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| ===Other Selves=== | ===Other Selves=== | ||
| **Army of One**\\ | **Army of One**\\ | ||
| - | You will start the game directly in contact with an NPC instantiated from the same negative as you. Let us know of any traits that they might exhibit. | + | You will start the game directly in contact with an NPC instantiated from the same negative as you. Let us know of any traits that they might exhibit.\\ |
| This is only accessible if you have chosen Another Me as a Playstyle Quirk. | This is only accessible if you have chosen Another Me as a Playstyle Quirk. | ||
| **Unfamiliar Connection**\\ | **Unfamiliar Connection**\\ | ||
| - | You are clearly adept at leaving impressions on people. At least, another copy of you is. Throughout the game, people who you haven’t met may recognise you as another of your copies, and may have opinions about you already. Let us know the nature of these opinions. | + | You are clearly adept at leaving impressions on people. At least, another copy of you is. Throughout the game, people who you haven’t met may recognise you as another of your copies, and may have opinions about you already. Let us know the nature of these opinions.\\ |
| This is only accessible if you have chosen Another Me as a Playstyle Quirk. | This is only accessible if you have chosen Another Me as a Playstyle Quirk. | ||
| **Blurry Negative**\\ | **Blurry Negative**\\ | ||
| - | Your negative was distorted in the imaging process. Whereas most Minds instantiated from the same negative are initially identical, versions of you are already significantly different to begin with. Tell us how. | + | Your negative was distorted in the imaging process. Whereas most Minds instantiated from the same negative are initially identical, versions of you are already significantly different to begin with. Tell us how.\\ |
| This is only accessible if you have chosen Another Me as a Playstyle Quirk. | This is only accessible if you have chosen Another Me as a Playstyle Quirk. | ||
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| **Prescribed Purpose**\\ | **Prescribed Purpose**\\ | ||
| - | After being imaged, your original left behind strict instructions for their future Minds. Let us know what these instructions were, any measures they enacted to ensure you followed them, and the reason they left these instructions behind. | + | After being imaged, your original left behind strict instructions for their future Minds. Let us know what these instructions were, any measures they enacted to ensure you followed them, and the reason they left these instructions behind.\\ |
| - | Taking this quirk may involve loss of agency.\\ | + | Taking this Quirk may involve loss of agency.\\ |
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| ===Technical Features=== | ===Technical Features=== | ||
| **Bug in the System**\\ | **Bug in the System**\\ | ||
| - | Something went wrong when implementing you. There is an explicit flaw in your code that may impact your sensory inputs or ability to control systems. Let us know what it is. | + | Something went wrong when implementing you. There is an explicit flaw in your code that may impact your sensory inputs or ability to control systems. Let us know what it is.\\ |
| - | Depending on the nature of this bug, it may manifest either in Uptime or in Turnsheets. | + | Depending on the nature of this bug, it may manifest either in Uptime or in Turnsheets.\\ |
| - | Taking this quirk may involve loss of agency. | + | Taking this Quirk may involve loss of agency. |
| **Electric Sheep**\\ | **Electric Sheep**\\ | ||
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| **Inoperable Sopor**\\ | **Inoperable Sopor**\\ | ||
| - | Perhaps through a cloning fault or system instability, | + | Perhaps through a cloning fault or system instability, |
| - | The old copy will live out their life as though they’d left the Contingency normally, and you can describe what they attempt to do in place of a standard [[: | + | The old copy will live out their life as though they’d left the Contingency normally, and you can describe what they attempt to do in place of a standard [[: |
| - | Taking this quirk will involve loss of agency and memory. | + | Taking this Quirk will involve loss of agency and memory. |
| **Shared Vessel**\\ | **Shared Vessel**\\ | ||
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| **Runaway Subroutines**\\ | **Runaway Subroutines**\\ | ||
| - | A fault in your instantiation has left you without full control of your hibernation subroutines. During Hibernation Turnsheets, you will only be able to choose a Module for your character to gain. Qualitative changes to your physical form will be decided by the GMs. | + | A fault in your instantiation has left you without full control of your hibernation subroutines. During Hibernation Turnsheets, you will only be able to choose a Module for your character to gain. Qualitative changes to your physical form will be decided by the GMs.\\ |
| - | Taking this quirk will involve loss of agency. | + | Taking this Quirk will involve loss of agency. |
| **Distributed Intelligence**\\ | **Distributed Intelligence**\\ | ||
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| **Not My Body**\\ | **Not My Body**\\ | ||
| - | You knew that you would wake up in an unfamiliar body, it just wasn’t the body that you were expecting. Let us know what form you were expecting to have and what you actually got. If you would like for us to choose your form for you, let us know that, too. | + | You knew that you would wake up in an unfamiliar body, it just wasn’t the body that you were expecting. Let us know what form you were expecting to have and what you actually got. If you would like for us to choose your form for you, let us know that, too.\\ |
| - | Taking this quirk may introduce themes of medical malpractice, | + | Taking this Quirk may introduce themes of medical malpractice, |
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| ===Past Life=== | ===Past Life=== | ||
| **Shy From Duty**\\ | **Shy From Duty**\\ | ||
| - | When you were cloned, there was a threat or problem that you knew you would be unwilling to deal with. Let us know what it is. | + | When you were cloned, there was a threat or problem that you knew you would be unwilling to deal with. Let us know what it is.\\ |
| Expect it to come up for your character. | Expect it to come up for your character. | ||
| **Shared Stories**\\ | **Shared Stories**\\ | ||
| - | Another person that you knew from your past was also accepted into the Contingency. Let us know who they were, and how you knew each other before you were both imaged. | + | Another person that you knew from your past was also accepted into the Contingency. Let us know who they were, and how you knew each other before you were both imaged.\\ |
| This can be taken multiple times with different people. | This can be taken multiple times with different people. | ||