From:	bluewizard@*****.com (Steven A. Tinner)
Subject:	Clonal Technology
Date:	Fri, 13 Sep 1996 23:30:37 -0500 (EST)

OK, here's another little tidbit for the kiddies.
How are you all handling clonal technology?
We know it exists thanks to the medical treatment rules in the core
rulebook, but how advanced is it?
Can SR cyberdocs actually clone a viable metahuman?
How about recording brain engrams and placing them in a newly cloned body?
Is this blood magic?
Is this cybermancy?
Does the clone have a soul/essence?

Currently I have been playing that there is limited clonal technology.
The methoc used for cloning is that the cyberdoc must grow an entire body,
harvest the wanted parts, then vatjob the rest of the tissue for reuse. (I
mainly use this ruling for sheer shock value and gross-out effect! ;-)

"What do you mean that's my body in that vat?!?!?!?"

Here's my dilemma.
A powerful mage NPC in our campaign has been atomized in combat with a
termite hive.
However, before he was killed, his body had been cloned from a tissue sample
taken by Lone Star while he worked for them.
Just for kicks and giggles, I decided to bring this PC back as a ghost.
Penthisil (the NPC ghost) was a good friend and mentor to several PC's, and
they'd like to bring him back to life if possible.

(Hang on it gets stranger!)

How should I handle this?
Before you all say it can't be done, what is a ghost if not a free spirit?
And free spirits CAN get the possession power.
Why couldn't Penth, with a major ritual, be reunited with his body?

Or should I just make the ghost an evil free spirit and have it take control
of the PC's bodies? <evil grin>


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