Staff Report
Your BYOND Key Hyrulian1
Your Character Name? Carl "Bushman" Mclaran
Their BYOND Key Grimreaperx15
Approximate time and date of the incident 8:50pm
Which Staff Protocols (//showthrea...-and-Protocols) were broken Enforcement of Rules, Protocol 3.
Description of the incident Delta got angry over getting FOB duty, MP's started arresting marines, including the SL. After some pushing and tazing occured the CMP dragged two marines into a room, I fired my M39 into one of the windows, the M39 had a BFA and was on Burst Fire mode, which I forgot about, causing three of the bullets to hit the CMP's Chest. I holstered my weapon, climbed onto the window frame, and then was tased and arrested by the CMP.
The scuffle itself involved about 6 delta marines, against 1-3 MPs, and primarily occured south of briefing. No MPs were harmed to my knowledge besides the CMP by my negligence.
Grimreaperx15 hurriedly boinked me, asked me why the CMP was shot, said he had talked to me about this yesterday, and promptly banned me.
The event I was warned for yesterday was for shooting a marine after they shot me when a lurker was near me, I was angry over their recklessness and retalited, when asked about what occured I was honest with Grimreaperx15 and we argued over what was/was not improper escalation. Eventually I agreed that despite him using lethal force on me recklessly, it was an accident, and no harm was intended against me.
This event was then used as evidence against me Improperly escalating against the CMP, despite me never intending to harm the CMP in anyway and none of my behaviour in previous rounds would suggest harming the CMP was intentional, infact our previous discussion established that accidentally shooting someone wasn't escalation at all.
In the wording of the ban grimreaper seems to also be painting this as intentional, which if we do use my behavior yesterday was definitely not the case. I fired at the window once, then holstered my weapon and climbed through the window, if my goal was to harm the CMP, I can easily continue firing, I did not. I fired at something, and accidentally hit the CMP as a result. In our previous discussion I was also very forth coming with shooting the alpha marine, it was intentional and I had reasons as to why, I was also forthcoming with the alpha marine themselves, so if Grimreaper simply believed I was being dishonest none of my previous behavior suggests this to be the case.
My prime issue with this is I believe grimreaperx15 was making a connection with a previous round where I deliberately shot a marine and openly established why, to when I accidentally shot a CMP. I don't believe this is a fair comparison it make one issue was a genuine misunderstanding of how escalation is viewed by staff, and another is about a pure accident. As for the round shenannigans if it really was seen as that egregious then I would've been happy to accept a warning for that, but this has been my first time ever being involved in start of round shenanigans.
TL;DR: Grimreaperx15 used an unrelated event out of context yesterday to escalate the seriousness of an honest mistake without taking the appropriate time to consider context or intent. This wasn't an act of improper escalation, this was a pure mistake.
EvidenceHow you would punish the accused I don't consider this to be very serious, but it is very frustrating to have my history with a mod used against me inappropriately, and to also have the wording of the ban be alot more damning than what actually occured. I think all that should really happen is that Grimreaper has a chat with an admin about what aspects of a player's history are appropriate to use when determining the seriousness of a rulebreak.