Goonhub
04-28-2015, 07:11 PM
So I have an idea for rev rounds!
...of course, by rev I mean Revelation. What else could you possibly be thinking of?
Along the same lines as what BabaYaga mentioned, this would result in a various chain of events, all leading towards apocalypse (or just a nuke blowing up the station, whatever) that follows the same general progression as the process described in the biblical Book of Revelation. In the book, seven seals are broken which then cause seven trumpets to be sounded which then prompts seven bowls filled with pure godly wrath to be poured onto the earth. This can be truncated any number of ways, but here's a full list and my interpretation of what they'd all look like in the SS13 context:
The Seven Seals (not the fluffy kind)
1. The white horseman, with a crown, bow, and intense desire to conquer shit. This is Conquest, the horseman of the apocalypse that eventually got phased out in favor of Pestilence, probably because Conquest resembles War way too much. If we take the Conquest route, this would probably take the form of an antagonist-y figure characterized by...well, conquering. Perhaps make one of the authority figures or security officers or someone become overtaken with a heavenly force and then start instating martial law. Alternatively, if we choose Pestilence, that's easy. Just make a person who's a walking miasma and transfers all sorts of nasty diseases. Also, for all of the horsemen, horses are optional. Or you could give them colored horse masks.
2. The red horseman, War, with a huge fuckoff sword and the desire to have everything kill everything else. This would be simple, taking the form of a saberguy/chainsawguy going around and wreaking havoc on the station.
3. The black horseman, Famine, with a scaly figure and tendency to make nutrition slowly die. Perhaps he immediately soils any food in the area, gives people immense cravings for food a la Enriched MSG overdose, or shoves weight-loss shakes into people.
4. The pale horseman, Death. It's a guy that kills other guys, probably by the merit of simply existing. Easy.
5. The voices of fallen souls, all given white robes after bemoaning the fact that all of those living assholes haven't been smitten yet. This would probably take the form of something like making all of the ghosts visible to the crew, perhaps even letting ghosts talk with the crew. Alternatively, you could turn some of the ghosts into wraiths, since nothing says "pissed off ghost" like a few wraiths tormenting the crew.
6. Cataclysmic earthquakes. You could throw meteors at the station, you could summon one of those "spectral emissions" or whatever the fart storms are...hell, maybe it could even be a blowout.
7. The seven "angels", each given a trumpet (or maybe a vuvuzela, fitting with the game) that would signify yet another disaster...
The Seven Trumpets/Vuvuzelas
1. A mixture of hail, fire, and blood rains from the sky and burns shit up. Random plasma fires, torch botany, madman with a flamethrower, just as long as shit's getting torched.
2. In the original text, a burning mountain plunges into the sea and wipes it out. In this case, you could basically incinerate anything on a space tile when the second trumpet sounds or something of the sort, since space is the closest thing we have to the "sea".
3. A great star named Wormwood crashes into the earth, poisoning the water supply. Swap the contents of the water tanks around the station with sarin or something? Stuff's getting vague now.
4. The stars go out. I think the admins have a button they can press that does this?
5. "The Locusts" rise out of the ground, though they're more like hell-scorpions that torment people with their stinger tails. Fermid swarm, maybe?
6. A storm of holy armymen who breathe fire and brimstone and shit. Maybe just sic a bunch of Syndicate Agent NPCs on the station, or those darkness critters.
7. The angels are then given the bowls of pure divine anger, and the pouring of the bowls begins.
The Seven Bowls
1. Foul and painful sores everywhere! Maybe make some random people into zombies or introduce some critter-zombies to the station, or turn everyone into skeletons?
2. The sea turns into blood. Just turn every space tile into something nasty!
3. The other water sources turn into blood. Maybe introduce some meat station walls/floors and have some of the mutant critters scuttle about?
4. The sun sends out a heatwave that scorches pretty much everything. Give the unprepared a heavy dose of burn damage as they're wracked by a wave of solar heat!
5. Complete and utter blackness. Station-wise power outage, probably.
6. Three unclean spirits that look like frogs show up and start conspiring to have everyone fight against everyone else and generally sow panic and confusion. Not sure on a specific interpretation.
7. Shit's fucked. Huge earthquake, huge meteor swarms, everything's gone to hell. Game over.
You could just stick with the seven seals, add in the trumpets, or something of the sort. It's just something that came to mind that I'd try and expand on.
