Staff Report
Your BYOND Key Destrok
Date of Incident March 20, 2020
Your Character Name? Manuel Conrad
Their BYOND Key Dusanking123 (I believe)
Approximate time and date of the incident Like 9:30 central US time, no clue.
Which Staff Protocols (//showthrea...-and-Protocols) were broken Enforcement of the Rules
Description of the incident First off I want to mention that I couldn't really find the proper protocols - so I just chose the code of conduct most related to the situation.
Essentially I was noted for what I believe to be Improper Escalation. At least that's what I was told, since the situation was handled entirely in discord DMs.
The only rule that this could possibly fall under is Rule 14. So here's the rule as written:
Rule 14. Lethal Force - Do not attack another player without a legitimate, explainable roleplay reason that could be applied in a similar, real-life scenario. A fist fight does not suddenly escalate into a gun fight. Even if you are justified, you are still susceptible to Marine Law.
And now a description of the incident:
I joined into an LV-624 round at roughly 13:30 round time. I was greeted by a pitch black cryoroom and a bioscan sounding 15 xenos. This round, although I did not know it yet, was one with an admin event ran by Taketheshot.
Regardless, I figured that only a few things could be happening. There was a boarding, there was a lurker on board, or, very unlikely, engineering was having issues (it's almost fucking impossible to run out of power).
So I ran to get fed and geared ASAP. The first thing I heard on my comms was something about the ARES core and then something about an UPP boarding.
So you have to understand what my character and myself were thinking. From my character's POV, he had just woken up to a damaged ship with no lights and the first talk he heard was of a boarding by UPP.
And as for myself, I joined into what I thought must be either an event or an onboard xeno.
I move on to get my weaponry, and start loading my shotgun with buckshot and my carbine with its ammo. Then I see a group of Deltas. I wasn't paying much attention to their talk because I was just shitposting on discord about Halo or whatever and putting on some music, but I did hear talks of a "mutiny" which only added to my paranoia both IC and OOC.
Then I notice that not only cryo and delta prep are lacking lights, basically the entire ship was. I keep hearing talk about UPP so I start loading slugs and get ready to frag. Of course, there were no UPP. I saw some RMPs running around doing nothing much. This unnerved me, because I also heard talk of RMPs near the ARES core or whatever.
I gather with some other marines. They seem to be near the lower port pods, next to the maintenance shaft, so I assume they're awatiing a boarding party or something and I remain with them. There they start talking. Eventually an RMP comes to us. He was suspicious as hell and was super silent.
Eventually some charlie or delta marine decided to fucking prime a HEFA grenade for some reason and lob it at the MP. I ran as close to the maintenance hatch as I could and rested, as did some others. The RMP took minimal damage from the shrapnel.
Now, what I'd expect to happen is for the RMP to pull out his baton, flash, tazer or whatever and arrest the person who just threw a literal GRENADE at him. No.
He pulls out a grenade launcher and shoots tear gas into the people besides me.
So this RMP has literally just broken Marine Law and is using AOE weaponry to try to dispatch of all of us - both me ICly and OOCly assume that this is some sort of disguised UPP or whatever so I pull out my carbine and give him a couple shots. He seems to be practically useless and tries firing at us with a onehanded shotgun, missing all of us. Eventually some PFC runs up to him and PBs him, finishing him off. Then some other one starts buckshotting his corpse, I assume to permakill him.
So, in essence, what happened here?
I did nothing wrong at the start. Some PFC decided to lob a grenade at this RMP and he completely failed to follow ML in how he handled the situation. I had no reason to believe, in THAT situation, that he wasn't a hostile. Read over my description of the ship that I just made. So many things that could ICly lead me to believe that the ship was in danger, being boarded. And then an unknown mute throws a tear gas grenade at me for doing nothing. What was the appropiate response there?
Start punching him? Run away? No, I defended myself and the people around me who had also done no wrong. If we read the rule again, the only requirement to attack a player is to have a legitimate, explainable roleplay reason to do so. And I had one.
I believe that I was completely in the right to do what I did considering I didn't even kill him. I believe I shot him twice or thrice with my carbine. There is no time to hesitate when dealing with what you believe to be a hostile.
Evidence Combat logs from the round. I have the full discord DM logs between me and the (who I assume to be) issuing moderator.
How you would punish the accused No punishment, remove my note. I care a lot about my note history and I don't want to see it tarnished by what I believe is a completely unreasonable note.