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|jobtitle = Curator
|titles=Librarian, Journalist, Archivist, Cartographer, Space Archaeologist
|access = Service General, [[Library]], Construction, Mining Station
|additional = [[Maintenance|Maintenance Tunnels]], [[Space|External Airlocks]], [[Auxiliary Base]]
|difficulty = Easy
|superior = [[Head of Personnel]]
|duties = Read and write books and hand them to people, stock bookshelves, report on station news and find TREASURE!
|guides = [[Paperwork]], [[Guide to construction]], ''Adventurer Curator'': Auxiliary Base Construction Area, [[Lavaland]], [[Megafauna]], [[Shaft Miner]], [[Space]]
|quote = We have books about everything, even The Mighty Moja, what would you like to rent?
|age=18}}


==Welcome==
The Curator spends most of their time in the [[library]] printing out a lot of copies of Lizard Equality or running around in their red suit and welding through walls of everywhere they have no access (i.e. everywhere). The [[library]] itself has a permanence to its contents from game to game on the servers -- all properly uploaded books can be downloaded in any other round.


Librarian is a good role to play if you want to stay under the radar or good as a role to learn some basic mechanics of SS13, rarely will you see someone actually play as a librarian due to the lack of access and the fact that the library is not visited by many people.  
This is more bane than a blessing, since several titles that never should have seen the light of day are forever mingled in with literary classics shamelessly plagiarized from the internet, and also a lot of H.P. Lovecraft. Ba-zing!


The Librarian starts off behind the desk in the Library of the station (Duuh), and spawns with a scanner for books, and a neat tie and sweater!


The Library can be found in the Northwest wing of the station in the liesure department next to the chapel and botony, and across the hall from the Science department.
'''Bare minimum requirements:''' Learn how to [[Paperwork|write]] and [[Curator#How To Add A Book To The Database|publish]] books. Know how to navigate the library computer GUI.
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[[File:Library.png|300px|thumb|alt=Library|The [[Library]]]]
==Welcome to the exhibit!==
Sadly, you will not go on cool adventures to obtain magical artifacts. You will be giving out books, on the rare occasion that someone requests a book. (See Below) You will also occasionally have to replace the [[Chaplain]]'s bible after he beats one too many people with and is disarmed and the book spaced. The final area of your job is to upload new books to the archive (See Below). So, take your [[pen]] and [[paper]], and write down some screenplays! Printing a few books is cool, but don't be a dick and print 100 copies of one. All it does is crash people that right-click that pile.
==The Curator and his [[Library]]==
First things first, stock your [[library]] with books that matter. At the start of the station, your bookshelves will be EMPTY! Your fellow crew members will not want to stay in a [[library]] that has no books. To fix this use the [[Library]]'s [[Library Computer|Check In/Out Computer]]'s and use its function, "4. Connect to External Archive". Here is the main dish of your sum total of existence, to sort out in the mess of books, and find only the BEST. The books are not sorted, or sortable, and look to have no order what so ever. You will even find many books' copies in the archive. To retrieve the selected book, simply click ORDER, the Check-In/Out Computer's printer will hum as it produces a completely bound book. How did it do that?


The libarary contains bookshelves, able to hold books, some chairs and tables for liesure and relaxed reading, and a private area above for meetings or other purposes.  
The barcode scanner will be needed for checking books into the local [[library]]'s computer. It has 4 settings, as follows:
Mode 0 : Scan book to local buffer.
Mode 1 : Scan book to local buffer and set associated computer buffer to match.
Mode 2 : Scan book to local buffer, attempt to check in scanned book.
Mode 3 : Scan book to local buffer, attempt to add book to general inventory.
(*Note:Use the scanner on the computer, otherwise it won't work)


Behind the librarians desk is a computer and a printer able to print books for you to stock on the shelves! A recorder also spawns on the desk and can be used for any recording reasons, (but most likely will end up stolen...) and could also help you in case of security reasons! In the library, there is a book binder, and a check in/out computer, which are used to make books of your own! So feel free to write all the books you want (remembering that ERP in Yogstation is a bannable offence)
The [[Library]] is not your workspace, but a home, to you and your books. You can sort your books on their labeled book-shelves: Religious, Fiction, Reference, and the back room's Forbidden Knowledge. You can use your bookbag, which works like a mining satchel or plant bag, to carry multiple books at once.


