Guide to Genetics: Difference between revisions

I repeat myself once again, the MHG is random, like every other POWER and DISABILLITY. now, don't get impatient, we'll need to go through one more thing before we arrive at making kick ass mutants.

Most people divide genes up into three categories: powers, disabilities and race.

The disabillities themselves can be split into a category too; visible, and silent disabillities. Let me give an example: It is common fashion to shine the penlight into your monkey's eyes, a geneticist old tradition because blindness is bad. If the monkey really is blind, the pupils don't react to the penlight! which means that the monkey is blind, and you now know that block is blindness.

You take the next gene, tune it to an acceptable level, safe it to a buffer and open the monkey's deathttrap scanner. You know that it can't be blindness because you already found that, shine into the eyes and don't see an eerily glow. You hear no coughing, the monkey isn't violently twitching and swearing, and it didn't collapse out of epilepsy yet. Probably a silent disabillity, or abillity. You inject yourself, and feel nervous! No way you could have figured that out without injecting someone that can talk. Silent disabillity.

Epilepsy though, is an odd one. It can take anywhere between five minutes and ten seconds to be on the floor, drooling and flailing your arms around. If you get a headache, GET A CLEAN SE IMMEDIATELY. Best case scenario, you inject yourself before anything happens. The worst case scenario, can always get worse. After recovering from an epilepsy attack, even if clean SE'd right after, you'll still be shaky for at the very least ten minutes and most often the rest of the game. Try taking loads of antitoxin and rejuvenators at the same time. Although untested, they seem to help.

What you will be wanting to find,

This one promises what it does, it turns you into a badass Bruce Bane look alike. You'll shout at the top of your lungs all the time - but you can whisper - while going green with red eyes! That doesn't sound too nice. Oh, and then there is also immunity to tazers, buffed hitpoints, and the abillity to HULK SMASH through anything that isn't the AI core. Pair with TK and X-ray for the abillity to smash anything you see with the INSANE POWER OF YOUR MIND, THROUGH WALLS! Take enough damage, and you will be popped out of hulk, snoozing on the floor. By far the most efficient way to take out hulks is 14 CH+1RYE packed in a syringe gun.

Due to roleplay purposes, people tend to void it, though. If it wasn't obvious yet from all previous mentions of green-ness and shouting, you will see notice how your muscles hurt when you inject yourself with this. Has about 15% to manifest if the block is higher than ED8-C80. This means a random "activation code" gets set anywhere inbetween that range. More random! Some rounds it is set to E03, other times to DAC, some times it might even be C9B. Your best bet is just getting it over ED8; you are garaunteed to get the block to activate.

On it's own, X-ray is not much more then ghost sight - aside from only seeing through walls, and not this mystical border called the screen. If you manage to beg engineering for some mesons, you'll be able to see anything, even THROUGH the darkness (through screens not included)! Pair this with TK to steal the chef's donk pockets, Break into about anywhere with all-acces buttons, making daring escapes out of permabrig and more!

When X-ray manifests the subject's eyes will react to the penlight with an eerily glow! When you are the lucky one, you'll see that the walls suddenly disappear and indeed they do. This power has about 50% of manifesting when the block is higher then ABD-DAC.

"Easy," You'll shout, after you found this block "you substract the apple from the penuts and with the square root of purple use pythagoras algorithm to measure the distance between three and a half doorframes, and take fourtytwo. Aside from that, the answer to everything, all of life..."

If someome get's telekinesis, they'll turn into glowing creep variant one. A light blue aura, pulse, or whatever the hell it is seeps from the cracks of your head. If you inject yourself with it and it activates, you'll see a message that claims you feel smarter. this power has about 30% chance to activate when the block is over ED8-C80

Then there is also the intresting possibillity to work together with those medics who dare call themself researchers virology and hope they did their job found self-respiration yet. If they have, you can go into spess for quite some time! You're now a human, travelling in space without the help of your evil neighbours! At them Billy!

If you are the hothead to get this, you feel warmer. this power has a 50% chance to activate when the block is over ABD-DAC.

