Guide to Virology

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Your Workplace

Your workplace contains the airlock above where you spawn.

Below you will find a list of items you will find inside your lovely new office.

The break room (where you will doubtfully ever go):

• Donk Pockets
• A Virologist wardrobe (filled with items you spawned with)
• A safe (Store your super diseases here)

Yogstation Virology

The airlock contains:

• A pair of sinks.
• A shower
• 2 level-3 bio-hazard lockers.
• An emergency locker.

Virology(where all the shit happens):

• The smart virus storage container, it contains in the start:
• 5 Liquid plasma bottle (filled)
• A Rhino-virus culture bottle (The Cold)
• A Flu Virion culture bottle (The Flu)
• A syringe of Spaceallin
• Virology contains:
• A beaker box.
• A syringe box
• A Spaceallin syringe
• A spray bottle
• A book, titled Infections - Making your own pandemic!
• A green level-3 bio-hazard suit closet. This where you get your Virology bio suit and bio hood
• A medicine closet, contains some syringes, a dropper, Inaprovaline and anti toxin
• A Chem Dispenser, Dispenses Unstable Mutagen and Synaptizine
• And your pandemic 2000! this will be what you use to create vaccine bottles, checking diseases, symptoms, and creating virus culture bottles!

Curing Diseases

GET THOSE FUKKEN CLOTHES ON.

Spilling infectious blood in lag spikes is easy to do, and if you spill it without any bio suit on or sterile mask or that stuff, expect yourself to be infected soon enough.

Spaceallin will suppress the disease and its symptoms for a short amount of time, this also prevents spreading of the disease.

The two ways to cure:

1. If the disease you are curing is currently rampant through the station, scan anyone who is infected! the cure will be shown.
2. Now get a human monkey and infect it! give it lots of whatever the disease cure is. (The type will go into remissive, and start going backwards in stages.)
3. If you gave him enough of the cure, hurray, his blood should now contain antibodies to said disease.
4. Put the humans monkeys blood in the PANDEMIC 2000 and create a vaccine bottle, hurray you can now vaccine people. Cure people as needed.

This is the harder/easier way of curing diseases, depending on what the cure is.

1. Get unstable mutagen from your dispenser, and start making symptoms in the rhino-virus culture bottle, 
2. You can use any other virus bottle but rhino-virus would be my favourite, for its ability to automatically spread as airborne.
3. Now start injecting it with unstable mutagen 1 unit a time until it gets the symptom: Anti-Bodies Metabolism. 
4. Isolate the symptom and give it to the infected people. They are now cured.

Making Diseases

Before we even get into anything I want you to walk around your lab, give it a good clean up, put anything you aren't going to use either in your break room or in your locker.

I just made your life 100 times easier, its a lot easier to make diseases if you aren't searching through piles of crap to find your beaker of unstable mutagen.

Now lets begin,

 1. Get your dropper, set it to 1! this is the max dilution and lets you get 30 uses out of 30 units of whatever.
 2. Get the plasma bottle out of the storage, plasma is required to get the most higher tier symptoms.
 3. Now when you have those two, you will choose the base virus which you will use.
 4. Take the flu virion if you only want a couple of trusted people to have it, or the rhino-virus if you want everyone to have it.
 5. Done that? Good. Now start by putting the chosen base virus into the Pandemic 2000 and make a copy. 
 6. Take the original out and put 4 plasma/unstable mutagen in it 1 unit at a time, you will get 4 symptoms, both good and bad.
   *If you get no good symptoms, trash the original and put in the base virus copy. Repeat till you get a virus with good symptoms.
 7. Every time you get a virus with a good symptom, put the copy of the base virus into the storage and make a copy of the culture bottle with the good symptom using the Pandemic 2000!
 8. Now get a beaker and fill it up with synaptizine, use 1 unit of synaptizine on the original disease, if you removed a good symptom, trash the original and put the copy in and make 
    another copy, the original copy will now be called the original.
 9. If you removed a bad symptom, trash the copy and make a new copy. continue this till you only have good symptoms left. 
10. Congrats you have made a good disease
Note: You can also combine diseases by taking a drop of blood from one disease and putting it in the other, although this isn't always perfect as it sometimes removes or overwrites symptoms. So always have a backup.

