| From: | Eve Forward <lutra@******.COM> |
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| Subject: | Re: no subject (file transmission) |
| Date: | Mon, 28 Aug 1995 09:43:50 -0700 |
different DNA). If you pay double you can get cloned body parts,
yes that's right cloned from your own DNA. If you want to pay
4 x cost you can get cultured, which is still cloned but is less
different, and reduces the body cost by 25%. (Neural interfaces
like cerebral boost, synaptic accel.,etc are already cultured)
So honestly they would not be unfamiliar, or alien.<<
Ok, how about this:
(this kinda goes Earthdawnish, so bear with me)
Your magical self (your True Pattern) isn't just made from your DNA; it's
also part of your history, who and where you've been and how it's affected
your physical body as well as your magical self. So, let's say you killed
a Barghest with a spell you cast from your left hand, or that scar on your
finger is from the bite of a devil rat, or whatever; your body is part of
your history. Cutting off a part of that history, and replacing it with
something else, even if it's -biologically- you-- it still isn't the same
arm, and you know it(<-- this is important; sorry to cliche but WYTIWYG)
and yet it's trying to replace part of your Pattern and it can't really
do it because it doesn't have the history behind it... and so your Pattern
is disrupted and your magic rating goes down. As for why bio costs more than
cyber; maybe it's because cyber is dead and has no living Pattern to conflict
with what you already have.
Does this make sense to anyone but me? ;)
-E
