Omicega

I'm not here to comment on the part of your reply directed at Garnascus, but: You can search up 'chairRP' in any of the Aurora Discords you care to: maincord, Relay cord, whichever one you want. I'm still going to contend that I don't see it being used in a derogatory fashion. I keep asking you to stop ascribing whatever meaning you think is most defamatory to my choice of words and you keep ignoring me to repeat your baseless claims in a passive-aggressive and provocative tone -- it isn't contentious, you just chose it to be. It think it is in fact on-topic because you are coming after my overall conduct and alleged contribution to a 'toxic atmosphere' here, but if server staff decide it isn't relevant then I'm happy for them to say so and discount it as they please. If you want me to clarify my language in that quote of mine you've lifted, then you can replace 'of substance' with 'gameplay-related', and I'm sorry for not having proof-read the post better. I'm not here to defend my roleplay credentials to you, but I would hope that it is obvious to more or less anyone on Aurora at this point that I value chairRP just as much as I do left clicking someone until they go horizontal.

There was no metagaming involved, I can tell you that categorically. You can call it a meta-commentary or something if you like; it isn't uncommon that cadets find themselves ignored by security as a whole and head into cryo. I'm not sure what there is to have metagamed here, anyway -- the cadet cryoing is on the common frequency and available for anyone to hear, like you can see in the image. I don't truthfully know whether the cadet was ignored or not; I didn't see security comms since I wasn't in security, so it was a guess at best. I think what I said ICly reflects that lack of knowledge, and my character would have known about as much as I did OOCly -- which is essentially nothing.

You're still using language like this in the very same breath as accusing me of attributing different connotations to things I've said. If you have any actual evidence to back up the usage of the term as a derogatory one, by all means offer it. Otherwise, I'm going to ask you again to stop putting negative meaning into my mouth where I have repeatedly told you none exists. I have no desire to get into a back-and-forth public argument with you either, so if you don't have anything more to add then neither do I, and I'm happy to wait for staff to weigh in.

I'll keep this pretty brief. I've already been spoken to about my Relay conversation on the 23rd -- you can ask Faris for more details, if he's willing to give them, since to my knowledge he handled the whole thing. I asked him at the time if he was approaching me in an administrative capacity, just so I was certain, and he confirmed as much, so as far as I'm concerned that's already been addressed? Again, you can go to him for the details. I'm not sure why you're coming kicking my door down, either, after your comments earlier. Calling me mean-spirited and toxic when you are slurring me (and yes, that's what a slur is: an insinuation or allegation about me intended to insult and damage my reputation) with a comment like this: is entirely hypocritical. I would also point out to staff reading this that the thread appeared to basically be in the process of being brigaded, and I'm glad the thread got locked when it did considering where it was leading. I stand by what I said in the thread regarding the blob event and how it's generally handled. I've already explained what I meant by chairRP, too. If you want to construe it as derogatory and submit that as something for staff to adjudicate over -- fine, be my guest. I don't think I've used it in a derogatory context before and I'm not aware of any connotation attached to the term, so as far as I'm concerned it's just something you've cherry-picked to manufacture offense over. In short: yes, my conduct in the Relay was over the line, and I was spoken to about it already. I'm not the one coming out and essentially telling someone else to get off the server because they don't roleplay enough.

I actually don't appreciate that you're taking the term 'chairRP' as some sort of slur. You're presuming me to be acting in bad faith here -- I enjoy my own chairRP with other players on extended or otherwise low-intensity rounds all the time. You're the two choosing to construe it as a barbed comment; you're either doing something of substance on Aurora, or you're AFK, or you're chairRPing. If you want to take that as some kind of veiled attack on your playing preferences -- I don't care, that's your prerogative, but please keep it to your own thoughts or somewhere more private where you aren't using it to slander me. You can address the rest of my concerns without trying to paint me as some kind of high-roleplay hater, thank you, although I get the sense now that I'm being brigaded on account of some perceived chink in my armour.

