He wasn't played because double barriers being overly oppressive . But now hes everywhere and he legit does dmg almost as good as a dps, but in the cas of Zen who had to deal with having no mobility and a large hitbox, bap has a jump which allows him to escape so many scenarios with ease, he can take high ground quickly, he has a self heal and an immortality field which imo is even potentially more potent then rez due to it being able to save an entire team and allows them to be immortal for several seconds. Bap has damage and very high healing, mobility, and a immortality field to top it off.

He has weaknesses obviously, he isn't good with dive or mobile comps as he will struggle to get full use of his IF and struggle to heal. But dive has been and will never come back. Deathball has been meta for years.

Resurrection. The cornerstone of what defines a Risen and what enables the Guardians to be so tenacious in battle. Allowing them to take complete atomic annihilation in stride and shrug off orbital strikes like a bad headache. A total ‘Get killed, Walk it off’ sort of deal. Such an immaculate and fantastic power, and yet how it actually works is still a mystery. We know the basics, that a Ghost will eventually come across a corpse that still has a spark of Light left in it, the Ghosts stimulates that spark, establishes a sort of metaphysical bond with them, and a Lightbearer is born faster than a dreg is docked. Clueless about their life before their first death and with enough paracausal power embedded into their physicality to forge their own empires. And that’s the part that’s always caught my attention; the blank slate that comes along with revival.

There’s no apparent reason as to why Guardians are brought back without memories of themselves. One of the most common explanations is that this was purposefully included in the revival process, intended to make the Guardians more compliant in being the Traveler’s shield. There’s also the idea that the Ghosts themselves have taken to redacting their Guardians memory to better guide them towards protecting the Traveler. I personally never put much stock into this, mainly because the first couple generations of Guardians did just about everything but protect the Traveler. Risen didn’t start acting like soldiers of the Light until after the Iron Lord reformation period, implying that there isn’t a connection between conformity and lack of memories. That still doesn’t explain the cause of Guardian necromantic induced amnesia. And since that’s the main point of this post, obviously I have a few things to say on the subject.

This is a bit of a long winded string of thoughts, but it’ll come back around soon enough. This all starts with one minor detail about Guardian revival that doesn’t quite fit in with everything else, which is the fact that Guardians can be clinically depressed. We know this because the Daito product Immortalia exists, a sort of super antidepressant meant to help cope with the existential dread of being a Guardian. Susceptibility to mortal ailments isn’t anything new with Guardians though. Radiation poisoning, starvation, hypothermia, possibly tetanus along with assumably every other infection, basically anything physical that can ail a mortal can also ail a Guardian.

I say this deta

After Porsha and Tanya attempt to get all the girls to reconcile their problems, Nene apologizes to Kenya for her past hurtful comments. Marlo sends Kenya to her breaking point. On their last day in Greece, Kandi and Cynthia are determined to reconcile Nene and Kenya.

A little bit of backstory first. I'm playing a character who's end goal is immortality. I'm a Dwarf wizard and it's my first time playing an evil character. My alignment is Lawful Evil and no one in my party knows my true motivation or alignment. When we rolled our past life events some of them that I rolled are that I was the only survivor of a major battle in the war, having been saved by an unknown god. And that he is scared of dying, making immortality my end goal. I also am a member of mages who are advisors to all of the rulers of the various kingdom in the world. Basically magical illuminati. Nothing happens that the "Brotherhood of Watchers" doesnt want to or know about.

Now that the backstory is out of the way, My character is a very vain and posh Wizard. He considers himself better that the "commons" and it shows. I play him to just come off as a bit of a snooty rich kid exposed to the world for the first time and I've gained the trust if my party members full of mainly good/neutral characters. My end goal is to become either a Vampire or Lich and take control of the Brotherhood, essentially becoming the ruler of all, but in the shadows.

Obviously this is for in the future as the party is only at 4th level but me and my DM have been plotting for far in the future of our campaign. I've been weighing the pros and cons of both, but am having a hard time weighing the options as I really don't know that much about either and can't really find much information online or in the books. What are yalls opinions on both? He cares alot about keeping his personality and looks, as he is incredibly vain, but also wants to unravel all the magics of the world.

Thanks for reading! I appreciate anyone's feedback!

You are allowed to grant this to someone who is currently living, they will be brought back after they die.

On top of the float for WorldPride, Cynthia and Nene come face-to-face for the first time since their fall-out last year. Porsha grasps the reality that Dennis was unfaithful and plans for her future as a single, working mom. Kandi and Todd bring Ace to an ultrasound appointment with their surrogate to help get him accustomed to having a little sister, and Kenya is forced to acknowledge the growing divide in her long distance marriage.

Here are the options.

Invulnerability: Nothing can damage or harm you in any way. You're always in perfect health and stop physically aging or revert to about your mid twenties. Your body is also in peak fitness and you don't need food, water, or any other resources to stay alive.

