Empire

There is a problem going on with people telling lies & getting away with it to affect other players. The situation has been spoken to Raccoon who i think gets some of the situation, but this is more to the other moderators(Or really one of them)

For the last week or so i've been lied about almost constantly both icly and oocly about how great an effect i have icly. I was blamed for 3-4 ranks quitting this wipe, One of which i hadn't interacted with since year 15, and the others i only had one interaction with (If that.)

To skip a lot of IC related things, i was told things icly by rank(s) who had been inactive in their role, or RPing very 'dark' characters, darker than their alignment should allow. I reacted based on the RP and was attempting to fix the problem in the vacuum of power.

While trying to chase something down, one of the other ranks Ahelps about something i rped, telling me it was a 'general knowledge' problem. He didn't get into detail about it, i was confused, but i moved on with my day. The next day he informs me that Moderator 3 told me i cannot RP a certain way. Something i chased up in AHC to no reply from #3 and had to Discuss with #2. #2 agreed that it was a silly thing to AHC over and wasn't at all necessary to be called upon, and the classic rule was brought up. __IC is IC__ So i take my screenshot, and move on with my day.

Meanwhile the character who reported me gets more aggressive icly, name calling, making death threats, again, something he shouldn't be doing with his rank OR karma. While i am busy i receive a paragraph long message from #3 informing me he had gotten 'several reports' from other players, telling me i had been 'pushing my backstory' onto others to 'get my way', was RPing something he didn't want to allow, I was also told to RP to information that ISN'T correct before ending with a threat telling me "**You'll be removed** and no i am not allowed to 'negotiate', or at all talk about it to prove my innocence". Outside of the IC stuff, i had no idea what the moderator was talking about.

I attempted to protest this as i hadn't done anything wrong and i felt that the moderator was listening to his friends on this story, rather than trying to get the other side of it to hear what is going on. I don't know that for a fact, but it is how i feel. I feel it is **Wrong** morally and objectively for a moderator to be targeting a player like this, and ontop of that, not allowing me to provide evidence to prove such a story wrong. In his eyes, it is guilty until proven innocent.

Now i had to discuss this story with Raccoon, who felt it was a load of shit, and he said that he would be chasing up any reports like it in the future as they shouldn't be reported. However the day after i felt the damage was done, I felt the other ranks knew they would be unsuccessful with removing me icly, so they stuck to removing me through this level of griefing, and unfortunately it worked. I was targeted by a moderator without an apology.

Yesterday i decided to step down from my rank, as i didn't feel 'safe', as even if i were following the rules, i'd be reported for something and likely be banned for **Rping**. As i was leaving i was yet again icly blamed for another rank quitting, a rank i literally had only spoken to Once this wipe, and that was to confirm a bullshit story that was being pushed icly. They weren't threatened, 'pressured' or anything, and i was still blamed for them leaving.

I know Raccoon understands this story, but this is a story i think should be complained about for the moderators at least to see, as i would like them to see the damage done and be better for it. Rather than pretending they didn't do anything at all.