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GreytideSkye: /* How to do a RSD transfer */

2025-11-06T01:33:17Z

How to do a RSD transfer

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	# '''Research'''. You need two often neglected research topics: '''Neural Programming''' and '''Genetic Engineering.''' The former gives us the actual tools of the trade, the '''RSD Evoker''' and '''RSD Phylactery'''. And the latter gives us the SAD.		# '''Research'''. You need two often neglected research topics: '''Neural Programming''' and '''Genetic Engineering.''' The former gives us the actual tools of the trade, the '''RSD Evoker''' and '''RSD Phylactery'''. And the latter gives us the SAD.
	# '''Make a corpse'''. you need to prepare the target body. Ideally, this is a humonkey, made from a cube. It is VERY IMPORTANT!! that you do not use genetics machines or unstable mutagen to turn the monkey into a humonkey, the SAD will reject changing a person back to their original body if their genetics is AT ALL tampered. You MUST use Mutadone!!. Best practice is to cuff or cable tie the monkey so that they don't run off or attack someone, and surgery table them with a defibrillator nearby.		# '''Make a corpse'''. you need to prepare the target body. Ideally, this is a humonkey, made from a cube. It is VERY IMPORTANT!! that you do not use genetics machines {{TooltipInline\|<s>or unstable mutagen</s>\|This isn't even possible anymore, I don't think.}} to turn the monkey into a humonkey, the SAD will reject changing a person back to their original body if their genetics is AT ALL tampered. You MUST use Mutadone!!. Best practice is to cuff or cable tie the monkey so that they don't run off or attack someone, and surgery table them with a defibrillator nearby.<br>EDIT, Temporary: Use genetics machines to turn a living monkey into a living humonkey, then kill them. I can't promise it'll work any other way, but I can't promise it won't.
	# '''Get the tools'''. Print the RSD evoker and RSD phylactery from a science or medical lathe. Gods willing, you have the techs and materials to do this.		# '''Get the tools'''. Print the RSD evoker and RSD phylactery from a science or medical lathe. Gods willing, you have the techs and materials to do this.
	# '''Get a brain.''' Ideally, you pull the brain out of the corpse you made, but any brain you can hold in your hand will do. (Maybe not the printed Positronic ones?)		# '''Get a brain.''' Ideally, you pull the brain out of the corpse you made, but any brain you can hold in your hand will do. (Maybe not the printed Positronic ones?)
	# '''Put the Phylactery into the new brain'''. Remove the humonkey's brain via [[Surgery#Brain\|Organ Manipulation surgery on their head]], but do not finish the surgery. Click the RSD phylactery onto the humonkey's removed brain. You are not to dispose of the brain, you NEED it. Return the brain to the humonkey and cautery the head to finish the surgery.		# '''Put the Phylactery into the new brain'''. Remove the humonkey's brain via [[Surgery#Brain\|Organ Manipulation surgery on their head]], but {{TooltipInline\|do not finish the surgery\|I mean, you can seal them up but you'll just be doing an Organ Manipulation surgery again to put it back in. Easier to just leave them open.}}. Click the RSD phylactery onto the humonkey's removed brain. You are not to dispose of the brain, you NEED it. Return the brain to the humonkey and cautery the head to finish the surgery.
	# '''Revive the humonkey'''.		# '''Revive the humonkey'''.
	# Fifth, Leftclick the RSD Evoker on the person who was turned into a simplemob or plasmeme. Wait for them to accept going into your evoker. You could have done this at any point prior, and had them watch from inside as you worked.		# Fifth, Leftclick the RSD Evoker on the person who was turned into a simplemob or plasmeme. Wait for them to accept going into your evoker. You could have done this at any point prior, and had them watch from inside as you worked.
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	File:Soulcatcher Evoker Transferred.png\|Jim Tern has been successfully transplanted. Do note that he is the monkey now, and cannot exit the monkey and return to his old body. If he Ghosts out, he will have no body. Additionally, his old body will need to be killed and Phylactery'd in order to insert his soul in; it will not treat him magically better just because he used to occupy the body. This may be an oversight or bug, but is equally a stopgate to prevent shenanigans with quick body changes.		File:Soulcatcher Evoker Transferred.png\|Jim Tern has been successfully transplanted. Do note that he is the monkey now, and cannot exit the monkey and return to his old body. If he Ghosts out, he will have no body. Additionally, his old body will need to be killed and Phylactery'd in order to insert his soul in; it will not treat him magically better just because he used to occupy the body. This may be an oversight or bug, but is equally a stopgate to prevent shenanigans with quick body changes.
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	= There's other soul-catcher things! =		= There's other soul-catcher things! =

