<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=243891.msg12110875#msg12110875">Quote from: Dream Lover on 27-02-2016, 03:59:37</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">With that said, here is an amended idea for Morgan (until I think of a better name):<br/>1.  There are gaps in Morgan's memory.  Firewall does not have (or will not reveal) the missing memories.  Note: Even if there is nothing sinister in the missing memories, it still adds a degree of paranoia for Morgan and their team (and mysteries for our GM).  But here is what Morgan remembers (or can be otherwise verified).<br/>2.  Morgan was derived of an AGI either developed or 'acquired' by Firewall.  The AGI is very impressive in predicting and countering X-risks, even trapped in meat, Morgan's skill is still formidable.<br/>3.  For any number of reasons, Morgan was a fork of their AGI that was at one point sleeved in a biomorph.<br/>4.  While in a biomorph, Morgan was infected with Watts-McLeod gaining some unusual psi-sleights.<br/>5.  Unable to exist in a synth for any real length of time due to async revulsion, forks of Morgan are still useful.<br/>6.  Morgan's psi-sleights, subtly used over time, have been used to develop a level of Credit and Civ Rep which 'appears' to be due to rare talent (true enough).<br/>7.  For several reasons, Morgan has recently been sleeved into an unfamiliar morph, a pleasure pod or sylph.  This may be like giving an expensive sports car to a new teenage driver.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>As one possibility, perhaps Morgan was developed by Firewall and inducted into the organization when he became a person, and then he wound up running afoul of a digital strain of the Exsurgent Virus?  He could have come under attack by it, and could have barely beaten it off thanks to a combination of the knowledge about it that he had already possessed and a timely hard reset of the synthmorph he was in at the time, but at the cost of it having chewed through a decent-sized chunk of his ego.<br/><br/>Afterwards, while they were trying to patch up some of holes in his mind-state, he could have started running into the typical async problems with synthmorph bodies, and the psychic powers he'd demonstrate when they tried sleeving him into a biomorph would be all they'd need to figure out what happened.<br/><br/>That could be one fun option for explaining both the holes in his memories and the psychic powers. ^^<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Antimony's psi-sleights have to do with reading and manipulating minds and she does it very well.  So Morgan's psi-sleights will be more towards manipulating either the inanimate or truly alien.  Actual personalities, especially human ones, still perplex Morgan.  Additionally, Morgan might be somewhat intimidated by such a <em>together</em>, divine async AGI and would work hard not to intrude on Antimony's 'turf'.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Antimony is actually less together than she seems, though she is able to do a good job pretending otherwise.  The crazy will start coming out once she starts racking up those mental consequences. ;D