Would you rather have a core or have multiple bodies?

[NotaNuffian]

Standard ROB BS with an OP skill, you got yeeted into a LitRPG world of sword and magic but is unable to gain class and use aura or magic like the locals, which will be tough for you to live when the main way of leveling up is murder.

ROB, being kind and trying not to lose readers, decides to throw you into the world with a healthy version of your own body (ie if you diabetic, asthmatic, myopic or quadraplegic, you good. But if you are just fat, short or fugly, no luck) as an added bonus and gives you a choice between two skills and even show you their supposed growth. Below are some examples:

CORE:
1. Like a koschei and his needle (Sylver Seeker reference), the glass marble the size of a tennis ball is inside you, serving as your weakness. As long as the core is undamaged, you are functionally immortal. The problem is that the core must be in contact of you at all times, meaning you can expose it to air, but it having the hardness of glass, it will be dangerous and the only way for you to level up and gain EXP is to expose it to air as you shank something to death. EDIT: THIS MEANS THAT IT CAN BE HIDDEN INSIDE THE CHEST, HEAD OR ANY OTHER BODY PART THAT CAN HIDE THE MARBLE. THE MARBLE DOES NOT NEED TO BE EXPOSED ALL THE TIME, JUST WHEN ABSORBING EXP.

2. The other perk of the core is its ability to teleport around the body at will, from the center of your chest to replacing one of the round reproductive organs, to your big toe, anus and crown of your head instantaneously. The only limit is that the body part must remain connected, if your hand is severed, the core can't leap from your chest to the hand. Likewise, if you end up having your core at your foot and it got cut, all you can control will be just the foot, the rest of the body will flop on the ground dead until the core gets stuffed back into it.

3. Your base stat is your current body stat. If you got workout and eat healthy, great. Your healing is the same as before, so getting your hand regrown after severed will take a small eternity, please find the lost part and stitch it back.

4. The main perk of the core is its ability to shrink in size while the hardness remains unchanged USING THE ABSORBED EXP. What makes this a perk is how much your stat will grow inversely to the size of the marble, when the marble reaches the size of ping pong with the same hardness, all your stats including recovery will increase by five times. The smallest the marble can go is up to a neon atom, five octillion times smaller than a tennis ball.

CLONE:

1. You can make a clone of yourself. You will have no problem controlling said clone because there will be no difference between the both of you; the clone is NOT A COPY OF YOU, he is you. If one body dies, another will keep up the eternal legacy as you will not age past 25, if you are above 25 when transfered, you will be deaged into a heathier version of you aged 25 by ROB.

2. Making clones will be difficult at start as you not only needs the EXP but as well as the calories for the clone's body, meaning you need to consume food to fill up an universal gauge to have a clone pop out. The creation of said clone is instantaneous and your stats will remain at a normal human being. (Marvel's Multiple Man)

3. All the bodies share the same single soul, meaning all your sense are linked at all times, even when one is on Midgard, another on Nether Realm and a couple more in Aincard, Jojo universe, or any other space, you are still connected perfectly.

4. All the bodies can make more bodies, so you make a clone, then you and your clone make two more clones, so on and so forth. As long as the gauge is filled to allow at least one body, any one of the body can use the calories for instant cloning.

5. You can also withhold the cloning in order to fill up the gauge to infinity. You can also choose to make a body twice or more bigger than the original one, with the original form being the standard unit and each addition by one. Your stats will grow proportional to your size.

What will be your pick and how would you improve on the choices?

Personally I pick 1 because of the stat increment. Will have to buff up CLONE once I can think of any ideas.

 

[Zirrboy]

So long as the joined soul is not an exploitable weakness, the clones can do what the core can't: Chop a toe with the core in it off and lock it in a vault.
Being able to pump more into a body without necessarily increasing size would be a possible buff for clones.

On the other hand: If limbs can be chopped off like normal, the immortality might be a lot less useful.
You might survive more if your opponents don't know that pierce wounds are a temporary nuisance, but dismemberment is still immensely incapacitating.
Survive one "lethal" wound too many against the same opponent and they might do a job so thorougly you don't have any limbs left to crawl to your other parts.

