User:ThatsMamaLuigiToYouMario/Arcfiend

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 hello dear reader, WIP here. 

One day, you wake up in your crew quarters after having a dream about some power-crazed psycho. Your hands glow and static electricity spark out from them. You realize you're an Arcfiend, a being able to harness the station's electrical power to use for their own nefarious purposes.

Disguised as an ordinary crewmember, the Arcfiend uses the station's electricity, draining it from objects that use power and using it to their own gain, discharging it, travelling through it and many more abilities are quite literally are at your fingertips. However, without power you are like any ordinary station-goer, unable to channel your abilities for your deeds. Think of yourself as similar to the Vampire, but instead of blood you gorge on the station's power supply.

Powers

Of course, to use your abilities you're gonna need power, and lots of it. You gain this mainly through your Sap Power ability which allows you to take power out of a machine and add it to your own energy supply, which is the top left number at the top. The speed of the sap is determined by the type of machine and it's draw. APC's are the always fastest, followed by high power machines such as SMES Units. Some machines use so little power that you can't drain from them at all, such as chem dispensers, sleepers and the like. When activated and clicked on a machine of your choosing, a battery icon will appear over your head and many sparks will fly out of the machine that will make it obvious to others that you're draining the machine of its precious power supply. Draining from APC's is even more obvious, as the APC has a chance to break and turn off all electronics in an area. This APC will need to be repaired after a short bit.

You also have the option to drain power from entities. NPC monkeys don't give any power, but player controlled monkeys, cyborgs and any human race (NPC or not) has a big ol' battery right inside their chest. When Sap Power is used on an entity next to you, you will preform the same actions as you would normally with a powered object, only this time you will proceed to do 5 BURN and gaining 40 energy every few seconds or so as well as draining their stamina generously. This is best used when the target is already incapacitated by something else however, as your victim is still able to run away if given a moment to do so.

You have a maximum of 2500 watts of power, enough to use your abilities as much as you want. When you try to cast Sap Power again on a machine, the battery animation and the sparks will still fly out but the machine in question won't lose any power and your power at the top won't go up. As for entities, your power still won't go over 2500 but you will still continue to damage the entity in question

Icon	Name	Cooldown	Energy Cost	Description
	Discharge	15 seconds	25	You extend your hand out to a mob dealing around 30 BURN and disorienting them slightly for a few seconds, or extending your hand out to an airlock and instantly depowering it. Useful as an all-around tool, whether for one-on-one combat or making a quick escape and depowering a door to buy you a few precious seconds to run away. Mind you, activating this ability will activate a sound similar to a sound of high voltage shooting out, so this isn't recommended for a stealthy approach.
	Flash	10 seconds	25	Releases a burst of energy around you in a 5x5 radius, disorienting anyone caught in this area when activated. Excellent for area denial when a large group is chasing you to buy you a few seconds. Doesn't do any damage in of itself so it is best paired with something else such as...
	Arc Flash	15 seconds	50	Unleash a ranged bolt of electricity that does 24 BURN and has the ability to chain to other targets in a short area for a little bit more then half of the damage. Also disorients and drains a bit of stamina. Perfect when combined with Flash in order to damage a crowd. Can also be used as far away as you can as long as you have visual sight of the person meaning that it can be used through windows and walls in the right circumstances.
	Polarize	12 seconds	50	Unleash a wave of charged particles polarizing nearby mobs giving them magnetic auras similar to the Bio-Magnetic field random event. Either a Positive or Negative aura is chosen and then applied to all mobs in range unless if they have SMES Human or are Unionized. Casting this again before an aura ends will extend an auras duration but can not change its polarity, even if the polarity being applied to aura-less mobs was of the opposite polarity. Once again an ability for crowd control but in this case much more harmful in the right circumstances. Consider pairing when there's a lot of objects around you such as vending machines or glass tables.
	Ride The Lightning	N/A	75	Expend energy to travel through electrical cables. It takes a few seconds to enter the cable but once you're in you can travel through any cable as long as it's connected to the one you're in. Energy is slowly expended when residing within a cable and is quickly consumed when moving. Getting ahold of a Engineering Objects#T-Ray Scanner is recommended as it allows you to see wires you can travel into. Just make sure to turn it off once you're inside the cable.
	Jamming Field	2 Minutes	150	You're radiating out electromagnetic waves and jamming nearby broadcasts for 30 seconds, meaning that no radio signals can come in or out to nearby headsets. Excellent for stealth takedowns of one target, as using this will render them unable to call for help. Note that you will emit a yellow-like aura when casting this ability meaning that someone would be able to trace the frequency jam back to you.
	Jolt	2 minutes	500	Charge up and release a series of powerful jolts into your target, eventually stopping their heart. Any actions taken by or against you will end the ability early.

Power to the People: Hunting an Arcfiend

Arcfiends are disguised as regular players and as such you might have a hard time finding out who's who much like vampires and changelings.

Look for damaged APC's or areas which power is out, especially in isolated places such as in maintenance or off-station areas such as the space diner. Scan them for prints, as Arcfiends have no choice but to touch the object to sap power from.

Consider asking genetics for help, as SMES Human can make you practically immune to most of the powers of the Arcfiend.

Also consider unionizing! Taking this trait means an easy counter to the Polarize ability of the arcfiend as well as the random event equivalent and can simply be taken on the character setup screen under "Traits".