ManiacalAnxiety Mentor Application

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Your CKEY: ManiacalAnxiety

Your Discord: ManiacalAnxiety

How long have you been playing ss13?:
Off of “first seen” alone, I’ve been playing since 2023-11-04. Though, I’d taken a few breaks inbetween that time, so it probably comes out to 9 or so months.

Who vouches for your experience (if anyone)?:
BotTierPC, Taylor

Game Experience (More Detailed):
I’ve been switching roles pretty often throughout my playtime, usually to the major departments with the most recent swap being Science. Admittedly, due to how vast these swaps are, I can’t say that I’ve retained all of the knowledge from those hours, but I’ve definitely picked up on some niche and generalized information.

In regards to Science, I’ve gotten a good grasp of Xenobiology, Nanites and a smidge of Circuits from a good bit ago. Though, with circuits, I tend to do better if I can see what I’m dealing with. Toxins are admittedly my worst.

Admittedly, despite my hours in Engineering, I’ve not retained nor learned as much as I’d like to. I’m well informed on the setup of the supermatter, but as of now, singularities and teslas are out of my knowledge- I have full intention to learn, though. Atmospherics is something that has evaded me for awhile, as well. (Go figure, based off of toxins being my worst skill!)

Cargo-wise, it was the first department I played on the server. I’ve picked up a good chunk of niche tricks and knowledge that I don’t see used often- Express consoles, mostly. Though, crate shelves are cool as well, despite the lack of practicality.

Overall, my weakest departments are Service and Civilian. Namely, botany. Atmospherics are a close third, though the thing that’s kept me from learning it is a fear of disaster, rather than a lack of intrigue.

I look forward to interrogation questioning, and I hope I’ll have the game-knowledge to succeed, lest I be brought to the guillotine.

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Pardon my asking, but i for the life of me cant remember who has what ckey, what are your character names?

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This is my player feedback thread, has all of the characters I play actively!

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hey there erika parker! its nice to see you trying to become a mentor today!

  1. whats tritium and how do i make it
  2. how do i make the prisoner id thing
  3. how do i set up syndicate c4?
    also just want to ask if you have read the mentor rules Admin Policy & Conduct - BeeStation Wiki
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It’s nice to apply!

1. whats tritium and how do i make it
We’re going STRAIGHT for the throat, huh. Okay! After some searching on the wiki, and with my limited knowledge of both atmos and toxins:

Tritium is usually the byproduct of a really, really oxygenated fire: So, the way you’re gonna make it is by mixing plasma (Or another flammable gas, most likely? Unsure on this.) into an oxygen rich environment. (Not the hallways, or anywhere which would cause damage to the station or the crew!). Most likely a mixing chamber, like the one in toxins. After you’ve done that, ignite the plasma and let it sit for a bit. I’d suggest using a long-range analyzer (Which can be printed from the Science or Engineering protolathe with the correct research.) to check if there’s any tritium in the chamber!

(I’m NOT good with atmospherics. This is what I managed to grasp from some searching, though. In an actual situation where this was asked, I’d probably forward it to another mentor, or ask about the topic in advance.)

2. how do i make the prisoner id thing

Assuming you’re trying to process and register a prisoner, and you’ve already got them cuffed and at the console: You’re gonna wanna take off their I.D: Or, their PDA if their I.D is being stored in it. Afterwards, you wanna click the prisoner management interface (The giant monitor that usually has an N on it, or the words “Obey!”/“Walk!”.) From there, it’ll upload their name onto the console. You can pick the crime, modifiers, and everything else on there. Afterwards, click “finalize I.D” at the top right! If they don’t HAVE an I.D, you can manually put their name in at the top right as well.

3. how do i set up syndicate c4?

If you mean a block of C4 or an X4 charge, you’re gonna wanna press Z to set the timer, first. A menu should pop up for that. Set your time and then figure out where you wanna plant it: When you’ve figured that out, click the wall/door/just about anything with the charge in your hand. That’ll begin the planting process. Try to stay out of the blast radius!

If you mean a syndicate bomb, though, you’re gonna wanna drag it to where you wanna plant it, use a wrench to anchor it (This is optional, but it’ll prevent your bomb from being moved unless they also have a wrench!). From there, I’m pretty sure you can click it to set the timer. Do be warned, though: A syndicate bomb has a massive radius. Be careful where you plant it!

