I... I have to say, I really like this idea, namely because it'd be awesome to play a character who slowly but surely realizes who and what they really are.
re: Memories, if you allow nonhuman characters, you're going to need some weird SCIENCE!!!! way to turn them human. And I think you should, because characters slowly realizing that they are not and never were human seems really amazing to me. Like...
Imagine say someone from IDK Cybertron, they just feel wrong. Like you've got Optimus Prime (Owen Pax?) and he's a truck driver, and while he likes people he feels so much more comfortable around his trucks. He's always had this weird sense of feeling... too small. And this inexplicable longing for the stars.
But he puts it down to general restlessness and keeps a smile on his face 'cause that's who he is.
Except then he starts having weird dreams and speaking in a language that doesn't exist etc.
Also like the idea of people getting powers back; or even for characters without powers to have the potential to slowly gain some (if the government wants super-soldiers, who's to say they aren't performing dangerous tests, giving these people enhancements just to see what happens? After all, they aren't people)
One thing re: Dark City - I believe the memory repression method there was partially chemical. Other methods... uh, maybe you've got people in a VR environment, maybe it's nanobots? ... I think there was a recent experiment done where some section of the brain was fiddled with that gave people a sense that their consciousness was elsewhere, like in an online avatar? hmm.
SUP IT'S KALproxysearchApril 23 2011, 18:18:19 UTC
Yeah, that's a good point. Idk. Maybe the characters who are not human are actually personality/memory inserted into actual human bodies and given human lives until they realize OH SHIT MY BODY WAS METAL/FURRY WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON. etc. etc.
re: powers - yeah, that's a good idea. I really want people with no powers to get the chance to have them. So maybe no powers for anyone to start out with but then a slow progression of gaining new ones or gaining old ones back.
re: Dark City - yeah, it was some chemical mumbo jumbo so I think we'll go with that. It's a real and breathing world, it's not virtual, so I think we'd stick with that. But nanomachines can still work... Hrm.
Re: SUP IT'S KALteal_deerApril 26 2011, 20:00:10 UTC
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Yeah. Something similar went on in Cape and Cowl, where I used to play - no memory loss, but clearly nonhuman characters were placed into human bodies. My thought would be that perhaps the government wants the skills of some of these nonhuman entities for whatever reason, so they do it via vat cloning of some sort. Or maybe they have a quantum printing laser (ie, "magic")
So THEN, re: powers - For a creature who relies on being BIG AND NASTY or A GIANT ROBOT, would they then get NEW powers (possibly related to their old form) or would they eventually be afforded a way back into their real bodies as part of a plot or what?
I know again that Cape and Cowl did it via their entry method, which was a supercomputer with control over dimensional rifts and... basically on the far end of the "sufficiently advanced" end of Clarke's law. buuut if we wanted it more realistic... idk. :|a Maybe it'd be possible but excessively complicated to get done.
Either way, I think the premise sounds fascinating. I love that idea of slowly waking up and going "wait... wait what?"
re: Memories, if you allow nonhuman characters, you're going to need some weird SCIENCE!!!! way to turn them human. And I think you should, because characters slowly realizing that they are not and never were human seems really amazing to me. Like...
Imagine say someone from IDK Cybertron, they just feel wrong. Like you've got Optimus Prime (Owen Pax?) and he's a truck driver, and while he likes people he feels so much more comfortable around his trucks. He's always had this weird sense of feeling... too small. And this inexplicable longing for the stars.
But he puts it down to general restlessness and keeps a smile on his face 'cause that's who he is.
Except then he starts having weird dreams and speaking in a language that doesn't exist etc.
Also like the idea of people getting powers back; or even for characters without powers to have the potential to slowly gain some (if the government wants super-soldiers, who's to say they aren't performing dangerous tests, giving these people enhancements just to see what happens? After all, they aren't people)
One thing re: Dark City - I believe the memory repression method there was partially chemical. Other methods... uh, maybe you've got people in a VR environment, maybe it's nanobots? ... I think there was a recent experiment done where some section of the brain was fiddled with that gave people a sense that their consciousness was elsewhere, like in an online avatar? hmm.
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re: powers - yeah, that's a good idea. I really want people with no powers to get the chance to have them. So maybe no powers for anyone to start out with but then a slow progression of gaining new ones or gaining old ones back.
re: Dark City - yeah, it was some chemical mumbo jumbo so I think we'll go with that. It's a real and breathing world, it's not virtual, so I think we'd stick with that. But nanomachines can still work... Hrm.
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Yeah. Something similar went on in Cape and Cowl, where I used to play - no memory loss, but clearly nonhuman characters were placed into human bodies. My thought would be that perhaps the government wants the skills of some of these nonhuman entities for whatever reason, so they do it via vat cloning of some sort. Or maybe they have a quantum printing laser (ie, "magic")
So THEN, re: powers - For a creature who relies on being BIG AND NASTY or A GIANT ROBOT, would they then get NEW powers (possibly related to their old form) or would they eventually be afforded a way back into their real bodies as part of a plot or what?
I know again that Cape and Cowl did it via their entry method, which was a supercomputer with control over dimensional rifts and... basically on the far end of the "sufficiently advanced" end of Clarke's law. buuut if we wanted it more realistic... idk. :|a Maybe it'd be possible but excessively complicated to get done.
Either way, I think the premise sounds fascinating. I love that idea of slowly waking up and going "wait... wait what?"
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