Hybrid: Of Transhumans and Modern Magic

[LancerOfBlue]

@BCTheEntity
Well from the scientific approach of things several things may be gained from such combination of human DNA and tree DNA. Using it more for medicinal purposes in hopes of helping the human body itself, eugenics can only go so far in improving the human body with simply just human traits! Looking at the other animal hybrids, they decided to go in the other direction with something less tedious to work with, like plants hybrids in which they would isolate certain factors and place it.

Long List

In a more controlled subject, such results from a project may include:

• Minuscily increased regeneration of the body, resulting in slightly increased healing that is insignificant in battles and only affects during recovery of wounds or sickness.
• Insignificant increase to sensitivity of climate
• Increased metabolism, needing more food

Deluding the human DNA even more with a Tree's may move the results closer to these:

• Unoticable photosynthesis which dices away a tiny portion of hunger, however, results in a heighten thirst for water and sunlight as well to work.
• Minuscily increased regeneration of the body and cells, resulting in flawless skin, slightly increased healing that still is insignificant in battles and only affects during recovery of wounds or sickness, along with a unnoticeable jump in life-expectancy
• Minor increased sensitivity to climate, more extreme temperatures have a noticeable effect on them more

Several paces before the point of no return, a subject may exhibit:

• Minor photosynthesis which mitigates a small portion of hunger with the same needs before. Along with the ability to sense the general direction of water becomes apparent as an 'instinct' when enough time is spent in an area. Water also does not need to be ingested as simply applying it onto the skin to be 'filtered' and be absorbed for the purpose of both hydrating and moisturizing.
• Small increase in the regeneration of the body and cells, resulting in better skin but exfoliation may be needed for its flaky skin once a week and an increase in healing injuries that results in most small injuries being taken care of in a day or two along with recovering from sickness in a shorter time-frame of what's normal. The regeneration at this point affects the cells that it gives a small jump in life expectancy and in general a healthy body.
• Adaptibility to moderate climates but sudden changes will result in noticeable stress, fatigue, and fever until accustomed to. Extreme weather does not fare well for them and must seek protection from such environments or risk getting sick quickly.

Just before the point of no return, not even careful genetic manipulation and splicing can prevent the development of future unwanted traits from appearing:

• Minor photosynthesis like before, however, the biological clock is now more tuned to the daily schedule of the person and environment around them.
• Increase in the regeneration of the body and cells, resulting in skin that is impeccable but exfoliating of the skin is needed every week. The body's immune system is now hardy enough to prevent most common sicknesses and fight it off should it breach the body, smaller wounds now take no less than a day to heal fully from if not hours. The life expectancy of the subject is suggested to live longer than most people of his own age in the healthiest category with no medical conditions. However, an increased appetite is developed which needs to be stated.
• The physical skin of the person is now tougher, durable than most people as it takes more to simply break their skin but of course even something sharp would easily cut through.
• Weather affects them the same as before but if left exposed for too long and continues to be, their health quickly declines faster than a normal person left unprotected. Extreme and sudden changes in temperature can also easily knock them out such as walking into a freezer as the temperature is lowered down (and locked inside...) or from an Air-conditioned house to the desert with 110-degree weather

More Tree DNA further after this, their skin will slowly begin to turn into more of a bark-like and medical problems may pop up such as joint problems and many more issues. As they reach this more tree-like humanoid state, the weather will increase to have a more prominent effect on them and force them to seek more stable weather. Eventually, the experiments would stop at the last list due to further complications that questions morality. Unless it is some underground business, a full-tree person shouldn't be possible for medical complication and the morality of purposely dooming a sentient living being to a life of inertness.

So yeah, my character would be one of those four potencies if they are acceptable. Their abilities are more or less aimed at the long game rather than having a noticeable effect at the moment. So yeah, hopefully, this isn't too much but it isn't anything too special as well considering the animal hybrids

[Hailfire]

This looks interesting to me. I love sci-fi settings, particularly alongside magic because of the vast amount of potential there is for just about anything to happen.

How prevalant do you intend Player vs player combat to be in the progression of the roleplay's storyline? I have a preference for PvE type rp where it is less disruptive if/when someone starts powergaming for example.

[Ghost Queen]

I know that the mutants are superhuman, but to what degrees? How much stronger/faster/tougher than humans and dragons? Do they develop their own tech or adopt others?

[BCTheEntity]

@LancerOfBlue Sounds like you've put a lot of thought into this. That all looks good, I think.

@Hailfire Glad you like the setting. As far as PvP goes, it'll likely depend on how frequently players from opposing factions meet up with one another, given that every race is fighting with every other race, and there will certainly be battles against NPCs. As for powergaming, Solaris and I are good at catching that sort of person. We'll keep a handle on it.