Symptoms

(Will insert description of symptoms here)

A virus with a 'Stealth' stat of above 2 will not show up on Medical Scanners nor Medical HUD's. With 3 or more, it becomes invisible to the Pandemic 2000 too, so unless you're an antag, its a good idea to ensure that you avoid getting to stealth 3 unless you have antibodies for your symptoms.

Transmission Types

• Blood - Touching blood with no protective equipment on or injections will cause this to spread.
• Contact - Contact with skin from an infected object/person, this can include walking through someone.
• Airborne - Will float around infected objects and people, range will be extended by sneezing.

Transmissibility also effects its ability to penetrate clothing, with higher potency diseases going through general clothing. Hard-suits and Bio-suits are always impossible to penetrate.

"Contact" transfers between items, so if you were touching something and some other tosser picked it up they have a chance to spread the disease. Same goes for corpses infected before death.

The higher Resistance it has the more rare the substance to cure it will be, if the Resistance is higher than the players "Disease Resistance" (Generally a pretty high Resistance) the player will not produce antibodies after getting cured.

The Levels required chemicals

1. Virus Food
2. Virus Food
3. Unstable Mutagen
4. Unstable Mutagen
5. Plasma
6. Plasma

(Symptoms sorted alphabetically)

Virus	Stealth	Resistance	Stage speed	Transmissability	Level	Required Catalyst	Bonus
Alopecia	-1	- 1	-1	2	4	Unstable Mutagen	Causes rapid hair loss.
Anti-Bodies Metabolism	-1	-1	-1	-4	3	Unstable Mutagen	Cures all diseases (except itself) and creates anti-bodies for them until itself dies.
Choking	-3	-2	-2	-4	3	Unstable Mutagen	Causes spikes of oxygen deprivation.
Coughing	-1	3	1	2	1	Virus Food	Will force the affected mob to drop small items when coughing!
Confusion	1	-1	-3	0	4	Unstable Mutagen	Makes the affected mob be confused for short periods of time.
Deafness	-1	-2	-1	-3	4	Unstable Mutagen	Causes intermittent loss of hearing.
Deoxyribonucleic Acid Aide	-3	-4	0	-4	6	Plasma	Cleans the DNA and gives a random beneficial power.
Deoxyribonucleic Acid Saboteur	-2	-3	0	-3	6	Plasma	Cleans the DNA and gives a random disability.
Dizziness	2	-2	-3	-1	4	Unstable Mutagen	Shakes the affected mob's screen for short periods.
Eternal Youth	3	4	4	-4	5	Plasma	Makes you never physically older than young adulthood and prevents death by old age.
Facial Hypertrichosis	-3	-1	-3	-1	4	Unstable Mutagen	Makes you grow a massive beard, regardless of gender.
Fever	0	3	3	2	2	Virus Food	Heats up your body.
Hallucinogen	-2	-3	-3	-1	5	Plasma	Makes the affected mob be hallucinated for short periods of time. Available in Virus Crates.
Headache	-1	4	2	0	1	Virus Food	Displays an annoying message! Should be used for buffing your disease.
Hyphema	-1	-4	-4	-3	5	Plasma	Inflicts eye damage over time. Causes blindness if left unchecked.
Itching	0	3	3	1	1	Virus Food	Displays an annoying message! Should be used for buffing your disease.
Longevity	3	3	4	4	3	Unstable Mutagen	After a certain amount of time the disease will cure itself. Will immensely buff your disease.
Necrotizing Fasciitis	-3	-4	0	-4	6	Plasma	Causes brute damage over time. Fatal if left untreated.
Self-Respiration	1	-3	-3	-4	6	Plasma	Body starts to create its own Dexalin, effectively making oxygen unnecessary.
Shivering	0	2	2	2	2	Virus Food	Cools down your body.
Sneezing	-2	3	0	4	1	Virus Food	Forces a spread type of AIRBORNE with extra range!
Stimulant	-1	-3	-2	-4	3	Unstable Mutagen	Body starts to create its own Hyperzine, increasing movement speed.
Toxic Compensation	1	-4	-4	-2	4	Unstable Mutagen	Slowly converts brute/fire damage to toxin.
Toxin Filter	1	-4	-4	-2	6	Plasma	Heals toxins in the affected mob's blood stream. Available in Virus Crates.
Vitiligo	-3	-1	-1	2	5	Plasma	Makes the mob lose skin pigmentation.
Voice Change	-2	-3	-3	-1	6	Plasma	Changes the voice of the affected mob. Causing confusion in communication. Available in Virus Crates.
Vomiting	-2	-1	0	1	3	Unstable Mutagen	Forces the affected mob to vomit! Makes the affected mob lose nutrition and heal toxin damage.
Vomiting Blood	-2	-1	-1	1	4	Unstable Mutagen	Forces the affected mob to vomit blood! Makes the affected mob lose health.
Weight Gain	-3	-3	-2	-2	4	Unstable Mutagen	Increases the weight gain of the mob, forcing it to eventually turn fat.
Weight Loss	-3	-2	-2	-2	3	Unstable Mutagen	Decreases the weight of the mob, forcing it to be skinny.
Weight Even	-3	-2	-2	-2	4	Unstable Mutagen	Causes the weight of the mob to be even, meaning eating isn't required anymore.

