Ban Appeal
Byond ID? Drevenshekel
Character Name? Wamakahana Windhealer
Type of Ban? Timed Ban
If jobban, which job are you appealing? no job ban
Admin who banned you (if known) 50remandcounting
Total Ban Duration 1440 minutes
Remaining Duration 14
What other servers do you play on? pretty much just CM atm
Are you now or have you been banned on any servers? Which ones? nope
Reason for Ban "Reason: Grief. As a survivor, stole the FOB crate and the entirety of its contents, therefore completely derailing the round for the marines.."
Link to previous appeals for the same ban (if applicable): dont have any
Your appeal, including evidence (screenshots, etc) Okay so I'll just explain the situation from the beginning so we have some context. Me and 3 other survivors decided to build our camp in the execution room in marshalls, when the marines landed me and some others exited out a hole in the back wall to talk to them and engage in diplomacy (we were roleplaying as our own tribe, independent but peaceful towards the ungas). Then some marine decided to push me into a sentry turret, which led to me getting angry IC (and slightly salty OOC) but it was all cool because a medic came to me and healed me.
Then the bravo spec kept punching me for some reason so after warning him I domed him with my shotgun, I was boinked for this but after explaining it was all good. The marines even apologised to me IC for the specs actions, no harm done and this is a good example of things being kept IC like they should be.
Then some dickhead decided to turn on a sentry while I was standing there talking to marines, if their was a single act of grief in this whole situation then this was it. But It was still being handled IC, after I got blasted up by the sentry and exhaling some salt in LOOC I saw a crate fall from the sky. IC I saw this as the 'tribute' that I was owed by the metal headed men, so I declared that I was taking my tribute and begun dragging the crate back to my camp.
Note that in my wounded ass state it took me a solid minute or so of dragging to get it back, infront of a dozen or so marines, none of which tried to actually stop me.
Then I open the crate once its safely inside our survivor camp and notice that its got a shitload of plasteel and metal in it, so I realize that the marines probably need this stuff but I'm still not just gonna hand it over to them and will instead do what anyone would realistically do in this situation: use it as a bargaining chip.
I then demanded that the marines send me a "medicine man" to heal my injuries sustained from the sentry, which the marine I was talking to agreed to and he ran off to get someone. A few seconds later Jackson Dee arrives and comes inside the camp after agreeing to leave his weapon outside. He heals me up and we begin roleplaying (you know, the point of CM) about the crate situation, halfway through our trade talks the xenos start attacking in mass and cut us off from safe exit. A minute later our camp gets OB'd and all of us get gibbed besides Dee.
Dee then proceeds to have an epic last stand where he kills 2 xenos, then escapes out the back, then charges BACK in and recovers the crate.
So basically, their was no griefing at all. Stealing is not in breach of the hostile survivor rule, if a marine stole a crate then he'd get treated by the MP's and not admins, as it should be. I believe that the trial mod who banned me has really over stepped the line of mod intervention, this was a situation that was player driven and handled by the players in a way that was fun and interesting. Where the marines derailed by me stealing their crate? Probably, but they could have stopped me and didnt. Xeno's dont get banned for derailing the marines when they win a round, it was a natural part of the round and in this case it lead to an earlier xeno victory (its not like that happens much anyway these days). While its only a 24 hour ban and I usually woulden't care, I think this bodes poorly for the state of CM and how railroaded it has become and how trigger happy mods have become, and also because I don't wanna cop a survivor ban in the future when something like this happens again.
Regards, Windhealer.