TheDilShawn

BYOND key: TheDilShawn Character names: Shawn Dil; D-I-L; Dawning in Life; The Devotion of an Illusory Legion; Small Lights of the Distant Stars; Crimson of the Fallen Leaves. How long have you been playing on Aurora?: Over a year for sure. Maybe a year and a half? Why do you wish to be on the whitelist?: I wish to expand the utility of my character roster to include a character that is a Head of Personnel. Why did you come to Aurora?: Compared to the other servers that claim to have roleplay this is the only one I've experienced some sort of sense of humanity within the characters that are being roleplayed. Have you read the Aurora wiki on the head roles and qualifications you plan on playing?: Yes. Have you received any administrative actions? And how serious were they? My warnings and notifications page in-game. Appart from that I've had a few notes about stuff I shouldn't have done. Can't remember being banned... though others could confirm this if true or false. Please provide well articulated answers to the following questions in a paragraph each. Give a definition of what you think roleplay is, and should be about: Roleplay should be about a balance of believably of a character's existence and interactions IC within a set of OC restrictions that allows for a immersive experience and results in a proper story, round after round. What do you think the OOC purpose of a Head of Staff is, ingame?: The heads of staff are leaders to their respective parts of the station, they are there to help with decisions, guidance and enforcement relative to the performance of the station and it's crew members. They are looked upon to help coordinate crew members when the need arises to ensure problems are resolved, be that some biohazard for engineers, lack of members for a certain job for the head of personnel or spiders/ carp for the head of security for example. What do you think the OOC responsibilities of Whitelisted players are to other players, and how would you strive to uphold them?: The responsibilities someone would have with the whitelist would be not to de-value the command roles that they play. The attention that you get in a command role comes with a lot of expectations from others to perform to a certain standard. The value you project with your command character will reflect over all the other characters with that role as you interact with players. Furthermore, refering to the certain standard that whitelisted characters are expected to perform, said standard is quite high not only because they represent their whitelist but also they are the ones that fill the most important roles of the station and so should act accordingly. Could you give us the gist of what is currently happening in Tau ceti and how it affected your character and their career? As a head of personnel character from NT, he knows that there's pressure over a shortage of phoron that his higher ups keep talking about and had to manage resources accordingly as to minimize the costs of the management teams he was a part of in his career due to pressure from his superiors. What roles do you plan on playing after the application is accepted? Head of Personnel. Characters you intend to use for command or have created for command. Include the job they will be taking.: How would you rate your own roleplaying?: John Alexander, Head of Personnel. Rating my own roleplaying? Unsure, a 6/10 maybe? Don't really know. Do you understand your whitelist is not permanent, and may be stripped following continuous administrative action? Of course. Have you familiarize yourself with the wiki pages for the command roles? Yes. Mainly the guide to command, head of personnel and the liaison/ representative pages. (Last one to learn what their actual role was to interact with) Extra notes: The HoP character I'm planning to make is connected to the assistant of "Small Lights of the Distant Stars" as they kind of adopted and pulled strings to have them work in Aurora and taught over their priority of crew morale to them too. Hence you can expect a hard working head of personnel that gives great attention to morale over those present around them with frequent visits to various departments to check up on their spirits... as well as their productivity, not forgetting his duties. Regarding paperwork, there was a time where I handled alot of paperwork as D-I-L (android) so I'm not too green over it. Thank you for reading and hopefully you won't be too harsh over my past... Also can't focus enough to *properly* re-read the whole thing I've written, am too anxious and tired to do so, let's hope there's nothing to fix.

Would be cool to see someone sprinting around actually just bumping into people accidentally and knocking both back dropping whatever they had on their hand unless the one being bumped was on harm intent.

You mightve misinterpeted me then as in the "get them" part. I never told you to attack anyone, until the situation at the end, just that we were capturing one alive. As you said, you didn't have much way of non lethal takedowns so shouldve been a dead giveaway that me saying "I want to capture one alive" would mean they wouldnt be harmed since they could bleed out along the way or have broken or fractured bones. Much less how much you harmed the first, although they did fire a laser rifle at you, I don't know what you did to to spark that and he had lost the rifle well before you did any severe damage. With the information provided by Olivia I agree it was a wrong assumption on my part over what I said you did to the second person, although I still disagree with the attack overall. On both.. since I did bring a taser to literally not harm anyone inside. For the part where I told you to maim them, as stated previously I thought both were going to die so I wanted to turn them into juggs and neither had protested against it in LOOC when asked if they had something against it by the time I told you to start maiming. Which was the only order I have given you since the "I want to capture a person alive" was pretty much me stating what my intentions were what to do and I never told you to go capture anyone for me. I also assumed you shared my opinion over what you did since you were apologizing to me alot at the end before I told you to maim them.You pretty much went without me on these cases appart from when there was a laser rifle being fired and the maiming at the end.

