Unwilling Ally

[roguebfl]

Originally Posted by David Johnston2

It's exactly like that. He doesn't cause hallucinations no matter what it may seem. Rather there's some underlying cause that gives the character hallucinations. Bob taking credit for the other hallucinations is itself one of them. Bob IS one of the hallucinations.

If Bob is a Hallucination then getting rid of bob will not necessarily cure problem. if Bob is a real but Meme entities getting rid of Bob gets rid of everything.

[Finalsora811]

Originally Posted by roguebfl

If Bob is a Hallucination then getting rid of bob will not necessarily cure problem. if Bob is a real but Meme entities getting rid of Bob gets rid of everything.

What's Meme?

[roguebfl]

Originally Posted by Finalsora811

What's Meme?

A though construct.

A Mememic Entities as a creature/person made out of though

[Finalsora811]

Originally Posted by roguebfl

If Bob is a Hallucination then getting rid of bob will not necessarily cure problem. if Bob is a real but Meme entities getting rid of Bob gets rid of everything.

Then he's kinda both. He's not real, but a figment of my imagination. However, my subconscious is creating him as a means of explaining WHY all these things do and will happen to me, such as me turning into a wolf-man (which will happen).

[Anaraxes]

Sounds like Bob is just the background reason for your other disads like nightmares (etc). It's great flavor text, but it doesn't make any difference _why_ you have the nightmares.

If you get rid of Bob, you buy off the disads. "Getting rid of Bob" is the event that lets you buy them off, and the explanation for why they're gone.

I don't see a necessity for modelling Bob as an independent Ally. Keep it simple.

[Finalsora811]

Originally Posted by Anaraxes

Sounds like Bob is just the background reason for your other disads like nightmares (etc). It's great flavor text, but it doesn't make any difference _why_ you have the nightmares.

If you get rid of Bob, you buy off the disads. "Getting rid of Bob" is the event that lets you buy them off, and the explanation for why they're gone.

I don't see a necessity for modelling Bob as an independent Ally. Keep it simple.

So he's not my enemy, either, in that case?

[roguebfl]

Originally Posted by Finalsora811

So he's not my enemy, either, in that case?

Correct, you might have paranoia that there someone out to get you anyway, but the end of they day you're doing it to yourself

[cmdicely]

Originally Posted by Finalsora811

What's Meme?

Properly, a transmissable unit of behavior.

[sir_pudding]

Originally Posted by cmdicely

Properly, a transmissable unit of behavior.

Yes, in analogy to gene (an inheritable unit of biological expression). See Dawkins, The Selfish Gene.