Complaint LeahTheTech, 3/10/2025

[LeahTheTech]

I framed a person accused of being poisoned while they were being interrogated by the HoS. I think they were actually a changeling, in the end, but I had no way of knowing that-I knew they were being accused of poisoning the captain, so I went for poisoning the HoS in the hallway while they were talking to them.

Okay, good! This is the kind of thing that's hard to tell from logs, especially if you just sting them and don't do anything else, so it would have been a good thing to lead with here. You were still more or less randomly poisoning people for the rest of the round though, which is why I asked you to not do that. Again, you're not banned, you're not indelibly marked, you're just being asked to change how you play slightly.

To a certain degree, hilariously, I feel like I'm being punished on RP for not being at my most robust when I first woke up and not wanting to immediately lose.

Again, you're not being punished.

This plays into some cultural things I've absolutely noticed (which culminated in seeing people actually honest to god say that you should have your fun "then let security win"). If playing into letting security win is your goal, alright; but explicitly rule it out, please.

The point of the RP servers is to generate interesting RP, not to try to "win" or "lose" the round. If you get arrested, exiled or executed as part of that- it's not you "losing" the round, it's just the next part of the story. Some players will deliberately let themselves get arrested in order to gloat at security or just because they think the story would be better if they did. That's entirely up to them though.

It can sometimes feel like escalation requirements are overly harsh on antagonists, but remember that security are also (in theory) playing to generate a good story and so will often in turn be more lenient on antagonists that are making one. They might also do things like wander into an obvious trap or believe someone who is almost certainly lying to them, just because it makes the RP better (I know I do this).