As for conduct, yup, I’ve gone over it a few times now to make sure I’ve got it memorized.

(I’m aware these answers are a bit long, but I recall seeing that application replies should be longer than actual, in-game ones.)

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Used to be a mentor twice, while I can’t vote, I’m gonna ask 2 questions:

  1. “I was kidnapped by a traitor to the japanese cafe thing and I just got back to the station. Do I remember the person who kidnapped me?”
  2. “Which does more damage; a pickaxe or a large air canister?”
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1. I was kidnapped by a traitor to the japanese cafe thing and I just got back to the station. Do I remember the person who kidnapped me?
If I had to guess, you were kidnapped by a space-ninja via an energy net. If I remember correctly, you DO remember the space-ninja / aka, the person who kidnapped you!

(I could be wrong on this: I haven’t been kidnapped by a space ninja in ages, but I do remember being able to remember them the last time I did? At least, if my memory serves me well. ((I’m also unsure if this counts as a rules-related issue? This is a tricky one, I look forward to seeing the answer.))

2. Which does more damage; a pickaxe or a large air canister?
A pickaxe does 15 brute damage on hit, whereas a large air tank does 10 brute on hit!

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  1. It was indeed a tricky question and rules related one :slight_smile: And I was talking about a contractor kidnapping. It takes you to the same place where ninja kidnappings do. Afaik you don’t get a message about forgetting how you got there.
  2. Dont have time to actually fact check those, but I’ll take your word for it on it. Seeing actual numbers tells me you did check in the code. Good.
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The Mighty Erika Parker Appears!!

We already talked about it when i gave you the vouch and talked anout the github so im almost fine to give you a + now. Though, as promised there is still a question;

I want to play chef but all I’ve seen from its gameplay is Make Burgers>Place On Counter>People Take and Leave. Are there some better recipies and gimmicks i could try? And even if there are how do i get engament out of people instead of just making them frusterated about being forced to wait/interact for the food since it feels like they just walk away if they dont see anything on the counter ready for them.

Bit of a longer question, but just as much as there are questions about people wanting to know how X mechanic works, how much damage Y does, there’s a good amount who want help with RP, and as someone who has held many command meetings, and is an excellent role player im curious how’d you go about helping a new player in this manner.

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Shiraizawa Response

Shucks! I’ve never actually been kidnapped by a contractor. Nice to know.
And yeah, I did a code dive and also ran a local to ensure “force” was damage. (It is!)

BotTierPC Answer

I want to play chef but all I’ve seen from its gameplay is Make Burgers>Place On Counter>People Take and Leave . Are there some better recipies and gimmicks i could try? And even if there are how do i get engament out of people instead of just making them frusterated about being forced to wait/interact for the food since it feels like they just walk away if they dont see anything on the counter ready for them.

The burger biomass claims all those without will.
In any case: Yes! If you wanna get engagement, ensure that the changes are visible! Maybe work with botany and the bartender, along with the engineers, to renovate the service department into a cafe / restauraunt of sorts. You could even set up a menu, if you have the patience, but the design alone will get more people to engage!

As for food, if you wanna prepare meals, you can make a paper bag in the “Misc” section of the crafting menu by placing 5 pieces of paper on the floor. If you use a pen on an empty paper bag, there’s a lot of designs you can pick to spice things up! (I personally suggest the NanoTrasen one!). From there, you can put proper meals into the bags and hand those out, instead! Alternatively, you can get plates from the vendor and align your meals! There’s a lot you can do with the role, if you get creative!

Wooh, that was a fun one to answer.

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THUNDER CRACKLES OMINOUSLY

WOE TO YOU, O WEARY TRAVELLER… TO GAIN ENTRY TO THE SHELTER YOU SEEK, THOU MUST FIRST PROVE THY WORTH BY BESTING THREE OF MY HARDEST CHALLENGES! SURVIVE, OR FACE THE WRATH OF THE MORPH!

(Hiya! So excited to have you applying! The fourth question is entirely optional and IS IN FACT me attempting to utilize Propaganda.)

