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[Knirisk]

Basically an admin dresses up as a serial killer with a welder, and runs around terrorizing the crew.

COUGH COUGH

Obligatory mention of the Chzo Mythos by Yahtzee. Especially 7 Days a Skeptic, which is by far where the greatest influence over the Welder admin event is had. If you haven't played and/or seen a Let's Play of it, go do so. Personally, I really like DeceasedCrab as a Let's Player, so I'd recommend watching it here. Although, you might want to watch 5 Days a Stranger here first, as it is the first in the series and some of the stuff might not make sense otherwise.

But man oh man, I have fond memories of a Welder event on Goonstation a couple of years ago. Shit was scary.

[ShoesandHats]

Basically an admin dresses up as a serial killer with a welder, and runs around terrorizing the crew.

COUGH COUGH

Obligatory mention of the Chzo Mythos by Yahtzee. Especially 7 Days a Skeptic, which is by far where the greatest influence over the Welder admin event is had. If you haven't played and/or seen a Let's Play of it, go do so. Personally, I really like DeceasedCrab as a Let's Player, so I'd recommend watching it here. Although, you might want to watch 5 Days a Stranger here first, as it is the first in the series and some of the stuff might not make sense otherwise.

But man oh man, I have fond memories of a Welder event on Goonstation a couple of years ago. Shit was scary.

Apparently BD didn't like me Cabadath-ing it up, though. 

[Karlito]

Damn, four paragraphs and I'm not even to the good stuff. I hope this isn't a boring read.

[Man of Paper]

Fantastic round. I was Detective/HoS Henry Coldsmith.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

It had started out like usual. Check out all my equipment, put Mercy, my revolver, on my belt. And usually set right out patrolling. This time I decided to go through the cameras. I noticed the Lawyer, Donald Corleone, loitering outside of Chemistry, talking to a Chemist for a good bit of time. Handed him a suit, but I couldn't tell why. Later on my pass through the cameras I saw Corleone passing a suit off in the Cargo Bay. I thought it was odd, so I began to take notes. I questioned the Chemist, but didn't know what to ask without giving myself away. I think I blew that one.

But as luck would have it, while I was sitting in the bar, Corleone himself approached me with an offer that I actually could refuse. And I did. But I noted that the Barman was all over joining up with Corleone's little gang. I took pictures of all the suspected members of the Corleone Gang and stored them in my safe. Then, while doing some footwork, I was called to the bridge. What I wasn't ready for was the bloodbath in the Captain's room. I couldn't get prints on anything, but I took a few pictures and a shard of glass as evidence anyway. I had suspected the Corleone Gang was responsible, so I set myself to hunting them down. I found more blood on the station and knew something was going down. I went back to my office. While organizing evidence, Corleone called me into the hallway. There was tons of blood and a note with "RUN" written on it. I still suspected Corleone and his people. I spoke with the Quartermaster I saw Corleone talking to and he cleared himself with me, and I noted a hint of dislike.

But that didn't matter, because as I stood outside the bridge speaking to the Security Officer/HoS and voicing my concern, the Welder ran at me from behind. So now obviously I thought the Welder and the Corleone Family were connected. I continued investigating, finding notes all over the place. Fully believing everything was connected, and realizing the danger to my life, I collected all of the important evidence (including a picture of Corleone in the fuel-bombed wreckage of the front of my office) in a briefcase.I had the Security Officer/HoS store my evidence in his office. Later while I was snooping about I was called to the bridge and the Security Officer/HoS/Captain told me to follow him to the Armory. I did so and the Security Officer/HoS/Captain and myself stocked up on hardsuits and guns. We went back into the station and I wound up giving an energy gun to a miner and one to someone else as well. I was eventually called back to the bridge. When the AI opened a path up for me, I was able to make it to the bridge. It was there that the Security Officer/HoS/Captain promoted me to HoS. Together we searched for clues so we could solve this mystery, the whole time scared that a psycho axeman or whatever was going to jump out of the shadows and plant an axe in my brain.  We wound up at the engine after investigating the AI core and while pondering a corpse in the CE's office, heard a voice say "It's so cold." Being a genius detective, I said "Space is cold," walked out into space, and was promptly hit with an emitter laser and fed to the singularity.

Some things might be out of order. So much happened. It was so awesome.

