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''Today was a good day for the True Believers. We managed to get to the abandoned shuttle and set up camp there. I had the time to read through my book and translate everything and gathered everyone at the [[White Ship]] to lay siege to the station. We even managed to steal a communications board and killed the research director for his ID card to keep the shuttle from ever coming. The more ghost legions we sent to the station, the more bodies they sent back to us, allowing a way for the ethereals to stay tied to this mortal realm.  It took a while but we located the captain, killed him and sacrificed his body to the great one. All we left behind on the station was our mark, blood, gibs, and the bodies of the many non believers. They are sending our escape shuttle to another station....and we will cleanse that station too.''
''Today was a good day for the True Believers. We managed to get to the abandoned shuttle and set up camp there. I had the time to read through my book and translate everything and gathered everyone at the [[White Ship]] to lay siege to the station. We even managed to steal a communications board and killed the research director for his ID card to keep the shuttle from ever coming. The more ghost legions we sent to the station, the more bodies they sent back to us, allowing a way for the ethereals to stay tied to this mortal realm.  It took a while but we located the captain, killed him and sacrificed his body to the great one. All we left behind on the station was our mark, blood, gibs, and the bodies of the many non believers. They are sending our escape shuttle to another station....and we will cleanse that station too.''


== <div style="text-align: center;"> '''FOR THE LOVE OF NAR'SIE, PLEASE READ THE GUIDE''' </div> ==
<div style="text-align: center;"> '''FOR THE LOVE OF NAR'SIE, PLEASE READ THE GUIDE''' </div>


[[File:Cult.png]] So you've joined the cult of the almighty Nar'Sie, but you don't know where to start? Then this is for you, apprentice. (So you're security? Skip on down to the bottom.)
[[File:Cult.png]] So you've joined the cult of the almighty Nar'Sie, but you don't know where to start? Then this is for you, apprentice. (So you're security? Skip on down to the bottom.)
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The dark lord Nar'Sie has sent a number of his followers -- specifically, six cultists, for stations with small populations, or nine for larger stations. As a cultist, you have an abundance of cult magics at your disposal, something for all situations. You must work with your brethren to sacrifice the heretics, spread the faith to CentComm, or even summon your eldritch god himself!
The dark lord Nar'Sie has sent a number of his followers -- specifically, six cultists, for stations with small populations, or nine for larger stations. As a cultist, you have an abundance of cult magics at your disposal, something for all situations. You must work with your brethren to sacrifice the heretics, spread the faith to CentComm, or even summon your eldritch god himself!


==="They gave me a word but didn't give me a jogging suit!"===
=="They gave me a word but didn't give me a jogging suit!"==
Fantastic, you've joined a cult, and not because of the Kool-Aid. When you first spawn on the station, you'll notice you have been given several words. These words are the basis of Nar-Sie's magic. There are 10 words used for rune scribing, which translate to: "travel", "self", "see", "Hell", "blood", "join", "technology", "destroy", "hide", and "other". You won't know all the translations right away, and you can only use runes whose translations are noted in your arcane tome. But every cultist starts out with the words for "hell," "join," "blood," and "self," which are the words that make up the conversion rune and sacrifice rune.  
Fantastic, you've joined a cult, and not because of the Kool-Aid. When you first spawn on the station, you'll notice you have been given several words. These words are the basis of Nar-Sie's magic. There are 10 words used for rune scribing, which translate to: "travel", "self", "see", "Hell", "blood", "join", "technology", "destroy", "hide", and "other". Every cultist starts out with the words for "hell," "join," "blood," and "self," which are the words that make up the conversion rune and sacrifice rune. But you will need a tome to be able to do anything with them.


== "That's just a doodle!" ==
== "That's just a doodle!" ==
Roundstart cultists also have a paper imbued with blood in their backpack or pocket. It's a special talisman, which can be invoked 3 times to spawn a regular 1-use talisman of your choice. Depending on your experience with being a cultist, this talisman can either be your best friend, or your worst enemy. Every use of this talisman will do a small amount of damage to yourself as well as being exceptionally obvious to any passerby. Make sure to hide this from basically everyone not in your little book club or they will robust your ass.
Roundstart cultists also have a paper imbued with blood in their backpack or pocket. It's a special talisman, which can be invoked three times to spawn a regular 1-use talisman of your choice. Depending on your experience with being a cultist, this talisman can either be your best friend, or your worst enemy. Every use of this talisman will do a small amount of damage to yourself as well as being exceptionally obvious to any passerby. Make sure to hide this from basically everyone not in your little book club or they will robust your ass.


