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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Byrons_Ghost" data-source="post: 1454192" data-attributes="member: 7396">I like the ideas here. Especially the adventure idea of getting stranded in a town full of slightly deformed, superintelligent people who all look slightly similar. Someone get Rod Serling in here...Anyhow, here's some thoughts. When I first read about the need to reset the bloodline, it seemed to me that the easiest way to do it would be to have the Lemarkian trait be recessive- ie, if a Lemarkian and a normal have a child, it will be a normal child with the potential to mate with a Lemarkian to produce another Lemarkian. But it would be born with all it's limbs and everything. This might lead to the "normals" leaving the towns a lot go to into regular society, but still carrying the trait with them. Might make for a good family secret for a PC.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> With regards to the passing of memories and knowledge, I can see this making the insular communities have smart, but out-of-date people. If they're not communicating regularly with the outside world, then they're not going to have the most current knowledge or theories available. It could lead to some interesting paradoxes, like finding a child that's totally conversant with Einstein's theories but is unaware of the existence of Pluto (discovered in 1930).For physical adeptness, in general, I don't think they'd be much faster or stronger because it would be evened out by injuries passing from one generation to the next. As has been mentioned, there might be some breeding program in place to try and make "superior" children. Or at least minimizing physical defects, possibly causing the ostricization of the more injured families. And, since they can't intermingle with the other families, they'd naturally marry amongst each other and things would get even worse.Among the more normal-appearing ones, I can see marriage returning to a sort of negotiated contracy, with physical fitness playing a large part in the consideration. If normal humans are needed to somehow reset the bloodline, or to make the Lemarkian gene receed more, than any normals coming through town could find themselves the target of a power struggle between aggressive families who want to claim them.I was also thinking of the fact that the women are recording the Kirilian fields- this could lead to a subset of woman midwife types (again, like the Bene Gesserit) who have some control over the way the image is recorded. Perhaps they can even manipulate existing fields directly, getting powers like spirit healing or inflicting wounds- definately like small town witches. They may be the ones keeping the doctor prisoner, in order to supplant their knowledge with more modern techniques.</blockquote>

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