Rapid healing: Like above you stop aging or revert to mid twenties, and are in perfect health and fitness. Whenever you're injured you begin to heal at a rapid rate unless you specifically stop yourself from healing, though you'll heal from any fatal injuries or when knocked unconscious. You don't require food, water, or sleep, and your sense of pain is significantly dulled.

Possession: Whenever you die you become a spirit that can't interact with anything but can move around and observe. You can't move more than a mile away from where you died. You can take the body of anyone within that you are able to touch, and inhabit their body until you die again. Your memories and mental capabilities remain the same in any body, but you are otherwise normal.

Reincarnation: When you die you can choose an unborn or newborn human baby as your new body. You choose the exact baby you want to be reincarnated as, but you have to go through childhood again. Your memories and mental capabilities are unaffected and you are conscious as soon as you're born.

Cloning: You and any clones you create remain in perfect health and fitness, stop aging or revert to mid twenties, but can be injured, made sick, or killed. To make a clone you need all the raw materials of your body within 10 feet of you, they could be from a bunch of miscellaneous objects containing the elements you need or could be the body of another human or animal, living or dead as long as they contain enough materials. Only the body you inhabit can make more clones, all the clones have your knowledge and can act like normal people but are 100% loyal and follow any orders you give, anytime you die you take the body of the nearest clone.

Any other methods of being immortal you can think of?

Basically the title. It is hard to keep track of it since it’s normally above you. It could work like Torb’s turret maybe.

Edit: I want to blame mobile and sleep deprivation for the misspelling, but really I’m just an idiot

Essentially, Voldemort becomes a very good Christian boy who strictly follows the ten commandments and loves everyone. He goes to church every Sunday and seeks penance every time he commits a sin.

I’m about to start a new trope y’all: Christian!Voldemort

Hi, r/rational. Some of you might remember me from previous attempt at web fiction, which I posted my two attempts at on this subreddit back in 2017 and 2018 respectively. I ended up abandoning that project (at least, for now) because it wasn't very popular and, frankly, was kind of a huge mess as a result of me having over-written it for a long period of time and being burdened with too many conflicting ideas. Oh, and also because someone stole my laptop with all the files on and I hadn't backed it up properly, but that's neither here nor there.

Anyway, I started different project recently, but felt a little uncertain about posting it here right away because repeatedly getting people to read stuff you're not committed to yet and then ending up ditching it feels like kind of lame behavior. However, I now have about 60k words submitted, so I probably won't end up walking away from it unless it ends up being spectacularly disliked.

This is largely a completely new project, though it shares a couple character concepts and world-building conceits from the first. It's a more traditional fantasy story with a slow, introspective pace that I thought people here might like because the magic system is very mechanical and it focuses heavily on the topics of death and the pursuit of immortality, which seems like a popular idea in ratfic. It's also features (although not super prominently yet, since it's still half in setup) characters using their intellects and an understanding of the magic system to try to solve problems. I also indulge in a very small amount of gamelit-style framing.

It's on royalroad right now. https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/28806/the-flower-that-bloomed-nowhere Up to 13 chapters. Please let me know what you think if you read any of it; feedback is invaluable, especially on the first chapter if you find yourself unable to get into it.

If anyone is wondering what the title is in reference to, it'll become clear in chapter 15.

Assume this is without aging or vulnerability. Are there situations that would be impossible for them? Are there systems that they could exploit? Would a 1,000-year-old person be denied certain things because of their advanced age? Could that person continue to collect social security for as long as the place to collect it from exists? What about situations that result in things like life imprisonment, once it becomes clear that the person's life is never going to end?

In Errylath, Elves live normal lifespans just like the rest of the races. When they die, their spirits pass into the strand between the material realm and the realm of the creators.

Elf children are not given names and are communally raised until they reach the age of 12, at which time they undergo a ceremony called the Qyasi which opens their minds to those spirits of the ancestors.

If a spirit from the strand is called during the ritual it takes complete possession of the child's body and mind, resuming it's life with full recall of it's entire past. Some of the more ancient Elves have lived dozens of times in different bodies both male and female and have memories that go back thousands of years, making them appear to be immortal.

This cycle of reincarnation can cause problems, especially when married couples or lovers are reborn with a large age difference in their physical bodies, or when an ancestor who was considered 'evil' is reborn into a new body and keeps their identity secret. Add the fact that they tend to develop multiple personality disorders after centuries, and Elf society in Errylath is generally chaotic.

>Slowly Hathor Matt descended into the Sixth enumeration, letting his disgust ebb as the true of the Emperors design opened up to him.
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>In an age of peace, a legionary might endure for millennia or more, but he would not live forever.
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>The Immortality of the legions was a myth.
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>Eventually the Biological mechanisms sustaining them would fail and the horrifying descent into decrepitude would begin. Traditional life-prolonging drugs and surgery were ineffective on a transhuman physiology.

I found this part interesting for two reasons -

It disputes the idea that Space Marines are immortal - which could go a way to explaining why Dreadnoughts go senile/insane

The last bit hints that there has been Space Marines old enough to trial "Traditional" life saving drugs on - possibly on the first space marine experiments?

