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RE: Magitec beings/some form of mechanical people - Sounsyy - 12-12-2014
(12-12-2014, 06:08 AM)Guy Tower Wrote: I don't have any information like that, only a question on my own. Actual robotics and AI seem to be a debatable matter in FFXIV, but what about prosthetics? Arms, legs, eyes, noses (...what?). Such possibilities, if they exist, may be good to know for a combatant adventurer.
I know Merri's character has a prosthetic magitek arm, but he's also an ex-Garlean engineer. I imagine such technology would be very difficult to come by in Eorzea for a laymen.
Clockwork technology could also make for an interesting prosthetic arm/leg as well and might be Eorzea's answer to Garlemald's magitek. If the Goldsmiths' Guild can craft life-like automaton minions which perform basic functions, I don't see why they couldn't make an arm or leg perform the functions of walking or flexing of the fingers. The fun trick with RPing as having said clockwork arm, is that it may or may not reliably function when necessary. For instance, the fingers may be able to move and grip, but do so on their own accord (if you have an automaton core in the arm).
(12-11-2014, 03:17 PM)FloriaRaine Wrote: Well, i'm getting a decent bit of "allagan could work" lately now, i think i might try and work that angle, if anyone has any information or lore they could share with me on allagan technologies, it would be greatly appreciated.
Unfortunately, most of the lore surrounding the Allagans tells us what they had, not so much how it worked. All we know is the Allagans were exceedingly technologically and magically advanced - a paragon civilization of mankind. Which is why you may risk some grey area RPing as being ancient Allagan tech. There's little doubt they had the technology (or were at least capable) but how it worked or functioned is another matter entirely.
RE: Magitec beings/some form of mechanical people - Dogberry - 12-12-2014
(12-12-2014, 06:08 AM)Guy Tower Wrote: I don't have any information like that, only a question on my own. Actual robotics and AI seem to be a debatable matter in FFXIV, but what about prosthetics? Arms, legs, eyes, noses (...what?). Such possibilities, if they exist, may be good to know for a combatant adventurer.
Merri and I both RP characters with magitek limbs. In his case, he's an ex-Garlean engineer. In mine, Stormwind, a magitek engineer and allagan researcher worked with Rhianna, a bonafide doctor, worked together to create just the prototype. In both cases they were lengthy, largely experimental processes. There really isn't a clinic or anything like that where you'd go to get an arm or a leg fitted. In Dogberry's case, he happened to know the right people, and was willing to pay a price well beyond any monetary value to get them.
RE: Magitec beings/some form of mechanical people - Stormwind - 12-12-2014
(12-12-2014, 11:17 AM)Dogberry Wrote:(12-12-2014, 06:08 AM)Guy Tower Wrote: I don't have any information like that, only a question on my own. Actual robotics and AI seem to be a debatable matter in FFXIV, but what about prosthetics? Arms, legs, eyes, noses (...what?). Such possibilities, if they exist, may be good to know for a combatant adventurer.
Merri and I both RP characters with magitek limbs. In his case, he's an ex-Garlean engineer. In mine, Stormwind, a magitek engineer and allagan researcher worked with Rhianna, a bonafide doctor, worked together to create just the prototype. In both cases they were lengthy, largely experimental processes. There really isn't a clinic or anything like that where you'd go to get an arm or a leg fitted. In Dogberry's case, he happened to know the right people, and was willing to pay a price well beyond any monetary value to get them.
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RE: Magitec beings/some form of mechanical people - Titor - 12-13-2014
I love robots/androids/high tech and would love to RP with this character sometime if you want. I do not mind bending lore a bit either to make it plausible if need be
RE: Magitec beings/some form of mechanical people - Jazz Egi - 12-13-2014
(12-13-2014, 03:10 AM)Titor Wrote: I love robots/androids/high tech and would love to RP with this character sometime if you want. I do not mind bending lore a bit either to make it plausible if need be
Why not work an angle besides magitek? The dullahans are literally vengeful suits of animated armor. This sets a much more stable precedent in my opinion, because despite seeing tons of high-tech allaghan machinery ingame we have never once seen an AI that does anything more than mindless killing.
Granted, a dullahan is basically an undead so its intellect is also up for debate, but I feel it is easier to swing this stuff because 'magic'.
Regardless of direction, such a creature probably wont be well received in public.
RE: Magitec beings/some form of mechanical people - FloriaRaine - 12-13-2014
I think what i'm going to do with this character, is just have two different characters on it. one for people who don't mind bending lore a little and want to rp with an android character, and another for those who'd rather keep to the lore, something along the lines of a sheltered girl groomed to be a human weapon to try and keep her as similar to both characters as possible.
RE: Magitec beings/some form of mechanical people - Sounsyy - 12-13-2014
(12-13-2014, 03:59 AM)Jazz Egi Wrote: The dullahans are literally vengeful suits of animated armor.
Well... not entirely accurate. Dullahans are a type of Voidsent which cannot act in our plane until they possess an inanimate object, such as but not limited to, a set of armor. And all Voidsent really want to do is drain people (or anything really) of their aether.
So murderous AI or aether-sucking Voidsent? /jugglemotion
Not really here to police anyone's RP though. Just here to say what is and isn't in canon lore. Want to play an AI cyborg/android/automaton? Ancient Allagan tech or Clockwork Servitors are your best bet. Want to play a Voidsent that sneaks into the Hourglass and possesses random sleeping adventurer's gearsets and walks off with them? Dullahans are your ticket.