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>> CASIE PERMISSIONS
 ❝ The Computer-Assisted Social Interaction Enhancer (or CASIE mod, for short) is a cranial implant that relays environmental and personal data about specified individuals in order to assist social interaction. It uses an "Optical Polygraph" to gauge a rudimentary psychological profile based on facial expression, body language, and environmental cues. This analysis is done in real-time, allowing the user to choose their responses in the middle of a face-to-face conversation in order to achieve a desired result. A secondary system – the "Synthetic Pheromones Propagator" – can release bio-engineered pheromones designed to influence behavior. ❞ |
» In short, what does this mean?
Ever wish you knew exactly what to say in a conversation? Thanks to some of the computers in his skull, Adam can do just that!» Is Adam going to just be using this all the time then?
Upon activation, this particular enhancement of his can give him a little heads-up display with a bare-bones analysis of your character's personality: what appeals to them, what angers them, what sort of conversational strategies they can be expected to employ, and more. From this raw data, Adam can make a judgment on how best to reply to get the result he's looking for.
An example of its use can be seen here! (Some DXHR spoilers within.)
Naw. He can be impatient when it comes to social interactions, but he generally respects people's privacy – he's not going to be going around peeling apart their psyches and being a manipulative weirdo just because he can.» What sorts of people can be read by the CASIE mod?
Normally, he only breaks out the social enhancer when he senses that someone is deliberately misleading him and/or trying to stand in the way of an investigation (ex. persuading a security guard to grant him access to crucial evidence), or is in a life-or death situation (ex. talking down a terrorist in a hostage crisis.)
If your character knows it exists and asks/threatens him not to use it, he probably won't.
If your character's human or human-like, and demonstrates typical physiological reactions to any given emotions/stressors/etc. then chances are they can be successfully analyzed.» When won't the CASIE mod work?
The mod relies on facial features, body language, and physiological cues – so naturally, any interactions must be done face-to-face and where Adam can see them.» So what's this about pheromones?
The program's algorithms aren't designed to handle anyone who doesn't exhibit any of the above in a way that is typical for a human being (ex. their body doesn't heat up when afraid or anxious, their pupils don't dilate and/or they don't blink when lying, etc.) Vastly different reactions can throw off readings, possibly giving inaccurate assessments as a result.
If the personality analyzer isn't enough to get the result Adam wants, he's also got chemical influencers at his disposal! Generally if your character's got a normal working sensory nervous system and they're human or human-like, then they should be able to be affected. But if your character doesn't necessarily fit into these categories, and you really want pheromones in their face, I can be flexible with things like "biology" and "realism."If you read all of this and are still like, "Heck yes, use questionable technology on my characters!" then a) that's great, and b) please go ahead and fill out the form below! This is all opt-in and so, by default, I'll assume that I don't have permission to incorporate these abilities into any threads I have with your characters. In other words: if your answer is no, you don't have to worry about letting me know.
Upon application, the pheromones simply make your character more receptive to what Adam might have to say – it's that last push they might need to be convinced that they don't actually want to go off and do a certain thing. It's a more brute force application of the social enhancer, but the pheromones are still only a way of greasing the wheels; they can't make your pacifist character suddenly be convinced to commit murder, for example.
In this way, they're quite subtle, and it can take some careful reflection on the conversation that just happened to recognize that pheromones were involved at all. But as such, if Adam was kind of clumsy or ineffective in his use of the mod, nothing is stopping your character from looking back and realizing that something was screwy.
Even if given permission to use this function of the augment, I'll always chat with you (the player) beforehand to hash things out.
If I haven't covered something, or you have character-specific questions, feel free to contact me!
EXAMPLE
Personality traits: Aggressive, excitable, envious.
Psychological profile:
- Has a tendency to shift blame onto others, but will back down rapidly if resistance is felt.
- Is not afraid to use his authority to get his way and doesn't like to be defied.
- Will sometimes change the subject in order to win an argument.
Can Adam use pheromones to influence your character? I always ask for this.
Anything else? Adam! Son.
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Personality traits: flirtatious, sassy, sympathetic
Psychological profile:
- Flirts with nearly everyone she meets
- Takes great offense to anyone who doesn't take her seriously
- Is actually a very good-hearted soul
- Almost always has a smart remark to offer
Can Adam use pheromones to influence your character? Yes
Anything else? Nope. :)
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Personality traits: angry, dramatic, persistent
Psychological profile: - a clone; considers himself created to be inferior to his brother
- refuses to give up, no matter what.
- likes to give long, dramatic, manipulative speeches.
Can Adam use pheromones to influence your character? heck yeah, go for it.
Anything else? *shouts 'brother' into the wind*
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Personality traits: Kind, Observational, Smart
Psychological profile: He's a psychiatrist. His ultimate goal with anyone will be to assess if they need therapy and will help them as best he can. Let me know if you need more.
Can Adam use pheromones to influence your character? Probably not, Rung's a giant robot....
Anything else? Not that I can think of.
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Personality traits: Selfish, hedonistic, impatient, amoral
Psychological profile: Though Zam is capable of caring about others a great deal, they will always care about their own survival more. An offer given in terms of how it will benefit them specifically is more likely to make headway. They’re also a big believer in reciprocity and will do you a good turn if they believe you’ve earned it. They despise intolerance, particularly that based in racial or religious bigotry. Though they were formerly quite social and extroverted, physical damage has rendered them almost completely unable to speak, while psychological damage has made them much less outgoing in general.
Can Adam use pheromones to influence your character? I’m not sure these pheromones would affect Zam, since despite their appearance, they are very, very not human. Specifically, they are a shapeshifting reptilian (okay, technially, reptomammallian) alien from a galaxy far, far away. So I’m gonna go with a no here.
