If there is going to be a consequence, and you don't know what was done and the player doesn't either (I literally had to go through days of logs to find it because searching for it wasn't easy and if I remember right my character was blind from dirt kick when it happened), it just sounds like it should be something that wouldn't be relevant enough to punish. "I know the alarm went off but the video camera wasn't working and you don't remember it because you had tar in your eyes.... but you're guilty." Just seems off and its all because a single mob is coded wrong to assist. Again, intentions versus limitations on coding.

I also think in general cabal wars are something this game has really gone in the wrong direction on. I fondly remember a ton of different cabal wars across the 25 years of playing this game and when Outlanders wanted to go to war with the Fortress because I was going into the shadow plane to save my centaur kin, I was LITERALLY removed from the cabal to prevent the war. Not just demoted from leader but kicked from the cabal. All because "this might cause us to kill a goodie"! Forget the fact they've been hunting the paladins and dwarves and conjurers every day and have a nightreaver/etc. I still can't fathom what the hell the Imms were thinking and it has just ruined Fortress for me forever honestly.

That's how far this has gone. A cabal I've been a leader of several times over decades, that I used to love playing in, has been ruined to the point I'll never go back in its current state.