<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=243891.msg12104271#msg12104271">Quote from: Dream Lover on 24-02-2016, 06:09:40</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Hi folks,<br/><br/>I had messaged ThisOldGal about possibly joining this game.  She suggested that I put my ideas here in this thread.  So here goes, this is a copy of the last PM I sent her.  <br/><br/>ThisOneGal, thank you for what attention you have been able to give me.<br/><br/>Your game is actually the reason I found Elliquiy.  I was Googling various Eclipse Phase related searches and the game threads kept coming up.  It was the first I heard of Elliquiy so I dropped in, applied and was approved late last week.  Whether I can join this game or not, I would be happy to make you my referral to Elliquiy if you wish.<br/><br/>The truth is that I would like to run an EP game someday.  I believe that Fate is a better choice for certain games than the canon ruleset.  I had been hoping that someone would run an EP Fate game so I could watch or even join in.  But, as near as I can tell, yours is one of the few, if not the only, EP Fate games out there.  And I would have had no idea if it wasn't for Google's thoroughness.<br/><br/>Here's the good news: I'm not trying to increase your obligation to this game.  I would be content just to make a reserve character that would only show up if there was a sudden vacancy in the game.  Even if I get a character in the game, I don't have to be the star or the troublemaker, and it can generally be assumed that the character would go along with the group.<br/><br/>Here's the bad news:  The FATE system is not as intuitive to me as I had hoped.  I am probably too much of a table and grid kind of player.  But I do grok what it is trying to do; to smooth out all of that rule 'grit' and make a game a little more like a story.  So I may ask a few more questions about the game than other players.  But it would try and keep that to a minimum and there would be no hurry in answering me.<br/><br/>So what kind of character? Here are some ideas in no particular order:<br/>1.  A pilot, an informorph that is particularly good at being vehicles or habitats..  They are particularly adept and forking and then remerging later, so they can be a spaceship one minute and a motorcycle the next.  Firewall has determined that the pilot needs a human(oid) morph now and then  to put pilot into.  The morph was custom designed to work well with pilot's ghostly consciousness; too well.  Pilot is frequently overwhelmed by how much an organic body can feel.<br/>2. A hunted animal, an uplift that has escaped pursuit by sleeving into a human(oid) form.  The animal is reluctantly forced to remain in this bipedal form as their original form is utterly impractical for Mars.  The character might have been a neo-dolphin or neo-whale.  It could be that the animal is one of the more hyper-sexual animals (comparable to humans, say a dolphin or a bonobo) and having to accommodate that itch in an uncomfortable human 'suit'.<br/>3. A reluctantly freed AI slave,  Originally a happy muse or pleasure pod AI that was necessarily owned by a maverick Firewall Sentinel as part of a cover.  The Sentinel was absolutely opposed to any intellect being subservient to another.  As soon as the mission was over, the Sentinel gave the devoted slave a command; be free.  This caused unexpected existential angst for the former slave AI.  They have been ordered to be free but wants to be a slave but a slave would follow the master's wish to be free but wants to be a slave but a slave would follow the master's wish to be free but...<br/>The now conflicted AI's outlook has sometimes given it odd insights Firewall has found useful.  Although Firewall expects the poor wretch will mentally degrade soon enough...<br/>4.  An alien Factor in a human(oid) morph working for Firewall for some unknown reason.  Firewall may or may not be aware that there is a Factor mind behind those human eyes.  The Factor fragment is having extreme difficulty trying to integrate being a part of the Factor hive-mind and an individual human neurology.<br/>5.  The character is a neo-synergist fragment.  Technically, a small congress of transhumans running a single body.  Isolated from the neo-synergist 'hive' during missions, the fragment tries to use its human morph to interface with their fellow sentinels (usually via sex but there is always backrubs).<br/>6.  And, finally, I have always been partial to asyncs, particularly the Lost..<br/><br/>These are just some ideas.  Let me know what y'all think.  Whatever happens, I do thank you for your time and I look forward to your feedback...<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>While I didn't understand half of what you just said, you've very welcome into the game ^_^<br/><br/>I've played the Dresden version of FATE and will try to answer questions, but ThisOneGal has a better grasp on both of the games than I do.