JSONify dermatiks and make the pregnancy and birth actually suck

[zachary-kaelan]

Summary

Content "Make dermatik pregnancy and birth suck significantly more"

Purpose of change

Continuation of #66358 by @Karol1223.

I noted that the effects of being pregnant with giant mutated parasitic insects was just some itching and vomiting, then upon giving birth you were dealt some minor damage and some harmless larvae were spawned, with a chance of one of them being friendly. This didn't seem to properly capture what the experience would be like.

Describe the solution

The dermatik effect is the general "pregnancy", incrementing a larva growth vitamin and providing consistent effects:

• Loss of calories, water, and vitamins over time to feed the larvae.
• Gain of mutant toxin over time, from the "waste" produced by the developing larvae.
• Some sleepiness and health malus.
• A significantly reduced healing rate for the impregnated limb.

The visible growth of the larvae is represented by the dermatik_visible effect, providing the names and descriptions, and also providing scaling pain and vomiting chance.

Instead of happening after exactly 24 hours, the birth has a random delay. Upon birth, a number of things happen:

• A number of larvae are spawned based on character size, 3 with the normal size.
• Blood is splattered all around the player.
• The player loses a lot of blood.
• The limb starts pouring blood, requiring a tourniquet.
• The limb takes a significant amount of damage.
• The player experiences distressing amounts of pain.
• The player gets a hefty -20 morale penalty that lasts 12 hours.

If the player kills the developing larvae with an antiparasitic, a significant amount of mutant toxin is released into the bloodstream, based on how grown the larvae are. The ratio assumes a 5x bioavailability of the toxin when injected compared to when eaten by mouth. There's a strong encouragement to get rid of the pregnancy sooner rather than later.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Leaving the parasitoid pregnancy to be a slap on the wrist. Compare to all other parasitoid pregnancies in real life and fiction, which have a 100% chance of a horrible death.

Testing

I got pregnant more times than I can count. The birth seems to be an appropriate level of suck. I'm uncertain about the pregnancy itself.

While wearing a full set of chitin armor, with flame-resistant clothing underneath, a dermatik took a large number of attempts to impregnate me, which seemed like a fair outcome.

Additional context

[Venera3]

You can't place a tourniquet on your torso, so I'd limit the bleed rate + blood loss to just about survivable even in that case.

[SomeGuyIGues]

You can't place a tourniquet on your torso, so I'd limit the bleed rate + blood loss to just about survivable even in that case.

Most people wouldn't survive massive parasitic insects bursting out of any limb on the human body without immediate medical treatment, let alone the torso.

[zachary-kaelan]

This seems like a bug. Also, I would strongly recommend against applying a tourniquet to one's neck.

I checked and the maximum bleed intensity from this can still be treated effortlessly with bandages and hemostatic powder, so I think we're good.