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Then I guess the particular form of Grossman Syndrome giving rise to those detached bodies from mythology must have added effects... Psychosis, sanguinivory, predisposition to detach head and (in some cases) GI tracts, etc.
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Macroraptor (14:37): Ok, so I have this theory. Please don't think I'm taking this as 100% factual, but I feel like it could lead to some interesting implications. So the first case of GßC was in Mumbai, right? And where is Mumbai? India. And where is India? Asia. It's important that GßC was found in Asia because I have reason to believe that this whole thing could've begun in Asia. Why? Because mythology, that's why. Now we all know that mythology has some grains of truth in it, and some has more truth than others. And in Asia, there's a trend towards certain mythological figures- just as we have Giants and dragons in Europe, Asians have their own stuff. One of them is disembodied women. In Bali, they have Leyak. In Thailand, it's Krausse. In the Phillipenes, they've got Manananggal, and Penanggalan is in Malaysia. Most of them are floating heads with attached organs, which fly around drinking blood. One of them is a floating everything-from-the-waist-up. Doesn't anyone else think this is kind of weird? I mean, you don't get this kind of stuff anywhere else in the world (ok, so there's one thing in South America that has intestines for a face, but that's for another thread), right? | xXMelodicXx (14:42): Firstly, ew. Secondly, why has no one else spoken about this yet? | Tsar (14:50): Probably because Macro is the only person here who would think of this kind of thing. I mean, it kind of makes sense. There probably weren't as many big accidents occurring to show the other aspects of our condition, which explains why it's just floating heads. The condition could've occurred in Asia, then spread to the western world when the Europeans went over.
I wonder what further implications this has for the western world though? We've got headless horsemen and people with heads in their chests. I'm also pretty certain I remember something about a guy with eyes in his hands, or is that a movie? | Macroraptor (14:56):
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I'm also pretty certain I remember something about a guy with eyes in his hands, or is that a movie? That's Pan's Labyrinth. There is the Dullahan though, which is a headless horseman with floating eyes. | Macroraptor (17:02): Bump. | MySpoonIsTooBig (18:13): You don't need to bump you know. Ok, so I had a thought. If we got gsc from them, then why don't we see people sucking blood? And why aren't we all flying around? | C_Grimshaw (18:15): As OP said: myths have a grain of truth. The detachment could be based on something, but the blood sucking could be a rumor based on fear or hatred of the floating gut ladies. One gap in this idea is the distribution of people with the condition. I mean, think how long is must have been since those stories originated- by now, surely almost everyone would have gsc, right? Also, how do you all feel about this? I mean, the idea that we are descended from floating gut ladies? | Tsar (18:20): That would imply that people are comfortable having kids with a floating gut lady. It also implies they're capable of even having kids. As for how I feel about it... I really don't know. It kind of grosses me out, but if it turns out to be true... I'll feel good. It helps us get a bit closer to the truth. | MySpoonIsTooBig (18:31): Anyone know if the headless church has read this yet? | Transcendental (18:33): I might bring this up at our next meet up- I'll let you know how it goes. |
Newspaper Interview, 2011 Last week we interviewed Paul Bishop, a former reporter himself who was diagnosed with the Großmann condition in 2010. Since then, he has acted as a spokesmen for the detached, and is trying to raise awareness for the condition and the potential benefits its research could have for future healthcare.
Firstly, thank you so much for coming to answer our questions today. Let's start off with a simple one: how did you find out that you are detached? I found out during a kitchen accident- I wasn't paying much attention to what I was chopping and I caught my thumb on the knife. It hurt like hell, but after a few minutes the bleeding stopped and it didn't hurt. It seemed so serene at the time, but I went to the doctors and they said that I had Großmann condition. By the time the meeting was over with, my thumb looked almost good as new.
Do you find that the condition has affected your lifestyle? For me, there's not too much of an issue, but I've spoken to other people and our treatment is so varied that it's impossible to generalize. Some of us have been able to lead pretty normal lives, without any issues with the media or general public. Others have been less lucky, being made jobless or kicked out of their homes. The help available is limited, so it makes getting back from situations like that pretty hard. Getting health insurance, for example, is a nightmare, because agencies think that it's hard to tell when a detached person is really injured or when they'll just 'get over it'.
