Guide to Vore

VOREStation Specific Things

So there are some specific features/settings we've added that you might not realize at first from playing on other servers, so here's a short list of features to be aware of:

• You can eat other people (Aggressive grab, click eat-er with grabbed prey)
• The AI can eat people (Hardlight Noms verb in Vore tab) when a hologram
• Resleeving instead of cloning (No scans, implants instead, body swapping)
• Extra food/drink items (People come up with new stuff allatime)
• Extended only (Admins manually assign objectives, or host events instead of antags)
• Different size characters. Larger characters stepping on smaller ones use intent to do different things, like grab with feet, pin down, and stomp on.
• A bunch of stuff I'm probably forgetting.

How to vore people

• Change your intent to "Grab" (the yellow one on the bottom right of the intent square).
• Click your target with an empty hand to passively grab them.
• Click the "reinforce" button to upgrade the grab to aggressive (the yellow icon in your hand should turn to blue).
• Keeping the hand with which you've grabbed them active, click on the whoever you want the predator to be. If you click on yourself, you'll vore them. If you click on a third party, you'll make them vore the person, and if you click on the person you've grabbed, you'll force them to vore you.

For micros, the process is even simpler:

• Click them with your intent set to "Help" (the default green setting, at the top left of the intent square) to pick them up.
• Click on yourself / a third party to stuff them inside without any hassle.

The Vore Tab

This is the location of any vore-based commands you might need!

Vore Panel

The vore panel displays a list of the bellies you've created on your character, allows you to save them, and also set up any preferences you might need (such as being indigestible if you have a strong preference against being digested).

Bellies

Bellies can be created and deleted on this panel (though only deleted if they are empty). You can also view the contents of the bellies, release individual people and items, and customize various settings about each belly.

There are various belly modes that you can choose from, which are each listed below.

• Hold: This is the default belly mode for every belly. No action is taken on the items inside... they are simply held onto. This also protects those inside from hazards outside, such as space.
• Digest: This begins digesting the prey. They suffer brute and burn damage over time and will eventually die, at which point they'll be removed from the belly and leave behind any indigestible items.
• Heal: This mode slowly heals the prey inside. Keep in mind that this only heals brute and burn damage, only to external organs. It cannot heal toxin or suffocation damage, and will not prevent infections or diseases, nor heal internal organs. It's a good hold-over when taking someone to medical to keep them alive in the meantime.
• Absorb: Absorbing someone merges them into the flesh of the belly itself. Their name changes to purple once you have finished absorbing them, and people in the belly can no longer see them (unless they, too, are absorbed). Releasing 'All' the contents of a belly does not release absorbed people. Reagents are shared with absorbed people! Get your absorbed people drunk etc.
• Transform: The various transformation options will convert prey in that belly into the chosen option, such as male or female. Note that this mode is a bit buggy... SS13 is not great at changing characters after they are spawned-in.

'Inside'

When you are inside a predator, the top of the vore panel will display the description of the pred's belly that you're held in, as well as anything you can see around you, such as items or other prey. You can interact with them by clicking on the buttons with their names.

OOC Escape

This option is to allow you to leave a predator. It should only be used in situations that call for it, such as a predator that has disconnected for a long time and left you stuck in there, or as a 'safeword' if they're breaking prefs. Using this inside a hostile mob will cause the mob to ignore you for vore purposes, and will instead maul the daylights out of you as soon as you escape. All online admins are notified when someone uses this button.

Toggling Digestibility

This is an option for those who don't like digestion as a matter of preference, or have a character that's immune in some way but don't mind being in the same stomach as someone that is digestible. Because it's a preference thing, the admins are notified when someone uses this button. This is saved alongside your other vore/belly prefs. Please only use this if being digested is 'squick' for you. Don't set it to just avoid dying in general. Trying to use it to avoid being eaten by hostile mobs will result in them violently murdering you instead.

Vore and Medical

In general, people who have been partially digested have brute and burn damage in a 2:3 ratio and may have infections due to the proclivity of burns to generate them. They should be treated suchly. Medical staff should keep in mind that they aren't security, and while they can report obvious crimes, should prioritize the health of the crew over trying to start their own investigations into things.

The hand health analyzer can tell you if there is a living creature inside another, though this could be anything from just a mouse to a human being. The body-scanner's more advanced sensors will tell you in more detail, giving a specific count of humanoid and non-humanoid creatures in the patient.

Additionally, there are two drugs that can be used in the case of vore-crimes to extract still-alive prey from the predators:

• Ickypak: This causes the pred to suffer severe muscle contractions which typically forces prey out of their body.
• Unsorbitol: This causes preds to un-absorb prey, though they remain in the body, and such it needs to be coupled with Ickypak. Unsorbitol also prevents a predator from absorbing anything else while the drug is in their system.

