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Glowing Eyes (and displays)


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Per the title, I'd love to see the option for characters with synthetic eyes to have them glow in the dark (and perhaps a little more brightly on demand). I'd suggest this as something optional, as a few people may prefer their faux eyes to be more designed to mimic the real thing, but for those of us who love creepy glowing optics I'd truly adore the option to be spooky in the dark and possibly in the light.

How so in the light? Simple, allow anyone with glowing eyes to have them emit a heavier glow on demand that exactly mimics the glow utilized by frenzied vampires.
Why? Both to be a pleasant anti-meta device, and because it's an exceedingly cool effect that seems wasted on vampires within a setting where synthetic eyes are somewhat prevalent.

How would this ultimately work? Ideally, anyone with synthetic eyes would have a verb along the lines of the one they gain to change their eye colour. 'adjust glow', with three options: none, light (glows), heavy (frenzy glow, maybe a tiny/near-useless amount of dim lighting on the tile in front akin to what is produced by certain IPC optical glows)

Why did I mention displays in the title? Well, if they don't already (I haven't really thoroughly tested, but I wished to include it to avoid potentially needing another suggestion) then I believe that Baseline Displays should glow in the dark. I don't believe this should be optional, either. If you want to be stealthy, turn off your display! Similar goes to the optics of other models (with exception for shells having the same mechanics as synthetic eyes for organics).

Edited by Carver
Added 'by' in a sentence where I'd missed it
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I like the idea of the heavy/frenzy glow. I think this would definitely be fun to play with and make maintgoofing a lot funnier.

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