Staff Report
Your BYOND Key Vispain
Your Character Name? Cassius 'Santa' Klaus/ Jacque Devereaux
Their BYOND Key Emerald Blood (?)
Approximate time and date of the incident 8:45 AM June 6th 2019
Which Staff Protocols (//showthrea...-and-Protocols) were broken Protocols:
Determine the Seriousness of the Issue
Code of Conduct Wise:
Failed to Preserve the Enjoyment of the Server
Failed to Remain Professional
Failed to not Abuse their Power
Description of the incident This incident began with the near-end of the round. I had just joined as a larva and was really only in an observer capacity as a runner for most of the round. What followed was sort and sweet at the FOB but I soon learned something was amiss. It would seem the marines had early evacced. This is almost certain to be a fact as the marines evacced with a fully intact tank, a great deal of supplies, and had (by the bioscan's count) evacced with 115 marines + crew left.
For comparison, this would mean 35 xenos who had suffered grievous losses of their round start Queen and most T3s, would face off against 115 Marines and Crew + a fully intact tank. The only upside to this was that, due to the shortage of numbers, an ERT should theoretically be impossible for the marines.
Now, the xenos recognized that 35 younger tiered and aged xenos vs 115 Marines + Crew as well as an intact Tank would mean certain death. So, our Queen decided we would wait until our numbers could replenish and age. Afterall, the marines had the numbers easily (over 3x ours) and could come down and fight us quite easily considering they had so many marines uninjured and alive as well as a tank and whatever supplies could be mustered. Even the marines, through their actions later in returning to the planet, prove they as well thought the same thing about the current situation of the round ICly. Yet, the Admin Emerald Blood didn't approve of this wait-and-recover stance by the xenomorph Queen. That�s where we begin with our issues.
At this point, before continuing, I should note what the current situation of the round was. 115 or so marines + crew as well as an intact tank and great deal of material remained on the Almayer. The Xenomorphs had taken the FOB however at great losses to their T3s and knew heading up to the Almayer was suicide and foolish. Emerald Blood�s secretive ( I�ll go into that later) position, even when the marines began planning and enacting their idea to head back to the Prison Station and counterattack, was that the xenos should head up the Almayer and face their certain death. This is despite the logical IC reasoning of the xenos over concerns of marine numbers and the tank as well as the current plans being created by the marines to head back down which would end up solving the issue without staff involvement needed at all.
But, as I was saying. Following the xenos taking the FOB, Emerald Blood began secretly communing with our Queen via PMs and avoiding directly messaging the hive (possibly to prevent greater negative public opinion against their choice). I say this because, if the point of Emerald Blood was to get us on the ship and they were in the right, the simplest thing would have been to tell us to via the Queen Mother commands. Yet, the fact remains, the admin Emerald Blood did no such thing. Instead they communed privately with our Queen, never informing us the hive or ordering us the hive directly to attack the 115 marines, crew and a fully intact tank on the marines' home territory - a horrible choice. There was little to be gained from this decision of sending up the xenos in player enjoyment or remaining professional, especially as, while these talks with the queen were going on, the marines were planning to redeploy - a fact that Emerald Blood had to have noticed and ignored in favor of continuing to pester the Queen through secretive PMs.
There lies a serious issue with both this secretive, (pardon me) ass-covering behavior as well as with the *supposed* order, as we the hive never actually heard from Emerald Blood, to board the Alamo and had up to certain death as younger xenos against a force 3x our number with great remaining weapons (the tank for example) as well as material.
It is my belief that these two acts combined lead to a simple conclusion. Emerald Blood abused their power, weren't professional in handling the round, and were incompetent in preserving the enjoyment of the server.
Emerald Blood's conduct was also suspect and really unprofessional as, we the hive, even asked for the Admin to tell us, via Queen Mother commands, to get on the Alamo and we�d do it. Instead, Emerald Blood never commented to our hive directly and continued to PM our Queen even right up to the point marines had boarded the Normandy and were heading down.
