Clockwork Cult: Difference between revisions

|superior = Ratvar

|duties = Forget to toggle your chameleon jumpsuit, don't set up any power generation, watch the Ark get crushed by an angry Gygax every single round

|quote = "What's this lantern thi-" "QVR, URNGUR'A!!"

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Although Nar-Sie is powerful in her own right, she has a mortal enemy: Ratvar, imprisoned ages ago in a conflict and endlessly seeking out freedom. Trapped in a place that none can enter or leave, Ratvar has enlisted the aid of (unwilling) servants such as yourself to free him.

If you're one of these servants and you have no idea what to do, you've come to the right place.

==Introduction and Key Points==

Despite the similar name, clockwork cult is nothing like the blood cult of Nar-Sie. While they both involve conversion (being cults) and both of their ultimate goals are to summon their respective gods, the similarities end there. While the blood cult is focused on sabotage, chaos, and stealth due to their status as normal crew, the servants of Ratvar need to worry about no such thing.

'''40 MJ''' unlocks the Application tier.

===The Eminence===

The Eminence can travel between the station and Reebe at will, and can move freely as an all-seeing eye. Holy water will block its path, and it cannot enter the Chapel, but it is otherwise unrestricted. Note that it can't understand anything said stationside unless war is declared, meaning that while it can see movements and planning, it cannot overhear what people are discussing.

By middle-clicking, the Eminence can issue cult-wide commands that play a special sound and create a visible marker. This includes "Rally", "Regroup", "Avoid", and "Reinforce." It can also issue unique goal commands by middle-clicking itself, which provide an overarching directive. This includes "Defend the Ark", "Advance", "Retreat", "Generate Power", and "Build Defenses."

Finally, once per round, the Eminence can activate a mass recall. After a ten-second windup, coupled with a sound that all crew (servant or not) can hear, every living servant will be pulled directly to the Ark chamber.

|Creates an integration cog in your hand. This is a slow power generator that can be inserted into any APC to passively drain its power for the cult. This is known as "cogging" the APC. Note that the cog can also slice open a locked APC's cover, so you don't need to use any other tools to cog an APC besides the cog itself!

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|1 second

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|250 J

|Creates a replica fabricator, an important omnitool that creates, converts, repairs, and destroys.<br>

Using it on airlocks, walls, floors, etc. will consume power to convert them to clockwork variants.<br>

It also swaps clockwork walls to clockwork floors (and vice-versa) when used on them.<br>

|Clockwork Armaments

|250 J

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[[File:Herald_beacon.png|16px]] If the herald's beacon is activated, the armor's effectiveness increases by 10 against melee and ballistic attacks, 25 against energy attacks, and 10 against bomb attacks, while becoming space and fireproof.<br><br>

|2 seconds

|1

|Spatial Gateway

|400 J

Spatial gateways opened to clockwork obelisks have doubled duration and uses.

|8 seconds

If the target has x-ray vision, it will attack them through walls. If the target is carrying a bible, it will target the bible first.<br>

It deals 15 damage per second, reduced by 5% for each tile between the target and warden, and 10% for each dense object.

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Traps are useful objects produced with brass sheets. There are two types of trap: '''sender''' and '''receiver.'''<br>

'''Senders''' are objects like levers and pressure sensors. They detect certain conditions and, when those are met, send a signal to all receivers they're linked to.<br>

|75

|The most simple sender. Activates when clicked.

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![[File:Pressure sensor.png]]

|15

|Repeaters can be toggled on and off. When active, they will send a signal once every second.

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![[File:Brass skewer.png]]

Cyborgs will not be impaled, but will take massive damage.<br>

There must be a gap of one tile in all directions between any two skewers.

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![[File:Steam vent.png]]

|Receiver - Steam Vent

While venting steam, the vent cannot be seen past, and slightly wets anyone walking over it, extinguishing fire. It has no other effects.<br>

Steam vents cannot be placed directly adjacent to each other on cardinal directions; diagonally adjacent is fine.  

![[File:Sigil of submission.png]]

|Sigil of Submission

|Both successful and unsuccessful conversion attempts will stun and mute the target and send an announcement over the Hierophant Network.

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They can wield and use any kind of weapon, but can't fire guns, move slowly, and die fast.

|Your entire purpose is to build. If power generation is insufficient, make do by cannibalizing unnecessary structures for brass.

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! style="background-color:#E6A500;" width="120px" |Other Tools

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![[File:RatvarStandard.png]]

|Standard

|Judicial Marker, Linked Vanguard

|Your main strength is in combat; Linked Vanguard allows you to charge at enemies that would normally disable you and attack them with your spear and judicial markers. However, you also have the basic construction and crit-stabilising abilities that come with your module.

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|Engineering

|Replicant, Sigil of Transmission

|As you have only relatively basic tools, your use is to, more or less, create 5 layers of clockwork walls around the clockcult's base.<br>

In addition, you are capable of producing power for clockwork structures and other cyborgs.

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![[File:RatvarJanitor.png]]

|Replicant, Sigil of Transgression, Ocular Warden, Mania Motor

|Cyborg Fabricator

![[File:RatvarMedical.png]]

|Medical

|Ratvarian Spear

You're a combat medic; with Linked Vanguard and Sentinel's Compromise, you are very difficult to kill or disable while attacking with your spear.

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![[File:RatvarPeacekeeper.png]]

|Belligerent, Judicial Marker

|Ratvarian Spear

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The primary threats in the defensive phase are the advanced weapons in the armory, cargo, and science, Genetics monsters, and RCD's. One of your primary objectives should be to disrupt the production of such devices before the five minute grace period. The armory can be easily looted with an accomplice to eliminate the security robot, genetics and cargo can be subverted or destroyed, Research can be wiped with a screwdriver and teleports to three rooms, and recovery of these assets can be prevented with a trip to engineering storage. Your teleport is basically free, abuse this as often as possible. armory weapons are much more powerful and concealable then anything you get early in the round. Giving a taser to a convert and setting them on their friends isn't the worst way to round up more converts.

==Threats to the Enlightened==

Although the servants of Ratvar are gifted with great power, they are still threatened by many things on the station. This can range from enemy cultists to things as simple as hard vacuum.

===[[Security]] and the [[Chaplain]] [[File:Generic_hos.png]][[File:Generic_chaplain.png]]===

Nar-Sie's cult is generally absent on the stations that Ratvar's servants are present, but the watchful eye of [[Security]] and [[Chaplain|heretical priests]] is ever-present. A tactical security assault can demolish the most well-prepared servant defences, and the [[Chaplain#Null_Rod|chaplain's holy weapon]] weakens the Justiciar's magic; a holy weapon makes the user totally immune to the affects of sigils, for instance, and [[Chaplain#GET_BEHIND_ME_NAR-NAR_RATVAR|holy water]] will purge the light of Ratvar from even the most powerful servant's mind, given time.