Ghost

Oh no! You're dead! Anyway...

"I feel great!"

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 clicking on chairs rotate them, spooking people or clicking on an Ouija board, also spooking 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.

You can use the fart and flip commands, should you want to be spiteful on your murderer, or just goof off. Also drag clicking yourself to either a tile or player will teleport you there or observe respectively. Similarly, if you aren't already observing someone/something, you can right-click on someone's name in the chat, living or dead, to either observe them or teleport to where they are. You'll know you can do this because there'll be a dotted line under the name.

The Spooky Ghost Commands

When becoming a ghost, you gain a few special commands mostly for observing other players and generally entertaining yourself while you're dead. Some of them are used through icons on the main HUD, while others are in a tab of commands labeled "Ghost". The icons have been enlarged for clarity.

Icon	Name	Description
N/A	AI Laws	Curious to know why that AI killed you? Clicking this will allow you to view the AI's laws, provided you set yourself as DNR.
	Observe	Opens a big window showing people, animals, objects, and other entities you can observe. If there's a ghost and number left of their name, that means other ghosts are observing them, with the number indicating how many. A number right of the name often means there're multiple beings with the same name, e.g. a horde of spiders, a cloned person and their dead body. If there's a skull, they're dead; you can remove dead beings from the list using the Hide dead mobs button (looks like a skull, becomes a Show dead mobs button if pressed) in the top right. Top right also has a search bar if you want a particular job or name and a Observe a random player button if you, well, want to observe a random player. Moving will eject you from the body that you are observing. There are four categories of entities you can observe: Antagonists - Yep, antagonists, just like it says on the tin. The type of antag is shown with [], e.g. Horace Pinker [Arcfiend]. To observe antags, you first need to use the Set DNR verb in your Commands tab, above the chat. Players - Both ones who are living and ones who are dead but not fellow ghosts; you also won't see any Admin-controlled characters, unless they've set themselves to player mode. If you hover over their name, it shows you what job they are. NPCs - Critters, non-player monkeys, the NPCs in the Space/Sea Diner, and such, but also ghostdrone bodies in the Ghost Drone Factory not yet inhabited by a ghost, cyborgs with inactive SICCs, and humans and cyborgs who have logged off. You can only observe NPCs located on the station/ship Z-level, in the Debris Field, and in the Mining Level, i.e. you will not see ones in the Adventure Zone. Objects - Robots, the singularity, Gnome Chompski (and his variants), Ouija boards, the nuclear bomb (if a nuke round is going on), the football (during a football round), strangelet loafs (if prison loaf processor has managed to create one for some god-forsaken reason), and the Critter Gauntlet (if a game is going on in there).
N/A	Toggle TGUI auto-observing	Toggles whether or not you can see any TGUI (a interface framework used by most machines in the game) windows that the person you're observing has open. Wondering what that Scientist you're observing is cooking up at the chem dispenser? Toggle this on.
	Re-Enter Corpse	Re-enters your corpse, if you're feeling reclusive.
	Teleport	Jumps to a listed location.
	Toggle Seeing Health	Toggles icons that illustrate the relative health of people, not unlike the ProDocs.
N/A	Toggle Ghost Radio	Exactly what it says on the tin. Toggles whether you're hearing all radio channels. Can be useful if you find it all too overwhelming or want to watch over something happening without being distracted by radio chatter.
	Toggle Lighting	Changes up your lighting. Cycles between seeing all lighting as a normal crew member would see, having less darkness than usual, and completely removing shadows, allowing you to see all the action.
	Toggle Seeing Ghosts	Changes whether you can see fellow ghosts and your own ghost sprite. Cycles between seeing only yourself (i.e. other ghosts are not visible), seeing absolutely no ghosts including yourself (it makes your ghost sprite invisible, but other ghosts are still invisible too, since the previous setting is technically on), and seeing all ghosts. Note you'll still see flying chat from other ghosts.
	Toggle Ability Buttons	Toggles whether you can see the ability icons.
N/A	Toggle Arrest Status	Essentially, like wearing a pair of SecHUDs. Toggles on icons that you see if someone's wearing contraband, if they have a counter-revolutionary implant, if they're set to Arrest in the SecMate records, and lots of other things.
	Respawn Options	Not in the Ghost commands tab, only a button on the HUD. Click on it, and it'll show you a couple of options for things you can do as a ghost besides spinning chairs.

Respawn Options Menu

It is worth noting that all of these options (besides Ghost Drone, indirectly) do not prevent you from being cloned.

