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I'm somewhat new to the SS13 scene, though I do have experience playing from last year when Tomato Gaming had his own whitelisted servers up for his community. I suddenly had a hankering to play again, and I saw one of the members of Tomato's community mention you guys, so I decided to check you out. Looking forward to having fun with you all.

also another problem with their whole light weakness, is that it forces the crew to rely on trying to cheese their light removal as much as possible. I really don't want to see glowshrooms used, glowshroom spam is already enough of an issue, a gamemode dependant on doing it, doesn't help with any future constraints on how much they can just keep spreading. because it would have affected shadowlings down the line. also light doing damage slowdown snowballs the fact you're basically screwed if you get too far into the light. oh also mechs cannot be veiled, so you have to break them, this basically means a mining mech can just kill shadowlings by the act of walking up to them and combat mechs are usually unstoppable unless you've already steamrolled so hard the station doesn't stand a chance anyway because they'll just stunlock your 8-16 thralls one by one with their punch and scattershot the rest to crit. and believe me, you won't often get rechargers in maintenance and you'll probably broken the APC too because light tiles are suffering. so good luck using those lasers you stole. also not even to mention that laser guns from the arcade, which any crew can grab with relative ease, are infinite and more than capable of killing a shadowling. and there is roughly four of them, really not ideal to have a weakness obtainable to the entire crew (especally non-security non-antags (you're not getting antags in a sling round anyway)), shadowlings already struggled enough with their thralls against security and legions of ERT down the line, last thing they need is a random assistant blasting all of the shadowlings and ending the round, spontainiously. once shadowlings get announced, they're literally, them, plus whatever thralls they have against the whole security force, which makes the scaling of power even more awful. thralls get night vision, and a five second cloaking with a long cooldown but. it boils down to who is most robust, and believe me, I see too many thralls that don't even know they have their vanishing ability since its probably some new player nine times out of ten being grabbed early, plus their powers that counter cyborgs which have all access from just walking into a shadowling's face killing it with light have to... unlocked is just, silly. oh yeah, maintenance drones, they use lights and can crank them as high as a cyborg can... you can probably guess why a drone that isn't supposed to interacting with sentient life killing it with this is bad. despite the entire thrall focus, a dead shadowling is dead and they have oldcrit mechanics, so not only are thralls not able to revive their dead masters, their masters are helpless when they hit critical. making the whole point of thrall reliant conversion antags even more moot, till you steamroll inevitably and kill/convert the entire security force on the rare occasion. also due to the whole maintenance restricted from light this also results in a backwards steamroll even the most robust shadowlings can't really do much about. thrall mask checking with vox and plasmamen is awful since well, you don't really want to be dealing with a full several minutes long conflict and pointless manhunt as a security officer during shadowlings because a vox with a gasmask got thralled and turned out to not be. or a plasmaman in which case you can't really check without a shower or just running them a full surgery because their helmet doesn't display they have a gasmask on. uhh, oh yeah, if you get a 4+ sec conga through maintenance, shadowlings can't really do anything about it. unless they somehow obtain a welderbomb trap, even then ehhh- you'll only have four thralls by then and one of them knows combat slightly but is unarmed so they can't really, y'know do anything about it, likely. shadowlings get called out pretty fast when people meta the lights breaking. winning is just, LRP murderbone everyone and gloat with your supervoice server wide just because you can, while its fun to the slings... its kinda meh to deal with as a non shadowling as it just involves sitting inside of a closet, twiddling your thumbs. that's not really engaging, compared to fighting legions of harvesters from cult, dealing with a doomsday AI, fighting tooth and nail, or rushing to disarm the nuke that the nuclear operatives planted. hell even revolution wins on TG (another server and codebase) as surviving sec in a hostile, anarchy system, picking sides to live can be fun. shadowings is "just die". I mean, it works but uhh- it just feels a lazy win result. and yeah, even without paradice's intention for shadowings, its just flawed really... it might work for HRP but uhhh- like, it basically needs people to come to the shadowlings first and a ton of metaprotections to even work, even then, it wouldn't. its mechanically flawed too much to work outside of antag fishing and ignoring the blatent threat till its an issue. yeah people ignoring a stationwide threat as security ain't gonna happen, like ever. revolution gets it right, because there are so many of them by the time sec notices and starts cracking skulls and shoving implants into crew, a few deconvertees has minimal impact on the horde of bloodthristy singing people, cult gets it right, because even a lone member is capable of bringing the cult back from the brink even with halos, shadowlings gets almost nothing right and never will apart from one thing, proving that concept can be great, and execution terrible.

