fix gradient selection (#17277)

* fix gradient selection

* fix blood, fix pregame spawn

code/modules/mob/living/carbon/human/human.dm

@@ -1329,9 +1329,8 @@
 			var/datum/mob_descriptor/descriptor = species.descriptors[desctype]
 			descriptors[desctype] = descriptor.default_value
 
-	//This was the old location of initialize_vessel. A race condiiton happened here because of species code being JANK. This resulted in runtimes during unit test, but worked perfectly fine in game.
-	//Now, initialize_vessel has been moved to human/Initialize()
-	// addtimer(CALLBACK(src, PROC_REF(initialize_vessel)), 0, TIMER_DELETE_ME) //Doing ASYNC fails here. This used to be a spawn(0)
+	if(vessel)
+		initialize_vessel()
 
 	// Rebuild the HUD. If they aren't logged in then login() should reinstantiate it for them.
 	update_hud()

code/modules/mob/new_player/new_player.dm

@@ -179,6 +179,9 @@
 		new_player_panel_proc()
 
 	if(href_list["observe"])
+		if(!SSticker || SSticker.current_state == GAME_STATE_INIT)
+			to_chat(src, span_warning("The game is still setting up, please try again later."))
+			return 0
 		if(tgui_alert(src,"Are you sure you wish to observe? If you do, make sure to not use any knowledge gained from observing if you decide to join later.","Observe Round?",list("Yes","No")) == "Yes")
 			if(!client)	return 1