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SEND IN THE FUCKING CLOWNS, WE MUST NOT LET TULLY WIN THIS!! AATTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACCKK!!!! *Several burning monkeys and blue buckets filled with FluoroAcid rain down from the sky*

Praxis's guide to traitoring

I think Cargo probably has a few rolls laying around the disposals room. I think there's one in the dorms on the Needlessly Large Table. Primary tool storage has at least one I think. They're alll around, just usually ignored since they serve little practical purpose. Though it's worth testing that, since you can use them to put tape on pieces of paper to stick them to walls and windows and such, if you can photocopy your ass and use it to cover the walls. Still though, they're around. I think it's just labeled as "tape roll" or something like that. Looks like duct tape. Oh, if it's easily accessible, I can see this being put to good use. +1!

Jesus. People have proposed these things for years now, and the response is basically always the same; the pets are a novelty item for heads of staff. ... Well, yeah, but... They're.... Plus E-N for robotics. Plus the chefs goat. Plus Diona Nymphs (though since they're useful they may not qualify). Plus whoever wants Lisa from cargo. ... Still really.... Not. And yeah, I agree that NTSAM is REALLY not handling this situation properly, but a lot of people agree with the QM getting a pet. If we're going off DEPARTMENTS, cargo has nothing while science has about 2, command has 2, etc. Think of them as department mascots; I feel like cargonia deserves one.

Yeah, but generally, that's because the HoP doesn't need to worry about them. They're self-sufficient, and don't need constant maintenance. But what if that's just the case because no ones doing their job properly?!?! Vote service 2560! [spoiler2]I'm happy with either, vote for what you want. I'm just bias for service since I'm starting with service for a video series I'm doing and I wanna include a section where I talk about the jobs SoP[/spoiler2]

Where DO you get duct tape actually? Cause I'm liking this.

Plus E-N for robotics. Plus the chefs goat. Plus Diona Nymphs (though since they're useful they may not qualify). Plus whoever wants Lisa from cargo.

Vote service. Fuck the system! We did it once, we can do it again! (Also service is generally vague as fuck cause some HoP's just straight up forget about them.)

Yep! Sort of; they allow you to remotely change the Medical STATUS of a person (Active, Deceased, etc.). I'm not sure if Med Records can change as well, but they probably can. However, your ID might still need to have access to medical records in order to access this feature. So, if say, a Scientist printed out an NV medhud, he wouldn't be able to mess with medical records with it, but a doctor can. I have no idea if this is true or not, but hey, I wanna test it now.

...It just occurred to me that this is might actually end up slowing DOWN the karma system. If I'm reading this right, this means that a person can only get ONE karma per round. As opposed to a possible 2 or 3 or 5 if you were exceptionally impressive. Unless I'm misinterpreting this? Cause around this point, I'm not sure what's being accomplished here.

We're gonna set up a money operation one shift. We get three dedicated botanists, a dedicated chemist, and RnD to immediately upgrade our machines so we get a crap ton of robust harvest. And we gonna set a record, let's fucking GO boys!

Remove the negative karma system all together and see where it ends up. One reason that people seem to forget, but I always appreciate. Controversial characters (A prime example would be Clinton the Racist). Although they don't generally end up being likable by everyone in the round, they make rounds more INTERESTING when pulled off correctly, while at the same time not truly ruining anyone elses experience. It's rare enough to see successful and genuinely good, for lack of a better word, "Legal Self-Antags", and adding a punishment system of ANY kind will run them dry. There are of course, several other reasons why a negative karma system would be terrible, but that REALLY isn't the point of this thread. I feel like this post will get MUCH more credibility if there wasn't a system for taking away karma that they EARNED because of someone elses opinion of them. Fuck, I know that I PERSONALLY would never trust myself with that kind of power.

*SMASHES THROUGH WALL* DID SOMEONE SAY MUSIC?! Dance Gavin Dance: Instrumental Guitar Goodness from least heaviest to heaviest CHON: Plini: Polyphia: The Helix Nebula: Animals as Leaders: Ooh, more Dance Gavin Dance: Djent! Periphery: Ever Forthright: Tesseract: I like Dance Gavin Dance too much: Finally, Jazz Fusion Snarky Puppy (Greatest Keyboard Solo of all time): The Aristocrats (Greatest Guitar of all time): Chick Corea (I don't even): Also damn, that's surprisingly good stuff right there.

