I was Mara during this round (ckey also QuaintSun1, Roentgenium on discord)
From my perspective:
I had made bluespace tomatoes to screw around out of boredom, seeing as nobody wanted custom plants and I had little else to do. I made a lot of them because:
a) I already had the facilities to make them
b) I’d rather have too many than too few and end up dying from teleporting into space
c) I wanted to give bags to people (I did so with Bell or Bela, can’t remember which one - the medic)
Within moments of using them, I end up in the maints below the captain’s room. I get accused of bombing and assume they mean gibotnite, as I found some in maints earlier. I reply that I would not use gibotnite as I could likely just grow my own bombs. Seemingly in reply to this Nickel throws a bomb and mentions something about the bombs looking ‘like this’. After escaping, I then worry that I am being targeted specifically. Sometime later, as we have no command and no security, I acquire a secbelt for self defense.
Later on, Nickel shows up again with a chainsaw, and wants to fight Celine (the scientist ‘captain’.) I throw some bluespace tomatoes at them as a nonlethal revenge to temporarily inconvenience them, for no more than half a minute. Note that I deliberately choose never to use the sec gear.
This appears to lead to Nickel ‘losing the duel’ in the cargo office that they cannot escape, and thus this report for ‘ruining a gimmick’.
My thoughts on this:
a) challenging a target to a duel should not automatically guarantee protection - traitors aren’t entitled to have their plans go as they expected.
b) having your opponent teleport is just as disruptive for the other fighter, so I do not believe that this unfairly posed much of a disadvantage in a melee fight
c) I do not see how a fight to the death in a busy corridor is made any harder for either party by being moved to another room (where there aren’t bystanders, so less collateral damage.) Nickel had ample time to see Celine coming in, so I believe that duel would have been lost in any similar location and thus I did not contribute to the duel being lost.
This feels more like a report being made out of frustration at something not going as planned.
Alleged rule break:
I agree that making significant amounts of bluespace tomatoes on mid or highpop wouldn’t be great, but as previously stated, there was no command and no security. To my knowledge, based on looking at earlier ban appeals and forum posts, players do not gain special privileges on a meta level just for being an ‘acting’ something, especially not when jumping from a non-command, non-security role to captain.
R2.3: * Red or Delta Alert or a direct threat/attack to yourself or your department is justification for arming/preparing yourself
R3.1: Validhunting: ‘[…] deliberately seeking out and/or killing a valid individual’ - I did not seek them out. This happened right outside botany
R3 and R3.2 - both include the word ‘generally’. In general, we have command and sec staff.
