mirror of
https://github.com/Bubberstation/Bubberstation.git
synced 2025-12-11 10:11:09 +00:00
5a85095111
Introduces 6 new Heretic Sideknowledges. **Warren King's Welcome:** Starting side-knowledge, Grants to the Heretic's id Maints and External Airlock access. **Phylactery Of Damnation:** T1 Knowledge, located between Imperfect Ritual and Keykeeper's Burden, creates a bottle that can Siphon a small quantity of blood from your victim, (they'll still feel a tiny prick).  **Ether Of The Newborn:** T2 knowledge, replaces Curse Of Paralysis slot in the tree (Inbetween Mark of Madness and Moonlight Amulette).  1 use potion, fully restores the inbiber to full health, removes any sort of affliction,trauma,disease or implant at the cost of knocking the user out for 1 minute. **Codex Morbus:** T3 knowledge, located between Caretaker's Refuge and Ringleader's RIse.   Upgrade of the Codex Cicatrix, draws and siphons runes and essences a bit faster, can be used on a rune to curse a crewmember, provided their blood is on the rune or on the Heretic. **Greaves Of The Prophet:** T3 knowledge, located between Entropic Plume and Wolves Among Sheep.  They work as magical magboots minus the slowdown; they confer full immunity to slips (yes, even space lube). **Rust Sower Grenade:** T2 knowledge, replaces curse of corrosion in the tree (between Aggressive Spread and Star Blast).  Eldritch grenade, Releases a smoke that rusts all affected turfs, blinds whoever doesn't have mask protection and utterly annihilates silicons, mechs, augs and bots. Video Showcase: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1GeO7MYFek **New Blade Path Spell: Wolves Among Sheep** Video Showcase: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LsmUiQzpzA - Briefly transforms the surrounding the heretic into an arena. - Both The Heretic and Crew members caught inside the spell cannot leave or change z level until the spell expires. - The arena is impassable to outsiders. - Everyone caught inside the spell receives a special buff that makes them immune to most enviromental hazards and all forms of Crowd Control while blocking teleportation. - Non Heretics are granted a temporary Heretic Blade and an antag datum. - Scoring a critical hit grants the winner the ability to leave the arena, Critting the heretic fully dissolves the spell. - Critting yourself doesn't remove the debuff. - The Heretic receives a heal upon critting someone. - Breaking a blade while inside the arena will rip off your arm regardless if you are crew or a Heretic. - 2 minutes cooldown. - Replaces Furious Steel as the last spell unlocked pre-ascension. Lastly as you may have guessed, curses have been completely refactored, they are now bound to the new item (Codex Morbus), are no longer empowered by blood but require it as a reagent. Curse of Corrosion and Paralysis have been rebalanced to be slightly stronger than they were at their base value now that they can no longer be empowered. 2 new curses have be introduced. **Curse Of Indulgence:** tanks the target hunger, makes them a carnivore and drastically increases their hunger decay rate, lasts 8 minutes. **Curse Of Transmogrification:** Allows the Heretic to change the target's Race(minus plasmamen for obvious reasons), lasts until the Codex Morbus is destroyed. Lastly the Blade Heretic tree has been shuffled a bit to introduce the new spell. Stance Of the Torn Champion has been **TEMPORARILY** Removed, it will come back in a later PR. Code by me and Xander Sprites by INFRARED_BARON and OrcaCora. Lore tibids by NecromancerAnne. The following is an atomisation of The Heretic Knowledge Rework I'm currently working on alongside Edge (Heretic's Grandaddy). Given the whole PR was probably going to be impossibly big to review; I asked Melbert If could introduce the new knowledges first, so here we are. Do not stress the locations of these knowledges in the tree; While they do fill what few empty slots we still have, it doesn't change the fact that the Heretic tree is an incomprehensible mess and will soon be reworked. **Warren King's Welcome:** Not having mantainence access as an antag sucks. Arguably it sucks even more for Heretics as they are required to find some place discrete in order to be able to cast their rituals. It's not unusual for the station to be so crowded, that setting up a base in space is the only option, the external access helps with that a little bit. **Phylactery Of Damnation and Codex Morbus** Explaining them in the same paragraph as they are intended to be used together. Curses might as well not exist in their current state. The process of cursing a crewmember is way too machineous, annoying, and nowhere near as affective as simply running to your victim and smacking it with your blade. All Curses have now been bundled to the new Codex, they no longer require X reagents, only a drip of the victim's blood. That's when the phylactery comes into play. Victims still feel "a tiny prick" upon being juiced, so beware. **Ether Of The Newborn:** The point of this knowledge is to serve as a backup plan to "random bullshittery". It's not really fun rolling one bad trauma or disease and have it completely invalidate your Heretic round. We already have potions that either heal or provide remedies against wounds/limb loss, the Ether is supposed to be an extreme solution, hence why it causes a 1 minute sleep upon consumption. **Greaves Of The Prophet:** Heretic to this day is fairly lacking when it comes to passive immunities or tools we grant to most of our core antagonists. Specifically, for a melee-focused antagonist, a total lack of antislip is kinda lame, being one of the most common defense tools employed by the crew against newbie antagonist players. Given these cannot be concealed unlike the traitor counterpart and how far down the tree they are, i felt like making them lube resistant was a unique twist and sensible for what's essentialy our core progression antagonist. **Rust Sower Grenade:** directly inspired by the 40k Blight Grenades. The Rust Sower nades serve a double purpose. 1) They introduce a new form of area Denial available to all heretic paths. 2) They confer to non Rust Heretics a way to deal with the so hated Silicon Menace. I'm of the not-so-unpopular school of thought of "Mechs and Silicons have had it too good for too long". A massive chunk of our threat roster gets to this day completely shut down by mechs. I feel like it was about time to make everything Inorganic feel afraid again. To make it a bit more fair, these grenades have a fairly long detonation timer and have been given a couple of unique SFX. **Wolves Among Sheep** Even after the last batch of Changes, Blade Heretic still felt a bit uninspired to me. The path is still essentialy just about running at people and stabbing them in the face. While that's part of the appreal, I'd reckon it's still lacking a bit on the eldritch side of things. Trapping opponents into an arena when they are forced to either engage you or betray their friends to escape can create some potentially interesting story-telling. It also warps the ,oh, so beloathed stun meta we live in by forcing participants to resort to lethal weaponry. Ultimately, this is supposed to be a high risk/high reward spell, if you trap 5 people arm them with heretic blades, and make them all fully stun immune, you are likely gonna get lynched. To free up a slot in the tree I **TEMPORARILY** Removed Stance of the Torn champion, it will come back in my nextish pr, so don't worry about it too much. 🆑 add: New Heretic starting Side-Knowdge Warren King's Welcome add: New Heretic T1 Side knowledge, Phylactery Of Damnation. add: New Heretic T2 Side knowledge, Ether Of The Newborn. add: New Heretic T3 Side knowledge, Codex Morbus. add: New Heretic T2 Side knowledge, Rust Sower grenade. add: New Heretic T3 Side knowledge, Greaves Of The Prophet. add: New Blade Path Spell, Wolves Among Sheep. balance: Heretic curses have been removed from the tree and bundled in the new Knowledge, Codex Morbus. balance: Blade Path tree has been shuffled a bit, all spells have been moved up by one tier to make space for the new spell. removal: Stance Of The Torn Champion has been removed. /🆑 --------- Co-authored-by: Xander3359 <66163761+Xander3359@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: MrMelbert <51863163+MrMelbert@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: carlarctg <53100513+carlarctg@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Ghom <42542238+Ghommie@users.noreply.github.com>