Solidfury - Staff Report: Enforcement Action Taken - nessiependragon
What’s your BYOND key:
Solidfury
Round ID:
24457
Your character name:
William ‘Jester’ Crimson
Their BYOND key:
nessiependragon
What are you reporting?:
Enforcement Action Taken
Description of the incident:
Seeing as we have an extremely short 48 hours to respond to things (which, guys, is really short, at least consider a week, some of us have busy jobs and families), I decided to respond to do this all now,
FORECON CO, longer op, 2-3 hours.
I find tunnel in the LZ, after hunting down a burrower, no marines are in the LZ beyond two guys who are AFK (One medic, one marine), I must write about 8 messages, to get his attention, but he’s AFK, I dont have a whistle, so I yell some more before shooting a shot wide of him, he’s still SSD/AFK, I shoot again, hoping the sound of gunfire will snap him out of it incase he’s alt tabbed. But he finally turns (iirc) and watches me, I yell again, he stays silent, I yell something akin to “COME OR I WILL BE YOU” because hive at this point is missing, as shown from XOs announcements prior, I think he realises im the CO and he begins to follow, now during this, servers been lagging (It got worse as time went by) and has been for a while and I go over the funny ledge at LZs and try juggle to my entrenchment tool, it does the funny lag, a single shot (hits the marine) as he’s following me to the tunnel a few seconds later, which Im clearly desperate to fix (He was going to be there to cover me as I used the entrenchment tool, so burrowerer didnt solo cap me or hive didnt come out tunnel and cap me) and he raises his weapon, I thought to (rightfully) be like “What the fuck.” and I was gonna explain, even stopped behind a floodlight so I could type quickly, and he lit me up hardcore. Fortunately for me, I had AP ammo, so despite his firing first, I manage to fire back and take him down before going in to pain crit.
Now, even when I’m down, Im telling the medics and marines who are confused about what happened, to get to the tunnel. Thats my number one priority. Even as Im dying. It doesn’t make sense that I would, as FORECON CO, decide to shoot a single bullet in to someone whos listening to me, and about to potentially save the LZ from disaster, if I wanted to kill them/BE, I could have just full AP’ed to the head on burst after the tunnel was fixed. If I was being malicious and grief as intended, I’ve seen all the ways that someone can do stuff like that and play it off. Whats more likely? That I tried getting someones attention and while going over a cursed ledge (which you gotta drag yourself over) while lagging, I fired at someone, or that I was trying to kill the guy who I was desperate to help me save the op?
Anyway, the lag gets worse, Im revived, I call the XO, tell him what happened, I tell the medic not to revive him, as I was going to go with a BE at that stage (even though it’s more self defence, I thought I’d be thorough) however one of the last remaining FORECON survivors, told me to have the MPs handle him and revive him, I thought that was a good idea, seeing as it was a self defence instance situation and we had the ability to transfer him shipside. (Alas no MPs were available so we sent him back with PO in cuffs, he was DNR revived so it was safe to do so)
Anyway, lag gets worse and worse, other people comment on it, I even DC to try fix it. I believe Nessie messages at this time.
Im leading the marines after a while and I’m told the following. The only part I can concede is the Xeno Agent comment, because I suppose we wouldn’t have knowledge of Cultists. (Dark Descent is cool but I suppose its not standard encounter) and the shooting around them, however it was a mission critical moment and whistles still get dropped when you fall over (Which, by god is such a curse on QoL). I still maintain that my actions were clearly accidental, and I think that the marine just saw a chance to light me up or got pissed about the FF. The marine was also revived on my order after a brief discussion with my FORECON marine and medic.
I believe the lack of response or giving me time to hand off command to the XO, or even a grace period to do this also was detrimental to the round.
Evidence:
Rule 10: Lethal Force. It was explained, and even as Nessie misunderstood the situation (I think she thinks I was shooting to get his attention and it hit him, not that this was a few seconds later and he was following me) it would instead be LRP for metagaming/talking about xeno agents/cultists (or memeing) or if they believed I was griefing, Rule 4: No griefing
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