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Your target MUST be dead when the shuttle docks at Centcom. Don't forget that your station has experimental cloning technology that may or may not be working.

Alright, you know your objective! Time to accomplish that goal! The Syndicate treats you much better than Centcom. You have 20 Telecrystals built into your PDA, pen or headset itching to be spent on traitory goods. '''To access your uplink from the PDA, go to the IC tab in the actual Byond window and click on the Notes tab. Get the code from the notes window and enter it into your PDA ringtone. If your uplink is on a pen, you'll find the degrees to twist the pen in the Notes tab. If your uplink is on your headset, you will find the frequency to tune to in order to access the headset. REMEMBER TO LOCK THE UPLINK!''' Check [[Syndicate Items]], for a more detailed description on the goods. But don't go racing off to order those items ASAP; people are more clustered in the beginning of rounds and the AI is probably wondering how it switches cameras and the Captain is off huffing paint somewhere. Although it can be useful to get items early, holding off until you need the item also has merit, so 6 crystals don't get wasted on an emag when you find the captain's spare ID on that assistant you just killed.

Blood Brothers is a variant of Traitor where you are bound to work with another random person on the station. Together you and some random traitor will work together to pull off any of the regular traitor objectives. '''It should be noted that you will not receive an uplink''' and will be forced to work with only the station, much like a 0TC traitor run.

Alright, here's the situation. Let's say that your objectives are to kill someone, and to escape alive. Very simple, and they give you a lot of leeway in terms of the method of assassination. This means you could kill your target in a multitude of interesting and different ways! Here's a few examples:

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*Having a spare ID always helps. Assistants are a dime a dozen, so it's not a bad idea to pin one on your shirt before you go about any dirty business so your real identity is not compromised. Throw some acid on your face and acquire a voice changer from your uplink, and no one will ever be able to discover who you are! That is, unless they take your DNA or fingerprint. If you don't have that, then just wear a mask and run around as Unknown, using your ID to access the doors that you need. Knowing the access each job has makes certain IDs more valuable than others.

*There's an ID console near arrivals. If you get all-access, you can use this to make extra IDs to stash somewhere for when [[Security]] inevitably take your original ID.

*An agent card, which can be used to make you untraceable by the AI, can also scan other IDs to copy their access, producing no special message for spectators: you can do it pretty much anywhere in full view of everyone. Have fun standing in the HoP's line by queuing up behind someone with large amounts of access and copying that access while the ID is placed on the table. As scanning two cards with an agent card gives the agent card the permissions of both, you can create a ghetto Captain's ID with a few low level IDs.

*Have an agent ID and a voice-changer mask? Why not use it to make that guy you murdered blame somebody else!

*Nobody checks the lockers in the locker room. Like, ever. And you need a fairly high level of ID to open lockers that are already registered to a specific person, so no worries about Joe Schmoe Assistant running in and stealing your hand teleporter.

*You should hide off cameras when impersonating someone with a non-Agent ID, as the AI can track you.

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*Emagging welded/bolted doors causes them to close permanently. Use this to your advantage when 'reserving' an escape shuttle for yourself or when hiding a powersink.

*Emag any Janiborg you can for their infinite lube reserves. They are also very effective thieves due to being able to pick up items with their trash bag. Emag one, tell it to bring you an AI Upload board and a module of your choice.

*An emagged Medibot will start to inject anyone standing close to it with Toxin. Good to combo with an emagged Beepsky who will stun anyone next to it.

*Emagging a comms console with captain access allows you to contact the syndicate. If the Gods are feeling kind you can use this to demand new objectives, and the Gods will often give you more telecrystals to help you achieve them.

*If you have perma access try to slip a fully loaded toolbox in the perma bathroom or hide an emag inside of the back of the toilet to escape later when you inevitably get sent there.

*If you're looking to hijack a shuttle and have spare space in your inventory, the fastest way to lock people out long enough to emag it without warning is to drop two reinforced tables in one airlock passage just before it docks after bolt-nolight-emagging the other airlock passage(s). Results may vary in places with more than 2-3 doors.

*The surest way to escape alone is preventing anyone from boarding and emagging the console. Murderboning rarely works, and subverting the AI relies on the AI being competent - inconsistent and risky.

*A strategy to win Cuban Pete, which can be played on a emagged arcade machine (note that if you die, you die for real):

**If your magic is less than 5, charge.

**If your health is less than Pete's, and your turtle value is less than 3, heal. Otherwise, attack.

**Healing increases your turtle value by 1.

**Attacking or charging your magic reduces your turtle value by 1.

**Pete will attack you for more damage if your turtle value is greater than 3.

**This technique gives you a win/loss ratio of about 1.7 on average. If your health is ever below 7, restart the game (screwdriver the arcade machine to restart).

