I want to go over the incident that happened yesterday, and I also am appealing my formal warning. It might sound dumb, but what I was formally warned for has, at least so far, never been against the rules.
Yesterday, I played a round as CE, and at a certain point in the round, the lawyer asked me to meet him in a maintenance hallway. He then attempted to shoot me with a gyrojet pistol. He knocked himself down, I stunned him, and cuffed him, and dragged him to sec. On the way there, I called into the radio several times for a sec officer to meet me at the brig. I also found an e-mag on him, which I described over the radio as a hacked ID card.
When I got there, I put him in a cell and stripped him down, and again, called for sec several times. Eventually a passing sec officer put 1 minute on the timer and walked away without even listening to what happened.
At this point the lawyer started mocking me, saying nobody cared that he had tried to kill me, and it was clear he was just going to walk free, I figured since he had gone out of his way to try to kill me once, he'd probably do it again. At this point, the only way for me to be safe, and not murdered, was to take matters into my own hands. So I dragged him out of sec, shoved him in a locker, and tossed him into the singularity.
EDIT: To clarify, when I tossed him into the singulo, there were 5 minutes left on the shuttle countdown. So the round was almost over anyway
At that point I was contacted by an admin, informed I was not allowed to kill as a non-antag under any circumstances (Even though the rules right at the beginning clearly state self defensive killing is allowed). I was then given a formal warning, meaning if I am warned again I will be banned.
I say it was still self defense because I had no way to secure this guy, and there were mad vending machines running around, so there was no guarantee I could keep him from getting away, and coming back for me. Since I didn't want to get murdered, I did what seemed like the only way to guarantee my own safety.
I made every attempt to do this the right way, and due to an insane situation with the vending machines, on top of a HoP and sec team who were useless, I had to take extreme measures to keep him from coming back and killing me.
Now, I've been killed as an antag by non-captains after failed murder attempts, and lesser offenses, many, many times, and I figured, hey, that's how it goes. Just on sunday, after failing to kill someone who I had a murder objective for, I was beaten to death and spaced by the clown. There were plenty of admins on then, but nobody said a word about it. (and I did mention it in OOC, saying I definitely deserved it after setting the clown on fire).
So do all the admins agree that I broke the rules here? Is it really against the rules to kill someone in situation where I legitimately feared for my own life, from someone who had clearly shown they were out to kill me?
If not, I want my warning repealed, because if some other sore loser goes and adminhelps after they try and fail to kill me, I don't want to automatically look like the bad guy because I have a warning on my record. Either way, I really want some consistency here. Some admins say antags can't kill if they don't have a specific objective, other admin say if someone kills Ian or reads WGW, they can be killed by anyone.