Let Cortical Borers see the health status of their host.

[WizardofMad]

Cortical Borers can inject all sorts of neat chemicals into their host. We all love meth and flippie juice, but the majority of chemicals borers can produce are healing chems -- saline, mannitol, salbutamol, mitocholide, spaceacillin. The only problem is, borers have no way of knowing WHAT healing chemical their host needs when they are injured, or even dying.

In order for borers to see the host's health status, they need to take control -- a process that takes time, and puts you in a state where you can't inject chemicals. A host could tell the borer what to use, but the host may not be able to talk, may not have time, or may not even know which medicine to use.

A useful feature that would justify all the borer's healing chems would be some kind of health scan, like a pAI. Letting the borer see the host's health and healthdoll UI would be better than nothing.

[Viz]

Yeah I agree, giving borers a medHUD or the pAI host bioscan thing could be nice. Though fun fact, your host can always talk to you, even while dead.

[Sirryan2002]

Well cortical borers can only tell whats going on with their host by reading their sensory input through their brain. So I don't think borers should be able to determine health outside of what the host would be able to without a health analyzer. Most of the time you should be able to tell what your host is suffering from in the case that they're injured/dying just by observing their symptoms.

[Viz]

17 hours ago, Sirryan2002 said:

Well cortical borers can only tell whats going on with their host by reading their sensory input through their brain.

That's fair but also the host knows more than the borer does as they have a health doll and all. And borers lack any of that.

[Sonador]

Given borers are also inside you and can be suppressed with sugar, it'd make sense that they can tell if you've been poisoned or what have you because they'd be impacted too. So maybe just the equivalent of a self-examine for brute and burn (pain and numbness) as well as something similar to a reagent scanner would be ideal?