Topic on Talk:Core Mechanics

It's said that the only two certainties in life are death and taxes. When this saying first reached the Core, a society already without taxes, it was interpreted as a challenge. Because jumping between bodies is so common in the core, many normally fatal injuries such as Incineration may result in D.O.W.N emergency protocols activating and residents waking up safely in a backup body. Core residents give their own eulogies at their funerals, which symbolize turning points and the lessons learned (or lack thereof). This occasionally poses problems for Core residents accidentally declared legally dead, no matter how many hours one spends explaining to an umpire that they're perfectly fine and have five more backup bodies in their closet for various occasions (and are working on a sixth with a really cool built-in grappling hook).