09-25-2020, 08:59 AM | #21 |
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Re: Rearranging the setting.
Another fun possibility is to drop fictional characters into the setting. Try bringing in Spider Jerusalem who almost fits the setting or John Constantine who so doesn't fit. Having the PCs caught up in the wake of either of these characters would nearly flip the setting upside down.
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09-25-2020, 05:27 PM | #22 | |
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Re: Rearranging the setting.
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09-26-2020, 09:42 AM | #23 | |
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Re: Rearranging the setting.
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I have an NPC in QRA who is a ghost who lives in a mainframe on board ship. He's a former professor of computer science who decided to try being software himself and is quite happy with it so far. He's fairly old, having been a wet-navy officer as a young man, then an academic, then re-joining the navy, for space service, after his uploading.
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09-26-2020, 10:10 AM | #24 | |
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Mind you for a lot of bodies this will be a "temporary" fix, arranging a near miss leaves the thing in an orbit that's still basically Earth-grazing and will probably hit the Earth sometime in the next few hundred millennia if you don't do some more work. But hopefully your grandchildren won't nuke themselves back to the stone age before fixing that.
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09-26-2020, 06:49 PM | #25 |
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Re: Rearranging the setting.
Actually, no. Diarmuid was a devout Catholic and believed that his original self was dead and, he hoped, in heaven; that he himself was soulless; and that to treat him as an actual person, knowing him to be a ghost in a shell, was the sin of idolatry.
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09-26-2020, 11:48 PM | #26 |
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Re: Rearranging the setting.
OK, that's different. How did he feel he should be treated?
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09-27-2020, 07:43 AM | #27 |
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Re: Rearranging the setting.
That was where it got complicated. He had been created by his church, apparently for some sort of covert activity. And that mostly required him to play the role of a human being. So there was an element of conflict there, I think.
In GURPS terms, "I am a soulless imitation of a human being" might be a Delusion. But in THS it seems more as if there's enough debate over the status of ghosts so that neither view is quite a Delusion.
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09-27-2020, 07:56 AM | #28 |
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Re: Rearranging the setting.
Yes - I think I might have difficulty distinguishing day-to-day between "treating everything that talks and displays evidence of a mind politely" and "treating him as a human being."
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10-01-2020, 05:40 AM | #29 |
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Re: Rearranging the setting.
What impact would reducing the overall utility of exowombs have on the THS setting? Let us say that sapient creatures suffer cognitive and psychological difficulties if they develop within an exowomb, so bioroids must be designed to grow from an embryo within a biological womb rather being constructed as a complete organism within an exowomb (we will assume for the sake of the argument that developing in an egg has similar consequences on sapient entities as using an exowomb). Do bioroids just become an exotic form of reproduction? Is there as much of a social stigma surrounding them?
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10-01-2020, 08:12 AM | #30 | |
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Re: Rearranging the setting.
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For that matter, THS is very materialist; just gathering a few slinkies of a child in a womb should be sufficient. On the other hand, by the time the first bioroids are created, vat grown meat is a mature technology; surely they could just build a biological tank with sufficiently similar characteristics. |
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