Icon	Name	Description
	Afterlife Bar	Spawns you into the Afterlife Bar, a place to hangout with other dead people that comes with many amenities.
	Ghost VR	Spawns you as a Virtual Spectre in the virtual reality world.
	Respawn as animal	Spawns you as a Ghost Critter, if this command is not on cooldown and you answer yes to the resulting prompt. Also available as a command in the Ghost commands tab.
	Ghost Drone	Teleports you to the ghost trap on the Ghost Drone Factory, which'll bring up a prompt asking if you want to be added to the queue of ghosts to be made into Ghostdrones, cute lil' robots with lots of construction and engineering tools. Be aware that becoming a Ghostdrone prevents you from being cloned, borged, or otherwise revived, though using this ability does not in of itself prevent revival, i.e. if you use this ability, and decide not to join the ghostdrone queue, you can still be bought back to life.

The Spooky Spooktober Buttons

When it's October, as a ghost you can also collect spookpoints, which allow you to have a little mischief and play pranks on the living. Spookpoints are indicated by a huge spooky purple bar in the top middle of your HUD and are shared by all ghosts. They slowly regenerate over time and can be gained via the following methods, ordered from least amount granted to most:

• Spinning a chair, whether by clicking on it or using the Rotate command. There is a fairly low cap on the amount of points gained from chair-spinning within a given time frame, so using an autoclicker is moot. (+12 each time the chair turns)
• Performing the *wave, *dance, *scream, *flip, *nod, and, of course, *fart emotes. (+15)
• Farting on (or really, over/above) someone's face, i.e. using the *fart emote while floating over a human, monkey, AI core, Cyborg, or other mob. (+75)
• Using a Ouija Board. (+150)

While the big spooky purple bar fills up at 100 000 spookpoints, spookpoints can go much further than that. The game itself doesn't actually do much at 100k spookpoints. However, reaching such a threshold is usually a good enough reason for any Admins on the server to start pushing the !!FUN!! buttons. Most times, you'll probably see a familiar siren followed by lions, zombies, and spiders in random places in the station, with perhaps one or two lucky ghosts becoming Wraiths. Other times...you learn the true meaning of horror.

Spookpoints can be spent on the following abilities:

Icon	Name	Cooldown	Cost	Description
	Levitate Object	30 secs	50	Makes an item briefly and spookily float into the air after about 15 seconds. Does not work on larger objects such as computers and walls and mobs such as humans, monkeys, and cyborgs.
	Make a Spooky Sound	60 secs	100	Plays a random spooky sound centered on where you ghost is. Possible include whistling wind, explosions, and whispers that some claim sounds like an Irishman saying "carpet".
	Decorate	120 secs	200	Places your choice of the following on the tile you selected, most of them with unique spawning animations: A single glob of ectoplasm. A cobweb. Does not affect movement speed or have any actual effect...physically, anyways. A "spooky candle" that spookily floats in the air and can be picked up. Unfortunately spawns unlit. A pumpkin, yet to be decorated. A skellington/skeleton. Not the kind that rise up and make more ghosts when they kill people, the kind that just lay on the floor spookily. A spider vomit puddle, same as the kind sometimes created when you have spiders in you. ...or a random selection of any of the above.
	Spooky Writing	180 secs	300	Writes a blood-red character of your choice on a selected tile, complete with a fancy spooky drawing animation. Characters are as same as if drawing with a crayon, but the smile and frown are a bit more sinister.
	Summon Bat	60 secs	1000	Spawns a friendly, smiling bat on your tile of choice. This bat doesn't attack people unless it's attacked first and blocks running and walking, but not crawling while in Rest mode. Obviously, you shouldn't use this to block off places.
	Manifest	420 secs (7 minutes)	1500	Makes you visible for a minute while giving you some temporary new abilities. While you're manifest, you move slower, you can now click-drag on items to move them around, like a Wraith can, and flipping, farting, and dancing all gain special animations.

This ether is salty, what are my options?

Suck it up.

The afterlife is naturally full of pissed off individuals who air their grievance at any other unfortunate ghosts who are stuck listening to them, while other ghosts may be congregating around certain robust individuals.

How can I revived?

