maxspells

+1 Acetrea is awesome, one of my favorite people to roleplay with in medbay!

Super awesome character! They helped explain things to me (a physician) when I had questions without taking over for me, and still let me do the work. Stayed in character and kept medbay organized. Continued roleplaying after critical patients were handled. Overall super fun to interact with +1

It is a big relief to hear this is all roleplay, and that there is an arc planned for all of this. I'm sorry for making that assumption, it has been very stressful to interact with a character so demanding of my character's time and attention, while worrying that it wasn't going to be changing any time soon, or moving forward in a meaningful way. Knowing that it is all just roleplay makes me significantly less uncomfortable with all of the interactions. I think Floglor said it better than I could have, Aleena is played in a very convincing manner, and with Aurora being a non-whitelisted server and the game attracting a very diverse community, it can be hard to tell whether the emotional manipulation is roleplay or not. I really agree with Floglor's take. I am fine with emotional and fatalistic neediness, but when it happens as frequently as it has been, it has been exhausting and tiring to deal with. My character has arcs and things to deal with too, and I will say that I've had to turn down seeing other patients because I was tied up in a session with Aleena on multiple occasions. With seeing little growth from Aleena from my point of view, you can see how this might have been frustrating for me. Knowing that this is all roleplay means I am a lot more comfortable putting timeframes up for followup sessions, and saying no to Aleena's attention seeking behaviors without feeling like I am going to make things worse for someone who might be struggling OOC.

I don't, I'm sorry. As I said it was something I was slowly getting stressed OOC about and trying to handle IC until it got to the point where it felt like I should bring it up and be like "Hey this is happening" Would mainly be the PDA messages my character gets while interacting with others. Things like "I'll never be able to forgive you". Which was sent after I had a brief conversation with another character while Aleena was there, after my character had spent the shift speaking to Aleena and also taking her to talk to others to learn how to socialize. "I can't believe you and ____ would go out of your way to hurt me like that" Which was also the same time and situation; Aleena being upset that my character was socializing with another while I was helping Aleena socialize. I believe those PDA messages are more or less verbatum what was sent on PDA logs the following round after the one I alluded to above. I had had concerns that this might be a little OOC before this, so when I started getting these manipulative messages it was very uncomfortable for me to continue the roleplay and was why I decided to bring all this up. This is just what I heard from people involved, they made it clear to me in character and out of game that that was what happened so I think it's up to them if they want to come forward or not. It might just be an overexaggeration, I don't know. I don't know what the issue is, but it did very much come off this way and has been stressful, and I wasn't sure the right way to bring it up . For example the "I think I'm going to leave the horizon" messages really come off as you OOC saying "I'm upset in real life and I'm going to leave the game if you don't talk to me." If it is all just RP then I'd be a lot less uncomfortable knowing I can handle things a bit more sternly IC without the fear of making anyone upset, if that makes sense.

BYOND Key: maxspells Game ID: N/A Player Byond Key/Character name: Aleena Sovair Staff involved: N/A Reason for complaint: I play a psychiatrist character and have been involved with a lot of uncomfortable RP with the person who plays Aleena going on for about two weeks. After talking to another psychiatrist player OOC, I realized this issue was going on with other psyche players as well, and wasn't just me. Aleena Sovair is often played in a very forward flirtatious way towards essentially any female character they interact with. This has gone so far as 'french kissing' another player without any lead up or consent. In addition to this, they have been using emotional manipulation tactics to force my character and others into interacting with them through methods like guilt tripping, blaming, playing the victim or threatening to 'leave the Horizon', and overall just being an exhaustive and selfish person to roleplay with. At one point I have had to have an IC conversation with them about consent and boundaries over kissing people without consent (something I am very uncomfortable doing), which were quickly disregarded as they continued to roleplay touching other players hair, looking at or touching their hands, and other uncomfortable and unwanted flirting nobody asked for. This will usually make people uncomfortable, and usually everyone just kind of pretends it didn't happen. This will usually just upset Aleena more and bring them right back into the psyche office. It is very common for them to immediately PDA my character on mine or their arrival, or approach and pull myself or other psychiatrist characters immediately into a session for an entire shift to talk about how lonely they are and how they feel unwanted and how they don't understand why people don't like them, or why their IC relationships don't work out. This on it's own would be fine if it was to push forward an IC arc or move roleplay forward, but it happens nearly every shift with little to no improvement or RP coming from it, and has been happening for at least two weeks despite I and at least two other psyches that I know of giving them advice and help on multiple occasions(such as not touching other characters, not flirting with other characters, focusing on socializing and just making regular non romantic friends etc). I can't help but feel like this is not IC and that I and other psyche players are being constantly used as an outlet for their OOC frustrations for when their uncomfortable advances are undoubtedly rebuffed, when RP scenarios with their IC 'friends' don't go the way they want, or for other OOC issues behind the scenes with the person playing the character. Did you attempt to adminhelp the issue at the time? If so, what was the known action taken by administration/moderation? (Yes or no, then an explanation for why not, if applicable.) I did not, I am still fairly new to the server and am unsure if any rules were technically broken. I tried as best as I could to handle this IC, but hit my last straw the last two shifts and decided to leave the round and reach out to some other players involved to vent, which they told me they felt the same way and suggested I should take this to the moderation team. Approximate Date/Time: Has been ongoing for about two weeks, likely longer with other psyches before me. Most recent would be the round approximately 5pm EST on 3/30/2024