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You could argue security shouldn't go at all because the ship needs to be defended and protected, and in fact the bad ass gun psychos of science or the rugged salvagers of mining can and will defend themselves, just as they do for every dig site or direlect they come across. But that excludes security, and it's a BIG problem if security is excluded, so I guess I'll need to suspend my disbelief for a second so that other people can have fun.

Appealing Personnel: Sasha Kaiser Specific Incident: Here and Here Action taken as a result: 1.) One-Month Return to Parent Corporation as a standard employee. 2.) Mandatory Classes, consisting of 'Proper Workplace Procedure with Subordinates,' 'How to Behave in an SCC Workspace,' 'SCC and You: Representing the Chainlink as a Supervisor,' and 'Anger Management: Behaving Professionally in the Workspace.' to be listed on Employment, Medical, and Security records. 3.) A permanent mark on the CCIA record that states further action of this caliber will be met with more harsh punitive action. Action contested: All of the above Reasoning for contest: I, Sasha Kaiser, formally submit an appeal to the internal office of the SCC in contest of the ruling above. While the punishment has been carried out, I do not believe a proper investigation was conducted nor do I believe I was given appropriate opportunity to testify. The allegations paint myself as an incompetent leader who would go so far as to have an employee arrested for "disagreeing or arguing" with me, an assessment skewed far beyond what truly happened. For these accusations to have stood, my testimony was either ignored or lost in translation; that is to say, they are entirely untrue. On top of this, I question the decision to punish senior staff for enforcing expectations on productivity in the workplace, particularly something as simple as status reports and long term projects. I do not expect the bare minimum of my staff, I do not allow laziness to be rewarded, and I do not permit unsafe workplace practices. I oppose the idea that one could be excluded from these basic expectations as per the terms of their 'contract' and that questioning this constitutes a valid reasoning for demotion. I contest the execution and rationale of the investigation as a whole, and request it to be re-opened, re-evaluated, and should the office agree with my assessments: scrubbed from my record. Additional notes: (OOC: I spoke with Bear extensively about this, and it came down to an OOC staff complaint or an IC appeal. I genuinely do not think the notes for this case make any sense and are at best disingenuous, twisted far beyond the actual events into something clearly meant to justify a much harsher punishment than reasonable. Obviously I do not know how these decisions were reached though, so in the spirit of giving the benefit of a doubt, I file an appeal.)

We need more XOs Testo has dragged me kicking and screaming into fun drama arcs and has a good sense of storytelling. His characters are good fun. +1

Popper has lots of fun characters and his roleplay is mmmmnhnnhnnhn great! +1

Reporting Personnel: Sasha Kaiser Job Title of Reporting Personnel: Research Director Game ID: cuD-aisg + the round prior Personnel Involved: Kroner Blackburn, Xenobiologist - Offender Sasha Kaiser, Research Director - Witness Samdarr Kii'jri, Head of Security - Witness Secondary Witnesses: Cam Mueller, Chief Engineer - Pulled the comms logs The security team of the shift - arrested and presumably spoke to Blackburn Time of Incident: ~23:40 2466-7-9 Real Time: ~6:40 PM MTN Location of Incident: Xenobiology/Science/Comms Nature of Incident: [ x ] - Workplace Hazard [ ] - Accident/Injury [ ] - Destruction of Property [ x ] - Neglect of Duty [ x ] - Harassment [ ] - Assault [ ] - Misconduct [ ] - Other _____ (Place an x in the box that applies. If other, replace line and specify.) Overview of the Incident: The two events are spread between two shifts, prior to these shifts I've have had issues with Doctor Blackburn refusing to take on a project, citing that he is "just here to maintain the slimes." As his Director, I told him that this was not good enough and that I expected him to come up with a project. To this date, he has not made progress towards this request. During the first shift, on 09/07/2466 around 23:00, Kroner Blackburn arrived on deck. I told him I was surprised he was still employed, leading into a conversation where he asked if I had "beaten my allegations." I asked for him to elaborate several times, both over comms and in person, and was given no explanation. I asked him for his project of the day, and given no response. I decided to talk to him in person and walked to his lab, I saw the doors were bolted open all the way into the communal lab. He was questioned on this, and told me it was for his "convenience." Kroner attempted to leave to respond to a station announcement re: a slime leak. He was told he could wait a minute, and in retaliation he got on comms and said that I had "decided he couldn't help" and that "engineering could deal with it themselves" - a complete lie, which he then denied to my face. I decided to have him suspended for the shift and security was called to take him away. During the second shift, on 09/10/2466 around 1:00, I arrived on deck. I asked for a check in and was met by an insistence that his suspension was revoked. I did not want to argue with him and told him to drop the attitude several times, with the threat that if he could not, he would be suspended. His attitude did not stop, going so far as to antagonize me. He was suspended for the shift with the insistence that "IA would hear about this," to which I informed him he was correct. These incidents showcase an employee who is not only non-productive for the SCC in his complete refusal to conduct actual research, but a hazard to others in his blatant disregard of containment procedure. His assertion over my "allegations" leads to the suspicion he has intentionally been poisoning the well within my department or otherwise by spreading rumors, speculation founded on his belligerence towards myself. He has been given countless warnings with no improvement, leading to this esclation. Submitted Evidence: Comms logs attached below: Would you like to be personally interviewed?: [ x ] - Yes, if needed [ ] - No Did you report it to a Head of Staff or a superior? If so, who? If not, why?: Myself and the Commander on shift handled the situation, I have decided to escalate to internal affairs Actions taken: Shift suspension Additional Notes: I may have asked for a review request, however Blackburns records are currently causing errors in the software. I asked the commander (Suvek Tokash) on the second shift to record that he had been suspended in records; but was told he did not think it was necessary.

