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Post by Pawel on Feb 23, 2022 8:17:10 GMT
Hey fellow mammals,
Here's a wee preview of the new Nereid tool, straight from BiohazardGames twitter:
"Disturbingly, it's increasingly common practice in encounters between nereids and humans that end in human death for the surviving nereids to template the dead humans at the molecular level, capturing the ability to reconstruct identical, indistinguishable replacements at will. With their nanite-assisted biochemical control, nereids are able to catalyze the metabolism of such newly re-constructed, previously dead individuals, effectively bringing them back to life. With the attendant, molecularly identical brain reconstruction, the new individuals have the same personalities and memories as their previous forms, and are therefore, arguably, the same people. There are over a hundred templates of currently deceased humans stored in various nereid archives across the planet, just waiting for future use or horrific discovery. Even more disturbingly, the nereids are able to modify these reconstructed people - both wittingly and unwittingly - into being their spies and agents in the human world."
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Post by lupmet on Feb 23, 2022 13:27:23 GMT
As was mentioned in another thread; Posiedon has its Lovcraftian components – why does this make me think of Mi-Gos? 😉
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Post by Pawel on Feb 23, 2022 14:32:49 GMT
As was mentioned in another thread; Posiedon has its Lovcraftian components – why does this make me think of Mi-Gos? 😉 Haha, well, we certainly know much less about the nereirds' creators than we do about the Mi-go. But I believe Jeff might be holding some more surprises there for us, expanding the mythos of Blue Planet.
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Post by doublea on Feb 24, 2022 1:09:23 GMT
Oh man now my brain is full of terrible things to do. Though this sort of story hit seems like a background-narrative I always wonder if I can push it. I now want to write up a scenario where the PC's survive a horrible crash or storm or something, and as they piece the story together realize it to be actually impossible they survived at all! Like the show 'Lost' but not terrible. ...hmm, or an even worse version where the PC's suddenly bump into themselves, things devolving into this weird question of who is the 'original' person and who is the copy. And even....would they really want to know the truth at all? Heh heh...
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Post by Pawel on Feb 24, 2022 9:20:04 GMT
Oh man now my brain is full of terrible things to do. Though this sort of story hit seems like a background-narrative I always wonder if I can push it. I now want to write up a scenario where the PC's survive a horrible crash or storm or something, and as they piece the story together realize it to be actually impossible they survived at all! Like the show 'Lost' but not terrible. ...hmm, or an even worse version where the PC's suddenly bump into themselves, things devolving into this weird question of who is the 'original' person and who is the copy. And even....would they really want to know the truth at all? Heh heh... Oh yeah, these sound awesome!! Hope you do write this up! There's a whole delicious dimension of horror possibilities there.
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Post by lupmet on Feb 26, 2022 9:19:21 GMT
I think the difficult part is the Great Reveal, how will the players understand the truth? It is no fun if they just run around on an island and only the GM knows. Finding the secret lab is IMHO a bit cliché and bumping into themselves only adds mystery, not revealing. How would you think you would solve it?
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Post by Pawel on Feb 26, 2022 10:52:34 GMT
I think the difficult part is the Great Reveal, how will the players understand the truth? It is no fun if they just run around on an island and only the GM knows. Finding the secret lab is IMHO a bit cliché and bumping into themselves only adds mystery, not revealing. How would you think you would solve it? Well, this is deep-end Access Denied stuff, so I'd pace myself and shave this off bit by bit, rather than go all in. Small steps towards possible truths, plenty of rumours true and false along the way, maybe add in some local superstitions. A cryptozoology vlogger on a trail of SOMETHING HUGE who gets discredited and later disappears. Second-hand stories about the Returned, an ostracized or perhaps half-worshipped group of Native fishermen who lost their lives during a Noah storm and a year later that same Noah brought them back. But hey, surely the players' characters are just imagining things... Although, that HIST researcher financing the group's efforts is acting a bit weird sometimes, not asking the most obvious questions and sometimes just staring towards the eastern horizon for a prolonged time, exactly like those weird Natives... and one of the player characters! Grab 'em! Paranoia can be delicious in RPG.
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