Flaming Engitopia

Byond Account: VonHattenburg
Character Name(s): Einarr M. Gunnarsson
Discord Name (ie: Name#1234): AllfatherHatt#3333
Round ID of Ban: 20979

Ban Message (Gyazo/imgur or copy and paste): "Joined an engitopia gimmick and tried to kill sec with a flamethrower after bunkering engi, arguing you didn’t know tthey were traitors or not.

State your appeal:

I will start by saying that it is true I used a flamethrower, I did fire it at the HOS and I did punch him. My appeal is about all the things that happened prior to this. I didn’t do any of it because I just felt like throwing fire everywhere or “kill sec” - far from it.

It is further true that Engineering had been fortified, but not by my doing, with my approval yes because I thought a bunker engineering department sounded cool - not as a way to pick a fight with anyone. That round I had setup solars, I had helped Botany grow pancakes, I had good drinks and social conversation with the Detective and I fixed several pipe breaches.

So why did I fire the flamethrower? Because I came back to engineering and was immediately shot at for no reason, a mech barged through the doors and fired live ballistic ammo at me, then when I retreated into Engineering, a sec officer opened disabler-fire at me which was then shortly followed by lethal laser fire - And its only Then that they ask us to surrender - in my confusion I go “Surrender? What?” (you can see this in the logs) having No idea whats going on, and then I’m shot at again and I try to retreat and at all times I am not trying to fight anybody.

So then HOS comes into the room and starts shooting at CE, me and everyone else…So I just want to ask you: What am I supposed to do? I genuinely don’t understand why I wasn’t after all that within some right to try to defend myself…Please help me understand.

Oh and to the question of “Why did you have a flamethrower?” - We had a rat infestation that round and I made one to deal with it, but never got to use it, so I actually forgot I had it until the fighting started.

That is my appeal to you.

EDIT: For what its worth I never wanted anyone to fight and I was only hoping to have an innocent laugh before round-end.

Whatever happened prior to this isn’t relevant since under pretty much any circumstance this is bannable, and you shouldn’t have let the engie bunker go this far in the first place. This is denied.