Goonhub
10-11-2024, 06:03 AM
I think that in-game brain damage can be a pretty fun and funny way to debilitate a crew member without fully removing them from the game.
At present, its my understanding that some of the only effective ways of doing this is through substantive mercury poisoning, or other selective poisons all of which take time and require access to chems.
A few years ago I got a bit overzealous with a PR to introduce a surgical method to spoon peoples brains out. This was very understandably rejected as too much of an element of body horror, especially since the spooned brains were a food item.
I do think that having a more medical way of inflicting brain damage without chems would be interesting but would appreciate input from the community.
What do you all think about a surgical step where, during the normal surgical procedure to expose the brain prior to removing it you can continue to apply scalpel or spoon to simply inflict direct brain damage? Perhaps 5 to 10 brain damage per click?
If this remains to far out there I will put it to bed.
Some factors to consider:
1) Brain damage can be very debilitating including being unable to open doors and changing speech.
2) If you are doing surgery and can get to this point you could easily kill with brain removal, so in theory my idea would not be too easy to access.
3) partially lobotomizing antags as a way of at least partially defanging them is funny. Alternatively, a rogue doctor trying to lobotomize crew could be funny and interesting.
At present, its my understanding that some of the only effective ways of doing this is through substantive mercury poisoning, or other selective poisons all of which take time and require access to chems.
A few years ago I got a bit overzealous with a PR to introduce a surgical method to spoon peoples brains out. This was very understandably rejected as too much of an element of body horror, especially since the spooned brains were a food item.
I do think that having a more medical way of inflicting brain damage without chems would be interesting but would appreciate input from the community.
What do you all think about a surgical step where, during the normal surgical procedure to expose the brain prior to removing it you can continue to apply scalpel or spoon to simply inflict direct brain damage? Perhaps 5 to 10 brain damage per click?
If this remains to far out there I will put it to bed.
Some factors to consider:
1) Brain damage can be very debilitating including being unable to open doors and changing speech.
2) If you are doing surgery and can get to this point you could easily kill with brain removal, so in theory my idea would not be too easy to access.
3) partially lobotomizing antags as a way of at least partially defanging them is funny. Alternatively, a rogue doctor trying to lobotomize crew could be funny and interesting.