DeltaV-Station
Revenants Can Get Hands
Description
The Revenant can give itself an empty hand to use to pick objects up with the verb menu. This does not let them use other context verbs such as computers or lathes, or in-hand activation shortcuts like Z, but does allow other interactions.
Reproduction When the "Ghost Writing" Crayon is used to completion, it leaves behind an empty hand. Right click objects that can be picked up one-handed and select the "pick up" verb.
Additional context Is this necessarily a bad thing...?
Implications of Bug: Revenants can retrieve objects left in the open and bring them elsewhere through walls. Things like weapons, bags, etc. Potential for destruction is highly increased. Things like weapons left out being brought to a victim then re-animated, or gifted to an antagonist. Potential for interesting interactions is also highly increased. Things like placing security officers in handcuffs tend to generate extremely surprised reactions that get handled in-character.
Revenant tends to get bored reactions that strain character belief like "hi revenant" and immediate unarmed attacks from bystanders during a haunting. More threat is good, in my opinion, especially as this bug requires the object to be left unsecured.
There are outlier use cases that can extend this functionality. Objects in hand can sometimes be used on the world: for example, a gun cannot be fired, but a lit welder can weld a door. The build menu can be used from this state. It would also be easy for a Revenant to round remove a small character in a bag by throwing it into space.
