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You are what you eat: Changeling/Vamp tripping on assistants
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In ten words: Changelings eating and Vampires drinking people on hard drugs: Effect?

Basic premise: When Changelings absorb or vampires drink people, some manner of effect could be garnered upon the changeling or vampire. This could be minor for aesthetic, or practical for tactical effect depending on creep. I'd err on mostly aesthetic.

Okay how would it work?

Two basic versions, though feel free to tinker with them or do something different if you end up coding it, it's your baby at that point these are just ideas:

- "Soft" version: When a changeling eats someone or vampire drinks someone, if that person has a LOT of drug-reagents (probably a limited list to keep things simple) they experience their own version of this. To keep it simple, if someone has say 100+ units of THC in their system and gets drink/eaten, the vamp/changeling gets a pre-set coded dose of say 30 units of THC. It would be limited to that amount no matter what, just enough to experience a bit of a high. Maybe if that person had enough morphene in them they'd experience a small morphene dose, so on. Most reagents don't have any effect, this keeps the concept essentially being a very simple occasionally funny reaction to eating someone, but not a huge tactical effect.

- "Hard" version: Same in essence as above but it's a direct proportional transfer of chems from the victim to the vamp/ling, maybe in a reduced fraction to simulate some kind of "Filtering" process inherent to the species likely survival. Perhaps some reagents are not included in this list or it's limited too, or perhaps its everything. This is likely to have far more of an impact, which might be good or bad but it's worth thinking that if a station knows there's someone going around drinking blood a clever clown duo might decide to become a potassium/water binary bomb, or everyone starts injecting holy water into their stream. 

Okay why though?: Upon my trevails as an alien entity of unknowable form slash nosferatu I often have a died of TRIPPED THE HECK OUT staff assistants. However it's clear current changelings and vampires have some kind of natural filter mechanism/don't actually interact with internal reagents during this process and remain completely teetotal. I'll often RP it off as tripping myself because I think that's funny and sometimes leads to amusing RP opportunities. But I have also had the idea of having this have a more practical effect for a while and decided to finally post it and see what people think, if it would be fun.

Okay why not though?: It'll need coding, some people may not enjoy either the "hard" or "Soft" version. The "Hard" version of this idea has potential tactical ramifications that might also be good, but need to be considered. There may be a reason this doesn't already exist. 

All the best and thanks for reading, remember to be tripping out on 300 units of meth the next time someone asks if they can shake your hand and you get dizzy.
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already a feature dude
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(01-09-2025, 11:07 PM)ZeWaka Wrote: already a feature dude

Help me out here, I spent yesterday and this morning specifically checking before posting on poor simulacrum assistants and various drugs, nothing was coming up the pipeline! I'll go code rummaging in the mean time and edit this if I find it and understand it.

Otherwise thanks awesome idea glad I clearly willed it into pre-existence somehow.

EDIT: I'm clearly missing it which is down to my lacklustre code understanding, looking at the changeling ability holder dm that part just seems to simulate replenishing the food/drink motives, husking the original body and handing over the owner to a holder. I'll keep working at it. There must be some aspect I'm fundamentally messing up because I have absolutely chomped down on some guys full to the brim with drugs. I'll work it out.
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