Okay... I'm looking at a story arc where my character finds out she's pregnant, but I was wondering how I should run this: should I play out the nine months in real time or should I foreshorten it a little? It's gonna be a tough act to keep up for the duration, and I'd had the thought that she shifts from active combat (SMG Specialist) to a non-combat position (probably coding or Physician), for the simple reason that she's not sure how getting her RSI shorted in the Matrix would affect her unborn children, especially because in the Real she's small and, as she later finds out, she'll be expecting twins. Any thoughts? Suggestions?
Twwiiiiiiiinsss....*ahem* I'm always for two things, especially since this is the Matrix where pew pew is possible: 1.) Rapid futuristic pregnancy booster thing so you can pop 'em out and be back in the battlefield in no time, barring maternitity leave. 2.) RSI deterioration (any cause, Viral, head-booted, w/e) forcing surgery. (It's more dramatic this way. :p)
Option two *might* work, but the earliest it could be done would be six or seven months, and then you got the difficulties of caring for premature infants in the Real. They're hard enough to take care of in the real world, let alone in a world that's solid nuclear winter. :: Laughs a little::
Option one... I don't see it working without killing our gal, since pregnancy takes a *LOT* out of a gal under normal circumstances, let alone trying to speed it up. Consider the fact that a pregnant lady has to eat for two, as the saying goes. The shortest I'd go would be six months, but then there's the matter of hauling more nutrients into her system, etc.
or 9 months in mxo time. Several days, up to a week are spanned ingame., find out how long from dusk till dawn, and plan accordinly
I believe it's an hour per day in MxO so 1 day is 24 days in MxO
9 months is say 9 x 28 = 252
252 / 24 =10.5
so 10 and a half days is pretty much 9 months, how long till the babies are due?
*CENSORED*!!!! *CENSORED*?!?!?!? What the HELL is with you woman and being pregnant?!!!?!? REDPILLS DO NOT GET PREGNANT!!!!! Ok, they can only get pregnant in the REAL, and it wouldn't show in the Matrix....maybe not even in the real, cuz being in a pod 1/2 your life probably killed ...you know................And EXILES don't have babies either, did you ever see Persephone or blooddrinkers running around with a huge *CENSORED* gut...I think NOT...so stop with the pregnant crazyness Ladies!
DemondHunter wrote:*CENSORED*!!!! *CENSORED*?!?!?!? What the HELL is with you woman and being pregnant?!!!?!? REDPILLS DO NOT GET PREGNANT!!!!! Ok, they can only get pregnant in the REAL, and it wouldn't show in the Matrix....maybe not even in the real, cuz being in a pod 1/2 your life probably killed ...you know................And EXILES don't have babies either, did you ever see Persephone or blooddrinkers running around with a huge *CENSORED* gut...I think NOT...so stop with the pregnant crazyness Ladies!hmm... not a sharp fellow are you? ever heard of a freeborn? you know, someone who's born in the real? and what about sati? a program born (created) out of love? whats to stop an exile jealus of humans giving life programming to simulate pregnancy to simulate child birth for their new program? and who said they got pregnant in the matrix? that's physically impossible. so to sum up. WROOOONG!
its amazing that this guy lost his socks over a human getting pregnant (known to happen) but everyone seems to think vampires are ok.. *shakes head* gl with your RP segment tho, sounds cool =D
Re: the vamps -- depends on who you talk to, and I'll admit to being ambivalent about it since I've had some nasty experiences with vamp RPers, but I'm basically cool with it.
I actually thought of an alternate slant on this arc, inspired by "Morning Sickness", one of the Matrix Comics, in which a woman adopts a child by swiping a fetus off a stalk out in the fields; I re-read it recently and it gave me a few ideas. We'll see where this goes. (I'll admit, sometimes just brain-storming and tossing ideas around is as much fun as the actual RP. :: Laughs at self:: ))