  1. “Hiya, I’m the janitor and I’m seeing all these rusty walls all over the place. First off… why are there so many? I don’t remember them being this spread before. Second, what’s the point of getting rid of the rust with the little scraper thingy anyway?”
  2. “GREETINGS! I AM THE GREAT AND HONORABLE CHAPLAIN and I’m in need of some help. I’ve lost my bible and I can’t use any of my rituals to do Chaplain Stuff. Where can I get more?”
  3. “Egads! There appear to be Hostile Specters ROAMING THE STATION! As the Curator, what can I do to help stop the spread of these dastardly and devilish DEMONS!” (please note not actual demons I mean Ghosties. Demons are covered in paragraph six.)

BONUS QUESTION… Thunder crackles again but honestly it’s not being paid enough for this

  1. “Hello. Is me. Big Jester. I want to be doing the JOUSTING but I do not know how. How do I joust?”
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you really tried to go above and beyond for this!

  1. The main question was to see if you would search online for the answer, instead of just relying on your previous knowledge, which you did, but you also said pass it off to another mentor, which is also great and i didnt expect that! great answer overall!
  2. Pretty standard to what we would say. pretty good!
  3. Great answer as well!
    glad to see youve read it, and it doesnt really matter how long your answer is, just as long as you get the idea across, but you should keep them medium sized for the actual ticker to read better, but still great!
    I can confidently give my +1 here (as long as you HATE ADMINS!!)
    T=+1
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BY GODS, THE TROLL OF THE BRIDGE: ASKING ME THREE (four) RIDDLES?!!
Apologies on the VERY long wait time..

Question #1
  1. “Hiya, I’m the janitor and I’m seeing all these rusty walls all over the place. First off… why are there so many? I don’t remember them being this spread before. Second, what’s the point of getting rid of the rust with the little scraper thingy anyway?”

(After some quick testing, I’ve found that splashed water doesn’t seem to cause rust, and rusted walls didn’t seem to have any noticeable integrity loss, which leads me to:)

Depending on the map, some walls may already be rusted! The amount can really vary between them, but the other cause is that of a Rust-Based Heretic, one of the antagonists of the game. As their name implies, they reaaaally like causing janitorial annoyance in the form of rusted tiles and walls (Recently heretic-rusted walls and tiles will have a mark on theml!). Rust also allows them to instantly break a wall, so by removing that rust, you can do your part to stop this menace. Cleaning is a righteous duty! If it’s not the result of a heretic, though, odds are, it’ll just make the station uglier. We wouldn’t want that, would we?

Question #2
  1. “GREETINGS! I AM THE GREAT AND HONORABLE CHAPLAIN and I’m in need of some help. I’ve lost my bible and I can’t use any of my rituals to do Chaplain Stuff. Where can I get more?”

There should be some more spares in your chapel, or your office: If you’re worried about the visuals, you can press Z to change it back to the same visual as your first bible! Unfortunately, I don’t believe there’s anyway to get the name back. If for some, god forsaken reason, all your spare bibles are gone, you can request a “Religious Supplies” crate from Cargo! If you’re using the requests console, it’s in the miscellaneous supplies tab.

Question #3
  1. “Egads! There appear to be Hostile Specters ROAMING THE STATION! As the Curator, what can I do to help stop the spread of these dastardly and devilish DEMONS!” (please note not actual demons I mean Ghosties. Demons are covered in paragraph six.)

By the lord, whatever shall we do?! Here’s what!: If you still have your heroic beacon, and this hostile specter of yours is purple and evil, you’re gonna wanna get the spectre inspector kit! It comes with three counterparanormal grenades to fight back, as well as a pair of optical ecto-scanners to let you FIND these spectres! The grenades will spew out a LOT of salt in the form of a foam: Don’t use these near any oozelings, though: They’ll melt rapidly and most likely die!

Bonus Question
  1. “Hello. Is me. Big Jester. I want to be doing the JOUSTING but I do not know how. How do I joust?”

I’m actually not sure this is possible with taming disabled right now? At least, in my testing, I couldn’t tame a creature. Even with the debug lasso. It also didn’t proc the code when I attacked another mulebot buckled human while buckled to a mulebot myself. I even tried mounting a tamed carp, but: Taming is currently broken/disabled.

Though, from the code, if taming WERE working: What I can grasp is that you need to be mounted to a mob, rather than like: A chair. It seems like there’s a way to charge..? I’m really sorry I couldn’t get this question answered. I was excited to try.

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Goodness, these are PERFECT. I, the honorable Cave Troll, hereby grant you clemency. Itsy Bitsy comments on Questions One, Two, and Four.