GreytideSkye: needs more red text

2025-07-18T22:21:33Z

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	= How to do a RSD transfer =		= How to do a RSD transfer =
	For when the captain is now a simplemob and you are internally giggling your ass off.		For when the captain is now a simplemob and you are internally giggling your ass off.

			<font size=+1 color=red>This will not work without a soul who specifically was body scanned from a body using an Evoker.</font>

	aka: '''A faster way to get someone a new body when they become a plasmeme'''		aka: '''A faster way to get someone a new body when they become a plasmeme'''

	aka: "I have a corpse that I scanned, and have their mind in my soulcatcher, and I want to put them in a different brain in a different body for some reason".		aka: "I have a corpse that I scanned, and have their mind in my soulcatcher, and I want to put them in a different brain in a different body for some reason".

			Ingredients:
			* 1 severed brain.
			* 2 dead bodies:
			* * 1 of the person you want to insert, to scan and get their soul.
			* * 1 to put the brain into and revive.
			* 1 RSD Evoker.
			* 1 RSD Phylactery.

	# '''Research'''. You need two often neglected research topics: '''Neural Programming''' and '''Genetic Engineering.''' The former gives us the actual tools of the trade, the '''RSD Evoker''' and '''RSD Phylactery'''. And the latter gives us the SAD.		# '''Research'''. You need two often neglected research topics: '''Neural Programming''' and '''Genetic Engineering.''' The former gives us the actual tools of the trade, the '''RSD Evoker''' and '''RSD Phylactery'''. And the latter gives us the SAD.
	# '''Make a corpse'''. you need to prepare the target body. Ideally, this is a humonkey, made from a cube. It is VERY IMPORTANT!! that you do not use genetics machines or unstable mutagen to turn the monkey into a humonkey, the SAD will reject changing a person back to their original body if their genetics is AT ALL tampered. You MUST use Mutadone!!. Best practice is to cuff or cable tie the monkey so that they don't run off or attack someone, and surgery table them with a defibrillator nearby.		# '''Make a corpse'''. you need to prepare the target body. Ideally, this is a humonkey, made from a cube. It is VERY IMPORTANT!! that you do not use genetics machines or unstable mutagen to turn the monkey into a humonkey, the SAD will reject changing a person back to their original body if their genetics is AT ALL tampered. You MUST use Mutadone!!. Best practice is to cuff or cable tie the monkey so that they don't run off or attack someone, and surgery table them with a defibrillator nearby.
	# '''Get the tools'''. Print the RSD evoker and RSD phylactery from a science or medical lathe. Gods willing, you have the techs and materials to do this.		# '''Get the tools'''. Print the RSD evoker and RSD phylactery from a science or medical lathe. Gods willing, you have the techs and materials to do this.
			# '''Get a brain.''' Ideally, you pull the brain out of the corpse you made, but any brain you can hold in your hand will do. (Maybe not the printed Positronic ones?)
	# '''Put the Phylactery into the new brain'''. Remove the humonkey's brain via [[Surgery#Brain\|Organ Manipulation surgery on their head]], but do not finish the surgery. Click the RSD phylactery onto the humonkey's removed brain. You are not to dispose of the brain, you NEED it. Return the brain to the humonkey and cautery the head to finish the surgery.		# '''Put the Phylactery into the new brain'''. Remove the humonkey's brain via [[Surgery#Brain\|Organ Manipulation surgery on their head]], but do not finish the surgery. Click the RSD phylactery onto the humonkey's removed brain. You are not to dispose of the brain, you NEED it. Return the brain to the humonkey and cautery the head to finish the surgery.
	# '''Revive the humonkey'''.		# '''Revive the humonkey'''.
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	File:Soulcatcher Evoker Transferred.png\|Jim Tern has been successfully transplanted. Do note that he is the monkey now, and cannot exit the monkey and return to his old body. If he Ghosts out, he will have no body. Additionally, his old body will need to be killed and Phylactery'd in order to insert his soul in; it will not treat him magically better just because he used to occupy the body. This may be an oversight or bug, but is equally a stopgate to prevent shenanigans with quick body changes.		File:Soulcatcher Evoker Transferred.png\|Jim Tern has been successfully transplanted. Do note that he is the monkey now, and cannot exit the monkey and return to his old body. If he Ghosts out, he will have no body. Additionally, his old body will need to be killed and Phylactery'd in order to insert his soul in; it will not treat him magically better just because he used to occupy the body. This may be an oversight or bug, but is equally a stopgate to prevent shenanigans with quick body changes.
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	= There's other soul-catcher things! =		= There's other soul-catcher things! =

