[UA] DNA Fleshworking (was: the Bullshitting Oui-ja Board)

[Andrew Kiebach]

>>>>Could a fleshworker change his DNA to avoid forensic 
>tests??
>I've got a character who's already under investigation for 
>murder,
>who just blew up a building with 30 people inside....<<<
>
>I'd say DNA is a too scientific concept to be twisted by 
>magick, but since
>we're talking about post-modern magick, and because we're 
>talking about
>Unknown Armies, I'd say an Adept could be tweaking his DNA 
>by using some
>kind of symbolic explanation - DNA, for instance, is a 
>symbol of identity, a
>thing that define who you are, that part of yourself that 
>you cannot change...
>
>Don't know. Hope my players won't ask me questions like 
>that.
>
>G. Pogorzelski.

I've had issues with that already, as I'm running a game 
that has turned into my players doing a lot of very illegal 
stuff.  My way of solving it:  yeah, you just spent a major 
charge or con some fleshworker into doing it.  You've got 
a new body.  You can:
(a) Set your body and speed to whatever you want, bearing in 
mind that 99 is human maximum.  You can have more, but you 
won't seem human.  Be wary, ye of munchkin blood, this will 
seem tempting, but your GM will rightly violate you most 
awfully if you attempt serious cheese here.
(b) Max out your wound points minus anything necessary for 
the major.  That's right, your character can now take two 
ouacowaed shotgun blasts to the chest.  The down side: you 
are going to live through two shotgun blasts and you're not 
getting healed at any hospital (Claws of the Tiger suck :).
(c) Totally alter your body in any way you feel like.  I 
ended up having a fleshworker demon (the only thing I could 
pull out of my ass to save a newly created merchant avatar 
who had just taken a bullet and was bleeding rather 
profusely) save the merchant, and then had the demon (now 
in control of the merchant) make another deal with his 
bodyguard "for a new body".  The demon put him under 'to 
prevent any discomfort' (GM smiles).  So he woke up buff 
as hell, fast as hell, totally new genetic set, and just 
a killer set of tits.  Incoming self checks as he didn't 
anticipate the gender swap or finding out that his newfound 
vaginal cavity fits his boss 'like a glove', but still, 
totally new identity!
In other words, yes, you can save your excessively criminal 
PCs with magick.  The cost should be extreme though.

My two (or three...or four...) cents.
Andrew

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