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Starting Morph Question

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Sat, 2013-06-15 16:06

icu_seamus icu_seamus's picture

Starting Morph Question

So, I'm curious about something that has come up while I've been building my character. Are you limited in the number of morphs you can buy at character creation? There are a number of potential complications I see, and this could lead to some tweaky problems. First, my character concept. I am making an Argonaut who was born with a genetic defect. As a result, he has placed his body in stasis. He has alpha forked himself into a menton, and that fork will be my character. The way I have tried to make this work is to build him as a flat, and then add on a menton morph. So, how should I do this? The flat costs 0 CP, and allows me to take the Genetic Defect trait. If the rules allow me to buy more than one morph, I can use that to buy a menton. Can I do that?

Sat, 2013-06-15 18:36

DivineWrath DivineWrath's picture

Owning morphs during

Owning morphs during character creation is tricky. For the default setting, the book assumes that characters will be far casted around a lot by Firewall, so you will likely be using morphs other than your starting one(s). In fact, morphs resembling your starting morph might be in short supply depending where you show up at. As such, your starting morph(s) are kinda flavor. They are the morph(s) you use when you are not on the job. As such, I would rule that you can "waste" as much cp on starting morphs as you have cp available to spend. Please note that keeping biomorphs in cold storage cost money or favors. If you really want to improve the odds of you finding a morph you like, you might want to favor synthmorphs and carry around the blueprints of the models you like. It would allow you to assemble the synthmorph at a local nanofab (some assembly might be required if the fabber is small).

Sun, 2013-06-16 00:29

Decivre

icu_seamus wrote:So, I'm

icu_seamus wrote:
So, I'm curious about something that has come up while I've been building my character. Are you limited in the number of morphs you can buy at character creation? There are a number of potential complications I see, and this could lead to some tweaky problems. First, my character concept. I am making an Argonaut who was born with a genetic defect. As a result, he has placed his body in stasis. He has alpha forked himself into a menton, and that fork will be my character. The way I have tried to make this work is to build him as a flat, and then add on a menton morph. So, how should I do this? The flat costs 0 CP, and allows me to take the Genetic Defect trait. If the rules allow me to buy more than one morph, I can use that to buy a menton. Can I do that?

Trivial question I have, but: is there any particular reason this character didn't simply resleeve? A fork seems an illogical solution, considering that even if he decided to use his original body again, there would still be a copy of his mind present, who has experienced nothing. I just find it unusual that a person would be comfortable with forking, but not so much with resleeving. That said, you may buy as many bodies as you wish at creation, and all must be paid with CP. However, you must also purchase body bank services for your biomorphs, and even synthmorphs will likely require paying for a place to stash them (unless you have an AI driving them around).

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Sun, 2013-06-16 09:55

icu_seamus icu_seamus's picture

Reason to Fork

My reasoning for his somewhat strange attitude toward forking is part of the concept. He's got a somewhat skewed bioconservative point of view. He's got a slight fear that simply uploading and resleeving creates a copy and destroys the original ego. He wants to cure his genetic defect but still preserve as much of hisoriginal self as possible. His plan is to cure his illness, then merge the fork back into his main ego. It'll be easy for him to cover his illegal forking because the base is in stasis. Of course this will all go to turds as things go forward.

Sun, 2013-06-16 11:36

Decivre

icu_seamus wrote:My reasoning

icu_seamus wrote:
My reasoning for his somewhat strange attitude toward forking is part of the concept. He's got a somewhat skewed bioconservative point of view. He's got a slight fear that simply uploading and resleeving creates a copy and destroys the original ego. He wants to cure his genetic defect but still preserve as much of hisoriginal self as possible. His plan is to cure his illness, then merge the fork back into his main ego. It'll be easy for him to cover his illegal forking because the base is in stasis. Of course this will all go to turds as things go forward.

Ah okay, that makes some sense.

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Mon, 2013-06-17 09:19

fafromnice fafromnice's picture

for me it pose a major stress

for me it pose a major stress problem after two week or a little firewall run I normally take for granted that the alpha fork is incapable of resleeving with is main ego that said it's a cool concept so if i'm DMing i will not oppose it, I will probably play it like a disavantage because you always have to look for "yourself" and it's a major security risk for Firewall talk with your DM/GM give him ideas for backstabbing you and play it like a plot device, this is what i will do

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Mon, 2013-06-17 16:36

icu_seamus icu_seamus's picture

Important Features

You can totally merge the forks back together after two weeks. It's just a little messy. When merging back together, there's always a risk of taking somewhere in the range of 5-16SV depending on how the Psychosurgery test goes. It's certainly something to be aware of. I guess that means he needs a high Psychosurgery skill rating and and reasonable WIL score to handle the strain. I think that gives the GM lots of leeway for making my life miserable by making it difficult to get back to my secret body stash.