You've been very vocal about the effect the condition is having in Asia. Could you explain why this is the case? People in India and other parts of Asia are a lot less lucky though. I went over there last year when I started the campaign, and the sheer distrust and hatred for us was amazing. In the week I spent there, two people believed to have the condition were assaulted and accused of witchcraft. This isn't to say that it's all awful in Asia, but in some regions- the poorer ones- there's still a level of superstition there that they're having a hard time getting over, and it's affecting human lives. It's hard here, but it's nothing compared to what they're dealing with.
You have also said that being detached isn't all bad; could you go into a little detail about this? The important thing to remember here is that most of us learn that we're detached because of accidents or crimes: to many of us, our conditions is the main reason that we're alive. I guess it's hard to see something as a bad thing when it made kept us going and allowed us to hug our children when we got out of hospital.
Obviously you get a few people- Christian fundamentalists to be more specific- who say that we shouldn't be here because we defy god's plan. As a Christian myself, it's kind of hard for me to see that.
We've been calling you detached before and during this interview- are you at all offended by this? Come on, we call people that can't walk crippled, people who can't talk dumb, and people who are autistic retarded. It was never a surprise to me, so I learned to just accept it as a label and move on with my life. I use detached it because I don't appreciate the alternatives. Most of them are just weird or insulting, but I remember a kid of a friend of mine suggesting that we call ourselves 'lindworms'. I had to look it up, but it turns out there a dragon that was cut into pieces but then put itself back together. That made me laugh, so I guess if detached was made into a slur then I'd go with that if no one could come up with anything better.
Do you take advantage of your condition at all in daily life? To be honest, not many of us really 'use' it. Unless we're with the Akephaloi or doing performances, it's more something that we know we have but not something we try to use. To still be honest, I really don't like that question. It insinuates that we actively want to be harming ourselves or getting into situations where that would happen. We heal quicker than others- we're not masochistic because of that.
On the topic of not liking questions, what question do you get asked about being detached that you dislike the most? Probably "can you show us how it works?" No, I'm not gonna stab myself for you to all stare at it! It causes me a greater risk of getting infections, and it's not something that really needs to be stared at all the time. To me, it's like someone getting surprised every time they find a person that can roll their tongue or is double jointed- it's a genetic thing that we can't control and it doesn't make our lives somehow better or worse than yours,
In the past year or so you have been gaining mixed reactions about working with the scientific community. Could you tell us about that? Yeah, I do a lot of stuff with researchers. Mostly it's blood tests and getting other samples, but sometimes they do a couple of experiments with me- mostly on things like my metabolism, reaction to vaccines and the like. Because of times gone by we can't do the work that's really needed- the kind that needs willing volunteers who want to make the world a better place. It's another of those things that I think the detached community needs to get more involved in. The more we learn about the Großmann condition, the more we can benefit everyone. Some people don't seem to get the message though: you may have seen the protests from last week in the news, but those aren't a rare site.
Where would you say you- and the detached in general- get the most of your support from? We've had great support from the disabled community, but we still have some issues that need dealing with. Some people with Großmann condition don't like thinking of themselves as disabled, and many disabled people don't see our condition as a disability. To them- and to many people in the general public as well- we're just good at healing. It's hard to see that at a surface level as a disability, so grouping these two communities together has caused some tensions. Nothing near what we get from other groups though.
What are your plans for the near future? Well, we've got plans to try and get some more intense research going on, and are looking for volunteers with the Großmann condition to help out with that. We've also got a charity event going on next week in XXXX, to raise funds that are going to be sent to India to start an education programme to make people more aware over there of what the condition is and why the way they are treating people there simply isn't acceptable in this day and age.
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Are there any "cults" (not sure if this sort of thing would be a cult exactly) based around breeding with people with Grossmann condition in order to increase its prevalence in the population? I could see how lots of people would see the condition as a good thing and a "next step in human evolution" (because many people think of evolution as some sort of goal-oriented ladder).
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Some members of the Akephaloi think that selective breeding should be undertaken, and they all believe they are the next step in evolution- not necessarily evolution of mankind, but the evolution of the mind and soul. It's kind of odd, really, how a condition of the flesh makes them think that their spirit is the one that's improving.
Beyond that, there aren't really any cults. The community is too small for them to really have multiple cults, and most of the modern Großmann culture is in the western world, whilst the majority of people with the condition are in Asia.