GreytideSkye: more mages

2025-07-11T09:12:07Z

more mages

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	File:Soulcatcher HostUI Occupied.png\|The host view when you have a soul in your soulcatcher, and have expanded out all the views. Note that you can toggle each of those permissions individually, per soul, and you can Remove a soul, or use the paper airplane button to send that soul to a different room. This could be a room in a different Soulcatcher, e.g. one in your NIF or one in your other hand.		File:Soulcatcher HostUI Occupied.png\|The host view when you have a soul in your soulcatcher, and have expanded out all the views. Note that you can toggle each of those permissions individually, per soul, and you can Remove a soul, or use the paper airplane button to send that soul to a different room. This could be a room in a different Soulcatcher, e.g. one in your NIF or one in your other hand.
	File:Soulcatcher GuestUI.png\|How the visiting soul sees the Soulcatcher UI.		File:Soulcatcher GuestUI.png\|How the visiting soul sees the Soulcatcher UI.
			File:Soulcatcher Chatlog.png\|This is how a soul in the room will look in the chat log, when they Say and when they Me.
	File:Soulcatcher Guest Namechange.png\|If the change names permission is enabled, the guest can change their name, or use the red button to reset their name to what it was when they were inserted into the Soulcatcher.		File:Soulcatcher Guest Namechange.png\|If the change names permission is enabled, the guest can change their name, or use the red button to reset their name to what it was when they were inserted into the Soulcatcher.
	File:Screenshot 2025-07-11 023552.png\|The guest can always use this UI button in the upper left to leave, or this other UI button to open the Soulcatcher UI.		File:Screenshot 2025-07-11 023552.png\|The guest can always use this UI button in the upper left to leave, or this other UI button to open the Soulcatcher UI.
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	File:Soulcatcher Phylactery Brain.png\|What a successfully RSD Phylactery'd brain looks like. From here, you insert it into a body.		File:Soulcatcher Phylactery Brain.png\|What a successfully RSD Phylactery'd brain looks like. From here, you insert it into a body.
	File:Soulcatcher Phylactery Insert.png\|Using the Evoker, right-click a dead body with a Phylactery'd brain already inserted to get this popup, asking you which soul in the Evoker you wish to put into the body.		File:Soulcatcher Phylactery Insert.png\|Using the Evoker, right-click a dead body with a Phylactery'd brain already inserted to get this popup, asking you which soul in the Evoker you wish to put into the body.
			File:Soulcatcher Evoker Transferred.png\|Jim Tern has been successfully transplanted. Do note that he is the monkey now, and cannot exit the monkey and return to his old body. If he Ghosts out, he will have no body. Additionally, his old body will need to be killed and Phylactery'd in order to insert his soul in; it will not treat him magically better just because he used to occupy the body. This may be an oversight or bug, but is equally a stopgate to prevent shenanigans with quick body changes.
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GreytideSkye: IMAGES AHOY

2025-07-11T09:07:12Z

IMAGES AHOY

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	= How do I participate? =		= How do I participate? =
	== I am an Observer /g Ghost who will not convey IC information I had in life ==		== I am an Observer /g Ghost who will not convey IC information I had in life ==
	[[File:~~Soulcatcher_Join.png]]~~		[[File:Soulcatcher Join.png\|none\|thumb]]
	~~[[File:Soulcatcher_Join_List~~.png]]
	Click that to pull up a list of active Soulcatchers available to join. Select one. If you are not put in immediately, the owner has set the Soulcatcher to needing approval mode, so they've been given a pop-up with your current character slot's character name, asking to join. They can approve or disapprove.		Click that to pull up a list of active Soulcatchers available to join. Select one. If you are not put in immediately, the owner has set the Soulcatcher to needing approval mode, so they've been given a pop-up with your current character slot's character name, asking to join. They can approve or disapprove.

