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Meathab

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NoFace NoFace's picture
Meathab
This last week I have been reading World War Z in my free time, and many memories of "zombies" in space started to shamble through my mind. I thought of all various twists, turns, and each take that various stories, movies, books, and games have taken on zombies or zombies in space. And it just so happens that I picked up my Eclipse Phase book the other day, which led to a wonderful memetic collision with Meathab (pg 104). I love Meathab. It's a great example of the kind of art for art's sake I'd expect to see post-Singularity. But I was at a loss as to how Meathab could be applied in a game session in an active fashion. How can players participate with the idea of flying through space in a giant meaty bladder made of ultra-bacon? Zombies. It could be nanites, or an exsurgent virus. It doesn't really matter. It's just ready made for chronic digestive problems. Has anyone else had any ideas for cool ways to use Meathab?
GregH GregH's picture
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Been wondering about that one myself, though the idea of Meathab catching a touch of Exsurgent is chilling to say the least. Also been thinking about the possibility that perhaps it's original designer is still within it, planning, plotting, or that characters may find the connection that lets one resleeve INTO Meathab (and what kind of individual would DO that). On that notion, since the assumption appears to be that the construct is a nonsentient biological construct... what better place for a Promethan (or worse, TITAN) to hide in? As for zombies, I can see a group of Meathab fanatics ("Meatheads"?) deliberately turning themselves into something zombie-esq as part of the whole Meathab thing... some sort of hideous parasite/undead esq. things that the characters have to interact with in order to address the larger threat to Meathab...
Arenamontanus Arenamontanus's picture
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What about a bacon-based morph? Of course, it is actually just the outer layer that is (edible, and regenerating) bacon, but the overall impression is rather disquieting. "I'm delicious!" indeed.
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jackgraham jackgraham's picture
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The Doctor The Doctor's picture
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Om nom nom.
Rhyx Rhyx's picture
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Well I just had in idea today about meathab that fits the bill. If you're in my game leave now or I erase your backups in a freak EMP accident: Eclipse Phase Side Story: BACON! Biomorphs are beginning to go missing without a trace on the artsy tourist attraction Meathab. Meathab's creator is dead his body has long since been consumed by the habitat and his consciousness mixed with Meathab’s biological components. Meathab has taken upon itself to fulfill it's creator's wishes and make them a reality. The creator wanted Meathab to continue growing. It is using a mix of nano dissasemblers and digestive juices to incorporate the juicy minds and bodies to make itself bigger and and smarter. The AI who has now become a seed AI with the new influx of biological brains in it’s pattern is honoring its creator by a making itself into a generational starship. When found out the Meathab AI is remorseful and asks the PCs try to find alternate ways to feed it and make it's dreams come true, which the PCs can either help it (getting a strange new ally) or elect to destroy it. If informed Firewall will immediately see this as a threat and dispatch an erasure team to dispose of meathab. Strangely enough, Meathab is not virused by the TITANs at all, it’s is simply an AGI who has evolved into a seed AI using human brain matter from the Biomorphs it has consumed and trying to grow to to fullfill it’s creator's postmortem wishes. It is the artist’s hubris filled rants that give Meathab it's strange dietary habits: "Do you see! These commoners are nothing! They are barely alive! They are meat puppets!"