==Stocking the Shelves==
Your library likely also contains several display cases, you have a key in your pocket that will allow you to unlock these cases so that you may put items inside. These items will show up in the cases for future rounds until another curator replaces it with something else.  
The one thing that I notice when I walk into a library on a boring round, is the librarian never takes the time to stock the shelves! He just stands behind the counter reading. Stocking the shelves is quite an easy job, you print off the books you like, and place them on the shelves that represent the type of book! Informative books would go onto the bookshelf marked informative, fiction would go to fiction, You get the point! You can print a book by walking to the computer behind the librarians desk and checking the external archive. The books names will be labelled on the left, and the genre will be labelled to the right! Make sure you don't stock books on a genre they don't belong. Stocking the books is simple, bring the book to the shelves and click!


==Making a book==
'''Warning: Items placed in these display cases can NEVER be retrieved including in the current round, place items in with caution.'''
Making a book is quite a quick job, and anybody can do it!
==How To Add A Book To The Database==
#Get [[Paper]] and a [[Pen]].
#Write your manifesto on Lizard Oppression.
#Take your story to the East Back of the [[Library]] to the [[File:Book_Binder.png]] Book Binder and slap that compelling manifesto onto the binder. This will spit out your new revolutionary piece.
#Still have that pen? Good, you can sign your name, add more content, and even title it.
#This book is ready to be sent through to Nanotrasen command! Ask the Curator to scan this book into the computer, using the [[File:Scanner.png]] Scanner.
#Once scanned, use the [[File:Library_Computer.png]] [[Library Computer|Check In/Out Computer]]'s 5th function, titled, ''"5. Upload New Title to Archive"''.
#Here you can change the category, change the author once more, and view the title.
#After reviewing the book, and being ready to publish, use the "UPLOAD" command.
==Breaking News!==
Behind the library desk is a handy newscaster to work with. Since the Curator is given a tape recorder and a camera with spare film, this allows you to keep the crew informed of station events, such as memorable performances by the clown, interviews with prominent people, murders or even writing fake anti-sec news. Photos from your camera can be attached to the news articles you post. Alternatively, you could use your photocopier to copy your ass and attach the results to your news articles.


#Grab a pen and paper, and spin your magical yarn of, 'Wooah!'.
The newscaster can also print out up to 15 newspapers and can be refilled by adding more paper. After that, you'll want to deliver the newspaper to frequently visited areas like the Medbay, Brig, and more.
#Place the story into the book binder near the top right of the library and watch as your masterpiece pops out!
==The Soapstone==
#Using a pen, you can sign your name, add more content, and title it!
[[File:Soapstone.png|thumb|right|Amazing Chest Ahead]]
#now your book is ready for viewers sensitive eyes! Take your book to the librarian (or yourself) and scan it into the computer using the scanner.
You can use the soapstone that you start with in order to leave messages for others to read later. Your soapstone starts out with 3 charges that can be used to write on a floor or wall on the station. The messages will be saved and appear in future rounds until removed by soapstone. No charges are required to erase messages, and erasing your own message will grant you an additional charge.
#Use the check in/out computer's 5th function to upload a new title to the archive.
==Languages==
#now you may add the category, change the author, and view the title!
As an academic, you studied even the most obscure languages known in the universe. You can innately understand secret cult-speak, robotic beeping, drone chatter, and can even interpret [[xenomorph]] hissing. What is seriously puzzling is that you can also <i>speak</i> those languages, which supports the theory that Curators are just failed wizards.
#After your ready, click the upload command! Now many people can enjoy your masterpiece!
==Tips==
*Curator system is much more robust than most people think:
**You can activate barcode scanner to switch modes.
**You can use it to add printed books to your library's "inventory", then use the check in/check-out the computer to actually give people books for a specified amount of time, as a real library would.
*You can cut inventory slots in books with wire cutters.
*Your whip will instantly disarm anyone you hit with it.
*Many people don't visit the library because the literature is <s>trash</s> poorly curated. Try setting aside a special shelf with hand-picked books. Decorate, advertise and hold events to attract the attention of passerby!
*You have Construction access so you can make a base and go to lavaland or renovate the [[Vacant Office]]. Try it out!
*Pry up wood tiles with a screwdriver or deconstruct tables with a wrench and fix all the rotting wood tiles in your library. Get those cobwebs cleared out, too!
*Your access to the [[Auxiliary Base Construction Area]] can provide you with meson scanners and a full toolbelt, along with a cargo headset.
==Book'em Dano==
This used to be one of the hardest jobs to be a Traitor as. It used to be a job where you had nothing but some books and your wits, but with some recent changes he now has robust armor and a unique weapon: THE WHIP. Security trying to taze you? Whip the gun out of their hands! Target is too loud? Whip them! You're too slow? Whip yourself! It's amazing.


