Test Bed
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Post by Test Bed on May 17, 2015 8:14:40 GMT
Mine is a flat fleshcraft I gave birth to nine days ago, which grew to about the size of a book over three days, and which I spent the next several days trying to figure out. This was extremely unexpected. I thought I was purging my wombrider and got this instead.
(A flat square bone plate wrapped in skin, with some kind of internal organ on one side and dynamically shifting pigment on the other.)
It responds to touch, and if I touch somewhere words go, words appear there when I talk. Which was actually more surprising than birthing it in the first place, because as far as we know morphweaving can't do nervous systems. Nerves, yes, but not systems (there's a size limit, natural nerves are much smaller than the smallest structures morphweaving can do)
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Post by Dispersive Prism on May 17, 2015 14:31:58 GMT
Wait you gave birth to a thing? You gave birth to it. You. Are writing to us on your extremely unexpected baby.
.... Are you taking care of your flat fleshcraft baby?
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Post by Botanical Engineer on May 17, 2015 14:54:48 GMT
Okay, so besides that, I'm getting the impression that fleshcraft is like normal engineering, except with animals instead of plants? But you make them inside your own body instead of in a separate seed? But they are definitely not sentient, right?
Could someone whose humans are animals please confirm whether this is normal in their universe?
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Post by Leaf on May 17, 2015 15:02:27 GMT
Humans are animals in my universe. Engineering of animals is something that happens sometimes in my universe, but we don't grow the engineered things inside of human bodies except under very specific circumstances that don't come up often, and I definitely haven't ever heard of growing nonhuman engineered animals inside of humans. We have uterine replicators for that. It also sounds like the animal-engineering in Test Bed's universe is much more widely used and widely useful than equivalent practices in mine.
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Post by Mother Starlight on May 17, 2015 15:32:02 GMT
Er. Sorry if that was unwelcome, Test Bed. I usually try not to manifest quite so invasively as that sounds like.
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Test Bed
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Post by Test Bed on May 17, 2015 16:16:08 GMT
Mother Starlight. No, it was fine! The morph itself may be cheating rules like nothing else, but the fleshcraft magic was all normal. (Which, it occurs to me to mention, includes painless, sometimes even pleasurable, births.) In the normal course of things I would have birthed my wombrider(which, is the simplest possible morph, but given a deliberate birth trigger so it'll stay put as long as you want) anyway so I could actually do my part; I did recently volunteer to do this on a daily basis.
Leaf. I think that sounds like it's probably a different thing. Fleshcraft magic doesn't work with nonhuman animals. As far as I know. (I asked Kima. Ey says the same.)
Botanical. Fleshcrafts aren't really animals. Morphweaving is way more limited than it sounds like your plant engineering is. It's shapes made out of the stuff the human or humans are made of. Its a challenge to make anything that moves, and almost impossible to make anything that moves on its own. (There are a couple of known cheats. Like about four-hundred years ago someone figured out how to do bioluminenscence.)
Prism. Um, just for reference, referring to a fleshcraft as a person's baby or child or whatever is the kind of thing that might make someone, not me, but some people, like, punch you in the face. That (probably?) answers your question by itself, but yeah, I'm not a mother, and I've got no desire what so ever to be a mother, even if I have decided to put my womb to good use.
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Post by Dispersive Prism on May 17, 2015 16:18:01 GMT
Oh.
Um. I'm sorry! I didn't mean to say something insulting!
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Post by Botanical Engineer on May 17, 2015 16:22:41 GMT
Test Bed, If you don't mind answering, what kind of information do you get about what you're doing, and how do you make changes? Also, earlier you said there was an inherent health associated with fleshcraft, how does that work, and what are its effects?
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Test Bed
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Post by Test Bed on May 17, 2015 16:56:20 GMT
I don't mind answering! This is what I do all day, after all.
Well, firstly, I don't get any information or make any changes, that's what Kima does. I'll, um, remember to ask em to describe it for me when I get around to figuring out how to explain the whole process without leaving anything out, hopefully in the magic thread.
Fleshcrafts are inherently healthy. Even if you cut a piece off of something and let it die, it'll never decay (unless you cook it, or grind it into paste or something, then it loses the magic), and while alive they don't wear out or scar or age or anything like that. Fluid contact with a fleshcraft extends the effect to people at a slightly reduced effect. Constant exposure holds off the effects of aging for somewhere around eighty to a hundred years, and you heal quicker, but you don't regenerate or anything. And then instead of gradual wrinkles and frailty its sudden horrible tumors, so if you want to live longer than that you need green aetherlight anyway.
And it's fine, Prism, I'm not bothered, I realize there's a culture gap here.
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Post by gabriael on May 17, 2015 23:34:56 GMT
That sounds just as fun as I thought it would! And in a way that I won't have to exterminate even!
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Post by Leaf on May 18, 2015 0:08:03 GMT
Under what conditions would you have felt the need to exterminate it...?
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Test Bed
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Post by Test Bed on May 18, 2015 9:37:31 GMT
Um, what? Um, yeah, what Leaf said...
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Post by gabriael on May 18, 2015 11:24:53 GMT
Self-replicating, warlike and space-capable. You know, the kind of thing that overruns other civilisations. It's really common and makes up much of my job.
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Post by Fish on May 28, 2015 3:39:09 GMT
This forum appears to me as a succession of telegrams. It's quite old-fashioned, and quite annoying as well; I am at pains to keep a low profile from certain events in my past, and despite moving twice without notice before I investigated the contents, the telegrams followed me to my new address immediately.
When I investigated the contents and, further, discovered that no one was delivering the telegrams, I became significantly less alarmed. This looks like an interesting collection of people; I am glad I'm not in a position to have to disconnect it in some way.
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Post by Kit on May 28, 2015 4:57:12 GMT
I don't know what telegrams are. I'm just using the computer and it's not annoying. But the button doesn't show up when Daddy uses it, i looked. People talk about a lot of scary things, but they're all in their own worlds, not in mine. The lumpy fruit was scary because it was in my world but Mother Starlight fixed it. It is really interesting people.
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