I play lower pops quite a bit, although not as much as I'd like. I'm in the UTC+0 timezone and played a lot more earlier in the day when server pops at those hours supported it; lately it's been harder to find interaction at EU morning/early afternoon hours for a variety of reasons. I've handled a good few blobs solo or essentially solo at this point; it isn't hard and it doesn't require any kind of special knowledge. It isn't a struggle to go through as one engineer unless the blob spawned without your knowledge, like if you latejoin or something. You just find it (it takes ten minutes maximum to trawl Horizon's maintenance, considering there's hardly any of it) and kill it. It can't hide from you since it can't move to begin with, and there is really not that much of the ship it can spawn in anyway. If two characters nearly died to it then they just weren't capable to begin with -- I don't know how else to put the obvious blob-killing strategy beyond 'shoot the core with an emitter' and 'don't stand next to any of the green stuff'. It doesn't leave RNG trip hazards and explosions like hivebots do, nor does it set you on fire like hivebots do. It doesn't have any capability to retaliate at all beyond venting areas and attacking people who stand next to it. Okay? I'm still arguing it's a lot 'busier' to handle vines -- depending on their spawn point, admittedly -- than it is for a blob. You can kill any blob with one engineer and about fifteen minutes of effort max -- maybe twenty in the worst-case scenario that doesn't involve the blob having eaten stuff for half an hour before anyone looks for it. For vines you need at least a couple, and it can get really bad really quickly if they spawn somewhere open and can spread in every direction. No-one's saying you have to undo the damage. You can leave the hole in the ship patched with inflatables if you want, especially on lowpop -- nobody is really going to care if you just go back to your previous chairRP. It doesn't take much longer than 5 minutes to have the emitter vaporise the blob unless it's genuinely huge. I guess it's a bit RNG-dependent based on when the server ticks decide to regen the central core shield, but unless you're getting really unlucky they tend to up and die pretty quickly in my experience. You are right that security is useless against the thing, though -- in fact they're worse than useless, because all they do is trip engineers up, get in the way, and maybe vent more of the ship through inflatables while the engineers are trying to emitter it. Buffing security's weapons against the thing is probably a separate discussion, though, but I feel like any number buffs you could give them would be outweighed by the ammo capacity on their weapons. My main point here is that the gameplay Aurora offers is already minimal beyond secret modes -- and even then, you'd better be security, command, or maybe medical, otherwise you're looking at two hours of twiddling your thumbs while whatever is happening is handled by someone else. I don't think the latest band of lowpop players should neuter a ship event for everyone, and I think the threat it poses is already being overblown as long as you have one engineer on the manifest. Hopefully a PR that makes blobs impossible to see without at least one engineering crew on the manifest will sort it once and for all.

All the blob needs is to check for at least one engineer before it spawns. I don't really know where the misleading comparisons to military theory or whatever are coming from; you point an emitter at the main core, turn it on, and walk off. The blob can't regenerate its way out of that, full stop. I also don't really buy that searching Horizon's maintenance for the thing is an impossible task at lower pop: the same single engineer can do it with how cut-down maintenance is now compared to the Aurora. You poke your head into both of the wings, then take a run through deck one's central maintenance near the machinists' and the morgue. It's a lot easier with two or more, of course, but it's not some colossal threat that needs 5 engineers and fully staffed medical to handle. If anything, vines are more of a busywork problem than the blob, since you sometimes can't feasibly get rid of those if they spread too far at too low a pop.

