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People actually think the AM is awesome? I felt she was just kind of a Mary Sue that guards the store for no real reason other than being there in case someone actually could do something to threaten the ship in a meaningful way.

Do you have a better way of ensuring that, if people just keep fucking about, or threaten to destroy the game, the gm has a way to stop it?

Quote from: kj1225 on April 11, 2015, 11:05:00 pm

I felt she was just kind of a Mary Sue that guards the store for no real reason other than being there in case someone actually could do something to threaten the ship in a meaningful way.

The current theory is that she is literally genetically predisposed to becoming a Mary Sue, and yes that is quite an accurate description.

Interestingly enough, it is the treatments that maintain a human visage that render a person inhuman.

"...and in the face of mountains of evidence to the contrary we will pin all our hopes on the slimmest of doubts.
Being fleshy has not been proven not to equal humanity, therefore being human must equal being fleshy."

Plus there is the Armory Master who has been considered to be the epitome of successful HMRC service and who made keeping the body intact "fashionable" and highly regarded. I am sure that if the ultimate veteran of HMRC service was a half-cyborg or had a wicked cool full-robot body prosthetic, the number of people trying to keep their fleshiness intact would have been much lower.

(I wonder how much of this "keep flesh" philosophy was actually designed and inspired to existence with Piecewise's world-building effort - the original cam-eyes & synth-body descriptions, etc. - and how much of it is player-driven and not in line with what he had in mind for the setting.)