Goonhub
12-29-2013, 02:47 AM
Here's a potentially stupid thought, what if the cure was craftable in chemistry, but only if they know the recipe.
Now here's the kicker, The recipe is made with ingredients that don't already mix together, but the actual recipe is random.
Could be saline + phosphorus, but only 4 units of phosphorus. Lets try adding cola and see if that works. nope.
While the station is errupting into chaos, you'd have people plaguing chemistry trying to find or get a cure that may not even be there.
A set of incomplete doctors notes would be sent to the station. These would be more or less a hint as to the actual recipe, but some enterprising jerk could just as much set them on fire and leave the station in chaos.
The recipe may not even be the full recipe. "This drug looks kind of like a cure, but seems to be missing something".
Maybe even Botany and bar get involved creating chemicals and doing science.
The Doctors notes + random Recipe would serve as a potential gameplay element for scientists and barman, but also serve as a false hope, a piece of cheese for all the little mice in the station's maze, dangling hopefully just out of reach.
A chemist could either share the recipe, sell the cure, or simply cure themselves and not tell anyone.
The best stories come from outrage and sheer rudeness.
Now here's the kicker, The recipe is made with ingredients that don't already mix together, but the actual recipe is random.
Could be saline + phosphorus, but only 4 units of phosphorus. Lets try adding cola and see if that works. nope.
While the station is errupting into chaos, you'd have people plaguing chemistry trying to find or get a cure that may not even be there.
A set of incomplete doctors notes would be sent to the station. These would be more or less a hint as to the actual recipe, but some enterprising jerk could just as much set them on fire and leave the station in chaos.
The recipe may not even be the full recipe. "This drug looks kind of like a cure, but seems to be missing something".
Maybe even Botany and bar get involved creating chemicals and doing science.
The Doctors notes + random Recipe would serve as a potential gameplay element for scientists and barman, but also serve as a false hope, a piece of cheese for all the little mice in the station's maze, dangling hopefully just out of reach.
A chemist could either share the recipe, sell the cure, or simply cure themselves and not tell anyone.
The best stories come from outrage and sheer rudeness.