Goonhub
05-25-2025, 10:19 PM
I feel like the regenerative stasis COULD be more interesting if it did a few things
1. After the minimum time you MUST remain in stasis for, instead of just booting you right into being alive again, I think it could be interesting to allow the changeling to choose if they want to remain in stasis for a bit longer (not conferring the regenerative benefits still), this will tie in with some later points but it would mainly be a good tool for changelings who haven't been "outted" yet, as it could help you avoid the bad luck of being stumbled upon by a random staffie just as you emerge from stasis. It could also be interesting to be able to sting once you are in the stage of consciously choosing to remain in stasis, where your own corpse could be a trap and could inspire some real The Thing moments. An example could be if you being examined by a lone detective you could sting them and wake, giving them just enough time to realize what was going on but not enough to call for help.
2. Now I will disclose, I am unsure of if this is already a thing but afaik it isn't. Making a changeling in stasis FULLY appear like a corpse to a health scanner. Changelings don't need hearts, nor do they need to breath, so surely they can drop the act of doing those things when pretending to be a corpse. My idea with this is to let a changeling potentially get shipped all the way into the morgue without anyone being wiser to its nature. (this would also work well with not being able to grind human corpses in the reclaimer, resulting in a fuller morgue)
I think these things could be beneficial, and I think it leans into how the changeling is portrayed as an opportunistic ambush predator, and I think this could create some funny scenarios, I would love to hear other thoughts on the matter
1. After the minimum time you MUST remain in stasis for, instead of just booting you right into being alive again, I think it could be interesting to allow the changeling to choose if they want to remain in stasis for a bit longer (not conferring the regenerative benefits still), this will tie in with some later points but it would mainly be a good tool for changelings who haven't been "outted" yet, as it could help you avoid the bad luck of being stumbled upon by a random staffie just as you emerge from stasis. It could also be interesting to be able to sting once you are in the stage of consciously choosing to remain in stasis, where your own corpse could be a trap and could inspire some real The Thing moments. An example could be if you being examined by a lone detective you could sting them and wake, giving them just enough time to realize what was going on but not enough to call for help.
2. Now I will disclose, I am unsure of if this is already a thing but afaik it isn't. Making a changeling in stasis FULLY appear like a corpse to a health scanner. Changelings don't need hearts, nor do they need to breath, so surely they can drop the act of doing those things when pretending to be a corpse. My idea with this is to let a changeling potentially get shipped all the way into the morgue without anyone being wiser to its nature. (this would also work well with not being able to grind human corpses in the reclaimer, resulting in a fuller morgue)
I think these things could be beneficial, and I think it leans into how the changeling is portrayed as an opportunistic ambush predator, and I think this could create some funny scenarios, I would love to hear other thoughts on the matter
