Clown Clothing Additions and Clown Clown Additions

[Winklabom]

I have made a selection of balloon animal sprites. The files are available in this Dropbox folder. You can also view them in this imgur album.

Activating a held balloon should open a menu similar to the one for deciding what to make out of material sheets or rods. I think that would be the most sane way to go about this - constructing a balloon animal out of differently-shaped balloons, like igniter assemblies, would add unnecessary aggravation (MENTORHELP: "I'm trying to make a Martian balloon and I can't remember if I have to twist the long balloon shut before I connect it to the fat balloon, or if it's long balloon + long balloon, twist those, THEN add it to the fat balloon..."), not to mention more sprites.

The selected balloon animal would appear at its maker's feet, as a motionless and fragile critter. A slain balloon animal can just turn into a pile of water balloon shrapnel, they don't need special corpse sprites. Being a critter also means I don't have to draw "when equipped" sprites for them. When destroyed, they should probably leak their contents; that would allow friendly clowns to fill them with helium or water or whatever, asshole clowns to put jenkem in a bee, morally upright clowns to punish people for killing bee balloons, and antag clowns to actually do crime with them.

Bee:

"A greater domestic space balloon. Uncanny!"

Spider:

"It even has little pipe cleaners for legs!"

Fermid:

"Almost as terrifying as the genuine article."

Owl:

"It is watching you. Always."

Martian:

"Never, ever show this to a Martian. These things are like boogery little Golliwog dolls to them."

Dog:

"The station has a no-dogs policy, after an incident in maintenance. This one should be fine though."

Rock worm:

"Warranty void if fed rocks."

• These last two are replicas of actual items, and should use their counterparts' "when equipped" sprites.

Fish:

"This was a missed opportunity for a clownfish joke."
Slap people with it. Slap sec with it. Go to jail.

Pie:

"This time, the clown has gone too far."
Clowns have adapted to their lack of kitchen access, and can turn balloons into pies instead. Functionally identical to water balloons when thrown. Eating it should make you choke on plastic, but since that would allow clowns to forcefeed people a ration of death, it should probably just gas you with its contents like real food.

OH MY GOD YES.