It is my overarching belief from seeing this secretive and persistent behavior by Emerald Blood, that they wished to see the much weaker side (3x weaker in numbers + factor in xeno ages and lack of T3s and T2s) die quickly and easily. This along with further issues in this round indicates how Emerald Blood was in some way upset either at the xenos or at the round overall and wished to see it end. Either of which are unprofessional and not conducive to a fun round for all players when bias is at hand.
The only saving grace of Emerald Blood from an even more devastating end to the round directly at their hand actually lies within the marine command's own intrepid, and individually decided, order to redeploy which prompted the Xenomorph queen to panic and decide to suddenly �obey� the admin�s PMs to take the Alamo. No admins were involved in this marine redeployment order. Again, I repeat for clarification as this is crucial to how Emerald Blood made several mistakes, Emerald Blood nor any other admins commanded them to do so according to what I was told by moderators in PMs.
What this means for this report should be simple: even IC, the marines felt they had the numbers to easily win on the station after their early evacuation. Meanwhile, the staff member Emerald Blood who saw everything, continued to persist and try to force the xenos through secretive PMs to take the Alamo up to certain death. Emerald Blood knew this, didn�t care and continued to try and force the xenos to their death all the while marines were ICly fixing the issue by redeploying (a fact Emerald should�ve and would�ve seen). This point contributes to both my conclusions that Emerald Blood failed remaining professional and serve the interests of player enjoyment. There was no player enjoyment to be found, arguably, on either side by forcing 35 young and weak xenos to assault 115 + marines and crew as well as the intact tank.
Before I begin this next section, I shall address current marine and xenos status in the round. Previously, during Emerald Blood�s attempt to get the xenos to board with dramatically underpowered numbers and evolved strength, the xenos were at 35 Xenos while the marines and crew of the USS Almayer were at around 115 + the tank.
But, post-marine counterattack when the xenos actually ended up taking the Alamo as ordered by our Queen, as mentioned earlier, the xenos only had 24 Xenos left while the marines had anywhere between 90 and 115 + the tank.
Now, this is where we enter into the next issue. My second is actually a question and possibly just as serious as I have reason to believe it could very easily show some serious intent by Emerald Blood to abuse their power; which would be conjoined on top of their blatant unprofessional conduct and failure to preserve the enjoyment of the server with their earlier actions.
I must know if an ERT was forced or sent by an admin or Emerald Blood.
So, where any PMC ERTs or ERTS in general forced or sent by an admin or Emerald Blood.
You see, I realized this actually after the fact when I began thinking about the numbers of xenos involved. It just doesn�t make sense. It was only 24 Xenos against anywhere from 90ish to 115 marines and a tank. I don�t quite see how the marines were able to call distress. This leads me to suspect the PMC ERT was forced by Emerald Blood as a punishment or even further way to hurt the xenomorph team.
If this is true, it decisively shows abuse of their position as well as a blatant and inherent bias in this round against the xenomorph side beginning with - most obtusely and likely - the order from Emerald Blood, via secretive PM, to the xeno Queen to head up to certain death.
Thank you for your time and effort in reading this report. I apologize if anything is unclear. I�ll be available to clarify as I understand this is a long report with several nuances to its blatant aspects.
Evidence
The logs also carry the evidence of what I assume is Emerald Blood talking to the Queen. It should be noted, they never used Queen Mother Commands. Only PMs I think.
Additionally, it would be helpful to see who did the midis as a confirmation beyond hearsay.
As well as the aforementioned, a look into if any ERTs were forced or otherwise admin sent-involved with would be necessary.
Furthermore, the logs will show how the PMs initially started, myself calling the decision and the admin involved "idiotic" or something to that effect. That's what led to this investigation of who was behind this decision. How you would punish the accused A firm warning in the forms of a suspension or probation.
If this is a recurring theme with this admin, then I suggest tougher measures.
As I believe this was a isolated incident from what, and I quote other players, "Emeraldblood waking up on the wrong side of the bed" then I suggest they be warned and put on probation to ensure they don't wake up badly again.