Hmm. I'm not exactly sure what I think of the biomolding bit. It seems to make controllable biomodding a bit too easy, even if it's limited in scope by
the availability of the machines...and the people capable of running them. As a one-shot with the Catgirling machine it wasn't so bad, especially if the
machine was near impossible to duplicate, but in larger scale, I'm not as sure.
Re-modding, I have far fewer problems with, especially if it stays more a tweaking of an existing biomod. In fact, the process that the Jason worked out could
definitely be considered a type of it, though approaching the process from a different viewpoint than A.C. His version might be more survivable since one of
the two strains of handwavium that he's using is from his golden apples, something he designed to make a person healthy...on the other hand, it's
probably a bit more quirky because of that same strain (there's a reason that the apples have the word kallisti on them, after all). Even if
it's slightly less deadly, it would still be nasty - even more so, probably, given the metabolic supercharge the person is undergoing to get the process
kick-started. And I definitely agree - other than using in his plant biomodding, the Jason would consider the use on humans as a strictly 'if we don't
do SOMEthing, the person is going to die' sort of thing (the image I had for a scene where the Jason might use it was an accident in a loading dock, where
a new worker found out that 'low gravity' does not correspond to 'low mass' when shifting freight, and got an arm or a leg crushed/mangled
badly).
Oh - for tweaking....what would you think of going between different versions of an archetype? This isn't a definite, just something to toss around. You
can't tweak a dogboy into a catboy, for instance, but maybe from a German Shepherd dogboy to a beagle type. Or a Tolkien-based elf to a Pini-elf. The
biomod is still something of the base concept - dogboy, elf - just different visions of the concept. Too extreme, do you think? Or interesting?
the availability of the machines...and the people capable of running them. As a one-shot with the Catgirling machine it wasn't so bad, especially if the
machine was near impossible to duplicate, but in larger scale, I'm not as sure.
Re-modding, I have far fewer problems with, especially if it stays more a tweaking of an existing biomod. In fact, the process that the Jason worked out could
definitely be considered a type of it, though approaching the process from a different viewpoint than A.C. His version might be more survivable since one of
the two strains of handwavium that he's using is from his golden apples, something he designed to make a person healthy...on the other hand, it's
probably a bit more quirky because of that same strain (there's a reason that the apples have the word kallisti on them, after all). Even if
it's slightly less deadly, it would still be nasty - even more so, probably, given the metabolic supercharge the person is undergoing to get the process
kick-started. And I definitely agree - other than using in his plant biomodding, the Jason would consider the use on humans as a strictly 'if we don't
do SOMEthing, the person is going to die' sort of thing (the image I had for a scene where the Jason might use it was an accident in a loading dock, where
a new worker found out that 'low gravity' does not correspond to 'low mass' when shifting freight, and got an arm or a leg crushed/mangled
badly).
Oh - for tweaking....what would you think of going between different versions of an archetype? This isn't a definite, just something to toss around. You
can't tweak a dogboy into a catboy, for instance, but maybe from a German Shepherd dogboy to a beagle type. Or a Tolkien-based elf to a Pini-elf. The
biomod is still something of the base concept - dogboy, elf - just different visions of the concept. Too extreme, do you think? Or interesting?