Dye/Food Coloring

[Nnystyxx]

So I got to thinking about soda, like I often do, because it's a surprising vector for hilarity. Somebody suggested the idea of dyes for said soda, and I got to thinking about those instead.

A big part of modern chemistry, and natural artistry, is dye: substances made out of natural crushed up stuff, or made from spooky chemicals. What I propose, then, is that we add a variety of mostly-harmless dyes. Dyes would essentially act as a combination of paint and an inert chemical. 

How would they be made? Well, there's a few interpretations one could take:

1. Add them to botany. I don't like this one much because it'd either add way too many new plants, or fuck up existing plants by adding a bunch of reagents to them. This could maybe be solved with another machine specifically for extracting dyes, but you'd have to add cases for all the different plants.
   
2. Make them their own, discrete chem recipes. Could work, but is a lot of overhead, might lead to people stealing the acetone even more, and would likely take a lot of annoying research to be realistic and would clog up potential future recipes.
   
3. Add some sort of 'dye-ifier' chemical that, combined with other chemicals, removes their properties, purifies their color, and turns them into inert dyes. I like this one the most, because if you really want them to, rare dyes could come from rareish chems, and the idea of Nanotrasen discovering a chemical that sucks the chemical-ness out of things and makes pure color-liquids is hilarious to me. (NO SECRET CHEMS OR I WILL FART ON YOU IN EVERY GAME AFTERWARDS)
   

PROPOSED COLORS AND HOW THEY MIGHT BE MADE

• Syndicate Red: Blood or tomato juice.
  
• Solarium Orange: Uhh. Uhhhhh? Pizza?
  
• Triplepiss Yellow: Piss. Lemon juice.
  
• Mutagen Green: Unstable mutagen. Lime juice.
  
• "Water" Blue: Water/holy water.
  
• Cryostylane Puddle Indigo: Cryostylane/cryoxadone. Blueberry juice or something.
  
• Void Violet: What the hell is even purple? EDIT: PLASMA I'M DUMB THANKS CIRRIAL
  
• Pinke: Teporone? I dunno. Probably not teporone.
  
• Theoretically White: Sugar.
  
• Space Black: Welding fuel.
  
• Forbidden Brown: Compost.
  
• And maybe even more!!!
  

MECHANICAL CHANGES
- Add dyes. Dyes:
    - Color items and mobs when applied; higher splashed doses are needed to color a spaceman. This prevents someone immediately fucking everything up with colorful hellfoam. Do not color turfs except in prohibitively high doses if at all.
    - Are removed by water. Take a shower, dip your stuff in a puddle, wash it off in a sink, etc. and you're good.
    - May be mildly flammable, increasing your burn time if you are currently covered in the stuff.
    - Probably do not mix their colors because it would look nasty and disastrous.

- Possibly add an alternate Colorful Reagent recipe made from combining all the colors. For when there is just no cryoxadone anywhere.

MAP CHANGES
Add a box of a few food colorings to the kitchen, so the chef can make Fiery Red Hell Omelettes.

DESIGN RATIONALES

• Dyeing a burger makes it better. Pretty Patties, my dudes.
  
• Paint is fun, but also annoying as hell. What about paint that is less bad?
  
• Make your white jumpsuit more distinct with some dye. Steal the surgical scrubs and start a gang.
  
• Dye your white gloves yellow and leave them lying around to annoy people.
  
• Mixing dye into your custom sodas lets you color them how you want, not just how the deadly neurotoxin inside is colored.
  
• Fill a bathtub with Discount Dan's Discount Dyes. Get in. Turn green. Get hives because you bathed in industrial runoff marketed as food coloring.
  
• Dye smoke grenades allow you to fill the air with hideous colored smoke and make people think they've been attacked with hellchems when they actually just turned green. then come the hives
  
• Fill water balloons with dye! Mark who got hit in your water balloon war and who hit them based on the color they've turned. Bathrooms are respawn points.
  
• Color the pool with something that won't kill people for once!
  
• Could be used for some other stuff like paintballs later?