==Your own little hidin' hole==
However, don't downplay your weakness: piss all access. And don't forget, you're about as suspicious as an assistant. Make sure to get your stealing (or killing) done, then hole up in your private study until the heat dies down. However, unlike assistants, your outfit is quite special, so people will easily recognize you everywhere unless you ditch it. Emagging the library computer causes it to spit out a [[Tome|tome]], though you need to be a real cultist to read it. This can be used to confuse security, but you should be ready to get searched and brigged for some time.
Behind the library desk is a door to a tiny room with a shelve, a chair, your extra clothes, and your own desk! This is a great place to store your valuables, write your masterpieces, or hide from shitcurity!
==I can offer you Knowledge==
You have a very important role when the station is visited by [[Devil|devils]]. Your private study contains a book called the Codex Gigas, using this will allow you to find out crucial information about the devil including his weaknesses, ban, bane, obligation, and how to keep the devil dead. To use the Gigas to find the devils weaknesses, you must first know his name through their contracts and enter it correctly.


==Breaking news==
You must protect the Codex Gigas as the devils themselves and their followers would love to stop the devil from dying, as well as stopping Security members from taking the Codex and trying to use it themselves. Only you can read the Codex Gigas properly, but you may get brain damage from reading it too much. Others will get the wrong information.
The newscaster behind your desk allows you to put your camera to the test! Keep the crew informed on upcoming poetry readings, the clowns latest trickery, and recent slaughters! Photos taken by your camera can be uploaded to the newscasts!


==Traitoring==
Well, if you were unlucky enough to be a filthy librarian traitor.. Have fun! You will be a virtually useless traitor, your lack of access to doors and weapons will slow you down, however, there are some advantages, such as the fact that no-one will notice you missing or question you running around being absolutely useless.


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Latest revision as of 00:46, 8 August 2024

CIVILIAN STAFF
Generic librarian.png Librarian.png
Curator
Alternative Titles: Librarian, Journalist, Archivist, Cartographer, Space Archaeologist
Access: Service General, Library, Construction, Mining Station
Additional Access: Maintenance Tunnels, External Airlocks, Auxiliary Base
Difficulty: Easy
Supervisors: Head of Personnel
Duties: Read and write books and hand them to people, stock bookshelves, report on station news and find TREASURE!
Guides: Paperwork, Guide to construction, Adventurer Curator: Auxiliary Base Construction Area, Lavaland, Megafauna, Shaft Miner, Space
Minimum Age: 18
Quote: We have books about everything, even The Mighty Moja, what would you like to rent?

The Curator spends most of their time in the library printing out a lot of copies of Lizard Equality or running around in their red suit and welding through walls of everywhere they have no access (i.e. everywhere). The library itself has a permanence to its contents from game to game on the servers -- all properly uploaded books can be downloaded in any other round.

This is more bane than a blessing, since several titles that never should have seen the light of day are forever mingled in with literary classics shamelessly plagiarized from the internet, and also a lot of H.P. Lovecraft. Ba-zing!


Bare minimum requirements: Learn how to write and publish books. Know how to navigate the library computer GUI.

Library

Welcome to the exhibit!

Sadly, you will not go on cool adventures to obtain magical artifacts. You will be giving out books, on the rare occasion that someone requests a book. (See Below) You will also occasionally have to replace the Chaplain's bible after he beats one too many people with and is disarmed and the book spaced. The final area of your job is to upload new books to the archive (See Below). So, take your pen and paper, and write down some screenplays! Printing a few books is cool, but don't be a dick and print 100 copies of one. All it does is crash people that right-click that pile.

The Curator and his Library

First things first, stock your library with books that matter. At the start of the station, your bookshelves will be EMPTY! Your fellow crew members will not want to stay in a library that has no books. To fix this use the Library's Check In/Out Computer's and use its function, "4. Connect to External Archive". Here is the main dish of your sum total of existence, to sort out in the mess of books, and find only the BEST. The books are not sorted, or sortable, and look to have no order what so ever. You will even find many books' copies in the archive. To retrieve the selected book, simply click ORDER, the Check-In/Out Computer's printer will hum as it produces a completely bound book. How did it do that?

The barcode scanner will be needed for checking books into the local library's computer. It has 4 settings, as follows:

Mode 0 : Scan book to local buffer.
Mode 1 : Scan book to local buffer and set associated computer buffer to match.
Mode 2 : Scan book to local buffer, attempt to check in scanned book.
Mode 3 : Scan book to local buffer, attempt to add book to general inventory.

