#Zombie Metashield

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rapid trail
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This was originally gonna be a 6 hour message, but I wanted feedback:

Lowkey the Zombie metashield is kinda silly. Like you’re telling me a zombie outbreak has NEVER happened on another station before, despite the syndicate having access to romerol. Plus the Chemists and CMOs KNOW zombies are real.

It’d make more sense lore-wise if zombies were acknowledged as a real world disaster, just like how fire and tuberculosis is real. It’s just something that can happen, and has happened in the past.
I don’t get it.

I don’t really understand why there was a need for it in the first place.

cursive flume
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officially they were completely eradicated, so people know what a zombie is (was) but don't actually think they're real anymore

void blaze
lone shale
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Eeerr the reason chemist/cmo know about it is cause they survived an outbreak and made the cure for it and shared the info on making the cure/ it was covered up and no one knows about it any more :)
hush hush coprate secrets hush hush
but like you are allowed know about it’s cure but also not which implies mhmm cure for zombie out break mhmmm wait.. are zombies real?

rapid trail
quiet acorn
rapid trail
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It'd make more sense if zeds were acknowledged as real, and something to watch out for. Like, why NT want to cover up something that dangerous. And to believe that every chemist and CMO has previously survived a zombie outbreak is as corny as having every Hos survive nuke ops.

dreamy tree
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NT wants their sheep docile for better data collection. You are part of the experiment, a variable on a spreadsheet.

rapid trail
lone shale
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I would say a chemist telling you about romerall and telling you that it’s a hyper aggressive form of rabies is a way to IC break a meta shield
And that they fead the clown it is good enough reason isolate them no?

rapid trail
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Zombie Metashield is useless

bitter vine
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TLDR the metashield is for knowing that something is on station, not that it exists. It's like IRL we all heard of zombies and if we heard of an outbreak tomorrow we would all roll our eyes and go "whatever" until we actually see one

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The metashield for Zeds is finding a zombie or the biohazard alert for it

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Its what reveals the threat is present

lone shale
rapid trail
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Just kinda urks me that it is known as fiction galaxy-wide, even though romerol exists. Yet the zombie infections are known, but are thought to be extinct.

Idk, maybe it IS acknowledged as real outside the station and NT is just keeping info down, but notifying chemist and CMO. I just think the time between the first zombie turning and all the crew acknowledging zombies are real is very short. Like if someone spots a zombie and says so over coms, and the violet alert level is set, most characters are gonna believe zeds are real. Unless they are SUPER stubborn, which can be fun and probably doable without the metashield.

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bitter vine
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Yea the uh metashield for it pisses me off

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Why do we have two

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It just complicates it

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Grrr

toxic nymph
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Honestly I would like it if antagonists or most of them were public knowledge

bitter vine
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They are mostly known of as a concept or idea, you just shouldnt take them seriously until the metashield is broken

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In my updated metashield i have explicit info on what you are allowed to know and all circumstances revealing they are on station, alongside special info (exp you MUST SEE MAGIC USE TO CONFIRM SOMEONE IS A HERETIC, or that you CANNOT call an antag based off of sound and must witness something visually)

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Like cult is metashield on station but the idea of cults isnt new, itd be dumb to act like theyve never existed

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Lings as a concept are known of but thought to be extinct

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Zombie outbreaks havent happened in this sector but are known in history

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Etc etc

toxic nymph
bitter vine
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In a universe with confirmed magic use its reasonable to assume the idea of a magic cult isnt new, however you dont know theyre present until metashield is broken

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Cults happen IRL why wouldnt they happen in lore

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Esp with very real magic written into lore, Wizards are all from the Wizard Federation

toxic nymph
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My bad I should elaborate people would know cults are a thing but they wouldn't know specifically about a certain cult like blood cult and cosmic

bitter vine
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Correct

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Which is why it is written as you just think peolle are being weird but you wouldnt know its a cosmic cult until then, nor that a cosmic cult exists specifically

toxic nymph
bitter vine
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Heretics snd cosmic cult i have written to be "those are some weird guys but theyre just raving madmen"

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Until proven otherwise

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However cults are a real occurance its just we dont know it is x cult and theres no reason to assume theyd be on station

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Like a myth almost

toxic nymph
bitter vine
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Its not released yet and i do not know the lore on it enough to determine that

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Is it an ss13 antag or no

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Bc if it is we will likely use their lore on it

toxic nymph
bitter vine
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But just quick thinking on it itd be like irl where youd go "yea a werewolf SURE" until theres actually a werewolf in your face

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Seeing is believing after all

toxic nymph
bitter vine
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Itll have to be a convo with other staff tbh

toxic nymph
toxic nymph
bitter vine
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A lot of chappy shield antags are "lol chappys being a lunatic again watch him go"

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I love it

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You arent required to take a chappy seriously if he says he sees reality fractures, you can totally go "ok whatever crazy bitch"

toxic nymph
bitter vine
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Its so useless unless sec actually take you seriously and its funny bc of that

rapid trail
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It's like they were written by two different people

bitter vine
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lemme find my file i was workin on

rapid trail
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So if chappy does see a rift...

bitter vine
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heres what i was writing

rapid trail
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I mean I suppose as a secoff you could choose to not believe chappy for mrp reasons (or if the chappy is a traitor making shit up godo)

bitter vine
rapid trail
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so a traitor chap COULD lie about rifts godo

bitter vine
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Chappies know of magical antags just not if they ARE on station

rapid trail
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but seeing a rift as chap would confirm to the chap that there are infact heretics among us

bitter vine
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yep!

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a reality fracture is proof of a heretic

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unless you somehow spawn one from a present

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but the chances of that are so low it doesnt matter

rapid trail