+1.
This specific group of people followed us around for probably 30 minutes with absolutely no intent to roleplay. I won't play holy -- we certainly egged them on in the beginning by visiting what we thought was still the bank, but once I saw it wasn't the bank anymore we left. Words were exchanged but nothing on our end compared to the harassment that followed that in no way could be considered roleplay in any form. Everything we did stayed in roleplay and I took no issue with the original dispute between both ourselves and the other group. We apologized to the police for things getting out of hand, the police responded calling us minges and then disappeared in front of us to get two of us pked, still not a major issue.
I understand that when the NOI comes back and shakes things up, this kind of response is to be expected. I understand staff think we're minges or '42 larpers' (yet are ironically not the ones spamming racial slurs in IC chat)I take no particular issue with following us around spamming said slurs, calling the police on us any time we tried to isolate ourselves from said harassment, and ultimately following us into the crackhouse, weapons drawn, in white shirts to try and initiate a gunfight, and then it ultimately ending in a gunfight once our constant warnings to stop following us for 30 minutes and pistol whipping some of our people and running away are ignored. All of this would be fine and dismissed as them 'trolling' us after it could be argued we were just as responsible for starting the confrontation, but it definitely isn't appropriate to then play the victim and get one of us banned (of all people, Cordelier, who for the entire time we were on tonight was actively trying to prevent any confrontation, violence, or anything considered rulebreaking) after borderline minging and following us around for half an hour. Despite the hit-and-run pistol-whipping and punchwhoring, verbal and text spamming which was absolutely not roleplay while following us while we attempted to continue roleplaying, and much more, we only finally resorted to shooting once all of these prior warnings were absolutely disregarded and they continued to follow us, guns drawn, clothes unequipped, and rushing us. This is not roleplay and it is perfectly reasonable to finally shoot the people who have been warned/threatened a multitude of times for the past 30 minutes to stop following us and attacking some of us to the point of almost dying.
Responding to that behavior, regardless of any prior offenses, absolutely does not constitute a 3 day ban. I'm positive many staff members were watching the situation unfold so I find it strange that unless it was out of dislike for us, responding to that kind of long-term aggression would have gotten of all people Cordelier banned, someone who can't even be framed as someone who just recently joined the server and has no intend to take it seriously. I can't imagine such a rash ban would have been given to any other group -- if we were killed after such a long joyride of harassment we would have been disregarded as minges who deserved to be killed. Engaging in such a long term conflict with a group of people, harassing them (even spamming the n-word in the sit), hitting them, and then finally switching out of your clothing and rushing them with weapons cannot be taken in any kind of way other than a continuation of the aggression that had been going on for such a long period of time.
