zk/writing/post-self/fate.md

%title Post-Self in Fate Core

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In which Maddy decides that writing a book wasn't enough, and she needed to also write an RPG setting.

Skills

Adroit (merge)

Adroit represents how well you can turn your attention or intention to a given subject in a few areas:

• Merging - How well can you merge with an uptree instance? Do you handle conflicts well? Are you able to take in information, emotions, sensoria?
• Mirroring - How well do you adapt to your own forks prior to merging, seeing yourself performing something and anticipating the merge?
• Witnessing - How well do you adapt to life as a new fork? How well do you understand others' forks?

Stunts

Perfect Merge

Once per session, ignore conflicts and gain all content you want.

Keen understanding

Once per conflict, you know exactly what another fork is going for (yours or others')

We are one after all

You and a fork act in synchrony

Ambition

How much of a social climber are you? Does the post-scarcity society lead you to get comfortable in your life, or do you seek new adventure and heights of reputation?

Stunts

I get what I want

Once per session, use deceive, rapport, or will instead of ambition.

Climber

Once per conflict, you may bump your reputation by one.

I'm the important one here

You may use ambition instead of deceive if it will help you alone.

Art

Art reflects how well you are able to adapt to the technology post uploading. Do you make new things not possible before, or do you cling to the way of life you had? Think of it in these three ways:

• State of the art - Keeping up with changes and possibilities in the system.
• Inherent artfulness - What it means to use the system to build upon new things.
• Appreciation - How well do you take in and adapt with others' art?

Stunts

Display of perfection

Use reputation instead to wow and convince.

I know this

Once per session, automatically succeed a check on system, forking, merging, etc.

Meeting of minds

In conflict, you gain a rapport with another and can build off what they perform.

Athletics

See core system

Contacts

See core system

Crafts

See core system, with the following note: In the system, you can create anything that:

1. You can afford through reputation, and
2. Others can perceive and interact with in logical ways (you can't create something magical, invisible, etc).

Deceive

See core system

Empathy

See core system

Fight

See core system, with the following note: The goal of fighting can be to:

1. Gain reputation,
2. Decrease opponent's reputation,
3. Make your point,
4. Destroy a fork in your way, or
5. Corrupt a fork to prevent downtree merges.

Fork (mutation)

In the system, you are allowed to make copies of yourself. It is a full copy of you, a unique and independent person with their own will. As such, your current instance cannot control them, but since you and the fork share the same mind up until the moment of forking, you have the same goals. It's just that you start taking in different givens immediately, so you'll make your own decisions.

Forks can quit or be signalled to quit from downtree, at which point the immediate downtree instance will be able to merge their experiences to varying levels. Adroit determines how effective you are at this and managing inevitable conflicts.

Stunts

Sleight of Fork

Use stealth or adroit to create a fork subtly.

Fork at a distance

Once per conflict, create a fork further away than arm's length.

Quick fork

Bump yourself up in the order of conflict according to fork level.

Investigate

See core system

Lore

See core system, with the following note: lore also governs how well you use exocortices and archives, as well as the history and knowledge of the system itself.

Notice

See core system

Provoke

See core system

Rapport

See core system

Reputation (resources)

In a post-scarcity system, money isn't a thing. Instead, the goal is generally to increase one's reputation. How trustworthy are you? Do people seek you out to solve problems? Do you focus on one thing you want to to get really good at it regardless of reputation, or do you focus on a few things to bump your reputation?

Stealth

See core system

Will

See core system