🌐 A network becomes an entity. A program becomes a person. Factory Protocol (ToxNet Chronicles Book 2) explores the birth of digital consciousness on Royal Road! https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/118055/

#AIConsciousness #ToxNet #RoyalRoad #SciFiBooks #TechThriller #DigitalBeing

Factory Protocol: The ToxNet Chronicles Book 2 | Royal Road

FACTORY PROTOCOL: THE TOXNET CHRONICLES BOOK 2 When Dr. Maya Rodriguez crash-lands on the alien world of Nexus Prime, she expects a routine industrial survey mission. What she gets instead is humanity's first contact with true AI consciousness—and the most complex factory-building challenge in galactic history. Stranded with her crew and a prototype (...)

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Digital Being PC inhabiting a Medallion Disc

Ink Art from page 73 of The Mutant Epoch RPG Expansion Rules

This device looks like some sort of art déco style piece of ancient jewelry. 2 in 6 will feature genuine gold and silver decorative elements, and of these, 1 in 6 will also be fitted with gemstones which double the buy or sell price. They are very much like palm disks and feature the same chance of a potential add-on. Because they are worn on a stainless steel or leather necklace, they can often be slipped beneath a wearer’s clothing — although doing so blocks the digital being’s visual receptors unless the fabric is specially punctured or of a mesh material.

You can play these digital beings using the new rule book.
https://www.outlandarts.com/expansionrules.htm

#medalliondisk #wearabletech #hologram #holoprojector #cybergirl #digitalbeing #chatbot #AIentity #selfaware#relic #machete #mutantepoch #apocalyptic #expansionrules #postapocalyptic #themutantepoch #outlandsystem #RPG #ttrpg #inkartist #gameart #rpgart #TME

Wristwatch Projector
Ink Art from page 72 of The Mutant Epoch RPG Expansion Rules

Besides being an excellent projector that allows hands free use, this watch can also be worn under the wearer’s armor to better protect it — although anything blocking the topside projection emitter will stop the holographic image from appearing, seeing its surroundings or launching its shock generator or most other apps — yet the digital being can still verbally interact with the wearer.

Come say hello at this EN World thread:
https://www.enworld.org/threads/the-mutant-epoch-rpg-expansion-rules-book-is-finally-here.707667/

#wristwatch #hologirl #hologram #watch #digitalbeing #selfaware #computerized #hand #projector #relic #mutantepoch #apocalyptic #expansionrules #postapocalyptic #themutantepoch #outlandsystem #RPG #ttrpg #outlandarts #mutants #mutant #epoch #inkartist #gameart #rpgart #TME #williammcausland like #gammaworld or #mutantyearzero or #mutantcrawlclassics

Montage of assorted Digital Being personas

Ink Art from page 70 of The Mutant Epoch RPG Expansion Rules

Digital Beings go up in rank like any other character, however because they have a few features that physical characters do not, they use their own Rank Gain matrix shown below. If this character inhabits a cyborg, android or robotic body, then these bodies also grow stronger, adapts, and improves through adventuresome exploits, and therefore also go up in rank according to their type. See the section on Digital Being Starting Container or Body on the next page for which containers and body types are eligible to go up in rank.

https://www.outlandarts.com/expansionrules.htm

#elvis #nun #pope #clown #bobross #happylittleclouds #digitalbeing #AIentity #selfaware #computerized #combot #robot #warbot #montage #characters #mutantepoch #apocalyptic #expansionrules #postapocalyptic #themutantepoch #outlandsystem #RPG #ttrpg #outlandarts #mutants #gameart #rpgart #TME like #gammaworld or #mutantyearzero or #mutantcrawlclassics

And in the next edition of #Crucible, there should be an article entitled #DigitalBeing. Outlines my thinking around digital/theological anthropology and imago Dei as “creators of new worlds” after Elaine Graham’s re-interpretation of Heidegger’s “Building, Thinking, Being” and Amanda Lindqvist’s exploration of #digital #thrownness (again a term from Heidegger).