 

[Jailbreak571]

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As long as I am in a loving aristocratic family then I choose option 2. If it isn't, then I choose option 1 as I need a great early game.

 

[NotaNuffian]

So long as the joined soul is not an exploitable weakness, the clones can do what the core can't: Chop a toe with the core in it off and lock it in a vault.

Yeah, the joined soul should not be an exploitable weakness since getting tortured in one body will affect all the rest, never mind getting mind controlled or soul destruction. Also, it is either CORE or CLONE, so no making a phylactery with chopped off toe.

On the other hand: If limbs can be chopped off like normal, the immortality might be a lot less useful.
You might survive more if your opponents don't know that pierce wounds are a temporary nuisance, but dismemberment is still immensely incapacitating.
Survive one "lethal" wound too many against the same opponent and they might do a job so thorougly you don't have any limbs left to crawl to your other parts.

My setting is that in the early game of both CORE and CLONE, you are hackable like normal human. With CORE though, your body can level up so it becomes less hackable while with CLONE, your opponents need to hack a lot more heads to permanently kill you.

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As long as I am in a loving aristocratic family then I choose option 2. If it isn't, then I choose option 1 as I need a great early game.

You are not reincarnated into the other world as a baby, but rather as healthier version of current yourself. So yeah, CORE for you then.

 

[Zirrboy]

Yeah, the joined soul should not be an exploitable weakness since getting tortured in one body will affect all the rest, never mind getting mind controlled or soul destruction. Also, it is either CORE or CLONE, so no making a phylactery with chopped off toe.

The "toe" here is a spare body.
The thing is of course more complicated than simply locking it, since the body needs food and all that, but one or two hidden failsaves sound useful.

 

[NotaNuffian]

The "toe" here is a spare body.
The thing is of course more complicated than simply locking it, since the body needs food and all that, but one or two hidden failsaves sound useful.

Yeah, have to burst your bubble with the CLONE having only needing just a toe to live. With CLONE, you need a living body, an entire complete living body.

Best I can do is nugget porn.

 

[Zirrboy]

Yeah, have to burst your bubble with the CLONE having only needing just a toe to live. With CLONE, you need a living body, an entire complete living body.

Best I can do is nugget porn.

The thing I am trying to explain to you is that you can use one or more bodies like the toe in your initial post about what you can't do with the core.

 

[owotrucked]

I'll take the harem made out of me, me, me and me.

 

[NotaNuffian]

The thing I am trying to explain to you is that you can use one or more bodies like the toe in your initial post about what you can't do with the core.

And judging by this post that I am sending out, I still have no idea what exactly you are trying to express.

So long as the joined soul is not an exploitable weakness, the clones can do what the core can't: Chop a toe with the core in it off and lock it in a vault.

For this line, I am thinking that you are expressing the ability to have the core being lodged into the toe, remove it from the body and thus achieving remote control of the rest of the body. The guideline that I state,

The only limit is that the body part must remain connected, if your hand is severed, the core can't leap from your chest to the hand. Likewise, if you end up having your core at your foot and it got cut, all you can control will be just the foot, the rest of the body will flop on the ground dead until the core gets stuffed back into it.

This means that the body part that the core is no longer in contact with is no longer controlled by it. For example, if the core is in your chest, your head or your penis and every other part of you is still attached to you, you can still move and use them. If you get your head cut off while your core is at your chest, you lose the function of the head completely (?) , like losing sight, sound, taste and smell but still somehow retaining the ability of thought and tactile sensation of the body minus from head. If your core is at your palm and your hand gets lopped off, you are now left trapped in the palm, with no other senses except for tactile and movement is based on the fingers you have.

The "toe" here is a spare body.
The thing is of course more complicated than simply locking it, since the body needs food and all that, but one or two hidden failsaves sound useful.

I assume here you are referring to using CLONE as a backup. But instead of leaving a spare, unhurt copy, you decided to leave only a toe that has no ability to think.

This is entirely my fault since I did not made it clear that for the CLONE skill, you can create a spare body with one soul to command it, but the clone shares the same attribute and needs as the original body that will remain aged 25 and not die of old age. However, the body is still mortal and therefore requires sustenance.

