Lansaen512 - Player Report: lesser drone 694 (presumably, might’ve been another lesser), rule 6 no metagaming
What’s your BYOND key?
Lansaen512
Round ID:
27648
Your character name:
Octavian Andunder
Accused character name:
lesser drone 694 (presumably, might’ve been another lesser)
What rule(s) were broken?:
rule 6 no metagaming
Description of the incident:
I was hiding in a locker in labs on hybrisa for around 10 minutes after running away from a few drones. At one point a lesser drone stopped right outside of the room I was hiding in and emoted “*sniffs” then “*growls”. Afterwards the lesser proceeded to type something which I can only assume was him outing my location in hivemind as shortly after a lurker came and opened my locker.
While I was fully aware that you were hiding in the locker, I have no intention to out your location, and the lurker finding you was purely coincidental- if I remember correctly, no other xenos was on-screen when I did the emotes and I don’t remember talking about locker hiding survs in hivemind after leaving.
Prior to entering labs I did drag 2 monkeys to hive and complain in LOOC about how UAV’ing smalls is hard as lesser, but generally I try to be very careful regarding knowledge like survs as lesser, and I never actively open lockers or hunt down survs unless they are actively holding and being sieged by other xenos.
I don’t believe me doing the 2 emotes led to your death however as the chances of the *growl sound signaling to the lurker that “the surv is in that Jani locker” is virtually impossible, and it is most likely purely correlation.
My rational for this decision is I believe that the lesser drone did not contribute towards the capture of Lansaen512’s character in this context.
For context, the OP was hiding inside a locker within the Hybrisa research laboratory. Here is my reasoning for my decision to deny this report.
The lesser drone did not communicate to anyone, in game, about the presence of the survivor in the locker. Their only message, as witnessed in the above video, was them replying to another player in the hivemind, with the statement being, “Probably”.
Lurker 664, the one who found the OP discovered their presence over 30 seconds after the Lesser walked past the OP’s locker and emoted. There is insufficient evidence to suggest the Lurker was nearby the Lesser and use the emote to scan the lockers. I also could not find anything to suggest these two players may have been cooperating in a OOC manner.
The main point for my denial. The bulk of the other survivors on this map had made their last stand within the research laboratory, and were overrun prior to the OP being discovered. It would only be logical for the xenomorphs to be more through and check the lockers and other similar hiding places within the same structure a survivor failed holdout was located. (This would be equivalent to a survivor hiding in a locker in the nexus, during a failed hold in the LV-624 Nexus by the other survivors)
Ultimately, I believe this is just a combination of a case of bad luck for the OP, and due diligence to the Lurker player.
Whilst the Lesser did admit to knowing of the survivors location prior to becoming a Lesser (about 8 minutes prior), I won’t action this since insofar as my log diving has ascertained they did not act on this meta information, outside of their emote which I will consider to be harmless/atmospheric.