Post by keinto on Jul 14, 2014 17:15:40 GMT
Ever seen The Thing (1982)? If you haven't, you are missing out. It's also the movie where the Changelings in SS13 get their name and and abilities from. In the movie, after several horrifying encounters with the creature, the survivors of the icy outpost finally settle up on doing a blood test of everyone present in the room, alive or dead. The Changeling is a creature that will try to survive and thrive no matter what it's done to it, except blown up like in the movie. In game, of course, it'd be pretty hard to implement something like this: Spider Head, but the essence of the changeling's survivability is still portrayed pretty well ingame with the regenerative stasis, and all the other abilities that allow it to escape death.
Moreover, there are this bunsen burners in the Detective's Office and in Research, the sole purpose of these (as I have been told by several people) is to confirm someone as a changeling. I have been told that when the blood is boiled, it either emits and alert that the blood is jumping, or the blood itself jumps from the burner onto the table. Neither of these things happen with the current code. The bunsen burner just keeps hissing and hissing as it would with nothing on it. Should it ever be enabled (as it should), it would not mean the Detective and Research can go around taking blood samples from people at random, like the Chaplain we once had during a cultist round, waving their nullrod over people's heads without asking them.
One of the ways we can make it a viable option is to take the sample once the Changeling as been capture, and its transforming witnessed by whomever is to do the blood test, like the last changeling round I played, where one of the changelings was finally captured as a monkey, and I took a blood sample from it and sent part of it to Medical and kept the rest for my own testing. However, the bunsen burner did not work. What other ways would it be excusable do try this blood test? Please let me know.
One of the best scenes in the movie:
The Thing - Blood Test
Moreover, there are this bunsen burners in the Detective's Office and in Research, the sole purpose of these (as I have been told by several people) is to confirm someone as a changeling. I have been told that when the blood is boiled, it either emits and alert that the blood is jumping, or the blood itself jumps from the burner onto the table. Neither of these things happen with the current code. The bunsen burner just keeps hissing and hissing as it would with nothing on it. Should it ever be enabled (as it should), it would not mean the Detective and Research can go around taking blood samples from people at random, like the Chaplain we once had during a cultist round, waving their nullrod over people's heads without asking them.
One of the ways we can make it a viable option is to take the sample once the Changeling as been capture, and its transforming witnessed by whomever is to do the blood test, like the last changeling round I played, where one of the changelings was finally captured as a monkey, and I took a blood sample from it and sent part of it to Medical and kept the rest for my own testing. However, the bunsen burner did not work. What other ways would it be excusable do try this blood test? Please let me know.
One of the best scenes in the movie:
The Thing - Blood Test
