Changeling bore-eggs
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2015 9:04 am
As a rather expensive option (I can't remember if all Changeling powers are the same price or differently priced right now), for a large cost in chems, a Changeling can buy a power that lets him shoot a dart that does a hefty chunk of damage on-hit, and then does some damage over time for a bit. If you target the mouth and it hits, the target takes half the damage as suffocation, but can't speak for the duration. If hit in the eyes, they suffer a big chunk of eye damage.
I forget, do we have anything that gives you messages like 'your left arm hurts' that happen often? If so getting hit with a borer should proc those messages. If not, fuck it - it poops anaesthesia after it settles down, or something.
That's not the main function of the mutation, though: The dart is an egg in a fleshboring worm-thing with a copies of the changeling's genetic information in it. If the changeling were to ever suffer a permanent death (i.e. gibbing or incineration) their psychic death scream will activate the egg, inserting the changeling into any dead corpse with a a bore-egg and allowing it to begin regenerating the corpse so it can live again.
However, as it does have the changeling's DNA in it - all of the ones they've stolen - as well as whatever weird, a doc that realizes its in there and extracts it via surgery can compare the dna strings to his staff list and cross those guys out as DED. Also, by letting one of the genetics research tubes do an exhaustive scan, of the egg, the machine can spit out a disk that can be used on a standard encryption key to gain access to Changeling channel on a headset, or used on a medhud to make it highlight that particular changeling, no matter what form they take.
Alternatively, as the obligatory 'get people back into the round' option - especially important for Changelings - the Changeling also gets a verb that lets them screech into radios or whatever. Any implanted corpse that can hear that screech will (after spending time regenerating) get back up as a 'thing' - essentially a lesser changeling, without normal speech or genome stealing ,but access to :g chat, ventcrawling, the ability to KO and regenerate, and a small amount of points to buy select changeling abilities - the 'scary monster' ones, probably. They get the objective to 'serve the hivemind overlord [Changeling]'. Maybe they also permanently have coffeeshakes. That's pretty common/spooky/stealth-deterring, right?
I forget, do we have anything that gives you messages like 'your left arm hurts' that happen often? If so getting hit with a borer should proc those messages. If not, fuck it - it poops anaesthesia after it settles down, or something.
That's not the main function of the mutation, though: The dart is an egg in a fleshboring worm-thing with a copies of the changeling's genetic information in it. If the changeling were to ever suffer a permanent death (i.e. gibbing or incineration) their psychic death scream will activate the egg, inserting the changeling into any dead corpse with a a bore-egg and allowing it to begin regenerating the corpse so it can live again.
However, as it does have the changeling's DNA in it - all of the ones they've stolen - as well as whatever weird, a doc that realizes its in there and extracts it via surgery can compare the dna strings to his staff list and cross those guys out as DED. Also, by letting one of the genetics research tubes do an exhaustive scan, of the egg, the machine can spit out a disk that can be used on a standard encryption key to gain access to Changeling channel on a headset, or used on a medhud to make it highlight that particular changeling, no matter what form they take.
Alternatively, as the obligatory 'get people back into the round' option - especially important for Changelings - the Changeling also gets a verb that lets them screech into radios or whatever. Any implanted corpse that can hear that screech will (after spending time regenerating) get back up as a 'thing' - essentially a lesser changeling, without normal speech or genome stealing ,but access to :g chat, ventcrawling, the ability to KO and regenerate, and a small amount of points to buy select changeling abilities - the 'scary monster' ones, probably. They get the objective to 'serve the hivemind overlord [Changeling]'. Maybe they also permanently have coffeeshakes. That's pretty common/spooky/stealth-deterring, right?