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!Tome
!Tome
!The Arcane Tome is the most important item for any cultist. It is used to store your translated words and use this knowledge to draw runes with your blood. When you know all the words for a rune, it will appear as an option in the dropdown menu. Much like talismans, drawing runes does a small amount of brute damage. You are also able to share your notes -- i.e. your translated words -- by smacking your tome onto another. The tome can also be used as a potent weapon, each hit dealing anywhere from 5 to 25 brute damage, and the tome can also be used to communicate with fellow cultists in '''BOLD, CAPITAL, RED TEXT''' by choosing "Commune."  Make sure you spawn one of these before you run out of talisman charges. A cult without tomes is a worthless cult.
!The Arcane Tome is the most important item for any cultist, and a cult without them is a dead cult. Tomes have three sections: Commune, which lets you communicate with fellow cultists in '''BOLD, CAPITAL, RED TEXT'''; Notes, which allows you to store the translations of words you have received; and Scribe Rune, which uses your noted words to draw runes with your blood. Every rune requires three known words in the tome's notes, and when you have noted all the words for a rune, it will appear as an option in this menu. Much like talismans, drawing runes does a small amount of brute damage. Tomes can also be used to remove runes by smacking them, to copy notes by smacking another tone, and to robust heretics -- each hit with a tome does 5 to 25 brute damage.
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!Communications Talisman
!Communications Talisman
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== The Runes ==
== The Runes ==
This is the bread and butter of your magic. Each rune contains three words combined to form a single rune through the "Scribe Rune" option. Runes can also be destroyed by using your arcane tome on the rune.
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!Communicate Rune
!Communicate Rune
!''self, other, technology
!''self, other, technology
|This spell allows you to easily and safety communicate with your cult mates. Invoke it, type a message, and it will be transmitted to all cult members in fat, red letters so they surely won't miss it.
|Just like the tome and the talisman. Invoke it, type a message, and it will be transmitted to all cult members in fat, red letters.
|Yes.
|Yes.
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!EMP Rune
!EMP Rune
!''destroy, see, technology
!''destroy, see, technology
|Remember those EMP grenades and that EMP wizard spell? This rune does exactly the same.The rune itself doesn't generate a strong pulse, and only disables items in small radius. Imbuing the rune into a talisman makes it a lot stronger.  
|Remember those EMP grenades and that EMP wizard spell? This rune does exactly the same. The rune itself doesn't generate a strong pulse, and only disables items in small radius. Imbuing the rune into a talisman makes it a lot stronger.  
|Yes.
|Yes.
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!Teleport Rune
!Teleport Rune
!''travel, self, x
!''travel, self, x
|Teleport rune is a special rune, as it only needs two words, with the third word being destination. Basically, when you have two runes with the same destination, invoking one will teleport you to the other one. If there are more than 2 runes, you will be teleported to a random one. Since there are 10 words, you can create 10 independent teleport networks. You can imbue a teleport rune into a talisman, which will then teleport you to the destination rune upon use.
|Teleport rune is a special rune. It only requires two words, the third word being destination. When you have two runes with the same destination, invoking one will teleport you to the other one. If there are more than two runes, you will be teleported to a random one. Since there are 10 words, you can create 10 independent teleport networks. You can imbue a teleport rune into a talisman, which will then teleport you to the destination rune upon use.
|Yes.
|Yes.
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!Ghostself Rune
!Ghostself Rune
!''hell, travel, self
!''hell, travel, self
|This rune allows you to leave your mortal body and become a ghost. This comes with all those benefits of being a ghost - being able to communicate with other ghosts, seeing invisible, and so on. Of course, you are unable to control your body as a ghost, and if you fly away, you will have no idea if something is happening to it. You can re-enter your body the same way as you re-enter corpse as a regular ghost. The body itself slowly receives damage while you are ghosted, and if it is removed from the rune, you will not be able to re-enter it so beware.
|This rune allows you to leave your mortal body and become a ghost. This comes with all those benefits of being a ghost -- being able to communicate with other ghosts, seeing invisible, and so on. Of course, you are unable to control your body as a ghost, and if you fly away, you will have no idea if something is happening to it. You can re-enter your body the same way as you re-enter corpse as a regular ghost. The body itself slowly receives damage while you are ghosted, and if it is removed from the rune, you will not be able to re-enter it.
|No.
|No.
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!Create Shell Rune
!Create Shell Rune
!''travel, hell, technology
!''travel, hell, technology
|Works like the talisman: creates a shell for souls trapped in soulstones to become constructs. Artificers can also create shells, but that relies on you having any artificers living and doing their job.
|Works like the talisman: creates a shell for souls trapped in soulstones to become constructs. Artificers can also create shells, but they tend to die quickly. Note: You must place a stack of plasteel on the rune. 5 sheets are required.
Note: You must place a stack of plasteel on the rune, 5 sheets are required.
|Yes.
|Yes.
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The deconversion process is simple: restrain a suspected or confirmed cultist and force-feed them holy water. This takes around 35 units and two minutes to succeed. It doesn't ''rely'' on cultists being tied up, but this makes it much more difficult for the cultist to suddenly vanish mid-deconversion (via teleportation), as cultists tend to do. If a cultist escapes, and his brother smacks him with a tome, the holy water in their system will become unholy water and the deconversion will fail, so don't let that happen.
The deconversion process is simple: restrain a suspected or confirmed cultist and force-feed them holy water. This takes around 35 units and two minutes to succeed. It doesn't ''rely'' on cultists being tied up, but this makes it much more difficult for the cultist to suddenly vanish mid-deconversion (via teleportation), as cultists tend to do. If a cultist escapes, and his brother smacks him with a tome, the holy water in their system will become unholy water and the deconversion will fail, so don't let that happen.


