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Re: Sapient Snacks?

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Originally Posted by Jürgen Hubert

... it does not surprise me in the slightest that creepy stuff - the kind of stuff that you can only find in the darkest corners of the internet today - proliferates, and I laud the authors not to ignore the sense of perversion hidden in humanity's collective soul.

It's only perverse if some people do it. It's culture if everyone does.

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I always wanted to run a one-shot with one of the characters being a gestalt hive-mind of sentient snacks, similar to the Rat King on Exogenesis. I think the biggest hangup is the short lifespan of Sentient Snacks (I can't remember exactly, but its pretty short once they're removed from their storage/packing), and the fact that mechanically I never really figured out how I'd do a gestalt mind like that in Gurps.

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Originally Posted by Catgunner

3E had the Mindshare trait. Does 4E have it, too?

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Originally Posted by Catgunner

The Gestalt Intelligence lens for AIs is on p.53 of Changing Times.

Okay, if you need the gestalt to be active to be low or fully sapient, you need a bit more. I suggest taking the LAI template, then adding Incurious (6), No Sense of Humor, and Slave Mentality, all with a Mitigator, "must be linked to gestalt".

(By the way, it's Sentient Snacks. Sapient Snacks would indeed be rather more of an abomination.)

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Originally Posted by Gnophilist

3E had the Mindshare trait. Does 4E have it, too?

Mindlink, p.B70.

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Originally Posted by Phil Masters

Mindlink, p.B70.

That has almost nothing to do with Mindshare.

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I looked it up. For those interested, Mindshare does exist in 4E. It's in Powers, p148, and it is based on the Mindlink trait.

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Not THS, but I use this in my fantasy campaign.

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Cannibalism is de rigueur in Serenity. Street vendors sell [sapient Faerie analogs of ] Aphids, Fruitflies, Midges and male Hissees. Aphids are usually skewed and lightly roasted or boiled alive on the spot, locally called "sugarsmacks". Fruitflies are attached to a leash - it is normal to normal to keep them and lick them for a while before eating. The Drunkards know that the more entertaining they are the less likely to be eaten. They are barely sentient, but by no means slow or mentally impaired, more like monkeys. Male Hissees become food when they are damaged, usually meaning losing a wing. limb or somesuch. They *want* to be eaten, because it's the proper thing to do, and especially prefer to be eaten by good, well-meaning people. Male Hissees are kinda dumb, but most used to be Alpharoaches, and are brave and combat trained. Hissees will fight each other and in gladitorial combat (well, not in the Menagerie) if they get to promise their bodies to the person of their choice before hand, as such is grand glory for them. Hissees, like Drupes, are recreational as well as food. Midges are fed blood or nectar and then magically frozen and impaled on sticks.

Also, "coming out" in society in Serenity involves presenting yourself as the main course at a banquet, preferable hosted by the five star Chef Sang Froid. You are given magical life support and are expected to entertain guests as bits of your body are chopped off and cooked.

Serenity, a city shallow in its appeal and deep in its sins.

Re: Sapient Snacks?

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Originally Posted by Catgunner

Short lifespan because of limit on stored energy, probably. Make their chips powered by a little sugar fuel cell. So they can either consume their own bodies, or other candies. Cannabilistic sentient snacks!

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Am I the only one who find Sentient Snacks amusing? If you know it's just a low functioning computer program running a doll made of tasty goodness, why not chow down on one?