Well, while we were successful, my first round as quartermaster and as cultist was decidedly lukewarm.
We shared words at the start so that went well. But then people kept requesting stuff and I was trying to think up what to do. I made a convert rune in the warehouse and killed the lights and cut the camera. Figured I't was safe since I was the only QM and nobody else really bothers going in there. Filled a few orders. But then a cargo technician joined and I was like "oh shit". Then they walked into the warehouse and saw the rune. And then I was REALLY going "Oh shit" but they just said pretty artwork and walked off. I was confused, and thought they might just be bluffing so they could run off and warn sec. So I ran and got a crayon and drew a bunch of fake runes around it, dropped the crayon box, and hid my book and talisman. But nothing happened. So I made some stun gloves (should have thought of them sooner) and converted the cargo tech. then we dicked around a little more. Then one of the scientist cultists ran to cargo after he was discovered. We sacrificed some live monkeys, but got no words. Then we decided we'd give the scientist a spacesuit and internals, and send him out the airlock to find a safe spot to research words, since people were looking for him. Immediately after he left a spess karp zoomed in through the airlock and munched my face. But the cargo tech killed it while it was eating me, then fixed me up. Eventually the scientist finished researching, and sent us the teleport rune words so we could get to him on they grey ship. So we all met up there and spawned robes and swords and made a bunch of stun talismans. Then we basically dicked around there and DJ station for a bit, then sec and some combat mechs were milling about cargo, so one guy went on a spacewalk to the station to get us a new teleporter. But apparently sec got bored? So we popped back in to cargo, jumped a few few people and started building an army. We fortified cargo with wall runes and called the shuttle, walked there, boarded, and won. Killing and converting as we went. We sacrificed at least one sec officer, and the captain. Mostly because they resisted conversion. Also, we totally would have let anyone on the shuttle. Maybe. Depends on if we managed to drag you to a convert rune before someone killed you with a cult blade. Because man those are potent.
I'd do a lot of things differently. First off, fuck the orders, I would grab a spacesuit and find somewhere to do research myself right away. then start ambushing people with stungloves and stun talismans a lot more aggressively.
Also, fat miner, how did you like me sealing off the mining shuttle with wall runes? Did you try to get to the shuttle? You should have accepted the joy of Nar'sie when I offered it to you~
I was the cargo tech.
Truth be told, the moment I saw the rune, I shift-clicked it and saw that it was made of blood, so I knew outright from the beginning that you were a cultist. However, it still seemed kinda early to actually call you out for being a cultist, which to be honest would've made the round boring, so I just awkwardly called it pleasant artwork and passed it off as that in character. I actually didn't expect to be stungloved and converted, and I was mostly planning on staying out of Cargo as much as possible.
So anyway, basically, yeah. I joined round, immediately found cultist. I figured it'd be lame to just call them out on it so fast. Ended up getting converted anyway, although unintentionally. QM and I spent a lot of time trying to decide what to do. I spend a lot of time without a tome, so I can't do much anyway. QM calls over one of the scientists, and we try research by murdering monkeys. No dice, even if we pleased Nar-Sie mildly. After a while, we start receiving messages from one of the guys in outer space, who's saying he found all the words. Fantastic.
A teleport is set up, both the QM and I leave for the white ship and become superheroesvillains of a sort. I load up with an EMP rune, a stun rune, and cultist armor, which eventually becomes my loadout for the rest of the round. After a bit of poking around DJ Ruskie and the abandoned ship, I take a trip back to the Cargo Bay, where oh shit I see a fucking GYGAX and I high-tail it back to the abandoned ship and tell people what I saw because apparently some cultist was drawing runes on the floor of Cargo Bay and drew the attention of security.
After a bit more faffing about in DJ Ruskie station, the cultists make a raid on the Cargo Bay, IIRC. I end up leaving later than the rest of them, but I still manage to catch the detective, who's out of ammo. One stun talisman later and an attempted conversion later, he's dead. Cap and/or HoS eventually take his body, which I left in the cargo bay, back to get cloned, but I never see the detective again.
Cue more faffing about for a little while, I go back to the Cargo Bay and I find Axl Blyant making mischief. I figure, HEY AXL BLYANT HE'D BE A USEFUL ALLY RIGHT? So I decide to try robusting him. Truth be told, I really should've lost, but I guess cult armor has some protection against stungloves because he actually got me once, but nothing happened. Or his stungloves might've been out of charge. Who knows? He has galoshes, so he tosses a cleaner grenade. I sit in the corner and wait it out, but he approaches me, so I nab him with a stun talisman.
At this point, I decide that we need to gain more of a foothold on the station, so I start setting up conversion runes in a few discreet places. I snag a few more recruits here and there with judicious and robust use of the stun talisman (although, without the cult robes, seeing as they generally scare people off).
Blah blah stuff happens. I see the Head of Security a couple times, but each time, he's surrounded by a posse of non-cultist crew-members, so I can't get to him. A bit later, something happens in the bridge, and the Head of Security, I guess, was wounded pretty badly and was heading to security. I make another pass by his location, noting that both he and the clown had energy guns. Despite that, I just go for it, whipping out my EMP talisman. At the same time, the HoS sees me in my cult armor and readies to fire... an empty gun. I was quicker on the trigger with my EMP, so I robust the shit out of him with my cult blade. He succumbs immediately and the clown runs, realizing that his energy gun was dead. (This was especially hilarious because of Bdthemag's FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-- in OOC)
Etcetera, etcetera, more stuff happens, more people convert. Eventually, I even convert the clown with a snappy stun rune. In a fit of victory, I make laps around the center of the station with the Head of Security's body, decorating the halls with blood. I end up dragging the HoS's body onto the escape shuttle as a trophy prize, sacrificing him once all the cultists reached Centcomm.
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