Leaderboard

Either you're in this situation, or someone you know is currently in this situation outlined in the title. I've seen it often enough that I wanted to make a super short, step-by-step guide to try and help these new players. Let's waste no more time. Step 0: If you ABSOLUTELY NEVER WANT TO LEARN CULT EVER AHelp, and ask to have your role offered to ghosts. Yeah it sucks that you've been suddenly pulled from the round, but if you have no interest in playing cult whatsoever, you should at least let someone from DChat have fun. Step 1: PICK UP THE TOME. If you're lucky, you've just been teleported to a fancy cult base, slammed on a rune and made a cultist. If you're unlucky you've been slammed on a rune hidden in plain sight and turned into a cultist. Either way, take a look around. You should see a tome like one of these... GRAB IT! It's your most important item. Even if you think it belongs to someone else, it doesn't. It's yours. They can make another if they have to. Step 2: COMMUNICATE. You've been given access to a powerful, magic radio. Say hello! But be careful! Non-cultists can hear you whisper, don't talk when you're near them. Ask what needs doing, and what's been done. The cult will need more members. Maybe you're robust, and want to snatch other players yourself. Maybe you just want to help the cult in general. Either way, you need to communicate with your fellow acolytes. Now that you have an objective... Step 3: DRAW A RUNE. Use the tome in your hands, and choose to scribe a rune. You should see a big intimidating list. There's a LOT of options here. For just starting out, you want to know 3 RUNES, we'll start with Teleport Rune. If you're in a base there should already be a teleport rune, its how you got here after all. You can click on these while standing on them, to teleport to any other Teleport Runes. Pretty much everyone should be placing these in secret areas on station. These often get found out by security so keep placing new ones. The next rune you should worry about when starting out is The Rite of Enlightenment. This rune is how people are turned into cultists. The important thing to notice the rune requires TWO cultists to activate. Meaning, if you want to cult someone, you're going to need a buddy. Likewise, if you see a fellow acolyte dragging a non-believer onto a rune, stand next to the rune. Just keep your eyes open. Step 3.5: THE RITE OF BINDING - The 3rd and final rune you should worry about is The Rite of Binding rune. Rite of Binding lets you create Talismans from paper. By placing a piece of paper onto a Rite of Binding, you can create any of the Talismans shown above. Outside the tome, Talismans are the most commonly used, and useful of the cult items, so learn how to make them! Find paper bins, click and drag them onto your sprite, throw down a rune in a secure location and get to writing! Now what Talismans are good to make...? Step 4: GET SOME TALISMANS! Every cultist should be carrying at least a few Talismans on them. They are very strong, and your main tools for reacting to situations, as drawing runes is too slow in many cases. There are 3 Talismans you should make and keep on you pretty much all the time. Talisman of teleport. Talisman of stunning. Talisman of shackling. A very basic cult load-out. The stun and cuff talismans are a cultists bread-and-butter for getting new members, and capturing security officers. The teleport talisman is great for a quick escape if you see a security coming. These are only the basics! There's a lot more Talismans to be played with. Step 5: LEARN MORE! Ask questions of your fellow cultists. Use the MHelp feature. Read the wiki. Cult has a TON of options available to them. I made this guide to detail the absolute basics so a fresh, mid-round cultists knows the bare-bones. The vast amount of options for cultists is completely overwhelming to new members. Every robust cultist has been in that same situation, so don't feel embarrassed or frustrated about it. Learn to convert other cultists Try out some of the fancier cult items like Unholy Water or a Veil Shifter. Try out some of the more utility runes like Rite of Spectral Manifestation (DChat's favorite) and Rite of Joined Souls to rescue fellow cultists from security. Look into more Talismans like the Talisman of Arming and the Talisman of Construction It will take a few cult rounds, but if you keep at it, you can one day become ROBUST and put on an amazing show for the observers.

We did another one! With the blessed presence of DREAMY this time! It was a good time!

Antag team is getting together

Nah, no amount of space cleaner or water is going to clean off that blood stained traffic cone on their bald head or the gore caked tool box in their grubby insulated gloved hand.

