Major Changelings (and presumably vampires) aren't immune to diseases

[Noah Buttes]

I don't know if this applies to pathology based diseases, but it certainly applies to old style diseases like kuru

Steps to reproduce:
1. Be a changeling
2. Ingest a sufficient dose of prions
3. Get infected with kuru
4. Suffer a fate worse than death as you keep losing limbs only to regrow them without ever quite dying.

[warcrimes]

not only is this a "feature", it's also a fuckin BIG mood.

[Noah Buttes]

not only is this a "feature", it's also a fuckin BIG mood.

It's not a feature though.

See:
https://github.com/goonstation/goonstati...se.dm#L355

Code:

    if (ischangeling(src) || isvampire(src) || src.nodamage)
        //Vampires and changelings are immune to disease, as are the godmoded.
        //This is here rather than in the resistance check proc because otherwise certain things could bypass the
        //hard immunity these folks are supposed to have
        return null

and
https://github.com/goonstation/goonstati...n.dm#L5757

Code:

    if (ischangeling(src) || isvampire(src)) // Vampires were missing here. They're immune to old-style diseases too (Convair880).
        return 0

[warcrimes]

No not feature, "feature".
and a big fuckin' mood too.
It should maybe be changed but not necessarily fixed imo, there's mad flavor in a DNA monster that rearranges its proteins at will getting a prion infection and having all its body parts start shitting the bed, maybe less devastatingly but dropping limbs constantly sounds like fun.

[Noah Buttes]

and a big fuckin' mood too.

Okay, I really don't know what this means, could you explain?

[warcrimes]

sorry im just shitposting right now but here's the urbdick:
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Mood

"Haha i'm also falling apart"
But seriously though this sounds really cool and I've never seen it, is it in 2016 code ?

[Noah Buttes]

sorry im just shitposting right now but here's the urbdick:
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Mood

"Haha i'm also falling apart"
But seriously though this sounds really cool and I've never seen it, is it in 2016 code ?

Kuru can inflict enough brute damage in one sitting to proc limb removal.

A changeling's speed regen is usually fast enough to keep you from dying. It also regenerates any limbs you may have lost.

This bug is not present in 2016 code, no.