Saturday, September 5, 2009

Setting ideas

Initial setting ideas that prompted this game design are as follows

Boilerplated: Think a Steampunked Singularity idea there. I am going to pull in ideas from other nascent concepts I have had as well. But really the release of Eclipse Phase has again prompted my long standing interest in Singularity fiction.
So a Boilerplate is in essence, a stock set of phrases, words in a contract, or other similar document. In this setting it refers to a standard life, a standard way of living in essence. It also refers to when a person is having personality issues and is unable to break out of them, stuck in the same rut so to speak.
Lastly it refers to an artificial suit, armor, robot like body, or something like that, that a person can download their personality into, called Sheathing themselves.

So being Boilerplated means to have a set life, lifestyle, or a new life in a new body.

Sheaths: Since this is a Transhuman/Singularity setting this refers to the act of downloading a person into a new Boilerplate. This is an involved process.

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