Vampire
THIS IS A DRAFT PAGE. IF THINGS ARE WRONG OR HARD TO UNDERSTAND @ ME ON DISCORD.
Or, you can edit it yourself, I don't mind, just leave good summaries.
TO DO:
- Need to decide and standardize on a single tense. Mixing up tenses and tones ain't good.
Going to continue trying the Simple Present Tense, but honestly I'll probably drop the style for clarity down the line and go with a proper wiki "professional" format. <-- Listen to your past self bud, clean this shit up.
- Take out all my notes (these ones included)
- Add in a paragraph between default and class powers explaining how choosing a class works, as well as some overview on classes. (also make it look pretty, should ask someone good at formatting)
- Explain briefly the new nullification and explain that being on fire costs blood
Vampire
Superiors: ???
Difficulty: Hard
Guides: This is not yet the guide (but will be one day).
Access: Anywhere your powers can take you.
Duties: Complete your objectives, drink blood, become an unholy monster.
Departmental Head
Unknown
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(Woj's lore blurb as placeholder)
Vampires are certain individuals who have been granted power by their inducting Lord. Said power always comes at a price, however, and lesser vampires are often given tasks to fulfill in exchange for it. These tasks can vary significantly, and their nature is often as unknowable as the true nature of the Lords and the mysterious cabals formed by some of them.
Vampires possess abilities to drain and manipulate life essence from the blood of sapient beings, shortening the lifespan of the victim by years while empowering themselves with newfound strength.
This power is not without consequence; vampires acquire a vital weakness to areas, objects, and individuals of spiritual strength. Strong belief is poison to them - sanctified sites, holy water, fire, and starlight all spell doom for a vampire. Even a strong superstition can be harmful, as evidenced by their aversion towards garlic.
Vampires are considered a threat to colonies and stations across known space. Recognized as inherently criminal by all major states and companies in the galaxy, they are also classified as Enemies of the Corporation by Nanotrasen.
Starting Out
When you start out as a Vampire you have absolutely zero usable blood and two abilities. Using Glare can stun and silence, with the effect varying depending on your orientation to the target, and Rejuvenate will clear all stuns. However after drinking a total of 150 blood, you gain access to 3 unique and mutually exclusive skill trees, with increasingly powerful abilities tailored to various play styles. Eventually, drink 1,000u of blood from at least 8 different people and rise to your full power, gaining an extremely powerful class-unique ability, as well as immunity to holy water, the chapel, and improved night vision. Become a blood-fueled emissary of death and destruction!
Vampiric Powers
| Name | Unlock | Cooldown | Blood Cost | Description |
| Rejuvenate
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0 | 20 Seconds | 0 | Removes any and all stuns. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rejuvenate II
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200 | 20 seconds | 0 | Removes any and all stuns. Purges 10u of any harmful reagent. Heals 10 points each of brute, burn, toxin, and heals 50 points of oxyloss. |
| Glare
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0 | 30 Seconds | 0 | Causes targets within melee tiles to take stamina damage depending on your orientation to them:
Those in front of you take 100 stamina damage and are silenced for 4-6 seconds
|
| Choose Specialization
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150 | N/A | 0 | Allows you to choose from one of the 3 vampiric paths. |
| Shadow Step
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250 | 5 Seconds | 30 | Teleports you to the nearest shadow. Will not teleport you if a dark tile is not in range. (Get max range from chuck later) |
Gargantua Powers
| Name | Unlock | Cooldown | Blood Cost | Description |
| Gargantuan Vigor | 0 | Passive | N/A | Rejuvenate more health the more damage you've taken, to a maximum of 50 health at 100 damage. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blood Swell
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150 | 40 seconds | 30 | For 30 seconds: Reduces incoming brute and stamina damage by 50%, burn damage by 20%, and halves all stun times. Guns are unusable for the duration |
| Blood Rush
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250 | 30 seconds | 30 | For 10 seconds: Doubles movement speed. |
| Blood Swell II
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400 | 40 seconds | 30 | For 30 seconds: Reduces incoming brute and stamina damage by 50%, burn damage by 20%, and halves all stun times, and increases the users melee damage (armed and unarmed) by 10. Guns are unusable for the duration |