My response to the Olivia shows I was wrong on the accuracy of my guess on how much she was injured. I only knew this after her post pointing it out. If there are things that was wrong in the original post it would be that surprisingly the jugg did a low ammount of damage even though still knocked her around, prompting me to think she was going to die but actually wasn't.

Hey, you looked pretty beat up but then again I was not present for most of the fight to see what the jugg did to you and I based your damage over how slow you were moving and how little hits you needed to go down and also you had some blood on your sprite indicating damage. I wanted to make you a jugg because I thought it was too late for you and I wanted to give you something to do appart from just dying. I don't quite have much ability to see how injured you were but I did see you get hit a fair ammount of times by the jugg when I arrived late. I think you even scratched me first (unsure), dunno why you tried to play hero to try and drag the other medical staff from a jugg but I don't mind admitting with this new information that I can be at fault for killing you, even if I only wanted to kill you because I thought you were going to die and wanted to just get you back to life. Also was never told about your damage until now. I finish again pointing out that if I just wanted to go around killing medical staff playing agressively I would've also attacked the doctor that was there when I returned to medbay instead of just roleplaying with him trying to get him in some sort of fear RP instead of having someone else start fights I didn't even want in the first place. I didn't know what you did to the jugg or what the jugg did to you appart from when I saw you already in a fight when I come pretty late. This goes for both medical staff (appart when I saw you try and drag the body which I also didn't even see you try to communicate there but then again you were mostly off screen for me).

Also how does this work? I HAVE to ahelp to not be included in something I dont have much part in and that happened mostly off of my screen? I have to tell someone to stop when Im no longer with them and not knowing what is happening?

If people didn't specify who was more agressive how do you know what Im at fault for instead of blanket over both of us of something I didn't do. The only time I harmed someone was already out of medical when the jugg already did enough damage to have them eventually die on their own. Furthermore, I was a ghost summon, I dont know how to react or if I have power of the juggs. Of course Im making it a point all over the post that I literally had no part in masacring people inside medical appart from just breaking a door open. The jugg was off my screen for most of the time. I have no idea what happened inside with just him or what happened outside with just him. The only time I was present was when I tased one medical staff that was shooting a rifle and they ran away with the jugg chasing them, and then at the very end when the jugg had beat the two already without me. How am I responsible for this? How am I supposed to know how to perfectly react to stuff Im not doing and I have no control over? How am I supposed to know what type of stuff happened for a tajaran staff to shoot laser rifles? How am I supposed to stop the jugg when they go away in a hallway and I dont know what is happening until he comes back with his unconscious body? Im not responsible for people exagerating that the TWO of us ran in and starting harming people inside when I literally didnt harm anyone in medical and didnt even see anyone appart from the one armed medical staff. Yes Im saying Im not responsible alot because for some reason you keep dismissing what ever I say because of my past and what other people said that just wasnt true! I'm literally saying that I took no part in almost aaaaanything that was stated. Slaughtering people inside? I didnt even see anyone alive inside appart from the armed tajara (after breaking in) . I didnt even fight anyone inside medical appart from the taser when I saw the tajara shooting. Also Im a ghost summon not a cultist. I don't know what started the fight. I dont know what the jugg inside medical until I came in late and the tajara was shooting lasers but he had no reason to attack people over what I said because when we were entering I said I wanted one alive. So if he attacked people, it was by his choice without me even being present. I don't know what the jugg did when he left the office with the tajara, nor did I have anything to do with beating him unconscious. Ive never seen such unfair treatment