[Karlito]

I wasn't really expecting a survival horror round going into it. We had a failed welder round earlier (we managed to cut his brain out and gib his body), followed by an extended round where we all were killed by space carp. I've been mostly switching between engineering and medical, so this round I took the CMO. I'd played the nice doctor before and it was getting kind of boring, so I decided I'd be a little fouler this round. I snapped and swore at my subordinates, and smoked in the medbay while I ordered my underlings to wear a mask at all times. Good stuff.

This was a long round, and a lot happened and I'm not entirely sure I remember the order of events correctly, especially in the middle.

Spoiler: Saving Lives: The CMO's story (click to show/hide)

So the round starts, and I'm yelling at the crew to turn up their suit sensors (some never do, even after five hours), and trying to get my chemist to start being useful. In addition to the chemist, I have one other surgeon working under me. The Captain comes in for a DNA scan before heading off to get power online, since no engineers signed up. Some time passes, and I'm watching the crew monitoring computer, still trying to get everyone to turn their sensors up, when I notice "Unknown" is pretty seriously wounded in the Captain's Cabin. I call the HoS (the only other head for most of the game) to the Bridge and eventually we get the AI to open up the door to the Captain's cabin. His cabin is empty, but in his quarters we find a gibbed up body.

That was pretty unsettling, so I went to the bar to get something to drink, and made small talk with the bartender for a while. Then I get a call from the HoS. Random gibbed body parts started appearing around the station. There's a short conversation with the HoS and detective: no one besides the Captain is missing, and the blood does not appear to contain DNA. After this, things start to slowly descend into madness.

I try to clone the Captain from the file I have on disk, but all the cloning machine does is spit out an error and a bunch of blood (it didn't work because technically the Captain's death was a suicide). After this, I inform the HoS that he should assume the duties of acting Captain. We're meeting on the bridge when a bloody man in a Welding mask appears in the hallway in front of us, tapping on the glass with his fire axe. The AI immediately locks down the bridge, and the tapping continues for a while. Eventually he breaks through the glass panel and the electrified grille before being stopped by the blast doors. It takes a while for us to collect our bearings and when we finally get off the bridge (me with a shiny new taser) there isn't any sign of the welder.

However, even more spooky stuff is going on. A weird message appears on the news boards and notes start to be found with the random gibs. I notice on the crew monitor that the Lawyer, Donald Corleone, is injured in the bar. Apparently he got into bar maintainance and the door had welded itself shut behind him! I remembered that a mysterious welder had appeared on my reception desk, so I run across the hall to fetch it, but by the time I return the door had unwelded itself and the Lawyer was free. There's short scuffle when Officer Beepsky comes in and attempts to arrest Corleone and I'm running after him to tend to his wounds and then Beepsky comes in and cuffs the Bartender. I get the cuffs off the Bartender and am about to leave when Corleone offers me a suit. He doesn't have time to induct me into his gang because the Welder appears in the kitchen. When he comes through the door I stun him with my taser and shout for the bartender to get the handcuffs, which were behind the bar. Just as the HoS and Detective arrive (or is it Captain and HoS now?), armed and armored the welder disappears, as suddenly as he arrived.

Things are quiet for a while, I settle down in Medbay and tell the Chemist to start making hydrochlorate for the syringe guns, the Surgeon records my DNA on a disk in case I have to be cloned. The AI pretty strongly hints that we should investigate Surgery. It's covered in guts and gibs. There's a note on the floor that says "help me" or something to that effect. I clean up the mess with a spray bottle and then the welder says "i can't breathe" over the intercom and all the air disappears from surgery. The entire medbay is suddenly without atmosphere. I escape into the maintainace tunnel with the detective, while I configure my internals. Roman, the chemist, doesn't get his on in time, and I run back into medbay and place him in Cryo.

This begins what was probably 1 or 2 hours of "trapped in the medbay". The medbay doors are welded shut, effectively trapping the three medical staff inside. Roman has and recovers from a mental breakdown. The atmosphere returns and disappears a few times. The welder and a creepy guy with a scythe teleport in and out. Voices come from the intercom and from out of thin air. Objects move around. The firelocks activate and deactivate. The lights flicker and explode. We start shouting back at the ghost, trying to get a sane response. The shaft miner is hacked to near death by the welder standing in the lobby with three doctors looking on, unable to interfere, though in the end the doors unseal long enough for me to grab him and stick him in a Cryo tube. Before he can heal, the welder appears again and smashes the oxygen tanks, releasing superchilled air into the medbay. I pull the miner from cryo and there's a frantic moment when I stand in the freezing air trying to stabilize him enough that a sleeper can heal him while the welder attacks me. We retreat to the Chem lab where it's a little warmer. A multilated corpse rolls up to us strapped to a sleeper bed. We try to clone it and fail. It's warm in genetics so we hide there for a while. Eventually, we break through the windows on the west side of the medbay and meet up with the lawyer, Carleone.

