MartyMcFly

BYOND Key: xMartyMcF1yx Total Ban Length: One Week Banning staff member's Key: witchbells Reason of Ban: “threw photon grenades and viscerators Into medical with poor reasoning, justified it was reasonable because they were an antagonist” Reason for Appeal: After an hour creating a new character and deciding whether or not I wished to do another security character of my very first medical character, I chose the latter due to how I noticed the round and rounds beforehand completely lacked medical characters. With my character set, her backstory not completely fleshed out but a rough outlay set, I went to see if I even wished to be medical. I did not have much time, although I just wanted to see if I had the hang of things. The round was near its end, only around five minutes before a transfer shuttle request would be made and accepted, is when my character was made a traitor. I was at a lost, I did not have much time to create a plot and I had a previous warning against escalating a scenario too early and too severely into a round. Not to mention, my character lacked pre-established relations with anyone on the station nor had the room to even create some. In fact, I had her try and speak to some healthy officers in the medbay, I planned on doing a scenario where she eventually attacks them because of her pre-established dislike towards police. Before this even occurred, way back when I was given the traitor role, I asked an admin (Abernyx? Apologies can’t remember how his name is spelled) about my situation, in which he told me to go to cryo when I was going to leave, which was around ten minutes from that point. So, I thought to myself that ten minutes was a decent amount of time to cause some escalation, the main issue with the reason I was warned before, was that it was out of nowhere, in fact the admin who spoke with me about such suggested I make myself known in future instances before actually attacking. The reason I was warned because I threw grenades at someone unrelated to the plot I was making with my traitor at the time. In this instance, it’s stated in the reasoning my character merely threw grenades at people with no reason, only because I was a traitor. Here are the following events that occurred after one another. -Svetlana tries to talk with the security in the medbay, they do not respond to her whatsoever, even when she screams they merely walked away from her, when I was planning on an argument being an inciting incident to attacking them. -Svetlana is greeted by a man at the medical lobby, the bartender, he acts her to help his monkey who is injured. She tells him to go away, and that she has something important to do, something she has to do. The man is obviously upset by this, and it escalates once the man threatens to calls security to deal with her refusal to help and shoving him outside of the medical bay. -Svetlana proceeds to the surgery center where there are security in the lobby, annoyed by their ignoring of her, she proceeds to hurl grenades towards them after she publicly on general comms says she hopes they die and explains her reasoning. -Due to a tip from the admin who gave me the warning, I made sure to be a bit different with this attack. Instead of a million vicerator bots, I only had four grenades of them, five poison gas ones, and five blackout ones. The admin told me ganking with vicerators was not a very fun strategy, so I chose to change things up. TLDR: Every time new people ask for suggestions, they get told, by me as well, that its always best to ask admins before doing anything you think could be problematic. In this scenario, I was worried that 10 minutes was not enough to make good enough escalation as a traitor, apparently it wasn’t, although I thought that through implementing the instructions I was formerly told by admins (to always have at least an interaction with another person before starting a conflict as a traitor) that I would be able to abide by the rules and not spend the rest of the very short time as a traitor who does nothing. I’m happy to accept a one week ban on being an antagonist, but I really would prefer not to be completely banned over possibly poor escalation, as I’ve been getting into the server again a great deal and have a long way to learn how to be medical staff and would prefer to spend a week with that. Basically, I had bad luck, two times being traitor in a row I’ve been given it at the end of rounds (Which have been the only two times being given traitor in a year or so), forced to provide as much escalation as I could in very little time. Until I think I get the hand of being a traitor from the start of rounds, I will be cryoing (or finding a way to disable it) due to how I wish to keep playing on the server and quit being forced into these troublesome scenarios. In all honesty I’m not too big of a fan of the traitor role, so I very well might must disable it and focus on other things.

Ending my time roleplaying Ephemer, and instead I will be making a new character whenever the ban is over which will take the Shaolin Monk motif and go into more depth with it. mainly the peaceful elements of it as well as embrace the teacher role that being a chaplan can represent.

