Guide to Genetics: Difference between revisions

== Funtimes for all: UE/UI magic ==

Aside from getting superpowers, you can also turn genetics into a cosmetic workplace! A much more efficient cousin to the surgery although not as fun department of the ship. You can also change gender, hair colour, hair style, beard style, skin colour, beard colour and eye colour.

You can even change names! The name changing is relatively limited. You can't edit individual letters, but can only alter names completely by giving the subject an unknown UE. Due to this, you can't name some Shitface Mcpoops. If this guide ever becomes outdated, be sure to name everyone on the ship Shitface Mcpoops! One way to gather names is to scan people in the scanner and save their DNA, thus including UE, on a disk. Wild accusations of lingism will be thrown around, though. The other way is to repeatedly monkey and demonkey one of the furry people in your pen. This results in a different name every time, and can be a great way to hide as antag. Getting a gray jumpsuit, the captains lazer and a whole new DNA string is a surefire way to hide. Note: Some security officers believe not being on the crew manifest is a permabriggable offense. Try walking up to the HoP claiming the cluwne stole your ID.

Block two is the beard colour; same deal as with hair colouring.

Block seven is hair style. This is, disappointing as is, completely random. You will have to do a lot of guess work to crack the code and get the perfect Adam Jensen cut you've always wanted. The codes are set in stone, but there is no clear guideline as to what 80F may be. What, did you figure it all to be easy to look like George Clooney?

Lists are nice. Order is even nicer. Keep everything organized. Keep everything neat, tidy, and about as clean as when you spawned in. If you can't do that, then this chapter isn't for you. If your RP character wouldn't do that but you do, keep a list offscreen. This can result in great "how tah hal does your maind work" scenarios, which is nothing but added fun.

I will be doing some, well, algebra-ish stuff. Mainly just using some letters instead of writing out a whole block. Earlier on, there was a list of possible dis/abilities. Let's sum them all up real quick: Hulk, x-ray, cold resistance, telekinesis, dwarf, chameleon, the monkey human gene, epilepsy, strangeness, shortsightedness, deafness, clumsyness, nervousness, blindness, muteness, coughing, the tourettes syndrome, dumbness, lightheaded.

Try to learn it from the head. Of course you won't instantly know everything and have trouble remembering them all (so do I), but it's always nice to have a basic idea. It is pretty crucial to at the very least have a list of all the possible genes if you plan on doing deductive reasoning.

You can quickly conclude whether or not a block is a power;

You can quickly conclude whether or not a block is a disabillity;

Make note: What block is the monkey human gene? The way I like doing this is going into my notekeeper on my PDA, like this:

Literaly, thats only 41 keypresses. It ain't that hard. Either way, yours should look like it. We have 18 mystery blocks, and one known block. For the sake of this guide (so don't do this IC) I will assign each block a letter.

1: a 2: b 3: c 4: d 5: e 6: f 7: g 8: h 9: i 10: j 11: k 12: l 13: m 14: n 15: o 16: p 17: q 18: r 19: s

At this moment, a to s could each be anything. We know the monkey human gene, let's say it's seven. Now, the list looks like this.

1: a 2: b 3: c 4: d 5: e 6: f 7: The Monkey Human Gene 8: h 9: i 10: j 11: k 12: l 13: m 14: n 15: o 16: p 17: q 18: r 19: s

After setting the scanner in a way you like (Read: A way that doesn't kill your monkey), you irradiate the first block. As soon as it hits 800 or more, you can test.

-First thing you do, is to save the new SE to your experimental buffer. This gives some time for the gene to kick in in case it has to. It also saves your progress in case you have unfortunate bombings or radiation storms.

-Watch the chatbox closely. If there is any coughing, check if it is your monkey and not your coworker or the horde of brainrotting assistants outside. If the second is true, lock yourself into your scanner with internals. If the first is true, a="1: Coughing".

