Police Attention (no ontology)

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Maze Guards enforce a set of laws and will not hesitate to punish the perpetrators if they see them committing crimes. Those laws are, in theory, effective for everyone in the Mazes, at the exception of Maze Soldiers and Maze Guards themselves. This, of course, includes the contestant.

Depending on the gravity of offenses, Guards assign to perpetrators a Wanted Level, which is based on a color code. In order of gravity: white, which is not a wanted level but a color to design innocents, yellow, orange, and red. An additional code for the most dangerous cases exists: Code 11, which allows Maze Guards to shoot to kill.

For an offense or a crime to be detected, it must be reported by witnesses or seen by Guards themselves, at the exception of offenses affecting Guards directly, including murders, which automatically elevate the perpetrator's wanted level.

When trouble has been resolved, unless the perpetrator is killed or sent to prison, his or her wanted level goes back to white and all non-undiscovered crimes and offenses are erased from the records.

Definition of terms

• Concerned by the law: Being that must respect the laws.
• Protected by the law: Being that must respect the laws, but is also protected by them.

Although most members of the Maze Personnel are clearly defined as protected by the law, most sapient beings are, at large, concerned by them, under the Guard's general concern for order. Effectively speaking, a Maze Soldier could be imprisoned for committing any of the offenses listed below, but won't be protected if he is victim of one; primarily because certain groups of people have been deemed to not require the protection of Guards, either for practical reasons (Soldiers tend to follow the military's own rules and conflicts are dealt with internally) or ethical reasons (Youkai are not protected by the law as a historical testament of the society being primarily human and only tending to humans - those issues are better explained as an aspect of the Human-youkai rivalry).

Offenses

In most cases, offenses are defined as being committed at least by someone concerned by the law, against someone who is protected by the law; though Guards may, at their own discretion and if considered reasonable or sensible enough to do so, arrest or otherwise intercept perpetrators if the offenses involve beings that are not under the scope of the law, whether perp or victim. (For example: Someone slaughtering unreasonably high amounts of peaceful or otherwise harmless creatures, is an acceptable reason.)

• Assault: Attempting to, or (lightly) physically harming or subdue someone in an abusive, unfair, or otherwise unreasonable way, through show of force. It is considered a lighter version of battery.
• Battery: Physically harming or subduing someone in an abusive manner, up to grievously, but without killing them, in an abusive, unfair, or otherwise unreasonable way. The step further is murder.
• Bribery/Peer pressure: Attempt to subdue or pacify people, specifically personnel, by either offering them money, gifts, specific items, or by threatening them, in order to avoid repercussions. Bribery, specifically towards Guards, involves pacifying them to dissuade them from arresting.
• Degradation: The act of damaging, dismantling and/or destroying objects and equipment that belong to members of the Maze Personnel, without authorization.
• Impersonation: When a person concerned by the law is wearing the outfit of a member of the Maze Personnel also concerned by the law, and is posing and/or acting as such - and has been busted. Most frequently happens if the person wearing the disguise has the wrong equipment, gender, or attitude.
• Indecent exposure: When a person concerned by the law (and sometimes even those that aren't) is publicly revealing certain of their body parts (buttocks, genitals, breasts) outside of certain roomstyles where they would be acceptable. Contestants may be affected by indecent exposure if they do not wear sufficient clothing to hide the concerned body parts (and may bust disguises, thus potentially putting them at risk of committing impersonation (see above)).
• Murder: The act of killing, with or without intent, malicious or not, another person protected by the law. (It is not considered murder if the killed being is not concerned by the law - this is another problematic aspect of the ongoing Human-youkai rivalry as youkai are not protected by the law.)
• Rape: The act of sexual intercourse committed against a person protected by the law, if it has been determined that the latter was not consenting.
• Robbery: The act of extorting items and equipment that belongs to someone else, using threats and/or force to force those items' owner to give them away.
• Sexual assault: The acts of inappropriate physical contact of an otherwise intimate or sexual nature, committed by a person concerned by the law, against a person protected by the law, without consent. It must be noted that attempted and failed rapes are considered this. The step above is rape.
• Theft: The act of appropriating objects and/or equipment that belongs to someone else without the original owner's consent. Confiscation is not considered theft, if performed by authorized people and for acceptable reasons (such as a punishment for crimes, done by a Guard.)
• Unauthorized firearm discharge: Considered a light misdemeanor more than anything, Guards may see fit to fine people (whether concerned by the law or not) if they are shooting their firearms in an ostensibly dangerous manner, especially in highly populated rooms.
• Verbal abuse: Insults, threats, foul language used in repetition - though technically a misdemeanor that Guards can fine for anyone using them against anyone else, it is most often used for people insulting Guards themselves.