I just want to play a colorblind engineer so I can electrocute myself by mixing up the 3 red wires

Time for an update; I do take commissions and they are OPEN; Details in the spoiler below. These are the most up to date prices and policies. Now for the fun stuff, actual drawings; A couple finished things And some sketches and doodles

Which is silly to me, there's alt titles for the other "learner rolls" so I don't really get it

I love arguing with Nystrom. +1

Just add a understudy alt title to distinguish people trying to learn, this has been brought up at least three times and there's even a PR for it. I don't know why it's such a thing. Lab assistant working as an assistant role is fine as is, who cares if people wanna make permanent characters in those roles.

As the person who (accidentally) made an EMP that could hit the entire ship, I'm generally against bomb caps - even for regular bombs. Something that big can be very devastating, though that's kind of the point. I don't think everything needs to be neutered to cater to some rare circumstances, really. As for IPCs, I kind of agree with fluffy? I posted in the IPC medical thread but they're just genuinely overpowered on an endurance level alone, though I agree that it /can/ suck to be stuck somewhere for 10-30 minutes, especially because at blue you are just as likely to have a swamped medical as an EMP going off. That said, its really the only way to stun an IPC effectively so I'm more or less in favor of them being able to self charge in standby mode (sleep) up to a certain point, just enough to get to a charger, but not fast enough to negate the stun.

I thought I commented on this but I guess not. This was a thing in the past, where I believe at the 1:30 mark you could call a vote to add an antag. It was removed for a myriad of reasons though I think the main one was that it was abused to make yourself an antag. It was removed during one of my extended breaks so I'm not entirely sure either way. I didn't hate it back then, and I don't have a strong opinion now - just pointing out this exact feature was removed at some point.

This is a case of favouring "realism" over gameplay. Particularly as the "realism" here is misrepresented in assumption that you cannot move objects up and down stairs in life. It's not fun, its an inconvenience, and every solution presented is to solve a self made problem that adds no interesting gameplay and is a chore to work around. Spending resources to 'fix' this is a waste of time when frankly it should just be reverted.

Managed the ship very well during a chaotic technomancer round while I (the other command) got dragged into a hell of unrelated drama and brain damage. Sorry for leaving you high and dry, but you proved you can handle it so heres a +1

I haven't tested this extensively so I don't know if it's actually a bug or just a coincidence (hence no report ...yet) but I'm fairly certain simple mobs will path around traps as if they're solid objects. I have never been able to catch something in the large traps. Slowing it down seems like the best option. I don't think kiting is a bad strategy, and it's how you'd expect to deal with large threats anyways? Either run away or use whatever advantage you have to deal with it. The problem now is we have *no* advantage and getting the specialized equipment to deal with it takes far too much time out of the round when expeditions take upwards of an hour to hour and a half On top of all this, I'm actually surprised it spawns as a simple mob at all, and not as a player controlled admin spawn, particularly if it's this powerful.