(*Note:Use the scanner on the computer, otherwise it won't work)

The Library is not your workspace, but a home, to you and your books. You can sort your books on their labeled book-shelves: Religious, Fiction, Reference, and the back room's Forbidden Knowledge. You can use your bookbag, which works like a mining satchel or plant bag, to carry multiple books at once.

Your library likely also contains several display cases, you have a key in your pocket that will allow you to unlock these cases so that you may put items inside. These items will show up in the cases for future rounds until another curator replaces it with something else.

Warning: Items placed in these display cases can NEVER be retrieved including in the current round, place items in with caution.

How To Add A Book To The Database

  1. Get Paper and a Pen.
  2. Write your manifesto on Lizard Oppression.
  3. Take your story to the East Back of the Library to the Book Binder.png Book Binder and slap that compelling manifesto onto the binder. This will spit out your new revolutionary piece.
  4. Still have that pen? Good, you can sign your name, add more content, and even title it.
  5. This book is ready to be sent through to Nanotrasen command! Ask the Curator to scan this book into the computer, using the Scanner.png Scanner.
  6. Once scanned, use the Library Computer.png Check In/Out Computer's 5th function, titled, "5. Upload New Title to Archive".
  7. Here you can change the category, change the author once more, and view the title.
  8. After reviewing the book, and being ready to publish, use the "UPLOAD" command.

Breaking News!

Behind the library desk is a handy newscaster to work with. Since the Curator is given a tape recorder and a camera with spare film, this allows you to keep the crew informed of station events, such as memorable performances by the clown, interviews with prominent people, murders or even writing fake anti-sec news. Photos from your camera can be attached to the news articles you post. Alternatively, you could use your photocopier to copy your ass and attach the results to your news articles.

The newscaster can also print out up to 15 newspapers and can be refilled by adding more paper. After that, you'll want to deliver the newspaper to frequently visited areas like the Medbay, Brig, and more.

The Soapstone

Amazing Chest Ahead

You can use the soapstone that you start with in order to leave messages for others to read later. Your soapstone starts out with 3 charges that can be used to write on a floor or wall on the station. The messages will be saved and appear in future rounds until removed by soapstone. No charges are required to erase messages, and erasing your own message will grant you an additional charge.

Languages

As an academic, you studied even the most obscure languages known in the universe. You can innately understand secret cult-speak, robotic beeping, drone chatter, and can even interpret xenomorph hissing. What is seriously puzzling is that you can also speak those languages, which supports the theory that Curators are just failed wizards.

Tips

  • Curator system is much more robust than most people think:
    • You can activate barcode scanner to switch modes.
    • You can use it to add printed books to your library's "inventory", then use the check in/check-out the computer to actually give people books for a specified amount of time, as a real library would.
  • You can cut inventory slots in books with wire cutters.
  • Your whip will instantly disarm anyone you hit with it.
  • Many people don't visit the library because the literature is trash poorly curated. Try setting aside a special shelf with hand-picked books. Decorate, advertise and hold events to attract the attention of passerby!
  • You have Construction access so you can make a base and go to lavaland or renovate the Vacant Office. Try it out!
  • Pry up wood tiles with a screwdriver or deconstruct tables with a wrench and fix all the rotting wood tiles in your library. Get those cobwebs cleared out, too!
  • Your access to the Auxiliary Base Construction Area can provide you with meson scanners and a full toolbelt, along with a cargo headset.

Book'em Dano

This used to be one of the hardest jobs to be a Traitor as. It used to be a job where you had nothing but some books and your wits, but with some recent changes he now has robust armor and a unique weapon: THE WHIP. Security trying to taze you? Whip the gun out of their hands! Target is too loud? Whip them! You're too slow? Whip yourself! It's amazing.

However, don't downplay your weakness: piss all access. And don't forget, you're about as suspicious as an assistant. Make sure to get your stealing (or killing) done, then hole up in your private study until the heat dies down. However, unlike assistants, your outfit is quite special, so people will easily recognize you everywhere unless you ditch it. Emagging the library computer causes it to spit out a tome, though you need to be a real cultist to read it. This can be used to confuse security, but you should be ready to get searched and brigged for some time.

I can offer you Knowledge

You have a very important role when the station is visited by devils. Your private study contains a book called the Codex Gigas, using this will allow you to find out crucial information about the devil including his weaknesses, ban, bane, obligation, and how to keep the devil dead. To use the Gigas to find the devils weaknesses, you must first know his name through their contracts and enter it correctly.

You must protect the Codex Gigas as the devils themselves and their followers would love to stop the devil from dying, as well as stopping Security members from taking the Codex and trying to use it themselves. Only you can read the Codex Gigas properly, but you may get brain damage from reading it too much. Others will get the wrong information.


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