DOLLS

In the near-future of Sheol, the Dolls are geneticaly-engineered pleasure toys. They are all beautiful, and every single thing about them is totally and utterly drug-laced; their sweat, their saliva, their blood. Everything. Dolls are not strong or tough, but have become strikingly intelligent despite their totally apathetic nature. Most Dolls have been careful to keep quiet on just how smart they are, while working on the great problem that they face: their lifespan. The oldest dolls on record have only reached ten years old, most die long before this. However, Dolls reach full maturity within a few months and are fully capable for their entire lifespan after that point.
Dolls are unnaturally pale with red or amber eyes. They tend to be very thin, and quite androgynous in appearance. They can be male or female, but are all very attractive. They are also all sterile.
Renegade Dolls, though few, do exist. Most are too used to their easy, if not particularly pleasant, life to turn renegade however. Those that do face a variety of problems, as their owners will doubtless be pursuing them, many people (particularly drug pushers or users) would be quite interested to acquire a doll of their own, and they have a mind-blowingly restrictive diet. Such things as not being regarded as citisens is not as much of a drawback as it would be in our time though, civil rights have effectivly been dead for fifty years for everyone.
Occasionally, a renegade will link up with Ambients, who accept them, or may even strike a deal with a Minion, as the inhuman nature of a Doll seems to aid in working the mojo of Sheol.

Dolls are built as characters in Sheol, using the Doll Package. Their low age has no effect on skills in GURPS. A doll can spend any amount of points on any skills the GM allows, due to their tendency to read voraciously and study anything they can. Most of them don't have much else to do.

Doll Package (-16 points)

Stats: St -2 (-15); IQ +2 (20); Ht -1 (-10)
Advantages: Appearance: Beautiful (15); Drug Factory (60); Less Sleep: 5 (15); Pheremone Control (10); Reputation: +1 (Ultimate Pleasure, Everyone, Always)(05); Sanatized Metabolism (05); Unaging (05)
Disadvantages: Callous (-06); Delicate Metabolism (-10); Laziness (-10); Self-Destruct (-20); Short Lifespan (-80); Social Stigma: Valuable Property (-10); Sterile (-05); Unnatural Feature: Obviously Doll (-5); Unusual Biochemistry (-05)
Skills: Sex Appeal +5 (12); Erotic Art +2 (08)

Notes: Pheremone control has a greatly reduced effect then described in standard GURPS, being an aphrodisiac rather than an overpowering musk. It applies to everyone, however, regardless of sexual preferences. Drug Factory is reduced due to the drugs being the Dolls bodily substances and not easily removable in any large quantities. Unaging refers to the fact that for their brief lives, Dolls do not physically age from the point of maturity to a few weeks before they die. Callous is due to the fact that most Dolls are treated as objects and so treat others the same way. Both Callous and Laziness may be bought off after character generation, but this happens rarely. Note that Dolls can pretend to care about people, they just seldom bother.
Dolls will frequently have very powerful Patrons (their owners), and likely very nice lifestyles, at least from the point of view of everyone but the Dolls. If a Doll is on the run, it may have Secret or Enemy, though when cought they will probably just be returned to their owners. Note that as Dolls have careful dietry requirments, renegade Dolls will have to be very careful as to what they eat.

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