Blood Cult

FOR THE LOVE OF NAR'SIE, PLEASE READ THE GUIDE

So you've joined the cult of the almighty Nar'Sie, but you don't know where to start? Then this is for you, apprentice.

As a cultist, you have an abundance of cult magics at your disposal, something for all situations. In order to use cult magic, you need an Arcane Tome and the correct word combination to form a rune. If you've started the round out as a cultist, you are given a talisman that you can use to spawn various objects (More on that later.), memories of your cult objectives, and the translation of two words. Remember these translations and be sure to share them with other cultists!

"That's just a doodle!"

When you become a Cultist at round start, you will have a paper imbued with blood in your backpack. It's a special talisman, which can be invoked 5 times to spawn a regular 1-use talisman of your choice. Make sure to hide this from basically everyone not in your little book club or they will robust your ass.

Name	Descripition
Tome	The Arcane Tome is the most important item for any cultist. It is used to draw runes with your blood. It also contains some basic info on the runes you can use. The tome can also be used as a potent weapon, each hit dealing random amount of damage, from 5 up to 25 per hit. You are also able to share your notes (and thus your translated words) by using your tome on another tome. Make sure you spawn one of these before you run out of talisman charges. Without it, you can't do anything.
Communications Talisman	When used, a text window appears to allow you to broadcast whatever you want directly into the minds of all cultists and constructs in BOLD, CAPITAL, RED TEXT.
EMP Talisman	Creates a high powered electromagnetic pulse which is mainly effective at taking out radios, draining energy-based weapons, stunning and damaging Cyborgs, damaging an AI and messing with other electronics.
Armor Talisman	Summon a cultist body armor and hood which protect against close combat damage, as well as summoning the unholy cultist blade which is very powerful as it is cursed by Nar'Sie's dark power (Non-Cultists will have a "drunken" camera and when trying to use it will fall to the ground and take some damage).
Summon Soul Stone	A capturing device use to trap the souls of dead/in Limbo mobs (doesn't work on humans who left their body) and when captured they will become a trapped shade which can be released out of its jail or it can be used on a construct shell.
Summon Construction Shell	You summon a shell which cannot be picked up, it requires a filled soul stone to create either a Artificer, Juggernaut or Wraith.
Stun Talisman	Creates a stun paper which when used on people will cause them to become temporarily paralyzed and unable to speak for 15 ticks (This paper can't be used on yourself or other cultists).

"I'm not a witch I'm not a witch!"

Fantastic, you've joined a cult, and not because of the Koolaid. At the beginning of the round, you start out with the talisman we mentioned earlier in your backpack. Depending on your experience with being a cultist, this talisman can either be your best friend, or your worst enemy. Every use of this talisman will do a small amount of damage to yourself as well as being exceptionally obvious to any passerby. It is incredibly versatile, yet if you're caught with it you will likely be killed. Avoid taking this out of your bag until you're positive nobody will walk in on your unholy deeds.

If you're in a position that would usually wander the halls, try to gather a word or two from your fellow cultists before you summon a tome of your very own! Communication talismans are great for this but remember not to get caught, when you use the talisman you also chant a phrase out loud that people might hear if they're close enough! Never use your PDA, as the AI can intercept your messages and catch you. And remember, if you get caught, you endanger the entire cult.

The Stun Talisman option will spawn you another piece of paper, to use this one you only need to click on somebody with the paper in your hand. It has the same effect as a parapen, stunning people immediately and rendering them unable to speak, this also works on cyborgs if you need to. Like a parapen, this item is risky if you don't have a way to either convert your victim, or kill them.

"They gave me a word but didn't give me a jogging suit!"

Once you have your own tome, either put it away or put known words into your notes section if anyone else has shared their words. After you've set a word in your notes, when you Scribe Runes it will show the translated word instead of the original. You never need to check your notes once you've set them once!

Culting and Not Getting Caught

You have your tome, you have some words, and you want to start scribing runes. A lot of jobs on the station have access to areas great for research, remember that a simple examination can tell the non-believers whether a rune was drawn in your blood or with crayon. Try to place runes in areas people rarely frequent, that the AI won't be watching like a hawk. While the AI can't actually see runes, he can easily inform security of suspicious activity and you'll be hung and burned at the stake before you can say PRAISE NAR'SIE!

And remember, maintenance tunnels are low access and you could easily be caught with your pants down before you ever see them coming.

Hooked on Phonics: CTHULHU EDITION

Now you've started researching words. The best way to do this is start by using two known words then going down the list to fill in the last word.

