Staff Report
Your BYOND Key Just L
Date of Incident February 9, 2020
Your Character Name? Orlando Blackburn
Their BYOND Key Unknown
Approximate time and date of the incident Feb 09 2020 8:30pm
Which Staff Protocols (//showthrea...-and-Protocols) were broken Preserve the RP and enjoyment of the server
Description of the incident I latejoined as a charlie specialist, saw a UPP walking around right next to cryo, and immediately ran over to the prep room to grab my gear. I went to select scout spec, but it was taken, so I selected Heavy Grenadier instead. I proceeded to get all my gear on and get a shotgun, ask on the Charlie radio why there are commies on the ship, and I received unclear answers as to whether or not they were supposed to be on the ship, or if they were hostile.
Afterwards, I walked to Requisitions and saw a few UPP standing inside but not shooting anything. I pointed at one and said something along the lines of "Speak English you fucking commie", and they turned around and began to speak afterwards, a UPP specialist walking up and saying that there was a ceasefire, as in "If you don't shoot us we don't shoot you."
Seeing as that was the case, as they would have just shot me if they were lying, I went west towards the hangar, saw some more UPP soldiers firing down the hallway past medical, and then proceeded to move out of the way and into the kitchen. I decided to goof around in the kitchen for a while and wait to see if there was going to be some staff clarification on the event, only getting some vague announcements and glitchy ARES statements on the situation. Some UPP then walked into the kitchen and shot me, and I couldn't shoot back with my grenade launcher due to the on-ship IFF preventing me from using it. It took me a few shots to realize this, I then switched to my slug shotgun but died shortly afterwards due to being shot several times.
ANOTHER ceasefire is announced, but I am already dying in the kitchen, and by the time anyone came to get me I was permanently dead. It took some time after that before I even received a response on getting an aheal (Only being told that someone was looking into it) and my body was then looted by people in medbay. I did get my grenade launcher and armor back after I was ahealed, but my helmet and shotgun were stolen for some reason. Taketheshot56 did spawn me a new set back in my prep, which was reasonable, but by the time I actually got in the Alamo it was already defcon 1 and the nuke was being brought to the dropship.
Events need to be handled better, with clear outlines and announcements when the staff involved in the event want something to change. Vaguely worded IC announcements from High Command/UPP Command/Queen Mother should not be used when something important in the event MUST occur (in this case a ceasefire between UPP and the Marines), as it resulted in a number of people being killed on all sides of the event, general loss of enjoyment by the players, and upset staff members.
Evidence If logs are pulled there are several instances of the person running the event sending mixed messages and unclear announcements stating that there was a ceasefire. Multiple people in deadchat were suggesting to just give a full OOC announcement on the ceasefire, but staff only did so after a number of people were killed.
How you would punish the accused I can't entirely say since I don't even know who ran the event. The best case scenario would be to have the person who ran the event hold off on doing them until he knows how to run them better.