| Overwhelming Force
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600 | 2 seconds | 5 per door | When activated: automatically and instantly pry open doors you don't have access to. This will not work on bolted or welded doors. |
| Charge
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1,000 | 30 seconds | 30 | Target a location, throwing, stunning and dealing 60 damage to any humans hit, destroying any walls hit, and dealing 200 damage to mechs. (also not a fan of how this is explained but eh) |
Haemomancer Powers
| Name | Unlock | Cooldown | Blood Cost | Description |
| Vampiric Claws
|
150 | 30 seconds | 30 | Create undropable claws of blood. Claws have a 50% chance of blocking melee attacks and removes bonus blood from the target on hit, a fraction of this is added to your blood total; increasing your blood total by 5 per swing. Has a durability of 20 swings, that decreases in total by 1 every 2 seconds. Use in hand to dispel. |
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| Blood Tendril
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250 | 30 seconds | 10 | Manifest tentacles of blood in a 3x3 grid around a tile you click. After a short delay, these will latch onto anyone on their tile, slowing them massively for 4-6 seconds. |
| Blood Pool
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400 | 30 seconds | 50 | Briefly transform into a sentient blood puddle, increasing movement speed and allowing you to move through anything except walls and space. |
| Blood Eruption
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600 | 100 seconds | 100 | Cause any blood trail in sight to erupt, dealing 60 brute damage to anyone standing on them. |
| The Blood Bringer's Rite
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1,000 | 10 seconds | 10 every 2 seconds | When active: constantly leech blood of anyone in view, healing you massively and removing incapacitating effects. The healing is per person in range, and is massively reduced for burn damage. |
Umbrae Powers
| Name | Unlock | Cooldown | Blood Cost | Description |
| Cloak of Darkness
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150 | Toggleable | 0 | When activated: slightly increases your speed and decreases your visibility by 15% in the dark. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shadow Snare
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250 | 20 seconds | 20 | Turn a tile into a trap, blinding those who spring it and deactivating any lights they have. Disarm the trap with prolonged exposure to light (about 8 seconds). |
| Dark Passage
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400 | 15 seconds | 30 | Instantly teleport to anywhere in sight, even if stunned. |
| Extinguish
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600 | 20 seconds | 0 | Turns off any light sources in view and destroys glowshrooms. Has no effect on fire or flares. |
| Eternal Darkness
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1,000 | 10 seconds | 5 every 2 seconds | Summons a wave of shadow over a massive area. Anyone in these shadows gets their body temperature slowly reduced. Does not affect the caster. |
| Umbral Sight | 1,000 | Passive | N/A | Gain X-ray vision. |
Fighting Vampires
While vampires are very powerful entities, they are not without weaknesses. The two most notable are Faith and Fire.
- Vampires are have a deadly weakness to fire, and being on fire will drain their strength over time.
- Vampiric abilities can be nullified, which increases the blood cost of powers; Nullification scales all the way to 100 at which Vampires cannot use any abilites. A Chaplain's Null Rod or holy water apply nullification.
- Ingesting holy water will cause vampires to vomit some of their stored blood, drain some of their stamina, and increase their total nullification.
- Vampires will burst into flames upon entering a chapel.
If a vampire attains full power: They gain full immunity to nullification, holy water, and can freely enter holy sites. Fire will no longer drain their blood supply and they have gained extremely powerful abilities.
- Starlight is extraordinarily deadly to vampires, dealing serious genetic damage while the vampire is in space. Prolonged exposure will turn the vampire to dust.
Miscellaneous Tips
(im shoving all the misc shit here until I can decide on format and flow)
- Keeping track of what powers a vampire has and when they can use them is critical
- Make sure a vampire has already used their rejuvenate before you cuff them or they'll quickly turn the tables
- Glare has no effect if the vampire is blindfolded
- Vampires can still glare you when they are stunned! Its will only last for 1 second, but it will prevent you from cuffing them.