Player Report
Your Byond ID? Atebite
Date of Incident May 9, 2021
Your Character Name? Brock Brogan
Accused Byond Key(if known): ExGame
Accused Character Name William Frost
Approximate time and date of the incident (Central US Time for fastest results) 02:29 UTC+1, 19:29 CT
What rule(s) were broken: Bit of a gray area. Rule 11?
Description of the incident: I was playing delta SL the round in question. At the start of the round, the CO announced that only british holidays are to be honored. Brock is my batshit insane patriot character and I responded by calling a strike until the 4th of July was reinstated as a holiday. I thought that it'd end no longer than 5 minutes later with a throwaway announcement that the 4th of July is now back in place.
I took my strike to the mess hall with a couple of other deltas and kept calling for the 4th of July to be reinstated while at least one MP was looking and paying attention pretty much the entire time. I kept this going until I was bwoinked for not deploying as SL. I apologized and instantly went to Normandy to deploy, trying to convince the other marines that it was more important to go groundside and help the other marines.
Pretty much right as I strap into the chair in Normandy, MPs flashbang the dropship and arrest me. I didn't resist arrest but the other marines didn't take it well and started a tiny impromptu mutiny. I tried to get them to knock it off by telling them to stop over squad comms, but ultimately it had to be put down with a MOOC message.
In the brig, the arresting MP, Katherine 'Catgirl' Hayden, lets me know that the CO had ordered:
1. That I cannot deploy
2. That I should be arrested for desertion
Obviously, this is a catch 22. I was first put in the communal brig, then almost immediately moved to perma (allegedly on the CO's orders). I tried going the RP route about it since frankly, I wasn't getting back in the round at that point anyways. So I faxed HC about it but got no reply.
A couple of minutes later, the warden, Sebastian 'Vitriolic' Hale, comes up and asks if what I want for my last meal. Apparently the CO had now ordered that I should be executed. I demanded an appeal from the CMP, Cassandra Reed, who then claimed that the arrest order had come while I was still in the mess hall. I don't know if this is correct but I don't believe it to be considering there were MPs outside watching and I wasn't arrested until after I went to the dropship. During the appeal, Hayden claimed they didn't arrest me in the mess hall because there were too many of us, but they also had no problem arresting me when the exact same marines were with me on the dropship.
The only thing that saved me from being executed was that a mutiny happened just after my appeal to the CMP. This was a fine mess, but I expect a CO to not catch 22 people into executions.
I want to end this by saying that I understand that this went way too far and that I'm sorry for the truckload of borderline grief that this caused. It was never my intention for what was supposed to be a joke to go so far as an actual rule-breaking mutiny. It was only intended as a bit of character RP before dropping.
Evidence (screenshots, logs, etc): The majority of these logs are snipped to catch the gist of every individual situation.
Frost announces british holidays only:
Command Announcement
As long as I am CO, we are having british holidays.
- Sent from USCM Command Tablet
I react to the british holiday announcement:
SSGT. Brock Brogan [Delta (SL)] yells, "BRITISH?!"
SSGT. Brock Brogan [Delta (SL)] shouts, "WHAT THE FUCK!"
SSGT. Brock Brogan [Delta (SL)] says, "THE BRITS WERE CLOSER TO THE SOVIET COMMIE UNION THAN THE US OF A EVER WAS"
SSGT. Brock Brogan [Delta (SL)] says, "THIS IS SOME COMMIE FUCKHEAD BULLSHIT"
SSGT. Brock Brogan [Delta (SL)] exclaims, "What next? Will they BAN the FOURTH OF JULY?!"
LT. John Lebird [Delta (SO)] says, "Brock as it stands, 4th of july is banned"
Command Ship Announcement
Reminder, per the CO's commnad we are only allowed to celebrate british holidays That means 4th of july is banned. I have already written HC regarding this, I advice you do the same
Signed by,
Lieutenant John Lebird
Me announcing a strike until the 4th of July is reinstated:
SSGT. Brock Brogan [Delta (SL)] shouts, "WE ARE NOT DEPLOYING UNTIL THEY LEGALIZE THE FOURTH OF JULY!"
SSGT. Brock Brogan [Delta (SL)] exclaims, "WE WANT THE FOURTH OF JULY BACK AND WE WANT IT NOW!!!"
SSGT. Brock Brogan [Delta (SL)] shouts, "EVERYBODY TO THE MESS HALL!"
SSGT. Brock Brogan [Command (Delta SL)] yells, "COMMAND, DELTA IS OFFICIALLY ON STRIKE UNTIL YOU REINSTATE THE FOURTH OF JULY OFFICIALLY!"
