[Complete] Report (Meteor__Dragon, Orlanth)

[MeteorDragon 2826]

Player(s) Being Reported

Orlanth

 

Rule(s) Broken

Villainy Rules: You must adhere to Roleplay Quality Standards(give and take)

 

Player(s) Involved

Meteor__Dragon, Orlanth

 

Explanation

I was sitting in Petra, about to get off to play a game with some friends when Orlanth(Vyllaenen ran over to me(Cassius), stopping within 1 block of my character and having his sword instantly drawn, not saying a word to my character who was seated at the tavern. You can see such in the first screenshot, the orange being where I was and the red being where he initiated combat from. While not against the rules, unfortunately, I would say this is bad faith. Now, I've had many interactions with Ferrymen in the past, so I don't usually end up enjoying the RP as it's the same thing every time. They show up, they have their weapons drawn, they don't listen to a word you say, then they kill you and tell you to d20.

 

I attempted, albeit a little lazily because I knew what was about to happen, to talk to his character (seen in second screenshot), yet his next emote was just to flip a coin and then emote swinging at my character's head to try and instantly kill him. He didn't even bother responding to my character's question. Keep in mind, there was no /roll for the coin so even if he was rply making a choice to kill my character or not, so it was a false decision to try and play into Roleplay Standards. If he had rolled in #w, I would have been close enough to see it. He had made up his mind that he wanted to kill the character before he even sent that emote.

This situation, like many others dealing with the Ferrymen, held no give and take. On Orlanth's part, it was only take and he gave nothing. My character doesn't develop because of this because he died and thus lost all his memories. I don't get good RP out of it either as the desired outcome on his part was to pop anyone he came across and steal their items. I've never seen anything other than this exact thing happen when it comes to this sort of "Banditry".

I'll also add this on just in case, though I am unsure about it, but an item was dropped by my character as he is a Seer. Seers can make sown objects that affect a non-seer who holds onto one(Orlanth's character not being a seer). In addition to this, there is no mundane way to tell if an item is sown or not besides the description of the item telling you to message the seer it belongs to. Now, Orlanth does have a seer so he most likely knows about the ability to sow things as the OOC description of the item is generally the same/similar across all sown objects. In addition to this, these items will make people fascinated with them, adding to a reason on why someone wouldn't just drop it out of the blue(see screenshot 4). I believe that he metagamed that it was a sown item and then decided to get rid of it so he wouldn't suffer the consequences of having it on him(see screenshot 5).

 

Relevant Material

Evidence

https://imgur.com/a/x38IGQN

 

1255, 62, 296

03/16/24

 

Evidence of uncooperative conduct.

Evidence

I did not attempt to resolve the situation due to the fact that this isn't the first time something like this has happened to myself and others. My attempts at RP were additionally ignored, so attempts at OOC would likely also be met with nothing productive.

 

Desired Result of Report

I request that Orlanth is reprimanded, most likely banned, for this behavior. If possible, I would also like the 6 soulbind tokens I lost refunded.

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[Orlanth 3539]

You did not have to instantly emote dying if you didn't want to. I figured you just wanted out of the situation (which it seemed you did). I've fought against several people in the past couple days, primarily those who had fought against Veletz in the recent war (something which led to a lot of strife for my character). Petra actively involved itself in this war and you were not the only victim of this encounter. Others continued out in CRP and while I'm not sure everyone enjoyed it per say, it was amicable and I didn't find myself having any issues with anyone. 

If you really had an issue I don't know why you didn't
1. Say something
2. Modreq at the time.

I don't believe I've ever had an ooc interaction with you, positive or negative so I'm unsure why you seem to believe why this couldn't be handled normally. I'm sorry you felt this roleplay was particularly lacking, but I hope you can understand that lack of communication doesn't fix anything.


Edit: Apologies regarding the seer item. For one I was focused on the follow up RP and didn't spend too long looking at the items. I passed them off to another player later since I needed inventory space and just recognized him. Please keep in mind I've only had my seer MA for a couple days, and I really do not mind rping consequences with this item. I'll look into getting it back.

[ferdaboy 1593]

Your report is under review. Applicable parties may provide a response before a verdict is given.

 

 

Hey, so after reviewing the logs from in-game, and talking over with other Moderators about it, I have come to my conclusion. Although we do appreciate that you have made use of the report system for something that by all measures is poor faith roleplay, the escalation to a report rather than communicating with Orlanth is something to note. We as the moderation, throughout our many forms and communications with the community encourage players to discuss amongst themselves before making a modreq or report in order to resolve the issue before escalating it to Moderation. It is also important to consider that several Moderators were online at the time of the incident, where a modreq would have prevented this poor roleplay experience.

 

I am by no means dismissing the poor quality roleplay provided by Orlanth in this encounter, but a lack of trying to communicate this to them or moderators prior to this report seems like an unnecessary escalation in my eyes. This said, due to the lack of communication or modreq, while there were moderators online, I will give this report the exact same verdict I would have had I taken the modreq. I will talk to the parties involved and encourage them to take more care in their roleplay and to refamiliarize themselves with our Roleplay Quality Standards and speak with them to encourage that this behaviour does not become a habit. I will also warn them that if this does indeed become a habit, further measures will be taken to ensure it does not happen again, such as infractions and potential bans.