The Sushiwoman, played

The Sushis modifier

• Voted in the lobby: it takes half the players rounded down, and at least one vote. The mode has to be Recruit to Nightmare; it is never on in Competitive, Survival, PMC, Invasion, Infested, PMC+ or Apocalypse.
• It adds 15 % to the XP multiplier for the game. The modifier's own description says 25 %; the script adds 0.15.
• The first item spawn, which runs once at 30 s and then every 380 s from the start of the game, adds 4 Sushis to its list while the modifier is on. Outside it, sushis are not spawned at all.
• On the selection screen the Assault Engineer card is greyed out and its charge counter drops to 0. The script only changes the dialog, so treat it as a warning rather than a lock.

Three ways in

• The script's pick. Between 100 and 180 s in, one player is drawn at random. Two lines appear on screen for everyone, prefixed [Allies] and signed with their name: "Guys, I don't feel very fine." and, 8 s later, "I wonder if these sushis were not outdated." 15 s after that they blow up and come back as a sushi. Bigger lobbies get more: a second victim if the player count beats a roll of 2 to 6, then a third if it beats 5 to 10, then a fourth on a coin flip if it beats 6 to 12. Each extra pick starts its warning 10 s after the last player turned, then runs the same 8 s and 15 s, so that player turns 33 s after the one before. The warning lines for the second, third and fourth picks still show the first victim's name, and the fourth pick hands the transform the unit stored for the third pick, not its own.
• Eating one. A Sushis still heals 50 and gives its regeneration; in this modifier, the moment that regeneration ends you turn. Once you are the Sushiwoman it is only the heal: the trigger skips all four sushi unit types.
• Standing too close. 20 stacks from another sushi's aura, the card above.

Which sushi you become is decided by what you were: a CombatMedic hero becomes the Sushiwoman, everyone else, the Phoenix Medic included, becomes a Sushiman.

To you

• The old unit is killed and removed with the hero-death and last-player-alive triggers switched off, so neither fires. A new unit appears where you stood, facing the same way, on control group 1, and is set to your old level.
• The round counter is set to a full 60, so you come back loaded whatever the old magazine held.
• The portrait becomes the Sushiman's.
• The medic's hidden ranged damage malus comes with you: 11 % less ranged damage dealt. The Combat Medic and the Sushiwoman carry it; the Sushiman and the Phoenix Medic do not.
• The Combat Medic Shield w37 is on the Combat Medic's and Phoenix Medic's lists only; the Sushiwoman cannot use it.
• Rank rewards still apply: Frag Grenade Medic at Command Sergeant Major (Enlisted, 95,000 XP) and Flare Gun WO5 at Chief Warrant Officer 5 (120,000 XP) are granted to this class too.
• The medic's advanced medical visor keeps working: its pings on dead heroes go to Combat Medics, Phoenix Medics and Sushiwomen.

To the others

• Civilians never turn. Civilians of both models, the Mayor, police officers of both models and scientists are skipped by the turn trigger.
• LN soldiers and bots explode. A LN Rifleman or any other LN unit dies on the spot at 20 stacks; eating a sushi does the same to them and to an IS Bot or a Repair Drone.
• Other minis become NPC sushis. A 68W Combat Medic mini becomes a Sushiwoman, any other mini a Sushiman. Both carry the same aura and keep spreading it.
• The undead take nothing. The aura's search skips enemies, and mechanical units, summoned units, structures, items, the dead and the invulnerable with them. Anyone already a sushi is skipped too.