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 Aug 12 2009, 10:40 PM
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Moving Target  Group: Members Posts: 411 Joined: 10-June 09 From: Minneapolis, MN Member No.: 17,268  |
One of my players is running a character whose big secret is that, despite looking 20, she's actually 70, and has had her brain implanted in a fast-growth clone body twice and posed as her own daughter, to dodge enemies and stay youthful. Unfortunately, the last time was around Crash 2.0 and she lost the fortune that she'd used to fund it, and had to start rebuilding from the beginning as a lowly runner. I okayed it, and am basically treating it as just fluff (no special mechanics), but do you guys think that implanting a brain into a wimp body like this would work? I'm assuming it'd be kind of a high-end risky procedure, and that sooner or later her brain's going to suffer from aging, but even with those in mind, is this viable in Shadowrun?
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Aug 12 2009, 10:59 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,300 Joined: 6-February 08 From: Cologne, Germany Member No.: 15,648 |
QUOTE (Megu @ Aug 12 2009, 10:40 PM)  One of my players is running a character whose big secret is that, despite looking 20, she's actually 70, and has had her brain implanted in a fast-growth clone body twice and posed as her own daughter, to dodge enemies and stay youthful. Unfortunately, the last time was around Crash 2.0 and she lost the fortune that she'd used to fund it, and had to start rebuilding from the beginning as a lowly runner. I okayed it, and am basically treating it as just fluff (no special mechanics), but do you guys think that implanting a brain into a wimp body like this would work? I'm assuming it'd be kind of a high-end risky procedure, and that sooner or later her brain's going to suffer from aging, but even with those in mind, is this viable in Shadowrun? If you can put a brain in a jar and plug that jar into all kinds of drones, why not? It's certainly imaginable, given SR's implantation technology. What i'm wondering about, though : why not just use Leonization? |
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Aug 13 2009, 01:55 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 411 Joined: 10-June 09 From: Minneapolis, MN Member No.: 17,268 |
QUOTE (Rasumichin @ Aug 12 2009, 05:59 PM) If you can put a brain in a jar and plug that jar into all kinds of drones, why not? It's certainly imaginable, given SR's implantation technology. What i'm wondering about, though : why not just use Leonization? The idea of faking her death to shake her enemies and posing as her own daughter to work with former contacts wouldn't work then, or not as well. At least that was the reasoning. |
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Aug 13 2009, 03:02 AM
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Deus Absconditus Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,742 Joined: 1-September 03 From: Downtown Seattle, UCAS Member No.: 5,566 |
Plus, this clone body idea has the advantage of being way more awesome.
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