So this game is the unholy lovechild of Clue, DnD, and space.


The gist of the story is, you are one of many employees on Space Station 13, floating out in the middle of space somewhere, and a catastrophe happens. This can be anything from a traitor on board the station, to a changeling who wants to eat everyone and absorb their genetic makeup, to a rogue AI attempting to kill everyone onboard and sometimes spehss carp migrations.

To play, you'll need to download and install the BYOND client (choose the setup rather than the zip, it's harder to connect), set up an account, then follow the link here (byond://duh102.kicks-ass.org:51208). After it downloads the game data, you'll be all ready to set up a character and get to playing.

At the beginning of each round, you will either be assigned a duty (if you join before the round starts) or choose one from the unfilled positions (if you join a game in progress). Then, you can either perform your duty to the benefit of the station, or if you get special orders, fulfill them and probably endanger the entire station.

The controls are a little difficult to pick up, but once you get the basics it's not hard to discover the functions of everything. Left click things in the world to pick them up into your hand (whichever hand is selected) and then left click to apply that item to whatever you clicked on. Sometimes you need to right click on things to do some fine tuning (like changing the amount transferred out of a vodka bottle when pouring). Type "ooc " (space is important) to do out of character chat, which is basically worldchat, while "say " is localchat that may be carried over the intercom if you have it set to listen to you.

All doors are operated with your ID card, which has it's own inventory slot where it will automatically open doors if you try to go through them. You can steal other people's ID cards, make copies if you can get to an ID computer, and even change their permissions without them knowing (if you're sneaky).

And that's pretty much all the basics. Again, #drlgaming on irc.rizon.net if you'd like to play.

Further information:
Duh is running the /tg/ server build.
The station is powered by a singularity.
For guides and information, look here.

As an addendum, I can insert books into the external archives of the library, so if you have any fanfiction or actual books you'd like put in, feel free to ask.

I am Areku and I approve of this thread. SS13 is awesome.


Also, instead of having to deactivate/reactivate your headset every time you want to use the intercomm, just type "say ; *Phrase goes here*".

And for heaven's sake don't mess with the engine if you're not the chief engineer. Who is usually me.

I played a little bit on a random server, since the Duh server won't let me connect. Good times, I picked Engineer not knowing how to play. The singularity ripped a hole in the space station wall, and killed me and 3 others. Good times.

I'm BlackStars on byond, been playing SS13 since 07.

As you can imagine, I know what the hell I'm doing.

I never figured this ♥♥♥♥ out, I could give it another try. Usually I play as a geneticist and I just end up beating some Assistant until they're unconscious, then turn them into a monkey. One time I turned half the station into monkeys ^_^

EDIT: Can't connect. What is the meaning of this?

Duh most likely has the server off.

How many goats should I sacrifice to get it working again?

Go on the irc and bug duh.

So around 25.

EDIT : Its up.

I am SS13 illiterate.
Though I think I'll be trying this sometime when I have nothing to do.
Turning people into monkeys and ripping open the spacecraft walls sounds fun.

It is. Nothing beats ripping the station open.

You might've been trying to connect while it was restarting, it tends to be dumb for about a minute or two and not let anyone connect until it's done.

I guess I'm gonna have to sacrifice more goats, because it still en't workin'.

Oh wow. I'm dumb, I misspelled my own DNS address.
kick-ass != kicks-ass
kicks-ass is the right one.