Code Yellow offenses

Low-gravity offenses and minor trouble. Such offenses are resolved by a fine, which can go between 49 and 499 P$.

Yellow-level offenses include:

• Bribery/Peer pressure (Maze Guards can punish people trying to offer them money or make them quit their jobs)
• Indecent exposure
• Abuse, assault, battery of an ally, pet or colleague (with reservations if the concerned person is a youkai)
• Unauthorized firearm discharge, weapon usage
• Verbal abuse, threats, insults to Citizens and Personnel
• Degradation, destruction of equipment belonging to Citizens and Personnel

Code Orange offenses

Medium-gravity offenses. Such offenses are usually resolved by cuffing the perpetrator, and confiscation of equipment. Most of the times Guards confiscate the weapon in hand when the offense was committed, but they may also take away other items. Additionally, they may throw in fines on top of these.

Orange-level offenses include:

• Abuse, assault, battery of any non-hostile creatures but particularly Citizens and Personnel
• Abuse, assault, battery of Maze Guards
• Sexual assault, rape, or attempt thereof on any creature
• Murder of non-hostile creatures, except in blatant self-defense
• Theft, robbery, extortion of people, vaults, or shops
• Disguise busting (if the perpetrator is revealed to wear clothes for impersonation purposes)
• Repeated unauthorized firearm discharge, weapon usage
• Use of dangerous or unauthorized items, substances, or attempt thereof (high explosives, drugs…)

• Repeated Yellow-level offenses may lead to an elevation of Wanted Level to Code Orange.

Code Red offenses

High-gravity offenses which may endanger lives or property in the Mazes. Perpetrators elevated to Code Red must be arrested and sent to prison. This includes the contestant.

Red-level offenses include:

• Murder, or attempt thereof, of a member of the Citizens and Personnel excluding Maze Soldiers, except in blatant self-defense
• Multiple murder of non-hostile creatures, except in blatant self-defense

• Repeated Orange-level offenses may lead to an elevation of Wanted Level to Code Red.

Code 11

In rare situations, where a Code Red perpetrator hasn't been stopped by the Guards and continues to commit offenses, Guards may be allowed to tag this perpetrator to Code 11. This situation simply allows them to make use of their weapons offensively, and are allowed deadly force. In other words, Code 11 means "Shoot to kill".

Prison

If a contestant is caught by a Maze Guard as a Code Red, he/she will be cuffed, and forcefully sent to a prison room. There, they will be stripped of their weapons, clothes, equipment and backpack, bound to the wall then given jeans for sole clothing so that the contestant is recognized as a Prisoner.

Afterwards, a Guard Chief will join the Guard who arrested the contestant (unless said guard is himself/herself a Chief), and will make the list of all the offenses committed. Once the list is done, a punishment will be given by the Chief, and the contestant will be stuck in prison with a Guard until the end.
The punishment includes time in prison, and confiscations + fines.

Prison time may be between 20 and 50 turns, in which the contestant will be stuck and won't be able to move or do anything. No food and no medical help will be given during that time - if the contestant is caught while very hungry or with a timed condition (poisoning, etc…), it is possible for him/her to die while serving time.

The player may choose whether or not he/she wants to RP the prison time. If yes, then the contestant will be given the chance to RP with a Maze Guard guarding the prison cell, plus a random amount of prisoners, between 0 and 2.

After the time has been served, depending on the gravity of crimes done, the contestant will be confiscated, in order of gravity:

• One weapon
• One weapons and compatible ammunition
• All weapons and ammunition
• All weapons, ammunition, clothing and body armor

And will then be fined, in order of gravity:

• 500 P$
• 700 P$
• 1000 P$
• 1000 P$ and all valuables carried.

If the contestant does not have enough money to fulfill the fine, all of his/her money will be taken away.

After prison

Once the contestant has served time and was punished proper, the Guard will restitute all of the items unaffected by the punishment, as well as the backpack he/she carried. If the contestant had an ally before being arrested, he/she will meet up again with said ally after release.

See also

• Maze Guard