FlamingLily

Translated from Sinta'Unathi. "So, Fisher Aieszk Kukssal. In your own words, please tell us what exactly happened. Take your time... I'm sure this has been difficult." "...yes. Quite. It was... a few days after I had broken my foot. It had grown swollen, painful- infected, of course. So, I made my way up to the ship's healers bay. The.... spirit- ... The spirit was there. At the time, I thought she was a healer. As did everyone. Or... maybe she was- and the spirit took her over. I don't know. She invited me inside, to the room in the back. Exam room, I think they call it. I removed my boot, she began to inspect my swollen appendage.... And then I felt a sharp poke in my other leg. Like a syringe, or one of those medicine guns the healers have. I reeled back- to put some distance between myself and her- assuming she had drugged me, of course. Which... she did. My leg had gone numb in the few moments I was standing, and I hit the floor hard. I couldn't feel my leg. Before I knew it, I couldn't feel the other. Or my arms. Or my face. I was entirely numb. Paralyzed. And then.... the spirit came out. I could do nothing but watch on- not even scream- as I watched the flesh rend from the healer's arm, as bone crunched and twisted, and as- as far as I could tell, for a human's face, the expression had drained from her face entirely. No malice. No pain. The bones in her arm- tendon and flesh hanging loosely from them- had formed into a horrific visage, a blade, sharpened to a point. That... spirit beast could have killed me. I was immobile, One clean slice to the throat would have finished the job, I'm sure. It didn't. I can't tell what it wished to do, but I can only assume. It plunged this... bladed arm down into my stomach. The pain was excruciating. Unimaginable. And yet, I couldn't move. I couldn't scream. I couldn't beg. It struck again, and again. I knew then that I was going to die- and yet... a voice in my mind. An ancestor of mine, calling to me. Telling me to live. It was as if my ancestor had purged the toxin and the pain from my body. I kicked up at the spirit with all of my force. It flew back, striking the maintenance hatch across the room, and I knew then what I must do. With all my strength, despite my injuries, I rose to my feet. It attempted to lunge at me, but I sprinted past- the thing was stuck with the speed of a human, not a Sinta, ha ha! I ran through the tunnels as fast as my legs would take me, screaming out on the radio the only word I could manage- in basic. "Healer." My legs took me into a room with a ledge to the deck below, but... the hatch wouldn't open to take me further in, It was approaching, and I was bleeding profusely. If I stayed, I would die. And thus I flung myself off the ledge. The deck below came at me fast, and I landed on my arms. It felt as if my shoulder had come out of the socket, and the blood gushing from my abdomen was certainly not helping. Nor was the spirit, which had followed my path, and landed on by back, hard. Perhaps the ancestors were to blame for my spine remaining intact. In any case, I was able to get to my feet before the human-bound spirit, and I struggled my way further into the tunnels. I was weary. I had lost a large amount of blood, and the pain was enough to overwhelm me, Each step was a struggle, feeling as if minutes passed between them. I was not sure where I was, and I could hardly tell how far behind me the spirit was. However... I knew that they had to be gaining on me. It was then that I heard it. In the distance. The sound of metal on metal, repeatedly. Clunk, clunk, clunk. It echoed down the tunnel. And in the rhythm, I heard the voice of my ancestors. They were calling me. And so I ran towards the noise. I could feel my legs about to give in and my vision began to blur. Yet still, I pressed on. This single tunnel stretched on impossibly, yet the echoing of footsteps even closer behind me drove me ever forward. Until... I passed the threshold around the corner. What I saw then was a sight so miraculous I knew it had to have been the work of the ancestors themselves. Around the corner, a maintenance hatch- half pried open by a team of warriors. They were breaking it down, and swarmed in to save me. A healer accompanied them, and she swiftly began her work. It was then I lost consciousness, to the sound of gunfire and the scream of a spirit. When I awoke, I was in the healers' recovery room, bandaged and stitched together, but alive. Alive only because of the righteousness of my ancestors. I was not a so-called skeptic, before, but... I now know with absolute certainty that my ancestors watch over me. One day- once my time is up, of course- I hope to watch over my descendants in much the same way."

Crew, Reviewing the information we've gathered about the propellant depot on Marax 1, and a greater understanding of the rate at which the Malebranche will be able to track us down, I think our next course of action should be a jump to CES 142. We gained no supplies this week, and I believe that the significantly most pressing issue will be to ensure that we find some. A 200 year old propellant depot is unlikely to have any. Not to mention the supplies we'll burn to fend off the hivebots. Berkley 72 has no evidence of anything of note, while CES 142 has a signal that we can follow. It has the added bonus of putting a pretty significant buffer between us and the Malebranche as it enters the lane. I find myself in agreement with my colleague that we have little time to spare, though I see our dwindling amount of food and medical supplies as far more of a pressing matter than the pirates at present. Signing off, Doctor Lillian Nyström, Chief Engineer

I'm just gong to withdraw this complaint. I'm sorry.