First Name:Yahiya Gender: Female Orientation:N/A Nicknames/Alias: Yahi. Little Fire Production Number: KTS-03 Formal name: The Warmth of a Summer Sun : Resplendent Harmony Picture(If Available) (done by the amazing Lum <3!!!) Age/D.O.B: 377, 3/22/2191AD Place Of Birth: Soaring Kestrel on Troubled Skies Ark ship: Soaring Kestrel on Troubled Skies, Silent Heron Among the Trees, Watchful Raven of the Stars, Unborn Phoenix of Scattered Ash, Forgotten Heart Bound in Silence. Known otherwise as "Bird Song" Species: Vox Blood Type: B- Alignment: NE Affiliation: Took up an internship on the NSS Cyberiad before she lost contact to her ark ship. Was hired full time as she found herself without a way to leave. Childhood: As a shiny-stack she spent her childhood on arkship "Soaring Kestrel on Troubled Skies" learning about atmos and its pipes. She was sweet and gentle, loved to talk to everyone and make them feel loved and welcome. She was only 12 when a Vox skipjack raided an Unathi vessel, this sparked a retaliation from the Unathi that led them to strike her ark ship. She scrapped together a flame thrower with what she had access to and did a number on the Unathi. something snapped inside her head then, a once caring and quiet vox cackled as she roasted the invading Unathi alive. However The Unathi eventually shot her down and she burned to a crisp from the aftermath. An explosive from an Unathi raiding party blew her body to bits and ended up spacing her stack from the breach. Adulthood: After many years her stack was recovered and sent to an unknown ark ship where she was given a new body. Without any explanation of what was going on or where she was, she was flown over to the Cybariad. There the ark ship left her, without a job, without family, and without any reason why. She lost hope that day. She managed to convince NT to give her a position at their station (didn't take much persuading) . She felt alone and empty after just a few days. No contact given, no idea why she was put here. One day she felt it all starting to crumble when she was greeted by a dark quilled vox, they introduced themselves as Kikeri. Being alone for so long it didn't take long for Yahiya to warm up to this new vox. Kikeri showed her others like themself that worked on this station with her. Being alone and detached from what she thought was her family she was quick to adopt those around her as her new family. Content she worked with them through thick and thin, protecting them vehemontly through the only way she knows how. Burn it. Detailed Information Appearance: A grey scaled vox with light yellow stripes across her tail. Her quills are vibrant yellow, rough and unkempt. Her arms and legs end in darker brown scales, as she has some soft yellow markings on her back. She is 2'7' with a fire in her eyes. Almost always wears her owl mask, when not her face is marred in burn scars. Character Voice: If you could imagine a chocobo talking.... Personality: Delightfully chipper and energetic, cares for a poor mouse she named after her arkship "Soaring Kestrel on Troubled Skies". Loves to play with fire and hates to miss a good plasma fire. Medical Record: Patient is a female vox, 2'10 in height. Patient appears fine at first but has lapses of insanity exhibiting a severe case of pyromania. Patient has several burn scars on their fingers hands and even a spot on their left arm. We have attempted to talk to them about their previous life and what happened, as well as talk about the lengthy time they were but a stack floating in space. Talk about their previous life appears to be a trigger for her pyromania. She also does not recall her time adrift in space and refuses to believe it. These conversations have lead to the death of the last psychiatrist, as she subdued them, poured alcohol on them that we provided to try and calm them, and then set them ablaze. We had not known of this until the fire alarms were set off and we walked in to her watching, cackling as she played her accordion to an old song "Ring of Fire". Patient is now under the care of M.D Kirimii. They have yet to be burned alive so this is a step in the right direction. Security Record: 2563AD - Arrested for murdering her psychiatrist, sentence is permanent. 2563AD - Bailed out by an unknown person sentence cleared, they never paid us... I wonder who authorized this. 2568AD - Accused of multiple acts of arson on the station, when confronted they said to combat the blob threat. Never gave an explination as to why they torched rooms on the other side of the station from the blob. Subject was bailed out and asigned a doctor to watch their mental state. M.D. Kirimii is authorized to tend to them for fear of us losing another officer to the vox. Character Biography Background: An eccentric vox who loves to play with fire. Gets herself burned more often than she can count but it doesn't bother her. She protects those close to her with everything she has, almost no threat could persuade her otherwise. After some very lengthy therapy sessions she has tamed quite a bit. She still loves a good fire, but she is less likely to send the station up in flames. When she arrived on the Cyberiad she was totally lost, hopeless and alone. Dumped there by her kin to be rid of her, she had no where else to go and nothing to live for. However just when all had seemed lost she met a charcoal looking vox named Kikeri, that day Yahiya lost her family and lost her reason to keep going and just the same she found it again. Over the years of her employment on the Cyberiad she