Staff Complaint - TheLancer

[ryder]

BYOND Key: Ryder#0101
Staff BYOND Key: Lancer#1589
Game ID: chu-aYKF
Reason for complaint: I am filing this complaint because I believe that a CCIA resolution was mishandled. Upon receiving no message regarding the resolution, I reached out to the agent responsible for the IR (Lancer) who communicated some basics to me, in which I think there was a gross misunderstanding of game mechanics ("stealing" clothing by using an autodrobe) as well as a lack of thorough investigation as a whole, as some details left me believing the agent in question was lied to during an interview. Some comments alluded to blame being on myself, which reinforced that feeling. I think the IR needs to be reviewed by someone else or by the CCIA agents as a team. The current resolution should be nullified.
Evidence/logs/etc: DMs available upon request. I do not feel they're necessary.
Additional remarks: Discord IDs substituted, as actual interaction did not occur in-game.

[MattAtlas]

This complaint is a bit anemic in information.

Could you explain to us exactly:

• What happened this round that caused the IR?
• Why exactly do you think the IR was mismanaged?

[ryder]

• During the round, the character D'Jar gave two Orion Express members - dressed in their uniforms, one with a cape - first responder uniforms and demanded they redress and assume the positions of said uniform. He denied them their IDs until they stripped and changed. He was asked what position he held, answered he was a security officer, and the uniforms were taken to go back to medical. Reasoning, of course, that he doesn't have the authority to make that decision. D'Jar jumps overt the counter, begins yelling, making insults, and brandishes his weapons over the ordeal. It ends when two other security members defuse him and allow my character to take the uniforms back to medical.
• After speaking with Lancer I was told that D'Jar had apparently told his CCIA character that Sofia seemed like she was going to make for a gun, which is not true. Logs would show that this isn't the case. After telling Lancer as much, he said he did not look at logs. My character taking the uniforms back to medical was a "good excuse" for D'Jar to escalate to threatening violence, according to Lancer, which represents a misunderstanding of Aurora's department mechanics. This leads me to believe the IR was not conducted appropriately.

[The lancer]

The two orion crewmembers were not part of the Horizon staff, they were an off-ship ghost role that came on the Horizon. From the interviews, D'Jar explained that they threw their IDs, proclaiming they quit their jobs and went to the crew lift area. They went to the green console, as I told you, not the autodrobe, and pulled out clothes of crew that had already left the round. This constituted stealing in the eyes of D'Jar, and I concur. He then said he chased them around, and received two medical jumpsuits from the First Responder. The plan was to get them to leave the stolen clothes, and wear the medical jumpsuits instead. They then came to the bar, where the altercation between D'Jar and Cortes (ryder's character) followed. He told me Cortes took the clothes and he hopped the bar to get them back. Cortes didn't know these were off-ship ghost roles and thought they were actual Horizon crew that D'Jar was ordering to change jobs. The situation was eventually resolved after Cortes claiming that D'Jar was brandishing gear from his belt in an attempt to threaten her, a fact that D'Jar refuses. His word against Cortes', essentially.

Some notes: 

• You are allowed to lie in order to defend yourself in an IR. Witnesses are not allowed to lie.
• CCIA don't check logs. That only happens when it's suspected that a witness is lying. IRs are an IC means to resolve disputes, not an OOC player complaint.
• I was as thorough as I could be. The orion crew that were listed were not Horizon characters and could not be interviewed. I am in no obligation to interview secondary witnesses, but I nonetheless reached out to both and got an interview out of one, corroborating D'Jar's side of the story when it came to the origins of the Orion crew and how they took the clothes.
• Ryder and Cortes did not know the full extent of the situation both OOCly or ICly respectively. IRs are meant to be internal investigations and I was under no obligation to reveal what the conclusion was, since it did not concern Ryder's character. I nonetheless did share my findings OOCly, believing it could help clear up the situation.
• A security officer brandishing their gear during a tense situation is not something that isn't allowed or unheard of. They are a security force whose job is to enforce regulations, and in the eyes of D'Jar, Cortes was obstructing his work. I could not get any information of what happened inside the bar from the witness, other than a mention that D'Jar was flashing his badge. I don't have any IC means of knowing who did what, and even if D'Jar was brandishing his gear, I don't think I would take action on the matter. I did however inquire about it in all three of my interviews.

Matt has access to all the interview logs. I don't have anything else to say.

[ryder]

This clears up quite a lot from our initial conversation. Issue resolved; archive the thread.

[MattAtlas]

As you say.