I offered to discuss this with Matt privately. I added him to the complaint in mistake and removed him. That offer was refused. I then spoke to Mel out of concern for Matt and myself and confusion and worry. I don't know what's going on. I'm not in any discord servers. The one I was referring to was a joke about a discord server I'm in with one aurora player who was most active in the aurora2 days. Aurora doesn't come up that often. And we certainly don't do any of this conspiracy stuff. I'm scared of this. I have no way to defend myself against this, I have no way to set the record straight, I have no way to stop what is clearly going to become a hate campaign against me for something I didn't do. People I thought I was friends with are in those heart reacts. I don't know where that leaves us. I don't know what's happening, I don't know what the truth is, I don't want any of this.

The camera switches to yet another speaker. Dr. Lillian Nyström, EngD. She flicks through papers and printouts, rubbling her temples, before speaking. "Marax Two. I think that's our play for the first week. Got a signal, accessible by warp while we've got it. Gives us a followup to two more signals if we need more supplies - and right now we absolutely do. Three weeks will go fast. Right now I don't think we can afford to play it so safe as to hit Xar'qui 51, nor can we afford to burn our precious bluespace supplies immediately. Marax two gives us the chance for more supplies without too much investment. The Malebranche is the problem, it's hard to tell how quickly they'll give chase, but... they don't have a bluespace drive. They'll probably be a warp jump away from us after we head for Marax Two, but I can't imagine that warp drive they've got jury rigged in there can beat the speed of a full warp gate. At some point here, we have to put some distance, I agree. I don't think we should jump the gun here. We need to play our limited jumps carefully here, and either CES 146 and Marax 1 get us caught in a corner. Marax 2 gives us options, and that's what we need." She puts the printouts down, rubbing her temples again. "I need a drink." The camera shuts off.

When I made this complaint, I only had the context of there being the one off-topic post, and so it felt a little like your comment was targeting me for the complaint, especially when read alongside the post by campin. I've since been told that there were other now deleted posts that the comment was addressing, and so with that context I'd prefer to just drop the complaint against you. Sorry for the trouble. I didn't elect to use a confidential complaint because the use-case for them is very ill-defined, and I wasn't sure if this would fit, how you use them, what the process is. My understanding was that they're for significant complaints, given the requirement for a headmin to be involved, and I didn't feel that this fit. That being said, I still take very strong issue with the fact that I'm being painted here as going out of my way to bully a new player for an honest mistake. Firstly, I don't know who this player is, certainly much less knowing that they were a new player- in fact, throughout the round they acted in a way which implied familiarity with the server and the lore. I was under the impression that they were a veteran. Secondly, the claim here that I'm not making this complaint in good faith is extremely hurtful. I am a trans woman. This misgendering is extremely uncomfortable and offputting to me, in no small part because I am trans. It might not have been intentionally transphobic misgendering, and I, again, never claimed it was- but it was a tacit and deliberate refusal to accept being told to stop using "sir" on a female character. That is what made me uncomfortable. The fact that I'm unable to raise this point of discomfort without being labelled "toxic" or "disingenuous" and that I'm going out in "bad faith" and deliberately targeting and harassing new players is extremely upsetting to me. I am not trying to paint this person as a transphobe, and I'm not trying to cause some stigma here to spread among the community. I don't know who this person is, and the fact that I'm being ascribed motivations about this that I don't have, when in fact my motivations here were solely and exclusively to raise an issue that I felt deeply uncomfortable over is really upsetting. I didn't have malicious intent. I was trying to report something I found uncomfortable. The fact that you're trying to impart abjectly malicious intentions on me even when I've said otherwise is extremely distressing, feels excessively personal, and makes me feel like I'm not allowed to make complaints like this.