Fun fact; I created Dorian without ANY fucking knowledge of the Dorian Gray book. The reason I named him is literally just because I'm a musician, and the Dorian scale is my favorite scale to play. For like, a month, people have been commenting how clever I was and I had NO fucking idea. ...In other news, I finally updated him to reflect his recent changes! Also, I added Lithos to the end of his character sheet.

I've so far imagined that the majority of humans have move to Mars and live in a futurama type setting, the moon is for the 1% wealthy, and earth has like, one or two pockets that are nice while the rest of it is filled with people that are too poor to leave or REALLY fucking religious and anti space travel/genetic modifications/anti-alien. Read more about it in my new story I'm writing called the Temsi- *Shot* I would normally like to help write shit, but I am... DECENTLY bad at writing stuff about setting and history.

Well.... Yeah. +1

The Temsik Project Project Leader: Keaton Temsik Duration: November 1st, 2554 [spoiler2]to November 1st, 2555[/spoiler2] [spoiler2]to July 4th, 2556[/spoiler2] to Unknown Status: Discontinued/Canceled Purpose: Discover and experiment with the several new Structural Enzyme sub-blocks, attempt to find useful new powers. The ultimate goal is to develop powers that will allow the human body to survive Earth's current atmosphere. As a side project, similar tests will occur on various plant life. History: For several years, Genetics Research in the galaxy has been stalled due to the inability to find new sub-blocks. At the time, only 14 blocks were exploitable, and though their powers were incredibly useful, with Telekinesis, Hulk, Cold Resistance, and X-ray commonly implemented by military personnel, they came with crippling disabilities such as Epilepsy, Tourette's, Blindness, and Deafness. In addition to this, long term exposure and use of these powers caused irreversible side effects to the user after about 2 hours, often leading to death. However, around the year 2550, a human scientist on Earth named Keaton Temsik theorized the existence of 41 more sub-blocks within human DNA, which could bring the total number of available sub-blocks to 55. With the help of his best friend, an Engineer by the name of Marcus D’Angelo, they managed to develop plans for a machine that could pulse radiation deeper into the body's natural tissue. The project was funded in 2551 by The Milky Way Federation, being merged with one of Prof. Temsik’s earlier plans to do similar genetic experiments with plant genes. Plans for a new research base surfaced later that year and the construction of the facility concluded in 2553. The base was located in the ruins of what used to be Cairo, Egypt; isolated from the rest of society due to the heavy amount of protesters against human modifications. A team of 10 moved into the base on November 1st, 2554 to begin experimentation. Personnel: Keaton Temsik: Research Director Vincent Calavera: Milky Way Federation Representative Marcus D'Angelo: Chief Engineer Chelsea Pearson: Assistant Engineer Yomiel Macy: Geneticist Jonathan Nguyen: Geneticist Praxis Chailer: Geneticist/Medical Richard Jowd: Xenobiologist Ingus Wright: Xenobiologist/Medical Sissel Swan: Cook/Janitor/Maintenance Results: The station was caught in an explosion at 01:14, July 7th, 2557. The source of the explosion appears to have been a bomb placed in the engine room of the station. The bodies of Mr. Temsik, Mr. Macy, and Ms. Pearson were unaccounted for. The rest of the crew was declared dead, either from bleeding out from the initial explosion or due to suffocation. The exception to this was Mr. Chailer, who managed to turn on his internals. He was found in a crate in storage, unconscious. All bodies were cloned with the exception of Mr. Calavera’s and Mr. Wright’s, due to the severity of their brain damage. Due to having been injected with powers and being unable to remove them, Praxis suffered severe radiation side effects. Over the next 6 months these side effects were slowly corrected, though his violet hair and eyes were unable to be reversed for an inexplicable reason. All of the research was missing from the databanks, apparently having being stolen. In addition, all saved crew members have absolutely no memory about the events that transpired. We have finally managed to collect the diary logs of the crew members (Specifically, those for Keaton Temsik and Yomiel Macy), and they will be posted here when we find them. The group responsible for the attack will hopefully be discovered soon. First Entry Author: Keaton Temsik Date: 22:59, November 2nd, 2554 The webcam turns on with a flicker. Staring into the screen is an old man who’s face looks like a canyon, with crevices and ridges running up and down his wrinkled face. His hands are rubbing up and down his face as he hoarsely groans into the microphone. He sits in a claustrophobic looking, windowless bedroom. The bed behind him (The Milky Way Federation still remained strictly against Cryopods for some reason, preferring that their inhabitants kept to beds) had it’s sheets balled up into a bunch. The desk he was standing at was completely empty. Down the hall, an obnoxiously loud electric guitar was squealing with dissonance while a couple of voices argued passionately about whether ‘Djent’ was still considered a musical genre. With every additional squeal from the guitar, Mr. Temsik physically flinched or twitched. His sunken blue eyes stared into the camera in a pitiful manner. “One month… This will...only be… one month.” The hoarse voice croaked. The noise came to a grinding halt as a loud, commanding voice filled the air. Mr. Calavera. Mr. Temsik stifled a grin before the camera returned to static once more. Authors Notes: [spoiler2]Heeeello, Ping here. I've wanted to write this up for a while, but I've been putting it off due to a lack of spare time. Since my account here has just turned 100 days old, I figured that now was probably the time to start writing. I am not by ANY means a good writer, but you will probably see an increase in quality as the journal continues to be written. I have no REAL planned timeline or plot for this; I have an ending and I know what situations I'll be putting the crew in, but besides that I'll be ad-libbing everything I write. I AM currently taking a writers craft course, and it's possible that I'll submit this piece of work for my final project; time will tell. Anyhow, I hope that you guys enjoy, and I hope that I somehow find the motivation to make regular entries. Feedback is always appreciated.[/spoiler2]

