick up his gun and wield it, and kill more, as I order him to evict himself and try to take it away. I open the door for him to leave, he refuses, and I have no viable way of forcing him to leave with only my flash, so I push him into a corner and tell a xeno to remove him. Segrain adds this to my note because somewhere during this a warrant was given out and only presented after he started shooting. I didn’t care at this point about this officer carrying it out and had gone back to the queen to apologize on behalf. I do not know why he put this in the note as if I had the MP hugged and captured. He was immediately let go - by my orders - outside of research by the drone. Nothing else happened to him during that time.
I immediately contacted the CO and asked about the warrant (as it was for sedition). He told me it was because I had grown the hive more unapproved. I tell him on comms that the Captain had approved it. He then says I didn’t answer his questions either. I ask him what questions, but got no response. I continue negotiating with the queen, trying to meet her demands (which was literally just an office and the 4 monkeys) and get her to agree to go down. Then, I hear an explosion and marine storm research after I got them to agree, to which all my researchers, the liaison, and an MP were all WILLINGLY inside of the containment cell trying to calm things down and talk with both sides. Command refuses to stand down and I declare I’m staying neutral and not to attack - because up until then everyone was friendly. I tell the MP to back up so they don’t get assaulted, same with the researchers.
The CO then leads a battlecharge into attacking containment while the xenos defend themselves - leaving everyone neutral alone. Even without being allied, the only thing that happened was a rogue hugger spawned and hugged a researcher who I gave surgery to. The CMP and one of his MPs (who was killing bugs earlier) make their way into one of the cells and shoot me, and then get mauled while trying to kill me. The CMP’s last action before dying was trying to stab me to death as I stood still and moved away from him. Eventually I end up collapsing and going into crit of bloodloss and organ failure caused by the CMP and his MP. I was rescued by researchers and doctors who tended to my wounds, and gave me a bag of blood.
Once I can stand on my own feet, I immediately grab an IV and bag of blood and run to maintenance. Again, uncertain why that’s apart of my note, but I did it nonetheless. I hid in maintenance while trying to convince command staff and the CO that they’re not hostile and if they stand down, they won’t attack. I also told them my plans of what I was trying to do, that I didn’t understand why they randomly attacked, and was trying to calm down the situation. The CO repeatedly ordered my death over comms, and the CMP as well. Although the CMP had actually tried to murder me while I explicitly stayed neutral. At this point, the CO, CMP, ASO were all going ballistic and were calling for my death and I literally was out of options after trying repeatedly to stop it. I faked going crazy over comms in hopes people would think I killed myself, saying I was running into the hive (I stayed in maintenance the whole time), and had my sensors off. I called for a mutiny during this time which, as far as I’m aware, not against mutineering rules (?). I don’t know how you’re supposed to get people for the mutiny if you don’t speak IC. Nonetheless, I stayed in the maintenance area until the ASO found me. He instantly shot me on sight on orders of the CO, to which I disarmed him and took his gun. I did not shoot back, or try to. I ended up dropping his gun from the pain and ran out the door when he ran out of ammo.
The ASO caught up to me and killed me, without me harming him at all. I eventually got detained by an MP, revived by my staff, and was sent on a pod forcefully.
Overall, I literally did everything in my power to keep this as peaceful as possible. I legitimately think this was out of my control and that I had no real power in the way this went. I would understand an initial note maybe about one xeno being grown because marines were failing because I didn’t ask CIC first, even though SOP allows it - but even Segrain said this wasn’t a rule-break.
I would like to reiterate that I legitimately never harmed anyone aside from the bravo shooting everyone in the ARES hallway. That is only time I directly harmed someone. I did not escalate anything at all. The only thing I did was try to blow heat off me by talking about forming a mutiny (I, once again, did nothing but say people should mutiny I think once). Even the asking her of the gibbing was not entirely true in my note. Someone said the hive got cleared and mocked me on comms for it, and I had no sight of the queen and thought she was dead. She was not in my sight, nor was she feasibly able to be told this by me even if she was alive. I just said it over comms. I never got to actually ask her to gib the CMP.
I exhausted all my methods of peaceful resolution and was not aiming to harm anyone. I was going to call evacuation because of the impending situation the CO was doing so that anyone who wanted to could escape. I was planning to take a pod, but the ASO shot and killed me.
I would also like to combat Segrain’s accusation that he placed after the ban was applied. My time has not been spent as “an endless streak of warping every possible rule and law to cause havoc and grief to other players.” I have actively tried to improve peoples’ experiences, roleplay, teach, mentor, and help out in any way I can. I have spent probably the last 10 of my CMO rounds before this one teaching people repeatedly. I even got a medal for this by the same CO this round, in round 22554 for teaching 3 new nurses and having them roleplay with CIC in a quizz-bowl-like fashion. A while ago, I spent time as a CT doing a req tent gimmick, to which I was commemorated by staff on. I have actively tried to improve and I legitimately do not know what else would be wanted of me more than to do gimmicks like the req tent, or spend hours of my time teaching new nurses and doctors and players.
Evidence:
Griefing, community expectations, mutiny rules. As CMO, made unauthorized corrupted hive in research. When a researcher reported it to police, ordered researcher to be arrested for sedition (on pretense that he tried to release them by shooting bulletproof glass). When a MP came to arrest her for said sedition, repeatedly disarmed him and let xenos devour him. Later ran away into maintenance and called over radio to start mutiny and asked corrupted queen to gib the CMP…
– Administrator private message –
Admin PM from-Segrain: I will be blunt. Pretty much nothing of what you have done is anywhere close to acceptable behaviour. Your entire history on the server is nothing but an endless streak of warping every possible rule and law to cause havoc and grief to other players. I do not see how any of your activities this round can be even remotely justified. You have had countless warnings. enough.