A good way to start is by figuring out the Convert rune, Join-Blood-Self. The cult will always start with Join, Blood, Self, and Hell if all cultists share their words. Remember, if a rune is correct it will always be the same color (exception being armor runes.) Convert will always be a dark blood red color, teleport will be purple, etc. If you think you have the right rune word but you aren't sure, create another using the same three words, if it's the same color you likely have it right. With some practice this will become second nature.

Once you have Join, Blood, and Self, you have a huge list of runes to choose from to research new words. The Blood Drain rune consists of Travel, Blood, and Self, so to find the Travel word you would go down the list of unknown words until you create a proper Blood Drain rune. Once you have Travel, you can easily move on to the Wall rune which is Destroy, Travel, Self, again you only require one word so just work your way down the list. You can do this with any rune you like until you've discovered every word and noted them in your Tome.

Here is a list to research:

1. Convert (join / blood / self)
2. Blood drain (you now have teleport) (travel)
3. Wall (destroy)
4. Ghost (Hell)
5. Summon tome (see)
6. EMP (technology)
7. Stun (hide)
8. Notice (other)

With the final word researched you can and should now communicate your newly found knowledge, with the rune you just finished drawing.

Communication is Key

You, or another cultist has now translated all of the words. Hopefully you remembered to use the communication rune (Self-Other-Technology) to share this with the entire cult. With proper communication, you can do things like summon cultists to a meeting place, resurrect fallen allies, create teleportation networks for ease of escape or access to areas, supply the other cultists with armor, weapons, stun and teleport talismans, and whatever else you might think of. Be sure to inform your converted brothers about any runes or places of worship that you have set up, and if you're able, give them a tome of their own (Translated is good.) so they may help the cause.

A Cult that doesn't Communicate is a Dead Cult.

The Runes

Each rune contains three words combined to form a single rune through the "Scribe Rune" option. Runes can be destroyed by using your arcane tome on the rune, this will destroy the rune completely and you will need to scribe a new one.

There are 10 words used for rune scribing, what they translate to are: "travel", "self", "see", "Hell", "blood", "join", "technology", "destroy", "hide", and "other". Your Arcane tome, however, requires research and translation, each person who begins as a cultist remembers two words, including one of the following: "Join", "Blood", "Self", and "Hell" so that you always know the words for Convert and Summon Nar'Sie if you properly communicate.

There are two ways to find out meaning of words. First, you can simply use sacrifice runes to sacrifice humans and monkeys, with each sacrifice comes a chance to suddenly remember a rune word, unfortunately sacrificing requires three people standing next to the rune for it to work. The other way is through trial and error. Knowing at least one word needed for a rune, you can find out the the other word(s) with only a few paper cuts involved. Don't forget: All proper runes always have fixed colors and sprites, while incorrect runes are random colors, the exception being Armor runes which will always be random colors.

