Good Idea/Bad Idea

[Silvercloud29]

Its time for another...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dJOIf4mdus

Post an idea as good or as stupid as you want! Let this be a idea dump! No matter what it it or how it sounds just pour it out into this post.

[Frank_Stein]

Grandma Bots. They dispense cookies, milk, pies, and sweaters

[atomic1fire]

Epilepsy

Unlocked via genetics or bad luck, getting flashed or flashbanged (or maybe other things that emit bright light or sounds) can cause you to take damage or even eventually die.

Water gun: A cheap toy that can be filled with non-acidic reagents, go run around squirting dudes with things that are probably water.

Attempts to use most acids or superhot chemicals will cause the water gun to comically melt in your hand and cause the reagents to transfer on to you via touch.

[Morrigi]

Pub McPubbie's water gun smolders and melts! What an idiot!

[Ikkonoishi]

Isn't epilepsy already a thing?

How about a staff assistant skin suit for borgs. It makes them look like a greyshirt with a random name. They even have the default items on them if you look closely at them, but they still have the same emote/damage sounds as normal. It shows up randomly in abandoned crates or maybe is sold by D.O.C., but is also a cheap buy from the syndie-roboticist PDA.

A pamphlet printer in the chapel office. It prints out a box of pamphlets with Chaplin entered text.

While in the help intent the Chaplain can place pamphlets in the empty hands of people who are in help or grab intent instantly. If the victim is in the disarm intent they will just knock it out of his hand, and if they are in the harm intent they will automatically counter slap the Chaplin.

If the Chaplin is in the grab intent he is more aggressive, and will shove the pamphlet into their hands or if their hands aren't empty into their pockets or backpack. However to do so he must successfully land a passive grab on them beforehand.

In the harm intent he just smacks them in the face with it placing it into their head slot if empty, and attaching it to their headpiece if not. They will be blinded until they get the damned thing off their face/peel it from their headpiece.

When the victim holds a pamphlet in their hand the text of the pamphlet is shown automatically, and the window showing it can not be closed until the pamphlet is discarded or put away. A special syndicate version of the pamphlet will display both the normal text of the pamphlet to most people, and a special sub-text that is only visible to the first person that it is given to. Thanks to a suggestibility serum infused in the paper the victim will believe that the the sub-text of the pamphlet is THE TRUTH and obey without question for a while. Each purchase of the syndie-pamphlet-printer will give a small number of pamphlets which will all have the same text and sub-text. The sub-text is passive until they subjects hear a trigger word/phrase over the radio at which point they will get notices that suddenly it all MAKES SENSE.

Non-traitor chaplains will like it because they get to go "PAY ATTENTION TO MY DUMB GIMMICK CULT!"

Traitor chaplains will like it because it gets them a bunch of cheap disposable (temporary) mindslaves to throw at the forces of order as a distraction.
The sub-text might be best chosen from a premade list so they won't all be just straight suicide commands. eg...
"THE CAPTAIN IS A CONDOM. STRIP HIM NAKED AND FART ON HIM."
"YOU ARE THE TRAITOR WHO HAS BEEN PLAGUING THE STATION. YOU ARE RACKED WITH GUILT. CONFESS AND SURRENDER TO SEC WHETHER THEY WANT YOU TO OR NOT."
"OTHERS WITH THE SAME JOB TITLE AS YOU ARE IMPOSTERS WHO BROKE IN AND STOLE EQUIPMENT FROM YOU. GET IT BACK!"
"YOU ARE A MIGHTY HUNTING CAT AND STAFF ASSISTANTS ARE YOUR PREY. DO NOT EAT THEM. TOY WITH THEM. THEY EXIST TO AMUSE YOU."
"THROW EVERYTHING THAT ISN'T NAILED DOWN OR MOVING OUT THE NEAREST AIRLOCK"
"THE BEES/BUDDIES/BORGS/SECURITRONS/MONKEYS ARE YOU FRIENDS WHO ARE BEING HELD HOSTAGE. RESCUE THEM FROM BOTANY/SCIENCE/THE AI/SECURITY/GENETICS."

Everyone else will hate not knowing if they have been suborned after reading a pamphlet until the Chaplain yells "poo", and suddenly red text appears saying "YOU NEED TO GO GET SOME FUCKING COFFEE RIGHT NOW. DON'T LET ANYONE STOP YOU OR SLOW YOU DOWN!"