BYOND Key: TheDilShawn Staff BYOND Key: WitchBells Game ID: b7o-dnBF Reason for complaint: "headed a siege on medical with another cultist with very little provocation/interaction beforehand because they needed bodies. did not accept blame and continued to blame the other cultist for being at fault instead." I believe that being "equally at fault" to the juggernaut who did almost everything wrong and against what I said, is not fair. As stated, I did not accept blame and said the other one was at fault. Why? Well let me describe what happen: I got summoned again at the chapel, took at belt from security that had a tazer and handcuffs and then told the person that summoned me that I would bring him a living person and showed him the taser. I walked up to the main hall and I found a jugg/wraith going into medical. I asked if there was anyone alive they said they didn't know. I told him that I wanted to capture one alive and we started breaking into medical and then medical saw us break in and ran back. We got inside, The jugg/wraith went foward and I stayed behind looking at a dead body trying to see if I could shard it. I took my time making a shard and trying it on the dead body, which I couldn't shard. When I go further inside I see one medical staff shooting a laser rifle at it and still armed so I pull out my taser to pacify him, not knowing if they were hit by the jugg or not. The tajara drops the gun, I do nothing and he goes into an office as the jugg chases him, making me split off without access. I give up on the chase. I stood behind looking at corpses in medical to see if I could shard them, which I could not. After some time the jugg returns to the office with an beat up medical staff which I took NO PART OR CHOICE in their fight. The jugg starts breaking a path open for me, I also begin breaking the window on my side. Then, another tajaran medical staff comes and tries to drag the almost dead one. The jugg proceeds to start beating him too, which again I had NO PART OR CHOICE IN and by the time I caught up to the fight that ended up at the end of a hall the tajara was almost finished aswell. I approached and he clawed me so I hit him with a sword. By then, the juggernaut had done so much damage to the two ALONE in the fight that the only thing I could do was make them both into wraiths. I start cutting up the last person down but stop myself to then ask in LOOC'd if they had anything against being turned into juggernauts and none of them said anything so I maimed them and and turned them into wraiths. Now I ask, how am I at fault or even equally at fault for the juggernaut who basicly solo'd the two to defeat when I clearly stated before we broke in that I wanted to capture one alive. How am I at fault for low interaction when I didn't get a chance to do any interaction, I shot a taser at an armed medical staff shooting around and the medical staff ran away while I did nothing to stop them. I even gave up on breaking the window to chase him. I will say hands down the only part where I had interaction was when the jugg had them both already beat up and the last one was on their last legs dying too. As for a part of the warning, nowhere in any logs did I say or explain that I wanted to capture one to add more bodies. Although I did state I was going to bring one alive to the person that summoned me, I would not choose what would happen. Could be a sacrifice, could be converted, could be just RP, could be sharded, could be anything but I would not be the one making the choice. Nowhere until the very end did I have the chance to roleplay or have much interaction with medical staff due to what the jugg did by without me. Also I didn't have any intention of actually harming medical staff if I could not capture them (so I would've allowed them to run like I did later in the round) and only ended up striking and sharding the two at the end because it was already too late for them due to what the jugg did. Evidence/logs/etc: Where I ask them if they are not okay with being used as jugg. Additional remarks: As for an example of what I actually do when going into medical, I went into medical later in the round where there was a medical staff there. I tried to roleplay some fear into that medical staff, only doing one or two grabs on him before he ran away. I didn't attack him or anything. Unless going to medical itself is against the rules as antag to roleplay and do anything with, I do not see this as a valid note to have. The staff member dismissed the things I pointed out because of the past I have and told me that I should've told him to stop, when I gave out arguements as to why I am not at fault they just said they wouldn't come down to arguements and pointed me to the forums if I had issues with this. (Also for the record I didn't have much chance to tell them to stop because they were off screen for almost the entire time appart from when I used the taser and when they were both beat up at the end which would be too late since they were going to die.) As for the other cultist if they are reading this. I am not angry at you or trying to throw you under the bus for my sake. I don't know if you misunderstood my intentions or not, I'm just against being blamed for what you did. Thank you for reading. -TheDilShawn

Yeah shotguns can one hit kill... if youre really really close.. and the target doesnt have much armor... and rng is in your side. Meanwhile the ion just effortlessly ends IPCs. Im not up for their removal but atleast balance out the ion to make it fair for IPCs instead of just an instant win. If you note, you dont see me complain about emp grenades, just the rifle.

Get an anti materiel rifle appearing often (and readly available in the armoury), exploding on impact with a splash effect that would stun everyone in the room while having a better fire rate and the ability to recharge ammo and still permanently removing lives in 3 shots and you'd get the equivelent of what an Ion is for IPCs. Regardless of what you think about how durable (security) IPCs are, this is not balance. It is a problem. If the Ion truly balanced the IPCs you'd not see people complaining as they still are in this very thread. Some strategies do not work on certain species and you will have to accept that and adapt. IPCs are generaly weak to burns, G2s being the less affected by burns but it still affects them enough. Sometimes you dont have the means to win, and that is okay. What is not okay is to have some sort of equivelent to an anti materiel rifle on steroids that removes something's life in three clicks and make it available enough for it to be used everyday and almost always the response to IPCs because how trivial it makes them with no skill or effort.

I teleported randomly with the fruit I had into the OR window. Also, the person operating (you) grabbed a circular saw and wanted to attack me with it, My intentions was to stop the engineers from living, hence I hacked the engineer up in the OR. I still had plenty of radium left at the end, they got me because of low light because the IPC sec was smart enough to break lights (would you look at that) Security could've still just got a flash and flashed me instead of harm batoning me by the way since that literally knocks Dionae down long enough.

