A conversation right here on the forums sparked a RL discussion among some of my players. Pleasure Pods... no one plays them. In fact some players hold that they are essentially unplayable by anyone not attempting to make a lesbian stripper ninja, or whatever the Eclipse Phase equivilant is. Never one to allow such a creative challenge to sit on the table, i built a Pleasure Pod PC for our next mini-game & it has been one of the most fun characters i have ever run (though not hugely combat capable). So here is what i'm thinking: Have you ever played a character sleeved in a pleasure pod? & if so what was the characters story? If you haven't would you consider playing one as a roleplaying challenge in your next game? to get the ball rolling i give you, April: Lunarian Ego-Hunter Born on Lunar pre-fall, she was living a dull life as a programmer for an luna based Simulspace game programmer (her job was to get the NPC's reactions & quasi-emotions working properly). When the fall happened April was in transit between two lunar stations (Schwarzschild & Meendeleev) where she had been installing particulary sensitive piece of game data (you know how gamers get about there MMO's) & was skimming New Mumbai territory when the Nukes were dropped. though she avoided the actual blast, her vessel was caught up in the EMP/radiation shock wave & killed all the non shielded systems in her flyer causing the vessel to crash. April was stuck in the middle of the lunar wilderness in a crippled vessel losing atmosphere quickly with no other alternative then to walk. So doning a pressure suit she did just that. Luckily she was picked up by a passing refugee & taken back to civilization. She was checked over by medical staff & it was determined that while she was not severly injured she had taken a massive dose of radiation & would eventually die because of it. So the desicision was made to resleeve her into a an available body. Due to the sleeve shortage she payed to get the best one she could at the time, a pleasure pod. Suddenly April found her slef in dire straights: She had no job, little resources & with the refugees flooding in. If it wasn't for a chance meeting with a war profiteer in the medical station & the ego-hunter who was persuing him her life would have gone in a different direction. But as it was she spotted some discrepency in the criminals character & helped the ego-hunter take him down. The end result of which is that for a few years she worked with him bringing down criminals. These days she works on her own, her mentor having retired to the aerostats of Venus. These days Aprils ability to read people & her ability to hack almost any program has made her one of the more effective Lunarian Ego-Hunters. In this case the Pleasure Pod sleeve comes in handy as the biochuavinism & left over pre-fall sexism combines to the point where people think she's a not very bright but attractive piece of arm candy, a sex worker, a receptionist, or dog walker etc etc. for the most part she lets people believe this (& in fact plays it up), because it allows her to overhear thing she otherwise wouldn't be privvy to. Most people don't know that April is infact an Ego-Hunter as she wears full heavy armour & full helmet while making a bust (mostly due to a lot of Luna crime happening on the surface). -M