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Multiple personality implant and hormones

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Mon, 2014-06-30 06:29

Lorsa

Multiple personality implant and hormones

There is one question that popped up in my head while I was avoiding getting up from bed today, and one that I would appreciate some input on namely: How does the bioware augmentation Multiple Personalities interact with hormonal and other autonomous responses in the morph? While only one ego is the "forefront", that is, controlling the morph actively, it seems to me that they both feel all the effects of being in a body at all times and that any active hornomoes in the body affect them both and that either of them could trigger a response. What I mean is that if one of the egos watches a really frightening XP, it will trigger an adrenal response and the other ego will start to feel jumpy and anxious/afraid as well. Same goes for if one of the egos is angry or aroused or anything else that usually triggers a hormonal reaction. Or do you think that only one of the egos is linked to the body's hormonal response at any one time? The reason I ask is that my player's character is trying to convince her AGI friend to move from a Ghostrider Module into a Multiple Personalities implant and I'm thinking if I could create some interesting situations out of that. Also, the character is an async so if you have any thoughts on what the WM virus might do to a second ego taking up residence in the same brain (but another partition) of an infected character that's welcome too.

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Mon, 2014-06-30 06:53

otohime1978 otohime1978's picture

Well, they don't really go

Well, they don't really go into specifics into how they partition the brain to hold multiple egos at once. Is it totally biological, or is there a cyberbrain implant we are unaware of? Now, this is where it gets tricky. The rules state that each personality tracks their own lucidity, stress, trauma and trauma threshold separately. However, this does not mean that when one ego is inactive, it doesn't have to do trauma and lucidity checks when the active ego experiences something that requires them to do the same. All it means is that when they roll, they each roll separately and react to the stressful situation slightly differently. One might be traumatized for life. The other might just be shaken. Basically, they both feel [i]everything.[/i] But, because they are different people, essentially, how they react to these hormonal and environmental stressors can be as different as night and day. Also, since we do not know the nature of this implant, but it is not a cyberware implant, but rather a bioware implant, one would assume that if the morph became infected with the WM virus, both egos would become asyncs.

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Mon, 2014-06-30 09:57

uwtartarus uwtartarus's picture

IIRC multiple personality was

IIRC multiple personality was created just forks of the primary ego, so was unlike a ghostrider which can hold an entirely different ego. The multiple personality implant regularly remerges the ego, doesn't it?

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Mon, 2014-06-30 10:20

MAD Crab

Multiple Personalities != Multitasking

I think you're thinking of the Multitasking augmentation. That one forks the ego and reintegrates the forks every four hours. Multiple personality doesn't fork the ego, and doesn't reintegrate. The other ego is just... there.

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Mon, 2014-06-30 12:14

uwtartarus uwtartarus's picture

My bad, you're right MAD Crab

My bad, you're right MAD Crab.

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Multiple Personalities: The character’s brain is intentionally partitioned to accommodate an extra personality. This multiplicity is not viewed as a disorder, but as a cognitive tool to help people deal with their hypercomplex environments. This extra personality can be an NPC run by the gamemaster, a separate character (in ego form only) made by the player, or the downloaded fork of another character. For all intents and purposes, the extra personality is treated as a separate ego (i.e., it may fork separately), except that both personalities are backed up in the same cortical stack and if downloaded they must be placed in separate morphs or in another morph with this implant.

EP p.301 It seems like both minds are conscious, so fear and hormonal responses would affect both? But it also says that the body only responds to one mind, so if the forebrain ego was watching an old-timey cinema of a horror film, provoking a fear response, the aft-brain ego who is doing research tests on the Mesh would suffer from the fear hormonal responses. But if the forebrain was exercising or practicing a skill or trade, while the aft-brain was watching horror XP, I don't think it would elicit a fear response (which may discourage aft-brain egos from watching horror XP since they can't fully enjoy it?) Or so would my interpretation of the weird bioware go.

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Mon, 2014-06-30 12:19

MAD Crab

Putting the RP in RPG

I think this is the kind of weirdness that the developers would term "ripe for RP opportunities."

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Mon, 2014-06-30 13:32

otohime1978 otohime1978's picture

It's like it was designed for

It's like it was designed for horror type games.

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Mon, 2014-06-30 13:51

ShadowDragon8685 ShadowDragon8685's picture

Lorsa wrote:There is one

Lorsa wrote:
There is one question that popped up in my head while I was avoiding getting up from bed today, and one that I would appreciate some input on namely: How does the bioware augmentation Multiple Personalities interact with hormonal and other autonomous responses in the morph? While only one ego is the "forefront", that is, controlling the morph actively, it seems to me that they both feel all the effects of being in a body at all times and that any active hornomoes in the body affect them both and that either of them could trigger a response. What I mean is that if one of the egos watches a really frightening XP, it will trigger an adrenal response and the other ego will start to feel jumpy and anxious/afraid as well. Same goes for if one of the egos is angry or aroused or anything else that usually triggers a hormonal reaction. Or do you think that only one of the egos is linked to the body's hormonal response at any one time?

I would say that this is the case with most of these implants; only the "forefront" ego is linked to triggering hormonal responses. So if the multi-personality ego watches a scary XP, they won't really get the full adrenaline rush and fear and such. I would propose that this might penalize ego partitions which are working on tasks inappropriate to the hormones the main fork is triggering. IE, if the main fork is lustful because of whatever, and one of the forks is trying to review an XP from a frightening Firewall mission, the reviewing fork is likely to suffer a penalty because of this incongruity. And/or start to find fear sexually arousing, which is going to be awkward when they get merged.

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The reason I ask is that my player's character is trying to convince her AGI friend to move from a Ghostrider Module into a Multiple Personalities implant and I'm thinking if I could create some interesting situations out of that.

This seems like a bad idea somehow, but I can't really put my finger on why, exactly.

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Also, the character is an async so if you have any thoughts on what the WM virus might do to a second ego taking up residence in the same brain (but another partition) of an infected character that's welcome too.

The Watts-McLeod strain of the Exsurgent Virus is gone from the character. It did its rewriting and left. And if the character already is an async, they're used to living with some "Other" in their head, so there's always room for one more!

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