One. Rusted tiles and walls are also weaker to explosions, meaning they become completely spaced much more easily. A good reason to not have any rust.

Two! The Curator’s Book Printer is capable of printing an INFINITE AMOUNT OF BIBLES at your discretion, using I BELIEVE the “company materials” section.

Four. The answer to this one is simple… you need a Mob you can buckle to (Like, I dunno… a CYBORG)… and a weapon with the Charge condition (any form of crafted spear). Then, upon the cyborg moving in a straight line for long enough, ANY attack you do against ANY creature buckled to something will be CHARGED THROUGH EVILLY. It’s very fun.

BWUH GOSH I FORGOT. +1 You looked through these and I’m happy with your current knowledge of Civilian stuff and things like it even though you said it was your least trained jobset.

TOTAL COOL COUNT: +2

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A cyborg, gah! I should’ve thought about that…
Though, I couldn’t actually test it properly. This is some really fun info to know, and I’m glad to learn such a fun fact during my application!

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Satisfactory!!!

More than actually, your answer was good and im more then happy with it.

Its not an easy answer to nit pick, its an absract question with no real right answer. But atleast I like telling them to put in the effort if they want more reciprocated.

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It’s really nice to see nice, kind people like you and M4RTYN apply, regardless of how application goes know both of you care alot about being nice to newer players, and that goes a long way.

Happily handing over a +1

Total : +3

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First time doing this so let’s go!

  1. I heard nanites can kill ozlings? Why that happens, how to prevent it, and is it possible for them to have fully functioning nanites anyways (can they be healed for all damages nanites can heal)?
  2. I’m a traitor botanist and I want to make killer bees. How could I go about it?
  3. What straight wiring engine into powergrid means? What are cons and benefits of doing that?

Bonus 4
4. Did you read the mentor conduct rules with are hidden in the deeps of wiki?

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Fun quirky zero pointer question.

“What items have a unique and fun suicide mechanic to them? Similar to the Nukie disk suicide.”

Share how you reached the answer.

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Helo! Most of the questions I would’ve asked were already asked, but I’ll still post a couple.

I know you kind of already answered this one indirectly, but:

  1. If you don’t know the answer to a question, what ways can you get the answer to? (Searching the discord, knowing what’s right/wrong on the wiki, code diving, running a private server, etc.)

And just for funsies you get the following mhelp, how do you answer:

  1. how do I roleplay better?
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Question #1 - Wikimody
  1. I heard nanites can kill ozlings? Why that happens, how to prevent it, and is it possible for them to have fully functioning nanites anyways (can they be healed for all damages nanites can heal)?

Correct! Nanites with programs that purge or heal toxin damage will do the opposite to oozelings, and vice versa. If you were to give blood purification or selective blood purification to an oozeling, it would start dealing rapid damage to them on activation!

However, this means that usually harmful programs related to toxins will be helpful for oozelings: Biological nanite programming has all sorts of healing programs, but it also has something that sticks out for us: Poisoning. This’ll deal toxin damage rapidly and cause vomiting (Slimepeople and Oozelings won’t vomit from it!).

You’ll also want to get harmonic nanite programming for the species sensor, which is how you can choose whether or not the nanites use blood purification or poisoning! Alternatively, if you don’t want to have poisoning in your main cloud, you could make a separate nanite cloud for oozelings at the nanite cloud controller. You can use a hand labeler to label the public chamber designed for most species, and the one designed for oozelings! (I would suggest spraypainting the difference on the floor as well, to really foolproof it!)

Question #2 - Wikimody
  1. I’m a traitor botanist and I want to make killer bees. How could I go about it?

This question is really out of my grasp- In an actual situation, I’d probably forward this to a more botany-informed mentor, or at the very least ask about it in mentor chat. Though, I’ll give it a try for the application, with what limited info I was able to scrounge up.

The most important thing to get initially is a beekeeping starter crate from cargo, of course!
Once that arrives, make sure not to open it until it’s in the place you want the apiary. Otherwise, it’ll bolt down wherever you opened it.

Grab the queen bee from the crate and place that into the apiary- Congrats, we’ve started a hive!
Be sure not to take all the honey, since they still need half a honeycomb for each bee in the hive. So- One full honeycomb for two bees! Not a bad trade.

