BelleCl - Staff Report: Enforcement Action Taken - Steelpoint
What’s your BYOND key:
BelleCl
Round ID:
22350
Your character name:
Forsaken Drone HII
Their BYOND key:
Steelpoint
What are you reporting?:
Enforcement Action Taken
Description of the incident:
Note | Rule 2 Roleplay | Player allied with Marines as a Forsaken Xenomorph and attempted to fly to the Almayer on a dropship. Instructed them that Forsaken can not ally with, or be neutral towards, Marines. by steelpoint (SeniorMod) on 2024-05-25 05:42:36 (ID: 22350)
This is how that part of the round went down from my point of view as I recollected soon after it happened:
That round, I had been wanting to play alien. But I was virtually permanently at number 15-20th or so in larva queue for the entirety of the round I was observing and so it was clear I was simply not going to be getting to play. Towards the end of the round though, I finally got to join as a forsaken drone. After spawning in, I went for checking the LZs first for presumed pod stragglers, and find a DS full of marines at one of it. There, assuming the DS full of marines was why the forsaken response was activated, my original plan was to sneak aboard undetected and see if I can and hitch a ride up to the Almayer and attack anything and everything on my own (marine, hive, corrupted hive, whatever), but I just got spotted early. So I simply stayed still hoping the marines just wouldn’t shoot me; I had no intents to be allied or neutral to the marines, and kept my interactions with them to the absolute minimum with that specifically in mind other than the synth later as I will explain.
I did these for two reasons.
A: In the DS were around 10 or so marines, and I was just one drone. I didn’t want to int into them and get myself insta-killed when I finally got to play. At the least I wanted to fight where there is anything to fight rather than roam for 15 minutes on the empty groundside after everyone evidently leaves, then ghost- so I stayed on the dropship.
B: As far as I knew I was the only forsaken alien since there is no way to check who is in the forsaken hive while you are one of them and where they are if they are even there, so that was my original plan. I would have simply attacked from the start if I had or knew of other forsakens with me for it. I did mention the presence and location of the DS as soon as I spotted it, but I had no responses that at least I had noticed so my assumptions that I was the only forsaken remained. However a forsaken lurker showed up right as the DS launched (he managed to just barely get in the door as it launched), and another spitter also only responded afterwards of the launch.
At that point especially with the lurker also in the dropship, I narrowed down my options to either attack with the lurker then and there or just buy time until the DS landed before doing-so, so that we can at least hit and run and attack singular marines instead of the whole group, with room and places to disengage to. I went with the latter, and still retaining my avoidance for interacting with marines, and pointed at the synth instead to get its attention. I wanted to bluff something to it to try and be buying time as long as I can, but I just remember suddenly being dead with the lurker before I could say much to the synth or anything to the lurker. It sucked and I think I would have been happy to just suicide-attack instead, but I thought it was a silly thing and assumed that was just an understandable IC solution to what was a suicide mission anyway, so I just went “aw okay” without much thought when I got messaged soon after. Then Steelpoint mentioned I had been noted for it.
Evidence:
Maybe the logs? I would like to add though that I kept my intentions quiet as I did not go into that thinking what I was doing might have been a rule-break, I hope a bit of it is at least explained in the Description of the Incident.