Ghost

Oh no, you're dead! Cheer up, there is an afterlife after all!

As a ghost, you can fly around the station at will, looking at the pitiful humans who still have life. You can't actually Do anything as a ghost, apart from rotate chairs to scare people. You can also speak to your fellow ghosts in a special channel called deadchat. If you're standing near a human when you say something, they'll get the message "you hear someone talking, but no one is there". Very, very occasionally, they'll actually hear what you said. The Chaplain is more likely to hear you. But don't fly around near people spamming deadchat, it's annoying and nobody likes it.

Help, I can't explore the station!

Sometimes the camera likes to focus on your corpse - or the place where it was gibbed - while letting you control your ghost, which means you can't actually see where you're going. Cancel Camera View (under the "Commands" tab) will snap you back to the ghost.

Or if you're trapped in something such as a locker or disposal chute and can't use the "ghost" verb simply closing off the client and opening it back up will give you the "ghost" verb again.

Help, Deadchat doesn't work!

This is tangential to being a ghost but: Ailments you had while alive aren't cleared when you die, and may affect Deadchat. Becoming a ghost will help, since you are now in a healthy "body". Game logic, deal with it.

Most notably, dying while deaf will make you not hear deadchat until the deafness expires or you become a ghost.

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