Goonhub
02-12-2020, 10:37 AM
How about some Symptons that could come in handy when fighting special antags?
Symptons that could help against wizards...or lings - let me elaborate.
-Magical Miasma (T3-T5) : A wizard infected by this sympton will sometimes fail to cast a spell. From (T3 = 33%) - (T4 = 50%) - (T5 = 75%) of the time. In addition to losing their magical affinity - space-muggles (normal spasssmeeen) will utter their disbelief of magic quite vividly (forced fun-text - spoken out by the infected) .
-Alien-Brain-Membranes (T4) : Neurotoxin (as by the sting of the ling or otherwise) - will no longer harm the person infected by this pathogenic sympton. In fact - Neurotoxin will now act as a counter to BRAIN DMG - per depletion there is a 33% chance to -1 or -2 BRAIN DMG. The common "drool" text will also change to a more funny variant --> "X is drooling with a twisted smile on their face."
Though this sympton will inadverditly safe any infected person from a ling stun - getting "healed" by a bible will now cause Minor BRAIN DMG - displaying the following flavour-text : "X skin is blistering and a ringing headache seems to build up inside their head."
-Adapting-Nervous-System (T4) : This pathogenic sympton causes the infected to revive upon death as a skeleton - thus losing their ability to be scanned in the cloner. Still - they lose all previous damage inflicted on their body - as their skeleton leaves the rotten (or perhaps then gibbed) corpse behind.
(An easy way to mass-revive every crew-member as a skeleton and amp up the bone-rattling. Being infected by this sympton before you shed your fleshy-skin by death still allows you to be scanned - but on death the sympton will take priority over the cloner. A second death as the skeleton will then allow the cloner to do it's work [if you were scanned before] and be revived once again in your fleshy-meatbag-spasssmeeen-existence.)
Symptons that could help against wizards...or lings - let me elaborate.
-Magical Miasma (T3-T5) : A wizard infected by this sympton will sometimes fail to cast a spell. From (T3 = 33%) - (T4 = 50%) - (T5 = 75%) of the time. In addition to losing their magical affinity - space-muggles (normal spasssmeeen) will utter their disbelief of magic quite vividly (forced fun-text - spoken out by the infected) .
-Alien-Brain-Membranes (T4) : Neurotoxin (as by the sting of the ling or otherwise) - will no longer harm the person infected by this pathogenic sympton. In fact - Neurotoxin will now act as a counter to BRAIN DMG - per depletion there is a 33% chance to -1 or -2 BRAIN DMG. The common "drool" text will also change to a more funny variant --> "X is drooling with a twisted smile on their face."
Though this sympton will inadverditly safe any infected person from a ling stun - getting "healed" by a bible will now cause Minor BRAIN DMG - displaying the following flavour-text : "X skin is blistering and a ringing headache seems to build up inside their head."
-Adapting-Nervous-System (T4) : This pathogenic sympton causes the infected to revive upon death as a skeleton - thus losing their ability to be scanned in the cloner. Still - they lose all previous damage inflicted on their body - as their skeleton leaves the rotten (or perhaps then gibbed) corpse behind.
(An easy way to mass-revive every crew-member as a skeleton and amp up the bone-rattling. Being infected by this sympton before you shed your fleshy-skin by death still allows you to be scanned - but on death the sympton will take priority over the cloner. A second death as the skeleton will then allow the cloner to do it's work [if you were scanned before] and be revived once again in your fleshy-meatbag-spasssmeeen-existence.)