Difference between revisions of "Talk:Doug's Projects"

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The cross-training perk would work well for Doug, since he has been working a lot with Marie, and it would only cost 30 IPs, which is a readily-attainable goal, especially considering you completed the character background (which will earn some bonus points).

SCUBA gear might be hard to come by in Elma, but a resource-gathering mission to Olympia might yield results.

Outside of using alien tech, using pre-fabbed components like shipping containers seems like the best bet to me, too, and probably the only low-tech means of creating habitable space underwater available with Doug's limited resources, plus, shipping containers are readily available, especially since there is a train yard nearby and with Doug's other weird hoarding behavior, adding a bunch of metal boxes to his collection probably wouldn't set off any alarms...until they started disappearing.

Alien Machine Interface

With a little more time and using better diagnostic equipment than Marie's initial look-see at the chewy caramel center of this infernal brain-prober, the nature of this device might seem rather benign...until one remembers that it was crafted by furtive little alien hands to further their diabolical agenda!

At any rate, the more in-depth study would reveal that the neural projection capabilities are localized and low-power; they look to synchronize with and stimulate only the occipital cortex, left and right temporal lobes and auditory cortex (where the brain's centers for receiving visual and auditory stimuli are processed). The low-power component means that the input they send to the brain is ephemeral at best; the power output (and mechanism of transmission) is not capable of promoting axial or dendritic growth in any way, meaning the device cannot "burn in" memories or images. The input is as long lasting as a memory of seeing or hearing something with one's human ears. If the wearer focuses on something "seen" or "heard" from the machine interface, they can remember it, of course, but these memories would be subject to the same natural decay and whatnot as homegrown memories. The machine interface's receptors (pickups) are also localized, and pick up specific patterns and wavelengths of neural activity from the motor cortex and other parts of the brain involved in balance and spatial relationships. This is how the interface interprets the user's commands. Using the interface to control a drone would be far less clunky than the peripherals Doug is currently forced to use, as it would be far more intuitive and put the user "in the scene."

But that probably means very little to Doug; I imagine it would be about as appealing to Doug as riding around in a luxury sedan upholstered with the tanned hides of missing children.