Name and Words	Description
Convert Rune join blood self	The first rune that you are likely to use. To convert somebody, you need to place a live human, willing or otherwise on top of the rune and then "use" the rune with an empty hand. This will work on anyone who is not loyalty implanted or in possession of a null rod. Loyalty implants will not remove somebody's status as a cultist, only prevent them from being converted.	No.
Wall Rune destroy travel self	This rune magically thickens the air above it when used, making an impassible wall that stops projectiles, and all mobs trying to pass through it, including you. You invoke the rune to create a wall, and invoke it again to remove the wall.	No.
Blood Boil Rune destroy see blood	This rune requires three cultists standing around it before you are able to use it. When invoked, it instantly deals 51 brute damage and 51 burn to all non cultists that can see the rune (Think of a flash bang, only it doesnt affect friendlys and puts enemies into critical). There is even a 5 percent chance that those inflicted by the rune will be gibbed. However, cultists in range of the rune will take 15 damage, with no additional effect if more than 3 cultists chant the rune. Also, as a potential bonus (Or negative effect), any rune that is visible from the blood boil rune (including the blood boil rune) has a 10 percent chance of exploding.	No.
Blood Drain Rune travel blood self	This rune instantly heals you of some brute damage, at the expense a person placed on top of the rune. Whenever you invoke a drain rune, ALL drain runes on the station are activated, draining blood from anyone located on top of those runes.One drain gives up to 25HP per each victim, but you can repeat it if you need more. Draining only works on living people, so you might need to recharge your "Battery" once its empty. Blood hunger: Draining over 50 HP in one gulp intoxicates you, making you want more. You will keep slowly losing health until the hunger goes away or is satisfied.	No.
Raise Dead Rune blood join hell	To make the rune work, you will need two bodies: a living one, and a dead one. Living body will provide the life essence, while the dead body will provide a vessel for your friend. Put a dead body on the rune, and then have the ghost of your friend stand directly on top of it. Then put a living human body on top of a different resurrect rune. Note that the living body can be yourself, so don't stand on the rune when invoking it if you dont want to sacrifice yourself. If everything is done right, the dead body will be alive and at full health again, controlled by the ghost who was on top of that rune, while the living guy is immediately gibbed.	No.
Summon Narsie Rune hell join self	This spell summons a huge all-consuming monstrosity from outer planes. It is often an objective to summon it so you need to know how to summon it. What you need is to have 9 cultists standing in circle around the rune. When you have enough people and the Horror is summoned, you can try to run away, or submit your mortal body to your god.	No.
Communicate Rune self other technology	This spell allows you to easily (and very safely) communicate with your cult mates. Invoke it, type a message, and it will be transmitted to all cult members in fat, red letters so they surely won't miss it. You can get one with your starting talisman, and you can imbue a paper with it as well.	Yes.
EMP Rune destroy see technology	Remember those EMP grenades and that EMP wizard spell? This rune does exactly the same.The rune itself doesn't generate a strong pulse, and only disables items in small radius. Imbuing the rune into a talisman makes it a lot stronger.	Yes.
Manifest Rune blood see travel	This rune is close to the resurrect spell, but works differently. It does not need any dead bodies or sacrifices, just you and a ghost both standing on top of a rune. You also might want to put a paper with a name on the rune if you want your manifested ghost to have a name, else he will appear as unknown. Once invoked, a new body will appear right where you stand. The body will last indefinitely as long as you are standing on the rune. You, however, will be constantly receiving damage. Once you die or leave the rune, the ghost is banished from the body, gibbing it in the process.	No.
Summon Tome Rune see blood hell	While just having a henchman cultist is useful, he will be of much more help if he has an arcane tome to create more runes. This rune simply summons a new arcane tome. Always have one hidden somewhere so that you can get a new tome in case you lose your current one.	Yes.
Teleport Rune travel self x	Teleport rune is a special rune, as it only needs two words, with the third word being destination. Basically, when you have two runes with the same destination, invoking one will teleport you to the other one. If there are more than 2 runes, you will be teleported to a random one. Since there are 10 words, you can create 10 independent teleport networks. You can imbue a teleport rune into a talisman, which will then teleport you to the destination rune upon use.	Yes.
Teleport Other Rune travel other x	This variation of the teleport rune allows you to teleport objects between the runes. You need to have 3 people standing by this rune to properly invoke it, so its utility isnt very high.	Yes.
See Invisible Rune see hell join	This nice rune does exactly as it says. It allows you to see invisible objects and people as long as you stay on top of the rune. Most importantly, it lets you see ghosts, this might help you when working in conjunction with a resurrection rune. But it also works on hidden runes, cloakers and aliens who use invisibility.	No.
Hide Rune hide see blood	This handy rune, which you can also make with your starting talisman, makes nearby runes invisible. Note, however, that you cannot invoke the runes if you can't see them, so you need to either use a "see invisible" rune, or use a reveal rune. This rune is useful for revealing support runes that you do not activate directly. For example, a teleport rune in a safe place where you can teleport to with a teleport talisman.	No.
Reveal Rune blood see hide	Need to activate that rune you have hidden, but dont know the words for a "see invisible" rune? Well now your hide rune always comes with its sister - the Reveal rune! Just reverse the wording order of the Hide rune, and you will get a rune that reveals all hidden runes in large area around itself.	No.
Ghostself Rune hell travel self	This rune allows you to leave your mortal body and become a ghost. This comes with all those benefits of being a ghost - being able to communicate with other ghosts, seeing invisible, and so on. Of course, you are unable to control your body as a ghost, and if you fly away, you will have no idea if something is happening to it. You can re-enter your body the same way as you re-enter corpse as a regular ghost. The body itself slowly receives damage while you are ghosted, and if it is removed from the rune, you will not be able to re-enter it so beware.	No.
Imbue a Talisman Rune hell technology join	This handy little rune imbues an empty piece of paper with the power of an adjacent rune. It only works with EMP, Summon Tome, Hide Rune, Reveal rune, Teleport, Notice, Blind and Deafen runes. Have a rune of mentioned type beside the imbue rune, put a paper on the imbue rune, invoke it.You will now have a 1-use talisman with the power of the target rune. Using a talisman drains alot of health, so be careful with it	No.
Sacrifice Rune hell blood join	The sacrifice rune is used to gain favour of your God by sacrificing different living things to it. It also might be your objective to sacrifice a specific person. You can sacrifice monkeys and humans, with all of them having different chance to gain favor of your God. If you are lucky enough, you will suddenly remember meaning of one of the rune words, possibly one you already know. You can sacrifice dead bodies and monkeys alone, but to sacrifice a living human or your target, you need to have 3 cultists chanting by the rune. Sacrificing a living human is very likely to yield a positive result for you	No.
Summon Cultist Rune join other self	This rune allows you to summon any cultist to the rune. You need 3 cultists chanting for it to work, and the target must not be cuffed, buckled or hiding in a closet. Note that this rune drains quite alot of health from every chanting cultist.	No.
Free Cultist Rune travel technolgy other	A nice compliment to the summon rune, this rune also requires 3 cultists chanting by it to work. Activating it allows you to free any of your fellow cultist from many kinds restrictions: handcuffs, locked DNA machines, muzzles (but NOT straight jackets), both locked and welded closets.	No.
Deafen Rune hide other see	This rune temporarily makes all non-cultists in visible range deaf. You can imbue this rune into a talisman, it will have the same range, but the duration of deafness will be shorter	Yes.
Blind Rune destroy see other	Blind rune works exactly the same way as the deafen rune, except it blinds everyone in visible range	Yes.
Stun Rune join hide technology	Unlike other runes, this ons is supposed to be used in talisman form. When invoked directly, it simply releases some dark energy, briefly stunning everyone around. When imbued into a talisman, you can force all of its energy into one person, stunning him so hard he cant even speak. However, effect wears off rather fast. This talisman is basically a cult version of stun baton. Stun time is rather short (15 ticks), and mute time is even shorter (5 ticks) but unlike other weapons, it can be concealed and not visible when held in hand. Use it to stun candidates for conversion in case they refuse to join you, or robust the security with these.	Yes.
Armor Rune hell destroy other	Cultists now have access to real weapons and hooded robes that double as armor. There is the Cult Blade (An energy sword), Cult robes (armored robes), and Cult Hoodie (armored hoodie), as well as a backpack (the Chaplain's trophy rack), and Cult Boots (essentially grey jackboots). To invoke, simply activate the rune with an open hand to recieve the cult blade, likewise with the robes and hoodie. Just have the slots open. These will robust people and borgs very fast.	Yes.

