CKEY: A_wandering_fog
Your Discord: Bort
Offender’s CKEY: RukoFamicon
LRP or MRP server: MRP
Date (MM-DD-YYYY): 02-20-2021
Round Number: 27250
Rules Broken (if relevant): I was not accused of breaking any rules but was given a one-day ban for “toxic behavior in-round toward another player after they instigated heavy conflict in the previous round.”
Part of Admin/Mentor Conduct Broken (if relevant):
- Ensure tickets and situations are handled equally across all players.
- Any form of bias in dealing with players is not tolerated, favoritism from players or other staff should not weigh in the decision making process.
- Handle tickets respectfully, do not be condescending or aggressive in admin PM’s.
- Server bans are to be given out when a player has shown to be non-compliant with our rules or is activity malicious towards the server, the staff, or other players.
Incident Description:
I don’t have access to the logs, or even chat, because of the bizarre and capricious ban carelessly handed out from a clearly emotional administrator who seemed to be using his admin powers as a way to vent frustration – so bear with me, I will do my best.
I begin the round as detective on Sage and plan to go for an RP as a hard-nosed antihero detective where I have film noir-esque monologues to myself and bend the (IC) rules as my own code deems necessary. My game was to be centered around the social aspect of the bar, as I search for intrigue in the station.
I spent a few minutes getting my gear ready and walk outside. I find what appears to be a shitter already. He (NEON IXIX or something) has the trappings of someone in medical and a title that seems to be made-up (“Brig Physician”). He’s building obstacles around the brig hallway. I ask him what he’s doing and he says that his building a protective barrier. I ask who he got permission from and he said nobody. This seems particularly strange because Sec is completely empty: I am the only uniformed member of the force as detective. As the ranking member of sec on station, I instruct him to stop because the clutter seems more trouble than it’s worth. He refuses.
Since he refused a lawful order related to not obstructed the sec hallway, I draw my weapon and fire. I was under the impression that it used rubber bullets. It’s been a bit since I’ve played detective and last I checked, revolvers used rubber bullets that harmlessly knocked players down. I made a mistake, and these bullets are lethal. He then assaults me, kncoks me down, steals my gun, and runs off with it. I ask for my gun back and he refuses, shrieking profanity like a pre-teen playing DotA (FUCKING BITCH, FUCK YOU!!! etc). He says he’s going to arrest me, despite being a civilian, which seems like a rule violation and is definitely an RP violation.
A lawyer approaches me to help me out. He seems, like my character, to be morally flexible. I was excited for some Better Call Saul action: I cook up an IC plot to frame Neon – who was already a civilian who attacked a member of sec and stole their only weapon – for attempted murder to gain a juicier brig sentence against this shitfit-thrower. I go to the armory, get an energy gun and set it to disable. Neon, at this point, is having an absolute mental breakdown, bleating over comms like a kid who just discovered all caps about how he’s going to arrest me. I find Neon and disable him and cuff him. I take my gun back and find two pairs of ziptie cuffs in his bag – looks like he was going to make good on that threat if he had managed to robust me.
I take him to the brig, and it’s still empty of any sec officers who can handle the situation, so i take my gun back and let Neon go. I abandon my framing plot. He’s still having an emotional breakdown over comms and this point and it’s getting grating. I talk shit back to him and tell him that he sounds like a 14-year-old boy. I get bwoinked.
From the get-go it seems like RukoFamicon was this guy’s metafriend. The way he frames the events, and how he applies rules in a biased manner makes that pretty easy to believe. But he tells me to put the weapons back in the armory, and I do, because I have my revolver back.
The bwoinks continue. RukoFamicon is trying to litigate me returning shit-talk to the tantruming teenager, and the admin actually goes so far as invert the reality of what happened and accuse me of starting the shit-talk to Neon, and portraying Neon’s comms meltdown as something that was merely defensive (???). This administrator seems like they are is having an emotional episode of their own, and clearly took the side of what seems to be his metafriend. The bwoinks came in faster than I could respond to them and also play the game, indicating that he had a personal emotional investment in this minor IC issue.
Still trying to be absolutely compliant and fix my mistakes, I try to defuse the situation in comms by asking to make amends with him for the good of the security department. I find that I am muted IC. Not sure that failed messages show up in logs, but I tried honestly and repeatedly – I put the beef aside and really just wanted to end this nonsense and continue productively with the round. I explain this to RukoFamicon, and they get angrier and their bias spills through more. They want to ban me now. This bizarrely overtuned ban is given without discussion; my adminhelp is turned off.
I will again point to this Admin Policy:
Server bans are to be given out when a player has shown to be non-compliant with our rules or is activity malicious towards the server, the staff, or other players.
I was absolutely compliant every step of the way.
Bottom line? RukoFamicon needs to be censured for his angry, vindictive, and emotionally unhinged response to pretty minor RP violations. I followed his requests every step of the way and even. I’d advise other admins to give him a few days to cool off.
