Player Report
Your Byond ID? Jade_Pearl
Date of Incident October 19, 2020
Your Character Name? Elly 'Lizard' Luckwing
Accused Byond Key(if known): Basedoperator
Accused Character Name Daniel Morgan
Approximate time and date of the incident (Central US Time for fastest results) Round ended at 21:05 central us time or 03:08 CEST.
What rule(s) were broken: Rule 2, 3 and 16.
Description of the incident: I was a bravo engineer doing my normal prep, getting my equipement before moving down to briefing. Briefing was suprisingly packed, thankfully, and several new pvt's had showed up too. We were just talking and then the conversation moved over to how to hug peeps and how to high five them. In looc I explained how to do it and then a pvt by the name of Lenny Robertson tries to do the same. Sadly he had both his gun wielded AND was in hostage taking mode rather than mere firing mode. As such, instead of giving the person in front of them, Silas Shane, a high five they pointed their gun at them. Silas, scared, moved back causing Lenny to fire a burst into Silas. Chaos ensued and several marines started disarming and punching Lenny. One of them the delta medic Kendra Barret who repeatedly punched Lenny, at that point disarmed and on the floor. An LT shows up, Richard Maynard, that positions himself on top of Lenny to block the punches and keep the marines at bay, most stop but Kendra keeps on punching. The LT grabs Lenny and stars pulling him away from the marines, most stop punching but Kendra persists, following the LT and Lenny. I continuosly body block Kendra till I eventually resort to disarming Kendra who subsequently falls down. Daniel shows up, pulls out his Mateba and then tries to BE me on the spot, not Kendra, he aimed for my chest so it failed. I survive, Daniel is quiet and doesnt talk to me again. I am in the dropship, I ask Daniel why I was, essentially, BE'd. He replied with 'you were starting a riot after I was screaming to stop punching'.
I may be mistaken but screaming 'stop punching' and body blocking the only person that was still acting agressivly, Kendra, doesn't sound to me like 'inciting a riot'. At the moment of attempted execution the riot had already been quelled, as you can see from the attack logs. Furthermore, when Daniel got his CO wl a little under 2 months ago he wrote that: '[...]the battlefield execution should only be used in scenarios where it is absolutely necessary, such as an immediate lethal major threat to the safety of yourself, your men, and the operation, and one that cannot be handled by MPs or through standard execution protocol without further jeopardy and harm.' I dont see how me screaming to stop or, at worst, body blocking and disarming somebody once can be counted as a 'major threat'. Let alone how the LT dragging Lenny away failed. BE is described as a last resort yet I feel there's been a shocking lack of trying alternatives such as, for instance, using the briefing flasher.
Time goes on, I deploy and fob construction is well underway, I dont remember how long after this went down but lets say 10 minutes I hear from Donald again. He goes out of his way to tell me that he feels bad that he 'didn't get to shoot your[mine] head off'. Now, I get that rule 3 doens't mean that you can't say bad things but I feel that going out of your way to tell me several minutes later that you're sad that you didn't get to execute me takes thing a tad too far.
This brings me to my last point, rule 2 'roleplay'. Going out of your way to express your sadness about being unable to execute me is not something you'd expect the CO of a marine vessel to do. Especially one that, in his app, described himself as being calm and collected as well as saying ''I think it's important that you don't sour your image with the marines even more with hasty PBing and detaining, or other spiteful actions.'
Lastly I wish to state that I am both sick and writing this at 4am so I am sorry if my grammar isn't thebest. Also, since *technically speaking* he merely shot me instead of BE'ng me, although his later comments very much suggest that was his intention, I am more than willing to exchange the misuse of the BE for an improper escalation one.
Evidence (screenshots, logs, etc):
How you would punish the accused: Give him a whitelist suspension or maybe even take it away. BE's are a powerful tool not to be wasted and CO is the beacon of roleplay on the server with rules stating that you must always be in character. It is my belief that he failed to live up to that standard.