We can't say what we would do were we Imms, but hopefully we would stick to our IC persona. I know almost nothing about Verathi from an IC perspective (and OC doesn't matter) except he is a battle Imm. Verathi allowed him to remain a rager, he just lost DM. That's hardly the end of the world, hell, leadership ends up being a lot of work for little reward as you well know. To me, that was enough of a hey, you're still a decent rager so keep at it, from Verathi.

There's an opportunity there for fun RP and to get DM back, but the player simply did not take it and deleted instead. If you need a reassuring pat on the back to keep you from deleting when a setback occurs, you're going to delete a lot of characters. Especially in Battle. An Imm has the hardest line between IC and OC to walk when doing things, and the PB should give them a bit of slack when making those decisions.

Were he booted, yeah, I would argue the Imm probably went overboard. This was a slap on the wrist by the Imm though, which was about the right action given the breach was not terrible. Would you rather the Imm removed DB from him for 50 hours? I think in either event, the player deletes.

It's not like after he got booted, he started quaffing potions, eating fillets, and grouping with the Rhyme to gang down battleragers at the hillock, and then Verathi hit with the betrayer flag, lost his legacies/specs and deleted. The bridge back to DM was still very much there, he just had to want to walk back over it.

You have to put equal responsibility on players to react IC to an Imm's IC actions for the system to work. The player decided to delete over this, the Imm did nothing wrong. Knee jerk reactions are often bad ones.