>>6119054. . . Bad stuff. You've split your consciousness down the middle, your original body is standing around metabolising and you're trying to run a human brain system on a literally defunct other human brain that isn't your original one, might have taken some prior use damage *and* is in a system that's not supporting it. Brains need oxygen, blood, all that nutrient gloop.
So I'd die?
No, you'd be putting yourself into a thing that's already dead. Stands to reason you can't die twice. You'd be Twiceborn? Yeah? You know about?
He's shaking his head so he might not know about those.
Well, thing is, right, you shunt your entire being into a dead thing. To Exceed is to Change. You'd lose a few useful functions of a living body, like tactile sensation, functional nerves, don't use corpses with optical nerve damage being blind SUCKS, etc, but if you don't go immediately crazy or kill yourself or accidentally discorporate your own existence, you could feasibly force the dead body to house your sense of self. Nudge it a little to be more accomodating. You'd have to develop the ability to see, sense, feel from scratch. Work up some solutions. It's been done.
Though rightly that's how you get Twiceborn Animants, you know, people free from the flesh but bound by the soul. The human body keeps wanting to go along with you, so even if your body is now made of rock and metal you'll still want to have joints and a jaw and a tongue to taste things and it's a whole mess trying to discorporate your own innate, intuitive sense of a body from the thing you're now inside and --
ah, whup, I think the binding is slipping it's going--- it's going.
[SPLORCH is the sound as the stumbling corpse-thing rips itself apart, turning an elbow 360 degrees through its own torso and after that it's just ruination]
Uegh. I think I got some in my mouth.
Oh, the headache?
Yeah, we just did just shunt a micro-fragment of our consciousness into a dead body. Do some breathing exercises, it'll come back eventually. Animist Fading. Other reason why you don't want to do too much at once.
Anyway, don't tell anyone about this, okay? Violating bodies is a Rat Crime, and we can't actually go subborning the honored dead least we violate their Loyalty in life and crack their Wills, so though this is all fun and games we'd be hung like eight times over if any Theurge saw us.
Then again they got kicked out of the city and the Senate hasn't published any new commentary on the old Animist laws, so if you get a good enough lawyer.
Oh did I *want* anything?
I was curious about what you were doing, Icarus, and also I need a bit of help because Decimus accidentally wrote a ward into his own brain and turned off his ability to feel any kind of fatigue. So he's already broken his arm from straining it too much lifting things.
If we don't fix that in the next hour he's going to do himself a world of pain.