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	Regardless, if John Deadguy then says '''anything''' they would have known at '''any point they were Alive''', that's an obvious Blackout Policy breach.		Regardless, if John Deadguy then says '''anything''' they would have known at '''any point they were Alive''', that's an obvious Blackout Policy breach.
	Typically, the player joining could immediately change their soul name to appear differently in the soulcatcher, which they can do at any time they're ''already in'' the soulcatcher.		Typically, the player joining could immediately change their soul name to appear differently in the soulcatcher, which they can do at any time they're ''already in'' the soulcatcher.<gallery>
			File:Soulcatcher Join.png\|The UI button for a Ghost to passively join a Soulcatcher.
			File:Soulcatcher Join List.png\|Pushing that button will pull up a list of available soulcatchers to join. Note that this doesn't indicate which are free to join, and which need approval to join. You'll just have to try them!
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	== I want them in my head ==		== I want them in my head ==
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	* Ability to change name: Enabled		* Ability to change name: Enabled
	* Body Scan Needed: False		* Body Scan Needed: False
			<gallery>
	[[File:~~Soulcatcher_HostUI_Basic~~.png]]		File:Soulcatcher HostUI Basic.png\|The default Host UI for a soulcatcher. Note the buttons, including Approval is required to join. If that is green, you will receive a pop-up with a character name each time a ghost tries to join. If it is red, it will read "Approval is not required to join" and they will be able to join freely.
	[[File:~~Soulcatcher_HostUI_Occupied~~.png]]		File:Soulcatcher HostUI Occupied.png\|The host view when you have a soul in your soulcatcher, and have expanded out all the views. Note that you can toggle each of those permissions individually, per soul, and you can Remove a soul, or use the paper airplane button to send that soul to a different room. This could be a room in a different Soulcatcher, e.g. one in your NIF or one in your other hand.
	[[File:~~Soulcatcher_GuestUI~~.png]]		File:Soulcatcher GuestUI.png\|How the visiting soul sees the Soulcatcher UI.
			File:Soulcatcher Guest Namechange.png\|If the change names permission is enabled, the guest can change their name, or use the red button to reset their name to what it was when they were inserted into the Soulcatcher.
			File:Screenshot 2025-07-11 023552.png\|The guest can always use this UI button in the upper left to leave, or this other UI button to open the Soulcatcher UI.
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	== They are a corpse and I want to talk to them ICly ==		== They are a corpse and I want to talk to them ICly ==
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	If they are a living person, their body will appear SSD, with the zZz icon and everything. Their consciousness will be in your evoker. There will not be a notification that they're dying if their body starts dying, so it's up to them to periodically check on their own body. If their body dies while they're in your evoker... well, their stream of consciousness hasn't been broken so they can remember everything they perceived. If you eject them from your soulcatcher (or they eject themselves) then... that... uh... yeah the moment you eject them is "their moment of death." They wouldn't remember what killed them or what led to their death, so I guess they wouldn't remember the soulcatcher conversation.		If they are a living person, their body will appear SSD, with the zZz icon and everything. Their consciousness will be in your evoker. There will not be a notification that they're dying if their body starts dying, so it's up to them to periodically check on their own body. If their body dies while they're in your evoker... well, their stream of consciousness hasn't been broken so they can remember everything they perceived. If you eject them from your soulcatcher (or they eject themselves) then... that... uh... yeah the moment you eject them is "their moment of death." They wouldn't remember what killed them or what led to their death, so I guess they wouldn't remember the soulcatcher conversation.