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For anyone interested, these are some of the terms used in the western world to describe individuals with the condition:
Gross Men/Gross People: based on the English pronounciation of Großmann Detached: The PC terminology (on par with disabled) Separated Frankensteins: A bit of an odd one, but one that is used by some people regardless Rag Dolls Dolls: Mostly used in a sexual sense Puppets Marionettes Lindworms: based on the Lambton Worm Akephaloi Witches Worms
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Yeah, that was my only thought that made me hesitant to make anything with this world - the fact that it's the kind of thing that a lot of people on the internet who'd make porn out of it.
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There are already creepy porn sites dedicated to fetishizing people with actual disabilities and such in the real world, so it'd make sense for that kind of thing to exist in this world.
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So that people know, this concept is far from dead; I've just been incredibly busy this week, and had much less time to work on this and other spec projects than I initially thought I would have.
If anyone has any questions about the gross people (either for Mysterio or myself), feel free to ask and I'll focus my next post on those questions.
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I love how you've handled this idea. With it being a medical condition, starting off with a paper, going into believable implications and opinions, having there be a forum. This is so intriguing and uncanny because it's made so believable.
What would Trump think of detached people if they existed, I wonder?
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I love how you've handled this idea. With it being a medical condition, starting off with a paper, going into believable implications and opinions, having there be a forum. This is so intriguing and uncanny because it's made so believable.
What would Donald Trump think of detached people if they existed, I wonder? Probably the same way he thinks of other minorities. More specifically, he'd look at them the way he looks at disabled people - as things for him to judge and mock and laugh at. Put simply, he'd view them as gross.
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Dumb Quotes "and then I fired again. and then I missed. and then I fired. and then I fired, and I missed. I missed both times. and then I fired, and I missed. this went on for several hours. and then I fired. and then I missed. and then I was out of bullets. and then I got sad. I had a popsicle. and then I passed out in the snow. and then I woke up. and then I reloaded. and then I fired. and then I missed. I missed again. I fired. I hit something, but it wasn't what I was going for, so I guess I missed. I passed out again. had another popsicle. I had a dream that I was firing at something. I missed. oh, so she can pick a snowball fight with 'em. I threw up a snowball at 'em. I missed. I packed another snowball into my gun. that's my secret weapon. I missed. yeah, she's really something. I threw a snowball at her. I missed. I passed out. I woke up with a popsicle stick in my mouth. don't piss me off woman. I'll take a swing you, I'll miss though. I guarantee it. then I'll take another swing. and I'll miss. then I'll have myself a popsicle. would you care for a popsicle? just don't bring it into the sauna. I reached into the fridge for another popsicle. I missed. I got the cabbage. I put it back, but I missed. I dropped it on the floor. long story short, missed." -- Nancy Drew The White Wolf of Icicle Creek: Twist of Fate - PART 3 - Game Grumps
"When Ron the Mighty has stood in front of the gate of heaven he begins to denounce it. He cries, 'heaven is for those too scared of nothingness, I will go no further then my mortal flesh will carry. This mirror is the sick bed of heaven Harry, the eternity of pansy lies.' Ronnie will have nothing to do with the mirror, he is only concerned with the flesh and blood of the now. This destroys Harry. Ron leaves him to contemplate his stupid mirror, and the design of the cosmos versus the terminal beauty of being a wizard." -- Wizard People, Dear Reader: Chapter 23
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Crossover - A mish-mash of worlds, with Earth smack in the middle of the chaos. What could go wrong?
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Mar 13 2016, 05:29 PM
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Still not another update here because I'm a piece of shit.
I do, however, bring COMICS! And Ideas (woot... maybe... please love me).
I've been looking into comics for inspiration, and found a couple of comics that may provide a few ideas.
The first of these is Chew, which is a comic based on a world where individuals have food based abilities. They all have variations on this- the protagonist can tell the past of whatever he eats, for example. Variations include being able to communicate through food, control people through food, get smarter through eating, and getting stronger by eating spinach. It incorporates these abilities as a normal aspect of the setting, and treats them in a way that would be interesting to emulate. I also like the individual variations on one concept, and feel that would be interesting with the Gross people. With the Gross People, it would likely be more down to preferences and training than initial skill though- for example, someone may have good control of their skin, whilst someone else uses their condition to aid in hand-to-hand combat. If anyone has any other suggestions for variations, throw them my way.
