Character name: Axle Brady
Ban type: Note
Note reason:
Time ban was placed: 2022-01-31 0:33:55
Server you were playing on when banned: Sybil
Round ID in which ban was placed: 177579
Your side of the story: I recorded this round so I'll just post the entire conflict, beginning to end. It will likely be much faster to show a 7 minute clip than dig through logs to give a play-by-play. I'll be referring to the events in this clip going forward in the appeal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGb0VIfJfVY
Why you think the note should be removed: First of all, regardless of how this appeal goes, the note is inaccurate. It claims I crit "them" (i.e., the engineers) in return. I only crit a single engineer in return - the one who began harming me and beat me into crit. I specifically avoided harming the CE because he brought me to medbay after the other engineer crit me. It also states I looted "their" items. Again, I only looted the toolbelt and insuls of the engineer that crit me, and only because mine were removed after I was crit. Finally, this note leaves out a very crucial part of the conflict - it ended with me being thrown into the SM and round-removed.
I was not killed after the first fight, I was hit to crit. I was only killed after I came back with the stunbaton. According to the new escalation rules, he should have brought me to medbay after killing me, but instead he chucked me into the SM. I would at least like the note updated to be accurate with what happened, and include the full conflict since right now it reads as if I simply crit all the engis, looted them, and walked away scot-free.If a conflict leads to violence and either participant is killed, the living participant is expected to make an effort to revive the other, unless they have reason to believe the other was an antagonist.
I would also like to appeal the note itself. This was not improper escalation. Let's map it out: I was the instigator, since I flashed the engineer, Harvey, to begin the conflict. My reason for doing this was that he had completely walled off all of engineering, and I wanted him to unlock a locker. In response he threatens to open a plasma canister in the middle of engineering. I drag it away. I'm then engaged by a janitor, who along with Harvey, beats me into crit and I am looted. You will see in the clip that I did not harm Harvey a single time until he had punched me into nearly softcrit. At this point I hit him a total of one (1) time with a toolbox, then collapsed into crit.
I flashed him a few times, and in response I was beaten into crit. Leaving aside whether that already isn't proper escalation, I am allowed to respond in kind, as the instigator. So I crit him in return. However, instead of bringing me to medbay after killing me, he decided to dust me. If anything, that was improper escalation, not my justified retaliation.If you are wronged, you are expected to handle the conflict non-lethally whenever possible, escalating in severity as the conflict continues. As the defending party the rate of escalation increases with you, up to and including violence, while the instigator is always able to respond in kind.
I didn't include this in the clip to avoid it being extremely long, but I actually did ask Harvey nicely to open engineering before entering. In response he reinforced the doors and built an entire shield wall generator, shiftstart, in front of engi's main entrance to prevent anyone from entering. If you break into a department to take supplies because they have effectively sealed themselves entirely off, and you are crit as a result, how is it right that you are not allowed to retaliate?
Even after he began pummeling me to death I did not engage him lethally whatsoever aside from a single toolbox hit. I only engaged him after I was beaten to crit, at which point I felt I at least had the right to crit him in return and grab my things that were stolen. For this I was killed and thrown into the SM, and then bwoinked and noted.