Mar 18, 2020, 12:54 AM
Your Name: [font=Roboto, sans-serif][L²:RP] oobrie[/font]
Issued by: [font=Roboto, sans-serif][L²:M] D3ST in agreement with [font=Roboto, sans-serif][b][L²:M] Ketchup & [font=Roboto, sans-serif][b][L²] Pinky[/b][/font][/b][/font][/font]
Blacklist ID: 79918
Server: v4b1
Why should you be unblacklisted?:
BACKGROUND
This is a challenge to the Blacklist ID 79918. This blacklist was issued under the grounds "Ordering a hit on a member of the government without dictatorship permission."
This blacklist was issued following a lengthy course of RP involving Brooke (I don't know his forum name), , , , and possibly more.
The RP started with an in-character strike of the Paramedic Services, being ran by the Mercy Hospital Clan. The strike was called by Brooke and was called under the grounds that paramedics were not being properly protected whilst on duty. Brook came to the Nexus on his character Alec Blair and spoke to the President John Hancock (Montyfatcat) and the Vice President Antonia Vedici (Me). Here, the grievances of the paramedic were listened to and RP conducted to reach a resolution. The strike, which had ceased ALL paramedic responses to emergency and non-emergency called, was brought to an end following agreement between the Government and Alec Blair.
The President and Vice President later spoke with Dr. James Jones (Guv) and found that Alec Blair, whilst a member of Mercy Hospital, had no right to call a strike and had destabilised the city with the lack of paramedic availability. In-character, all three characters labelled this as an 'Act of Terror'. Following this meeting, James Jones agreed to take action but John Hancock and Antonia Vedici, seemingly unsatisfied, took matters into their own hands.
A hit was placed onto Alec Blair with two organisations; The Genovese Crime Family via. Joseph Genovese (Dutch), and Weyland Yutani via. Jack Kruger (JudgeRage). After co-ordination from Antonia Vedici between Joseph Genovese and Jack Kruger, Alec Blair ended up at the mercy of the Genovese Crime Family. Under instructions from Antonia Vedici, the crime family stole a pen and medical gloves from Mercy Hospital with Dr James Jones' DNA on it and used these to compromise the weapon which would be used to kill Alec Blair, as well as dousing Alec Blair himself with James Jones' DNA. Alec Blair was killed, and the body kept and refrigerated.
Using this leverage, Antonia Vedici blackmailed James Jones into allowing a Genovese Crime Family Higher Up to enter employment with Mercy Hospital as a Union Boss, with full access to a fat pension pot, as well as the power to call industrial action to pressure politicians.
CASE
I argue that the decision to impose a Blacklist was the incorrect decision under the following grounds:
1. There is no provision in the CityRP2 Rules that prevents a President: dictator, corrupt or clean, from placing a hit on any person.
2. There is no provision in the CityRP2 Rules that stipulates a President must request permission to be corrupt.
3. The hit placed was valid, as Antonia Vedici is an established CityRP character with RP background involvement to the Genovese Crime Family, and an interest to better their position of power in the city [Evidence 1]. The hit was placed with extensive RP background across multiple people, within multiple organisations, with a set, determined goal in mind. Though Brooke had previously disconnected, he confirmed via. private messaging that Alec Blair had the same memories as he did prior to disconnecting, and did not want NLR to apply. [Evidence 2.a, 2.b]
4. A CORRUPT President is not the same as a DICTATOR President
Antonia Vedici has been developed and written as a compromised politician with habit to overspend, and rely on Mafia contacts to deal with work she cannot dispatch the Police to deal with. Her backstory is written to heavily involve her with the Genovese Crime Family in particular.
She is a corrupt politician, and acted fully like one, by calling a hit to further her and the crime family's gain, and doing so in a clandestine, concealed manner to avoid detection by the Police, lest she be arrested under her own laws. This is in full compliance with rule 3.1 "Your character must have a valid, in-character reason for their actions."
Rule 11.3 states: "You may be corrupt, but only if it does not directly endanger the lives of officers or civilians."
No officer or civilian's life was directly endangered by this endeavour. This was a clear-set action taken to use the death of, who could reasonably be described as, a corrupt Union rep impersonator, who called an illicit strike to further their own IC agenda, to benefit a caste of characters. The paramedic who was killed should be considered a criminal, as the acts they took to further their IC gain were criminal. Staff accept the concept that a president may order the hit of another government official, even if not corrupt/criminal, provided they are a dictator. A corrupt politician should be able to do the same. This is a realistic and believable RP. [Evidence 3]
A corrupt president is not a dictator president. The main difference being, a corrupt president may still be arrested by the Police Force if they are in breach of EvoCity laws, which has happened many times in the past. A police force may not revolt against a dictator president or attempt an arrest. There exists no stipulation that a President, or Vice President, must obtain staff permission to act as a corrupt president for their own gain.
A corrupt president must maintain the appearance of abiding by the law to their Citizens, and to their Employees.
A dictator president need not maintain such a facade, as they are above the law they write.
Other players on the server, who have sympathies to other clans, have been known to turn a blind-eye to the assassinations of other players / civilians, even kidnapping and abductions for unethical experiments. This is an example of a Corrupt President that is directly endangering the life of a civilian, though in these cases, it has never went punished. I did not endanger the life of a civilian. I endangered the life of a fraudulent Union representative.
Evidence:
Evidence 1: Character Bio
Evidence 2.a:
Screenshot 1 of 2 Messaging Brooke to confirm no NLR applies.
Evidence 2.b:
Screenshot 2 of 2 Messaging Brooke to confirm no NLR applies.