Both of these drugs have side-effects, often severe (though generally not life-threatening) and should only be used if absolutely necessary to preserve life.

Vore and Security

While unwilling vore is most certainly a crime (even if you don't digest them, it's still kidnapping!) but players should be OOCly lenient when it comes to prosecuting them. For instance, if someone would normally be serving 30 minutes, it's okay to OOCly timeskip it and just pretend they served the full sentence rather than making them sit out of the game for... well, doing what we're all here for. However, as a predator, you shouldn't be lazy about how you go about abducting your potential snacks. Predators should read the Unathi's Guide to Hunting Humans in the library for some good tips.

As a security officer, remember Habeas Corpus - unless you know for certain that a crime has taken place (or at least have reasonable cause to believe so) you should not be investigating someone. There's no sense in having a whodunnit if you don't even know for sure that anything's been dun - and willing vore isn't a crime.

• The onus is not, therefore, on the predator to prove that a meal was willing. Being fat isn't evidence of a crime. (Hell, for all you know, they might have just porked out on an entire pizza)
• If a prey isn't actively calling for help, don't assume they want it. Remember, if they're in a scene, they want to be eaten OOCly, even if their character doesn't.
• Don't go looking for unwilling scenes to break up. Particularly in private areas of the station. The dorms in particular are for private scenes and breaking into a locked and occupied dorm without a very good reason (such as the prey actively calling for help on the radio) is liable to get you banned.
• If they DO call for help, particularly on the radio, feel free to respond in-character - the scene is pretty much public at that point.
• If in doubt, use LOOC to ask the players if they are okay with intervention.
• Security isn't supposed to have X-ray or thermal goggles because of Nanotrasen's privacy policy, so even if security finds you in an unwilling scene through such means, you can probably get the charges dropped by contacting CentCom.

Remember that the AI can see you too. Although soft-vore is hard for the AI to notice as a problem, if the AI sees blood, expect a response from medical and security staff. So try to get in the habit of breaking cameras, or better yet, just stay where cameras can't see you, like deep in maintenance. Preferably in a hidden room.

Be advised that if a scene is right out in the open, has the prey screaming for help on the radio, or is otherwise obviously public, players that witness it happening are free to respond appropriately - though it may be polite to let them finish before intervening if you walk in on them partway through - and as always, RP doesn't stop just because something's happening. So we don't want to see people getting tased because they'd finished eating someone in an RP post but not yet got around to eating them mechanically.

These points apply to vigilantes and bystanders as well as security officers - yelling for security because you witnessed someone being eaten in private, and the players in question don't actually want to be interrupted, is likely to make you unpopular. Sometimes the predator and prey are okay with being caught after the fact but want to get their scene wrapped up first - LOOC helps as always.

As unwilling prey, therefore, if you OOCly want to be eaten but ICly don't, it's good to "slip up" and forget you have your radio in the panic of the moment, or similar. At the very least, LOOC your predator and check before you just blurt out "HELP" over the radio - for some of them, it's a bit of a moodkiller. After all, if you, the player, want an RP scene in which you get snatched and gobbled up, why make people jump through hoops to give you what you want? Likewise, once you're in a belly and your predator is running off - even if you do have your radio, maybe play it out like the signal's muffled, or surrounded by glorping noises, or you're panicked and don't know where you've been carried off to, or you didn't get a good look at whoever snatched you and dragged you into maintenance - all these things can be fun things to add to an unwilling scene without the torches and pitchforks mob beating a path to your door.

If security do get to a predator in time to rescue their hapless prey, and the predator doesn't ICly want to cough them up, there are a couple of things they can do. They can roleplay out holding them down while someone reaches an arm into the predator's throat or some other issue, or a chemist could give them a measured quantity of poison, just enough to make them vomit, before administering antitoxins, or something similar. Be aware that surgical extraction of prey can be a preferences issue for some, and you should ensure the predator's player and prey's player are both okay with it before proceeding with such a gruesome RP.

With any of these points, if there is any doubt when it comes to whether or not you should intervene, and what form that intervention should take, it can never hurt to use LOOC or adminhelp. Occasionally global OOC may be required in the event of a radio message getting out that you'd rather not have happened.

Being Resleeved

There are currently no restrictions on what you can and cannot remember about your past life / death, but don't abuse it for revenge killings or screaming out the name of your predator to security.

It's generally recommended that you have hazy IC memories of the circumstances leading immediately up to your death if it was unwilling vore - if nothing else, your predator has taken the time to give you a (presumably) enjoyable scene, so it's kinda a dick move to make them hide from security for the rest of the shift.

A good way to play this is just remembering everything up until before your scene and nothing afterwards if you do get resleeved. This could be handwaved if it was a willing scene. Basically it's to allow noncon scenes to exist. So your last mind backup occurred 'conveniently' before your non-con scene, or perhaps at the end of your willing scene.