Super Viruses... AND YOU!

Now, if you want to make a super virus, here's some handy tips for you!

Firstly, always use Rhino-virus as the base virus, as it makes you sneeze and makes it wide spread!

Use plasma to get the high level symptoms then only use unstable mutagen. The plasma level symptoms you want to get are Self Respiration and Dexyribonucleic Acid Aide, Self Respiration makes your body produce dexalin, Acid Aide gives you powers which switch at random intervals between 2 seconds to 5 minutes.

After you have gotten those, your cure will probably be nutriment, and you need to eat, So get the Weight Even symptom! makes them not need to eat, and to top it of, get Stimulant.

EVERYONE loves stimulant (Except security, but securitys' boring) and dont remove sneezing.

How to not get lynched by security

WARNING! For the unrobust.

• DONT use rhinovirus, or at least remove sneezing! they hate having people run faster than them or have hulk and that stuff
• Only give the super power disease to a few trusted people!
• Dont use your super powers for anything fun!

Making Medbay Useless (as if they aren't already)

Get 2 viruses, one with Sneezing, Weight Even, Stimulant and Acid Aide and the second with Sneezing. Toxic Compensation, Toxic Filter, Weight Even and Self Respiration. Release the viruses. ??? Profit! (Note: Genetics and chemistry will still be used for cloning and Alkysine, respectively. Viruses will not bring back the dead or heal brain damage.)

Here are some good (and hilarious) diseases.

Survivability (Airborne)
Symptoms: 
*Sneezing, 
*Toxic Filter, 
*Toxic Compensation 
*Self Respiration.
Effects: Will heal anyone of all their damage, Rather slowly, though. The full healing effects don't come into effect all at once. 
         Also anyone in crit who isn't being actively killed wont die if the full effects of this disease is on them (To be confirmed)

Super Hero (Airborne)
Symptoms: 
*Sneezing, 
*Acid Aide, 
*Stimulant.
Effects: Will make anyone (and most probably everyone) get randomly changing super powers, which they will subsequently use to to help and serve the station! 
         They will also be able to run at the speed of light.

The Antag Special (Airborne)
Symptoms: 
*Sneezing, 
*Necrotalizing Fasciitis, 
*Acid Saboteur, 
*Vomiting Blood, 
*Voice Change.
Effects: Everyone starts dying. Great to release if you're a little shit.

One Of Us (Airborne)
Symptoms: 
*Sneezing, 
*Vitiligo, 
*Alopecia, 
*Facial Hypertrychosis.
Effects: Making everyone be bald, become white and grow massive beards. The station will try to lynch you for this.
Note: Ask admins before using this, they may get pissed at you.

Cure-all (Airborne)
Symptoms: 
*Sneezing, 
*Anti-Bodies 
*Metabolism.
Effects: Cures all other diseases other than itself. Release only if there's a really bad virus on the station.

Eternal Youth
Symptoms: Eternal Youth.
Effects: Makes you young. Great for RP.
Note: Practically useless on Yogstation unless you heavy RP