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 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".

AI Laws	N/A	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.
Fight for your life		You are put in a hellish arena that contains a few weapons and a special butt named "The Divine Relic of Ass Day" (exact spelling of "Ass Day" can vary), which is depicted on the icon. If the butt remains in your possession for 30 seconds (you can still move, fight, etc. during this time), you'll be sent back to the main lobby, ready to rejoin the round. While the command appears all month, it only works every Ass Day, meaning other people in the arena are free to murder you to get dat fukken butt.
Observe		Clicking on this will open up a list of living people to observe. Moving will eject you from the body that you are observing.
Observe Objects	N/A	Opens a list of Robots to observe. If a nuke round is going on, this lets you observe the nuclear bomb.
Re-Enter Corpse		Re-enters your corpse, if you're feeling reclusive.
Teleport		Jumps to a listed location.
Toggle Health	N/A	Toggles icons that illustrate the relative health of people, not unlike the ProDocs.
Toggle lighting		Completely removes shadows, allowing you to see all the action.
Toggle Ability Buttons		Toggles whether you can see the ability icons.
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

Afterlife Bar		Spawns you in a special bar with a boxing ring, sleeping quarters, a tiny janitor closet, a small kitchen with infinite-stock FoodTech & BoozeVend, and dispensers with every drink in the game. 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 a free all-access ID, meta-neural antenna, and a halo!
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.

The Spooky Spooktober Buttons

For October 2019, 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:

Name	Icon	Cost	Cooldown	Description
Levitate Object		50	30 secs	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		100	60 secs	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		200	120 secs	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		300	180 secs	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		1000	60 secs	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.

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 you might be absorbed into a 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.

If busting up Critters or racing carts is more of your thing, you can also 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. (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.)

If you'd rather be a Critter rather than bust one up, there's also Respawn as Animal. This option will essentially set you to DNR, as you can't be cloned or made into a cyborg if you choose this, and you may have to wait a few minutes to manifest. Once you use it, you'll respawn a sick, spooky 1 part ghost to 3 parts animal hybrid with a myriad of restrictions and limitations, detailed here.

In addition, you can always visit the Afterlife Bar via the Afterlife Bar command for some drinks. Better to visit it now than later. With infinite booze and food from the dispensers, this heavenly bar becomes hell pretty quickly and is often littered with equal parts blood, vomit, and broken glass.

Once in a blue moon, some weird blacksmith may craft some soulsteel objects, and you can possess them simply by observing the object. Right-clicking on the object and choosing Observe works every time, as does click-dragging yourself onto it, and if you've been observing a-plenty during your ghostly ghost afterlife, you can usually just click on it. 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!

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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