	They can leave '''at any time''' by using the action button in the upper left that looks like a leave icon. This will put them back in their body if they are still alive or just have them do normal ghost observer stuff if they're not.		They can leave '''at any time''' by using the action button in the upper left that looks like a leave icon. This will put them back in their body if they are still alive or just have them do normal ghost observer stuff if they're not.<gallery>
			File:Soulcatcher Evoker Collection.png\|Left-clicking on someone (even yourself!) dead or alive with an Evoker allows you to pick a room in the Evoker to send them to. It will only ''request'' that they join!
			File:Soulcatcher Evoker Collection Guest.png\|This is the request that the person whose body (dead or alive) is being left clicked with an Evoker will see. They will have a second confirmation after this one.
			File:Soulcatcher Evoker Collected.png\|This is the living body of someone who has consented to having their soul temporarily put into an Evoker. They appear Catatonic when examined.
			File:Screenshot 2025-07-11 023552.png\|As always, they can Leave the soulcatcher, at which point they will be reinserted into the body they left (if it is still valid!) instantly. If that body happens to be alive when they return to it, Blackout Policy says that they get to remember the conversations they had in the soulcatcher.
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	= How to do a RSD transfer =		= How to do a RSD transfer =
	~~[[File:Soulcatcher_Transfer.png]]~~
	For when the captain is now a simplemob and you are internally giggling your ass off.		For when the captain is now a simplemob and you are internally giggling your ass off.

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	# Seventh, SAD the body.		# Seventh, SAD the body.

	Ideally? All of this can be done in seconds or prepared beforehand and is faster than waiting on xenobiology or regular humonkey transfers. It can work on people who by all rights are soft-round removed.		Ideally? All of this can be done in seconds or prepared beforehand and is faster than waiting on xenobiology or regular humonkey transfers. It can work on people who by all rights are soft-round removed.<gallery>
			File:Soulcatcher Phylactery Brain.png\|What a successfully RSD Phylactery'd brain looks like. From here, you insert it into a body.
			File:Soulcatcher Phylactery Insert.png\|Using the Evoker, right-click a dead body with a Phylactery'd brain already inserted to get this popup, asking you which soul in the Evoker you wish to put into the body.
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	= There's other soul-catcher things! =		= There's other soul-catcher things! =

GreytideSkye: /* I want them in my head */

2025-07-11T08:43:40Z

I want them in my head

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	[[File:Soulcatcher_HostUI_Basic.png]]		[[File:Soulcatcher_HostUI_Basic.png]]
	[[File:Soulcatcher_HostUI_Occupied.png]]		[[File:Soulcatcher_HostUI_Occupied.png]]
			[[File:Soulcatcher_GuestUI.png]]

	== They are a corpse and I want to talk to them ICly ==		== They are a corpse and I want to talk to them ICly ==

GreytideSkye: setting up debates or what have you, still WIP

2025-07-11T08:32:45Z

setting up debates or what have you, still WIP

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	= How do I participate? =		= How do I participate? =
	== I am an Observer or Ghost who will not convey IC information I had in life ==		== I am an Observer /g Ghost who will not convey IC information I had in life ==
	~~photograph of the button in the upper left~~		[[File:Soulcatcher_Join.png]]
			[[File:Soulcatcher_Join_List.png]]
	Click that to pull up a list of active Soulcatchers available to join. Select one. If you are not put in immediately, the owner has set the Soulcatcher to needing approval mode, so they've been given a pop-up with your current character slot's character name, asking to join. They can approve or disapprove.		Click that to pull up a list of active Soulcatchers available to join. Select one. If you are not put in immediately, the owner has set the Soulcatcher to needing approval mode, so they've been given a pop-up with your current character slot's character name, asking to join. They can approve or disapprove.

			{{Notice\|Current policy debate: Do you need to change character slots before joining a NIF, if you are joining as a Ghost who will not Convey IC information.<br>
			Reasoning: The pop-up "John Deadguy wishes to join your soulcatcher" discloses to the soulcatcher host that John Deadguy is dead. Can we trust the playerbase to treat that as OOC knowledge and "ignore" it, or is that ''intrinsically'' a '''significant''' breach of [[Blackout_Policy]]?
			}}
			Regardless, if John Deadguy then says '''anything''' they would have known at '''any point they were Alive''', that's an obvious Blackout Policy breach.
			Typically, the player joining could immediately change their soul name to appear differently in the soulcatcher, which they can do at any time they're ''already in'' the soulcatcher.

