Hahafunnyname - Staff Report: Enforcement Action Taken - Griff52
What’s your BYOND key:
Hahafunnyname
Round ID:
27233
Your character name:
Luke McKendrick
Their BYOND key:
Griff52
What are you reporting?:
Enforcement Action Taken
Description of the incident:
Alright I’m going to say it how I remember it as, a clear case of miscommunication. I do a lot of weird things that people see I guess as “metagamey” behavior like use maint. tunnels a ton, which might be part of the reason I was accused of this by all the D chat people. Starting from the beginning to defend myself from the “He wasn’t doing his job allegations.” Lets start with this, the DS CONSOLE WOULD COVER YOUR SCREEN WITH THE TAC MAP IF YOU TRIED TO USE IT AND YOU WOULD HAVE TO LEAVE AND REJOIN TO GET IT OFF YOUR SCREEN, both the DP and GP can back me up here and this means 95% of my job is ruined because I cant control the DS, and I cant do like medevac or Fulton or anything because, obviously the console is bricked, and the DP and GP both cryoed. Now the only thing I could do is sit on the Alamo and do absolutely nothing but smoke cigarettes and make small talk with riflemen as the DS autopilots itself, I even A helped before the GP and DP cryoed to see if I could get help with it but I was met with no response. My idea after my job effectively becoming pointless was to help around Medbay, however while waiting to get permission from CMO and CMP I decided to visit the CLs office because the new commando is something I haven’t seen in game yet. After leaving I shortly considered breaking into the CLs office through the underneath maint. tunnels to be funny however the moment I walked through the door to the maint. tunnels beneath the office I decided it wasn’t worth it, I’d get in trouble, and I would be doing something needlessly disruptive and I just ran straight to the rickety ladder and went down it and through the kitchen to get back downstairs as fast as I could. A little bit after this someone yelled over comms how they swore a burrower knocked them down at the CL’s office and I went to check it out, I was met by a ton of MPs and the WY people but I told them I would go and grab a MD to try and help with the investigation. Now you’ll notice that before this point I did NOT have an MD, therefore there was no way for me to know the burrower was in the CLs cell BEFORE I GOT MY MD, especially considering the fact I always knew it to be against the OOC rules to grow xenos as CL without staff permission which I knew to be a rare thing. After grabbing the MD I went to the CLs office and walked around the room a bit and discovered a ping in the CLs containment cell. I explicitly roleplayed, acting as if the area in there was a maintenance room or something because that’s the best thing to assume ICly if you don’t know about the research cell, I mean its a fully walled off and zero entrance room, so obviously the first thing my character would assume is its something to do with maintenance. After informing the entire room of the pings within that area, the CE began to decon a wall into the cell and I tried my best to assist him with it. A while after this, while I was helping to chase the burrower, I get a long string of admin PMs from Griff, however I act confused because he acted as if I somehow had outside knowledge of the burrower before I had the MD, which I just clarified I did NOT excluding the activity surrounding the CLs office and the person on comms who claimed they were attacked by a burrower stomp at the CLs office. After finally finding out about what Griff meant, which I completely understand the confusion in the moment and even now, he still seemed confused about my story despite me attempting to clarify it multiple times. In the end I personally believed I had boiled it down to no longer metagaming, I mean of course nothing about what I did was metagaming. My final direct message to Griff was if he could explain how what I did was still metagaming even after proving I had no outside knowledge AT ALL, but Griff you never explained how it was metagaming and just copy and pasted the definition which I believe further my point. The only thing I could think of was maybe I didn’t do my job, but not only did I explain why I couldn’t do my job before but I also still believe that wouldn’t fall under metagaming.
All in all I feel that this wasn’t necessarily Griff’s fault, but more a large case of misunderstanding. I want this warning to be taken away because what I did was not meta gaming. Again I am not saying Griff was out to get me, or he was being super unfair, he was just doing his job, and I respect that, but I just think he didn’t have the correct information in the moment. I really hope this report can clear the situation up quickly, I don’t want a meta gaming warning hanging over my head for the next month or so.
Evidence:
I have no pictures of any of the text or anything, I would need to be able to access logs or whatever, so I hope you can clarify this with logs from the round.