01-06-2020, 04:20 AM
BYOND Username: rykka_stormheart
Discord ID: Rykka Stormheart#8798
Race or Language whitelisting for: Xenochimera
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What do you know of their mechanics?: Xenochimera mechanics on the surface look simple. They have a 'feral' mechanic - meaning they go feral once one of 3 triggers are met - there's a hunger, pain, and injury threshold, if I remember from code-diving. You can trigger feral by being deep in red hunger, or by getting smacked with something enough to bring your pain threshold up, or instantly from injury.
Other mechanics include: self-healing - Xenochimera self-heal over time as long as they're fed. They can fully regenerate their body/form, if they have enough nutrition. They also can only consume protein, code-wise - nutriment does nothing for them.
Xenochimera regeneration can also be instantly completed by using monster tamer + clonex, iirc - I remember discussing it with Scree as a result of an incident I directly caused.
What do you know of their lore?: Xenochimera start off as little more than micro-organisms, and as they feed, they mutate and split, eventually reaching a point where they have very, very rudimentary neural networks - essentially, a very dim wild animal. At that point all they do is react to stimula, harmful or helpful, and follow their baser instincts. They incorporate traits of what they eat - in this case, the saying "you are what you eat" literally applies. If they happen to consume something with a complex nervous system, and manage to copy it, they can achieve sentience. Despite being sentient, though, all they are is a collection (colony) of cells replicating a complex nervous system, and forming it's own personality - they are still subject to extremely strong urges, and if harmed, frightened, overstimulated, or left too hungry, can go "feral". Being feral does not mean they murder everything in sight, or are a walking tank - they're a wild animal. Essentially, if you came across a wounded wolf in the wilderness - it's not going to maul you if it can get away, if you aggressively move towards it or threaten it, then yes, it will respond with it's own fight-or-flight response, but it's an animal - it's not going to kill everything in sight, it wants to retreat from whatever is stressing it, or in the case of food, consume something to relieve that stress of hunger.
They are not superhuman in the sense that they can be shot and instantly replicate themselves (like nanites). They're organic, cellular creatures, and if wounded, will need time and biomass (meat) to repair themselves. However, depending on severity - this probably won't happen in-shift, so if they are hurt, the likely response will be to do what they can to retreat from what caused them pain, and stitch it together if it's bad enough it would threaten the colony's survival, but otherwise? Typically regenerative mutation would occur off-shift or take so long it would only happen on-shift in rare cases. In the event of death (with a mind backup), regenerating would take in-game days if not weeks, therefore, it's something they will try to avoid at all costs, and if it does occur - they won't and can't just "reappear" or be "resleeved" - they'll have to regenerate off-shift or etc, they can regenerate from "death", but if all of a colony's cells are killed off, there's no way for them to come back from even that.
What idea did you have for your character?: My character idea involves a female xenochimera that grew up on a snow-covered planet, consumed a snow leopard, and was captured by a ranging science team from an academy. During that time, she was studied, but she managed to break free and capture a vulpkanin scientist, consuming him, and gaining intelligence from him over time. She was 'studied' aka tortured by a very sadistic scientist who wanted to study regeneration and didn't care that she was sentient, until someone from the academy (a medical student) took offense to what was going on and started bringing her out at night to feed her and teach her language. During that process it was found out that she mostly sustains herself off of blood, some weird quirk of her upbringing/colony adaptation, but she can still consume protein as normal. After the medical student ended his studies, they parted ways, and he made sure that she, armed with her new language skills, went to work for a less-than-scrupulous security company who accepted her without any questions, and then she moved from there to medical, and then finally was assigned to the Southern Cross station as Virologist for her primary specialty, and exploration/recon for new creatures - not strictly Xenobiology, but skills are transferable over there, as she prefers working with non-slime creatures. :p
Discord ID: Rykka Stormheart#8798
Race or Language whitelisting for: Xenochimera
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What do you know of their mechanics?: Xenochimera mechanics on the surface look simple. They have a 'feral' mechanic - meaning they go feral once one of 3 triggers are met - there's a hunger, pain, and injury threshold, if I remember from code-diving. You can trigger feral by being deep in red hunger, or by getting smacked with something enough to bring your pain threshold up, or instantly from injury.
Other mechanics include: self-healing - Xenochimera self-heal over time as long as they're fed. They can fully regenerate their body/form, if they have enough nutrition. They also can only consume protein, code-wise - nutriment does nothing for them.
Xenochimera regeneration can also be instantly completed by using monster tamer + clonex, iirc - I remember discussing it with Scree as a result of an incident I directly caused.
What do you know of their lore?: Xenochimera start off as little more than micro-organisms, and as they feed, they mutate and split, eventually reaching a point where they have very, very rudimentary neural networks - essentially, a very dim wild animal. At that point all they do is react to stimula, harmful or helpful, and follow their baser instincts. They incorporate traits of what they eat - in this case, the saying "you are what you eat" literally applies. If they happen to consume something with a complex nervous system, and manage to copy it, they can achieve sentience. Despite being sentient, though, all they are is a collection (colony) of cells replicating a complex nervous system, and forming it's own personality - they are still subject to extremely strong urges, and if harmed, frightened, overstimulated, or left too hungry, can go "feral". Being feral does not mean they murder everything in sight, or are a walking tank - they're a wild animal. Essentially, if you came across a wounded wolf in the wilderness - it's not going to maul you if it can get away, if you aggressively move towards it or threaten it, then yes, it will respond with it's own fight-or-flight response, but it's an animal - it's not going to kill everything in sight, it wants to retreat from whatever is stressing it, or in the case of food, consume something to relieve that stress of hunger.
They are not superhuman in the sense that they can be shot and instantly replicate themselves (like nanites). They're organic, cellular creatures, and if wounded, will need time and biomass (meat) to repair themselves. However, depending on severity - this probably won't happen in-shift, so if they are hurt, the likely response will be to do what they can to retreat from what caused them pain, and stitch it together if it's bad enough it would threaten the colony's survival, but otherwise? Typically regenerative mutation would occur off-shift or take so long it would only happen on-shift in rare cases. In the event of death (with a mind backup), regenerating would take in-game days if not weeks, therefore, it's something they will try to avoid at all costs, and if it does occur - they won't and can't just "reappear" or be "resleeved" - they'll have to regenerate off-shift or etc, they can regenerate from "death", but if all of a colony's cells are killed off, there's no way for them to come back from even that.
What idea did you have for your character?: My character idea involves a female xenochimera that grew up on a snow-covered planet, consumed a snow leopard, and was captured by a ranging science team from an academy. During that time, she was studied, but she managed to break free and capture a vulpkanin scientist, consuming him, and gaining intelligence from him over time. She was 'studied' aka tortured by a very sadistic scientist who wanted to study regeneration and didn't care that she was sentient, until someone from the academy (a medical student) took offense to what was going on and started bringing her out at night to feed her and teach her language. During that process it was found out that she mostly sustains herself off of blood, some weird quirk of her upbringing/colony adaptation, but she can still consume protein as normal. After the medical student ended his studies, they parted ways, and he made sure that she, armed with her new language skills, went to work for a less-than-scrupulous security company who accepted her without any questions, and then she moved from there to medical, and then finally was assigned to the Southern Cross station as Virologist for her primary specialty, and exploration/recon for new creatures - not strictly Xenobiology, but skills are transferable over there, as she prefers working with non-slime creatures. :p