I understand the issues held up against Ephemer and I plan on making adjustments to him in order to prevent such, although I want to make somethings very clear. 1. Ephemer's main issue was with Preston due to how he randomly attacked him in the holodeck, that's the only reason why he went down to the cargo area. I don't understand this idea that I have a personal grudge or issue with Nat, Ephemer called her a cunt twice because he didn't believe she was being honest about the holopad fight. 2. More importantly, the main reason why Ephemer was so against the idea that he harmed Nat was because he (and thus I) read a note on the Exodus station saying that injuries received within the holopad are healed through resting. I understand the issue of the harm of the character Nat, I was unaware that such damage could occur within the holopad. Although any concept of me having a grudge against Nat is wrong, you can't make me understand that issue because it's nonexistent, if it did, I would be open about such. I'm sorry it put the character of Nat in canonical danger, I was unaware that I was doing so because I had the preconceived notion that all wounds in the holopad except mechanical ones, healed. Ephemer was banned for a week, if I had a huge issue with the ban I wouldn't be playing on the server anymore, I know how to adjust him to where he's more realistic. (Note, for the record, he's a Shaolin Monk and thus a Buddhist Chaplan who tries to help others through sparring with them, the injury received was completely unintentional.)

"we had both assumed the fight was over the first time you went down. when you got back up and kept attacking, he kept cheering me on. then i got knocked down and you started stomping my face in, so sec was called. very drastic difference there." Admins can go and look in the logs to see what happened and make their own judgements on who was doing what. "and now you're just being gross and inflammatory. preston and natalie are best friends and grew up together. of course they're gonna want to defend each other." I'm meaning you both OOC...because Ephemer has been beat up, beaten people up, ect, and there's never been an issue like this. I'm not being inflammatory, I am stating it seems like you both as players are taking an IC occurrence and being angry about it OOC as if you both were an OOC couple.

They never punched anyone or anything, and when they were told to get out when Aubrey had a gun, Ephemer went to climb out of the bar although Aubrey shot him because of it. Ephemer was helping Timothy do such because Timothy had been denied the drinks, others were allowed inside the bar, and thus Ephemer was not doing anything strictly bad in that occasion. Why the constant "I" and "You"? We are not the characters we play, at the end of the round I was not angry at neither you or Preston's player, in fact I thought it was great round because it effected the relationships between our characters. You are acting like I myself reached my hand through the screen and attacked you, I don't understand why you are so angry. Now as for your character hitting mine when he was on the ground, my character was on the ground, the screen showed your character lunging at him when he was on the ground, and thus I assumed you were hitting him when he was on the ground. Meanwhile during the fight, Preston is yelling to continue it when your character was winning, and then when your character was losing, he was screaming at Ephemer and saying call sec. I don't know what up between you two, I don't know if you erp, kind of seems like you both do with each other in all honesty, but you are drastically making the situation worse than what it was. Both Timothy and the German Sec character had formerly fought Ephemer and won, breaking bones in his head and his torso, in each fight I played it out as standard RP, I didn't make it a big issue because it wasn't.