What you're looking to avoid, the SILENT DISABILLITIES.

It doesn't really do much, aside from being annoying. It turns you into a slurring and stammering hairless monkey. When you catch the gene, you feel nervous. This gene has a 100% chance to activate when the block is over 800.

The only crewmember on the station that has this is the clown, HONK! He's also the only one on the ship not to have a clean SE at roundstart. If the clown is being a filthy tator, he'll lose it though. This block is responsible for making you do all kinds of stupid stuff, give this to security and ensure they'll never ever catch any criminals again, ever. When you get this honking good block, you feel lightheaded. This block has 100% chance to activate If it's over 800.

"WHAT DID YOU SAY?!! I CAN'T HEAR!" whenever someone gets the block, this will most likely be what they're going to repeat over and over and over. This block is downright dangerous. Everyone could be yelling over the radio that traitor mcRobust is breaking into medbay, just solo'd security and is coming for you. You will lose any and all situational awareness, and the only thing you can do is assume what people are saying. You DO see emotes, though. But don't absorb the mime's magical mad mind talking powers.

It's fairly obvious that when you Inject yourself with this, the first sign will be silence. Aside from that you can't seem to hear anything. This block has 100% chance to activate when it's over 800

Do you feel strange?

If the answer was yes to three out of those, you probably found strangeness. Clean SE yourself immediately. Strangeness is the mutation gene, if you manipulate it to above 800 it'll decide to up/down a random gene. This is extremely annoying when you want to track down powers, but if left in place it may even manipulate other blocks. If you're the risk taking robust type, you can try to track down strangeness, inject yourself with it and see what else mutated. Then you check your own DNA, and bwam, two for the price of one. Repeat over as many times as neccescary to find everything.

If you aren't that robust though, just check what other block it was that mutated: When you get block 6 to E78 and block 10 randomly becomes 98A, you know six is blindness and ten is whatever. Then cure it, and continue on your merry way. Be the mutant to catch it and you feel strange when you do. Most likely paired with something else. This gene has 100% chance to activate when the block is over 800

Whenever someone claims either of the following conditions whilest still walking around, is a giant liar: they cant see, their eyes are fudged up, they claim they're blind. What you have, in fact, is shortsightedness. Now shout at them for their stupidity and making your life a living hell. An easy test to see if someone is truly blind, is to put people next to the genetics table and asking them to read the three big letters on the wall (your air alarm. If they answer they read RIP, they are shortsighted and you can laugh at their stupidity once again. If they ask "what letters, where, I can't see." you should consider giving them your sincere apologies.

Short sightedness is one of the few genes that can be fixed without injecting more dangerous radiation. You use the glasses from either one of your glasses boxes. That's right kids, there are two boxes of glasses at your disposal. You never run out of glasses and even if you do the medbay storage still has spares, meaning a grand total of 21 glasses. Pop some on for the looks, the roleplay and the gift of sight

 

Whenever you get this handicap, your eyes feel strange. IMPORTANT: even though you are practically blind, the penlight doesn't detect this. The gene has 100% chance to activate when the block is over 800.

Ever wondered why the hell that one guy kept shouting and didn't get banned for it? And why any means of communication were completely ignored? This is what the genetics like to call, in proffesional words, THAT ONE GODDAMN BLOCK THAT YOUS HOULDN'T ACTIVATE BECAUSE ITS BAD AND YOU ARE COMPLETELY SCREWED IF YOU DO. In the slightly less proffesional terms, "let's put the monkey in a locker and put that next to the intercom." And in the least proffesional terms, is k meak halk. In normal human speak, the Tourettes Syndrome.

This is, without doubt, THE worst POSSIBLE thing! You can be a bold epileptic, but that isn't as bad as tourettes. You could be blind and deaf, still not as bad as tourettes. You could be a gibbering clone that dies every five minutes, but as long as it doesn't have tourettes, still not as bad as tourettes. What does tourettes even do?