-Don't lose sight of the chatbox. If there is swearing, or violent twitching, it's tourettes. This can take up to twenty seconds to show signs. If this is true, a="1: The Tourettes Syndrome"

-Scan with the penlight whilst keeping an eye on the chatbox. If they're blind, you know block a="1: blindness". If they have x-ray, a="1: x-ray".

-If the monkeyman is green or glows in the dark, it is one of the remainder superpowers.

-If none of this is true, it is either a silent disabillity or a dormant superpower. Thus for, you will require additional testing.

Profit

After finding out what you are dealing with, repeat for the next block.

1: Deafness 2: b 3: c 4: d 5: e 6: f 7: The Monkey Human Gene 8: h 9: i 10: j 11: k 12: l 13: m 14: n 15: o 16: p 17: q 18: r 19: s

If both X-ray and blindness have been discovered, you can skip using a penlight.

If coughing is already found, skip checking the chat box for coughing.

If tourettes is already found, skip checking the chat box for swearing.

This whole process can be improvised, halted, paused, etc. There is really no time limit in which you must complete it.

Let's say that you do not want to wait 11 whole seconds inbetween each radiation. You might have rolled with six. You probably have rolled with six if you are better then 27% of those geneticists. But oh no, something mutated! And I didn't want it to!

Worse scenario: You forgot to save a clean SE. New monkey, ahoy!

Normal scenario: You inject it with a clean/powered SE you had stored earlier this round. You can now keep working on the block you started on, with only so much extra radiation for your monkey.

Best scenario: You attempt to fix the mutation by hand. The SE sparks out of control and you decide to fetch a new monkey. Your test subject is green, glowing, and looking right through you!

The best part about being a traitor geneticist is, well, everything! You can use TK and XRAY when permabrigged to get out if timed correctly (trust me, I have). You can go hulk and smash shit, you can go hulk and smash into the AI to change laws, you can go hulk and smash all of security into a pile of mushy red stuff. You can get cold resistance and an oxygen tank as spacesuit, giving you practical free access to the freeform board.

Aside from that, you can run around being all glowy, claim to give someone superpowers, and then get a borg over to bash their heads in with a fire extinguisher! Nothing gets a good Asimov more fired up than "BORGS HELP A MONKEY IN GENETICS IS REBELLING AND POINTING A GUN AT ME!".

If you want to let your target live, by all means go ahead! Don't forget that you can inject people with tourettes, epilepsy, make them blind, deaf and coughing! You can inject all of security with clumsiness, and claim that "it'll go away in time."

You happen to be a changeling? Oh joy, the miracle of life and random number generators! You start off with a pen full of humanizable monkeys for the unrobust, will get access to the morgue and sucking out all the delicious bodily fluids of the limp and dead corpses! Whenever you absorb DNA and/or sting someone, you will also copy SE. What does it mean? Fine question Watson. It means you can channel your changeling comrades superpowered SE into the air, and turn everyone else into honking tourette clowns with epilepsy!

 

You didn't get hulked? Worry not, simply transform into yourself until you do! A genetiling is easy mode, and extremely enjoyable.

Once the body is cloned, they'll have some cell and brain damage. They won't be able to talk correctly and will be walking very slowly. Show them to their items, allow them to get dressed, then do them a favour and drag them to cryo. Throw them in and turn it on. Assuming it's set up properly you will have a cell damage healed clone in no time! Whilst they're in cryo consider bugging the chemists for some mannitol to stop their brain damage.

 

Speedcloning is easy to do, but can often result in the death of patients if you don't take the much-needed steps afterwards. To speed clone either: Scan your ID on the cloning pod (it will say once the cloning pod is unlocked) and then right-click on the cloning pod and press eject, or turn off equipment using the APC in Genetics. Both of these result in the clone being low on health and usually dying. You can either apply rezadone instantly to heal them up to full health (minus brain damage) or rush them off to cryo. Then give them mannitol and speedclone complete!