• There is only One Blob, not two.
  
• The number of Cultists would be proportional to the number of crew members (1 Cultist for every 10 Crew I suppose? Math is hard)
  
• The Cultists start the round like normal crew members, and are indistinguishable from them. As the Blob grows, they start to transform into human shaped blobs, revealing their servitude. They become slower, and actions may take longer to complete. Medicine heals less, or not at all. They become more resistant to brute damage and more vulnerable to fire and certain poisons. Eventually, their heads may take on the shape of a nucleus. (and no headgear can be worn to conceal it)
  
• If a Cultist strays too far from the Blob, they start to slowly lose health. Being near or touching the Blob would slowly restore that lost health. This would not heal Cultists from damage inflicted by other sources.
  
• The Cultists share a hivemind-type chat with the Blob and each other.
  
• The Cultists possess no spells initially, but can gain some (weak spells) as the Blob grows.
  
• The Cultists cannot recruit new members conventionally. Anyone who is absorbed by the Blob can be "revived" as a lesser Blobling(name pending?) with limited ability to interact with the world. If they stray too far from the Blob, they will lose health rapidly. The Blob would need to spend resources and research an upgrade in order to create a Blobling.
  
• The Blob may also revive dead Cultists as Bloblings.
  
• Bloblings and Cultists that have undergone visual transformations are not considered Human by synthetics.
  
• If the Blob's final nucleus dies, a Cultist may perform a ritual (A spell with 30 seconds of self-harm and standing still?) to sacrifice themselves to create a new nucleus. If multiple Cultists try to create Nuclei at a time, only the first once succeeds. The new Nucleus is controlled by the same Blob player that died earlier.
  
• The round does not end until the Blob has been dead for at least 3(?) minutes, or until it consumes 500 tiles' worth of space like the current blob objective.
  

(05-22-2019, 05:52 AM)MrMagolor Wrote: This seems cool, but: it doesn't really make sense to call it a "cult" if there's no way at all to convert people to their "religion".

(05-22-2019, 07:43 AM)Podrick Equus Wrote:

(05-22-2019, 05:52 AM)MrMagolor Wrote: This seems cool, but: it doesn't really make sense to call it a "cult" if there's no way at all to convert people to their "religion".

That's a good point. Perhaps if, instead of just being able to revive dead cultists, the Blob could expend a large amount of resources to revive someone that it has consumed into an additional cultist? That would both add a way to "convert" people (The Blob would have to absorb their body) and it'd give dead players something to look forward to.

(05-22-2019, 05:56 PM)Podrick Equus Wrote: Okay, that's also a good point. What would you suggest then?

• Cultists' movement speed slows, reflecting their lazy-ass blobby blob god's general immobility.
  

• Cultist limbs become more blobalicious and pseudopod-like. Actions take longer time to complete, and cultists have trouble using certain tools, especially guns.
  
  
• Medicine heals less (and eventually not all) because it doesn't work on blobbish...flesh?
  
  
• Certain poisons hurt blob cultists more, especially ones that blobbity blobss are naturally weak to, like sarin.
  
  
• Similarly, fire hurts them more.
  
  
• Their eyes gradually merge into a single iris, similar to the one on the blorpity blobbity nucleus, rather graphically. Some tasks have a higher chance of failing, and aiming is harder because of the lack of depth perception.
  

• Their heads slowly take on the shape of nucleus. This makes hats took stupid on them.
  

(05-24-2019, 09:53 AM)Recusor Wrote: seems like a neat idea. Also, it might make sense to have something similar to gangs where only a certain amount of blob-ists are available at a time, maybe that can be upgraded using EVO points too?