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For some time now, I've been nursing a character concept. Avoiding going into heavy detail, the character is one of the Lost, and his unusual quirks have left him with an obsession with biological warfare. This means his particular schtick is devising ...

Forum topic - Axel the Chimeric - 2012-04-07 18:53 - 34 comments - 0 attachments

Dreams are odd things but they often provide unusual insight. I was pondering the Lunar Flier morph; that lovely winged exalt variant from Sunward. It mentions that wings provide a means for child-sized characters to fly at 1g, while adult morphs ...

Forum topic - Axel the Chimeric - 2011-12-19 12:09 - 16 comments - 0 attachments

One of the major questions of Eclipse Phase and transhumanism in general is how you define yourself when your body is easily reshaped or exchanged. Age, ethnicity, sex, all become as easily cast off as an old haircut - even more easily if you're an inf ...

Forum topic - Axel the Chimeric - 2012-03-12 21:42 - 27 comments - 0 attachments

Yes, piracy is now a religious act. Wiki article. As it becomes easier to copy information products, we're bound to see reactions like this. Just as SOPA is the response of an industry reluctant to try and change and adapt to new meth ...

Forum topic - Axel the Chimeric - 2012-01-23 18:34 - 19 comments - 0 attachments

Axel_Chimeric@FreeRangeDarkcast Ladies! Gentlemen! Hermaphrodites! Non-gendered entities! Anyone I might be forgetting! You are jamming the bandwidth with your friend; the one, the only, your chimeric pal on the information waves; Axel! ...

Forum topic - Axel the Chimeric - 2010-12-05 18:46 - 40 comments - 0 attachments

In the days before the Fall, as transhumanity seemed immortal and bodies easily replaced, suicide sports became an increasingly popular phenomenon. Extremely dangerous or outright lethal sports were more and more mainstream, until the Fall caused a sob ...

Forum topic - Axel the Chimeric - 2011-12-07 01:20 - 1 comment - 0 attachments

Axel_Chimeric@FreeRangeDarkcast As a wise man once said, "A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere." That has nothing to do with the topic at hand, but he's famous, so it really doesn't matter. ...

Forum topic - Axel the Chimeric - 2011-12-14 23:45 - 3 comments - 0 attachments

The Lifeboat Foundation is a real organization created as a joint partnership between various groups to try and ensure the future existence of humankind (and one of the inspirations for Firewall). Their website provides some astonishing details abo ...

Forum topic - Axel the Chimeric - 2011-12-13 22:56 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

For those unfamiliar, the Dinochicken is a project to reverse-engineer a dinosaur from a chicken. It's ambitious, likely far too much so for it to be completed in the near future. However, in the transhuman future, where genetic modifications appli ...

Forum topic - Axel the Chimeric - 2011-12-02 10:00 - 7 comments - 0 attachments

Axel_Chimeric@FreeRangeDarkcast Friends! Martians! Spacemen! Lend me your ears! Or, for my Uplift friends swimming through cyberpsace, your statocysts will do just as well. Now, all you well-wishers listenin' in, it's getting to that t ...

Forum topic - Axel the Chimeric - 2011-02-19 12:43 - 4 comments - 0 attachments