BYOND Key: FlamingLily Staff BYOND Key: Campinkiller https://forums.aurorastation.org/topic/22628-player-complaint-ishwari-gajuti/ Reason for complaint: A few days ago, I made the above player complaint to raise an issue i had about a player's behaviour. My concerns focused on behaviour that made me and other players quite uncomfortable. This was done after an ahelp failed to resolve the issue. I want to stress here that this is the normal path of action when making a complaint about a player. Aurora has always had public player complaints, and they have always been where you turn for complaints of this nature. The complaint in question was summarily dismissed because I was "making a public which hunt" out of it and targeting the player. The fact that I've had these claims levied at me for following the normal complaints process is frankly, extremely hurtful. The implication that I'm on a vendetta to ruin the experience of a player *who I still don't know,* is something that staff shouldn't be saying. This complaint isn't about the outcome of the player complaint (Though I will have some things to say at the end), it's about the fact that I was given hostility and blame from the staff team because I followed the correct complaints procedure. If I posted this complaint on the discord, sure I'd make it a public trial. If I made accusations of character (I never once called the character or the player a transphobe, I was complaining about the ACTIONs), then sure, maybe I would have made it a witch hunt. The only unwanted attention the thread even got was one peanut poster who wasn't involved, everone else was related to the complaint. I want to ask, if what I did was wrong by following the normal complaints process, what else should I have done??? And if there was a better way about this, that should be made significantly more clear and not made through throwing around accusations of witch hunting and harassment. Additional remarks: I do want to briefly touch on the outcome. In the complaint itself Evandorf says there's OOC precedent to intervening when a character is misgendering another, and that it would have been appropriate to do so. It's not really clear if this is going to be communicated to the player from the outcome, because it spends most of its time accusing me of making this a public spectacle, but if not, I would hope at the very least that would be communicated. Also, taking staff action against someone for "self antagging" over something as mild as *pulling a knife and not even using it* sets a precedent that probably 90% of characters would fail to meet. It's an extreme position, but it's also not my complaint to make. If I were in Stripes shoes, I absolutely would, but I'm not and it's her complaint to make if she so chooses.

There was absolutely discussion from me at least during the confrontation but also when he continued to directly and insistently keep misgendering a character after it was said explicitly not to do so. Here's an example of him continuing to insist upon it when both directly confronted about it and presented an alternative

It was an insult thrown in at the very end as I was actively typing 'ghost' in the command bar while in the resdeck lift, so I didn't have the chance to.

BYOND Key: FlamingLily Game ID: cBj-asE9 Player Byond Key/Character name: Player of Ishwari Gajuti (I don't have a Ckey) Staff involved: Melaria, Evandorf (See below) Reason for complaint: During the round mentioned, I got really uncomfortable vibes from this player. Firstly, they were playing a Gadpathurian, and felt like to me that they were really playing up a stereotype as they did, especially the constant use of phrases like, "Oh my good sir," "my friend" and similar. Secondly, the character openly and intentionally misgendered at least one trans character, though I believe it was two. In any case, the one I know for certain was against @Stripes' Vien Xuan Pham. It was not a one-off use of the phrase, it was a repeated and insistent use of "Sir" even when explicitly told not to. This did lead to an IC confrontation that I was involved in as well, but combined with later incidents, I do feel like it was more than just RP. The second instance I haven't spoken to about mentioning them in this complaint, but they can chime in if they want to. Thirdly, as I was leaving the round, they said "See ya guwan!" and then proceeded to follow it up with "I really should ask what that means." To be clear, at the time I was playing Mira Tilton, who is a human. "Guwan" is a pretty significant insult, but also one that completely does not apply in the circumstances. It felt like a very targeted, character breaking insult made just to be a cheap shot as I was leaving. Did you attempt to adminhelp the issue at the time? If so, what was the known action taken by administration/moderation? I ahelped and spoke with Melaria, and below is the ticket. Additionally, when I learned that it had already been ahelped, I spoke with Stripes and confirmed that she was the one to ahelp and had spoken with Evandorf, Approximate Date/Time: Server time: 05:30 2025-08-28

It's been a WHIIIILE since I've played CultSim and I never really got very far into it (i don't really know what the hours mean) BUT I do know what the principles are. For my two mains at the moment, I'd probably say Mira catches in with Knock, Moth and faintly a bit of Winter. I wanted to say Forge because fire (he he ha) but not quite, I don't think. Optic, on the other hand, I think it's linked with Lantern, Edge, and Heart. And Secret Histories.

I think it could at least be reasonable to have a general number/UI element type thing for specific regions of brain activity. Something like "I feel fine." - 100% "I've got a bit of a headache" - >80% "Everything feels a bit foggy." - >45% [i literally can't think of a line for this one] - >20% "What's... going on?" - >0%

well. a hypospray isn't a needle. Of course it doesn't have a draw mode. They're not used for what syringes are, they're used for rapid medicine administration.

I totally agree with this. Except maybe the roleplay prompts- or at least not ones that specific.

Unquestionable, huge +1 from me. Frankly, I think the quality of this application alone should be enough to justify the +1. The writing quality is fantastic, gripping, and the way Venty uses a combo of Tajara lore and more recent server events lore is so good and a fantastic display of the attention to detail that makes their characters so good. But of course, I have more to say. Ririlsk's long term redemption story is a fantastic character arc, and I've personally had fantastic RP with him throughout my time on the server. I haven't had as much with Andre or Kassid, but even what small moments I catch in the background or offhandedly, they seem as alive and real of characters as they can be. I'm not even sure how old of a character Kassid is, I only started seeing them recently but they have such a clear personality to them that they could have been around for years for all I know. Or to put it plainly. Extremely solid attention to the lore, to detail, and passion for creating these characters, and fantastic ability to portray them to a fantastic depth. Absolutely someone who will use the whitelist well.