Official Traitor Items Discussion Thread (Wonk)

[Dauntasa]

That should answer some questions. One little question, though: would saying the word over the radio suffice, or should the speaker be in earshot? I'm assuming it's the latter, but I can imagine the traitor 'taking a little walk' while the implantee hops on the Escape Shuttle and says the keyphrase.

That being said, I'd love to 'Laputan Machine' someone. Might add some funny gimmicks too if the implantee is essentially held hostage by his/her bomber.

I have 2 ideas about this

One is that if it's completely stealthy and radio-activated it's a little boring just because there's no fucking way anyone could ever survive that

the second is that if it doesn't work over the radio it's a bit easier on the victim but also a lot harder to actually work with because you either need to be within one screen of a fucking bomb to set it off or choose a word that they're almost certain to say/hear up close soon

the best idea for this I have come up with is this: Before you put it in, you can toggle radio activation on/off. But leaving it on means the bomb takes a couple of minutes to arm after implanting, and ~10 seconds before it arms it makes a clicking noise the victim will hear. that way if you wanna make it easy for yourself to activate at will you also potentially notify the victim.

I like this method just because I think it would lead to funnier/more interesting situations than it just being the Voice of God smiting the poor fucker over 145.9 or the actual traitor being completely unable to set off the bomb without running right up to the person and going "EXPLODE NOW" and getting a face full of shrapnel