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## About The Pull Request Port of a feature I coded for a downstream ages ago and never bothered PRing up here. This event simply selects a department and then makes objects of various types fall from the sky in that area. The types of things it can pick from are: - Fish - Small animals (cats and dogs) - Food - Small change Food is selected randomly from all foods and will get rapidly dirty if not collected within the bounds of the five second rule. Fish are selected randomly from all fish, and will be alive when they land but likely to die quite quickly (as most fish cannot breathe on land) causing additional emotional distress to people nearby. While they are few in number, some fish are actually quite dangerous items. The animals are a weighted pick from some curated lists of items. The puppies survive their contact with the floor and can be adopted or farmed for meat as desired. The coins are also picked from a weighted list which is basically just copied from one of our maintenance coin spawners. This event is only active during Summon Events or during the first couple of ritual circles a wizard might activate. As it's mostly a social motivator rather than being inherently particularly disruptive (although it can make a bit of a mess), it only appears around the same tier as similar effects like the Hallucinatory Anomaly after which it is replaced by more dangerous events. ## Why It's Good For The Game By dropping potentially desirable items inside a department and also telling people that there's (for example) cash just lying around on the floor in the cargo bay, it may divert people from what they are doing so that they will converge on that area of the station. This creates opportunities for people to interact with each other, compete over these resources, or take advantage of potential reduced oversight of unaffected parts of the station. Also the idea of a miraculous rain of animals (particularly fish, but cats and dogs have their own saying) has a cultural basis and is the kind of whimsical thing you can imagine happening as a side-effect of magical spells. ## Changelog 🆑 add: Occasionally when a Wizard is around, strange things may being falling from the sky. /🆑