I have a theoretical question for community and, potentially, developers.
Some years ago I have suffered brain damage which left me, among other minor things, completely unable to feel hunger. Obviously, I will still get weaker as starvation sets in and I will eventually die, but that, and rumbling stomach, are my only indicators of malnutrition.
So the question is - if I, or similarly affected character, would attempt to begin Seeking, what would happen? Would I be able to Seek at all? And If yes, would that be a hindrance or advantage? Or would _____ override my brain whatevers and impose the Hunger on me thorugh supernatural means?
I accidentally went from SMEN 1 to SMEN 3 by visiting a local ‘establishment’ and meeting some pretty ladies there.
Not all hungers are for food. :-p
edited by Kittenpox on 6/9/2016
Yeah, I did that too Kittenpox. Wasn’t trying to increase my SMEN as I did not want to Seek. I was quite distressed until I found the option to set SMEN aside for now but not permanently.
Probably still afflict you with ravenous hunger. If anything I’d imagine it adds an additional odd layer of temptation being it would give a feeling normally impossible to you.
It is not often I find another hungerless person like myself, in my case i was born this way
to expand on the question, what would happen in the case of a person with Alexithymia?
I think it is likely that the unaccountably peckish is a mental effect making a person experience such desires instead of a physiological effect
[quote=NathanielSterben]It is not often I find another hungerless person like myself, in my case i was born this way
to expand on the question, what would happen in the case of a person with Alexithymia?
I think it is likely that the unaccountably peckish is a mental effect making a person experience such desires instead of a physiological effect[/quote]
I think it’s both, and also that it’s not so much hungry as… craving something you can’t quite place. Most people think of it as hunger because that’s closest. Peckish is used for light hungers, usually. A light but ever-present hunger, leaving the poor individual feeling a void that never quite goes away.
an especially religious person would claim it is a yearning for heaven, though many londoners, myself included, would have clever invective to describe [i]that idea. In other words, it’s not a dire desperate hunger, but a yearning for the impossible, and trying to fill in the gap by devouring raw quantities of food with a frenzy that comes less from intensity and more from the perpetual presence of this appetite.
At least, that’s my guess until i see lore that disproves it. I’m sure someone will correct me shortly.
edited by Grenem on 6/18/2016
This reminds me, I was on a genetics lecture a while back and we went over a disorder that immediately brought Seeking to mind, namely Prader-Willi syndrome.
It’s a genetic defect inherited from your father, and the most famous symptom is over-eating. And not in the “I eat more than I should” way, but in the “will eat themselves to death if given the chance” way. The person is always hungry, always feels like eating, and never feels full no matter how much they eat. The hunger starts around the age of 2-8, after which the parents must start locking the cupboards and fridge and basically anything that has something edible in it, or the kid will just keep eating until there’s no more food. From what I recall of the documentary clip we saw, one of the kids in it once got their hands on a jar of mustard and just emptied that with a spoon in the absence of anything better. Naturally, these people tend to become obese rather fast.
The horror-value of “ravenous, unquenchable hunger” really works in Seeking, but it’s actually terrifying to think some poor people really live with that from day to day. I guess my midnight snack-cravings aren’t that bad after all.
John Moose, wow. (And yes, eating disorders whether strictly genetic or more on the psychological end are not to be messed with.)