[K5pbem] Some character thoughts

[Bryan Feir]

   A couple of ideas that I had crossing my mind...

   First off, the technology already exists to do pretty much a body
replacement, meaning that someone could theoretically trade in their
current body for a newer and younger model.  Hideously expensive, sure,
but not impossible.

   I'm bringing this up because I'd be wondering why it doesn't happen
more often.  I'd suspect that part of the reason is social: if you've
got several members of the board of a major corporation, none of them
really wants to do it because that would mean that everybody else would
do it as well.  Few people really want to be dealing with their rivals
forever, so nobody would want to start it off.

   Part of my character idea comes from someone attempting to get around
this by raising a clone as his 'son' and trying to indoctrinate him to
be just like him.

   Anyhow, the other idea, for the GM:  how does the idea of an Analyze
Interaction Skills skill sound?  Someone who's been trained in how to
manipulate people, and knows how to recognize others doing the same...

   The idea bouncing around my head is a young corporate type who's
rebelling against his father by going out and taking odd 'jobs',
including from the competition.  And he's discovered he's a bit of an
adrenaline junkie, so keeps going with them.

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Bryan Feir           VA3GBF|"The professor holds the keys to the gates of
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                           | him get out and on to better things." -- Leacock
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