Earlier, I decided to put this life path system through its paces, coming out with a rather interesting character I'll have to find a game for one of these days, but along the way I hit a rather odd corner case-
Fractured Youth: Roll 3 times take the 1 PP package from each, the last one is the one that determines your path for step 6, and, presumably, the morph you'll start off with if nothing occurs later to stick you with a new one (that last bit could stand clarifying in errata honestly).
Presumably the idea here, and with Split Youth, is that you go through these, a few years apart, in chronological order, as you grow up. So if I had split youth- Raised on the Street, followed by Orbital Elite, OK, that's some little street rat who was born as a flat, then adopted by some nice rich spacefaring type, and resleeved into a shiny new exalt morph. All well and good, but here's what I rolled:
1- Earthborn: Raised on the street.
2- Earthborn: Raised in a collective/communal grouping.
3- Created not Born: Almost Human.
So... what the heck happened to this poor kid? Some grimy little street rat, who either fell in with a cult or was taken in by people trying to keep then off the street, then... somehow they become an AGI? It would be easy enough to rationalize this as just spending some time without a morph, but the package comes with the Real World Naiveté and Social Stigma (AGI) traits. The best I can think is that the little kid from those first two rolls ended up rather dead, without a fully recoverable brain, and a human-imitating AGI was created from what scraps of memory could be recovered acting as a base.
I suppose it would have been weirder if I'd hit, say, Uplift: Escapee on that last sub-table, or to have rolled both on different steps. I suppose testing the effects of radically different morphs than what someone was born with allows a lot of handwaving here, but it's still an odd corner case.
The above rationalization gets pretty amusing for this particular character though, who then went on to be killed or uploaded by TITANs, dumped into a pleasure pod, became a pretty accomplished thief, and somehow ended up starting with absolutely no equipment of any sort. Long history of not being able to catch a break there.
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Split Youth/Fractured Youth oddities.
Mon, 2014-04-07 05:45
#1
Googleshng
Split Youth/Fractured Youth oddities.
Mon, 2014-04-07 07:37
#2
Kassil
Read them in reverse order -
Read them in reverse order - the character was an AGI who was raised to sapience by a collective group on Earth prior to the Fall; when they got shut down, one of the members managed to get the AGI into a neotenic morph and out the back alley window to escape, after which the 'child' was stuck living on the streets until the Fall struck.
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Mon, 2014-04-07 08:35
#3
baldur27
or he might not have been
or he might not have been aware he was an AGI or suffering memory loss so raised on the street then after joining a commune his vastly different neural network is discovered and wallah created not born
Mon, 2014-04-07 17:11
#4
Googleshng
Shuffling the order around
Shuffling the order around gets weird, both because the last result rolled is officially the one that provides your morph and projected career path, and because, in this case, the first two results I hit specifically give you a Flat, which is a weird enough thing to dump an AGI into that going that route is even more bizarre than what I rolled.
Of course, now that I actually go back and look at the drawbacks involved, you don't necessarily have to be an AGI to face discrimination and have some serious gaps in your view of the world. Naiveté is also available to people who just spent way too much time as infomorphs, so it isn't strictly necessary to run with some sort of implanted false memories angle here. Just, here's some poor kid dumped onto the net right when he was about to hit puberty, missed out on a lot of basic formative experiences and maturing relationships, then poof, freaky death robots go trashing the world, and somehow or other he gets dumped out of some unrealistic simulation that's been running for twenty years or so, and suddenly we've got this spontaneously aware, recently manufactured pleasure pod trying to convince people she totally grew up on earth that doesn't have enough real world memories to plead a convincing case, and gets unfairly accused of just being some freaky AGI.
General point still stands though that a 0 on the youth path table makes you jump through some weird hoops if it's one of multiple childhood experiences.
Fri, 2014-06-13 20:22
#5
NoEther
My inclination is to either 1
My inclination is to either 1) treat roll of 96-00 as wholesome youth of that path or 2) re-roll 96-00 unless I already rolled wholesome youth. I particularly like the "created not born" options so I like (1) more than (2). Your odds of getting a Flat on any given roll are >10% and having a Flat doesn't make sense for an AGI or an Uplift (Lost is already forcing you to treat it as a wholesome youth).