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:B. She might not always be transformed or able to transform. | :B. She might not always be transformed or able to transform. | ||
:C. There's the amnesia option proposed elsewhere, but amnesia wouldn't remove her strength, only her skill. Still, having to re-learn fighting would make the game more challenging. But I am not a fan of a contrived "restart" that wants to drag a character back to where they were. | :C. There's the amnesia option proposed elsewhere, but amnesia wouldn't remove her strength, only her skill. Still, having to re-learn fighting would make the game more challenging. But I am not a fan of a contrived "restart" that wants to drag a character back to where they were. | ||
===Wouldn't the Daodan make the host immortal?=== | |||
"Immortal" here being defined as "not experiencing natural death" rather than "totally unkillable", the question really is, Won't the amazing healing abilities of the Daodan keep a host perpetually young? To my mind, all of the following are possible: | |||
:A. The Daodan is not perfect, so it cannot make the host perfect (i.e., remove a basic flaw in the cellular processes). | |||
:B. The Daodan was designed to improve an organism but not to grant it immortality. The designers may have a philosophical or cultural reason for Daodan hosts or the general populace not living forever. | |||
:C. The Daodan has no effect on aging because it doesn't affect the shortening of telomeres. | |||
:D. The Daodan shortens the host lifespan because it forces rapid cell doubling. More frequent cell division accelerates the aging process. | |||