Alrighty so I play Ephemer, addressing the complaints. "Mephistopheles nearly murdered someone and gave them life-threatening injuries by refusing to pull punches during a spar." Nat punched him repeatedly when he was on the ground so he did the same to her, and with regards to when people brought it up pulling punches, my character always said no to it. He's carried around tool to repair his limbs specifically for his spars if that says anything. "Mephistopheles completely fucked a fair investigation by lying repeatedly and exhausting Sec until they could barely deal with Nat's testimony against him." Nat was hanging out with Preston a bunch whilst the investigation occurred, whilst he was being interrogated, after such, Preston assaulted Ephemer randomly within the holodeck, something sec did nothing about and something of which I didn't do an OOC complaint for, due to how it was just RP and OOC feelings being hurt from RP is not the way things work. "Mephistopheles vandalized his own chapel and tried to blame it on us." Preston attacked him randomly in the holodeck and security was doing nothing about it so he tried to make it more of an issue. "Mephistopheles continued to harass Nat for the remainder of the round." My character went to order something from supply, Nat was there, not really harassment. he never said anything rude to her except as a reply to her being rude to him. With regards to the Timothy Cooper situation, him and Ephemer were best buds and the screwdriver situation was on accident, spoke with admins about it, never did it again. With regards to the Wizard scenario, sec had requested Ephemer's help formerly in terms of dealing with the supernatural, this made me presume that a chaplan dealing with the supernatural was overall fine. Ephemer didn't mean to super hurt (and kill? unsure) Yahir, he just aimed to make him weakened to where sec could arrest him, although I'm fairly new to the game and didn't know the null staff was so powerful. Yahir was turning people including Ephemer to stone, so I thought it was fine for him to defend himself, admins spoke to me about it, cleared my misconception about chaplans fighting supernatural antags. "All of cargo (except for Yahir who was afk) were in cargo, talking while Prestoff wrote his IR. As far as I am aware, no one in cargo broke the windows of the chapel. When Ephemer arrived and demanded boxing gloves, Khas closed the cargo window and Cazimi dropped the shutters in the same breath. Khas'miera's pAI, Nih-LA, went around to the door and informed the security officer and Ephemer that cargo was closed. Khas kept an eye on her pAI, listening to Ephemer talk to the officer about cargo breaking the chapel windows AND for also refusing service. The head of personnel and the quartermaster were both in cargo, they voiced no problem with closing Cargo (to Ephemer). Khas'miera reminded the officer and Ephemer that the chaplain was already banned by security from sparring, they had seriously injured a member of cargo, and that cargo was now closed to him because of that. From there, I guess they went out to form their "underground" sparring ring, because I remember Timothy Cooper joined a little after that, disappeared for a bit and then was complaining about how being blind sucked. Agreed, it would have been a great antag gimmick, but it was extended, there wasn't supposed to be antags. I was ghosted for the next round after this and they started setting up an "underground ring" (nothing came of that because security found the librarian's lamps in maintenance and brought them back) and sparring dangerously (Ephemer had his skull broken twice). It is not once off behavior." Everything about this was true, although one thing was that Ephemer got immense damage to his body within the holodeck, not from his escapades in the underground sparring ring, the German character and Tim one time, where the ones who did it, but again I don't think its an issue OOC wise. "can i also just pop in to say, including this interaction i had with the guy, i've never had a good experience with him? i mean, it was awhile ago, back when we were on the exodus for the 6th birthday, but he threatened me in LOOC when i was fear rping and hiding in a locker saying that if i didn't get out he'd shoot me. a few seconds later he ended up holding me hostage with a gun to my head even though we were both antags and without talking to me about it before doing so, i really thought he was gonna shoot me right then and there." My comment LOOC was a joke, it had "lol" after it if that makes it even more obvious. Meanwhile the "hostage" situation was just words, he never aimed the gun at your character, he was afraid of the security officer coming in and beating him like they did to all of the other rev antags outside the bar. "This character came up to my HoS during a code red boarding, telling him that he would take a rifle because he was some sort of magical or protected person by their diety : Another situation where I assumed the chaplan could help out, this is before admins spoke to me about it. "While serving drinks late in the shift, Ephemer and an Engineer (I cannot recall their name) came to the bar and proceeded to demand vodka. When Aubrey declined, (I believe I was closing the bar to go to Science for repairs) they proceeded to hop the counter and attempt to use the booze dispensers. While grabbing and throwing them out (I believe Aubrey was helped by either Reese, Riley, or both), Ephemer and the Engineer began to fight back, prompting Aubrey to aim the shotgun at Ephemer. After a bean bag shot was fired (since they moved and I wasn't aware at the time that I didn't allow movement) they eventually climbed back over the counter once I lowered the gun. I was okay shrugging it off originally but given there is a player complaint, I wanted to add to it with my experience. Personally I don't think this behaviour is appropriate for a high rp environment." You told my character to get out of the bar, he proceeded to do such, you accidentally shot him, we all make mistakes. "Can we discuss how his name is literally Satan? Or rather, a Demon that takes the form of the Devil. Don't ask me to go into folk lore. I'll make paragraphs about it. It's my thing. It's VERY hard to immerse myself when my chaplain is named "KINGDOM HEARTS X SATAN DEVIL MAN"" Ephemer Theofratus Mephistopheles is his full name, it's supposed to imply that he's sacrificed his own humanity by getting all of his limbs replaced into mechanical ones, it's not implying he's Satan, as for the Kingdom Heart part...am I supposed to file a complaint if I see a name I know? How am I supposed to be immersed if I see a Clark, LiKe ThAt'S sUpErMaN aM i RiGhT? Hope you get what I mean. I'm unable to play Ephemer for a week currently, I already know how I'll adjust him, and I didn't have him pull punches because I assumed that the holodeck cured injuries through sleep, a note on Exodus said that and that was the time I started playing Ephemer.