I protest in the mess hall:
Brock Brogan broadcasts, "THEY WOULD HAVE US PAY TAXES AND SURRENDER OUR CROPS TO THE COMMIE GOVERNMENT MACHINE!"
SSGT. Katherine 'Catgirl' Hayden says, "I already see cowards here, afraid of deployment"
Brock Brogan broadcasts, "You call THIS desertion? WHAT ABOUT THE CO COMMITING SEDITION BEFORE ALL OF OUR EYES?!"
Brock Brogan broadcasts, "REINSTATE THE FOURTH OF JULY AND WE DEPLOY"
I then get bwoinked by Schalkguy and immediately stop the strike to go deploy:
SSGT. Brock Brogan says, "Wait..."
SSGT. Brock Brogan says, "There's a voice"
Brock Brogan broadcasts, "THE VOICE OF A THOUSAND DEAD MARINES"
Brock Brogan broadcasts, "TRUE AMERICANS WHO WILL DIE IF WE DO NOT DEPLOY"
Brock Brogan broadcasts, "WE WILL NOT GIVE UP ON THE FOURTH OF JULY BUT WE WILL NOT ABANDON OUR FELLOW MEN"
Brock Brogan broadcasts, "THE VOICE IN MY HEAD HAS CALLED ME TO A GREATER GOOD"
Brock Brogan broadcasts, "AND THAT IS TO KILL *CONFIRMED* COMMIES GROUNDSIDE"
Brock Brogan broadcasts, "I HAVE PRAYED TO THE GODS AND THE GODS WISH FOR US TO DEPLOY"
Brock Brogan broadcasts, "WE WILL SHOW THEM"
Brock Brogan broadcasts, "WHAT THE FOURTH OF JULY MEANS TO US"
Brock Brogan broadcasts, "AND WE WILL SHOW THEM WHY IT SHOULD BE REINSTATED"
Dropship gets flashbanged. I'm arrested. After this I ahelp Schalkguy back because I thought they had spoken to everyone else to tell them that it's taken care of:
BANG
Katherine 'Catgirl' Hayden blinds Brock Brogan with the flash!
SSGT. Brock Brogan shouts, "I AM DEPLOYING!"
SSGT. Brock Brogan exclaims, "WHAT IS THIS UNAMERICAN COMMIE SHIT?!"
Marines who gathered around me then began beating on the MPs. I was still writing ahelps about the arrest. Afterwards I tell delta to knock it off over comms:
SSGT. Brock Brogan [Delta (SL)] says, "MEN YOU NEED TO CALM YOUR FUCKING ASSES, THESE MPS ARE GOD-FEARING MARINES, NOT COMMIES"
SSGT. Brock Brogan [Delta (SL)] says, "SET YOUR PETTY DIFFERENCES ASIDE, DEPLOY AND HELP OUR FELLOW MARINES FIGHT WHATEVER MENACE IS DOWN THERE"
In processing. This is where I realize that I'm being catch 22'd:
SSGT. Katherine 'Catgirl' Hayden says, "Well"
SSGT. Titus Hill asks, "What are all the crimes?"
SSGT. Katherine 'Catgirl' Hayden says, "So"
You are trying to remove Brock Brogan's Brock Brogan's ID Card (Delta Squad Leader).
SSGT. Katherine 'Catgirl' Hayden says, "Desertion"
Brock Brogan says, "No"
Brock Brogan says, "I want to remind you"
SSGT. Katherine 'Catgirl' Hayden says, "CO wanted you apprehended"
SSGT. Katherine 'Catgirl' Hayden says, "You took too long"
SSGT. Katherine 'Catgirl' Hayden says, "Refusing to follow orders"
SSGT. Katherine 'Catgirl' Hayden says, "You went for 2nd drop"
SSGT. Katherine 'Catgirl' Hayden says, "After getting bored of striking"
SSGT. Katherine 'Catgirl' Hayden says, "Making 5 marines not deploying when able to"
Brock Brogan says, "Refusing orders, sure. Desertion? Fuck no."
SSGT. Titus Hill says, "CO ordered it."
SSGT. Katherine 'Catgirl' Hayden says, "CO orders to mark you for desertion"
Brock Brogan says, "The CO cannot "order" that I have commited a crime"
SSGT. Titus Hill says, "He can order you charged."
...
Brock Brogan says, "If he could he could fucking run around and say "you are hereby charged with sedition" over nothing and execute them"
...
ARES v3.2 [Almayer] states, "BRIG REPORT: Brock Brogan has been jailed for Desertion, Insubordination."
I'll leave out the appeal to HC because it was never responded to. I ahelped once I realized the fax wasn't gonna get a response.
I get to know I'm being executed:
Tom Hendriks [Almayer (Delta Mar)] says, "CMP"
Tom Hendriks [Almayer (Delta Mar)] asks, "Can I watch the execution?"