Anything else? Nope!
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Personality traits: Kind, loyal, analytical, humble to a fault
Psychological profile: Alan is curious and scientifically-minded, with a strong interest in technology. He’s also ridiculously stubborn, which makes him both very loyal to people/causes and occasionally obsessive. He puts the needs of others before his own, both because of the aforementioned loyalty and because he doesn’t think very highly of himself in the first place.
Can Adam use pheromones to influence your character? Sure!
Anything else? Nope!
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Personality traits: Emotional, energetic, defiant, childish, distrusting
Psychological profile:
- tends to feel everything very strongly, and the usual prime emotion is pissed, standoffish or aggressive, so he's not really fun to talk to
- he's hella traumatized by his world being shitty, so some things that will send into fuck you and fuck this entire universe: human experimentation, For The Greater Good, saying things that sound like orders, any kind of consent violation, 'do X and it will make your life easier' talk, anything For Science, cannibalism (i'm so sorry), aaand drugs/alcohol won't really upset him, but he will get a little irked by it.
- a bit idealistic, he's big about people having freedoms and rights to do whatever they like and telling The Man to suck it?
- cool things about the world in general get him jazzed, talk to him about fish/the ocean and he'll love you idefk, also likes space a lot, generally the things more man-made science are the NOPE buttons for him
Can Adam use pheromones to influence your character? yes, but yeah, contact would be good, and andyr will have a shit fit if he realizes it happened, and that's not always great.
Anything else? this verse is pretty content heavy, so please check out the opt out thingy. ps, andyr's kind of tricky conversation-wise because he's such an angry little butthead, so feel free to pm me or shoot me a pp at
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Personality traits: Excitable, energetic, immature, protective
Psychological profile:
-easily manipulated with attention, compliments or jobs that make him feel more adult/important. very much a child unused to a lot of support and will do questionable things for people he thinks care
-protective/obsessed with his family, particularly his sisters, to a detrimental degree. can and will go to dangerous extremes for their 'safety'.
-emotionally immature and goes to great lengths to hide things that bother him. bottles things up, reacts with anger when those darker subjects are touched on
-desperately wants to be better than what he is and do good, but really had no idea how to go about it nor how to ask for help. screws up a lot and in very nasty ways, trying to fix things on his own
Can Adam use pheromones to influence your character? Yes
Anything else? Since Peter moves at an accelerated rate, capable of being faster than a bullet, I wonder if some of his facial expressions/body language may be hard for the mod to capture and analyze? I'm totally up for playing it however you prefer, since I'm not aware of the canon or how quickly the tech there within is meant to work. Just thought it might be something to hash out.
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Personality traits: Kind, loyal, anxious
Psychological profile:
-Got brought up to believe really strongly in the good of the whole over that of the individual - she can be easily influenced with that
-Self-centred - paradoxically. she would be one of those people that goes into that plurk about your shitty day talking about how hers was worse, genuinely meaning it in sympathy
-Dry sense of humour, rambles when she's excited, nervous, generally emotional in any way
Can Adam use pheromones to influence your character? Y!
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Personality traits: Empathetic, loyal, curious
Psychological profile:
-She is viciously loyal to her canon crew and to the few who manage to worm into her life. As in she'll support their decisions and do very shady things to defend them regardless of how wrong or right they are.
-Her canon is very dangerous and she's been taught to be distrustful of everything. Don't take food from strangers, everyone probably wants to kill you, etc. It's far easier to convince her something is dangerous than it is to make her think a decision is safe.
-She's an anarchist, hates authority and prefers to go against the norm. She hates being outright told what to do and is more likely to go along with things when it's more a suggestion than order.
-She's makes a lot of decisions based on emotion rather than logic.
Can Adam use pheromones to influence your character?Yes
Anything else? The Girl's is actually nameless and Girl is just the way she's referred to by the narrative (like, the Girl went to the store, etc). If any kind of name is meant to be attached to the profiles Adam can see it might be blank.
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Personality traits: Flirtacious, practical, vain
Psychological profile:
✹ Flirting is a social outlet for Dorian, in its way it is a substitute for meaningful relationships and all of the things he denies himself.
✹ He’s very sensible and almost pessimistic in his world view, he doesn’t allow himself to get his hopes up and is usually stymied or amused by idealism and naïve optimism.
✹ Much of Dorian’s vanity and cheekiness is posturing, he’d rather people see what they want to see than expose himself to emotional pain.
✹ Honesty is important to Dorian given that he has been forced to live a lie in a country that is corrupt and imposes impossible standards on its people. His honesty keeps him loyal as well and he tends to get annoyed when the honesty is not reciprocal.
Can Adam use pheromones to influence your character? Yes!
Anything else? Since Dorian is all magical and shit, if for any reason you want to opt out of anything with Dorian feel free
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Personality traits: violent, stubborn, showoff, amoral, seething
Psychological profile:
> Considers himself to be a weapon and possession, not a person. Resents the lack of equal footing, but believes it inescapable; referring to him as a pet, animal, or other degrading term is likely to incite violence.
> Under highly restrictive programming that prevents him from speaking or removing his helmet, among many other things.
> Distrustful of "users" (humans or other organics who use technology) in the extreme.
> An extremely skilled combatant who takes huge satisfaction in outmatching others.
Can Adam use pheromones to influence your character? Nah, computer program. No biology to influence.
Anything else? Given faceless mask, no voice, and lack of biology, it's entirely possible the CASIE mod wouldn't be able to pick up much. That said, Rinzler's body language follows human norms, and he doesn't tend to be particularly subtle.