It makes you swear, and paralyse. On the topic of the swearing:

-It is either into your headset;

Aside from that, here is a delicious list of things that will pop up when you get the disease:

The paralyses is also fun. Whenever you do, "YOU TWITCH VIOLENTLY!"

If you inject yourself with tourettes, You twitch. You will also swear after a few seconds or so, which is why it is a visible disabillity; if they don't swear after 30 or so seconds, it's not tourettes. This gene has 100% chance of activation if the block is over 800

"The common geneticist, it's a sight to see. They're unable to manipulate genes to find powers, but always manage to find each negative block. Not the most intelligent of the genetici familly, often times not caring about anti toxins or even unable to apply them! This species of genetici is also unable to cure any mutations caused by their innacurate radiating. It is an extremely ravenous specimen, killing up to four monkeys a shift! They're easily distinguishable from the other genetici, known for their bold heads, constant puking, timely seizures, and a never stopping twitch. You'd say they should have gone extinct by now, and they should have. But something about their breeding program we don't fully understand yet DOUBLES their numbers every week!"

Dear lord, don't let this be you. Next to tourettes, shaking all the time is a bad geneticist sign. The seizures will knock you flat to the ground, spasming all the while. Your screen will go black, similiar to being in critical. You won't be able to see anything or hear anything during this time, remember that if someone happens to murder someone else right on top of the twitching wreck that's you. In general, just don't get this gene, ever. It might be quite the intresting experiment* to pair this with tourettes and give it to the HoS.

Whenever this manifests, you feel a headache. don't be fooled, though, or you will be drooling and down in no time at all. You can quickly see if there is any epilepsy if your subject goes down for extended periods of time. Be aware that radiation sickness also causes seizures and weakness. This gene has 100% chance of activating if the block is over 800.<br>

An ages old geneticist tradiation, is to scan your subject's eyes with the penlight. Reason being, that there used to be an age where going blind actually meant you couldn't see shit and thus couldn't use the console. Which means no clean SE. Which means eternal blackness untill the point where you get a clean monkey SE, aren't human and instead are a subject to a skull cave in.

The penlight has the sole reason to check if people are blind. That and ghettoflashing people is the only reason it exists. It's an etiquette to check for blindness, so do. Remember that people can still see one square around them, so blind&robust isn't a viable tactic against a target with a gun.

This gene is quickly identified by shining a penlight into someone's eyes, after which you quickly conclude that their pupils do not react to the penlight! Gain this attribute to situational awareness and, you can't seem to see anything. This gene has 100% chance of activating if the block is over 800.

Ever had the virologist who DARED release the rhinovirus? He got sacked and robusted by all sorts of vigilantes, but ALMOST escaped due to the angry crowd going into coughing fits all the time? You can do that too now, and mabey even blame the virologist!

Giving this to people will be an annoyance at first, and a threat at most. Security dropping tazers, medics dropping medikits and science dropping the cuban pete; good times for all. It's quite obvious what happens whenever you get this gene, you get a cough and will be able to see your subject coughing. This gene has 100% chance of activating if the block is over 800

;The Monkey Human Gene.

And then there is that-one-gene which turns you into a monkey or a human. Let's go into TOG a little bot more in depth.

Take the "TOOO" rule, "The Odd One Out" If it's above 800, you're a monkey. If it's below 800, you're a human. The wiki tells false truths about TOG, claiming it's block 14 at all times. TOG is not block 14. TOG not amused. All blocks of someones SE start below 800 (unless honk) at spawn, TOG is above puny ones.

It's random. Every. Shift. It took me three whole shifts to figure out how to get it irradiated and done with. Three. I don't want anyone else going through such suffer, ever again. Lets take a look at some more example SE's and see if you can tell human from monkey. (Remember the hexadecimal number sequence; 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F G)

This will be about as easy as it's going to get: What block is the monkey human gene?

A little harder this time, but once again, only one block is over 800.

Lest you payed attention, you should still be able to figure out which block is the monkey human gene. Did I already mention the TG wiki claims false truths?