BYOND Key: Omicega Game ID: cjm-acdH Player Byond Key/Character name: Forester40 Kyres1 GladiatorGames123 Staff involved: MattAtlas PersephoneQ Reason for complaint: The round was visitors and was pretty much a disaster from the get-go. I don't really have the time or energy to give an exhaustive breakdown of it, but two of the antags are less at fault here, although I still want to include them in the scope of the complaint. I think at around 00:30 to 00:45 round time the first real hostile interaction with antags at all was one opening up on full auto at some other officers -- I was further in at the armoury at the time, getting gear, but at this point they wound up getting dogpiled by security and basically obliterated in record time. It's kind of what you expect when a solo antag opens up against a full security team, regardless of what weapons they're using. The rest of the round was a long, slow, agonising affair where the two surviving antags tried to essentially play off what I'm assuming was meant to lighten to the tone of the round. Even at the best of times, it's pretty hard to react to antag actions in an HRP manner as it is on Aurora, but after one of the antag team has basically speedrun his way to full armoury distribution with full intent to permakill officers as quickly as he can, it's incredibly hard to sit around, play nice, and really maintain any sort of in-character level at all when the other two are doing a comedy double act in the bar. I'm making the complaint primarily because I think the ninja who kicked off this whole disaster shouldn't be playing antag anymore, but also because I think the other two failed to read the room after the initial disaster went off. I don't really have a say what kind of gimmick or roleplay the antags come up with when I'm playing security, but on a server that advertises itself as HRP I expect something that doesn't totally rip me out of the round. A short burst of RDM followed by a tongue-in-cheek comedy sketch followed by two hours of people calling the technomancer a 'furry' ICly is excruciating to the point where I think there should be some onus on the two remaining antags to try and stay coherent with whatever's already been established -- essentially to not derail the round into a series of jokes with really poor timing and string it out longer than it needs to go on. I don't know which antags were associated with which ckeys (although I can certainly guess!), but I want to make it clear that the vast majority of my criticism in this complaint is directed at the first ninja who decided to go loud, especially since I found out after the round that they were essentially egging on head PBs from the start. Both ninjas came onto the ship with rifle-tier ballistics (one generic AR, one LMG). I am assuming the speaker here is the guy who decided to try and clap Rize Noack out with fully automatic 7.62 roleplay and then fired six rounds into my skull, but I can't actually be sure. I am sure that logs of the round in question can confirm what happened. I don't really think there should be either an ongoing encouragement or acceptance of this, considering a lot of antags can just walk into the round with assault rifles or worse and -- realistically -- start escalating as quickly as they can justify. I can accept that maybe my complaint about the massive tone dissonance brought on by the Fortnite ninja and the two who decided to turn the round into a limp comedy at the bar is just a matter of taste, but I still would like it addressed anyway if possible. I'm fine with funny rounds which you don't take too seriously and I'm equally fine with your regular old 'four Sol gimmick mercs try to steal the SD' or whatever, but I'm not happy about one round trying to have both and I think the remaining antags could have (and should have) done something to not result in complete whiplash. Ideally they'd go away entirely or something -- the main issue is that once antag #1 has decided to try and decapitate as many security officers as he can, the tone of the round is kind of set and I'm mostly looking to go and actually roleplay with other persistent characters instead of trying to figure out how the fuck I'm meant to have my character tolerate an impromptu pantomime from people who continually ICly admit to being co-workers and happy associates of the guy who shot security about 15-20 times in the head. Did you attempt to adminhelp the issue at the time? If so, what was the known action taken by administration/moderation? Yes, I ahelped it -- not the initial ninja charge, but the bar fiasco that came afterwards. I was told to write a complaint at the end of it all regarding the round as a whole by MattAtlas, since he didn't have time to fully take it in the round, and every other member of moderation staff around was directly involved and couldn't have handled it anyway. Approximate Date/Time: The round immediately preceding the time of writing.

Engineering has precious little gameplay as it is once the roundstart setup is complete. The blob is one of the few things that gives you a reason to come out of the lobby and do something, and I don't think shifting further towards a perma-extended chatroom is something the server needs. The reason there are so many lowpop blobs lately is because the most active morning European player group tends to stack a lot of engineers, which increases the spawn weight. I can't comment on how exactly the maths works because I haven't delved that deeply into it, but it might even be that with so few people on in total and so many engineers relative to the pop, the blob might be one of the only major events eligible to spawn, especially if meteor and/or ship debris are disabled like I think they might be? Security aren't considered at all for the blob spawn weight, which I think is fair since they are basically useless against it anyway. It really only takes one person with an emitter to set it up in-line with the main core to kill a blob.

