Heretic

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Heretic
SUPERIORS:	The Mansus
CLASSIFICATION:	Solo antagonist
RISK FACTOR:	Very Hard
CLEARANCE:	Depends on your job
"Forgotten, devoured, gutted, humanity has forgotten the eldritch forces of decay, but the Mansus veil has weakend, we will make them taste fear again."

Heretics are people who have been enlightened with magical (and illegal) powers, their goal is to ascend and become all powerful, by completing all of their objectives and doing the ascension ritual on a transmutation rune. Heretics are very weak to holyness so having a chaplain onboard the station will help.

To communicate with your summoned minions, Mansus link can be accessed with +m.

Knowledge Points

Knowledge points are a requirement to ascending, needing you to get 10 knowledge points or more. You can also use these Knowledge points to go your research tree becoming stronger and unlocking the final ritual once you've gathered enough points, note that spending Knowledge points does not affect your objectives. You can either get Knowledge points overtime or by doing the following.

Reality Shifts

Reality Shifts are a way of getting knowledge points and spawns randomly when the shift starts. Whenever a Heretic completes a sacrifice, Shifts will randomly spawn across the station. Coming near a Shift will temporarily grant the Heretic X-ray vision making it easier to locate them. The average crew member will not be able to see these Shifts, however they will become visible after harvested. Shifts give 1 knowledge points when harvested normally, and can be harvested with a codex cicatrix or a codex morbus activated in hand to gain an additional point.

Sacrificing

The primary method of getting knowledge points is by sacrificing crew members. Your victims are random and could be fellow heretics.

At the start of the shift you will be assigned 4-5 sacrifice targets

- One will be a head of staff

- One will be a security member

- Others will be completely random crew members

Sacrificing a head of staff or a security member will grant 3 knowledge points, sacrificing random crew members will grant 2 instead. You cannot sacrifice non target crew members

However other heretics are an exception, you can sacrifice another heretic to gain 3 knowledge points.

To track down your victims you will need to use the Living heart skill on the left of your screen, when you see the target you must incapacitate them to make their body worthy for sacrificing, after your done with that drag their body over to a Transmutation rune and then click the rune with your Mansus grasp to sacrifice them. You can reroll your sacrifice targets by doing the Relentless heartbeat ritual.

This is also a requirement to ascending as you will need to atleast sacrifice 4 crew members and 1 head of staff for your objectives.

Becoming Stronger

To actually kill people that you need to sacrifice, you will need several tools and abilities to subdue them and sacrifice them, the following below

Transmutations

Whether you'd like it or not, you need to start using magic. To draw a Transmutation rune you need to have a writing tool like a pen or a crayon. Activate your Mansus grasp in your offhand and click on the floor to make a rune. These runes are very noticeable and take up a 3x3 area, it is highly recommended to draw these runes in rooms that are blocked off from the public like maintenance. You can also remove these runes with your pen and the activated Mansus grasp on it and you can also remove other heretic's runes even if you didn't make them.

To transmute you simply need to click the rune and choose the ritual you want to do, then use your Mansus grasp on the rune to see what objects you require for the ritual. You can see the chosen ritual by inspecting the rune.

Transmutation Rituals allow you to create powerful artifacts, weapons, monsters, and many other tools that will guide you to the path of ascension.

Items, Abilities, and Rituals.

This is a list of all the Heretic's Abilities, and Rituals they can utilize/do to aid in their ascension. Sandbox

Abilities/Rituals	Cost	Tier	Ingredients/Type	Description
Heartbeat of Mansus	0	Roundstart	Target's Corpse	Sacrifice your Target (or another heretic) for knowledge points and your objectives.
Phylactery of Damnation	0	Roundstart	Blood, Beaker	Creates a cursed beaker that can siphon blood from a distance for curses. The victim feels the blood being drawn out.
Feast of Owls	0	Roundstart	Your soul	Gives 5 knowledge points but forsakes your ascension.
Codex Cicatrix	0	Roundstart	Book, Pen, Organ/limb	Creates a cursed book that can extract Reality shifts more effectively and can act as an focus
Relentless Heartbeat	0	Roundstart	Heart, Book, Pen, Jumpsuit	Grants you a new set of ritual targets, up to five.
Amber Focus	0	Roundstart	Glass sheet, Eyes	Grants you a Focus that can be worn on the neck. Focuses allow you to cast more advanced spells.
Living Heart	0	Roundstart	Active Ability	Locates your sacrifice target, but is loud. Be careful when you use it.
Cloak of Shadow	0	Roundstart	Active Ability	Hides your identity, makes you immune to stuns, and makes you faster, but you interact slower and if you take enough damage it will expire.
Mansus Grasp	0	Roundstart	Active Ability	Iconic spell of the heretic that garbles target's speech, knocks them down, and deals 40 stamina damage. It has additional effects based on your path, cannot be used through clicking the mob with the context menu, but using it in harm mode works. Note that Mansus grasp cannot miss.
Ether of the Newborn	1	T1 Side	Vomit Puddle, Glass shard
Void Cloak	1	T1 Side	Bedsheet, Glass shard, Winter coat
Ashen Eyes	1	T1 Side	Eyes, Glass shard, Flare
Priest's Ritual	1	T1 Side	Glass shard, Water tank
Scorching Shark	1	T1 Side	Three ash, Liver, Three sheets of Phoron
Realignment	1	T1 Side	Active Ability
Mask of Madness	1	T1 Side	Mask, Stun baton, Liver
Eldritch Coin	1	T1 Side	1 Bar of Gold/Silver
Mysteries of Creation	1	T1 Side	Spear, Cold temperature
Unfathomable Curiosity
Carving Knife
Codex Morbus
Greaves of the Prophet
Mawed crucible
Through the Boundary
Rusted Ritual
Shattered Ritual
Lionhunter's Rifle
Rust Sower Grenade
Crimson Cleave
Forest Abomination
Mind Grasp
Space Phase
Maid in the Mirror
Sharp Medal
Ashen Ritual