Rules
Secret Content Rules
There are many secret things, Locations, items, chemicals, This will go over the rules for each of them, to help better your knowledge about them.
Secret Chemicals
A secret chemical is a chemical whose recipe is secret. Secret means a specific thing on Goonstation, and it's different from the kind of secrecy associated with something like "secret underground bunker" or "effects of substance on corpses is secret". The recipes of secret chemicals are kept hidden to allow for the joy of discovery, and if you wish to reveal the recipe to someone, you must observe some key principles:
- The person must explicitly consent to being told the recipe. As with everything in life, silence is not consent.
- The reveal must take place in private. This is more nuanced than you think.
- Your options in-game are very limited, because no means of communications is truly private. PDA messages can be snooped on, paper messages can be read by others, phones, whispering, and face-to-face conversation can be eavesdropped, and Ghosts can accidentally see all of these. Radio is definitely not private, and neither are silicon machine talk or similar. Revealing it in-game might as well not be worth it.
- Adminhelp, prayer, and mentorhelp are not considered appropriate channels for requesting secret chemical recipes.
- Obviously, public Goonstation Discord and forums are definitely not private.
- On the other hand, Discord DMs, forum private messages, and the Goonstation Discord #imspoiler channel are all considered acceptable ways to reveal secret chems recipes.
To be clear, saying the names of secret chemical or explaining their effects is not violating secret content policy; those are not what makes them secret. Most of the rules stated here are the same for other things such as; Items, Locations (Adventure Zones), and or special interactions.