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In your possession are several important items with various utility If you can keep it in your possession, you should.

===Holy Book===

When you interact with it directly, you will be first prompted to select a skin from ones available. They are purely cosmetic, so feel free to choose whichever you like the most. After this, you will be able to access the inside storage compartment of the bible, which holds a bottle of whiskey. You can put almost anything else in there, however.

Hitting somebody in the head with your bible will heal 10 points of brute and burn damage on organic limbs (robotic limbs are refused to be healed) while dealing 5 points of brain damage to them, up to a total of 60 brain damage. However, this can change depending on your selected sect: see [[#Altar_of_Gods|Altar of Gods]] below.

===Null Rod===

The second most important tool in your arsenal, the null rod can be a fair variety of weaponry that makes you immune against direct [[Blood Cult|Nar'Sian]] and [[Clockwork Cult|Ratvarian]] magic, and certain [[Wizard]] spells as well as heretic mansus. However, it usually can't stop a sword.

! style="width:22%; background-color:#808080; color:#fff" |Weapon

! style="width:15%; background-color:#808080; color:#fff" |Damage

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|<div class="center">[[File:Null.png|48px]]<br>'''Null Rod'''</div>

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|<div class="center">[[File:Scythe.png|48px]][[File:Highfrequency.png|48px]][[File:Spellblade.png|48px]]<br>'''Reaper Scythe'''<br>'''High-Frequency Blade'''<br>'''Dormant Spellblade'''</div>

|They only fit on the back. They have 35 armor penetration. They are sharp.

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|<div class="center">[[File:Hypertool.png|48px]]<br>'''Hypertool'''</div>

|18 brain damage<br>10 brain damage (thrown)

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|<div class="center">[[File:Warhammer.png|48px]]<br>'''Relic War Hammer'''</div>

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|<div class="center">[[File:ClownRender.png|48px]]<br>'''Clown Dagger'''</div>

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|<div class="center">[[File:Chain.png|48px]]<br>'''Holy Whip'''</div>

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|<div class="center">[[File:Pharoah_sceptre.png|48px]]<br>'''Egyptian Staff'''</div>

|It is a normal item.

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! style="background-color:#808080; color:#fff; width:30%" |Bless

! style="background-color:#808080; color:#fff" |Favor

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|Puritanism (Default)

|Heals 5 points of each type of damage, but only for silicons and robotic limbs. It also charges.

|1.5 kJ (power cell)

200 Favor = Get an implant

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|Gathering of the Old Gods

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|Meat

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|A burning corpse

1,000 = Make a piece of clothing fireproof

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Every chaplain needs their own religion. While you can use one that already exists, whether it's something real like Christianity or Zoroastrianism or one unique to SS13 like Ratvarianism or the Cult of the Honkmother, sometimes it's fun to come up with your own.

*Is your religion organized? Does it have a leader?

*How do "normal" people relate to the divine? What are they expected to do?

Individual chaplains are free to invent their own specific rituals, but there are some matters shared across all types of chaplain, such as:

*'''Funerals''' – You have a stock of coffins, burial garments, a mass driver, and a crematorium. To properly "bury" someone, strip them of all of their equipment (save for their ID), set those off to the side or return it to the departed's former department, dress them in the burial garments, and put them in a coffin. From here, you may hold a proper funeral in the chapel (be sure to announce it over the radio in advance) and have someone (or a few people) perform an eulogy, after which you should either use the mass driver to launch the coffin into space or cremate the body and put the resulting ashes in an urn from the ChapDrobe.

Rust heretics spread their rust across the station in a variety of ways, slowly healing on rusted tiles, and can destroy most structures as well as armor that you are wearing. Rust heretic blades inject you with poisonous eldritch water, and have unlimited smoke grenades. When a rust heretic ascends, they will heal incredibly quickly on rust tiles as well as having self spreading rust. Rust heretics are weak to stuns and as such can usually easily be stunned and killed while you get the chance to do damage.  

If [[admin|your god(s)]] hate you enough, you may also encounter a [[Revenant]], an undead ghost creature that wants your souls. Again, your null rod is incredibly robust against these creatures. Use holy water to prevent their movement and check places with corpses to see it harvesting souls. When it's dead, don't forget to disperse the ashes.

*Due to the Mass Driver working on just about anything that can fit on top of it, [[Curator|some]] may want to use it to quickly reach distant ruins.

*Hitting a water tank with your bible converts the entire tank's water into holy water.

* While it is true that with a null rod you are immune to most magic it can also counter some types of magic and instead force the spell on the person who cast it.

*'''DO NOT USE RANDOM BODIES WITHOUT SOULS/SSD FOR RITE SACRIFICES.'''

*Your null rod gives you magic resistance, not you. If you lose it, you will lose your combat affinity against the paranormal and, if lost and put into the wrong hands of a [[Blood Cult|certain book club]], it could spell the doom of everyone.

As a traitor, your curse of being ignored by everyone becomes a valuable asset. The chapel is a relatively secluded part of the station, and odds are the AI won't be keeping an eye on it. You have a null rod, which gives you a leg up - you don't have to purchase a weapon unless you want to. Also don't forget that your bible is a useful storage compartment that won't attract suspicion (but does frequently get searched). You can drag around bodies, as well as both space and cremate bodies without looking suspicious: it's your job, after all.