#3
by Bill Combs
The first type is the reason why whenever i see a person with a screwdriver in hands, i start following them everywhere and checking wires near them.
Never trust a person that is holding 2 syringes. One of them may be a stimulant but the other one can be a poison. If he was only using 1 hand, then you shouldn't trust a black syringe, unless you are the one using it.
If no wires were missing, that's either junction boxes and relay components getting broken or the power system had a relay component in its main part, and the guy that took the blame just turned the relay component off. That's impossible to notice without fiddling with wires, since relays don't show their state without some monitoring system connected to their output. Worst part is that a lot of the subs have their power grids set up in a way that makes rewiring them into a simpler version burn the junction boxes. So toggling that single relay component off is pretty much fatal for the sub. But the griefer can't just turn it off without having to add a button or move the wire from some button nearby. Watch for the people moving wires around.
Never stay with someone you can't trust without any witnesses nearby. Watch for whatever their hands are holding. Be ready to start fighting or running away at any moment.
Damn, playing with randomers is stressful. You can never feel safe around them.
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Here's my story.
It was possible for the griefer to pull that off due to the layout of the ship and because it did not have many spare tools and wiring parts. First, he took all of the cutting tools and spare buttons that the ship had and probably dropped them in some sneaky spot, because i never found them. Then he removed a wire from the oxygen generator. It cut off our communication, as we had to wear masks instead of the radio. The whole crew rushed to the part of the ship with the reactor and oxygen generator to check what was going on. And while that was happening, the griefer went to the opposite part of the sub and removed buttons on our side from the doors leading to the parts of the ship such as the bridge, security, med room and the airlock. Even if there were witnesses, they couldn't warn the crew in time because we were wearing masks. We didn't have any tools to cut through the doors. We didn't have any buttons or signal components that would let us open the doors. The airlock was on his side too, so we couldn't even get out of the sub. We were trapped in the engineering part of the ship, forced to keep the reactor going to stay alive, while the guy had a whole bunch of meds, weapons and the control room he could use to move the sub anywhere he wanted.
Always have a cutting tool or a spare source of wiring signal; fix things as quickly as possible; and try to make sure that while your crew is busy at one place, nothing sketchy is going on at the other.
Also, watch out for the "duck hunters" type. The guys that shoot at you with the railgun while you are outside going for the artifact or leaving the respawn shuttle. Death from the shell with explosives is instant, you won't even have a chance to warn the crew. Watch for the railguns, if they are following you, try to get out of their field of vision and ask who is aiming at you, so the crew would know that somebody is using the guns. That way, if you die, at least the crew would know why that happened.