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Pulse Demon
Superiors: N/A
Difficulty: Medium to Hard
Guides: No external guides
Access: Anywhere cables can be found
Duties: Feed off electricity, cause chaos, fry the captain
Departmental Head
Unknown
| Abductor • | Ash Walker • | Blob • | Changeling • | Contractor • | Construct • | Cultist • | Guardian • | Lavaland Elite • | Malfunctioning AI • | Morph • | Nuclear Agent • | Pulse Demon • | Revenant • | Revolutionary • | Shadow Demon • | Slaughter Demon • | Syndicate Researcher • | Terror Spider • | Traitor • | Vampire • | Wizard • | Xenomorph |
| Combat • | Death • | Hacking • | Traitor Items • | Agent Items • | Crafting • | High-Risk Items • | E-maggable objects • | C-maggable objects • | Martial Arts |
Pulse Demons are dangerous beings that live in the electrically charged atmosphere of brown dwarf stars, at least until one makes it's way to the station. They source energy directly from electricity around them and will almost instantly die if that power source is taken away. Pulse demons can often be found sulking around engineering syphoning every last bit of power they have access to. It's highly advised to avoid stepping a pulse demon, as some of the energy it's using will be transferred to you, burning you to a crisp, being shock immune will prevent this.
Spawning in as Pulse Demon
A Pulse Demon can be chosen to spawn in as a random medium Midround event. You spawn in a random powered cable in the maintenance area. "Demon" needs to be enabled in Game Preferences in order to get a chance to play Pulse Demon.
Hijacking The Party
As a Pulse Demon, your first and foremost goal is to hack APCs and get power. You can do this by moving onto the tile of one, which will start a timer (Starts at 30 seconds), after which the APC is hijacked, and your max power doubles. You can upgrade the speed of hacking APCs. You can't only hack APCs. Other things include a SMES, which is a very good source of power if you are starting out. Some good upgrades to start with are: - Increase Capacity. Especially if you start draining SMES', you want this to steal more power at a time, and upgrade more abilities at once. - Absorption. Also very useful if you are mostly draining SMES', this allows you to be even faster in obtaining more charge. - Speed. Hijacking APCs is a very good way to increase your maximum charge, and the base time to hack an APC is ~30 seconds.
SMESes are by far the best way to get power, finding and draining SMESes is your number one priority as a pulse demon. Draining SMESes will allow you to upgrade yourself, making hijacking APCs
The moment the crew is aware of your presence, you should invest in the maximum HP, Efficiency and Endurance upgrades so you are harder to kill. If the crew is aware of you, they will come at you with tools such as Ion guns and EMPs. These are very dangerous and should be avoided at all cost. If you see someone with an Ion rifle, you can also try and EMP them (Don't hit yourself) so the charge of their gun will be drained. If the crew takes action via cutting cables and depowering the station, invest in Endurance, and find some undrained power sources, such as the Solar SMES and unhijacked APCs.
Abilities
Below is a list of abilities that a Pulse Demon can unlock and use. PROBABLY ADD MORE TO THIS DESCRIPTION EXPLAINING THE COSTS?
| Ability | Unlock Cost | Use Cost | Cooldown | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Demonic Whisper 
|
Unlocked at start | N/A | N/A | |
Cycle Camera View 
|
Unlocked at start | N/A | N/A | Jump between cameras in your APC's area. Alt-Click to return to th |
Toggle Draining 
|
Unlocked at start | N/A | N/A | Toggle whether you drain charge from power sources. |
Remote Drain 
|
5kW | 100W | 20 seconds | Remotely drains a power source. Costs 100kW to upgrade. |
Remote Hijack 
|
15kW | 10kW | 3 seconds | Remotely hijacks an APC. |
Cable Hop 
|
15kW | 5kW | 20 seconds | Jump to another cable in view. Costs 75kW to upgrade. |
Electromagnetic Tamper 
|
50kW | 20kW | 20 seconds | Unlocks hidden programming in machines. Must be inside a hijacked APC to use. Costs 200kW to upgrade. |
Electromagnetic Pulse 
|
50kW | 10 kW | 20 seconds | Creates an EMP where you click. Be careful not to use it on yourself! Costs 200kW to upgrade. |
Toggle Self-Sustaining 
|
100kW | N/A | 20 seconds | Toggle whether you can move out of cables or power sources. Costs 300kW to upgrade, allowing you to move faster outside of cables! |
Overload Machine 
|
300kW | 50kW | 20 seconds | Overloads a machine, causing it to explode! |
Upgrades
SHORT EXPLANATION ABOUT UPGRADES.
| Upgrade | Initial Cost | Description |
|---|---|---|
Speed 
|
PRICE | Decreases the amount of time required to hijack an APC. |
Absorption 
|
PRICE | Increases the amount of charge drained from a power source per cycle. |
Strength 
|
PRICE | Increases the total amount of health you can have at once. |
Recovery 
|
PRICE | Increases the amount of health regenerated when powered per cycle. |
Endurance 
|
PRICE | Decreases the amount of health lost when unpowered per cycle. |
Effciency 
|
PRICE | Decreases the amount of power required to regenerate per cycle. |
Capacity 
|
PRICE | Increases the total amount of charge you can have at once. |
Fighting Against the Electric Menace
EXPLAIN HOW TO FIGHT AGAINST THE PULSE DEMON. WIP.
Avoid stepping on cables, they can husk you.
Insulated gloves make you immune to their shocks.
Dies to no power.
Weakens and can die when travelling OUTSIDE cables. Especially when unupgraded.
Weak to EMPs.
Always gives off a dim yellow glow and emits zapping noises.