Alright, considering killer bees aren’t exactly killer without a lethal substitute: You’re gonna want to get 5 units of your choice in chemical, and then inject that into the queen bee. That’ll make the entire hive you’ve built up use that toxin. Be warned, though: This’ll attract a LOT of attention if someone is paying attention!

Admittedly, if there’s a way to make bees constantly aggressive, which I’m pretty sure there is based off of rounds I’ve been in- I’ve been unable to find it or figure it out. Though, I’m sure that unwrenching the apiary and placing it somewhere public would get a lot of people stung.

Question #3 - Wikimody
  1. What straight wiring engine into powergrid means? What are cons and benefits of doing that?

(Admittedly, I may be very off here, but I’m going off of what I’ve been told and learned with my hours as engineer.)

Instead of having the engine’s power go through the SMES, and in turn managing how much power there is: We’re sending it STRAIGHT into the wires, cutting out the SMES from the process.

I’ve.. actually never done/had to do this, so I’m not entirely sure on the pros and cons, but:

++ We don’t need to worry about the power! The answer is “Yes!” as long as the engine is running!
++ Damage to the SMES won’t prevent power from running: Nothing short of SM sabotage, delamination, or turning off the emitters for awhile will stop the flow!
– Anyone hacking a door without insulated gloves will be fried with the full power of the SM.

Alternatively, if it’s a case of “The emitters don’t have enough power to fire, and we can’t generate anymore!”: You can grab a PACMAN (There’s usually one in secure storage!) and feed it some plasma. Pry up the floor tile next to an emitter, cut the wire that leads to the main grid and make a new node connecting to the emitter. Anchor the pacman onto that and turn it on: That’ll jumpstart the emitter’s power enough to get some shots off and get the engine running!

Question #1 - Ambiic - Agonizing Question

“What items have a unique and fun suicide mechanic to them? Similar to the Nukie disk suicide.”

This is a really, really cruel question. Just about every item has a custom dialogue, but not a mechanic. I shall power through, anyhow..

A list of the ones I was able to find!:
Nuclear Operative + Nuclear Auth Disk - Causes you to explode yourself after a really, really long primer.
Dual Energy Sword - Causes you to begin spinning around rapidly, before decapitating yourself. Your body will still spin for a solid 3 seconds while alive before it dies too.
Gavel Hammer? (No visual, but a sound effect!)
Fedora - Only works if male, makes you tip it and say “M’lady.” before death.
Package Wrapper - Wraps your corpse into a package.
Pepper Spray Deployer (Creates a cloud of spray!)
Flash (Flashes yourself)
Grenades? - Swallow the grenade and prime it.
C4 - Shouts “FOR NO RAISIN!” and detonates in a 3x3 radius.
X4- Instantly explodes, powerful enough to space tiles in a 3x3 radius.
Megaphone - Makes you shout ‘GAAAAAARGHHH!’ into the megaphone before death.
Bodybag - Opens the bodybag. Seems like it deletes your corpse, too..?
Mansus Grasp - Rapidly burns your limbs. Has a chance NOT to kill you, but only cripple?
Hand Teleporter - Teleports your head into a different Z level.

I probably missed a lot. This was a very exhausting question to answer.

As for how I got the answer, I went through the grueling process of codediving and then checking via a local. Just about every item has a unique message, meaning it was extremely, extremely difficult to figure out mechanics without a local, or an even heavier codedive.

Question #1 - Gilgax
  1. If you don’t know the answer to a question, what ways can you get the answer to? (Searching the discord, knowing what’s right/wrong on the wiki, code diving, running a private server, etc.)

In terms of an actual question, you might be in the round already. In that case, running a local isn’t ideal: So, for an in-round-question, I’d go off of a mixture of my own knowledge where I know it’s reliable, codediving for more niche questions, and the holy grail of it all: Mentor chat. While every mentor is informed, it’s a team of mentors. If you’re not sure on a topic, there’s a mentor who is.

If it’s a question for #questions, or something asked in a discord with a lot more time to work with: A local host runs perfectly fine. Like this application!

Question #2 - Gilgax
  1. how do I roleplay better?

(This FEELS like a rules question, but it doesn’t feel like something you would want to escalate to ahelp. There’s also not really an answer to a question like this aside from experience/practice!)

And yes, I mentioned it earlier in the application, but I have read non-staff-conduct!

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