Character Name: Jimbo Beede in this round. The others I use are in my signature, and I've played MP with Judea Bynes and Ellen Rahal before.
Type Of Ban (Job-ban, Timed Ban, Permaban): Job-ban from MP and CMP.
Admin who banned you (if known): Adralimas on solarmare's suggestion after solarmare's investigation
Total Ban Duration: Perma
Remaining Duration: Perma
What other servers do you play on? /vg/station until permabanned
Are you now or have you been banned on any of them? yes, perma from /vg/
Reason for ban (If you have a Permaban, it should be the EXACT MESSAGE YOU GET WHEN YOU LOGIN with the Error code that looks like this: X##XXX##. If you do not provide this EXACTLY you can't be unbanned): To my knowledge, solarmare informed me that the primary reason was as a breach of the roleplay guidelines for MPs.
Link to previous appeals for the same ban (if applicable): N/A
Your appeal, including evidence (screenshots, etc):
OOC Background:
This was my first round playing Jimbo Beede as an MP. Beede is a hardworking, but dumb oaf of an MP. I created him to balance out my CMP character, the more sensible, older Judea Bynes. I also played a bunch of MP as Ellen Rahal before. Since this was my first round trying to set a new character, there's a few rough edges around how they act that I was hoping to work through.
Events of the round:
Around 25 minutes into the round after doing some decent amount of peacekeeping such as arresting an officer on improper uniform and making engineers unhack their vendors, Beede comes across a young-looking doctor Kailey Brooks in the hangar dressed in a nurse suit and hat and (unironically) refers to them as a sex synth off their sultry appearance. The observing WO, Reece Begum, informs him of his mistake and tells him to make an apology to the doctor.
Ten minutes later Beede delivers this to Brooks.
The apology is not received well.
There's also an alien loose so Beede goes and protects the CIC, then goes to engineering to help his fallen WO get to medbay. Beede, a romantically immature fellow, does not give up on his newfound love interest despite her blatant rejection of him and goes to the CL's office and asks the CL to provide him Brooks' employment records as a favor. Then he goes to the security records and matches them with the employment records and writes a very heartfelt letter to doctor Brooks.
Five minutes later, after the WO has had a chance to read Beede's letter (with Beede not having otherwise done anything):
Two minutes later, Beede escapes an imminent and unjust execution:
A few minutes and near misses from a Mateba later:
Then Beede goes planetside to evade certain death:
Once Beede was planetside, dressed as a marine to stay camouflaged (but wearing his original ID), he set about working with Jet "Fusrodah" Auburn (who has joined in aiding and abetting the fugitive Beede) to find some way to stay alive on the planet without being near the marine force. Notably at one point WO Begum goes down and hunts down the pair, half-mistakenly firing on the abettor Jet instead of Beede, and Jet fires back multiple times with his slug shotgun. Beede de-escalates the situation by tasing his warrant officer, cuffing him, dragging him to nexus near marines, prodding him to prevent a chase and then running away. The whole time Beede was planetside, he bounced his character off the sketchier Jet as a just MP set afoul by unjust circumstances.
Unfortunately, MPs were not the only ones hunting the fugitive pair.
Why I should be unbanned:
From what I gleaned off some discourse with the banning moderator solarmare over adminhelp, the primary breach of RP here was in being un-MPlike in:
- accusing the doctor of being a sex synth even though my secHUD would state otherwise
- abusing security records to personally sexually harass a doctor.
- anything else solarmare might state, can't read their mind
If this was a highPR server I'd argue this might have been the correct judgement and ban to make, but the roleplay guidelines state "Colonial Marines is a medium roleplay server with higher/more roleplay being greatly encouraged. "Medium" is loosely defined as being strict but not too strict. In other words, you should consider your character to be a separate entity from you as a player."
I don't believe, going by the rules and roleplay guidelines, that you HAVE to always be a super serious honor guard never disobeys marine law MP - and I do roleplay that a lot as Judea Bynes and someitmes Ellen Rahal. Beede was a "competent" and "true" MP: he repeatedly identified and acted on breaches of law and procedure, defended the CIC in red alert, then defended his warrant officer when he fell - including when the warrant officer was trying to kill him.
Marine law wise, abusing security records and making overt non-physical romantic advances to a subordinate might've been the crime of hooliganism/disorderly conduct/neglect of duty, but definitely not sexual assault. Unless calling someone a sex synth/beautiful and inviting them to consensually have coffee/"Physical Status: Active" is sexual assault. Not saying this shouldn't have IC repercussions - which it did - this just isn't something egregious like unlawfully executing someone that would warrant staff attention, and especially since it was for the believable RP reason of being lovestruck.
Overall I think I roleplayed to the written and implied standards of this server and would like to be unbanned for that reason.
