Summary:
a crewmember has found a mysterious artifact that can awaken powers hidden in a person starting with themself, they want to use this artifact to awaken the power of as many people as possible and create a station full of bizarre personnel.
What it actually is:
a crewmember has been granted a bow and arrow which can give anyone a holoparasite with unique abilities, these people are then tasked with proving themself the strongest among the station before facing off against a special and extra powerful CC operative with their own holoparasite at the end who's been tasked with neutralizing all the other people with holoparasites and to recover the artifact that creates them.
Intended gameplay:
-Shift starts and someone has a bow with one (recoverable) special arrow that gives anyone it hits a holoparasite with a random ability.
-This person goes around and gives people holoparasites without getting caught
-These people then interact with each other and form rivalries/friendships by fighting with eachother to prove who's the strongest
-people learn their abilities and get used to working with their holoparasites while interacting with eachother.
-RP happens
-CC sends their own operative with a holoparasite who's tasked with recovering the bow and arrow along with defeating everyone that has a holoparasite.
-the holoparasite users on the station have to band together and use their abilities to defeat the CC operative.
why i think this would be a good event:
i've been watching jjba recently and i love holoparasites but no one ever uses them and i want to-
A- show people that holoparasites are cool and they should use them
B- see if giving holoparasites abilities would work because i want to make a holoparasite update one day and i think holoparasite abilities could be cool.
i also think the concept of people forming rivalries and using their special holoparasites to fight eachother could lead to some very interesting RP in a round and give holoparasites the ability to not get metagamed to death for existing (for a round at least).
specifics:
-roundstart one non-sec/command crewmember is granted a holoparasite that has the ability to teleport itself and its user anywhere in a short range (reskinned ninja dash) and a "Bizarre Bow" with a "Bizarre Arrow" item that can only be shot from the bow.
-when someone is shot with this arrow they are instantly knocked unconscious for 30 seconds (to allow the arrow to be recovered) and are given a holoparasite with a random ability (chosen from either a specific list or every ability in the code depending on admin choice.) and are turned into a free agent with one objective: "Become The Strongest."
-once there is a significant portion of the crew with holoparasites (or whenever the event admin deems a proper time) the CC operative (either ghost role or event admin/selected player) is deployed to the station in a small shuttle wearing the troublemaker's cap and a black coat with no gear other than AA and a combat medkit, they have a special holoparasite with the following abilities:
- extra resistance to all damage types
- the ability to reflect all projectiles
- the ability to freeze everything on their screen for a few seconds
they're given the objectives: - Find and recover the bizarre bow and bizarre arrow
- Eliminate all personnel infected with holoparasites
- Survive and return to central command
Flavor Announcements/Objective Descriptions:
Shift start announcement:
"Hello crew, there are reports that a unique artifact has been smuggled onto your station by an unknown agent. We are organizing a response, please continue your shift as normal."
Become The Strongest objective description:
"Your innate powers have been awakened, you must use this newfound power to prove yourself the strongest of your awakened kin. Make sure to allow your opponents to recover from your battles so you may continue to prove yourself the better one."
Find and recover the Bizarre Bow and Bizarre Arrow objective description:
"Central Command has discovered a bizarre artifact that can create powerful enemies, you must recover this artifact through any means necessary so it cannot be used against Nanotrasen."
Eliminate all personnel infected with holoparasites objective description:
"The bizarre artifact has been used to create powerful members among the crew, Central Command has deemed these crewmembers a danger to Nanotrasen and has sent you to stop them from becoming more of a threat."
Announcement when the CC operative is deployed:
"Greetings crew, Central Command has located a specialist and they are currently in transit to the station to recover the artifact. Please cooperate with this specialist to allow them to locate the artifact and eliminate any bizarre occurrences."
potential issues:
-could require a lot of work to set up.
-requires A LOT of ghosts to take holopara ghost roles (could have a higher pop for event maybe?)
-if the abilities are from all the abilities in the code then someone might get an OP ability like the immovable rod and be more powerful than intended
-there might not be a timestop ability in the code already (although i think wizard has one?)
-if the person with the bow and arrow fucks up then the event gets off track (loses arrow, gets arrested, doesn't do shit, dies, etc.)
-if the CC operative is too weak or too OP it's an underwhelming final fight.
i dunno, i was dying to get this event idea out because i binged like 14 jjba episodes over the weekend because that was basically all i could do.
let me know your thoughts!