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VR Highlander
Mar. 11th, 2012 09:56 amWhile figuring cool ways for magic to work in my VR I said that when magic that can effect more than just yourself is enabled a group of 10 people get it, no exceptions. I said that you can't Highlander your way through that group, there can never be only 1.
But just now I dreamed there were 3 of Duncan MacLeod, and one of Richie despite him having died at his teacher's hand once.
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So anyways, I woke up from this dream and saw it as how Highlander could work in the VR. Duncan MacLeod has been challenging others like him and taking their power - by overwriting them, copying himself so there's a bunch of him. Once he accidentally ripped Richie, but he could sacrifice himself, or an independent copy of himself, or for that matter someone else he'd just defeated, and copy what he carried of Richie back into them. Then R would have died and come back, but he'd know he's probably lost something on the way, become more what his Teacher believed him to be, for good and ill.
I wouldn't want this power to be common or simple. If there's 10 people out of two hundred thousand walking around doing this, that's a lot. They aren't Immortals though, because everyone's immortal in VR. Or they would be, without this tweak. They're mortality. They are Death.
And someone probably made them quite deliberately, as weapons.
How they feel about that person gets interesting.
But just now I dreamed there were 3 of Duncan MacLeod, and one of Richie despite him having died at his teacher's hand once.
( Read more... )
So anyways, I woke up from this dream and saw it as how Highlander could work in the VR. Duncan MacLeod has been challenging others like him and taking their power - by overwriting them, copying himself so there's a bunch of him. Once he accidentally ripped Richie, but he could sacrifice himself, or an independent copy of himself, or for that matter someone else he'd just defeated, and copy what he carried of Richie back into them. Then R would have died and come back, but he'd know he's probably lost something on the way, become more what his Teacher believed him to be, for good and ill.
I wouldn't want this power to be common or simple. If there's 10 people out of two hundred thousand walking around doing this, that's a lot. They aren't Immortals though, because everyone's immortal in VR. Or they would be, without this tweak. They're mortality. They are Death.
And someone probably made them quite deliberately, as weapons.
How they feel about that person gets interesting.