BYOND key: Omicega Discord name: Omi#7267 Borg / AI names: None. I don't play cyborgs and haven't really decided on a name for my AI yet. Have you read the Aurora wiki page about the AI? Yes. Why do you wish to be on the whitelist? The AI role is the kind of thing I've always toyed with the idea of trying in the back of my head, but it's only recently that I really find myself wanting to give it a real shot. I enjoy playing my IPCs and delving into some aspects of synth lore as it is, and seeing some recent AI play has given me a few ideas for character concepts of my own. Have you received any administrative actions? And how serious were they? I have one warning from six months ago for an alleged lack of respectfulness in deadchat. Do you understand your whitelist is not permanent, and may be stripped following continuous administrative action? Yes.

[Medical] Julia Laszofi says, "Pop quiz. Treatment of tetanus. Solveig, ten seconds." [Medical] Julia Laszofi says, "Wound debridgement, HiG, anti-spasmotics- you name it. Tetanus is terrible. I've only seen it twice." I wasn't actually in this round as medical, but I caught this while I was observing at roundstart before joining engineering later in the same round. The only reason I wanted to come in and mention this at all is because it kind of presses a sore point for me; namely the potential for IRL medical knowledge creeping into IC dialogue, and the disconnect that creates between players who are in the medical field themselves and players who aren't. I've had bad experiences on certain HRP servers where there was almost a culture of 'shaming' people for not knowing medical terms or IRL medical treatments or whatever, and while I don't know if this was meant to cross that line or not I want to make it clear that I'm not really comfortable with too much OOC terminology creeping into medical at all, especially from a CMO who can't really be shouted down. Other than that, though -- the rounds I have played with you as CMO, I thought you did just fine. One was a hellish lowpop raider round where I think you did the best anyone could expect from you considering the shocked doors; the other I was actually in medical underneath you and appreciated your clear communication.

I haven't worn my uniform unless prompted on any of my security characters since NBT launched, as the uniform sprite quality took a massive dive round about then. I only ever had it directly pointed out to me once ICly; the other two or three times I just changed ahead of schedule because it was obvious an inspection or something was coming up. I don't wear anything I'd call unreasonable in place of the uniform -- one character wears fatigues that are the same rough colour palette as Zavodskoi brown, and my Idris officer was using teal trousers and a shirt solely to get around no rolled-up sprites on the actual uniform -- but even so I don't really mind it staying as an IC violation if you're pulled up on it. I don't think people even noticed most of the time, since like I said I barely diverged from the existing palettes. I've had to change maybe three or four times out of God knows how many rounds as security, and frankly I don't trust the playerbase to keep their choice of clothing reasonable. You can call me a doomer, but it will lead to security showing up in short shorts and sandals once people feel the squeeze fading in earnest.

