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Morph Diagnostics - How Much Do You Know?

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Sat, 2015-02-28 16:12
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TheGrue TheGrue's picture
Morph Diagnostics - How Much Do You Know?
Obviously a character that begins a game in a morph can be assumed to know what's in it. And, likewise, custom-ordering a morph from a scum bodyshop tends to give one a good idea of what that morph can do. But suppose, for some reason, an ego resleeves into a morph it has no prior knowledge of. In the absence of outside assistance, how much does that ego know about the morph, its capabilities, implants and traits? Is the answer different for biomorphs than synths? Than pods?
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Sat, 2015-02-28 16:24
UnitOmega UnitOmega's picture
Basic Mesh Inserts contains
Basic Mesh Inserts contains "biomedical sensors" which give all kinds of feedback information on your health and well being. I would assume that in normal circumstances this would include data about all your internal implants, which would alter your standard health and safety situation, and probably need to be noted by something in case you need medical work done. The function is similar to synthmorphs just more conventional diagnostic. This isn't counting the kind of "patches" done to an Ego during resleeving to handle all the muscle memory and autonomic responses for some kinds of implants, such as realizing you have the innate ability to extrude/retract bioware claws. Now, some of this stuff might be masked or safety precautions skipped over, but in general you should probably be able to review most of your implants. By inference if nothing else. Traits on the other hand, I feel would be more vague. Your biomed sensors might be able to say you have a strong, healthy immune system, but can they point out it is intrinsically enhanced in the form of the Improved Immune System trait? Do they have fine enough feedback to directly comment on increased pain tolerance, and what exactly is the scientific metric on "Tough"? Some traits you can notice by looking in a mirror. Others might suddenly crop up in your neurochemistry without you expecting it.
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Sun, 2015-03-01 00:01
ORCACommander ORCACommander's picture
and then there are the
and then there are the darkcast facilities which you may get the odd morph with implants that are actively shielded from your conscious.
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Sat, 2015-03-14 15:00
Forseti Forseti's picture
Good you ask
Last session I had such situation. Characters end up in random morphs. Upon regaining consciousness they see a green dot in their field of view. It unfolds into following log:
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10.12.01 08:23:11 System starts 10.12.01 08:23:11 User sleeved, status: 200 OK 10.12.01 08:23:12 Sleeve diagnostics: 10.12.01 08:23:12 Morph: Synth, S/N 00c1 41000cca8f, status: 200 OK 10.12.01 08:23:12 Morph: registered to: Liao Zian Leasing, status: 401 Not authorised 10.12.01 08:23:12 Morph/Improvements: 10.12.01 08:23:12 * Cyberbrain, v:Exotek m:Vult e23, status: 200 OK 10.12.01 08:23:12 module: Memory augmentation, status: 401 Not authorised 10.12.01 08:23:12 module: Access jacks hub, status: 200 OK 10.12.01 08:23:12 module: Puppet sock bus, status: 200 OK 10.12.01 08:23:12 module: Ghostrider, status: 200 OK 10.12.01 08:23:12 * Cortical stack, status: 401 Not authorised 10.12.01 08:23:12 * Enhanced vision, v:Zeiss Biotech m:Lumix 4x, status: 200 OK 10.12.01 08:23:12 * Outer shell, v:Qlippoth Industries m:DuroSteel, status: 200 OK 10.12.01 08:23:12 * Hidden compartment, v:Li Feng Workshop m:n/a, status: 200 OK 10.12.01 08:23:13 Cyberbrain/Memory augmentation: partition 002 created, status: 200 OK 10.12.01 08:23:13 Cyberbrain/Ghostrider: child process initiated: chroot jail 001 10.12.01 08:23:13 Mesh insert: Niobe Industries, Conex X12, adress: 13:33:00:88:2f:90:ec:5b 10.12.01 08:23:13 Mesh insert: status 200 OK, no Mesh coverage 10.12.01 08:23:13 Mesh insert: switched to ad-hoc mode, 3 hosts detected, connecting... 10.12.01 08:23:14 Mesh insert: child process initiated: Muse > runlevel 5
Then it folds back into green dot and Muse shows up in character's FoV. It was printed as a handout for players. Also more detailed info was available in format:
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> info Ghostrider VENDOR: Exotek MODEL: Vult VERSION: e23 DESCRIPTION: /from Eclipse Phase main book/ STATUS: 200 OK Infomorph 001 loaded, running in chroot jail Sensory input forwarding: on Data forwarding: on Communication: 2-way Mesh access: denied
What you think? Nice? :)
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Sat, 2015-03-14 17:28
ORCACommander ORCACommander's picture
bonus points if you printed
bonus points if you printed it in the old 80's style block dos font.
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