Cult of the Blob

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Okay, that's also a good point. What would you suggest then?

MBC once discussed some really interesting thoughts about conversion antags through the lens of general game design. Basically, the general idea is that you have to somehow be "worse" off after you converted. For example, zombie thralls need on blood. Flockdrones are weak to brute damage, the conversion process takes a good while, and the flock is just as likely to kill you for resources as to convert you (this, of course, applies to all antags). In the defunct Martian mode, the Martians had less equipment slots, less health, and were generally kinda janky (though this is really unintended).  Mindslaves and revs are at the mercy of their controller, but this is a bit iffy because the latter tends to be pretty merciful these days. Gang in is an exception in that it limits of the number of people able to become antag.

Personally, I'd recommend that the cultists become gradually less human and more blob-like as their blobby blob god of blobs's influence over them grows. Since we're dealing something entirely alien and nonhuman and are absolutely not in any way bound to "lore" or realism, we've room for some really crazy, unconventional, and, most importantly, unique downsides. Some ideas:

• 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.