Ghost

Oh no! You're dead!

"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.

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.

The Spooky Ghost tab

When becoming a ghost, you have options of selecting the ghost tab. This handy tab allows you to spectate more freely among other things.

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	Clicking on this will open up a list of people to observe. Moving will eject you from the body that you are observing.
Re-Enter Corpse	Re-enters your corpse, if your feeling reclusive. Note that if someone uses strange reagent to revive you, re-entering your corpse will be a chance to live once more.
Teleport	Jumps to a listed location.
Toggle Health	Toggles health, not unlike the prodocs.
Toggle lighting	Completely removes shadows, allowing you to see all the action.
Toggle Widescreen	Ditto, but this time changes the dimensions of the game and side window, essentially giving you a wider screen.

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.

The game for you isn't necessarily over and out either. You can be cloned, borged or otherwise, giving you another chance. There is also a chance of becoming a late join antagonist, if you luck out. Or your corpse may be absorbed into the hivemind. Or your corpse may be picked apart by crows. It's the circle of life!

Otherwise, if you feel like you can contribute to the station itself, there's always the ghostdrone option, which is entirely at your discretion.

Occasionally, interesting conversations may occur on the Deadchat due to boredom. If you are a sad bastard, and wish to no longer play and instead talk, you can by using 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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