Staff Report
Your BYOND Key chainsawmullet
Date of Incident December 29, 2021
Your Character Name? HEX
Their BYOND Key lunarflu
Approximate time and date of the incident 5:20pm gmt
Which Staff Protocols (//showthrea...-and-Protocols) were broken I guess preserving RP?
Description of the incident Marines were pushing east gap on LV, in Hivemind I said: "Our long deathless winter has left us numb. Our wasted animal within, ugly and gaunt, hibernates beneath our shimmering beauty. Why do these Humans stir us so? They burn with our lost desires, lost instincts. Money-tamed, but only just. Cast and hunted as game. Trapped and tortured, yet they remain... animals."
I was then almost immediately bwoinked by Lunarflu, asking if it was a quote from Warframe, to which I responded that I had edited some of it to fit CM/xeno but that yes, Warframe was the origin (more specifically, it's from an old and incredibly niche trailer for a Prime warframe that you pretty much would have to google the quote to find). I was then told that it was LRP and not edited enough, and told that I was being noted.
My issue comes from the fact that, other than its origin, the quote was perfectly suited to the scenario I used it in, and that there's nothing listed in the roleplay standards or rules as a whole that you cannot use quotes from other media whatsoever. I have been saying things like this for a few days now and have had a lot of positive feedback from other players/xenos that they enjoy seeing the quotes I find come up in hivemind when a battle starts or ends, so it's a little disconcerting that it's apparently LRP and that I can't do it anymore.
EvidenceWhat resolution are you seeking? Clarification on whether it's truly LRP to use a quote taken from somewhere else if it's changed to fit the scenario it's being used in, and removal of note if it's not considered such. Or, if it is considered LRP, proper notation or outlining in the roleplay guidelines about quotes from other media - what if I was a commander citing Winston Churchill, for example?
I do not want the mod punished as I'm sure they were doing what they thought was best.