Cryohusks

Cryohusks are aberrated humans that are unidentifiable, move slightly slower, are especially weak to heat damage, and have a little bit of difficulty speaking. They can enter the round through a variety of methods, but most involve some variation of a person being exposed to cold temperatures for far too long--e.g., from hypersleep or from cryogas.

When a cryohusk is created--unless it's at player-spawn-time--the cryohusk's clothing disintegrates from the cold into tatters, and their ID card is replaced with an unrecognizable 'frozen ID', which has a chance to have randomized or additional accesses different to their old job. Cryohusks retain the personality, secret identity, and objectives of the person they were created from--only their visuals and speech are altered.

Cryohusks introduce an interesting element to the social deduction. Because a cryohusk is completely unidentifiable, and yet remains the same person with the same secret identity and goals, the lack of proof of identification can become a boon or hinderance--it becomes easy for the cryohusk to pass themselves off as any missing person. Additionally, cryohusks are semi-fungible in the sense that there is no way to discern one cryohusk from another apart from their clothing and demeanor. This is especially pertinent with radio--a cryohusk's name simply shows up as "?????", so it's difficult for them to consistently communicate over comms if there are other husks.

How It's Made - Ep 7192: Cryohusks

Cryohusks can be created in a number of different ways. The primary common factor is that it should generally be interesting for that person's identity to become completely unknown and for them to be unidentifiable.

• Cryogas: When someone is incapacitated (or dead) in the presence of cryogas, they may spontaneously freeze and transform into a cryohusk. If they are simply incapacitated, doing this will give them a short adrenaline burst and medium heal.
• Latejoining: When latejoining very late into a round (>30-40min), latejoiners may have "spent too long in hypersleep" and awaken as cryohusks with a completely unknown name and job, and potentially unique set of secret identities that may roll.
• Events & Identities: Some events, like the Nanite Swarm (tba), as well as secret identity objective triggers, may transform someone into a cryohusk as a medium effect less impactful than death but more thematically interesting than other options.