Hi. I'm the player of the officer you're complaining about, Azhara Shas'kui. I asked an admin if I was allowed to post here (since I am 'involved' by being named here?) and apparently I can. I don't know why you personally are as upset about any of this as you are, but since you're twisting words, actions, and alleged intent a lot here I feel a little bit compelled to say my piece, regardless of what the ruling on the complaint against Cybs himself actually is. I'm gonna refer to your diagram here since you went to all the trouble of drawing it: The mercs are doing this while three members of security are standing there talking to them. It's pretty simple -- all three of us were trying to roleplay with the mercenaries and their hostage, but only one of them is bothering to say anything back at all while the other one tries desperately to hack the door open and sprint into maintenance. I'm not trying to blame them for this -- I'd try to run as well, probably, if I were in their position, but I don't think I'm reasonably expected to stand there and talk to a brick wall while the antags use game mechanics to put themselves in as favourable position as they can. This isn't a roleplay/gameplay medium like tabletop, where talking takes no time at all and doesn't take away from being able to act simultaneously. I'm not going to stand there and write a novel while the antags essentially ignore me and run off into maintenance where they'll have a free hostage and a big advantage -- especially when neither of them have any flash protection. I actually pulled and armed the flashbang before they even finished hacking the door, but they were able to crowbar it open and sprint partially into the tunnels before it finished cooking. I didn't flash myself, either -- that was another officer who wound up getting flashed due to a lack of protection. This was at like 1:30 or 1:40 round time, give or take. I don't know how much time you want me to give an antag team so they can figure out what they want to do. They were essentially radio silent for the entire round until the HoS prompted them at length for a response, and their demand was essentially for us to allow them to hijack the ship. That's a textbook example of a demand you can't really negotiate with, and the HoS (understandably) didn't even try from then on. Funnily enough, the only reason I threw the flashbang at all was because they had a hostage. That's our one chance to get him back before they disappear into maintenance for the foreseeable future. It's not my fault they didn't have him held up with an actual weapon (one had a tesla glove, the other was too busy holding hacking tools), it's not my fault they didn't bring flash protection, and it's definitely not my fault that the mercs chose to escalate things the way they did. You're really quick and eager to frame this whole incident as if the mercenaries got wiped out at first contact by a bloodthirsty security officer uninterested in roleplay at all -- instead, this is about 1:30 or 1:40 into a two-hour round after the mercs have had ample time to do their thing. I don't appreciate your passive-aggression or your off-topic complaining about how flashbangs mechanically work; if you want to change them, it's pretty easy to go and try to PR a change that would make them less effective.

I don't feel like I've ever seen any of your characters actually roleplay beyond simply being... in the round? When you're not rolling antagonist, you mostly seem to just play a selection of different Tajara that all talk in extremely broken Basic, like they're cavemen. One of those is your bridge crew that you want to promote to XO, and I really wouldn't want to see an NKA Tajara with deliberately mangled grammar take up that position, personally.

I'm posting just to back up Arbs' statement regarding the round WAYRT is complaining about. I've known Arbs since 2014 in another community and consider him a close friend, so I'm not offering a +1 or -1 on that account, but I want to make a few things clear here as someone who participated in that same round. This is just you being ignorant of what happened in the round, and isn't the HOS's fault at all. Every single member of security except for myself (the ZI IPC that latejoined), the ISU that latejoined, and the HOS himself was a vampire or a thrall of a vampire. When the one vampire (Baker, IIRC) wound up dead, all the thralls began to roleplay as if they'd lost their memories during their time as thralls. They were all perfectly aware OOC of what was going on, given I saw them try to murder the HOS along with their vampire master earlier in the round. Regarding no radio presence, it is pretty hard for a HOS to communicate on the radio when he's in surgery for well over half an hour AND loses his radio because he played along with an obvious antagonist. If you'd have liked him to do anything different here, I'd love to hear it. You are basically just wrong here, so his assertions aren't really something you can say you "feel like" is false. Everything you've said is essentially invalid because of the circumstances of the round, and you didn't make any effort to actually get the proper context to what was happening. Using the IC actions of two secondary antagonists (thralls) as justification for Arbs' OOC ability to play command is something I find really questionable. Pavlovich was one of the vampire's thralls who assisted in attacking Bisenti earlier in the shift. I saw this and logs can and will confirm it if you doubt me on this account, or you can go find their player yourself and ask them. I'd say a HOS hitting an antagonist back for having attacked them earlier in the round is more than valid. I understand you're unhappy with how that round went for Operations and your militia, but I'm a little irritated to see you come in here and fire shots at someone's application without even doing the bare minimum of research beforehand. The end of round blurb showed the vampire and their thralls, too, so it's not as if that information was unavailable to you either.

IMO, the character is basically incompatible with a cooperative roleplay environment like Aurora. It might fit better into a tabletop setting or something, but monopolising 2:30 hours of time from 20+ people constantly and having such a dramatic shift from what a 'regular' command player gives the crew was often pretty overbearing. You're entitled to your opinion on how the character worked to influence rounds, but I don't think it's anything to heap praise on or be proud of. It just came across as selfish, really, whether it was wilful or not. I'm happy they were retired when people made their negative feedback known, at least. I wouldn't have any particular desire to see them come back, though, even as a liaison.