Hanzo dragons incoming, Baptiste on our side drops field. Everyone runs away from field, dies.

Repeat for any and every other offense ultimate.

u/Czar_of_Bananas 's post: Host-Human Hybrids & Westworld's Immortality Paradox can be found here: https://www.reddit.com/r/westworld/comments/gak6ng/hosthuman_hybrids_westworlds_immortality_paradox/

It may be useful to read beforehand for some portions of this post, but not all.

Consciousness as a Storm

In my view, there is no real line between you and the you2, or the a perfect Delos replica and the original. The mind is computation, a framework of input of sensory data, output of bodily action, and an internal loop of endless record creation, recreation, logging, and alteration, all of which acting as their own internal input-outputs, affected by nuances and structural oddities unique to the individual, a product of previous experiences (memories/physical health) and their unique starting point (brain/nervous system development in utero).

The key point here being these looping reviews of opinions of sensory experience (memories, coloured by current experience, new information, emotion etc.) result in experiences of experiences, and opinions of those experiences of experience, and side tracks of computation of the knock on effect of feelings and other "colouring" surrounding a given internalized piece of knowledge or memory, essentially a messy running train of thought. From all of this, given the right structures are present, a "larger" (wider?) surround track of self modeling can form, that "acknowledges" this kind of self analysis with analysis of that self analysis, a sort of internal recreation of those loops that just like the smaller loops, is similarly "plugged into" the entire process, the feelings about this model of these experiences then affecting the behavior of what is being modeled, until, though when exactly this transition occurs is way beyond me, the line between what is being modeled and the model is a meaningless/undetectable line.

This is why, I think, consciousness is so "fuzzy", because it's a endlessly running process, the model is so intimately tied to the what is being modeled to the point this metaphor is stretching the truth of what is actually occurring. Rather than a model of the these models being something that occurs after, it is probably always a nascent possibility/present as long as the necessary foundation is there, using the same mechanisms that allo

"I have to say, that's a hell of a cup."

I glanced up. "Excuse me?"

The man standing at the end of the counter lifted his mug. It wasn't one of the standard-issue cardboard ones we handed out - no, he'd gotten one of the refillable ones you could get unlimited coffee every visit with.

Internally, I groaned. I knew him, of course. He came every day, and every day it was some variation of the same story. "Thanks," I said, pasting a cheerful smile onto my face. "It's my specialty. Black coffee. From the bag."

The sink handle turned under my grip. Water sprayed down. I got to work, cleaning the various machines that let me do my job.

"Oh, I can tell."

God damn it, he was still here. I just kept washing. Maybe if I ignored him-

"You ever think you'd like to keep doing this?"

"I'd like to keep getting paid," I said, still staring resolutely at the dishes. "I don't know about doing this."

"But you're so good at it. I've never had a cup of coffee like yours." He chuckled. "Trust me, I've looked."

"Well, I'm honored." Go away. Go away. I'm busy.

"I could help you, you know."

That was enough to make me glance up, pausing in my scrubbing. "What?"

The man waved an arm out. He was bone pale, with black hair that hung in slightly-greasy waves. It rustled gently with the force of his gesture. "This place. It's not much, but you like it, yes?" His lips parted in a grin. "I could give you forever with it."

"Right," I said, beginning to chuckle. "Forever."

"Consider it," he said. His smile had taken on a tolerant quality, somewhere in the middle of my laughter. "My offer remains open."

Before I could say another word, he swept from the store, laughing softly to himself.

And for a while, that was that. Oh, it happened now and again. He'd come in, acting all dramatic and arrogant. I'd serve him his cup, keeping myself carefully in line. He was a customer, and I had bills to pay. The shop needed clientele to stay open. Each time, he'd make some vague, impossible offer about an eternity I could have.

Every time he repeated it, though, my amusement faded. Before long, the sight of him coming through the door sent a shiver down my spine. He was just so....serious. It was like he didn't realize how insane and impossible his offer was.

It was like he believed it.

I'd come to convince myself he was just a little bit cracked - until the day of the robbery.

I was stupid. Never act the hero, I knew. Heros got themselves killed, and I liked living. But I hadn't even

I just can't feel ant comfort no matter how much I earn.World feels like it's advancing at super fast rate and feels like more alien and brutal fight for survival.

With gene editing coming in future (maybe in lifetime of our children or grandchildren) future has never felt more alien to me.

Can you even imagine how much of adventage super rich will have with super bodies they will secure for themselves and their children?

And there will be fight more important than anything before, fight for immortality.

How can one find any comfort in this world other than blissful ignorance or denial through unrealistic optimism thinking how it will all work out just fine don't worry. While we see rich only gain more and more power and tools at their disposal(probably robots in future)?

And soon super rich will become something beyond anything we humanity as a whole can hope to control and they showed their nature always through history and at current time,just unending hunger and lust for power.

Before you could say at least we all die and become equal but now there is no such comfort.How do you find peace?

Then it went and posted about it on some planetary communication system asking what it was! Oh, mortals...

Well, that was fun. What should I do next to pass the [ERROR]?