Grey tide round

[Midaychi]

 

Good, you got past the title. Here's the actual suggestion:

 

Commerce Disruption round.

 

To start up, the station is normal and nobody's really an antag. This round can also be layered ontop of autotraitor/vampire/traitorchan rounds if the population is decent enough.

 

Any civilian that spawns at roundstart, and any latejoin after, has a chance to be an antag if they have the option on.

 

These Civilians have access to an uplink, but the uplink goes to a different market.

 

This new market has items that are not really for killing, and are themed more around sabotage or havok-causing or otherwise hurting commerce. Basically the syndicate don't trust these civs with the fancy agent stuff and have a different purpose for them in mind as well.

 

In addition, as they are not trained syndicate agents and only basically trained through third parties, they are not expected to kill anyone.

 

Their objectives are themed more around disrupting commerce and sabotage, or otherwise making a scene that the news can pick up on, and less about stealing/killing.

 

 

The fluff: The syndicate has taken to hiring civilians through clandestine parties to cause havok and seriously put a hurting on Nanotrasen's stock prices. They have set up numerous sleepers who covertly recruit non-employees, run them through basic training, and send them as potential hires for nanotrasen commerce stations. Once there, and possibly infiltrated, they are to accomplish their objectives. Any survivors who do a good job are usually scouted for becoming actual syndicate agents.

 

Edited July 5, 2014 by Guest

[Midaychi]

 

Again, I think it might even be worth insisting in the spawn-antag description you get that you're NOT expected to kill anyone, and should avoid as much as possible. Your job is to make disruptions that can be seen in the news later and used as fodder by the syndicate. Won't work if you're also being investigated for murder.

 

Also that they don't necessarily know they've been hired by the syndicate. More some random third party that's covertly working for the syndicate.

 

Might be interesting if they could see each other, ala rev round but with big grey C's. Or just a tiny grey tsunami wave.

 

[Lifixs]

 

Sounds interesting, just for fun I came up with some ideas.

 

Up-link Market Ideas:

Reconfigure-able ID: A civilian ID that the name can be changed on an unlimited number of times.

Strange Station-Bounced Radio: Allows you to anonymously speak over coms.

Grey "Fire Extinguisher": When sprayed on someone it changes their uniform color to grey.

"C4": Looks like the real thing, on detonation it produces a loud "BOOM!" that basically works like a flash-bang.

"Pen": On stabbing it makes the person really drunk.

"Stamp": Can be set to forge any stamp. The resulting mark is somewhat different from the real thing though, but will pass a lazy inspection.

Hacked Arcade Machine Circuit Board: Prizes are all toy versions of security gear they appear the same unless examined.

Anonomatrix Cartridge: Added to PDA it allows you to send anonymous messages.

Grey Coat: Its a grey coat with a large suit slot.

Camera glasses: Take pictures of abuses.

Chameleon Closet: When deployed it looks like a normal grey closet with the door open. When the door is closed the closet becomes invisible but still blocks movement. Cannot be welded without ruining the effect.

Clown Beacon: All clowns on station become drawn to it.

No-Slip Shoes

Syndi-Soap

Fully Loaded Toolbox

Insulated Gloves

Multitool

Syndicate Balloon

 

[Midaychi]

 

Yeah stuff like that would work great, and I especially like the camera glasses. Maybe that'd be part of an objective? To photograph a security or command or otherwise well dressed official on the station near a bloody body they've recently beaten. Bonus points if they're also covered in blood.

I guess if you try really hard you can also fake/stage it by having another grey tide dress up with a forged id and the real clothes/equipment.

 

[Lifixs]

 

Lets see, other possible objectives...

 

Steal X amount of money.

Exile the Captain/Head/Whoever.

Break X number of windows.

Graffiti X number of floors.

Waste X number of supply points on one thing.

Deface embassy of X race.

Waste X amount of station resources. (Counted by usable items spaced.)

Cause food shortage. (% of crew malnourished)

Ransack Office.

Ransack Department.

Call shuttle.

 

[Streaky Haddock]

What if there's no security?

[Midaychi]

Then we're all doomed anyways.

[Lifixs]

 

What if there's no security?

Doom/ERT?

 

[Fj45]

Like the sound of those objectives. Would be a pretty fun round that replaces the greytide with a more legit version. Good way for people to learn antags too.