I have no idea what you are smoking to live in a headspace where you think service manager, of all roles, needs to be whitelisted. It's pretty hard to follow your post considering you contradict yourself a lot, but if I'm reading it right that's the gist of what you're saying? The role is barely needed as it is -- Myazaki's point about it being used as a 'super service role' is already pretty pertinent. That's all I've seen it being played as through the last couple of NBT tests, with some notable exceptions who actually gave the job a bit more flair than just using it as a lowpop do-everything bartender-chef-gardener. It's very much a flavour role as it stands, and I think it should stay that way. I think giving it any more actual authority is a mistake -- I'm not sure service ever needed any oversight, really. It isn't the end of the world if a new player picking up chef or bartender can't 100% perfectly make all the foods or drinks right away, and I don't think encouraging little micromanagers to pick SM and hover over their shoulder is a solution to that. The HoP's hand on service was always very light, and just because SM is its own job now doesn't mean I -- or service players themselves, really, I think -- want to see one trying to run the department like it's medical or something. I also don't think it should get an office at all. I'd rather see the vacant office stay vacant and have potential to be co-opted for individual gimmicks or antag-related things rather than be wasted on the SM.

Yes, that was my intention, although I completely forgot about the job reshuffling for Horizon when I was writing this. I had meant to slot Xepp in as a lab assistant and look for an Avowal to move up to roboticist, but with the Horizon I'm not sure if machinists will start 'pre-Avowed' due to having no learner position? One way or another, though, that's where I'd like for them to end up. Xepp is standoffish at best towards the K'lax, and takes a fairly condescending/pitying view towards their status as outright vassals to the Hegemony. This is only exacerbated by the already existing cold relations between C'thur and K'lax, and Xepp will be more likely to take opportunities to verbally belittle or walk over them if any of them were to make themselves a target. The Zo'ra are a hive Xepp views on more equal ground, and maybe even as something of an underdog. It views the Zo'ra with more of a rivalry-centred attitude, especially after the Bulwark debacle. It will be quick to try and outmanoeuvre and outwit its Zo'rane counterparts and prove itself more intelligent, but ultimately it holds more of a grudging respect for the Hive as a whole than it does for the K'lax. Yes. It follows the Classical Pantheon, which to my understanding (as a C'thur) entails a more active split in 'loyalty' or 'worship' between Mouv, its progenitor Lesser Queen, and the still-present C'thur herself. Either way, it still views both of them as individuals worthy of a sort of veneration. The Bulwark theft is something about which Xepp obviously sides with its Queen -- it views the whole affair as an outrage, and privately contests the legal ruling handed down by the courts even if it publicly shares the same begrudging acceptance that Mouv has fallen in with. It will undoubtedly show a sort of snide curiosity towards Bulwarks of other hives, and when given the opportunity it will be quick to talk at length about how the genetic pattern is a product of C'thur ingenuity, even if the other hives have won out with the right to make legal use of them. I'd say in general that the whole pattern of events have split Xepp, along with maybe the C'thur as a whole, further away from their fellow hives and the SCC and further towards the Federation and Einstein as more reliable allies/partners.