The second comic is The Strange Talent of Luther Strode, which focuses on a training manual that enables Mr Strode to basically learn that the body is the plaything of the mind. This is basically how the Akephaloi view themselves and organisms in general. It also enables users to see the flesh of other individuals, which makes for a great visual experience. I can't include a lot of images here because I don't want this thread getting blatantly gory, but needless to say that plays a massive part in it as well.
Then there's Terror Inc.. The eponymous character, Terror, is a mercenary with the power of body part substitution- he can detach his own body parts and replace them with those from other people, animals, aliens etc. I was thinking that one Gross person may be able to do something like this, but significantly more limited- the limbs would need to have the same blood type, for example. I'm likely thinking this because I have a natural liking for power parasites and the like. It would make for a pretty interesting individual, to say the least.
Finally there is Animal Man. I won't spoil the arc, but there are certain motifs that involve multiple body parts working in ways they probably shouldn't, as well as someone who is basically just a living circulatory and nervous system. I feel like if something like this occured due to the condition, it would really stretch what it means to be a human being. I know that it's a cliche question to ask, but it's one that I feel would need to be asked. If a person can modify their body to the extent that they look like something more suited to Lovecraft's eldritch rejects and survive the ordeal, can they still be considered human enough to embrace into our community and be treated as our own? Even if they could be, should they be?
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Mar 13 2016, 06:06 PM
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I just love messing around with superpowers! It may take some time jumping, but it would be cool to see what limits these powers have, and people experimenting and pushing their power further and further.
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F.I.N.D.R Field Incident Logs A comprehensive list of all organisms, artifacts, and alternative worlds encountered by the foundation team.
At the present time, concepts within are inconsistent and ever shifting. Protectorates of the Proan Empire- The Sundered Realms - A fantasy realm where the world is divided into different sections. (Following names subject to change)
- The Gavell Kingdom
- The Everdark Forest
- The Lunar Tundra
- The Sand Sea
- The Asteroid Cloud
- The Rotting Shard
- The Orbital River
- The Outer Shadow
- Bottle Beasts - This Universes version of Pokemon.
Worlds Impacted by the Enlightened/Visceral War- The 'Verse Whale - The Homeworld of the two forces, a planet sized organism, and the unique life that has flourished on it.
- замороженный конец - An Ice Age world populated by tripodal organisms.
- [To Be Named] - A world of creatures with an arm for a head
- [To Be Named] - The Homeworld of a species where only the males are sapient.
- [To Be Named] - The home of a race of carnivorous, trap building beings.
- [To Be Named] - A planet of organisms that can link their minds, where two forms of intelligence have arisen.
Unaffiliated Universes- [To Be Named] - A parallel earth where the Synapsids took over after the Permian Extinction, among other resulting changes.
- نيو نيو امستردام - An abandoned Dyson Cylinder containing an Ecumenopolis now catering to our former pets and pests. (A concept developed entirely separate from DroidSyber's Arcology, I swear.)
- The Bleed - A vast universe where physics are more a suggestion than a rule.
Parakosmos Minor - Known Earth Pocket Universes, Natural or Artificial.- Island of Marsupials and Armadillos off the coast of South America
- A world inhabited by Woodpecker descendants (Again, not meant to be a clone of Serina, I in no way have that much detail ready for this.)
- Katiwala - Your typical Lost World...if i decide to go that route...
(And this is just the spec related stuff)
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Mar 13 2016, 06:32 PM
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I just love messing around with superpowers!  It may take some time jumping, but it would be cool to see what limits these powers have, and people experimenting and pushing their power further and further. I imagine that a lot of variation will have occured over time. If the forum hypothesis is correct and the condition has been around from anywhere between the 1300s to the 8th century (based on our knowledge of the formation of Bali mythology, which includes the Leyak and Rangda), so variation will be present. This variation would likely appear in our mythology, but not anywhere beyond that. Current variation would be rather limited due to a lack of people knowingly with the condition, and also due to our current mentality on how the condition would be treated. For example, you don't see people who cannot feel pain learning to be superheroes.
For the sake of a story, I imagine extreme variation would have to be caused by an event, or by an individual experimenting on themselves/individuals with the condition.
I just had a thought as to what historical figures could be interpreted as having the condition. Immediately my mind went to Rasputin for some reason, though this may not make sense given the geographic distribution of the condition.