The game for you isn't necessarily over and out. No replica pod cloning or defib-revival like on other servers, but there are a myriad of ways you might be bought back into the round:

• Someone might clone you, if you were already clone-scanned or your corpse is able to be scanned, bringing you back as a human (or humanoid as it may be).
• On the RP servers (that is, Goonstation 3: Morty and Goonstation 4: Sylvester), once 10 minutes has passed since your death (20 if you died using the suicide command), you can respawn by using, not Respawn, but Respawn As New Character. You'll be notified with a "You are now eligible for a respawn!" message once the time has come, and there will be a bit of text towards the top indicating time left. As the message will also remind you, you should enter the round as a different character and not act on info you gained in your previous life, lest you breach Metagaming rules.
• The Roboticists might take your brain out and insert it into a Cyborg or AI unit.
• If your body is relatively intact, someone could reanimate you with strange reagent.
• Certain Random Events can bring you back as a unique role. There is a Pest Invasion event that makes people into funny (and very weak) animals, and the Intruder Alert and Hostile Critter events can make you into an antagonist.
• A Vampire could reanimate your corpse as a thrall, if they deem the blood cost worthwhile.
• A Changeling could absorb your corpse, bringing you into their hivemind.
• Wraiths can spend points to turn a random willing ghost into a loyal poltergeist minion.
• During the Christmas season, it is also possible to become Krampus or Santa Claus once Cheer is at certain levels.

...Or your corpse may be picked apart by crows. It's the circle of life!

How do I pass the time?

In the meantime, you have a lot of options for passing the time while waiting to be revived. Some of these turn you into a different role, but they won't prevent you from being cloned.

• Try VR! - Just float over to the Arcade and click on one of those VR pods to enter VR-space, where you can bash critters' heads' in at the Gauntlet and bash your friends' heads in the Thunderdome/ZBall Court, among many other activities. (Don't think you use it to be a sneaky bastard and use VR to yell where your corpse is though. You'll show up as 'Virtual Spectre ####', all your chat will still go to Deadchat, and custom emotes are blocked.)
• Become a critter! - Use the Respawn as Animal ability from the Respawn Menu Options; you may have to wait a few minutes to manifest. Upon success, you'll respawn a sick, spooky 1 part ghost to 3 parts animal hybrid with a myriad of restrictions and limitations, detailed here.
• Visit the Afterlife Bar! - It's as simple as using the Afterlife Bar command from Respawn Menu in top right. It has two sections. One is a lounge with a gambling area and an aquarium great for chillaxing. The other has a boxing ring and a small kitchen with infinite-stock FoodTech & Cap'n Bubs' Booze-O-Mat and dispensers with every drink in the game. Fighting is allowed in the latter area, so better to visit it now than later before the heavenly bar becomes a hell littered with equal parts blood, vomit, and broken glass. In addition, by the door to heaven is a passageway to a small hydroponics garden, where you can insert crops into a booth for points that stay between rounds. Grants free meta-neural antenna and halo!
• Chat with other ghosts! - Who knows, maybe you'll find some interesting people to talk to.
• Observe someone! - Use the Observe button in the top left and you'll get a list of living people you can watch. Perhaps you could observe Security Officers in (in)action or witness the Chef preparing their greatest dish yet. Maybe you might learn something!
• Spin chairs! - A favorite of ghosts since practically time immemorial. Simply click on a chair to spin it around. To the living, it looks like the chair's rotating on its own, spooky. Because of the existence of "chairspinning", you might run into people trying to use chairs to communicate with the dead, with setups and systems of varying complexity.
• Influence a Ouija board! - You might have seen a Ouija board spell out something when you were alive, and now that you're dead, you get to be on the other side. Simply click on the board, and, this is important, rather than letters, you get a list of random words. Theoretically, you could try to lead them to your killer...but it's also much more fun to convince a hapless onlooker there's an entire squad of nuke ops hiding in who-knows-where (and, besides wise players know to take the board with a grain of salt due to the latter). This is on a brief cooldown, and depending on your luck, you may also spook the Chaplain, who sometimes senses ghosts using the board as "disturbances".

There are also some other ways to have fun while dead, but these will prevent all methods of revival.

• Become a ghostdrone! - If you feel like you contributing to the station itself, there's always the ghostdrone option. Find the Ghost Drone Factory, fly over the ghost trap, say yes when it asks you if you want to become a ghostdrone, and wait your turn in the queue. Once it's time, you'll pop out as a fresh new ghostdrone. Note there is a time played requirement to become a drone.
• Enter a soulsteel/hauntium object! - Once in a blue moon, some weird blacksmith may craft some doohicky from soulsteel or hauntium. You can take control of these objects by 1) right-clicking on the object and choosing Observe 2) click-dragging yourself onto it 3) floating over it or 4) just clicking on it if you're already observing. As a soulsteel object, you can't attack anything or speak or emotes (all would invite Metagaming), but you can flutter about spookily and, depending on the object, do spooky things by clicking on yourself. Like opening and closing on your own accord as a soulsteel locker. Or literally playing yourself as soulsteel fiddle!

If you are a sad bastard, and wish to no longer be revived, you can use the DNR (Do Not Resuscitate) setting on the Commands tab, taking you out of the game permanently. It also allows you to view the AI's laws, as stated in the Ghost tab above.

WooOOoo, 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.

WooOOoo, 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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