Zombie

Congratulations! By some fortune, you are now the walking dead! You can tell you are by looking at your green and rotten skin, and checking whether you feel a craving for brains. Zombies like you don't usually appear unless the gods will it, so go hog wild on the crew (who are probably armed with shotguns and flareguns and other devices of inflicting pain upon your undead flesh).

There are also non-player zombies to be found in the darkest corners of space. They are pretty dangerous unless you have a heavy blunt object or a phaser, in which case they explode spectacularly into a rain of gibs. NPC zombies can spread, by (under normal circumstances) first knocking down a crew member, and eating their brains. About three seconds later, the player of the unfortunate crew member will be kicked out of their old body, as it is now another NPC zombie, just taking the name of the owner of the corpse it now controls.

Like their NPC brethren, player zombies can knock down others and feast on non-undead brains, zombifying them and healing the zombie. Corpses can also be feasted on and brought back as zombies as long as they have a brain.

Tips on Eating Brains

• Try to stay in a pack with your fellow undead, as alone you basically just have the powers a normal human, expect you walk slower, hit harder, and can't speak without anything you say coming out as "Braiinnnnnssss". The more of you there are, the better.
  • If you have a group of other zombies nearby, try jumping on a segway and running down humans. Doing this will stun you for a little while, but it will also stun the human, making the perfect chance for your friends to strike.
• Even though your flesh is now green and rotten, that doesn't mean you can still wear normal clothing! Use disguises to get near humans, and start attacking them when they are off guard. Just make sure not to talk, or remove anything that would show your green skin, as they are a dead give-away of your true self, and that "true self" is a mindless brain-eating monster, so if you are discovered, start being the real you!
• Beware space! Unlike NPC zombies, you cannot survive in the cold void without a space suit and oxygen supply. Now you may be asking: "Why do people with dead cells and rotting lungs need air and heat?" Well don't ask me, it's just how it works. Deal with it.

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