Goonhub
04-17-2013, 10:21 PM
Main Responsibilities: Writing and publishing the station newsletter to entertain the crew. The newsletter would consist of a headline, one photograph, a caption for the photograph, and whatever block of text passes for a story. The journalist would go around the station interviewing people, photographing various acts of violence, gathering facts, and blowing the whistle on corrupt heads of staff. Or he could just publish his uninformed opinions and rants about he would run the station ("Supercop CE turning Goonstation into Baystation?")
Equipment: The journalist's office would be located near the chapel, and in it would be everything he needs to make and distribute the news.
He would have a printing press for printing his newsletter in bulk-he would enter all text by clicking on the printing press and would be able to insert his chosen photo for the article as well. Newsletters would be stackable like metal sheets. The printing press could also print Bibles and DWAINE manuals.
The newsletter would be distributed by a new kind of station bot, which would be programmed to go around the station dropping a copy of the newsletter at the feet of each crewmember it encounters. After running out of newsletters it would go back to the journalists' office for more. If emagged it would throw rolled up newsletters at the crew-through windows if necessary!
The journalist would have many of the tools the detective has. He would have a camera, film, pens, lots of paper for the printing press, a tape recorder, and a pack of cigarettes. His ID would also give him access to more of the station (botany, science, medical, but not sec or the bridge) than most of the other civilian jobs.
The journalist would also have an intercom that would display everything he says in a unique font and color, in case he wants to unleash his inner Rush Limbaugh.
Traitor items:
Syndicate Press Pass (5-7 crystals): An untrackable, all-access ID. You could give it a custom name and job title if you wanted to impersonate the captain or something but the default option would be to have it match your regular ID. Crew will still pull out the tasers if you just waltz into the bridge or the security office but you could still use it to unlock cyborgs and bots, to upload new laws for the AI, or to embezzle funds from the station budget.
Ice moon photograph (??? crystals) a photo of...something on the ice moon. So disturbing that anyone who reads or examines your newsletter from any distance will go blind (except you because you were already desensitized by taking compromising photos of aging pop stars early in your career.) Powerful but will give you away as soon as someone goes blind and yells "Donot red nwsltter!" over the radio.
Equipment: The journalist's office would be located near the chapel, and in it would be everything he needs to make and distribute the news.
He would have a printing press for printing his newsletter in bulk-he would enter all text by clicking on the printing press and would be able to insert his chosen photo for the article as well. Newsletters would be stackable like metal sheets. The printing press could also print Bibles and DWAINE manuals.
The newsletter would be distributed by a new kind of station bot, which would be programmed to go around the station dropping a copy of the newsletter at the feet of each crewmember it encounters. After running out of newsletters it would go back to the journalists' office for more. If emagged it would throw rolled up newsletters at the crew-through windows if necessary!
The journalist would have many of the tools the detective has. He would have a camera, film, pens, lots of paper for the printing press, a tape recorder, and a pack of cigarettes. His ID would also give him access to more of the station (botany, science, medical, but not sec or the bridge) than most of the other civilian jobs.
The journalist would also have an intercom that would display everything he says in a unique font and color, in case he wants to unleash his inner Rush Limbaugh.
Traitor items:
Syndicate Press Pass (5-7 crystals): An untrackable, all-access ID. You could give it a custom name and job title if you wanted to impersonate the captain or something but the default option would be to have it match your regular ID. Crew will still pull out the tasers if you just waltz into the bridge or the security office but you could still use it to unlock cyborgs and bots, to upload new laws for the AI, or to embezzle funds from the station budget.
Ice moon photograph (??? crystals) a photo of...something on the ice moon. So disturbing that anyone who reads or examines your newsletter from any distance will go blind (except you because you were already desensitized by taking compromising photos of aging pop stars early in your career.) Powerful but will give you away as soon as someone goes blind and yells "Donot red nwsltter!" over the radio.
