160: Troika

ENTRY 160: Troika

“It was an experiment in fecundity in space. A bold experiment, involving a selection of fertility drugs in microgravity, testing the limits of traditional conception. Everything had to be just right—the ambiance, the alignment of the planets, I was taking these hormone shots…and well, you can see the results. A bit mixed, but I call it a success.”

- Troika’s Mother

“She was on every drug known to transhumanity. We all were. We’d just pried the doors off the pharmacy and snorted, swallowed, or shot up everything. Fucked like bunnies for fifteen hours. ‘Til we were raw and bleeding. First time I saw the kids, I thought it was the cosmic rays, but now that I think about it if they’d have come out with gills I wouldn’t have been surprised either.”

- Troika’s Father

The Troika began their lives as conjoined identical triplets. While their “mark zero” birthmorph wasn’t much to write home about, they delved deep into biomorph design. Eventually they saved up enough creds and favors to resleeve into a custom-designed biomorph which retains most of the cosmetic advantages of the human form but possesses a distinct trilateral symmetry. Three normal human faces stare out at 120-degree angles from a conjoined skull, three arms pivot about in expanded ball-and-socket shoulder joints with hands that feature three fingers flanked by two opposable thumbs, and stand on a classic tripod leg structure. Each of the triplets’ personalities is distinct, and modifies their “third” of the morph according to their tastes: Troy has blue eyes and likes tattoos, usually hand-done blue abstract spirals crawling up their chest; Royce has brown eyes and prefers dermal implants and piercings; Kane has yellow eyes and goes in for scars and branding, having almost completed a quite elaborate feathered dragon eating its own tail on their chest. While content with their current morph, the Troika continue to design new custom morphs and are rumored to be working on a “Mark III” version that will allow each triplet to disengage their morph and operate independently, then rejoin with either of the others as necessary.

COG	COO	INT	REF	SAV	SOM	WIL	MOX
12	15	12	15	12	18	21	-
INIT	SPD	LUC	TT	IR	DUR	WT	DR
5	1	42	8	84	30	6	45

Morph: Unique Biomorph

Skills (Troy): Academic: Neurobiology 60, Art: Tattooing 45, Interests: Multiple Births 60, Language: Native English 85, Language: French 50, Language: Mandarin 50, Perception: 70, Persuasion 40, Profession: Morph Designer 60, Protocol 20, Scrounging 45, Unarmed Combat 50

Skills (Royce): Academic: Biochemistry 60, Art: Piercing 45, Interests: Congenital Deformities 60, Interests: Custom Clothing 50, Language: Native English 85, Language: Braille 50, Language: Mandarin 50, Perception: 50, Persuasion 50, Profession: Tailor 60, Protocol 30, Unarmed Combat 50

Skills (Kane): Academic: Bioengineering 60, Art: Scarificaiton 45, Interests: Custom Implants 60, Interests: DIY Augmentation 60, Interests: Unique Morphs 60, Language: Native English 85, Language: French 50, Language: Sign Language 50, Perception: 75, Profession: Bioengineer 60, Unarmed Combat 50

Implants: Access Jacks, Basic Biomods, Basic Mesh Inserts, Clean Metabolism, Cortical Stack (x3), Mnemonic Augmentation, Multi-Tasking (x2)*, Sex Switch

Advantages: 3 arms, 3 legs, 360 degree vision

Disadvantages: Uncanny Valley

* All three egos occupy the same morph on a permanent basis, and switch off control of the arms and legs—though they can (and sometimes do) squabble over control.