More About Gooz Love

In this post I pose the question "how do we get gooz babies?". Spoiler... I don't answer that question. I present possibilities. But the mystery stands. And even if I answer this question at some point in an RPG book or a comic, that doesn't mean it's true for your GOZR game. You know the drill... the game book isn't the game you play, the game you play is the game you play*.

So here's another question. If one of the possible answers is that gooz are created by some super-science machine, then why do gooz have genders at all and why do they display sexual traits? There are images of gooz in the book who clearly have mammalian breasts of the kind suitable for feeding little goozlings. Sure, you can say that they come out as wee babies, as the text implies, but then you need milkers to milk feed them.

But hell's bells... it's super-science. Surely the Pretty Ones are capable of engineering a method of feeding baby gooz that doesn't involve gooz boobs, right? Maybe. Maybe with them gone, that system is defunct. How you gonna feed these goozlings? It's complicated, right?

Look here... the gooz are clearly imperfect creatures. Some have three arms, for pete's sake. They have varying numbers of fingers. They come in all shapes and colors. The Pretty Ones, as advanced and magical as they were, weren't gods. They were fumbling around with arcane science and they created these dinky degenerate servants.

Gooz are DNA hot messes with Pretty Ones and many other creatures' genetic material in their bodies. We all know that nature is not neat and clean. Gooz are natural, right? They are messy. They have sex traits. Hell, even if they are born from machines, they probably also have sex now and then.

I think what seems clear, to me anyway, is that they don't have sex baggage. They aren't highly sexualized. They lean pretty hard in the "meh" direction with regards to sex and gender. "Whatever, pal." would be their response to these questions.

For myself, as an observer and chronicler of the ugly ones, this question is fascinating and I hope to explore it more in the future.

Also, maybe next time I can talk about actual gooz "love". Not just this sex stuff. Do gooz fall in love? Do they have life mates? I think you know that the answer is going to be "some do, some don't".

*A good friend ran a robust playtest adventure of GOZR before it was published and he completely ignored the entire setting. His adventure was in "Gooz York"... a kind of far future post-apoc New York. It was a hoot.