PrimnyaQuorum 1039 Share Posted December 15, 2022 Player(s) Involved almightysaucer Explanation Rules Broken - Powergaming | Peq Abuse During a roleplay, almightysaucer, acting as a member of the Story Team, repeatedly Powergamed and abused his permissions during the roleplay. The roleplay started with almightysaucer's character approaching my character in the square. almightysaucer proceeded to do a series of emotes and dialogue, of which ended a powergame emote of picking up and placing my character on his character's shoulder before I had written a single emote. almightysaucer had not requested permission to preform such a emote prior. This can be found in chat logs on December 14tth, in between 7:15 and 7:22 PM EST. During this, I politely requested that due to my new nature to the server that almightysaucer slow down his emote pace, to which he acknowledged almightysaucer then proceeded to do a [!] emote, announcing to the square his character was in the square harnessing my character, in contrast to his prior, powergaming emote of his character playing my character on his shoulder. After this, I was able to do my first emote, from which the place shifted from the square to Lorraine 2 and 3. While there, almightysaucers initiated Roll Combat after my character refused to unlock the door from his character. almightysaucer proceeded to roll a Nat 1, with his character ending up hitting his own knee with his own club. Immediately following this, almightysaucers character proceeded to, with a now injured knee, run through a wooden and metal door, in itself a powergamed emote (and regardless, mechanically impossible action). In addition, almightysaucer used his peq permissions to teleport himself, in which he began to run around inside the house, opening various chests and barrels. When pressed about this series of actions OOC-ly, almightysaucer dismissed the issue at first, stating the doorway was now open. After more pressing, and more going into various chests and barrels, almightysaucer then re-emoted his character running into the metal door as if his character had never run through the doors in the first place - At no point was the word "void" mentioned during this exchange OOC by any involved player or almightysaucer. I continued to request clarification on the issue, to which almightysaucer proceeded to then powergame his character knocking Haus back, without doing Roll Combat as he had done prior. When I and another player continued to press for clarification, and now a pause to request mod help, almightysaucer told the other players in the environment to ignore our requests, and proceeded with the roleplay. Throughout the situation, almightysaucer gave almost no attention to our requests for clarification. Relevant Material Evidence In Chronological Order https://i.imgur.com/iIiHZxL.png https://i.imgur.com/hQPYSsH.png https://i.imgur.com/0RK19Ym.png https://i.imgur.com/v8RRE1i.png https://i.imgur.com/hdXWXSv.png https://i.imgur.com/hdXWXSv.png https://i.imgur.com/wCPefFc.png https://i.imgur.com/bu5H6lN.png https://i.imgur.com/Bom3Zl7.png https://i.imgur.com/4wUeyy2.png https://i.imgur.com/eihSgFo.png https://i.imgur.com/0uP31K2.png https://i.imgur.com/v89gzlo.png https://i.imgur.com/61aKM0G.png https://i.imgur.com/Bxs5Ooc.png https://i.imgur.com/1gtAXTb.png https://i.imgur.com/6GfVlAk.png https://i.imgur.com/ny9yRws.png https://i.imgur.com/YwVHo3G.png https://i.imgur.com/MjYjQyJ.png 265, 88, -2328 12/14/22 Evidence of uncooperative conduct. Evidence During the Incident, almightysaucer outright refused to attempt to resolve the concerns I had during the roleplay - he did not allow me adequate time to emote back to his emotes, nor reply to his characters statements. In addition, he outright said during the roleplay OOC-ly to ignore myself and Bethinwonderland, while we were raising concerns regarding how the roleplay was going in terms of rule violations. After the roleplay, I messaged almightysaucer in-game to attempt to resolve the issue, to which we agreed to move to discord. While on discord, almightysaucer spent most of the DM attempting to deflect the issue, instead of providing clarification. In the instance where he did provide clarification, it is insufficient - in example, rules regarding power gaming makes no mention of exceptions to rules on powergaming based on the age of the characters involved. In all, While I attempted to seek a way to resolve the issue along with others during and after the roleplay, almightysaucer dismissed all these attempts, including telling other players to ignore these attempts, while also attempting to dismiss the issue at any possible opportunity for a multitude of possible reasons. Evidence of all attempts I have made and the communications I had- https://i.imgur.com/qMgc8tq.png https://i.imgur.com/woJdiSx.png https://i.imgur.com/mRf8hbe.png Before posting on this thread, please review the Report Rules. 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
excited 10833 Share Posted December 15, 2022 Claimed. Will be handled late Friday night to Saturday morning. Will give time for the reported party to respond, and then also speak to ST Management. 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
excited 10833 Share Posted December 20, 2022 I have consulted the evidence presented and found that Almightysaucer violated no tangible LoTC Combat Rules or extended policies we have documented on the forums. As a Story Team member, he has far more leeway with the policies dictated within the bounds of his event. Whether or not the event was a good event remains up to the public perception of those who participated in the role-play, and in the case that the event was poorly conducted it falls upon those gathered to do the following: a.) present constructive criticism (without pre-determining a BR), and b.) Report it to the Team Lead (SquakHawk). Furthermore, his use of PEX as demonstrated within the bounds of the screenshots you presented is appropriate given that he was making an event. That being said, if you have quarrels about his personal conduct, you may reach out to his Team Lead SquakHawk, or to his manager BobBox. Going forward, I understand you are new to LoTC; but in cases like these where the event has a clear and demonstrable end, and the other person in this case (Almightysaucer) was visibly attempting to act in good faith, it goes against our Community Guidelines to contact him under the pretense that if he does not appease you, you will file the report. No bans or warnings shall be issued, and the case shall be passed up to ST Management and the Administrator @squakhawkto determine whether or not the PEX use, event conditions... Etc, were in line with Story Team Policy. Happy Holidays! 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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