**Once you get Pete to low health, be aware that he can steal your magic. This can result in your death easily, such as if you heal at 5 magic using up 3, and then he steals 2, bringing you to 0 and gibbing you.

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*You can make an improvised explosive (IED) with basic materials (a soft drink can, igniter, a welding fuel tank, and some cable coil). It can gib dead people if exploded on their body, and the explosion doesn't expose blown tiles to space. It also destroys dead borg's bodies so you can get the MMI.

*You can use an IED on a reinforced wall to skip most of the disassembling steps.

*You only need maint access to make single tank bombs. Get a large air tank, any igniter assembly, a wrench and a welder. Remove the air in the air tank with an air pump, then add some plasma and oxygen from the incinerator room (may need some pipe re-wrenching depending on the map), add a hot gas, then attach the igniter assembly and weld a hole in the bomb.

*You can destroy canisters by attacking them. Using a welder also lights the plasma from canisters on fire after it escapes. Very useful for traitoring. It's stupidly easy to escape alone just by releasing some plasma at escape a few minutes before the shuttle arrives. Fire will destroy canisters the same way but, instead of releasing plasma, it'll explode like a small bomb. So if you're trying to make an inferno, let the canister empty ''then'' light it, so you don't put your own fire out with vacuum.

*Having a bomb in your backpack and setting it off while in a sleeper will blow up everything and the sleeper, but leave you perfectly unharmed.

*Reverse pickpocketing doesn't produce a message for people you try it on (unless it fails). You can reverse pickpocket mini-bombs onto people. You can start the timer on the mini-bomb after you start shoving it into their pockets.

You can change the timer on C4 to be extremely high, it tops out at 60000 seconds (16.7 hours). Scare the ba-jesus out of someone by planting irremovable C4 that will probably never detonate, or hang a live explosive on your wall for a stylish conversation piece.

*Light switches can be used to sabotage a room if you inject plasma into the light bulbs. Also works if there is a power outage.

*If you inject a good power cell with plasma, it'll explode and create a hole in space when it is used for anything.

*If so dip a cigar in plasma, the person who lights it will be gibbed (normal cigs won't do as much damage).

*You can force the AI to call the shuttle by throwing an EMP grenade near it's core, which has a 15% chance to force a shuttle call. Or, if your objectives allow for it, release the tesla which usually makes a bee-line for the AI (if you haven't given it prior prompting via a beacon).

*EMPing a cloning pod turns the clone into a slurry of blood and meat chunks. Useful if you've got access to ground iron and uranium and ''really'' need the guy getting cloned to not get cloned.

*EMPs silence headsets and turns off suit sensors until they are manually turned back on.

*EMPs knock out electricity in a wide area and messes up a lot of machinery in a lot of ways (one way being emag effects). It is a very versatile component to combat cyborgs or cybernetic enhancement users, such as Preternis, as it will automatically shut them down in a fight.

*You can take out a combat mech with just an axe if you circle it well enough. Since they turn around slowly and must face you to fire, they can't do much. The only issue is getting close enough. If you intend to give someone else a combat mech, stick on a bunch of mech beacons and build yourself an exosuit computer. If they start to rampage, EMP all the beacons and ruin their mech.

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*You can delete your fingerprints from the security records. It's better to re-forge them or swap them with someone else's however.

*Simply changing your hairstyle can be enough to throw security off your trail if they only caught a glimpse of you. Especially if you have hair that really stands out.

*Are you a traitorous sort lucky enough to have HoP-level access? CLOSE THE POSITIONS. An understaffed security team is a poor security team.

*If you ever need a place to hide something while sec is on your tail, make a false wall into a secret spot and put the stuff into that area to get later when the heat has died down. All you need to worry about is someone with meson goggles finding your weapons or contraband.

*On Boxstation, you can free people from perma without using space by going through the interrogation room and thus emagging the doors holding your kin.

*Pulse rifles can break tables, racks, girders, and pretty much anything else besides airlocks, provided you aim at it with your mouse.

*Fake mustaches conceal your identity just as well as a gas mask.

*Every PDA holds a pen by default. Remove it and store your sleepy pen/e-daggers there.

*Latex gloves don't stop you from leaving your fingerprints everywhere. They leave partial prints.

*You can uncuff yourself while in a disposal unit.

*Grenades can be activated from a backpack with mousetraps. Great for when a snobby security officer ask you for a search.

*Store dead bodies on the Toxins Test Site. Nobody will ever find them. Hopefully.

*Bullets pass through windows, but not grilles. Lasers and disablers pass through windows and grilles. Electrodes are blocked by both windows and grilles.

*Sec Borgs are always stunned by flashes, but the amount of time they're stunned varies.

