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More extreme applications of the study of the human body are Grafting and Reanimation. |
More extreme applications of the study of the human body are Grafting and Reanimation. |
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Elemental Touch is an extremely new phenomenon that’s only been sighted recently, and is currently extremely rare. Humans have been seen that are touched by the elements, changing their appearance and behaviour, and occasionally giving them unusual abilities. |
Elemental Touch is an extremely new phenomenon that’s only been sighted recently, and is currently extremely rare. Humans have been seen that are touched by the elements, changing their appearance and behaviour, and occasionally giving them unusual abilities. |
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| + | It's possible for those skilled in biology to graft elemental material in to the human body, deliberately causing the person to become elementally touched. This will likely take quite a bit of elemental material for all but the simplest grafts. |
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| − | It’s known that becoming elementally touched is possible through interacting with large magical effects, and some experimentation has been done with deliberate surgical grafts of elementally active material. Legend has it effects similar to this were also sometimes exhibited by those who had made pacts with [[elementals]]. |
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| + | Those skilled in Advanced Grafting may be able to come up with personal, experimental grafts based on elemental material or even surgical implantation of alchemical substances. These could be much more powerful, but will likely require regular infusions of material to continue to function. |
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| − | * All PCs start untouched. |
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| − | * Basic grafts are an accessible way to get a chosen basic elemental touch. |
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| − | * Elemental touches with a combat benefit will typically take a mortal wound slot. |
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| − | * Random elemental touches may happen as a result of contact with large magic and alchemy effects, but only with the player’s OC agreement. |
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| − | * Basic elemental touches grant predictable benefits for predictable drawbacks. |
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| − | * Advanced grafts and pacts with elementals are ways to get more powerful elemental touches, which will have a dramatic effect on the character. |
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| − | Elemental touches have strong roleplaying effects and will affect how NPCs interact with the person, particularly elementals. They may also have mechanical advantages and disadvantages. Becoming elementally touched can never happen without the player’s OC consent. Once touched by an element it can’t easily be removed (though it is possible), but a change within the same element is fine (and a way to alleviate OC issues with a physrep). It is possible to become elementally touched from two non-opposing elements. Becoming elementally touched by opposing elements is probably a terrible idea. |
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| − | There is scope for red, green, blue and grey/white face markings, fey features, iconic animal features (but not full beastkin), demonic features and undead features. More custom features may be available through advanced methods (such as advanced grafting) with discussion with the refs. |
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| − | =====Example Elemental Touches===== |
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| − | This is not an exhaustive list - the full list is intended to be found in play as more elemental types are seen. |
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| − | !Element |
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| − | !Physrep |
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| − | !Mechanical Effect |
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| − | !Roleplaying Effect |
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| − | !Brush with element |
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| − | |Any |
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| − | |Sparse face markings of your elemental colour. |
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| − | |None. |
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| − | Special: May be gained once per element. |
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| − | |RP effects of your choice in line with your element. |
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| − | !Third Eye |
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| − | |Any |
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| − | |An extra eye in the colour of your element. |
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| − | |You can control an extra power when leading rituals of your element. You cannot lead or participate in rituals of your opposing element. |
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| − | |You want to find things out, particularly anything to do with your element. |
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| − | !Horns |
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| − | |Creation |
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| − | |Horns |
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| − | |Once per encounter you can call STUN with a melee weapon. -1 mortal wound capacity. |
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| − | |Aggressive towards strangers. |
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| − | !Deathly Resilience |
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| − | |Destruction |
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| − | |Extensive grey skin colouring. |
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| − | |Allows you to CURE 1 yourself within 10s of incapacitation once per encounter. -1 mortal wound capacity. |
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| − | |You have great belief in your ability to survive any situation. |
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| − | !Flame Lash |
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| − | |Chaos |
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| − | |Extensive red skin or veins on the hand and/or arm. |
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| − | |Once per encounter you may call ranged MAGIC TRIPLE. -1 mortal wound capacity. |
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| − | |You are quick to anger. |
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| − | |} |
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====Reanimation==== |
====Reanimation==== |
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Revision as of 15:14, 2 July 2019
Biology is the branch of science related to study of the body. Surgery and medicine is an obvious practical application, and health care in the world of Obscura is exceedingly good as a result.
More extreme applications of the study of the human body are Grafting and Reanimation.
Grafting
Elemental Touch is an extremely new phenomenon that’s only been sighted recently, and is currently extremely rare. Humans have been seen that are touched by the elements, changing their appearance and behaviour, and occasionally giving them unusual abilities.
It's possible for those skilled in biology to graft elemental material in to the human body, deliberately causing the person to become elementally touched. This will likely take quite a bit of elemental material for all but the simplest grafts.
Those skilled in Advanced Grafting may be able to come up with personal, experimental grafts based on elemental material or even surgical implantation of alchemical substances. These could be much more powerful, but will likely require regular infusions of material to continue to function.
Reanimation
Biological sciences have also managed to reanimate dead bodies, in a limited fashion. There are two remarkable applications of this discipline - the ability to animate a body to speak again as if it were alive. This is known to only work a relatively short time after death.
The second application is the reanimation of complete corpses to perform very basic tasks. A reanimator can only maintain a small number of workers at a time. Attempts to use these workers for combat have always been dismal failures, since while they can be strong, they're not tough, and are also slow and very stupid.