Evidence 3:
Example of Corrupt Politicians working with Mafia
Other Evidence:
Filtered chat logs from , showing only text chat from D3ST, Ketchup, Dutch and Oobrie
Sources:
CityRP2 Rules
Rule Clarifications Record & Q/A
Issued by: [font=Roboto, sans-serif][L²:M] D3ST in agreement with [font=Roboto, sans-serif][b][L²:M] Ketchup & [font=Roboto, sans-serif][b][L²] Pinky[/b][/font][/b][/font][/font]
Blacklist ID: 79918
Server: v4b1
Why should you be unblacklisted?:
BACKGROUND
This is a challenge to the Blacklist ID 79918. This blacklist was issued under the grounds "Ordering a hit on a member of the government without dictatorship permission."
This blacklist was issued following a lengthy course of RP involving Brooke (I don't know his forum name)
The RP started with an in-character strike of the Paramedic Services, being ran by the Mercy Hospital Clan. The strike was called by Brooke and was called under the grounds that paramedics were not being properly protected whilst on duty. Brook came to the Nexus on his character Alec Blair and spoke to the President John Hancock (Montyfatcat) and the Vice President Antonia Vedici (Me). Here, the grievances of the paramedic were listened to and RP conducted to reach a resolution. The strike, which had ceased ALL paramedic responses to emergency and non-emergency called, was brought to an end following agreement between the Government and Alec Blair.
The President and Vice President later spoke with Dr. James Jones (Guv) and found that Alec Blair, whilst a member of Mercy Hospital, had no right to call a strike and had destabilised the city with the lack of paramedic availability. In-character, all three characters labelled this as an 'Act of Terror'. Following this meeting, James Jones agreed to take action but John Hancock and Antonia Vedici, seemingly unsatisfied, took matters into their own hands.
A hit was placed onto Alec Blair with two organisations; The Genovese Crime Family via. Joseph Genovese (Dutch), and Weyland Yutani via. Jack Kruger (JudgeRage). After co-ordination from Antonia Vedici between Joseph Genovese and Jack Kruger, Alec Blair ended up at the mercy of the Genovese Crime Family. Under instructions from Antonia Vedici, the crime family stole a pen and medical gloves from Mercy Hospital with Dr James Jones' DNA on it and used these to compromise the weapon which would be used to kill Alec Blair, as well as dousing Alec Blair himself with James Jones' DNA. Alec Blair was killed, and the body kept and refrigerated.
Using this leverage, Antonia Vedici blackmailed James Jones into allowing a Genovese Crime Family Higher Up to enter employment with Mercy Hospital as a Union Boss, with full access to a fat pension pot, as well as the power to call industrial action to pressure politicians.
CASE
I argue that the decision to impose a Blacklist was the incorrect decision under the following grounds:
1. There is no provision in the CityRP2 Rules that prevents a President: dictator, corrupt or clean, from placing a hit on any person.
2. There is no provision in the CityRP2 Rules that stipulates a President must request permission to be corrupt.
3. The hit placed was valid, as Antonia Vedici is an established CityRP character with RP background involvement to the Genovese Crime Family, and an interest to better their position of power in the city [Evidence 1]. The hit was placed with extensive RP background across multiple people, within multiple organisations, with a set, determined goal in mind. Though Brooke had previously disconnected, he confirmed via. private messaging that Alec Blair had the same memories as he did prior to disconnecting, and did not want NLR to apply. [Evidence 2.a, 2.b]
4. A CORRUPT President is not the same as a DICTATOR President
Antonia Vedici has been developed and written as a compromised politician with habit to overspend, and rely on Mafia contacts to deal with work she cannot dispatch the Police to deal with. Her backstory is written to heavily involve her with the Genovese Crime Family in particular.
She is a corrupt politician, and acted fully like one, by calling a hit to further her and the crime family's gain, and doing so in a clandestine, concealed manner to avoid detection by the Police, lest she be arrested under her own laws. This is in full compliance with rule 3.1 "Your character must have a valid, in-character reason for their actions."
Rule 11.3 states: "You may be corrupt, but only if it does not directly endanger the lives of officers or civilians."
No officer or civilian's life was directly endangered by this endeavour. This was a clear-set action taken to use the death of, who could reasonably be described as, a corrupt Union rep impersonator, who called an illicit strike to further their own IC agenda, to benefit a caste of characters. The paramedic who was killed should be considered a criminal, as the acts they took to further their IC gain were criminal. Staff accept the concept that a president may order the hit of another government official, even if not corrupt/criminal, provided they are a dictator. A corrupt politician should be able to do the same. This is a realistic and believable RP. [Evidence 3]
A corrupt president is not a dictator president. The main difference being, a corrupt president may still be arrested by the Police Force if they are in breach of EvoCity laws, which has happened many times in the past. A police force may not revolt against a dictator president or attempt an arrest. There exists no stipulation that a President, or Vice President, must obtain staff permission to act as a corrupt president for their own gain.
A corrupt president must maintain the appearance of abiding by the law to their Citizens, and to their Employees.
A dictator president need not maintain such a facade, as they are above the law they write.
Other players on the server, who have sympathies to other clans, have been known to turn a blind-eye to the assassinations of other players / civilians, even kidnapping and abductions for unethical experiments. This is an example of a Corrupt President that is directly endangering the life of a civilian, though in these cases, it has never went punished. I did not endanger the life of a civilian. I endangered the life of a fraudulent Union representative.
Evidence:
Evidence 1: Character Bio
Evidence 2.a:
Evidence 2.b:
Evidence 3:
Other Evidence:
Sources:
CityRP2 Rules
Rule Clarifications Record & Q/A