And what made it worse is me having all bodies to be normal mortals, they heal normally. If a quadruple amputee body decides to make a body with EXP and calories, he will make a new, fresh and healthy body instead of the limbless one. I can tell (somewhat) that you try to game the system by having a big toe serving as contingency in the event where all clones are destroyed, the big toe can remain undetected and then reset the board by having it to start cloning. For the record, the big toe can't be used in this case because normal humans can't use their big toe for thoughts. At best a head is required (with the help of Franken Fran) in order to kickstart the whole cloning process.

Also, when you clone out a spare copy, it is the FULL BODY, head, vital organs, penis and all. There is no "printing out a single arm to have arm grafting" type, you either get the full package or none.

I'll take the harem made out of me, me, me and me.

Selfcest is a thing. It's sad. Unless I am watching someone hot doing it.

But sadly, only not-so-hot narcissists would choose to do it. Thank lord I did not give the CLONE skill the ability to change face and alter body types.

 

[owotrucked]

Gotta find a female tank who can take 20 guys at once then

 

[Deleted member 54065]

Is it NTR when your clone gets your girl?

 

[BearlyAlive]

Core. If only so I don't have to be the person that has to suffer the most being around me.

 

[ConansWitchBaby]

Time to sit on one isolated corner of the world and kill 2 millions chickens.

 

[Zirrboy]

And judging by this post that I am sending out, I still have no idea what exactly you are trying to express.

For this line, I am thinking that you are expressing the ability to have the core being lodged into the toe, remove it from the body and thus achieving remote control of the rest of the body. The guideline that I state,

This means that the body part that the core is no longer in contact with is no longer controlled by it. For example, if the core is in your chest, your head or your penis and every other part of you is still attached to you, you can still move and use them. If you get your head cut off while your core is at your chest, you lose the function of the head completely (?) , like losing sight, sound, taste and smell but still somehow retaining the ability of thought and tactile sensation of the body minus from head. If your core is at your palm and your hand gets lopped off, you are now left trapped in the palm, with no other senses except for tactile and movement is based on the fingers you have.

I assume here you are referring to using CLONE as a backup. But instead of leaving a spare, unhurt copy, you decided to leave only a toe that has no ability to think.

This is entirely my fault since I did not made it clear that for the CLONE skill, you can create a spare body with one soul to command it, but the clone shares the same attribute and needs as the original body that will remain aged 25 and not die of old age. However, the body is still mortal and therefore requires sustenance.

And what made it worse is me having all bodies to be normal mortals, they heal normally. If a quadruple amputee body decides to make a body with EXP and calories, he will make a new, fresh and healthy body instead of the limbless one. I can tell (somewhat) that you try to game the system by having a big toe serving as contingency in the event where all clones are destroyed, the big toe can remain undetected and then reset the board by having it to start cloning. For the record, the big toe can't be used in this case because normal humans can't use their big toe for thoughts. At best a head is required (with the help of Franken Fran) in order to kickstart the whole cloning process.

Also, when you clone out a spare copy, it is the FULL BODY, head, vital organs, penis and all. There is no "printing out a single arm to have arm grafting" type, you either get the full package or none.

Selfcest is a thing. It's sad. Unless I am watching someone hot doing it.

But sadly, only not-so-hot narcissists would choose to do it. Thank lord I did not give the CLONE skill the ability to change face and alter body types.

The toe part was not mean literally, just in reference to this

The other perk of the core is its ability to teleport around the body at will, from the center of your chest to replacing one of the round reproductive organs, to your big toe, anus and crown of your head instantaneously. The only limit is that the body part must remain connected, if your hand is severed, the core can't leap from your chest to the hand. Likewise, if you end up having your core at your foot and it got cut, all you can control will be just the foot, the rest of the body will flop on the ground dead until the core gets stuffed back into it.

Whole body somewhere in a bunker with food rations till the heat death of the universe. That's all

 

[NotaNuffian]

The toe part was not mean literally, just in reference to this


Whole body somewhere in a bunker with food rations till the heat death of the universe. That's all

That's it I guess.

Is it NTR when your clone gets your girl?

Err, since my setting is that the clone is you and there is literally no differentiation between the both of you... ya it does feel a bit NTRry, doesn't it?