BYOND Key:/b] Blades84
Total Ban Length: Permanent
Banning staff member's Key: Alberyk
Reason of Ban: "going really overboard with sexual connotations in game, pretty much breaking the non-erp rule"
Reason for Appeal: I don't see how asking someone if they've even been pregnant is at all tenamount to ERP, sure it was in poor taste and probably not the most stellar RP but it was in part a joke to lighten up the mood during the passage through the radiation belt; and out of curiosity considering the person was a Tajara (?) or some other form of non-human, it illicited a somewhat shocked response and an answer to my question which was: "I don't think that's possible" it was overheard by two people max and had little to no effect on gameplay, we continued work as normal afterward. I was playing MD that round and performed my job fine for the remainder of it until a ban was applied as I was saving someone who had apparently sustained heavy injuries during the aforementioned radiation storm.
To sum it up: While I do agree what I did here was poor RP, it wasn't at all ERP nor did it have any kind of detrimental effect on gameplay. Pregnancy and intercourse exist and simply mentioning them ingame isn't ERP or anything like it. I don't feel this warranted a permanent ban and I thought I was acting within the rules, I didn't think anybody would equate that dumb question to ERP and that wasn't my intention here at all. I will acknolwdge however that throughout the round I wasn't RPing so great in general, nor have I been in recent weeks and I apologize for that, if the ban is lifted I'll make a concious effort to improve my roleplaying IC and cut out a lot of the nuisance I've been causing and ask staff before I do something which I think might be of a questionable nature.