Hi feels. Hi ARK.
I'm going to be responding to this thread as if I were addressing ARK. I will attempt a self-contained response. Some links may be inacessible without proper forum permissions but are kept here for the sake of organization.
Regarding your attempt to contact the CMs, Tanknut, Cindy and Skylion all report not having received anything from you in that regard.
May 17th
You were originally banned from the server for metagame after your character, K. D. Kuskova, fled to the city and barricaded herself in an apartment through a series of circumstances that felt very suspicious to staff. As is customary, the staff's policy is to use bans as a means to initiate dialogue in the subsequent
unban request thread. Ban reductions, if not outright ban lifts, are common, provided the dialogue is productive. Unfortunately, this was not the case. As was told to you at the time, you had a combative tone, claimed victimhood over every scenario, believed that staff was out to get you, and then told them to "fuck off", calling one of them "very smug".
You claimed to be indignant from the treatment you received and used this as justification for the manner in which you behaved in that thread. You also perpetuated this belief that admins were "out to get you". We do not understand where this patently false belief comes from, especially since:
- You were allowed to pursue all kinds of rogue behavior with your UNSS agent in direct contradiction to the SCL and faction lead, under the claim that you were the only one keeping the faction alive
- You've had the privilege of having your character un-PKed in early February after she had miscalculated and willingly walked into a trap.
- Admins workshopped with you on your authorization thread regarding BMD group supply lines despite a critical aspect of it had gone awry (the courier letters being intercepted). This authorization request ended up being approved anyway.
- Your character was deliberately not acted against for the longest time despite having been identified as a liability to the FSB. This came as a result of a precedent we were building up to give everyone's characters a chance to see through to the end of the server. After weeks and weeks of delay, by the time the FSB finally began to do something it was in the most harmless way possible (a smear campaign), precisely to telegraph to you, the roleplayer, that things were moving into serious territory (in reality, they had been for a long time now).
Courtesies were extended to you as a roleplayer and to the story you were writing with your character. In return, we received friction and hostility. Sadly, this behavior did not limit itself to the unban thread. In truth, for months you'd occasionally show pointless hostility and unnecessarily charged commentary. Although not bannable in of itself, it is symptomatic of a greater issue. Given the persistently combative behavior, the team came to the conclusion that you did not demonstrate the ability to reflect upon your actions and so the ban stuck.
May 27th
You added a post to your
BOHEMIAN CITIZENS' SOCIETY thread. In this post (since deleted and voided by us), you called for mobilization against the People's Transitionary Government. This is dubious territory, given that a natural consequence of being banned is the inability to influence the IC events taking place in the server, yet here you were with a major declaration that would escalate things to a new level. But what was really egregious was the activities that the front would supposedly begin to partake in.
Production of Gen-4 post-humans funded by anonymous off-screen sponsors? Assaults on teleportation-related facilities and collecting portal data for guerilla operations? Not only were you circumventing the ban by trying to influence the roleplay in the server through the forums, you were doing so in a majorly disruptive manner without having even attempted to procure authorizations. I think it's pretty obvious why the team had an immediate problem with this.
Only after the post had been deleted did you seek to
procure auths. In here you stated that the post detailed the group's purported activities and was not a statement of their resources, although that's not how I'd interpret the first bulletin point. You also said you were "flavor-posting" to add diversity to the evolving off-screen story. Not that this is a crime, but surely you can understand that part of the team's job is to curate the setting at large, otherwise what prevents people from coming up with all sorts of fantasies? Also,
You claimed to have no intention to have any character killed in the epilogue, but this is simply far too charged for anyone to believe otherwise, especially given the number of active players contained in this faction. In fact, we know for a fact that shortly after this Imp's character Natalia Sorrentino (Prime Minister of the PTG) was shot by sniper in an attempt to assassinate Katerina Karbysheva, one of the names listed here. Despite the IC misindentification, Imp, being a good sport, took the single /gme of the sniper and debated self-PKing despite it being contrary to his wishes. Ultimately he chose not to, but the consequences were still severe. Not only was the character barred from participating in the server finale literally an hour before it was set to begin, but the character also underwent extreme bodily modification to survive. Quite a heavy burden for a roleplayer to unexpectedly carry at the very last minute. I for one am not convinced that these things aren't related.
Do you see the disparity here? The disparity between the admins and the members of the FSB/PTG constantly giving and giving, while you continue to insist on admin persecution, on retorting with combative attitudes, and on demanding that your character triumphs even after you have been barred from influencing the server further.
For this reason I must ask, rhetorically so, if your confusion over the ban comes from a place of honest desire to cooperate or does it come from a place of argumentation? Are you going to read this response with the eyes of someone who understands they've done wrong and genuinely wishes to make ammends or are you going to nitpick things apart in search for reasons to play the victim? I for one would hope the former, because you are a good roleplayer and I believe you are capable of contributing the community, but not in the manner that you have been conducting yourself.