BYOND Key: 50_n00b Discord Username: 50n00b Character Name: Sasha Kaiser Item Name: Stress Ball Item Function(s): When clicked in your hand, it (visible to others) emotes being squeezed. Depending on intent, the message changes; Help [You] play with the stress ball. Disarm [You] squeeze the stress ball. Grab [You] pinch the stress ball. Harm [You] crush the stress ball. Item Description: A deep red sphere, soft, pliable, meant to be handled. Why is your character bringing this item to work?: Kaiser is an angry guy, to a self destructive degree. Recent events both in his professional life and personal life have led him to wanting to reign in some of his aggressive tendencies. The stress ball is to be one of many mechanisms he’s meant to be using to redirect his anger. How did your character obtain this item?: Sasha was given it during a preliminary psychiatric session with the goal of anger management in mind; Sasha Kaiser says, "I'm going to destroy this thing." Zaynab Shirazi says, "Then do it. I have plenty." Zaynab Shirazi says, "Crush it, tear it, stomp on it. It doesn't matter-- it's only a thing." What value does this item have to your character, and what story does it tell?: The stress ball is specifically a storytelling prop, it exists to show a desire towards personal growth. It’s not the only thing driving that growth but can be seen as somewhat symbolic for the character's current arc and serves as a marker towards that goal. Sprites: stress_ball.dmi Additional Comments: I think this is hilarious. I think he’s going to throw it at people. I think he's going demolish it. It fits thematically with how I’m trying to handle the character. A win win. If this is too mundane an item, I’d love for it to be added to the loadout with the same functionality, and I’ll make a recolourable sprite for it. I have no reason to gatekeep a stress ball of all things.

I looked a little deeper into this and realized my chat would only store 1000 messages regardless of the setting. I'm not sure if other people had that issue so this may be a bug not - idk if the max messages actually needs to be increased THAT SAID that pr seems like it intends on fixing that too. If all else fails I know to make a big report - but we'll see!! Thank you for doing that lly!

Title self explanatory. Fairly easy, I'd do it myself if github didn't want to make me tear my teeth out. This value used to be much higher but I think was lowered during a port of some kind. I'm not sure exactly what it was, but considering I could log multiple rounds without issue I figure it was quite high? 250,000? I'm not sure if having a higher value actually impacts anything negatively.

Levi and kaiser have interacted probably about a dozen times in the entire overlap of the two characters existence; a notable example recently was Levi using the hallway as a 'slip and slide' resulting in a dress down of both Levi and Tsi. Just because you do not remember these interactions does not mean they didn't happen. In what you claim as their 'first' meeting - you exclude the fact that you were in science demanding to go within the first five minutes of the round, something kaiser was talking to his team about. He didn't want you to go because you were a goober but likely would have let you anyways had you not acted entitled to it. You're also excluding that during the time you asked you were the ONLY officer on shift and there were safety concerns for the HORIZON if you went along. Obviously this changed as the round went on, but I cannot count on more people showing up just to enable you. I didnt want to do the retcon because your character had done something impulsive and childish and you didn't want to pay the consequences of that. I kept the incident canon because even if we ignore that, Kaiser has other examples of Levi doing this kind of thing. Beyond that I didn't even use that interaction in the conversation they had to try and entertain this point. You're missing the point of the hallway conversation, which was meant to have occured in the office but you're reluctance to even walk three steps over meant it happened where it did. Kaiser is the kind of person who holds people accountable for their actions, he was explaining to Levi why he didn't trust him to attend the expedition but was interrupted. When he tried to correct this and tell Levi to not interrupt, Levi responded 'I'm just providing relevant information,' thus denying accountability. Yes, Sasha is inflammatory, but you're poking a bear. Im not fond of the idea of breaking character just because you really want something, I gave you advice to navigate this and you ignored it. I gave you more of a chance than what would frankly be reasonable based on an ooc conversation. I have toned Sasha down immensely as a result of that complaint, this is a cherry picked example that has had months of build up behind it. I'm not randomly flying off the handle or targeting you, and I'm frustrated it's being portrayed this way as a justification of mod bullying.

