Goonhub
08-22-2013, 08:48 AM
If you are a changeling and someone gets your arm or leg attached to them surgically, you can take over their body at will.
And just to make it fair, the person who gets the arm or leg attached will get a notice when the mind heist is happening. Something like "You don't quite feel like yourself anymore." And some visible twitches. Nothing bold and red, just about as noticeable as a *sneeze.
And if they manage to notice that something ain't right, they could hit the resist button to try to stop it.
If its resisted, then the changeling will have to wait for it to cool down to try again. And the guy who resisted it will probably try to get his arms and legs cut off any way he can.
This could give the changeling some option to get out of jail free if it had made the preparations and the guy who has the arms or legs doesn't resist it.
The changeling shouldn't keep any DNA points or absorbed bodies when taking over a new body, since its pretty much the same deal as a headspider you've planted yourself.
And when the changeling takes over a body, the old one should do something like "changeling guy falls over dead, as if his just brain shut off." Or just the normal *deathghasp.
Some notice that the changeling didn't actually die might be nice for balance reasons? Not sure on that one.
Or a less logical idea would be to give the old changeling body to whoevers identity (without the powers ofcourse) he was using at the time, leaving him to bargain with the crew the that he is not the changeling they were beating up just a second ago.
Also maybe the person who has the changeling arm/leg should get some healing benefits to keep him alive. Like if he does go into crit, he will automatically stabilize or some junk. Since the changeling needs him alive.
And if the arm/leg has been detached and the changeling tried to take over their mind, the arm/leg will become a mob (or the player can control it if that's possible) and punch/kick the nearest person and attach itself onto them once they're knocked down.
Less effective than a headspider and easily killable with a welder.
The changeling should be dead if the arm/leg fails, since it transferred its mind to a thing that died.
That's pretty much all I got.
If anyone else got anything then feel free to add/remove/balance the idea
And just to make it fair, the person who gets the arm or leg attached will get a notice when the mind heist is happening. Something like "You don't quite feel like yourself anymore." And some visible twitches. Nothing bold and red, just about as noticeable as a *sneeze.
And if they manage to notice that something ain't right, they could hit the resist button to try to stop it.
If its resisted, then the changeling will have to wait for it to cool down to try again. And the guy who resisted it will probably try to get his arms and legs cut off any way he can.
This could give the changeling some option to get out of jail free if it had made the preparations and the guy who has the arms or legs doesn't resist it.
The changeling shouldn't keep any DNA points or absorbed bodies when taking over a new body, since its pretty much the same deal as a headspider you've planted yourself.
And when the changeling takes over a body, the old one should do something like "changeling guy falls over dead, as if his just brain shut off." Or just the normal *deathghasp.
Some notice that the changeling didn't actually die might be nice for balance reasons? Not sure on that one.
Or a less logical idea would be to give the old changeling body to whoevers identity (without the powers ofcourse) he was using at the time, leaving him to bargain with the crew the that he is not the changeling they were beating up just a second ago.
Also maybe the person who has the changeling arm/leg should get some healing benefits to keep him alive. Like if he does go into crit, he will automatically stabilize or some junk. Since the changeling needs him alive.
And if the arm/leg has been detached and the changeling tried to take over their mind, the arm/leg will become a mob (or the player can control it if that's possible) and punch/kick the nearest person and attach itself onto them once they're knocked down.
Less effective than a headspider and easily killable with a welder.
The changeling should be dead if the arm/leg fails, since it transferred its mind to a thing that died.
That's pretty much all I got.
If anyone else got anything then feel free to add/remove/balance the idea