Eclipse Phase random chargen begins now. Based on life paths from Transhuman (p 55).
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Won't go into all the nitty-gritty detail, but will pick skills as they actually say something about the character.
> LIFE PATH CHARACTER CREATION STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE 1. Choose/Roll Aptitude Template 2. Choose/Roll Native Tongue 3. Choose/Roll Youth Path (2 or 3 PP Background Packages) 4. Roll Background Event 5. Roll Character’s Age 6. Choose/Roll Adult Pre-Fall Path (1 PP Package) 7. Roll Pre-Fall Life Event 8. The Fall: Roll Fall Event 9. Choose/Roll Adult Post-Fall Path (1 or 3 PP Package) 10. Choose/Roll More Packages Until Character Has 10 PP Total 11. Roll Post-Fall Life Event 12. Optional: Roll Firewall Event
@doppelgreener Hab is short for habitat, a living space. Often in space. Sunward simply means its closer to the Sun than the Earth.
So, our extroverted Chinese guy's childhood sucked. He was a worker on a hab. Gets Indenture package (will see what that is in a moment). Rolling to see which morph (body) he's in.
Case. That's probably even worse. The cheapest robotic body.
Alternative being a 'flat', an un-augmented regular body, i.e. you and me. Those suck.
> INDENTURE You either won a lottery for the poor, where the prize was to go off-world, or you died during the Fall. Either way, you found yourself working away in virtual slavery to a hypercorp. You worked hard constructing habitats, mining asteroids, or terraforming Mars.
Because this is childhood, the Fall hasn't happened yet. The Fall being a cataclysmic event 10 years before the start of the game where super-intelligent AI nearly kills everyone before vanishing and leaving Earth uninhabitable.
> Suggested Motivations: +Hard Work, +Survival, –Hypercorps, –Indentured Service
Right, so we don't get a pre-fall life event or adult pre-fall path. We were on the mining asteroid when the Fall happened. Trying to save up enough cash to get the family out, I think.
The fighting was less fierce out in space, but it did get everywhere. I don't think we were trying to protect the hypercorp who treated us like crap. Instead, we were trying to protect our friends in similar case morphs.
So, chaos, fighting everywhere, space zombies, rogue AI. We get destroyed while protecting the evacuation, but that's fine. The hypercorp has a backup of our consciousness. Or maybe someone nicer gets the cortical stack (continuous backup, everyone has one) out. Lets see what morph we get out of this.
5 point Focus, 1 point Faction. We're not here to play politics or join cliques.
Normally you roll to see if you stay with your adult path or change to something new, but we didn't have an adult path. So we'll just roll to find out what we do now.
> You seek to understand how the universe works—or at least certain elements of it. Suggested Motivations: +Research, +Science!, +Technoprogressivism, –Bioconservatism
(It must be very hard to keep track of what i'm rolling for. Should I reference specific tables, or is no one bothering to follow along with the book anyway?)
> ORBITAL Living in orbit above Earth, among a melting pot of transhumanity’s displaced cultures, you look down upon a daily reminder of our species’ failures. Suggested Motivations: +Bioconservatism, +Precautionism, +Reclaiming Earth, –AGI Rights
Huh. So. We've made something of a name for ourselves in the academic circles. We're quite a success story, from adversity into a phd. Applied for a grant to transfer to a hab orbiting Earth, nominally to join a university there. But really, we're still trying to find our family, who was on Earth during the Fall.
> PIRATE Traveling wasn’t something you did because you wanted to see new places and people. More often than not, you needed to skip out of a habitat to avoid arrest. Soon enough, your talent at evading authorities was parlayed into a more profitable career “liberating” cargo from automated haulers and finding the best place to sell the goods. Suggested Motivations: +Survival, +Thrill Seeking, +Wealth, –Authority
(there's a lot of unexplained dice rolls happening and a lot of different story elements coming up and apparently some are from sometime before the fall, and some are now, and I don't know what's going on really nor how you know what's happening when)
@doppelgreener Grew up in indentured servitude, in a cheap robotic body mining asteroids. Made lots of friends among other unfortunate souls stuck there with no hope of ever improving our station. Then the Fall came, and we were free.
Got a new body, got a new life. Sounds like we also got a new name. Became an academic, because why not. But the hypercorp still owns us, legally speaking. There are all kinds of fees, and they're ramping up.
Fled from them, using academic connections. Ended up on a hab orbiting Earth. Looking for clues of our family (whom we can't even remember). Maybe... Maybe we blame them for selling us out. Just a bit.
Sounds like a pretty cool biography so far. Lets see what post-fall event occurs (step 11).
Niiiice. Academic connections came through. Or maybe not. Maybe we stole the morph from a fellow scientist. Our double lives are intersecting, and about to come crashing down.
Almost done. We have something to decide. Is this a Firewall game, where we join the conspiracy to save transhumanity from existential risks, including itself?
Or are we going to be doing our own thing, we sure have enough on our plate.
Well, since no one's volunteering an opinion, I guess we'll join Firewall. Another roll!
Genesis
Genesis