Re Alice's "morphs": Due to her morphs being faked by her hologram, Alice doesn't need to acquire anything to 'morph' it. She can excuse this IC by saying she's already acquired whatever animal she 'becomes' before meeting the group, as she's had the 'ability' a while now.
To counter the convenience of this, Seryna has already put a block on Alice being able to thought-speak. I imagine this will become a serious pain-in-the-neck during the time she's trying to convince the others she can morph just like they do.
From cannon I believe Erek
received thoughtspeak without any apparant problems, though I don't think he ever
transmitted any.
I may have Alice attempt to engineer some way of transmitting thoughtspeak herself over a length of time, but she certainly won't be successful in the near future, or ever dependent on GM's whim. Suffice to say she will never transmit thoughtspeak until/unless GM states her experiments finally succeeded. Meh. It'll prolly never happen, but that doesn't stop Alice trying...
The other major morph-related problem Alice faces is that her real Chee form cannot change size. This is no problem when the 'morph' is bigger than the android, but if she's to morph something smaller, she could not stay within that hologram and therefore could not give it a force-field to make it real - things would just pass right through such a hologram.
Also, if she's projecting a 'small-morph' hologram, her android self would have to remain within hologram-transmission range of it at all times, and preferably line-of-sight too. Depending on situation, either me or the GM may decide to stop Alice's small-morph proceeding beyond a certain (out of range) point.
External holograms do not prevent Alice's android self from keeping a surrounding-hologram, so there would be no 'naked android' walking around trying to keep near the 'small-morph' projection.
If it comes to the point where Alice has to extend a hologram around several people to disguise their presence or what they are doing, all those within the hologram who look her way will see her true android form.
I guess I may be going overboard on the technical again, but it's important to me that people don't see Alice as a godmody character, when she could so easily become such without the restrictions placed upon her.
Alice will not be able to keep up the pretense that she has the same morphing-ability as the rest of the group indefinitely. Indeed the GM may decide a future event to force the issue as part of a plot-line, assuming she hasn't revealed her identity voluntarily in the interim of course.
And of course Alice cannot fly. A projected morph
could, up to a finite altitude above which would be out-of-range. To make up for this, I propose Alice be able to jump quite well: Strength and speed is all that's needed for a good jump, and the Chee have those in spades.
Eddie. Now
he will have the same morphing powers as the others, and the same restrictions. He will have to acquire things the hard way, with all that entails.
I haven't decided specific morphs for him yet, but I'm giving him an affinity with felines: Having been restricted to a wheelchair for so long, he will relish any morph with that 'liquid steel grace' that all cats have. He will be attempting to get as many feline morphs as he can find, starting with his own pet kitty: Pentium.
Other morphs I'd like for him are: Gorilla, Orangutan, Peragrine Falcon, and a Barn Owl. Though I haven't checked for their availability yet.
Gorilla would certainly useful if Eddie ever has to drive while in a battle-morph...
