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female
- noun A persona in the game which is of the feminine
gender; also used as an adjective. Some
humanoid mobiles are also females. In general, gender in the game
is not constant, and except for a few intransigent
mobiles (eg. the man, the maiden, the dwarf king and queen)
gender can be toggled readily. There are no non-presentational differences between
the sexes in the game except for a skewing of the probability
distribution for attributes when a persona is created: male
personae will tend to have a strength 10 greater than if they
were female, and female personae will on average have a
dexterity and stamina each 5 higher than if they were male.
Otherwise, chosen gender only affects output and a few anti-porn
commands. If a player claims to be a
female, the
assumption is that they are a male masquerading as a
female. An informal convention appears to have emerged whereby
personae that are socialisers
are of gender female, whereas
killer personae are usually male.
This is challenged, however, by the existence of real females.
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