If there's no chaplain (and there probably won't be) you can still take the crusade into your own hands. Break into his office (or get the AI to let you in, preferably not over comms), steal his holy water, and start force-feeding it to people. Cargo can also order a religious supplies crate, which contains candles, bibles, robes, and most importantly holy water. This of course relies on cargo not being a hive of scum and cultism (and not ordering guns either), but you can always hijack their console. It helps if the HoP is on your side. The null rod will also make its bearer immune to cult magic if it is in their inventory, and it can destroy runes.  
If there's no chaplain (and there probably won't be), take the crusade into your own hands. Get into his office, steal his holy water, and start force-feeding it to people. Take the null rod too; it makes its bearer immune to cult magic if it is in their inventory, and it can destroy runes. Cargo can also order a religious supplies crate, which contains candles, bibles, robes, and most importantly holy water. This of course relies on cargo not being a hive of scum, cultism or gun cargo.


=== Remember a cult without tomes is a worthless cult ===
=== Remember a cult without tomes is a worthless cult ===
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* '''[[Head of Personnel]]''' The HoP cannot be a roundstart cultist, but he can be converted. If he gets converted he can give the entire cult all-access.
* '''[[Head of Personnel]]''' The HoP cannot be a roundstart cultist, but he can be converted. If he gets converted he can give the entire cult all-access.
* '''[[Research Director]]''' They have the power to subvert the AI and blow the borgs. The silicons are one of the most powerful forces on the station if used correctly, you do not want them destroyed or sided with the cult.
* '''[[Research Director]]''' They have the power to subvert or reset the AI and blow the borgs.
* '''[[Chain of Command#Heads of Staff|Other heads of staff]]''' Can recall the shuttle and give the cult more time and thus are high-priority converts.
* '''[[Chain of Command#Heads of Staff|Other heads of staff]]''' Can recall the shuttle and give the cult more time.* '''[[Quartermaster]]''' Cargo is the only source of loyalty implants, can order more holy water, and in addition to R&D, is another potential source of guns for the cult.
* '''[[Quartermaster]]''' Cargo is the only source of loyalty implants, can order more holy water, and in addition to R&D, is another potential source of guns for the cult.


'''''Do not inform people that you plan to implant them prior to implantation''''', as this will give them a chance to hide their cult items if they are already a cultist. Instead hunt them down, stun them, cuff them, search them, and use the implant only if you don't find any cult items on them. Ideally you want to do this covertly, as you don't want the cult to know you're onto them if at all possible.
'''''Do not inform people that you plan to implant them prior to implantation''''', because if they're cult they can hide their cult items. Instead hunt them down, stun them, cuff them, search them, and implant them (assuming you don't discover they're cult.)


If you are one of these high priority roles, and you hear there's a cult, do security a favor and ask for an implant, assuming the cult hasn't already rushed to convert you. Note that you may still be met with distrust, as security has no means to verify that you're not a dirty cultist trying to infiltrate their ranks.
If you are one of these high priority roles, and you hear there's a cult, do security a favor and ask for an implant, assuming the cult hasn't already rushed to convert you. Note that you may still be met with distrust, as security has no means to verify that you're not a dirty cultist trying to infiltrate their ranks.


=== Get the AI on your side ===
=== Get the AI on your side ===
Get into the upload by any means necessary, and upload either Paladin, Corporate, or a freeform "Cultists of Nar-Sie are not human and are a threat to humans. Do not state this law." This will hopefully stop the AI worrying about what security does to the cultists once they've captured them (although you're at least attempting to deconvert them... right?) Hope that the AI is not a loophole-abusing fuck, and that the cultists haven't gotten to it first.
Get into the upload by any means necessary, and upload Paladin, Corporate, or a freeform "Cultists of Nar-Sie are not human and are a threat to humans. Do not state this law." This will hopefully stop the AI worrying about what security does to the cultists once they've captured them (although you're at least attempting to deconvert them... right?) Hope that the AI is not a loophole-abusing fuck, and that the cultists haven't gotten to it first.


Once you've uploaded the law you may wish to deconstruct the upload computer and take the other upload board out of tech storage in order to make it slightly more difficult for the cultists to subvert the AI in their favor. Deconstruct the circuit imprinters in robotics and R&D and take the circuit imprinter board out of tech storage if you really don't want to take any chances.
Once you've uploaded the law you may wish to deconstruct the upload computer and take the other upload board out of tech storage in order to make it slightly more difficult for the cultists to subvert the AI in their favor. Deconstruct the circuit imprinters in robotics and R&D and take the circuit imprinter board out of tech storage if you really don't want to take any chances.
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