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[[File:Sword.gif]] The following is a tutorial on the basics of treachery -- for the game mode, click [[Game_Mode#Traitor|here]]. For information on the Syndicate organization, see [[The Syndicate]].

Alright, you forgot to switch off Be Traitor and now you are stuck as the traitor and have no idea what you're doing. This is a problem because a bad traitor means a bad round for everybody. But!, you plea, I had the option off and I'm still the traitor!  For some reason if everyone has the option off or the game just hates you, becoming the traitor is possible. Just adminhelp it, admins hate shit rounds as much as everyone else and you won't get banned for it unless you are an insufferable cunt.

For whatever reason you've decided to sell out the people you live and work with, most likely for personal gain. You will be given a number of dangerous goals by your new [[Syndicate]] employer which you must complete.

See the list of [[High-risk items]] for things you might be tasked to steal.

You're going to be asked to retrieve a set of secret documents held by another agent on station, and that agent will be asked the same for the documents in your own bag. If all things go well, both of you will meet up and exchange your documents. If they do, you could find yourself with a traitor buddy to work with! However...

There is a small chance that either one of you could get a secret objective asking one to cheat the other guy and run off with both sets of documents. Because of this, you should think about how you want to approach the other guy. Your life could very well be in danger.  

Don't forget that meeting in public is just as viable as meeting in maintenance. Provided you cover the documents in something inconspicuous like a box, being surrounded by the public eye would make a good deterrent against any funny business.

This isn't as hard as it seems at first glance. Nine times out of ten, if you act like a good little crew member and hide when the carnage inevitably starts, chances are someone in a fit of panic/rage/boredom probably already killed your target for you. That isn't very sporting though, not to mention extremely boring and unreliable.

See [[#Murder_101|below]] for tips on how to take our your target.

Another variation of Assassination, except your target will always be an [[AI]]. A little tougher than your typical target, as the AI is usually installed in a well-fortified location. It's also not as straight-forward as simply uploading a law to have it kill itself, as someone can easily just walk into the AI core and restore it back to full health.

Good job, you dirty traitor you!  Whatever your other objectives were, you have now successfully completed them!  Now, the difficult part, getting off of the station in either the [[Escape Shuttle]] or an [[Escape pod]].  There are two main ways to go about this task, dynamic and stealth.  Dynamic players are going to want to cause the damage to get the shuttle called and kill everyone that crosses their path to minimize the chances of others reaching the shuttle.  Stealthy players are going to want to hang back and seal off the shuttle arm and make sure that they are the only ones getting on the shuttle.  Most players will need to combine these two ways to succeed, regardless of the escape alone modifier on the escape objective. The more people on the shuttle, the greater chance some MAD BOMBER will kill you or some dude will robust you for no reason or some horrible admin related fatality will occur.  How you do this is up to you, but remember that one [[emag]] or 3 different [[Heads of Staff]] IDs will reduce the timer to 10 seconds until departure.

If all goes well, give yourself a pat on the back, you did it! If not, try to figure out where it all went wrong and improve on that.  Escaping alone can be nearly impossible depending on the crew and station's condition and theft can be just as difficult if you are a lowly assistant going after the Hand Teleporter the Captain is carrying around.  Sometimes it was not meant to be, but regardless, the only way to keep better is continue practicing!

If you think you're at the risk of being searched by security, and you don't think you can outrun or outfight them, a good idea is to hide your traitor items in a backpack in one of the personal lockers in the locker room at arrivals or in the dorms northwest of the bar. If the item is small (such as an emag), and you'd rather hold onto it, you can hollow out a book with a pair of wirecutters and place the item inside. To recover it, just click the item in your hand. The object will fall out.

Gaining entry to areas above your clearance is an important skill. Sometimes you're a traitor looking to loot stuff. Sometimes another traitor is chasing you and you don't have time to ask for clearance to loot guns. Sometimes the AI has gone mad and has locked you in a room filling with deadly neurotoxin. In any case, a collection of ways to break into places can be found [[Illicit Access|here]].

Most traitors have to kill someone, regardless of objectives, and knowing the right and wrong ways to do it will make or break your mission.

Typically the most readily available murder option. It involves a blunt object such as your fists, tools, guns, stun batons or almost any other item in the game.

''Cons:''

Leaves a bloody mess, armor exists, sometimes gives them time to cry for help.

 

==Advanced Methods of Murder==

 

 

''Pros;''

 

 

 

 

 

 

This method is effective to incapacitate people you've already caught if you don't have any means of handcuffing them, but it's not effective enough to kill outright.

 

Simple to use and are most effective when you're directly attacking the enemy. This includes swords, axes and revolvers.