Hey look, heres another robot. I FORGOT. His name is Tower but i could change it to something else maybe.

An interesting story to that! Well, interesting to me at least. Used to run with a different name way back in highschool, which was YummieGummie or something like that. Anywho, password to that account I used for League Of Legends was stolen and I couldn't be bothered to recover the account. That, and my friend really wanted me to hurry up and fix the issue because he was over with his laptop and wanted to play. So, I did what any other person would've done in that situation, make a new account and mash the two first words that popped into my head. ( Mind you, this was before I had different passwords for everything and a book to keep track of a few. That, and it was easy af to figure out. ) Our local baseball team is called the Tin Caps and I thought of using that, but then, I thought of cats and how my cousin loved cats. So, TinCat was the idea, however, I decided to try and be unique by adding another N and T! So there you have it, the name I use today: TinnCatt.

Nyahahahahaa! I guess to add on to this, here's a very dramatic Zeke. I say dramatic but it's more of a pin-up... And sure, you can now imagine this is how he idly waits around in his office as the NT Rep. I'm sure this is how people casually wait around... Do I have a habit of 'stealing' other people's characters? Maybe... because I've been drawing Tully's characters forever and people think they're mine. lol So, another drawing of Jenkins and Nurn'kal! And because I got the comment "Nurn-san~" from Tully after showing him the drawing, I think we need to come up with a concept of a Central Command anime. Though, the real question is what could happen in it. . .

Har har. Honestly though most of the time you'll be facing off against Sec with disablers and tasers, so the 1.5x damage isn't going to come up until Security goes lethal, and Plasmamen can now wear the powerful cult robes like the shielded robe and flagellants robe. Also considering they do not bleed, Plasmamen are in a weird situation where they can cut themselves open for drawing runes, but never actually bleed from it. Besides, real robust players don't get hit, right?

Aw cute chibis! But also! SWARMERS ARE SKREK

These chibis are so cute!!

This has some pretty good info, I had no idea what I was doing as cultist when I became one.

Its looking good! There are a couple spelling mistakes but that's just nitpicky- the content is solid. It'll be useful to have somethin to link to for fresh culties or for them to easily look up on the wiki.

Should be top of the wiki for all the people who have never played cult before to teach it to them.

Perhaps instead of water showers (which leaves puddles anyway) how about we give them a spray of space cleaner or something similar?

Yes, water is lethal to greys. So a portable shower attachment that sprays water on someone to clean them would be highly lethal to one.

inb4 janiborg killing greys by washing them

Bad Vox Spider! No! You steal the Head of securities lamp! You don't eat it! (2 minutes later) BAD VOX SPIDER! YOU DON'T EAT THE HEAD OF SECURITY! YOU STEAL HIS STUFF! STOP EATING PEOPLE VOX SPIDER! That thing was a beast, it broke out of the HoS's office and went on a rampage on the bridge.

more chibi for the chibi god

This suggestion was never about welding tools and cable coils in the first place, the original thought was to give every IPC a bit of oil. I just wrote it down as a side idea, a possibility. Furthermore as already stated, those two are so easily acquired, it doesn't matter if they would be added or not. In my opinion 50 to 100u of oil, or even less, are not game changing at all, as the moment an IPC really needs oil is when they can't move a finger anymore. Furthermore there is only one oil tank on the whole station and IPC don't regenerate blood in comparison to most other races. Squishes being the only exception i can think of, but how many water tanks are there, more than twenty? Oil is next to EMPs the greatest weakness to IPC, and the only way to compensate for it is to use this one tank in robotics, which blows up regularly, or to hope someone with access to chem dispensers is nice enough to make you some oil, in small quantities of course.

Myself and @gangelwaefre tried out some DRAW-PILING just now, and it's a fun time! It's nice to know it works. I've also bothered @PhantasmicDream and @MysticLiger about this too~ So maybe we can do more stuff like this!! This was a short practice session anyhow. If anyone else art inclined wants to join in, just bother me about it~ Gosh I sorta wish we had a dedicated 'art' channel in the discord... ENJOY!