Transplant Cop

an adventure-thriller about a sentient forearm and the person attached to it

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Remember in the movie "The Princess Bride" where Wesley says the iocane didn't kill him because he built up an immunity to it? Is that a real thing, and if it is, can someone can resistance to multiple poisons at once by focusing on one, or do you need to build resistance to each poison individually?

Yes and no. Iocaine itself is fictional, so we can scratch that off the list quickly.

Fair warning: I don’t have access to any of my toxicology and forensics texts at the moment, so I’m a little sketchier on the poison side of things.

That said, drug tolerance is quite real. It’s a state where someone acquires resistance or full immunity to a specific drug through repeated use. Usually this refers to the use of things like antidepressants, painkillers, sedatives, or other drugs, not poisons per say.

Cross-tolerance occurs when tolerance to one drug also provides tolerance to another, or accelerate the onset of tolerance for another drug. Usually these are drugs with similar neurological effects, or drugs within a family. Such as stimulants, opiates, antidepressant, and so on.

There are also stray drugs that result in almost arbitrary cross-tolerances developing. Such as amphetamines and pseudoephedrine (a nasal decongestant). Usually this is because of the drugs’ mode-of-action (literally how it affects the chemicals in your brain) are similar or almost identical, though it isn’t always the case.

Now, note that I’ve been talking about drugs all this time. (Partially, because my Book of Poisons reference is in another timezone.)

As I recall, this is true for some poisons, but it’s vanishingly rare. If you have a character who tries to kill someone via a heroin overdose, it’s entirely possible the victim would have acquired a tolerance to the drug (even if they’ve never used heroin, but do have a history of abusing other opiates) to the point that the killer wouldn’t deliver a lethal dose.

It’s also distinctly not the case with some poisons. Either because the lethal dosage is so low it is impossible to introduce into your body safely (ricin), or because chronic use of the poison at low doses will still kill you or at least cause permanent physiological harm, it’s just the symptoms will be slightly different.

For example, it’s actually impossible to develop a tolerance to arsenic this way because chronic arsenic poisoning will lead to death. The symptoms are different, but the end result isn’t.

The short version is, not really. You may be able to find a few poisons that you actually can legitimately acquire a tolerance to (though I can’t remember any off hand), but like so many things in The Princess Bride, this isn’t about objective reality, it’s about painting a storybook fairytale with a very fine brush for the texture.

-Starke

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Back to Pixel Art...

Hey everyone!  I’m on vacation so that means I’m going to have some more time than usual to work on the game (which is awesome!).  For the past week I’ve been playing around with moving back to pixel art for the game.  Something just didn’t feel right with the 3D assets and I missed working with pixel art.  There’s just something I love about it. :D

The game will still be turn-based and I’m keeping the grid idea.  The art is pretty simply but not so much were I can’t add some details.  Here’s a quick mockup of the visual style that I’m going for.  I’m currently implementing all of this in Unity.

Hopefully this’ll be the last major visual change that I do but you never know.  My mind is always thinking of different ideas that I want to try and some don’t work out as I thought they would.  I have high hopes for this change though.  Thanks again for following my devblog and I hope everyone is enjoying it!

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Scene #20: ‘Day Off' by Octavi Navarro | Tumblr

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Death Magic by AlexHW

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Pixel Joint Top Pixel Art — August 2015

(Top 10 ranks, titles and authors written in captions. Original posts can be found by following the source linked above.)

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 The Laughter at Night // Paul Lehr 

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Updated Mystery House to fix some bugs and some janky pixel art

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I've been working on fixing several bugs for Mystery House. When I get it working, I'll post about it. What may end up happening is an expansion on Mystery House, with Transplant Cop as a follow-up. Mystery House would still be a small, bite-sized game. However, fleshing it out would allow me to polish mechanics that would be used in Transplant Cop.

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I just released the prototype for Transplant Cop, titled Mystery House, on Itch.io and GameJolt! Check it out at the links below. The game was made for the Haunted House Jam over on Itch.io

http://gamejolt.com/games/mystery-house/105605 http://thatguynm.itch.io/mystery-house

And while you’re at it, take a look at Unseen64′s archive of beta, cancelled, and unreleased horror games. It’s an interesting look at what gets left on the cutting room floor. http://www.unseen64.net/tag/survival-horror/

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I just released the prototype for Transplant Cop, titled Mystery House, on Itch.io and GameJolt! Check it out at the links below. The game was made for the Haunted House Jam over on Itch.io

http://gamejolt.com/games/mystery-house/105605 http://thatguynm.itch.io/mystery-house

And while you’re at it, take a look at Unseen64′s archive of beta, cancelled, and unreleased horror games. It’s an interesting look at what gets left on the cutting room floor. http://www.unseen64.net/tag/survival-horror/

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Nick Hyde, 1970

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Unused stairs area from Mystery House.

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Three paintings by Karel Thole

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I have added a little system where you can investigate stuff in the level. Wherever you see sparklies, you can go up and read about what Frauki sees or thinks of that.

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Check this person’s work out, it looks fantastic!

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Working on some last minute touches for Mystery House

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Character Sheets and character creation →

When creating a character, there’s a lot of questions you ask yourself. Whether it’s an original character or one you’ve been playing for a long time, using a character sheet to get to know your character better can always be a nice idea. With it’s help, you’ll be able to think about things you didn’t necesarily thought about, and ask some important questions to yourself that might activate your character’s voice, or help you to get your muse back with them. Everyone has their favorite character sheets, some people prefer to have a lot of questions, some others like it a bit more vague, so here’s a masterlist of the character sheets I found on various websites and found quite interesting, plus some other things that could be used to help you see, for example, how other character view yours. 

Blank Character Sheet (+370 Questions)

Abridged Character Sheet (100 Questions)

Big-Ass Character Sheet

Character Creation Form

Character Sheet by Jody Hedlund

Creating a character Bio Sheet

Character Analysis Worksheet

100 Character Development questions for writers

Create a Character Profile

Character Development Worksheet

Original Character Bio-Sheet

Character Chart for Fiction Writers

A Character Chart By Charlotte Dillon

Fiction Writer’s Character Chart

Detailed Character Sheet

Character Sheet Template

Character Twenty-Question Worksheet

In-Depth Character Sheet

Character Worksheet

Character Interview Sheet (First Person)

Background Questionnaire (First Person)

Characters Perceptions (How do other people perceive your character?)

With these sheets, you could also try to find your character’s Jung and Enneagram Type or use the Moral Alignment tool. All of these things can be really useful to get a better grip on a character.

Then, if you’re trying to create a character, and do not have many ideas, or get stuck, I’d suggest for you to roam around TVTropes, which gives you a lot of tropes used for character creation. Maybe you could try to mix a few of these and create an original character?

Or, if you’re a skillful writer and know how to make your character different from another, make a list of characters in fiction you happen to find interesting and why. Try to keep it short. Then, maybe, try to mix and match things from two or three characters, take a character and change their backstory, to see what would change. Play with them to inspire yourself and create something new, original and truly yours.

Oh, and here’s a little guide to Mary-Sues and OCs, just in case you want to make sure your character isn’t going to become a Mary-Sue or a Gary-Stu

And last but not least, this article about building fictional character definitely seemed interesting to me, and is full of many other links that could guide you during the creating of your character and help you file one of these sheets.