CKEY: ValuedEmployee
Your Discord: ValuedEmployee#5119
Offender’s CKEY: Unknown
Offender’s In-Game Name: Mate Laserbeard
Server (Sage or Acacia): Sage
Date (MM-DD-YYYY): 06/13/2022
Round Number: 38704
Rules Broken: 1 and 13
Incident Description: So it’s near round end, I’m playing bartender. I decided to stay back in the bar instead of leaving the station to just chill out in the fun bar I made, lots of drinks and it was a great vibe. Two pirates walked and wordlessly grabbed me. From that point on, while I was in their possession for about a solid minute, I pleaded with them to let me go and to have a drink with me instead. Now I know antagonists don’t have to be friendly, but I was hoping they’d at least let me go because why take me at the end of the round anyway? Well one of them gets shocked by a door, I take time to stand around in the hopes that cooperation would make the situation more amicable. They ignore my pleas some more after the shuttle had already left and started printing out cables and made restraints with them to further the kidnapping. I knew what was coming, being kidnapped to their ship in space when I didn’t even have space protection would kill me if I was taken. I decided I had enough and ran back to my bar with them in hot pursuit.
Here’s where I feel they broke the rules. Without anymore words, Mate Laserbeard, the pirate who dragged me initially, began firing round after round of lethal shotgun ammo at me as I tried to evade them inside the bar without leaving the area or having a weapon out. I could have pulled my shotgun out with non-lethal ammo, but I didn’t in the hopes that they’d see reason (That there’s no reason to be shooting at me). Well that realization never came, and they unloaded into me until I was in crit. After the round ended, it was found that they had already completed all of their objectives without me as ransom and the entire affair was pointless. My death was needless and murderbone.
^ Here’s what the Species and Faction Escalation table has to say about Pirates and their escalation policy on killing. Now normally they’d be allowed to murderbone and kill anyone in their way, but I wasn’t apart of any objective and not putting up a fight other than running away (When the shuttle was leaving). Since I wasn’t an objective, there was no reason to kill me and I just served as sport for this player as they went out of their way to hunt me down. That may have been fun for them, but not for me.
The stipulation for most antags about isolated killings is that they’re okay if they’re related to your objectives, I was not and they had already completed their objectives shown by EORG report.
Additional Information:
Mai Phulfiana tried to save me after I was in crit because she said she’d stay back with me instead of leaving to chill out in the bar with me. Understandably, that pissed her off and she got a face full of shotgun, too. No rule break there, she attacked. Both of us got dragged into space without suits after that, and both died to space at EORG. This made it clear they were planning on dragging me through space without a suit to begin with, meaning they planned to have me die anyway on the way over if I didn’t run away. Once again, not part of their objectives to do any of that since they already succeeded at the EORG report. I didn’t Ahelp this in round because it was already so close to the end that I felt I shouldn’t, and decided to write here instead.
Edits: Added rule 1 to the rules broken section.