You're excluding the part of the conversation where the part they wanted reconned had very little to do with not being allowed on missions, which was clearly communicated within that same conversation. The part where I said I didn't want to ruin their fun, but the IC conflict was good, something they agreed to in the context of it not preventing them from doing missions. I advised them to have tact, and committed to giving them a chance. The interaction with Levi was more or less Sasha checking to see if they could behave for five minutes. I see no world where when you are being given an opportunity and you speak to someone giving you that opportunity with such intense disrespect, that you actually get that opportunity. Even if Sasha wasn't a huge asshole, this would be the case. The very first words out of Levi's mouth was a sarcastic jab, which was gracefully ignored. They were told to correct anything Sasha said that was incorrect but not to 'talk back.' an extraordinarily simple request that was completely ignored. This wasn't Sasha dangling the carrot, and even if it was it shouldn't matter because it was part of a screening process for what could have been a dangerous mission. I get that you don't know this IC, but you made little effort to even credit Sasha for trying to do well by his team here, just submitting to the officers victimhood wholesale. Other than when given two extremely valid reasons as to why the officer couldn't go, (we are geared/prepared/trained and the officer can't be trusted for x y z) you saw fit try and force the officer along anyways, "we have a teleporter, I have the final say not you." I literally cannot prove this but you late joining extremely conveniently during the 5 seconds we were in flight, well after the respawn period would have fired, doesn't instill a lot of confidence that you weren't watching this all anyways. Was it or was it not your first round playing them? Once again, you make it sound like your decision on that was final, as if it really didn't matter what I said it was going to happen no matter what. I would have never made this complaint if I wasn't explicitly told otherwise, I cannot sit here and attack you with no evidence of ill will. I find it extremely odd that I was told, by Mel, that the IR was to be binned if there was no ooc issue here.

@La Villa Strangiato has the actual chat log, I asked her to comment. This is what she told me;

BYOND Key: 50_n00b Staff BYOND Key: eddymakaveli Game ID: ctS-aSy7 Reason for complaint: Eddy made a captain character with the specific goal of baiting my RD into a confrontation with the express intent of making an IR, this is coming off of a recent character complaint regarding the same RD that Eddy personally handled. This feels like a meta grudge performed by a member of staff that was trusted to handle a complaint without bias. I don’t think this is acceptable on any level for staff to be doing, at all, regardless of if their initial ruling was correct or not - using it as a means to attack a player is insane. Evidence/logs/etc: The events of the round in question were extremely suspicious to begin with, but seeing as an IR was posted I started digging into my assumption that this was bait. I received confirmation from another staff member that eddy had told them ‘I’m going to make this character and bait sasha’ (Mel has been informed of who, and the exact quoting, as far as I’m aware) The very stripped down round events are as follows; >Captain late joins the second we start an away mission, then fires an inflammatory series of questioning as to why Sasha didn’t bring an officer >Sasha gives his reasoning(pissed off), tells the captain he’s not budging on his decision not to bring the officer, and that they left already anyways >This was made clear as to not be the desired answer, but they agreed to talk about it more after the mission ( 1 2 ) >Captain proceeds to spend the entire rest of the round building a case against Sasha, with the seemingly fixed decision that this was to result in an IR based on the questioning I received at the end of the round >The second the antag reveals themselves, eddy logs off, no longer able to reasonably pursue this goal Beyond the frankly just, abysmal play from top to bottom, this is obviously oocly motivated. I do not see a world wherein a captain would reasonably immediately put every ounce of distrust into their own headstaff over a screening process done well before they even arrived - even if said headstaff said a few 'bad words' not even directly aimed at said captain to begin with. Additional remarks: Eddy, this is the punching down you told me to curb in the complaint. Take your own advice. If this is an attempt to drive me away, it's working. Thanks.

I worry this will make people less prone to go on expeditions. If something like this was implemented I would strongly push for all of science to have access to the intrepid because there is a myriad of reasons other crew would want to go explore unrelated to anomalies, and if xenoarch always spawns with toys they get less opportunities. That said xenoarch can suck sometimes just because it's basically impossible for them to have a ship side project if they don't feel like taking off for one reason or another. Maybe a suitable middle ground would be 'regular' artefacts 'left over' from another shift to RP around. The anomolies are more or less an endgame for xenoarch, so spawning with them is a debuff to the role in that it makes the gameplay loop pointless to pursue.