LT. Sebastian 'Vitriolic' Hale asks, "What would vous like to drink, eat, and perhaps a cigarette?"
...
LT. Sebastian 'Vitriolic' Hale asks, "So vous deny all meals, and drinks, and smokes for the last meal?"
Brock Brogan asks, "Last meal?"
Brock Brogan asks, "I'm sorry?"
SSGT. Katherine 'Catgirl' Hayden says, "Didnt you..."
SSGT. Katherine 'Catgirl' Hayden asks, "Hear announcement..?"
Brock Brogan asks, "No?"
LT. Sebastian 'Vitriolic' Hale says, "Capitaine issued an execution for 13:00, but we stopped the procedure till we got the reply from HC or ten minutes passed."
LT. Sebastian 'Vitriolic' Hale says, "It has now been 12 minutes."
I appeal to the CMP:
Brock Brogan says, "Right."
Brock Brogan says, "Hear me out."
Brock Brogan says, "I protested over the fourth of july shit. It got out of hand."
Brock Brogan says, "I heard A VOICE IN MY HEAD telling me that was wrong"
Brock Brogan says, "And immediately went to Normandy to deploy"
Brock Brogan says, "When I strapped in, I was flashbanged and arrested by Hayden"
Brock Brogan points to Katherine 'Catgirl' Hayden
Brock Brogan says, "In the brig"
Brock Brogan says, "She told me that the CO had given orders to refuse me to deploy"
SSGT. Katherine 'Catgirl' Hayden says, "Dont forget"
SSGT. Katherine 'Catgirl' Hayden says, "I asked you"
SSGT. Katherine 'Catgirl' Hayden says, "To come"
SSGT. Katherine 'Catgirl' Hayden says, "Peacefully"
Brock Brogan says, "I have been charged with desertion."
SSGT. Katherine 'Catgirl' Hayden says, "First"
Brock Brogan says, "Meaning:"
Brock Brogan says, "I wanted to deploy"
Brock Brogan says, "I got on the dropship"
Brock Brogan says, "The CO ordered that I cannot deploy"
CDR. Mitchell 'Bull' Hardy says, "To have someone removed."
LCDR. Cassandra Reed says, "All right. Your desertion chage stemmed from your earlier refusal to deploy."
SSGT. Katherine 'Catgirl' Hayden says, "Yes."
CDR. Mitchell 'Bull' Hardy says, "Is bad."
Brock Brogan says, "Then they ordered me arrested for desertion"
SSGT. Katherine 'Catgirl' Hayden says, "Actually the desertion charge came up before you gave up"
SSGT. Katherine 'Catgirl' Hayden says, "So"
SSGT. Katherine 'Catgirl' Hayden says, "You took"
SSGT. Katherine 'Catgirl' Hayden says, "A bit long"
LCDR. Cassandra Reed says, "Everything that came after that was irrelevant as far as I"m concerned."
Brock Brogan says, "Refusal to follow orders? Sure. But I was literally on the dropship"
Brock Brogan says, "And the CO bars me from deploying THEN orders me arrested"
LCDR. Cassandra Reed says, "No. Yuo were ordered arrested way before that."
Brock Brogan says, "So why am I being executed"
LCDR. Cassandra Reed says, "Your desertion charge was for your "protest" in the first place. Before it got violent."
Brock Brogan says, "This started with a 50 minute brig timer, then perma"
Brock Brogan says, "And now it's a fucking execution"
Brock Brogan says, "Because the CO is catch 22-ing me into desertion"
...
Brock Brogan says, "I literally could not do anything"
LCDR. Cassandra Reed says, "You were brought here because the arresting officer made a mistake."
LCDR. Cassandra Reed says, "Also."
LCDR. Cassandra Reed says, "Again."
LCDR. Cassandra Reed says, "Stems from your "protest"."
LCDR. Cassandra Reed says, "Not being arrested on the DS."
Brock Brogan says, "Then why was I not arrested"
Brock Brogan says, "In the mess hall"
Brock Brogan says, "When I was making speeches"
Brock Brogan says, "For five minutes or so"
SSGT. Katherine 'Catgirl' Hayden says, "Simple"
Brock Brogan says, "While TWO MPS watched"
SSGT. Katherine 'Catgirl' Hayden says, "I had no backup"
SSGT. Katherine 'Catgirl' Hayden says, "And you were 5 there"
Brock Brogan says, "The timeline doesn't add up"
LCDR. Cassandra Reed says, "Does that really matter? We were handling multiple cases at the same time."
Don't think the rest is relevant. Mutiny happened shortly after this.
I have full chat logs including ahelps. Let me know if you want them in their entirety.
How you would punish the accused: Just a warning.