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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bagpuss" data-source="post: 7547888" data-attributes="member: 3987">Are we playing Call of Cthulhu?<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">When the body is revived the soul doesn't return, leaving that vessel easy to be inhabited by other beings.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">When the body is revived the soul has been driven mad by its time trapped in the Dreamlands.</li> </ul>Are we playing Cyberpunk?<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">There is no soul, but your mind was encoded and downloading onto a computer, when your body was frozen. If you are lucky you could afford the processing power for a VR upgrade to pass the time, otherwise you are stuck on a shelf somewhere.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Your body was sold in a corporate take over and was turned into process meat, your mind was accidentally deleted.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Your body was illegally jacked by another encoded mind, when you eventually get put back in it you find you are wanted for grand larceny and acts of terrorism.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Your mind was loaded into a combat cyborg, there is very little left that you would recognise as your body.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">You regularly swap bodies, the concept of self is entirely unrelated to the form you take, you could be a old man one day, a young woman the next, you once tried living as a vat grown tiger for a few hours. Perhaps one day you with thaw out your old rags, but today you are planning on being an attack helicopter.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">When you eventually get put back into your body, data corruption has lead to changes in your personality and whole sections of missing memories.</li> </ul></blockquote>

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