From: | Sean McCrohan <mccrohan@*****.OIT.GATECH.EDU> |
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Subject: | Re: Why i think that bioware as per Shadowtech was a Good Thing |
Date: | Tue, 6 Oct 1998 18:24:29 -0400 |
> My point here is that a natural injury can be healed, and once healed the body
> template will be returned to its pristine state. When cyberware is implanted,
> the body template is damaged (well, the body is damaged...), and when the body
> is healed, the body template stays damaged, because the implanted cyberware
> replaces part of the body, allowing a whole new range of expression that were
> not "allowed" by the original body.
> The bioware thing is completely different, as it is alive. It has its own body
> template, so there is no Essence loss. (Well, maybe it should, when bioware
> implantation is so massive that it overwhelms the body in which it is
> implanted...)
Okay - the main crux of your point seems to be that bioware is alive,
and therefore has its own astral (or rather, aural) presence, so it doesn't
disrupt the patient's aura as much, and shouldn't affect Essence. However...
the bioware, as you said, has its own 'astral template', and it DOESN'T
MATCH that of the patient. I can see an argument that an 'alien' aura within
your own would be even more disruptive than a hole would be. So, I don't think
this tact will resolve the debate decisively.
Hey, does anyone know about rules for losing Essence for things OTHER
than cyberware implantation? SR3 says that long-time addicts and other
people who abuse their bodies lose Essence, but it doesn't have details.
Can you lose Essence from a deadly wound? What about losing a body part and
not replacing it? CyberPirates assigns an Essence cost for peg-legs and
hook-hands, which seems pretty silly to me for things that are basically
strap-ons.
--Sean
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Grad Student, Human-Computer Interaction | horse, and under the presentation
Georgia Institute of Technology | of that he shoots his wit."
http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/~smccrohan | _As You Like It_, Act 5 Sc 4