Hive Mind: Difference between revisions
Rescuing 4 sources and tagging 0 as dead.) #IABot (v2.0.9.2
Goo Monster (talk | contribs) m (→New Media) |
(Rescuing 4 sources and tagging 0 as dead.) #IABot (v2.0.9.2) |
||
Line 214:
** For another ''[[Vampire: The Requiem]]'' example, it's mentioned that particularly radical members of the Carthian Movement (vampiric modernists and political experimenters) will attempt to form a hive mind amongst the members of a coterie, using telepathic powers, identical patterns of speech and uniforms to present the image of an unified front. There's even a Devotion (combo power), Hive Nexus Gestalt, that allows the true formation of a hive mind amongst coterie members.
* In ''[[Magic: The Gathering|Magic the Gathering]]'''s Lorwyn setting, the kithkin are a race of halflings with a hive-mind referred to as the ''thoughtweft''. Each kithkin has an individual mind and personality, but groups of kithkin have access to each other's thoughts and feelings that goes beyond mere [[The Empath|empathy]]. In [[Mirror Universe|Shadowmoor]], this makes the kithkin incredibly xenophobic and hateful toward any creature that isn't "one of us."
** A somewhat more frightening example would be the [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?output=spoiler&method=visual&name=+%5Bsliver%5D slivers]: each sliver is connected together via a psychic gestalt that ''was'' controlled by the ''[[Authority Equals Asskicking|enormous]]'' [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=5233 queen], when she was gone, [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=45166 a new leader] was created. Now that they're ''both'' gone, the hivemind ''itself'' is [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=136146 gaining self-awareness]. On top of that, the individual varieties of sliver [[Adaptive Ability|instill instant mutations]] in their brethren when nearby ([[No Ontological Inertia|which of course fade when they're gone]]), meaning that [https://web.archive.org/web/20090426014640/http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=4746 if one sliver can fly], they all can. [https://web.archive.org/web/20081002130843/http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=42017 If one sliver has armor-plated skin, they all do]. [https://web.archive.org/web/20081002120150/http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=42029 If one sliver can move at speeds approaching the relativistic] or [https://web.archive.org/web/20090426015644/http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=5134 shrug off magic like water off a duck's back], they all will...
** The [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Chorus%20of%20the%20Conclave Selesnya] [http://www.wizards.com/magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtgcom/daily/mc7 Conclave]
** [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=190556 Hive Mind] does this to players. When someone plays a card, everyone plays that card.<ref>This is particularly handy when you play a card that would be near-lethal to you, but suicidal for everyone else.</ref>
| |||