	== I want them in my head ==		== I want them in my head ==
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	* Ability to change name: Enabled		* Ability to change name: Enabled
	* Body Scan Needed: False		* Body Scan Needed: False

			[[File:Soulcatcher_HostUI_Basic.png]]
			[[File:Soulcatcher_HostUI_Occupied.png]]

	== They are a corpse and I want to talk to them ICly ==		== They are a corpse and I want to talk to them ICly ==
			[[File:Soulcatcher_Evoker.png]]
	Print or buy an Evoker. Looks like a gun. <Screenshot of one>. Right click a corpse OR a living person. They will be prompted to join your soulcatcher.		Print or buy an Evoker. Looks like a gun. <Screenshot of one>. Right click a corpse OR a living person. They will be prompted to join your soulcatcher.

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	= How to do a RSD transfer =		= How to do a RSD transfer =
	For when the captain is now a simplemob and you are internally giggling your ass off		[[File:Soulcatcher_Transfer.png]]
			For when the captain is now a simplemob and you are internally giggling your ass off.

	aka: '''A faster way to get someone a new body when they become a plasmeme'''		aka: '''A faster way to get someone a new body when they become a plasmeme'''

			aka: "I have a corpse that I scanned, and have their mind in my soulcatcher, and I want to put them in a different brain in a different body for some reason".

	# '''Research'''. You need two often neglected research topics: '''Neural Programming''' and '''Genetic Engineering.''' The former gives us the actual tools of the trade, the '''RSD Evoker''' and '''RSD Phylactery'''. And the latter gives us the SAD.		# '''Research'''. You need two often neglected research topics: '''Neural Programming''' and '''Genetic Engineering.''' The former gives us the actual tools of the trade, the '''RSD Evoker''' and '''RSD Phylactery'''. And the latter gives us the SAD.
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	# '''Put the Phylactery into the new brain'''. Remove the humonkey's brain via [[Surgery#Brain\|Organ Manipulation surgery on their head]], but do not finish the surgery. Click the RSD phylactery onto the humonkey's removed brain. You are not to dispose of the brain, you NEED it. Return the brain to the humonkey and cautery the head to finish the surgery.		# '''Put the Phylactery into the new brain'''. Remove the humonkey's brain via [[Surgery#Brain\|Organ Manipulation surgery on their head]], but do not finish the surgery. Click the RSD phylactery onto the humonkey's removed brain. You are not to dispose of the brain, you NEED it. Return the brain to the humonkey and cautery the head to finish the surgery.
	# '''Revive the humonkey'''.		# '''Revive the humonkey'''.
	# Fifth, Leftclick the RSD Evoker on the person who was turned into a simplemob or plasmeme. Wait for them to accept going into your evoker.		# Fifth, Leftclick the RSD Evoker on the person who was turned into a simplemob or plasmeme. Wait for them to accept going into your evoker. You could have done this at any point prior, and had them watch from inside as you worked.
	# Sixth, Rightclick the RSD Evoker on the humonkey.		# Sixth, Rightclick the RSD Evoker on the humonkey.
	# Seventh, SAD the body.		# Seventh, SAD the body.
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	There's:		There's:

	* ~~Phylactery~~! It's an item you use in-hand to access the control panel. It can hold 1 ghost, and you can use it on an Item in the world to attach it. The ghost then emotes and speaks as that item, which lets lots of people hear them at once.		* Poltergeist! It's an item you use in-hand to access the control panel. It can hold 1 ghost, and you can use it on an Item in the world to attach it. The ghost then emotes and speaks as that item, which lets lots of people hear them at once.

	* ~~The one that's not~~ Phylactery! It's an item you use on a brain that enables you to use an evoker to put a scanned-ghost into that brain instead of their normal brain. Somehow.		* Phylactery! It's an item you use on a brain that enables you to use an evoker to put a '''scanned-ghost''' into that brain instead of their normal brain. Somehow.