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Mar 13 2016, 06:37 PM
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Personally, if we're talking "human" as in the deep, more meaningful way, as opposed to just the scientific definition, I believe that if your mind still works in a more-or-less human way, then you're still human, even if your physical form is totally alien-looking. But even there, one could get some totally wacky stuff. If, say, a small percentage (very small) of Gross People have the ability to incorporate the parts of other living things in/onto their bodies, then could they do so with brains? Kill a person, take their brain (or select lobes from their brain), just attach it to themselves and wire it up to their own nervous system. Not necessarily the most sustainable use of one's abilities, and definitely not the most sane, and also around where I would stop thinking of them as human. EDIT: You could get around the geographical location problem by implying that the condition was actually more widespread than previously believed. The fact that most of the things you've written take place in the not-too-distant past means you can easily retcon things by saying that the new information is a new discovery. Also kind of jealous of whoever wrote Chew. That's my kind of superhero universe, and I'm mad that I wasn't the one to come up with it first.
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Dumb Quotes "and then I fired again. and then I missed. and then I fired. and then I fired, and I missed. I missed both times. and then I fired, and I missed. this went on for several hours. and then I fired. and then I missed. and then I was out of bullets. and then I got sad. I had a popsicle. and then I passed out in the snow. and then I woke up. and then I reloaded. and then I fired. and then I missed. I missed again. I fired. I hit something, but it wasn't what I was going for, so I guess I missed. I passed out again. had another popsicle. I had a dream that I was firing at something. I missed. oh, so she can pick a snowball fight with 'em. I threw up a snowball at 'em. I missed. I packed another snowball into my gun. that's my secret weapon. I missed. yeah, she's really something. I threw a snowball at her. I missed. I passed out. I woke up with a popsicle stick in my mouth. don't piss me off woman. I'll take a swing you, I'll miss though. I guarantee it. then I'll take another swing. and I'll miss. then I'll have myself a popsicle. would you care for a popsicle? just don't bring it into the sauna. I reached into the fridge for another popsicle. I missed. I got the cabbage. I put it back, but I missed. I dropped it on the floor. long story short, missed." -- Nancy Drew The White Wolf of Icicle Creek: Twist of Fate - PART 3 - Game Grumps
"When Ron the Mighty has stood in front of the gate of heaven he begins to denounce it. He cries, 'heaven is for those too scared of nothingness, I will go no further then my mortal flesh will carry. This mirror is the sick bed of heaven Harry, the eternity of pansy lies.' Ronnie will have nothing to do with the mirror, he is only concerned with the flesh and blood of the now. This destroys Harry. Ron leaves him to contemplate his stupid mirror, and the design of the cosmos versus the terminal beauty of being a wizard." -- Wizard People, Dear Reader: Chapter 23
Coming Soon/To be Rebooted:
How To Hunt Gods - Everything you need to know about Gods and the art of God-killing.
Intrazoology - The world of semi-corporeal lifeforms. A world you walk through every day, without even knowing it.
The Dungeonverse - Magical creatures forced to adapt in huge, underground caverns, while surface-dwelling humans go dungeoneering for treasure.
Crossover - A mish-mash of worlds, with Earth smack in the middle of the chaos. What could go wrong?
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Mar 13 2016, 06:46 PM
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Personally, if we're talking "human" as in the deep, more meaningful way, as opposed to just the scientific definition, I believe that if your mind still works in a more-or-less human way, then you're still human, even if your physical form is totally alien-looking. But even there, one could get some totally wacky stuff. If, say, a small percentage (very small) of Gross People have the ability to incorporate the parts of other living things in/onto their bodies, then could they do so with brains? Kill a person, take their brain (or select lobes from their brain), just attach it to themselves and wire it up to their own nervous system. Not necessarily the most sustainable use of one's abilities, and definitely not the most sane, and also around where I would stop thinking of them as human. I agree with you there, but I feel that people on a large scale wouldn't be as sympathetic: some people can't get over another person having different skin colour, yet alone where our limbs are attached or how many eyes our palms have.
In regards to the brain situation, I imagine it would theoretically work, though I'd hate to think how that would even begin to affect their psyche. Plus, I imagine that there would be a time limit on how long the organ can be not exposed to blood before it dies, and the brain would likely have a very short timeframe before it becomes dead meat. More likely uses of the ability would be for organ transplants and surgery, whilst more creative ones would include things like replacing your hands with someone else's and commiting atrocious crimes. Bonus points if the hands belonged to another Gross person and you can give them their hands back, leading to them being made primary suspect whilst you walk away with no blood on your hands.
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