Curator
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  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.
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
- Get Paper and a Pen.
- Write your manifesto on Lizard Oppression.
- Take your story to the East Back of the Library to the
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
Scanner. - Once scanned, use the
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.
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
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
trashpoorly 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.