	* NIF: lets you have a joinable room in your head. You can't transfer ghosts from an Evoker into the NIF room, or vice versa. Just... ask them to leave and join the other one.		* NIF: lets you have a joinable room in your head. You can't transfer ghosts from an Evoker into the NIF room, or vice versa. Just... ask them to leave and join the other one.

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= Soulcatcher =

A Soulcatcher is a class of devices that hold chat rooms that literal ghosts can enter. todo: rephrase: Canonically speaking, they're not ghosts they're Resonance Engrams which are what the Algorithm thinks this spectral thing would say if it was this person. It's not a literal ghost but yes it's a literal ghost.

= How do I participate? =
== I am an Observer or Ghost who will not convey IC information I had in life ==
photograph of the button in the upper left
Click that to pull up a list of active Soulcatchers available to join. Select one. If you are not put in immediately, the owner has set the Soulcatcher to needing approval mode, so they've been given a pop-up with your current character slot's character name, asking to join. They can approve or disapprove.

== I want them in my head ==
Buy a [[NIF]]. Buy the Soulcatcher NIFsoft. Consider setting it to "save this NIFsoft for future shifts" too. Activate it to pull up the Soulcatcher control menu. Control it there.
That is all you have to do. Observers can now join in.

You can set permissions such as:
* Ability to see outside: Enabled
* Ability to hear outside: Enabled
* Ability to see inside: Enabled
* Ability to hear inside: Enabled
* Ability to speak: Enabled
* Ability to emote: Enabled
* Ability to change name: Enabled
* Body Scan Needed: False

== They are a corpse and I want to talk to them ICly ==
Print or buy an Evoker. Looks like a gun. <Screenshot of one>. Right click a corpse OR a living person. They will be prompted to join your soulcatcher.

This is the '''only''' way for them to ICly speak as the person they used to be. As far as Blackout policy goes, nothing changes. They don't remember what killed them, they don't acknowledge anything they OOCly perceived while being a floaty ghost observer. It as if you had revived them on the spot... except their physical body's still kind of dead at the moment. When you do revive them, as long as they're basically revived instantly, '''they may remember what they have perceived from inside your soulcatcher, including your conversation.''' Blackout policywise, it is no different than reviving someone, then dragging them into another room. Like, if you eject someone from your soulcatcher then take another 20 minutes to revive them, they clearly remember nothing from when they were OOCly a floating ghost, but they might still remember the conversation and stuff from inside the Soulcatcher. TODO: yeah this section is a mess.

If they are a living person, their body will appear SSD, with the zZz icon and everything. Their consciousness will be in your evoker. There will not be a notification that they're dying if their body starts dying, so it's up to them to periodically check on their own body. If their body dies while they're in your evoker... well, their stream of consciousness hasn't been broken so they can remember everything they perceived. If you eject them from your soulcatcher (or they eject themselves) then... that... uh... yeah the moment you eject them is "their moment of death." They wouldn't remember what killed them or what led to their death, so I guess they wouldn't remember the soulcatcher conversation.

They can leave '''at any time''' by using the action button in the upper left that looks like a leave icon. This will put them back in their body if they are still alive or just have them do normal ghost observer stuff if they're not.

= How to do a RSD transfer =
For when the captain is now a simplemob and you are internally giggling your ass off

aka: '''A faster way to get someone a new body when they become a plasmeme'''

# '''Research'''. You need two often neglected research topics: '''Neural Programming''' and '''Genetic Engineering.''' The former gives us the actual tools of the trade, the '''RSD Evoker''' and '''RSD Phylactery'''. And the latter gives us the SAD.
# '''Make a corpse'''. you need to prepare the target body. Ideally, this is a humonkey, made from a cube. It is VERY IMPORTANT!! that you do not use genetics machines or unstable mutagen to turn the monkey into a humonkey, the SAD will reject changing a person back to their original body if their genetics is AT ALL tampered. You MUST use Mutadone!!. Best practice is to cuff or cable tie the monkey so that they don't run off or attack someone, and surgery table them with a defibrillator nearby.
# '''Get the tools'''. Print the RSD evoker and RSD phylactery from a science or medical lathe. Gods willing, you have the techs and materials to do this.
# '''Put the Phylactery into the new brain'''. Remove the humonkey's brain via [[Surgery#Brain|Organ Manipulation surgery on their head]], but do not finish the surgery. Click the RSD phylactery onto the humonkey's removed brain. You are not to dispose of the brain, you NEED it. Return the brain to the humonkey and cautery the head to finish the surgery.
# '''Revive the humonkey'''.
# Fifth, Leftclick the RSD Evoker on the person who was turned into a simplemob or plasmeme. Wait for them to accept going into your evoker.
# Sixth, Rightclick the RSD Evoker on the humonkey.
# Seventh, SAD the body.

