About Body Modifications
The Mutant's Dilemma
Modern medicine could give you the body you need so perfectly that no one would be able to tell the difference. So perfectly that you might as well have been born into it. You wouldn't even have surgery scars. If. If you weren't a mutant.
Part of it's the surgery itself -- it would be risky finding someone you could trust, and then they probably wouldn't do it. Your physiology is unique. It'd be too risky, too expensive, all of that. You could end up a mess. Or dead. Or a dead mess.
But more than all that is your programming. Yeah, programming. All mutants seem to have it. This extreme conditioning against changing yourself. Thinking seriously about modifying your birth body almost literally makes you black out. Did they do this on purpose? Trap you in a body that's never felt right to you? Or was it just the luck of the draw? You suspect you'll never know...
The Limits of Change
Yeah, no burning twice as bright for you. But maybe there's some work you can have done. Sensible prosthetics, perhaps. That's different. And besides your mission, you've got your programming to think about. You can just about think about doing something minor without blacking out, as long as there's no way it could affect your mutation. That you just can't change. The mental horror at the idea runs deep.
Embracing the Change
Maybe burning twice as bright sounds good... or maybe you don't believe that you'll succumb to that fate. Extra arms, weird genitals, a face of metal, legs five feet long. Biological, mechanical, all mixed together...
It makes you think -- there must be a lot of money to be made, being a freak in this city. The higher end sex trade is obvious, but not the only option. You'd be in demand as a performer, one way or another.
How It Works (Game Mechanics)
So what are you thinking? New flesh, or just a new piercing?
- Some modifications are harder to pursue than others.
- Some might require a good deal of Modification/Habituation.
- Your Modification/Attitude can also make a difference.
- For most modifications, you’ll also need to speak with your close contacts before going ahead.
- Use Manage your life if you want to drop a project after you’ve chosen it.
Body Modifications
Piercings
You might as well start simple.
- Available Locations: Ear lobes, Facial, Nipples, Your body, Upper ear, Tongue
- Bonus: None
Split tongue
There’s nothing new about getting this done – people have split their tongues for what, a century? More? But it is a big deal. It takes a lot of getting used to, from what you’ve heard.
Editor’s note: the requirement for not being committed is only temporary.
- Bonus: Not specified
- Blocked By: Mutation/Deranged mouthparts
Pointed ears
Have you always wanted to look like an elf? Or Vulcan? Or any other thing with pointed ears? Well, now’s your chance.
- Bonus: Catching attention, +1
- Blocked By: Mutation/Sensitive ears
Breast creation
You don’t identify as trans. Maybe that’s changing, or maybe not. But you don’t have to be trans to want a nice pair of boobs, do you? Cross dressing is its own thing. Or just wanting boobs for no reason at all. But all that said, it would be a big step.
Editor’s note: the requirement for not being committed is only temporary. There will also be an option to have complete gender affirming surgery in one go in future.
- Bonus: None (Cosmetic / Narrative)
- Blocked By: Mutation/Chest ridges
Facial feminisation
This procedure will grant the 'feminine' quirk and remove quirks such as 'chiselled'. You might also gain other physical quirks and will lose most types of facial piercings as part of the surgery.
Editor’s note: the requirement for not being committed is only temporary. There will also be an option to have complete gender affirming surgery in one go in future.
- Effect: Grants narrative and physical quirks; removes facial piercings.
Prosthetic arm
They’re not fashionable, and they’re maybe even illegal. But you don’t give a shit about any of that. You know what you want.
- Effect: You’ll take a hit to your skills due to having to retrain with your new limb, unless you’re replacing an amputation.
- Blocked By: Electric skin, Extra finger joints, Osteophyte
Muscle grafts
You’ve seen people around looking far more than naturally jacked. You’ve also heard that this kind of thing is bad quality work. Hackjob stuff that’s not meant to last. But you don’t care. You want it.
- Effect: You’ll take some skill hits as you retrain with your new muscle.
- Blocked By: Quirk/Body is a temple