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tralezab 27916beb81 A Mime's Vow to Silence Cannot be Repaired Once Broken. (Mimes can Write Under the Vow Again.) (#80332)
## About The Pull Request

Breaking your Vow is now a permanent action. Here's the changes that
come with that:

- Renamed "Speech" to "Break Vow" and changed description to match.
- You no longer get a permanent bad moodlet, just a temporary, lighter
one. I calculated that breaking your vow of silence provides roughly the
same emotional damage as getting your eyes stabbed out.
- Breaking vow now comes with a confirm alert.
- Mimes can once again write while under the vow.

## Why It's Good For The Game

After all this recent hullabaloo about mimes breaking and repairing
their vow, and what the moodlets for that action should be, it was
decided by a headcoder majority that mime vow breaking should be a
permanent action.


![image](https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/assets/40974010/8e945095-7244-4071-8fdd-8a1529b5a4fb)

But beyond headcoder decisions, I myself agree with it being permanent.
Making vow breaking a temporary action that can be repaired after only 5
minutes makes ignoring the main gimmick of mime not only viable but
essentially expected. When silence can usually cause moments where you
NEED to explain yourself or else risk possibly dying, we're essentially
pushing players to break a vow. Now, it will be seen as less of a
potential option, because you can't undo it after 5 minutes.

## Changelog
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qol: Added a confirmation prompt to breaking your vow of silence.
balance: Mimes can no longer repair the vow of silence once broken.
balance: The negative moodlet from breaking your vow of silence is now
lighter, and no longer permanent.
balance: Mimes are back to being able to write while under a vow of
silence.
/🆑

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Co-authored-by: John Willard <53777086+JohnFulpWillard@users.noreply.github.com>
2023-12-17 09:20:41 +13:00
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