How about we would do it like other's do with the stationbound, where people can submit their own sprites (That they either made themselves or asked others to do for them) to give someone one custom sprite for dionae to use?

Hello again. While I do accept those terms, I would like some confirmation over the contents of the warning like not enough escalation on the engineers to kill them for example, since it seems that there are mixed opinions over it from different staff. No doubt if I was deemed to have escalation to kill them, it would also affect the ganking part too. However I want to ask if I can still be unbanned from antag as you go confirm what was stated above as I really haven't played on the server since I made this post because of stress, I would connect, look at the BANNED role list and just disconnect.

There was an engineer standing up (north eastern part of the room) who I talked to and threw my non-gas plant back at me and then proceeded to try and fight me after I threw gas at him and the person that was treating the engineer I dragged in said "Oh you're awake" so I assumed he was talking about the one I dragged in, didn't exactly check that for myself however so probably misunderstood it? Can confirm however I did not talk to medical appart from telling them to get the person I dragged in awake because we needed to talk. As for what Sonic said, I can confirm did target the medical staff with sopoforic gas so that they would not succeed in their rescue attempt of people Im murdering, do not recall throwing lethal gas on them purposefully. Hopefully Im not misremembering the events. And for the ingame staff saying I had to make a deal with medical, I meant after the incident while talking to Sonic I was told that I had to try and make some sort of deal with medical to not treat/save the people Im going to kill/killing which is an opinion stated again within this post by sonic, sorry if you understood it as staff telling me what to do ingame, hopefully this cleared some stuff up. As for the medical again, I would like to point out that while they did retreat, I remember some coming back to try and drag people regardless of the circumstances, aswell as the CMO being present with a paramedic voidsuit which I think does nulify my plant's gas and in my opinion was fair play from him. While I do not wish to make it an excuse I want to provide the context that Im vastly unexperienced in antag roles and the very few times I have been antag (which I think were 3 within more than half a year of playing the server) Ive always got criticized for being a stealth antag by the server because I would not know what to do.

Hello again due to the newer reply I would like to make a few points. While the roleplay at medical with the engineers was minimal, there was extensive roleplay in their department to give out the escalation to kill them for revenge. The CMO would not know of this since he was not present. IC The Gestalt was pretty pissed, even warning the RD that they were going to pay for killing the nymph through science radio which the AI could also see. As for the severity of the engineers and others possibly sedated in medical, I would like to point out that it was near the round end that these things happened over the course of the last 30 minutes into the round. I still do not believe it is natural for doctors to actively ignore the acid and radioactive gas to just go protect their patients and I don't really have enough antag experience to know that I should stop murdering someone because medical ignores it, hence I did my best to slow them down with sopoforic but it is might be true that they have got collateralled from acid but it was not what I planned or tried to do and cannot personally remember hitting medical with acid. As for me abusing diona mechanics to turn myself into an unkillable deity, it is actually not the case, demonstrated by the IPC that was got me at the end, all that people needed to do is destroy light sources, not fight me in well lit areas, security had plenty of equipment to try and take me down, people ignore this and just try to straight up try and fight me melee in the light, what actually made me so strong were my plants, if I was human I could've just grown other plants to achieve the same thing with a biohazard suit and internals, which the difference would be the possibility that after a long fight I'd have some fractures. As a xenobotanist I have a easy source of radium and I almost always have it mostly to offset the speed penalty that dionae have, and that's the IC reason I always get them, since I don't really go around into large battles as non-antag. I did use the radium bottle to heal myself however but I would not actually understand how that could be abuse of a mechanic. I want to make it clear on that last part, I seriously cannot understand that it is some sort of abuse to use your species basic mechanics. Even while reading the rules to try and find some hole, it is not clear enough for me to think I cannot use radium, which is of easy access to me, to irradiate myself and get the bonuses from being irradiated. Like as if a human chemist could not give himself some power boosting drugs to sustain and enhance himself. There just isn't a clear line between *use* and *abuse*. It's like "You get this new species but don't use it's mechanics in fights because that is abuse of the species" or " You're a xenobotanist and don't have access to weapons but don't fight with your plants that could be used as weapons because that is abuse", things that would make sense to be used because of how available and *connected* they are to a character, are somehow are not allowed. Specially when people choose to just brute force through the mechanics that you're using without thought to try and analyze the situation and adjusting their plan. It's like in chess if I put a pawn infront of you but if you took it it's checkmate but you ignore that and always take the pawn and tell me I'm at fault. And I cannot understand that even while reading the rules.