Ideally? All of this can be done in seconds or prepared beforehand and is faster than waiting on xenobiology or regular humonkey transfers. It can work on people who by all rights are soft-round removed.

= There's other soul-catcher things! =

TODO: this.

There's:

* Phylactery! It's an item you use in-hand to access the control panel. It can hold 1 ghost, and you can use it on an Item in the world to attach it. The ghost then emotes and speaks as that item, which lets lots of people hear them at once.

* The one that's not Phylactery! It's an item you use on a brain that enables you to use an evoker to put a scanned-ghost into that brain instead of their normal brain. Somehow.

* NIF: lets you have a joinable room in your head. You can't transfer ghosts from an Evoker into the NIF room, or vice versa. Just... ask them to leave and join the other one.

* Evoker: the handheld gun thing.

* Uhhhh?

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	File:Soulcatcher HostUI Occupied.png\|The host view when you have a soul in your soulcatcher, and have expanded out all the views. Note that you can toggle each of those permissions individually, per soul, and you can Remove a soul, or use the paper airplane button to send that soul to a different room. This could be a room in a different Soulcatcher, e.g. one in your NIF or one in your other hand.		File:Soulcatcher HostUI Occupied.png\|The host view when you have a soul in your soulcatcher, and have expanded out all the views. Note that you can toggle each of those permissions individually, per soul, and you can Remove a soul, or use the paper airplane button to send that soul to a different room. This could be a room in a different Soulcatcher, e.g. one in your NIF or one in your other hand.
	File:Soulcatcher GuestUI.png\|How the visiting soul sees the Soulcatcher UI.		File:Soulcatcher GuestUI.png\|How the visiting soul sees the Soulcatcher UI.
			File:Soulcatcher Chatlog.png\|This is how a soul in the room will look in the chat log, when they Say and when they Me.
	File:Soulcatcher Guest Namechange.png\|If the change names permission is enabled, the guest can change their name, or use the red button to reset their name to what it was when they were inserted into the Soulcatcher.		File:Soulcatcher Guest Namechange.png\|If the change names permission is enabled, the guest can change their name, or use the red button to reset their name to what it was when they were inserted into the Soulcatcher.
	File:Screenshot 2025-07-11 023552.png\|The guest can always use this UI button in the upper left to leave, or this other UI button to open the Soulcatcher UI.		File:Screenshot 2025-07-11 023552.png\|The guest can always use this UI button in the upper left to leave, or this other UI button to open the Soulcatcher UI.
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	File:Soulcatcher Phylactery Brain.png\|What a successfully RSD Phylactery'd brain looks like. From here, you insert it into a body.		File:Soulcatcher Phylactery Brain.png\|What a successfully RSD Phylactery'd brain looks like. From here, you insert it into a body.
	File:Soulcatcher Phylactery Insert.png\|Using the Evoker, right-click a dead body with a Phylactery'd brain already inserted to get this popup, asking you which soul in the Evoker you wish to put into the body.		File:Soulcatcher Phylactery Insert.png\|Using the Evoker, right-click a dead body with a Phylactery'd brain already inserted to get this popup, asking you which soul in the Evoker you wish to put into the body.
			File:Soulcatcher Evoker Transferred.png\|Jim Tern has been successfully transplanted. Do note that he is the monkey now, and cannot exit the monkey and return to his old body. If he Ghosts out, he will have no body. Additionally, his old body will need to be killed and Phylactery'd in order to insert his soul in; it will not treat him magically better just because he used to occupy the body. This may be an oversight or bug, but is equally a stopgate to prevent shenanigans with quick body changes.
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