*Targeting the eyes with a flashlight and attacking someone with it will cause their screen to flash white for a moment. This works on cyborgs as well, and can be used to blind and seriously inconvenience them if you don't have access to a flash.

*The AI cannot examine anything except things it can see in its chamber. It can take pictures of you to see what's in your hand however.

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*The chameleon projector can be used to dodge shots, just run with it in your hand and spam it to have bolts go over you.

*A hilariously effective use of the chameleon projector is something slippery, like the clown's PDA or a banana peel. WILD CLOWN MATERIALIZES.

*You can't drag items that have people with cham projectors on, giving you a way to check an item without immediately sending the cloaker into a panic.

*Floorbots won't try to collect people disguised as floor tiles or metal.

*Pretending to be an item in space gives you perfect movement, but you'll still die of exposure if you're not prepared.

*You can cloak as things in the holodeck and use them elsewhere on the station, no one ever suspects the beachball.

*You can wrench apart a table or rack and rebuild it under you and disguise for a more convincing ploy.

*Hiding as an item in a doorway will let the door close harmlessly on you, giving total concealment.

*Buy an uplink implant. If you get brigged buy a projector and inspire the wild goose chase of the century as you hide there. If sec is being incompetent they'll probably assume there's a cult about due to the lack of evidence of any escape route besides a straight up teleport.

*You can steal flashes from mounted flashers by using wirecutters. This will disable the flasher until a replacement flash is installed. One being located at HoP-Line and Sec checkpoints.

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*No-Slip shoes are the most cost effective thing you can possibly buy, and probably the most powerful thing you can purchase.

*E-swords and circular saws can be used to make sawed-off shotguns. Eswords can also cut cakes, pizzas and light cigars.

*The suspicious toolbox does fifteen damage instead of ten, making it as strong as a circular saw or a null rod.

*Spraying someone who's smoking a cigarette or cigar with welding fuel or alcohol will set them on fire. The same applies to lit welders. Especially awesome since, unlike other methods for setting someone on fire, spraying does not show in the chatbox and it can be done from quite a few tiles away, or with unexpected items like pepper spray. It works with an active E-sword too, as a poor antag found out.

*Hardsuits can carry a jetpack in their Suit Slot. This way you can carry it around without anyone seeing, but it still needs to be on your back to work.

*Black gloves are fireproof. That means you can take whatever lights you want without getting burnt. They also half the damage you take from electric shocks.

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*The entirety of Disposals can easily be routed into space in certain maint areas, and you need only stun and drag people to a disposal bin to instantly kill them. Disposals can be a very potent weapon if used correctly, and there are plenty of other ways. You just need to find them.

*If you grab someone and use them on a open toilet you can drown them via swirly, though it will take creativity. If it is closed, it slams the affected person into the toilet seat.

*Putting a tracking beacon in space makes the hand teleporter an instantly lethal weapon instead of a convenience.

*Lockers do not protect from space and atmosphere. So stun-locker-weld-space is a valid strategy.

*Shoving a corpse into a locker, body bag or buckling to a chair/roller bed then dragging that object about leaves no blood trail.

*Spaced bodies can husk, but it's not terribly quick. Burned bodies husk much better.

*Strapping a man to a chair while throwing floor tiles at him is a surprisingly quick death on his part.

*Shooting syringes of black slime juice will turn the person into a slime. Combine this with that one icy reagent or a docility potion and bam, you just murdered someone.

*Suit Storage Units can hold any type of space suit, even hardsuits. You can hide bodies in them and nobody will ever think of checking there. You can even hack them to burn somebody to a crisp.

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*When you take something from your bag or put something in it, it creates a message that everyone around you gets. How far this message goes depends on the size of your item. If the item can't be placed into a box, then when you put it in your bag it'll show to everyone that can see you. If the item can be placed into a box, then when you put it in your bag it'll only show to people who are directly next to you. This also means that only the people next to you can see what you put into your box, as the box uses the same code as the bag. There are also a few exceptions, like the e-bow, that don't show any message at all.

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*If your objective is to steal the nuke disk, steal the pinpointer as well. The reason should be self-evident.

*You don't need to steal the blueprints to complete your objective. You can instead take a picture of it and it will count as successfully stealing it.

*"Steal plasma" is the easiest objective; grab an emergency O2 tank or an air tank, stuff it in a public scrubber until it's empty. Grab 10 sheets of metal, go to incinerator, make a canister, attach the canister to the port, activate the plasma valve, stuff the tank into can, set pressure to max, open, wait, close, remove, win/die because you used it for internals.

*Instead of just cutting the wires for the vault, you can just grab a toolbox, mesh, and one of them budget insulated gloves and break in from the window. Only on box though.

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