HelpfulHerbert: Initial draft please review and expand upon it.

2026-06-18T15:46:11Z

Initial draft please review and expand upon it.

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! colspan="2" align="center"| Other
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| colspan="2" align="center"| '''{{{roleTitle|Animals}}}'''
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| rowspan="7" width="10%" align="center"| [[File:Kobold.png|link=Animals|96x96px]]‎
[[Personal AI]]
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'''Roleplay Expectations:''' {{{roleplayExpectactions|Average}}} 
'''Required Game Knowledge:''' {{{RequiredGameKnowledge|Below Average}}} 
'''Hours Required:''' None 
'''Access:''' {{{access| None or all, depending on where you can squeeze into}}} 
'''Supervisors:''' {{{supervisors|None}}} 
'''Subordinates:''' {{{subordinates|None}}} 
'''Goals:''' {{{goals|Do whatever an animal does'''}}} 
'''Guides:''' {{{guides|This is the guide.}}}
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Except explicitly stated otherwise animals only follow their nature and do their own thing. They should not interfere with antagonists (or the crew) by helping them or ratting them out. A moproach or mouse will observe many things but it should not care about bigger pictures such as crime / NT / the station. Of course you can have reasons to help individuals: If the kind human that fed and pet you is hurt, you could try to get others attention for help. You don't have the means to comprehend complex concepts or entities such as the syndicate or command-structures. All you know as a mouse is that cheese is tasty and those kitchen-traps are ouch and evil.

== Special game-mechanics ==
Animals have special mechanics and are usually very limited:
* Languages: Animals generally can't communicate with the crew except some rare exceptions. Slimepeople and slimes speak Bubblish. Mothpeople and moth-/moproaches speak Moff. Generally animals will understand crew but not the other way around.
* Interacting with the world
** Number of hands
*** None: Can't pick up things and place them
*** One: Can pick up and use simple items
*** Two: Can pick up big items such as mail-packages - essentially you can do everything a normal person can, which is quite rare
** Prying open doors - some animals like Xenos can pryo open airlocks/doors, sometimes even powered ones
** Dragging items
* Food
** Some don't need food at all
** Others need special food (like mothroaches eating fibrebased things like clothes)
** Many can drink from puddles on the floor

== Examples ==
This list should cover most cases to give a decent idea.
=== Simple ===
* Mouse
** You can eat and drink many things including food, out of open containers, slurp water from puddles
** Buckets
** can vent-crawl
* Moproach
** Languages: Mothroach, (moffic), (galcom)
** can eat plushies
** can move under doors and counters
* Moproach
** like mothroach
** can mop floors slowly but freely
* Chicken
** Languages: Chicken, (Galcom)
** can harm
** can lay egg for hunger
** can drink from puddles
* Snoth / Snail
** Languages: (Galcom)
** CANNOT TALK
** no screaming, no pulling, no harming
** can go under doors
** can drink from puddles
** cannot vent crawl
* Slime
** Has Hat slot
** Can harm
** Can vent-crawl
** Can drink from puddles
** Can eat food
** No dragging
** Languages: Bubblish, (galcom)
* Honkbot
** Honks
** Infinite power
** no hands / no inventory
** can honk-scream
** Languages: Galcom, Binary
* Clean Bot
** can scream
** can clean puddles
** infinite power
** ignores oxy/pressure
* Supply Bot
** Infinite power
** Can pull
** Languages: GalCom and binary
** scream, light
** limited access (cargo including salvage and mining)
** can't interface with termianls
** People can put stuff on the back-storage (8x4)
** no combat-options
* Kangaroo
** can harm
** can scream
** can wear gloves for boxing gloves
** Languages: (galcom)
* Spider (not to be confused with [[Terror Spider]])
** Languages: Chittin, (Galcom)
** Can spin web
** Can drag
** No hands, no inventory
** Clown-Spider variation with available for honkening
* Sentient vending machines
** Can dispense random item occasionally
** no hands, no inventory, no movement
** Languages: Galcom, Binary
* Xeno
** Languages: Xeno, Hivemind("radio" - +x to communicate with xenos telepathically)
** Thermal vision through walls
** can open lockers
** can force open doors
** No oxygen needed / pressure-resistant

=== Advanced ===
* eeplet
** can be cold
** can open doors
* Ratking
** Solo Antagonist
** no hands/inventory
** Languages: Galcom, Mouse, Squeakish
** can harm
** can eat
** can walk under tables
* Ratservant
** Familiar of Ratking
* Personal AI
** Languages: Galcom + Binary + whatever you additionally install
*** sol common
*** thaveyan (thaven)
*** sylvan (plants)
*** draconic (lizard)
*** marish (shadekin)
*** darktongue
*** canilunzt (vulpkanin)
*** vox-pidgin (vox)
*** moffic (mothpeople)
*** terrum
*** classical
*** laguine (lagomorphs)
*** grmbakul
*** scratch (avali, resomi)
*** bubblish (slimes)
*** nekomimetic (felinoid)
*** aielic (aielithii, queli)
* Kobold
** has inventory slots: ear, mouth, head, torso, uniform
** Languages: draconic, ancestor, (galcom)
** only one hand
* Monkey
** one hand, inventory slot
** can harm
** can't scream
** can harm
** Languages: Ancestor, (galcom)

=== Crew-like ===
* Skeleton
** 2 hands, inventory - essentially the same as a human
** Cannot eat/drink
** No eyes (no need for a welding mask)
** Don't worry about atmosphere
** Don't have a brain - get killed by zombies each time anyways
* Scurret
** Language: Hand gesture, (galcom)
** Has one hand and various slots
** Starts with a pda
** Cute
** Can be forcibly recruited to join the revolution

=== Special ===
* Smile the Slime
** Like normal slimes but more colourful
* Remilia (bat)
** Familiar of Chaplain
** Can spawn on people holding bibles
** can harm
** Languages: Bat, Darktongue, (Mouse), (Galcom)
** can drink from puddles
** cannot walk under tables
** no hands, no inventory
** cannot drag
* Pun Pun (monkey)
** like monkey
** starts with bar-equipment
** has two hands and inventory slots
** Languages: Ancestor, (galcom)
* Kiki (kobold)
** like kobold
** has 2 hands and inventory
** starts with botany-equipment
* Halmet the Hamster
** Mouse, (Galcom), (Squeakish)
** can harm

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HelpfulHerbert: Initial draft please review and expand upon it.