RE: Last Ban
In my experience, Eddard/Michael/Phelan is a manipulative player. We’ve been on multiple games over time.
He can come across friendly and outgoing and generally knows who to push and not. He hides his RP and other RP partners through a variety of shady practices. At the same time telling people alternative stories OOC. He’s even careful how he emits in public, so he can deny what he’s doing and control the situation.
Where it gets more serious, is how he tries to shift the IC relationship to the OOC realm. Relationships are not the problem, but his actions are. He leverages RP to form a relationship under false pretenses and bombards with contact to build a rapport. He then asks for deeply sensitive stuff. If he doesn’t get what he wants, he starts to change and:
- Causes repeated distress
- Makes leading promises
- Uses intimate knowledge to shift blame
- Retreats and returns
- Pushes and breaks boundaries
When confronted about his behavior, he lies to cover it up and makes more promises. When he’s caught; he denies, guilts, deflects, and makes excuses. This pattern of behavior is harmful and can make it harder to report.
The player does this repeatedly, he’s unsafe.