BYOND Key: Omicega Character Names: Alicia Parker -- Security Guard Azhara Shas'kui -- Security Guard IRU-Joyeuse -- Investigator Suraya Al-Zahrani -- First Responder and a lot more... Species you are applying to play: Vaurca What color do you plan on making your first alien character? A toothpastey whiteish-blue (Mouv's brood) Have you read our lore section's page on this species? Yes. Please provide well articulated answers to the following questions in a paragraph format. One paragraph minimum per question. Why do you wish to play this specific race? The Vaurca are a race that have slowly grown on me over my time here on Aurora. At first I wrote them off as being far too weird and wacky to really catch my interest, but now having had a lot more experience with many Vaurca characters across many departments I have a new appreciation for how fun they might be to try playing for myself. The new PRs and lore supporting them that have come up over the past several months have slowly helped build up this interest as well, and I'm finally biting the bullet and applying out of a desire to really get into the species lore and have some fun with it. Identify what makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a Human: Other than the many gameplay differences which I'm not gonna get into, I like the idea of their hive hierarchy as something to play around with. It's not a true hivemind in the traditional sci-fi sense, since even the Bound act independently, but the way in which their society functions with a rigid and immoval hierarchy spanning down from a Queen to each member of her individual brood is something I think is going to be fun to dive into. For the most part, Vaurcae I've seen in game have a really unique flavour of interaction compared to other characters as well -- they're simultaneously ignorant about many things and intensely curious about others, and can often tend to be really blunt as well. Character Name: Ka'Akaix'Xepp C'thur Please provide a short backstory for this character: Born in 2461, Xepp is an unbound of Mouv's brood, and one which immersed itself in the knowledge of the Xakat'kl'atan Vezaz throughout its initial stint in VR. It developed an interest and even a fixation on the broad subject of computing at large, eventually focusing more tightly on positronic intelligences and the underlying code that makes them tick. This inherent fascination has lent itself well to its later work in the field of cybernetic augmentation, although balancing its role in the hive with pressure from the Jargon Federation to minimise the use of augmentations, particularly among the Bound of its brood, proved tricky to reconcile. As a result, Xepp found itself dispatched abroad to Tau Ceti, where it could more easily pursue its work -- and in so doing, act as an ambassador for the hive. Xepp is very interested in the opportunity to interact more closely and at length with positronic and synthetic lifeforms, and tends to view its other alien co-workers with something between dismissiveness and disinterest. As one of Mouv's brood, it maintains a key awareness of the value of the great Sol credit, and finds itself covetous of amassing enough money of its own to begin pursuing projects outside of its work hours. Although it's as yet un-Avowaled and unable to pursue its calling aboard the Aurora (soon Horizon...) to the degree it would like, it impatiently awaits the opportunity to hop over this bureaucratic hurdle and embark on its work without further delay. What do you like about this character? I like the single-mindedness that a Vaurca character can approach things with. I think Xepp would be very fun to play on account of its marked level of determination, focus, and drive -- and I think employing an awareness of just how important money is in this new multi-species society it finds itself in can only help add to the possibilities. How would you rate your role-playing ability? I've been around, both on SS13 and on other games with roleplaying scenes. I think I could stand to emote a lot more -- there are some roleplayers here and elsewhere that still manage to blow my mind in terms of the inventiveness and overall quality of their roleplay as well as the speed with which they can come up with it. I don't want to put a number out of ten on what I think my ability is, but I've been roleplaying for upwards of a decade now and feel as if I have a pretty good grasp on building and playing new characters as a whole. Notes: I found some of the Vaurca lore a bit hard to apply to a character concept at first glance, and I wrote this application entirely from scratch & in about an hour or two at most in a burst of creativity, so I'm expecting to have questions thrown my way. That said, I think I've managed to create a rough idea for a Vaurca character that's solid enough to build off of.