How about "are not permitted to break open locked crates" period? Don't lasers, eguns, and kinetic accelerators bust open crates too? Yeah, honestly, my first reaction to reading that wasn't "Oh, right, I better not break open crates like that." It was more like "Oh shit, you can break open crates with emitters?! Sweet!"

Disposals isn't addressed at all in this. I'd imagine that there would be two extra notes concerning them for CT's, something along the lines of... -CT's are not to keep (any/illegal/department specific?) items that go through disposals, and must report to the QM or HoP (edit: or HoS or Captain) if (illegal/department specific) items are found. -CT's are to report dead bodies to security immediately (May merge with the first point; I know it's a common occurrence for this to happen but it shouldn't be SO regular that it has to be addressed in the SoP.)

I just realized actually; why not post all three SoP's at the same time on separate pages? It shouldn't be too hard to manage, and I don't see why we can't have multiple discussions at the same time.

Vote cargonia! Get it over with! Medical took a month!! Edit: Holy shit Cargonia's actually winning, I didn't except that. >.>

Did it. It's done. You can Botany now, congrats. It doesn't cover everything; there are genes I don't talk about, different ways to fill the biogenerator, etc. But on the bright side, you can do the job much better. If you have any cool improvements or corrections, reply them please! The Mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.

Half the time when a body ends up being morgued, the face is fucked up. Unless the body bag is properly labelled (LOL NOPE) taking away the ID's is gonna result in a lot of john does. It's not as if they're not them anymore, though maybe something under "disrespecting the dead" about not nicking IDs would be nice, if anything making stripping the IDs mandatory would result in more theft as people would have an excuse (I'm just taking them down to the HoP, honest). Just to clarify, this isn't an issue of keeping medical records in check, nor is it an issue of respecting the dead's privacy. Identification cards open doors. It's easy to take them off of bodies in the morgue if you're a doctor and you decided that, say, Toxins was a nice place to visit. Or maybe the engine room. You leave bodies with ID's in the morgue, and now any doctor can steal their ID and go into places that they shouldn't be in. And yes, as Shadey mentioned... But hell, I don't find that as a proper excuse to leave the ID's just lying around. If anything, this may give people reason to actually take the time and figure out if a body is uncloneable or not under certain circumstances. I still feel like this needs to be addressed.

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