Mefis

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Mattia quickly sets up an encrypted VPN channel using code developed by the TAU and invites all members of the party to join it (not including professor Ming).

Having done that he creates an Alpha fork of himself, that starts running on the second cyberbrain that the swarmanoid supports. The two copies of Mattia do not need to talk to each others to know what they each need to do. Mattia2 immediately immerses himself in the mesh and starts to research anything he can find on Vishnukam, the Yokyai Kong, history and current situation, relevant figures, and Oxygen Deck riots.

Research Roll (45) Research (45): 1d100 84

Mattia1 then thanks the professor and tells him they will be in touch as soon as they find something out. Done that he sends a message over the VPN (so open to all party members): "Well we should get to work I suppose, I'm going to do some research on what the Professor mentioned, and I am also going to ask an acquaintance of mine if she can put us in touch with anyone at UniLink."

He then sends a private message to Atsuko Van Gogt owner of one of the Egocasting facilities of Locus asking for an introduction to someone in charge at UniLink.

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Mattia resleeves at Van Gogt's farcaster. They spend the day before the meeting discussing the philosophical implications of forking and resleeving, after which Mattia heads for the meeting with the professor.

Mattia enters Professor's Ming office sleeved in his swarmanoid. The swarm is hovering at face height, the bots arranged to look like a stylised floating face. When he talks, the swarm's "mouth" opens and closes completely out ff sync with the actual words transmitted.

Mattia will send to all present a basic introduction of himself, assistant researcher at the TAU on robotics and psychosurgery, although a little research will reveal that most of his colleagues regard him as more of a lab rat than an actual researcher.

"That's... intriguing... I'm willing to help as far as I can, I do have some questions though."

" First, this missing hardware, do we know who and when recovered it form the station in earth orbit? Was it TAU staff or someone else, and how did the hardware make its way to Locus, if it did? Who did the station belong to and who manufactured this hardware? Any specs on the hardware at all?
Second, was Yu working alone, or do we have some colleagues of her we can talk to? and what was Yu sleeved in when she disappeared?"

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Ok thanks. And yes both mental illnesses are related to excessive forking and re-sleeving. Basically we don't even know who the original is any more and we don't care either. As long as one copy of us lives on the others are happy to die in a fire (Phoenix trait). Although, if we found out that a copy us was held captive in an accelerated time torture simulspace we'd probably go completely mad and do everything we possibly could to free that copy. But we don't know that since it never happened to us.

Cheers,

Mefis.

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Ok I'll try now.

How my arrival on Locus plays out depends on the response I might or might not get from Von Gogt. If she ansers yes I'll be resleeving at ther facilities, otherwise I would contact the Professor Ming and ask him to indicate a safe receiver.

At any rate, I'd be looking for my usual Swarmanoid morph, and here are the integration and alienation rolls.

Integration test: SOM25*3 + 20 from Adaptability + 30 familiar morph.
Negatives, can you please rule which should apply?
Synth Morph -10 even if I always sleeve in synths?
Fork -20 even if it's an Alpha fork and at this point my character has completely lost track of who is the original around. We are all forks all the time.
Exotic -30 even if it is my usual fork?

at any rate, the rolls:

Integration Test SOM*3+20 trait = 95: 1d100 91
Alienation Test: 1d100 76

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Rolling Networking Autonomist to get in touch with Van Gogt:

http://orokos.com/roll/219294#

I rolled a 37, which is a failure by 2 points, unless GM decides modifiers are the case.

Also this is the first time a play PbP, so I hope I am doing things right.

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The Mattias are in the TAU's Advanced Robotics testing facility when they receive the message. The staff at the facility is testing a new linkage method for Flexbot modules, hoping that it will allow for faster reconfiguring Flexbots. Three forks of Mattia are sleeved in three different Flexbot Modules, currently busy trying to link and detach as fast as they can using the new linkage system. They are not happy with the design.

A fourth fork of Mattia, sleeved in a Swarmanoid and hovering in the observation room together with the other researchers is the one that receives and reads the message (Mattia's Muse knows which fork to send the message to). Mattia knows that he does not need to consult with his other selves, they would all agree that the message is highly intriguing and worth the expense of a farcast.

Mattia then quickly makes a fifth Fork of himself, and sends it off into Titans public mesh. The newly created fork is born conscious of his luck and purpose. He will travel to a novel destination, meet new people see things that the Mattias never knew of. Then he will return, and merge back with the other forks.

The newly created fork travels through the mesh until he reaches the Titanian Farcasting facilities. There he books passage for Locus. Before boarding, he tries to contact someone on Locus that they had been wanting to meet for a long while now. Atsuko Van Gogt, Egocasting Operator of one of Locus' most respected farcasting facilities, and author of the exemplary "The Seven Chakras: Metaphor & Holistic Practice in the Treatment of Integration and Continuity Disorders".

In the message to Van Gogt Mattia presents themselves, and ask to be received by Von Gogt's farcaster. At the end of the message he poses a question about one of the last chapter of Van Gogt's treaty, and concludes by saying that he hopes to discuss her response in person.

Finally, Mattia replies to the Professor, informing him to expect him for the appointment.

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posting...

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Hi,

Looking to join this campaign as well.

Any limitations or directions in terms of what kind of characters we should be making?

I personally would like to play a character that relies heavily on forking and an engineered multiple personality disorder. If anyone has read Blindsight by Peter Watts, it would be functioning a bit like the linguist described there. I still need to sit down and work the concept with the EP crunch, but I am pretty sure it can work by RAW standard character generation.

Cheers,

Mefis

EDIT: Why is my avatar an unicorn?
EDIT 2: Just saw the spoilered OOC info. I'll start working on a character today.