only ever torched the place once. She met more friends and kept them as close to her heart as she could, she has finally found her new family and would fight god in hopelessness to defend them. She eventually found an open position on another station and spent some time there for slightly higher pay. She encouraged her family to follow and eventually reunited with one they call "Toko". She met quite a few other vox on that station and while she keeps them as friends there are some that found her heart there as well. Over time she found quite a few interesting things in their section of space, advancements she was not used to. At one point an interesting plasmaman named Emission found a barely working ship infested with spiders out in space. He brought it to the station and gave Toko a heads up. After a quick extermination pass and cleanup Kikeri and Yahiya took a critical eye over the scrap. Kikeri patched the holes and renovated the rooms as Yahiya patched the piping and created a nitrogen rich environment. That day "Resting Buzzard of Shifting Nebulas" was born. Together with Toko, Tako, Kikeri and Yahiya there was skeleton enough crew to pilot our new skipjack. Later on one day Yahiya was working on a heating loop around the station to keep the crew warm from the icy planet they were on. However... a strange man came over and placed a backpack under a floor tile. Curious, Yahiya waited untill they left to go check it herself. Prying the floor tile away and opening the backpack she revealed that it was a bomb! Before she could even think to run and go get help it started beeping rapidly. she dropped the bag and ran but not fast enough. She was nothing more than a stack in an ice cavern from the hole it created. Eventually she was found and instead of finding a host body to live in she was borged. She spent quite some time under the servitude of the AI. Kikeri and toko were the first to find out, mortified and engraged Toko and Kikeri devised a plan to free Yahiya. Toko eventually found a way into science faking a diploma, he setup an ambush for the borgified Yahiya and ripped her out. As Toko made his escape instead of piloting for an arkship he set out for unknown cordinates. It was there that yahiya was given an option. Remain as a stack forever and unable to see her kin again, or be given a new body from the syndicate and be in servatude to them for the remainder of her days. After a moments thought she couldn't bare to be away from her kin forever. She accepted their proposal and was given back to Toko to return. After some time she abandoned her job at the new station, the higher pay was not worth the hardships they put her through. Yahiya eventually found her way back to the Cyberiad where she enjoys the family she has there dearly. Family: She considers her kin on her skipjack "Resting Buzzard of Shifting Nebulas" to be her family. History: Hayakita 2191AD - 2203AD: Made to be an atmos tech and worked peacefully until the Unathi raid on her arkship. Something in her snapped and she took out a lot of raiders before succumbing to her wounds. Yahiya 2541AD - 2568AD: Made to be an atmos tech, is an absolute pyromaniac. Yahiya Current year: after her body was turned to mush by an explosion had her stack given to NT to serve as a cyborg. After her stack was rescued from her shell by Tokoyokiko she was given to the syndicate where she got a new body at the price of serving the syndicate. She has had to use them a few times now and is in debt to pay off 3 bodies. Personal Relationships | Close at heart, never to leave | Romantically Involved | Romantic Interest | Admire | Respected | Close Friend | Good Friend | Friend | Acquaintance | Neutral/Unsure | Dislike | Hate | Despise | Death Wish | Fear Kikeri "My first and best friend, I would give up everything I own and am to be there for you." Chikitita "A good friend who works tierlessly to make sure we are all ok!" Kar-Ski "Great magician and wonderful friend. Gives amazing advice and sparks many ideas." Esforikakiti "Great engineer, don't think they like my fire too much" Dayana "Interesting sort, when they aren't in my way" Kirimii "Has put me back together more times than I can count, I owe them too much" Kreeti "Diplomatic to a fault, has stopped me setting fire to countless places when I feel they rightly deserved it" Emission XIV "I don't know them much but they gave us a skipjack and saved us from the ice, I will never forget this." Takoyakika "Teaches me to be better so I can protect my kin. As close to a motherly figure a human could call another, I trust them with my life" Tokoyokiko "Has taught me everything I know, I trust them to keep me and my kin safe no matter what." Shesi Izair "A strange Unathi, Didn't think I would trust unathi ever but Shesi is something different... I feel safe around them." S-HOUND "A friendly IPC, they also share the same fashon sense." Faction Relations Love | Allied | Like | Neutral | Dislike | Hate | Enemy Nanotrasen "Skrek them, they deserve the torch. Not only forced me into borging but also are the enemy of those I am in debt to." The Syndicate "I owe them this life, I owe them too much really. I do what they ask in exchange for the ability to keep seeing my kin." Trans-Solar Federation/SolGov "Who?" The Shoal "They are my family of course I'll stand up for them, no matter the cost" Other Information Has some serious seperation anxiety. (Art done by the wonderful Heather/Chiki) --------- Art done by the wonderful Lumi (Kikeri) ----- (Art done by the wonderful Lumi/Kikeri) -----

