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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 itching to be spent on traitory goods.  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.

Gaining entry to areas above your clearance is an important skill. Sometimes you're looking to loot stuff. Sometimes security or another traitor is chasing you and you need to escape them. Sometimes the AI has gone mad and has locked you in a room filling with deadly neurotoxin. A collection of ways to break into places can be found [[Illicit Access|here]].

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

* Keep in mind that the best methods of killing are combinations of the ones listed below.

* Blood on your weapons, hands, and on floor are dead giveaways that you have beat somebody up. Dispose of the weapon and/or clean them if you have the supplies or can get to a sink and/or shower. Always try to wear gloves when you kill someone. Not only does it leave your hands clean, it prevents fingerprint evidence from giving you away.

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

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

Unless you're a robust fighter, beating is not always a viable option because it's somewhat easy to defend against. A few objects, like batons, will require harm intent.

Strangulation is most useful against downed opponents. Tabling is a common precursor to strangling.

Simple enough; while wearing internal gear, release toxic gases into a room with your opponent.

Leaves no physical evidence besides the tank/canister, reasonably fast!

Toxic gases can be difficult to acquire depending on your job; trapping your target presents a problem in and of itself; the area becomes contaminated until somebody comes to clean it up, and the AI will also receive an atmospheric alarm for the area and can immediately jump to a camera there making escape difficult unless you can hide in a locker or something

Killing aided by medical supplies such as toxins, morphine and rejuvenators and medication like epilepsy pills. Some of these will merely incapacitate the enemy, some will do significant damage, and enough of them can be deadly.

Readily available in the Medbay or from your uplink, leaves little physical evidence

Takes some time to work, is most likely not deadly unless extreme doses are administered

This method is effective to incapacitate people you've already caught if you don't have any means of handcuffing them, but unless you're a chemist what you've got is probably not effective enough to kill outright.

Very effective and efficient means to kill, but these weapons are not available to the general public so if you're caught with them it's usually game over.

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.

Murderboning is no fun. No matter how great it might seem gunning down everyone you see, you've got to remember something. Every human you see walking around is being controlled by a real person. They probably sat down after a hard day doing whatever it is they do and said to themselves “Huh, I want to play Space Station 13. It's a fun game!” You probably did the exact same thing before you logged on. For each little pixel character you shoot in this game of 2D spessmens, you are removing a person – just like you – from doing something they find enjoyable. This is what makes SS13 different from other games. If you die in an FPS, you pop back into existence no different from before you died. In SS13, unless the body is recovered you die permanently. So please, think of who you're killing before you go on a thermal/noslip/esword frenzy.

* 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 and should be a priority.

* Emagging welded doors causes them to close permanently, they cannot be opened and can only be destroyed, use this to your advantage when 'reserving' an escape shuttle for yourself or when hiding a powersink.

* There may be other traitors on the shuttle and you may be their objective to kill.  Trust nobody.  Also, if the round is uneventful, the admins may create new traitors with custom objectives, some of which can be a lot of fun.

* Are you a traitorous sort lucky enough to have HoP-level access? Don't want security on your dick? CLOSE THE POSITIONS. An understaffed security team is a shit security team.