To help with this the non-traitor chaplain should have a staff objective to pamphlet as many people as possible.

[Frank_Stein]

PAMPHLETS

I like it. I think maybe the newsroom could use something like that too, for people who'd want to do a reporter/zine gimmick. I wouldn't put any restrictions like a premade list of commands, since mindslave implants don't have anything like that.

[Frank_Stein]

Here's one for robotocists. Take a corpse into robotics. Remove the brain. Stick some wires, a battery, and a signaller inside the head cavity. Boom, you've got a...
Zombot!!!

Zombots will wander around aimlessly, harmlessly gnawing on things and people. If they see brains lying around, they'll try to eat them. You can feed them brains to make them friendly towards you, in which case they will attack anything that harms you. You can summon them to you by using a signaller attuned to the frequency as the signaller inside their head. They're still walking corpses, so they can't take much in the way of damage and they'll slowly decompose unless you preserve them with formaldehyde and cold. THEY DO NOT SPREAD ZOMBIE DISEASE.

One starts off in the Morgue as a pet.

[Ikkonoishi]

PAMPHLETS

I like it. I think maybe the newsroom could use something like that too, for people who'd want to do a reporter/zine gimmick. I wouldn't put any restrictions like a premade list of commands, since mindslave implants don't have anything like that.

I was thinking that at most you have 3 or 4 mindslaves using all telecrystals, but you could have something like 20 or 30 various sub-texts implanted and sleeping in people around the station.

[atomic1fire]

I don't know about giving robotics a zombie, but I do think that zombot could be a pretty funny way to give robotics a way to make frankenstein.

[Silvercloud29]

Good idea....

Wearing a red space suit and carrying a Spacker-12 as Nuke Ops.

Bad Idea...

Wearing a red space suit and carrying a Spacker-12 as a NT employee

[atomic1fire]

This is probably one of those things that is super unfeasible but could be neat.


An exact replica of the station (in a telescience zlevel) but it looks completely wrecked, and maybe it has zombies in it or something. Or maybe it's almost exactly the same except everything is a little weirder and oddly creepy. Basically convince the person someone has messed with the station and they just teleported into it.
(maybe gut out stuff like the engine or something if lag is an issue)

A telescience guy would get teleported in and think "What happened to the station" and then eventually realize it's a completely different station.

Maybe prolonged stay could trigger space madness or something.

Basically a Mirror universe zlevel.

In truth it's probably too close to void in concept, but it sounds neat.

[Frank_Stein]

This is probably one of those things that is super unfeasible but could be neat.


An exact replica of the station (in a telescience zlevel) but it looks completely wrecked, and maybe it has zombies in it or something. Or maybe it's almost exactly the same except everything is a little weirder and oddly creepy. Basically convince the person someone has messed with the station and they just teleported into it.
(maybe gut out stuff like the engine or something if lag is an issue)

A telescience guy would get teleported in and think "What happened to the station" and then eventually realize it's a completely different station.

Maybe prolonged stay could trigger space madness or something.

Basically a Mirror universe zlevel.

In truth it's probably too close to void in concept, but it sounds neat.

Populate it with NPC replicas of people currently playing in the round. Possibly have them move and say things exactly as the players are. That, or just give them generic phrases

[Readster]

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[SARazage]

I've had this idea for a while, but thought it was too dumb to put in the traitor items thread:

The shoes from this video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Wga5A6R9BJg

Should be a traitor item. Probably all 10 crystals and they make a midi play when put on and the user starts bouncing up and down (maybe a party light effect becomes visible around the user too). A special panel opens up with dance moves that do various things from causing random explosions to stunning people, being able to force doors open, jump over tables, whatever. As the user does more moves the music gets more intense and they accumulate Funk. As Funk increases so too does the potency of the dance moves. Explosions get bigger, stuns get longer or start to do actual damage, the impact from the dance moves now breaks down walls. However, also the shoes have a downside, no man can handle that much funk, so soon after funk starts to accumulate, the user begins to have a chance to randomly be gibbed after using each dance move.

It needs tweaking and it still seems like it wouldn't work well in a round. Another idea is to have the shoes as a syndie crate item and they just make the user bounce up and down (like moon shoes) and play a midi song.

[Dabir]

I'd be down with those shoes as an upgrade or some kind of leg modification that lets borgs dance. Obviously if it's an upgrade, the Bro Bot should start with it.