Swim420 Posted August 21, 2017 Posted August 21, 2017 BYOND Key: Swim420 Game ID: bP5-bcmt Player Byond Key: Unknown Staff involved: Garnascus Reason for complaint: After being put into critical condition due to falling down multiple Z-levels, my character (Zed Starling) was taken to the medbay for treatment. There weren't any proper doctors onboard at the time, and power ran out, so reasonably medical attention was not an easy thing to come across. However, at some point while my character was in the medbay, the chemist Chris O'Riley decided that the proper way to treat my character was to repeatedly ask if he could kill my character before dragging my character out of medbay on a stretcher without any permission. With no warning or consent, my character was dragged to the bar to start having beer forced down his throat. Around this time I decided to ahelp, since this felt like a blatant breaking of both my immersion and believability in this player's character. Garnascus replied to me and I was happy with how he approached the situation, questioning the player about his actions. I didn't want to make a big scene about it, and thought that things might fix themselves given time, so I thanked him and continued the round. After my character freaked out, as I believe anyone should after having essentially weak poison poured into their mouths without any warning, an extremely unprofessional attitude of insults and general rude behavior was thrown towards my character by Chris O'Riley and the other chemist, Annabelle Langston, comprised of comments such as telling him to "stop crying" about all of his broken bones as he was in so much pain that he thought he was going to die at any moment. Instead of showing any sort of empathy or concern towards my character, he was just persistently insulted and treated like a child, told that he needed "time out" while none of his requests were acknowledged before being dragged out into the middle of the hallway right next to a group of people who were having a battle to the death with axes - of course, the chemist didn't seem to care and showed absolutely no remorse for this and left my character to his potential fate. During the entire time leading up to this moment, my character was asking to be returned to the medbay since he had no idea what he was doing in the bar, and didn't even want to be there in the first place - but since his blood-gurgling cries of pain was interrupting their friendly drinking session, he was just some insect to be thrown to the wolves, apparently. Eventually his cries were listened to and he was brought back to the medbay, though around this time I had already lost any hope I had of continuing this round and I notified the other player via LOOC that I was leaving, as I did not want to continue dealing with this person. In summary, I understand that there were issues with bringing proper medical attention to my character, though I don't think that excuses the blatant lack of believable character interaction with someone who is supposed to be a licensed medical professional. I would like to paint a mental image of a hospital running out of power, so the doctor wheels their patient out of the hospital to a nearby bar while remaining completely mute before shoving a beer bottle into their patient's mouth and shoving them aside so that they can enjoy a drink with their friends before acting as if their dying patient that they started neglecting minutes prior was just a whiney brat that needed to get over it. That was essentially my round. Did you attempt to adminhelp the issue at the time? If so, what was the known action taken by administration/moderation? Yes, as I mentioned during my primary complaint, Garnascus was very helpful, though I was unsure if I wanted to continue pushing for any direct admin intervention at the time, so I did not ask for anything more than him questioning the other player, which he did. Approximate Date/Time: Monday, August 21st, 2017 at around 3:05am CST Additionally, I would like to apologize to the staff for writing another character complaint so shortly after my previous one, though this incident was too blatant for me to ignore, as it completely ruined the round for me - I would've rather been left laying alone in medbay than have had to deal with this.
Garnascus Posted August 23, 2017 Posted August 23, 2017 sorry for the late response. A lot of this seems like new information. I do not recall you telling me anything about him insulting you. I nudged this particular person into a healthier way to play however so i am not entirely sure what else there is to do for this incident.
Swim420 Posted August 24, 2017 Author Posted August 24, 2017 sorry for the late response. A lot of this seems like new information. I do not recall you telling me anything about him insulting you. I nudged this particular person into a healthier way to play however so i am not entirely sure what else there is to do for this incident. I blame myself for the withholding of information, I was tentative to get too much into it over ahelp due to fear of escalating the situation. While I'm still upset with this player's behavior, it doesn't make sense to expect any actions to be taken against him if he has already been nudged in the right direction. This complaint was mostly a method of venting my frustration towards the situation, as it was posted immediately after the round ended. I realize that this is not the intention for player complaints, and as such will attempt to more critically analyze negative player interactions in the future. I will also remember to try giving more information to any staff involved during incidents like this rather than holding information until afterwards. Thank you for reviewing and responding to my complaint! I'm sorry if it was a waste of time in the end. I have no further comments or questions if a member of staff would like to close this thread.
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