/tg/Station 13

Implanting and surgery is a fun aspect that doesn't get done enough from my perspective. So post here fun ideas for what specific alien organs should do.
Surgery on a Plasmaman chest should extract a Plasma processor, which when implanted in a human should let them breath plasma freely. Rarely useful but why not.

Abductors should have special organs in every spot, because the idea of turning back and abducting and harvesting organs of abductors is a neat reversal.
Abductor Eyes:"weird" thermals that could see specific things through walls, so computers or something like that. Open to neat ideas.
Abductor Brain: gets implanted in brain spot. Acts like Holoparasite, with a private chat channel between you and the brain. Also lets you send a message to anyone on the Z-level through psychic powers. Maybe has the option to randomly teleport, similar to a telecrystal/reactive teleport armor?
Abductor Appendix: Doubles the effect of any drug. If you take 5 units of synthflesh, it acts like 10 units. Take 5 morphine and it acts like 10. Is good, but also makes it incredibly easy to OD.
Abductor Heart: I don't know what for this one
Carp Toxin Implant: When implanted in the stomach gives you the Toxic Spit ability. Range of 3, 10 Toxin damage+ some carpotoxin, 20 second cool down.

I've noticed it too.
I've gotten back in to mining and of the 4 times I brought back hivelord cores, thrice I had to walk people through the surgery because they had no idea they could be implanted.

Most new players choose medical doctor because they've been told it's an easy job with low stress and low amounts of skill needed to do it. This is untrue.

I see the most new players picking cargo tech normally cause it says somewhere on the wiki that it's a fairly easy job but med doctor is close behind.

Medical is kind of low-effort most of the time, though. If things are going well there's very little to do, and our medical system is easy enough for anyone to learn. Skill comes in triage and handling crowds effectively, along with memorising things like surgeries and medicines, but it's not that tricky to learn.

Medical is just follow the steps and do it quickly so everyone doesn't bleed out, as far as jobs go you don't have to try and herd cats and be robust enough to keep order.

"You don't have to try and herd cats"? Try treating a paranoid patient sometime. "A traitor went into medical earlier so YOU'RE ALL TRYING TO KILL ME", and then they start bashing the MDs with a fire extinguisher. And then there's the ones who run into the recovery room, steal the soap and syringe gun, then run back out... you're allowed to throw acid on those, right? Hypothetically?

TheNightingale wrote:"You don't have to try and herd cats"? Try treating a paranoid patient sometime. "A traitor went into medical earlier so YOU'RE ALL TRYING TO KILL ME", and then they start bashing the MDs with a fire extinguisher. And then there's the ones who run into the recovery room, steal the soap and syringe gun, then run back out... you're allowed to throw acid on those, right? Hypothetically?

And/Or drug and forcibly gender-reassign them.

Just throwing out a bunch of random hostile mob implant ideas. Give them a random drop on each respective mob, so keep miners from coming back as super implanted horrors, but still leave the possibility.

Goliath Sinew: Lets user throw out a single goliath tentacle, medium cooldown
Goldgrub Guts: Allows user to eat ore and spit out refined metal. Can also eat regular walls.
Basilisk Eye: Gives user long cool down Ice Beam attack. Cuts through an hardsuit or cold protection.

Xeno claws (useless as it stands) Grant user +5 brute melee attack plus bleeding, can not use guns in that hand. Implanting both hands grants +15 brute damage, and counts as insulated gloves
Space Bear Arms: Gives use "Bear Arms" and adds brute damage to choking, and +5 brute damage on attacks. Replaces basic punch/kick emote with "practices their rights to bear arms!"
Carp: Carpotoxin gland. Noted early. LOW drop
Megacarp: Increased carpotoxin gland drop
Magicarp: Fireball gland
Chaos Carp: Chaos Bolt gland

Spider: Spinnerets. Allows silk production, and protects against being stuck in silk
Morphling: Bottomless stomach. You gain the morphling's ability to eat anything, and may vomit it ALL back up at once.
Faithless: Arm Blade. Gain a changeling arm blade. Forever.
Bees: Stingers: Replace punch with sting. Causes minor toxic damage with histamin, and gives the "You feel a slight prick" notification.
Hivebot: Gun arm: Replace your arm with a gun! Consumes nutriment to make bullets, and is about as effective as the detective's gun, but without the stamina damage.
"Crate": Mimic skin. Like chameleon projector, but only for crates and lockers
Syndicate Operative: Syndicate implant. Lets you use syndicate pinned equipment freely.
Syndicate Commando: Random Operative Implant, be is Adreneal, Thermal Optics, Reviver, etc. Pray you get an uplink implant
Space Wizard: No idea. Maybe magic crystals you can use to recharge wands? Or make wands if you get enough of them. Or Staves if you get A LOT of them. Like. ALOT.
Brainslug: Organ that grants chem storage, and one random changeling power.

Skeletons: Replacement limbs. Turns you into a skeleton, piece by piece.
Ice Skeleton: Into a COLD skeleton, piece by piece.
Undead Crusader: Good enough.
"Trees": Sap gland. You don't suffer bloodloss.
Zombies: Organ that makes you a sentient zombie.
Blood Demon: True Demon Heart. Gives you bloodwalk, increased brute damage and damage reduction. Requires organ transplant.
"Creature" Eldritch Organ: Random chest implant. Any kind
Blobbernaught Gland: Damage increase, and damage reduction based on damage type of blob.

These are just a bunch of hairbrained ideas, based off the ol' hivelord core implant. Give them all a percentage chance of dropping from each mob, and it makes becoming a big game hunter (Or xenobiology MADMAN) into an exciting, reward filled prospect. Makes teams more useful in away missions, as a little ghetto surgery can suddenly even all the odds.

>eat anything
>vomit it all back up

Vorestation's legendary nuke rounds come to mind.

Just a thought, based on what the morphling does. Figure the "Disguise as anything" power is a little too much.

Not taking into consideration balance, the idea of mutilated superhuman abominations with questionable human status sounds really fucking cool. Imagine being an RD and having your robo eating walls and tentacle-violating caressing the crew as your own personal monster. Also, what about a chance of the body rejecting the organs or something? Just an idea.