Relating to the impact of age on Character Life Cycle. It applies to physical and mental unless noted otherwise. Permanent conditions imposing changes to decrepitude are rare.

Accelerated Decrepitude

This is a serious weakening of the body’s normal regenerative and restorative processes that occurs as part of normal aging. A creature’s normal arc of degeneration is accelerated. Characters affected have their overall life span reduced by 10%. Additionally, the last half of their Adult life cycle is considered Elderly now.

Extreme Acceleration: The last 3/4 of their Adult life cycle is considered Elderly now.

Delayed Decrepitude

Delayed Decrepitude is a biological condition that suspends the normal imperfect process of aging until the last few days or months of a creatures normal life span. It does not extend lifespan beyond normal for a species. The first half of their Elderly life cycle is considered Adult now.

Extreme Delay: The entire Elderly life cycle is considered Adult, until the last 10 [daily] cycles of their life. The character catches up in the last .001 or .0001 percent of their normal allotted years.

These characters learned to communicate in an insular and limited fashion of a typically localized (slum, area, community, etc.) birth or dominant culture. Their primary language is spoken with a thick accent and localized style (-1 on effective level of communication; including Charisma based abilities and social interaction with those not part of the locale). Abilities requiring literary (incl. encryption/cipher) and verbal fluency are all penalized, while understanding others is not.

Even a character possessing rudimentary skills can use them to persuade, deceive, etc. within the context of what they can express, because they have the basic social cues and context to make their skills apply. A challenged/poor communicator lacks this, and/or has a speech pathology or grasp of the language structure that is completely lost on the communicator and actually inhibits communication.

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