 

''Pros:''

Almost a one-hit-kill, can be concealed

 

 

 

The act of forcing somebody out of an external airlock. Note that the ones in the [[Escape Shuttle Hallway]] and [[Arrivals]] are all-access, meaning anyone can open these.

 

 

 

 

 

Very intimidating and dramatic, high chance of death, destroys the station (if that's a good thing), and leaves no physical evidence except a charred body and burnt floors.

 

 

 

 

 

''Pros:''

You can change the person's identity completely, you can mask your murder as an attempt to help give them powers or do research or backup DNA, and once they're in the pod you can lock it where they have no chance to call for help or fight back.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Relieves suspicion of you (if it exists), a very good way of getting the station's legitimate members to do your dirty work, distracts Security, makes for nice RP

 

''Cons:''

 

''Notes:''

It is great when it works, but it is also hard to pull off and risky. Make sure you always wear gloves, and try to use people's ignorance to your advantage; asking some random Assistant to hold something like a fire extinguisher for you at the start of the round, then leave it near the victim's body, for example.

 

Another tip-Have a good weapon on you, DONT MAKE THINGS UP ON THE GO, have something your target can get knocked out by.

 

 

 

 

This is probably the best as chef, as it doesn't appear as traitorous.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It would be unwise to kill somebody in the Toxins Lab if you're the only toxins researcher. On the other hand, it would be incredibly wise to kill somebody in the Toxins Lab if you're not the toxins researcher.

 

Things never go that smoothly.  Getting caught is a way of life on Space Station 13 and knowing how to get out of it is very important.  And the best way to do that is to lie so much you believe yourself. Lie to everyone and everything that talks to you.  Agree to any searches that won't get you busted for corpses or traitor items.  Do anything to deflect the blame on to others. If you run around not saying anything dragging a locker of corpses around, you will end up dead.  If you drag around that locker of corpses saying you were cleaning up maintenance and you are going to give the chef some meat, you may have a chance of not getting killed.  Note that your chances of this bluff being a success is shot to nothing if you get caught with any traitor items on you.  As soon as that first [[emag]] or revolver is spotted, you're getting a face-full of a harm baton and then the embrace of hard vacuum.

 

 

 

 

 

Gimmicks can be the most fun you will have as an antagonist. Everything from tying your victims to a conveyor belt leading into the crusher and donning a Snidely Whiplash costume, to putting on a suit and tie, getting the admins to turn you into a skeleton, and building a disposals coaster into space (THE RIDE NEVER ENDS), to playing a murderer who hatches murder plots based on the victim's job (roboticist killed by a rogue cyborg, engineer thrown into the singularity, assistant toolboxed to death, etc.) can be fun for all parties involved.

 

'''WARNING! WARNING! OPINION ON OPINION AHEAD!'''<br>

 

 

Despite popular opinion, the admins are not just here to ban people and press buttons. They're here to help make the round interesting – just like you! Therefore, if you want to do a gimmick that you cannot pull off with the tools available, feel free to ask the admins if you can buy something using leftover TC. Some ideas: Centcom announcements, identity changes, surgery tools, and building materials. Another thing – if your objectives are boring, easy, or you've already completed them, you can ask for more. It's a good alternative to simply killing everything in sight if you can't think of something to do.

 

* As a traitor, unless you haven't engaged in any traitorous deeds, you lack [[rules|Rule 1]] protection.  However, you are not under the jurisdiction of Rule 1 either.  Short of rape, or intentionally crashing the server, you can do whatever you please.

 

* 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 shit. The only issue is getting close enough. Also, if you intend to give someone a combat mech (not yourself) 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. Then laugh at them and smash their face in real good.

* PDA holds a pen by default. Remove it and store your parapen there if you take it. No one carries pens in their bag.

* Are you a traitorous sort lucky enough to have HoP-level access? Don't want security on your dick? CLOSE THE FUKKEN POSITIONS. An understaffed security team is a shit security team. Note that you can only open or close one position per 5 minutes per console. That's why you use multiple consoles.

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

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

* Grenades can be activated from backpack with mousetraps.

* Suit Storage Units can hold any type of space suit, even hardsuits. You can hide hardsuits in them and nobody will ever think of checking there. Well, unless the power goes out and the SSU forcibly ejects its contents, of course.

* Reverse pickpocketing doesn't produce a message for people you try it on (unless it fails). You can reverse pickpocket minibombs onto people. You can start the timer on the minibomb after you start the pickpocket attempt but before it's actually placed. At point blank range, the minibomb gibs provided the target has no protection. Go forth and explode pants.

* You can make an improvised explosive (IED) with basic materials. What you'll need:

**Soft drink bottle (I'll use Space Cola), Igniter, a Welding fuel tank, and a cable coil.

**Igniter ---> Space Cola ---> improvised explosive assembly --> click on a welding fuel tank --> cables ---> improvised explosive assembly (filled)