Goonhub
03-22-2016, 01:08 PM
I once suggested infectious explosive money as a traitor item. Maybe that could be a HoP item?
An old post that I made from way-back when.
Looking back at it, I still like the fake money idea.
An old post that I made from way-back when.
(03-14-2015, 12:35 PM)Mageziya Wrote: I've got an item idea, after some thought involving traitor money.
Fake Money!
TC cost: I have no idea. (1-3?)
Contains: A single fake credit that resembles a real credit.
Function: Looks like real money, except it blows the hell up if you attempt to use it in anything.
These bills are self propagating!: Stack some fake cash with some real cash, and via nanomachines of the future, all money in the stack becomes fake and explosive, thus allowing for plagues of explosive money to spread through the station!
Do note that explosion size is limited to quantity, and that 1 fake credit will do very little damage. (Or might be balanced to better match the size of money people actually use.)
Uses: A great way to freak out people! Give money to the RD to buy bee-friends for Heisen-Bee, only to watch him blow up at the ATM! Bribe the Captain, and listen to his panic over the radio as the vending machine he was attempting to buy tarot cards from explodes! Harrass the poor bartender by tipping him with fake money, only to watch the snack-machine blows-the-hell-up as he attempts to purchase his secret ingredients! Hand out stacks of cash as the HOP to the entire crew as a "Social-Welfare Program," and watch the the station either enters mass panic or forms a lynch mob for you! Buy powers from geneticists and then realize that they'll never use a vending machine or merchant!
Drawbacks: Thermals can detect fake cash! Simply examine a stack of fake cash while wearing thermals, and behold as its description describes how utterly fake it is! Fake money also does not count towards traitor objectives, so be careful with converting your stolen hard-earned mulla into fake mulla! Finally, for reasons unknown, fake money does not explode when lit on fire or hit with other explosives, so you can't make an IED out of your fake money and the million bucks you extracted from the X-drone!
Looking back at it, I still like the fake money idea.