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== [[File:Tome.png|60px]] '''FOR THE LOVE OF NAR-SIE, PLEASE READ THE GUIDE''' ==

Your Dark Lord Nar-Sie has sent a number of his followers to Space Station 13. As a cultist, you have an abundance of cult magics at your disposal, something for all situations. You must work with your brethren to sacrifice the heretics, spread the faith to Centcom, or even summon your eldritch god himself!

Several cultists will arrive on the station. When you spawn, you'll find a piece of paper in your backpack. This three-use talisman will allow you to do several things - the first you should do is summon a tome.

# Contact your cultists brothers and sisters through your Tome (communication is private and has no limit).<br>'''Important: Communication and teamwork is essential! If you fail to read the guide this far and follow the steps until here, you will probably fuck up the round for everybody and are not worthy enough for the cult of Nar-Sie and may be antagbanned!'''

# Increase their members via [[#Conversions|conversion]]. If you have an escape on the shuttle objective, you have to do this, and it's also a good idea to convert regardless.

# Create a base, makeshift or elaborate, accessible yet private, and ''be there'' when cultists bring in sacrifice or conversion victims. Considering that several cultists are required for certain runes, you HAVE to do this.

Humans are not the only beings that can become followers of Nar-Sie. Particularly lucky or ambitious cultists may be able to gain [[xeno]] allies, and who knows what else?

<span style="color:red;">'''REMINDER:'''</span> Three cultists are required for living sacrifices. They must be standing adjacent to the rune.

Nar-Sie might request his followers sacrifice a specific heretic, usually a member of Security or Command. For this sacrifice, your cult will gain enough power to call forth the Geometer if he wishes it so, although if you are supposed to escape with acolytes on the shuttle, this will not please him...

Tomes have three sections: Commune, which lets you communicate with fellow cultists in '''BOLD, CAPITAL, RED TEXT'''; Notes, which allows you to store the translations of words you have received; and Scribe Rune, which lets you draw runes with your blood. Creating a rune requires constant attention to the book.  Not only must a cultist stay still while drawing, he must also concentrate on the book.  Putting the book away while drawing will result in a failure, as will shifting focus to one's other hand. Much like talismans, drawing runes does a small amount of brute damage. Tomes can also be used to remove runes by smacking them and to robust heretics -- each hit with a tome does 15 burn damage. Tomes can also pull what ghosts a cultist can find into the material plane, making them visible to mortals. This serves no real function other than being funny.

|A talisman which allows its user to transport himself instantaneously to a teleport rune with the keyword "veri".

|Creates a stun paper which when used on people will cause them to become temporarily paralyzed and unable to speak for 10 ticks. This paper can't be used on yourself or other cultists. The stun talisman also works on cyborgs if they're being a problem. Like a parapen, this item is risky if you don't have a way to either convert your victim, sacrifice them or kill them.

This is the bread and butter of your magic. You can scribe runes in the Scribe Rune section of your tome.

!{{anchor|Convert Rune}}Convert

|To convert somebody, you need to place a live human, willing or otherwise, on top of the rune and then "use" the rune with an empty hand. This will work on anyone who is not currently loyalty implanted, in possession of a null rod, or the captain/chaplain. You can do this alone, but it'll take some time. If you have more cultists around the rune, it'll be instant!

!{{anchor|Sacrifice Rune}}Sacrifice

|The sacrifice rune is used to gain favour of your God by sacrificing different living things to it, such as humans or monkeys. A lone cultist can sacrifice a corpse, but '''three cultists are required to sacrifice a living human or the Geometer's target.''' A sacrifice completely destroys the body of its unfortunate victim, leaving behind its soul trapped in a soul stone shard. The victim's soul can be released as a shade, or inserted into a construct shell to make a construct.

!Form Wall

!Boil Blood

|The cult's most destructive rune, blood boil requires three cultists to activate. When invoked, it instantly deals 51 brute damage and 51 burn to all non cultists that can see the rune. However, cultists in range of the rune will take 15 damage. The rune itself will lightly explode when used, so be careful!

!Drain Life

|This rune instantly heals you of some brute damage, at the expense of a person placed on top of the rune. One drain gives up to 25HP per each victim, but you can repeat it if you need more. Draining only works on living people, so you might need to recharge your "battery" once its empty.

!Raise Dead

|To make the rune work, you will need two bodies: a living one, and a dead one. The living body will provide the life essence, while the dead body will be revived. When you invoke the rune, the dead body will be turned to bones and ashes. After a few seconds, the body will get up, completely revived!

!Call Forth The Geometer

|This large rite summons the avatar of Nar-Sie that will corrupt the station and enslave the paltry inhabitants of it. It requires nine cultists around the center of the rune, and will take a few seconds to call forth the Geometer. Once it is called forth, the entire station is alerted and the shuttle called with 3 minutes on the timer.

|Remember those EMP grenades and that EMP wizard spell? This rune does exactly the same. The rune itself doesn't generate a strong pulse, and only disables items in small radius.

!Manifest Spirit

|This is a unique rune. If you stand on top of it and invoke it, any ghosts on top of the rune will be given a cultist body and placed into it. The body will be translucent and a cultist. You have to stand on the rune for the body to remain intact - if you leave it, all summoned ghosts will be turned to ash. In addition, for each cultist, you will take a small amount of damage every tick. It isn't much, but it stacks up. These summoned cultists count as actual cultists for runes, so if your teammates won't rally up with you, you can do this in an emergency.

!Call Tome

!Teleport

|Teleport rune is a special rune. When scribing it, you can enter any word or sentence to use as the 'keyword'. When you invoke the rune, it'll send you to a random teleport rune with the same keyword. They can also be used as talismans for the same effect.

|This variation of the teleport rune allows you to teleport other people between the runes. You can't teleport yourself, but it's good for transporting sacrifice or conversion targets.