The Clown Paradigm

[Zafhset]

During my very first stint as a Clown, I signed on as Nickeldaft the Singing Clown. I belted out a jaunty, light-hearted tune, and almost immediately, someone called for a vote to have me killed. I heard at least three "aye"s and not a single vote of dissent. Now, whether or not this was in jest was debatable, but before I so much as threw a pie, I had a crewman talking about how I had a "brain tumor" and had to be "operated on". (Read: Beat to death with surgical tools.) After fleeing my attacker into medbay and coming back out, I was almost immediately mugged by a passing monkey, had my mask taken, and was eventually beaten to death. And I'm pretty sure that neither of my two attackers were antagonists.

I spent more of my shift as a Clown running from people who inexplicably wanted me dead than actually doing my job.

If those guys weren't antags of any sort, I'm fairly certain you could've adminhelped to get it looked at.

From a mentor's perspective, there have been a couple of times where people inquire about killing/harming clowns as a non-antag, which I think might stem from a confusion that cluwnes = clowns (with the former being free game and the latter not).

I generally think it's better to just leave cluwnes alone though (unless it's admin'd cluwnes).