The five of us attempt to get into the Bridge, fail, meet up with the CE, muck around in the dark and fight the vines for a while. I split off and with the AI's help eventually access the Bridge and call the shuttle. My entire department and the Shaft Miner escape on the shuttle, while the Acting Captain and CE are bent on investigating engineering.

Oh man, I just realized I left Runtime behind

[Leonon]

I came up with a fun idea, if I modify the map so that the station's protected from Carp due to every exterior window (and wall, and airlock) being dangerously electrified by the full power of the singularity engine would you use it?

I'd also like to move the fire doors that are inside regular doors so they can be opened from either side. The current placement is annoying and unusually dangerous compared to the station's other safety features.

EDIT:
I went ahead and did it. Here's my map edit. It's the same as the one we're using except I've run a cable from the main engine all the way around the station, added grills in some areas to either skip small gaps or improve coverage, moved the firelocks and doors in the central hallway loop so the doors are on the inside and the firelocks are on the outside, added doors at the end of the hallways to arrivals and emergency shuttle docking, and electrified the doors to long term prisoner confinement like the windows to short term confinement.

There's also a wire in each solar access that makes it so they can be hooked up to the engine's loop to either charge their SMES from the main engine or share their output with the rest of the loop. The toxins/explosives testing area isn't covered by the extreme voltage wiring, but everywhere else is.
The extreme voltage loop is isolated from the rest of the wiring by the SMES's so most of the wiring is as safe as it was before.

Fried Carp

[Donuts]

So, server appears empty- JOIN NAO!

[Yoink]

But... Then the space fishies won't be able to get in, will they?

[scrdest]

What's the point of electrifying the exterior if you can simply disable carps from breaking glass? I mean seriously, how do they do this, ram their spessfish heads on it and go on unscathed or what?

E: Also, I managed to register on Centration forums. Simply google centration forum and register THERE.

[Rakonas]

There should just be a carp catcher job. Someone wears a carp-resistant suit and has a net that catches and stores carp to be brought to xenobio or the kitchen.

[Aklyon]

There should just be a carp catcher job. Someone wears a carp-resistant suit and has a net that catches and stores carp to be brought to xenobio or the kitchen.

One does not simply catch the space carp. One must fight the space carp first. Possibly in mordor.

[USEC_OFFICER]

There should just be a carp catcher job. Someone wears a carp-resistant suit and has a net that catches and stores carp to be brought to xenobio or the kitchen.

Ugh. That sounds like a job that'll be needed every round, with a lot of potential for griefing and abuse.

And... suddenly I'm a lot more open to the job. It'd be pretty hard to balance it though, so I'm not exactly endorsing it with all my might until I hear some more details.

E: Also, I managed to register on Centration forums. Simply google centration forum and register THERE.

Mind posting a couple of screenies from the site? I'm not entirely sure if I want to register for this thing without seeing a little more of it.

[kg333]

I tried, but it requires a login to view the registration page.

That is hilarious. Mind if I sig it?

Go for it.

Also, I hadn't heard of Welder mode, but I really enjoyed the Chzo mythos games...glad to hear it became an SS13 gamemode.

KG

[Donuts]

I tried, but it requires a login to view the registration page.

That is hilarious. Mind if I sig it?

Go for it.

Also, I hadn't heard of Welder mode, but I really enjoyed the Chzo mythos games...glad to hear it became an SS13 gamemode. Gotta love admin creativeness!

KG

Actually, the Welder probably uses the "Masked Killer" equipment set from adminverbs.

[Fayrik]

Also, I hadn't heard of Welder mode, but I really enjoyed the Chzo mythos games...glad to hear it became an SS13 gamemode.

Yeah! I was cautious of this round as it seemed a bit one sided, but the way it played out was like a really nice interactive story.
We'd almost solved it until the CMO called the shuttle and saved the crew.

The AI pretty strongly hints that we should investigate Surgery.

Ironically enough that was a typo. I was talking to the captain over :h and forgot to put it in just as I mentioned the surgery. I was trying to avoid causing panic, but wound up botching that completely. Did mean you got to see some awesome gore though.

Oh man, I just realized I left Runtime behind

Oh no, you forgot your cat. Have you realised that you also forgot the Captain and the AI too?