@Ghost Queen First of all, chimeras and Draconids are both "mutants". In fact, Draconids are stronger still than most normal chimeras, as a result of dragons being exceptionally powerful compared to basically any modern creature (whilst they were alive), though as far as actual power goes, strength alone likely keeps both groups at about street tier. Spiderman's probably a bit strong as far as actual power goes - he's generally accepted as being at the highest echelons of street tier characters - but his powerset is roughly accurate to what some chimeras might end up with, with wallclimbing and webflinging in particular probably being biomods. Humans are just normal humans, similar to the real world, but have the cybernetics to keep up with chimeras and Draconids, and the Husks are probably on the level of chimeras as far as physical strength and ability goes, plus the advantages of being essentially zombified carapaces. Secondly, since the war started comparatively recently, all non-Husk sides probably have similar degrees of tech to one another regardless of how quickly they've been advancing in any given field, though all sides probably do have enough scientists to keep up with one another anyway.

[Ghost Queen]

@BCTheEntity
And what I'm getting from magic is it's kinda like Shadowrun, in the form that while powerful is just about as deadly as a guy with a gun. Sorry if my questions bug you, I just like to know about the setting.

[BCTheEntity]

@Ghost Queen For most mages, that's true, with probably 90% of mages having enough power or less than what you'd need to destroy a building through brute force. Sometimes, you'll get a lucky mage who can collapse multiple buildings, heading up to more than one street's worth of buildings per "full charge", though that's starting to get into "you're likely to inconvenience yourself to some extent to do this" territory. And that goes up the scale, until you get the prodigies who can at full power nuke cities, though they'll probably nuke themselves in doing so, never mind the efficiency limitations for more practical uses of that much power. And don't worry, your questions are fine. I encourage them.

[Ghost Queen]

@BCTheEntity
How likely is it for any one of the player species to be hermits? Not really for any one did and just trying to survive this shit storm? And on that note, how quickly does each faction typically breed or is it pretty much the same across the board?

[BCTheEntity]

@Ghost Queen
1. Aside from the obvious baseline of normal humans, some chimeras might be more inclined to avoid contact with others by their DNA, though possibly unlikely to leave their respective societies entirely on account of human needs and all, whilst others may be even less inclined to become hermits than normal humans through the same genetic inclinations, and let's not get started on what happens when those desires conflict. The "average" is probably similar to humans, though since it varies so wildly based on the DNA you're infused with, you'd probably end up with a situation like this if you tried to average it out across all chimeras. Draconids probably share hermitage rates with humans due to various factors balancing themselves out in their race, whilst Husks don't become hermits. Their expansion is too important for any member to not help expand Husk borders.

2. Humans breed at human speed. Chimeras breed at speeds appropriate for the midpoint between the animals that are part of their DNA, including humans... so, I dunno, an animal that goes into heat on particular schedules may become more fertile at certain points in the year without losing fertility entirely in the rest of it. Draconids breed pretty slowly, with part of the reason behind that being meta-balancing, and also because dragons were likely very slow breeders, which would be sped up but not negated by the human portion of their DNA. And Husks... well, the thing about Husks is that whatever genital structure they had prior to resurrection is long gone. Nowadays, they "breed" by basically injecting the necrotic goo inside them into an intact corpse, transforming its body massively and resurrecting it as a new Husk, complete with appropriate powers based on the host body, after a period of "incubation". So, they get new members basically as fast as they can find corpses, and since killing people is the quickest way of acquiring new corpses, they basically breed as fast as they can kill. Hence why they're so potentially threatening to the other three factions, as you can imagine a zombie pre-apocalypse would be.

[Ghost Queen]

@BCTheEntity
This whole human, chimera, draconid is fairly new so like... would it be out of the question for a draconid or chimera to still identify more with humanity. I'm guessing many of the "first generation" of mutants were volunteers or so some such and feel pretty betrayed by the human government for treating them like dirt for a process they invented. Would it be out of the question for small groups of chimeras and draconids to band together instead of breaking off into these factions.

[Typical]

[@@BCTheEntity] Interested if you're still taking?

[BCTheEntity]

@Ghost Queen Like I said, each race likely has multiple factions that may or may not be interested in co-operating with one another. It's not entirely infeasible that there could be a breakoff faction from any given race, possibly multiple races, who wants to work with one or more of the others; considering the conditions, however, any groups they made offers to would need to be pretty open-minded to accept as friends members of one of those other races.

@Dusksong Definitely. Welcome aboard.

Incidentally, I unintentionally lied earlier about how other races were liable to fight each other at first sight, as there are certainly groups within any given faction who, for instance, want to sell to other factions, or want to study the lifestyles of those other factions, and so on and so forth. Husks less so, in both directions, but even then...

[Kafka Komedy]

@BCTheEntity Any particular date you were gunning for for when the OOC would be created?

[BCTheEntity]

@Kafka Komedy At the moment, no, but I could probably get the game thread up by the end of the week, considering how much interest there's already been.

[BCTheEntity]

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