Howdy! I'm QuirkySquid, and I'm relatively new around here. I definitely have a lot to learn, but I've been getting the hang of a few jobs, like cargo and engineering. I've been playing SS13 off and on for a while now, but I think I'm going to settle down here as my main server. Seems like a cool place. You'll probably see me in game as a Diona named 'The Tempest Eye's Radiant Glow', or just 'Tempest'. I'll do my best, but bear with me- stlil learning over here. Hope to see you there!

Greetings, one and all. Quinn here. those who have extremely good memory may know that i used to play around the server as the roboticist Sarah Lancer. Well... that was last year. And since it's been this long i thought it'd be fun to make a second introduction to get reaquainted with things. I started playing through march of 2021 to may of the same year, before... stopping. Basically due to some economic issues my family was going through, threat of getting impounded, having to hide the stuff we cared about, etc. my stuff was pretty much stored away in another house. Okay, whatever, its a 5 minute walk and i can still use my 'puter, cool. Except due to University it severely limited my availability to like... 4-5 hours a day, which wasn't ideal for playing. so because of that, and my keyboard's shortcut keys dying, i was unable to play at all after... barely two months. But now things are on the verge of changing. My stuff will be coming home soon (i'd give it a month), i got a new keyboard, my return is imminent and... i am just as nervous as i was when i first joined. im pretty sure i forgot everything i used to know about the game's controls and even job mechanics, so... my return might be a bit hard. regardless, i hope my return is for good. i loved this game, and i'd love nothing more than to be a much more active part of the community. Maybe i could take on different jobs? But anyway, that's about it. See you around, spess men

Omar Ullman returns, what's he gonna do?

I am KarSrenDec but i go as Karsren or simply Kar you can find me in discord very easily and i play the game too! I have some heavy warnings and bans apparently but do not let this deceive you! I am a very friendly person ingame (unless you are a Vox main or a Drask that spams the fucking soap eating). I use different characters for different stuff and i change them time to time so i don't think i can give any ingame name sadly but maybe one day you will meet with me. This is my motto everytime i decide to play SS13 as you can see in my pfp I love this game but everyone knows that its also somewhat cursed and can be annoying time to time but its usually fun so if i ever act rude to you or something that means i really mean it... but its just for the round (OR i am roleplaying, i love rude roleplays as station is filled with stupid greytide and troublesome events... and like you need to work there all day you know) i usually play in medical because i actually love to give RIGHT help to people who needs it also playing in such a life saver mercy department makes the stupid people more acceptable and yea thats it if this all sounds weird to read don't mind its just verbiage, in short i like here and i am a friendly guy if you have something to say or ask i am also available on discord as i said, nice to meet you all.

Hi hi! Or hello, I guess. Depends on who you get! And that's not my multiple personalities talking ;) I've been almost exclusively playing my character of Gideon Brooks up until now (bio in the works), but given the removal of some Karma jobs I've now joined the Vox bois in the form of Kahkeri, who has been really fun and different to play! But this is meant to be an intro, and it's probably one that's long overdue. I've been registered properly since 2020 but I've been playing a little longer than that, uni and other commitments tend to get in the way of a prolonged binge now, as well as doing some silly stuff when I'd just joined that definitely didn't win me any cool points , but I do be a changed person now, and my time spent on Paradise so far has been nothing short of an awesome experience. So thanks to you guys who make that happen, and I'll see you all server-side! Cheers, Beo.