UPDATE and EDIT: Written by ZRAINH20, I couldn't have put it better folks - There were many misunderstandings leading up to this conflict and I did not do a good job laying out my intentions initially. Citylion and I have spoken in private and cleared things up. I am glad cooler heads were able to prevail in the end. Make Augusta Great Again!

To summarize what I am about to say in great detail, Mount Augusta attempted to legally detain Cheekclapper for murdering Scramble0 and Icypenguin79. We were obstructed by his friends.

Tonight was supposed to be a perfectly normal night in Mount Augusta. Our citizens had convened as a jury to hear a dispute between Icios Corporation and John Gotti. Aimuari was presiding. Many of our citizens had convened at Jovaz's makeshit courtroom. I began taking photos of this historic convention.

But then I noticed something strange in the voice chat. And then, I witnessed Cheeckclapper attack and then murder Scramble0.

At this point I had sprung into action to defend my good friend Scramble0. I attempted to detain cheekclapper for the murder of Scramble0, and Icypenguin79 joined to aid me. Icypenguin79 was murdered and pearled, and cheekclapper held his pearl.

I was held up in my bunker and cheekclapper told me that he was going to kill me. He then began to break down the door. I told a friend what was happening. Cheekclapper then went to hide in his bunker. It is important to note that at this time Icypenguin79 was still pearled.

At this time many of our friends including Varathians showed up to help enforce the laws of Mount Augusta and arrest Cheekclapper under "reasonable suspicion" of committing murders (Under The Criminal Code Of Mount Augusta 700.01 Criminally Exempt Actions - Defensive Action). Cheekclapper met the definition of being reasonably suspected of committing a crime because there were many witnesses (As you can see in the above imgur albums). I was one of them.

It was established that Cheekclapper was reasonably suspected of committing a crime. I'm going to talk about this specifically further in the post.

Cheekclapper refused to follow our laws. We started breaking into the fortification he was using, because we wanted to free Icypenguin, and detain Cheeckclapper for his murders.

Many of us gathered to enforce the laws, and Cheekclapper logged off in his fortification. We decided that we had to log box him in order to prevent him from escaping from the law And/Or committing further crimes. We began to secure the property as the Criminal Code of Mount Augusta allowed. As far as we are concerned, this was an attack on Mount Augusta.

I don't know what other legal systems do, but if you commit a crime in Mount Augusta - and especially when many people witness it - our laws allow us Augustans to secure whatever property you are hiding in. This exists in our Criminal Code because it allows us to prevent an escape, and prevent further damage. I've established that there was reasonable suspicion, and I will come back to this point. When someone is 'reasonably suspected' of committing a crime, as Cheeckclapper was, The Provision 700.01 in our Criminal Code directly allows us to engage in "Defensive Action". Take a look here

Defensive Action allowed us as citizens and officers of the law, perform "Criminally exempt actions" (The title of the section) Defensive Action allows "Entering the property", "Breaking through barriers made of any blocks to reach enclosed spaces or areas", "Denying access to areas by breaking or blocking access routes", "v. Blocking access to item containers (chests, dispensers, trapped chests, furnaces, droppers, etc.) with reinforced blocks", "viii. Building a secure pathway to and/or within the property", and it also allows "iv. Detaining individuals actively trying to prevent any of the above from taking place"

ZRAINH20 showed up and said that he was empowered to prevent us from apprehending Cheekclapper. He said that what we were doing was not legal. As I have established, our entering the property to create a log box was in fact legal. ZRAINH20 was mistaken. However, he refused to listen to us, directly impeded the creation of a log box by officers of the law, and implied that he was ready to murder us. We decided that we could not allow cheekclapper to escape, and we decided to attempt to detain ZRAINH20 as 700.01 defensive action allows "iv. Detaining individuals actively trying to prevent any of the above from taking place"

At this time fighting broke out all over the city. More people showed up, and eventually Mount Augusta's militia decided to exit to Varathia.

ZRAINH20 began arguing all sorts of things in the Mount Augusta #settlers chat. https://imgur.com/a/BpthMg4 He said that he was allowed to stop us, and he said that we could not arrest Cheekclapper even though we all witnessed him commit crimes.

ZRAINH20 was not allowed to stop us, because as a group our actions were legal. ZRAINH20 said that Ibis broke a chest, but I can't personally confirm that because I didn't see it. But even if Ibis did, it doesn't mean no one else can secure the property. We could.

As the imgur album shows, ZRAINH20 also insinuated that because cheekclapper wasn't convicted that he shouldn't be arrested. This is literally false. If you watch someone commit a crime, you can arrest them. Our laws allow this under defensive action 700.01 in the criminal code. Imagine that in real life someone murders someone in front of the entire city. Would everyone throw up their hands and say "welp can't do anything, have to wait for a trial, go ahead and run free!" No. The person would immediately be arrested. That's what we did in Civcraft.

What the above establishes is that if Cheekclapper was reasonably suspected of committing a crime, that our actions as the Augustan militia were legal. Even accounting for these allegations against Ibis, our actions as a group were still legal, and impeding them, as ZRAINH20 and others did, was illegal.

I know that Cheekclapper committed a crime, I saw it, Scramble saw it, a ton of people from Mount Augusta saw it. As the Augustan Militia we knew that he was reasonably suspecting of committing a crime. But now we have to prove to everyone else that he is in fact guilty.

I have been busy the entire night dealing with being chased by Cheekclapper's friends. I didn't have recording at the time, but I think that other people did. This will be published, and a definitive video will be released. We will show to the world what this man has done, and we will show the world that he is unable to own up to his own actions.

Cheekclapper has now posted his own video, which is conveniently cut to while the combat has taken place, and seems to intentionally not display who hit first. I had actually predicted that he might release the video in this way, as Posey of Cantina can confirm. Regardless, Cheeckclapper's video opens with him hitting Scramble0, someone who isn't even in good armor, and then proceeding to kill him. His own video is quite damming against him already. Cheekclapper says that he was attacked by Scramble0 first, but he doesn't show it, the first moment of the video he posted show the opposite.

Here's his video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YvO6-oalx8

I'm tired of this bullshit with players pvping for no reason and lying about it being correct or rightful. This happen on CivClassic, and it ruined it. Cheekclapper is acting like this, and as a city we're quite disappointed in him. Mount Augusta wants Cheekclapper to own his actions up.