Journal of the Arch Heretic (Cultists can not into space)

Today was a good day for the True Believers. We managed to get to the abandoned shuttle and set up camp there. I had the time to read through my book and translate everything and gathered everyone at the White Ship to lay seige to the station. We even managed to steal a communications board and killed the research director for his ID card to keep the shuttle from ever coming. The more ghost legions we sent to the station, the more bodies they sent back to us, allowing a way for the etherals to stay tied to this mortal realm. It took a while but we located the captain, killed him and sacrificed his body to the great one. All we left behind on the station was our mark, blood, gibs, and the bodies of the many non believers. They are sending our escape shuttle to another station....and we will cleanse that station too. Below I have listed the most effective means of showing the feeble minded the might of Nar-Sie. Even the Singularity is no match for great Nar-Sie.

How to into Space

The biggest problem facing the cult is getting caught early or not being able to research words. Here is a fun and easy way to to get into space to safely research. Get a toolbox, a firesuit, gloves if possible and a few cups of robust coffee. Proceed to the chapel and if the chaplain is there, ask him to massdrive you, sending you to the derelict. If the chaplain isnt there, break down the wall and grab a coffin to put into the mass driver.Once you have hit the derelict, drink your coffee and go into the pressurized and warm environment to the east. A space suit will be north from there. As a note, the abandoned ship makes the best base with wall runes as it cannot be broken into except by the chaplain.

Ghost Legion

If you were smart, you researched your words and you can now manifest an army. This requires a medibot (but medibots are useless now) for sustained use. What you need will be an active teleport rune that goes to the main station, 3 or 4 cult armor runes and a manifest ghost rune. Manifest as many ghosts as you have armor for, have them teleport to the station to MAIM BURN AND KILL.

Summoning Others by Yourself

If you are by yourself, you can still summon your cultist friends. Set up a manifest ghost next to a summon cultist (or free cultist) rune and manifest two ghosts. Have the two ghosts help summon your friend.

No Medibot

On the chance that you are on the mining station or just dont have a medibot, you can still heal yourself. Set up a blood drain rune next to a manifest ghost rune. Manifest the ghost and have him stand on the blood drain rune and drain him of life. Rinse and repeat as needed.

Constructs

Using the supply-paper starting cultists are granted from their dark lord, they are able to create an army of shades and constructs. This can be used to bring those to your side who typically would never do so on their own, like the chaplain or security officers. A wise move is to create an artificer first, which saves you valuable points on the supply-paper.