...of course, by rev I mean Revelation. What else could you possibly be thinking of?
Along the same lines as what BabaYaga mentioned, this would result in a various chain of events, all leading towards apocalypse (or just a nuke blowing up the station, whatever) that follows the same general progression as the process described in the biblical Book of Revelation. In the book, seven seals are broken which then cause seven trumpets to be sounded which then prompts seven bowls filled with pure godly wrath to be poured onto the earth. This can be truncated any number of ways, but here's a full list and my interpretation of what they'd all look like in the SS13 context:
The Seven Seals (not the fluffy kind)
1. The white horseman, with a crown, bow, and intense desire to conquer shit. This is Conquest, the horseman of the apocalypse that eventually got phased out in favor of Pestilence, probably because Conquest resembles War way too much. If we take the Conquest route, this would probably take the form of an antagonist-y figure characterized by...well, conquering. Perhaps make one of the authority figures or security officers or someone become overtaken with a heavenly force and then start instating martial law. Alternatively, if we choose Pestilence, that's easy. Just make a person who's a walking miasma and transfers all sorts of nasty diseases. Also, for all of the horsemen, horses are optional. Or you could give them colored horse masks.
2. The red horseman, War, with a huge fuckoff sword and the desire to have everything kill everything else. This would be simple, taking the form of a saberguy/chainsawguy going around and wreaking havoc on the station.
3. The black horseman, Famine, with a scaly figure and tendency to make nutrition slowly die. Perhaps he immediately soils any food in the area, gives people immense cravings for food a la Enriched MSG overdose, or shoves weight-loss shakes into people.
4. The pale horseman, Death. It's a guy that kills other guys, probably by the merit of simply existing. Easy.
5. The voices of fallen souls, all given white robes after bemoaning the fact that all of those living assholes haven't been smitten yet. This would probably take the form of something like making all of the ghosts visible to the crew, perhaps even letting ghosts talk with the crew. Alternatively, you could turn some of the ghosts into wraiths, since nothing says "pissed off ghost" like a few wraiths tormenting the crew.
6. Cataclysmic earthquakes. You could throw meteors at the station, you could summon one of those "spectral emissions" or whatever the fart storms are...hell, maybe it could even be a blowout.
7. The seven "angels", each given a trumpet (or maybe a vuvuzela, fitting with the game) that would signify yet another disaster...
The Seven Trumpets/Vuvuzelas
1. A mixture of hail, fire, and blood rains from the sky and burns shit up. Random plasma fires, torch botany, madman with a flamethrower, just as long as shit's getting torched.
2. In the original text, a burning mountain plunges into the sea and wipes it out. In this case, you could basically incinerate anything on a space tile when the second trumpet sounds or something of the sort, since space is the closest thing we have to the "sea".
3. A great star named Wormwood crashes into the earth, poisoning the water supply. Swap the contents of the water tanks around the station with sarin or something? Stuff's getting vague now.
4. The stars go out. I think the admins have a button they can press that does this?
5. "The Locusts" rise out of the ground, though they're more like hell-scorpions that torment people with their stinger tails. Fermid swarm, maybe?
6. A storm of holy armymen who breathe fire and brimstone and shit. Maybe just sic a bunch of Syndicate Agent NPCs on the station, or those darkness critters.
7. The angels are then given the bowls of pure divine anger, and the pouring of the bowls begins.
The Seven Bowls
1. Foul and painful sores everywhere! Maybe make some random people into zombies or introduce some critter-zombies to the station, or turn everyone into skeletons?
2. The sea turns into blood. Just turn every space tile into something nasty!
3. The other water sources turn into blood. Maybe introduce some meat station walls/floors and have some of the mutant critters scuttle about?
4. The sun sends out a heatwave that scorches pretty much everything. Give the unprepared a heavy dose of burn damage as they're wracked by a wave of solar heat!
5. Complete and utter blackness. Station-wise power outage, probably.
6. Three unclean spirits that look like frogs show up and start conspiring to have everyone fight against everyone else and generally sow panic and confusion. Not sure on a specific interpretation.
7. Shit's fucked. Huge earthquake, huge meteor swarms, everything's gone to hell. Game over.
You could just stick with the seven seals, add in the trumpets, or something of the sort. It's just something that came to mind that I'd try and expand on.