Only in Eclipse Phase could Dissociative identity disorder be BOTH the result of the strain of dozens of horrific existential enounters... and a cognitive enhancement you could buy. That said, can a character have BOTH the Multiple Personality Enhancement AND have MPD as well as a result of some manner of mental trauma? Or does the deliberate partitioning of your mind grant some sort of immunity to such an occurance.
And what about Psi? Can and individual possess the Psi trait but it only manifests in one personality, while the other does not have it?
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It's about Me, Me, Me... and Me Too!
Tue, 2009-12-15 00:56
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GregH
It's about Me, Me, Me... and Me Too!
Tue, 2009-12-15 07:06
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Zophiel
Re: It's about Me, Me, Me... and Me Too!
As if it isn't bad enough that you can have something like five spare forks of yourself running in the same body with the right enhancements. Now you want each of them to be two people, too? Just how many character sheets do you expect me to lug around?
My somewhat less tongue in cheek answer is that in my game, yes to both. However, as a player, if I ever found out that someone had both the enhancement and the mental condition, I would most likely make it my life's work to hunt down whoever installed the implant, put one in them and a copy of the deranged character in it.
Thu, 2010-01-14 11:42
#3
Arenamontanus
Re: It's about Me, Me, Me... and Me Too!
Something that came up in my game was that the parallel fork in the background ("secundus") and the main fork ("primus") got different stress levels during the adventure. It was a bit unclear how to handle this during a later merge (fortunately, they had therapied themselves to perfect health by then).
It would of course have been more interesting if one had ended up with a big trauma, causing divergent behaviour and making the merge much harder. That particular character had a personal philosophy of "treat your fork as you would yourself", but others might have worse problems in handling distressed versions.
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