A system for teeth! Everyone has them, but they won't give them to you!
Adult humans have 32 teeth. Taking brute damage, especially to the head, should carry a risk of losing teeth. The more teeth you lose, the less comprehensible you are!
As a system goes, there's a lot to work with here. Teeth could be lost in other ways, for instance consuming too much cola could dissolve teeth. A symptom could be added to pathology that makes you lose teeth. Dentists could be added as a gimmick job. False teeth in case you lose all of yours. Gold teeth! Robot teeth? Collecting other peoples teeth!
i want 32 distinct classes of teeth, with unique names, and you need to have one of each.
Code:
Rubber Johnson punches Jhon Warcrimes!
Jhon Warcrimes's Left Lower Central Incisor flies off in a bloody arc!
Jhon Warcrimes's Left Upper First Premolar flies off in a bloody arc!
It'd open up things like dentures for teeth replacement, false teeth you can store small amounts of chemicals in, teeth prize necklaces, gaudy mat-sci teeth where someone HAD to have teleporty golden teeth, forensics for finding fights, annoying the janitor with PILES of teeth..
10-29-2018, 04:28 PM (This post was last modified: 10-29-2018, 04:29 PM by Schwicky_Schwag. Edited 1 time in total.
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I suppose a way to make examining teeth less text-spammy would be to have a single readout that approximates the amount and the state of the person's teeth. A readout could be in this format:
[Person's name] has a [tooth amount description], [tooth status description] set of teeth. (colors subject to change)
For example, a person with a perfect set of teeth would read:
"Joe Cleanteeth has a full, clean set of teeth."
Someone indulging in Chemistry's products would likely have a description of:
"Mike Methface has a somewhat complete, rotted set of teeth. "
" A vampire, werewolf, or other being inclined to feasting on crewmembers might have their description be:
Bob Bloodman has a full, blood-spattered set of teeth. "
And so on and so forth, with different descriptors describing their chompers. Of course, a medical examination would provide a more accurate and informative description of the status of a crewmember's teeth.
10-29-2018, 08:36 PM (This post was last modified: 10-29-2018, 08:37 PM by Technature. Edited 1 time in total.)
Adding on to this.
Nuke Ops should always have a false tooth to store their cyanide in.
But they have to manually put it in every time.
So they can bitch that they can't blow up that security officer that just arrested them and is bringing them to the brig because they forgot.
10-30-2018, 02:01 AM (This post was last modified: 10-30-2018, 02:02 AM by locusts. Edited 1 time in total.)
More ideas:
- Dentistry is pretty simple, you have tubes of dental glue available in medbay. Hold that in one hand, the tooth you intend to replace in the other, aim for head with help intent and click to glue the tooth back in.
- A system for checking and removing teeth that I haven't thought of yet.
- Gumshields as a mask slot item which prevent you from losing teeth.
- Certain foods risk breaking your teeth, like candy apples.
- Meth causes you to lose teeth, triple meth causes you to lose all your teeth at once.
- A new chem that causes you to continuously shed and regrow teeth when it's in your system.
- A mutation that lets you fire your teeth at people, as long as you still have some. Empowered it acts like a shotgun blast of teeth.
- Use processed crystals from the NanoFab to replace teeth. Ruby teeth! Plasmaglass teeth! Telecrystal teeth!
- Dentistry is pretty simple, you have tubes of dental glue available in medbay. Hold that in one hand, the tooth you intend to replace in the other, aim for head with help intent and click to glue the tooth back in.
- A system for checking and removing teeth that I haven't thought of yet.
- Gumshields as a mask slot item which prevent you from losing teeth.
- Certain foods risk breaking your teeth, like candy apples.
- Meth causes you to lose teeth, triple meth causes you to lose all your teeth at once.
- A new chem that causes you to continuously shed and regrow teeth when it's in your system.
- A mutation that lets you fire your teeth at people, as long as you still have some. Empowered it acts like a shotgun blast of teeth.
- Use processed crystals from the NanoFab to replace teeth. Ruby teeth! Plasmaglass teeth! Telecrystal teeth!
(10-29-2018, 08:36 PM)Technature Wrote: But they have to manually put it in every time.
Thoughts on how to implant? Maybe be in block/grab intention and click on your own head with the cyanide pill? I actually love the idea of people accidentally trying this and downing the pill before they've even left
(10-30-2018, 02:01 AM)locusts Wrote: - A new chem that causes you to continuously shed and regrow teeth when it's in your system.
A trail of teeth leading to and fro, sounds amazing.
Teeth implants, too! Tracking implants, microbomb teeth (perhaps they could be stronger than regular microbombs and still cost 1 TC, but are harder to get in you and easier to lose), reagent-scanner teeth (but you have to sip on something to know what's in it!), and reagent-injector teeth!
Teeth being added could lead to some fun gimmicks, like a tooth fairy traitor who kidnaps people and steals their teeth.
With the idea of teeth implants etc, perhaps a new tool to easily detect? Dental Scanner/Xray? It could also be emaggable to just dose people with unhealthy amounts of radiation?
(10-30-2018, 04:05 AM)aft2001 Wrote: Teeth implants, too! Tracking implants, microbomb teeth (perhaps they could be stronger than regular microbombs and still cost 1 TC, but are harder to get in you and easier to lose), reagent-scanner teeth (but you have to sip on something to know what's in it!), and reagent-injector teeth!
Teeth being added could lead to some fun gimmicks, like a tooth fairy traitor who kidnaps people and steals their teeth.
Maybe nukeops could get a cyanide tooth, Cold War style?
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