Goonhub
11-10-2016, 07:07 AM
Well, bloodlust would give you horrifying debilitation as well as valid reasons for bloodshed. For example, you'd constantly suffer from distorted vision, terrifying hallucinations, screeching noises every now and then, a creepy tone to your game, the inability to use many machines, etc. Also slowed movement and some blindness and the inability to understand much of human speech or even speak yourself, as well as automatically lashing out.
It'd basically turn you into a crying heap of stupidity that'll maul anyone that gets too close.
Of course, the artifact would become a VERY powerful weapon. To balance it out, you'd start hallucinating a bit once you get close. Darkened/brightened vision, very minor distortions or color shifts, etc. This would all happen before the actual effects of insanity took place, so, a (competent and breathing) crew would try their best to quickly dispose of the artifact.
Another thing... There could be two types: Visual and auditory. For visual effects and insanity and hallucinations the artifact MUST be in your line of sight. The artifact itself would be blurred and it'd be surrounded by strange ripples in reality. The closer you get and the more you look at it, the worse your symptoms get, until you reach that special sort of berserker.
The auditory would have a low pitch humming sound emitting from it. Due to the low pitch and energy, it can't penetrate reinforced walls, and can't go that far, and can't go through space. However, you'd start hearing voices and creepy shit. The voices would at first seem to "ignore" you, talking about whatever, but they'd soon start referencing you, others around you, etc. Eventually you'd have urges from these voices to do horrible things, you'd go mute and deaf, and your chance to hear ghosts raises exponentially (10% chance to hear them if they're right on top of you).
This post was sort of a jumble ideas but I can't be assed to make some coherent post during school as I'm procrastinating on schoolwork.
Feel free to cherrypick good or bad ideas, since I gave a small variety of possible functions and stuff.
It'd basically turn you into a crying heap of stupidity that'll maul anyone that gets too close.
Of course, the artifact would become a VERY powerful weapon. To balance it out, you'd start hallucinating a bit once you get close. Darkened/brightened vision, very minor distortions or color shifts, etc. This would all happen before the actual effects of insanity took place, so, a (competent and breathing) crew would try their best to quickly dispose of the artifact.
Another thing... There could be two types: Visual and auditory. For visual effects and insanity and hallucinations the artifact MUST be in your line of sight. The artifact itself would be blurred and it'd be surrounded by strange ripples in reality. The closer you get and the more you look at it, the worse your symptoms get, until you reach that special sort of berserker.
The auditory would have a low pitch humming sound emitting from it. Due to the low pitch and energy, it can't penetrate reinforced walls, and can't go that far, and can't go through space. However, you'd start hearing voices and creepy shit. The voices would at first seem to "ignore" you, talking about whatever, but they'd soon start referencing you, others around you, etc. Eventually you'd have urges from these voices to do horrible things, you'd go mute and deaf, and your chance to hear ghosts raises exponentially (10% chance to hear them if they're right on top of you).
This post was sort of a jumble ideas but I can't be assed to make some coherent post during school as I'm procrastinating on schoolwork.
Feel free to cherrypick good or bad ideas, since I gave a small variety of possible functions and stuff.