What's with the greytide lately?

[BaneOfGiygas]

Can we just incorporate it IC? I tried a bit today. Got arrested, told the HoS a beautiful story about my father's love, then when he released me I stungloved him, called him a nerd, yelled F the Police and declared that I had caught greytidefluenza in the hallway. He wrote a prescription and treated me with buckshot the face then I praised him as a hero.

Anyway that was all quite silly but I think an IC solution such as the HoS's brilliant idea that it's a disease that can only be cured with buckshot (or double amputation or something else awful) is more fun and creates some pretty immediate consequences.

I don't see this as a reasonable excuse to mess with security at all. In fact this is exactly the kind of thing admins said needs to stop in the Security crackdown thread.

No, I don't think this fellow was "messing with security". I'd say that this is the level of permissible shenanigans that make security fun and entertaining...but, of course, this is just personal opinion, and admin opinion might vary. I also was not in this round, so I can't accurately speak to the intention, here.

It's shit like setting up a chair behind the bush outside of sec and repeatedly chairflipping into anyone who passes in and out (which is unbelievably goddamn annoying) or stealing stun batons/tasers and other sec gear for no discernible reason or deliberately interfering with attempted arrests or otherwise doing other things with the explicit purpose of giving security the hardest time possible that needs to stop. This guy was just poking fun with the HoS with no real intention of doing them any substantial harm. It seems like the sitcom nemesis clause in the rules on griefing, really.

In any case, the security team doesn't and shouldn't need an IC reason to take administrative action against crew members who are being shitheads because...well, they're security. Dealing with people who are being shitheads or are otherwise a threat to the station's overall well-being is their JOB. Making up something like the above is just the HoS putting their own, mildly humorous spin on it, and while that's all fine and good, it's not really necessary. Just crack down on those motherfuckers. You're the law, so don't be afraid to dish out some justice when justice is needed.