BYOND Key: Omicega Game ID: cgl-cxgX and the official Relay discord Player Byond Key/Character name: ImmortalRedshirt Staff involved: Alberyk -- I contacted him about the Relay issue Yonnimer -- contacted me on Discord about one issue PersephoneQ -- provided some logs for the complaint at my request Reason for complaint: I'm going to lead off this complaint with clarification that I myself am not LGBTQ+ or anything of the sort, really. I'm spearheading the complaint not due to any personal offence of that nature, but out of outrage that Aurora lore which I had even a tangential impact on is being weaponised like this to introduce sensitive IRL issues into the roleplay environment. ImmortalRedshirt's Plutonian character made offhanded comments about an IRL Ukrainian genocide, the Holodomor, which was brought up by another player/character in the Relay Discord. I took strong offense to the IC justification of such a recent historical event and brought it to Alberyk immediately, and to my knowledge he handled it with a strike. This already had my blood up regarding this character and how their player handles them, but the most recent round had their exploitables crop up as something for the antagonists to base their gimmick around. The exploitables make reference to the historical Article 121, an anti-homosexuality law in the Soviet Union beginning in the Stalin era. To the best of my knowledge, the intent of the exploitables seems to be to perpetuate IC transphobia on behalf of the fictional Plutonian government, including deadnaming and misgendering (disclaimer: I really am not totally up to speed with the exact terminology here, but I think that's what it's called) the character in question and referring to their gender identity as 'bourgeoise decadence'. At least one player cryoed out of the round due to this narrative being the focus, from what I hear. I don't know why the burglars went with this as the focus for their round, but I am pointing the finger squarely at these exploitables for essentially opening the door for it. To cut a long story short, I am thoroughly uncomfortable and downright offended that Aurora lore is being taken forwards as headcanon to push transphobic and hateful narratives through into the server gameplay and roleplay environment. I know exploitables in particular are not meant to be entirely canon, hence why they can be quite wacky, but I think this is a bridge too far and I want to appeal for further action to be taken. I'm trying not to turn this into a novel, but I think this is a reasonable summary of what happened, and I'd appeal for anyone else involved either in the Relay conversation or in the round I'm referencing to make their thoughts known as well. I want to also make it clear that this isn't a character complaint, this is a player complaint. I am not offended specifically at the character Emiliya Novikova and how they're portrayed in game -- I am upset at the player themselves for pushing this to begin with, using the 'character' as a vehicle to insert these topics into the Aurora environment. I believe this is a case of strong OOC political views being injected wholesale into the IC environment, and done in such a way that it's making people violently uncomfortable. Did you attempt to adminhelp the issue at the time? If so, what was the known action taken by administration/moderation? I contacted staff about the Relay incident right when it first happened. The in-round incident was something I didn't even know was a problem until Yonnimer contacted me about it. I don't know specifically what action was taken against the player beyond seeing a Relay strike issued by Alberyk or MattAtlas. I imagine they might have also been told to change their exploitables by now, too, but as I said I'm not satisfied with that being the only resolution here. Approximate Date/Time: 17:00 GMT on 05 Feb 2022 Evidence/logs/etc:

I imagine this can easily be tweaked by just upping the amount of nutrition per unit light mode that a Diona can absorb, or something. I haven't looked at the code, but it sounds as if it's just a numerical change waiting to happen. Worries about Diona aside, I can't support this enough. I think it looks much better, and lays the groundwork for an atmosphere that isn't just "Source engine game on fullbright".

I've played on and off with Granodd for a while now, both before my hiatus through the tail end of 2021 and before it. It was obvious from the start that they were a strong roleplayer when they first walked Nira into medical, and they've only gotten better since then. I'll leave the specific questioning to people better than I am at picking Tajara backstories apart for lore accuracy, but there's no doubt in my mind that they'll be an asset to the whitelist when they get it. +1

This. I don't know if I'd support this at all were this not the case, but even in my time here on Aurora I've seen at least one instance where a captain joined out of nowhere for an event round, had only a vague idea what was going on, was controversial in their decision-making (or, again, was just totally out of the mindset and lore context for the canon event), and then disappeared back into thin air after sniping the slot. The period to be eligible for removal is a full year, too. I don't see how anyone can seriously suggest that that's too short a timeframe to have it removed. It takes a week at most to get it back, and you can play command just the same as before during the trial period itself too.

I realise re-reading this that it looks a bit like I was complaining about the autopsy thing. I actually really liked that, just as a note -- it wasn't an issue at all. It made me hopeful to see how you'd continue from there, rather than pessimistic!

Karl Voigt is an excellent character played by an equally excellent player. Please get the whitelist so you can take him above and beyond on the NBT! From what I've seen of your RD so far, as well, they've been an exemplary head of their department and member of station command +1