Biogel Suit (World Guide, Technical) (Patreon)

Biogel Suit

A biogel suit, as it's generally referred to, is the roughly 4mm coating of glistening black, symbiotic biogel which completely covers its host from the nape of her neck, all the way down to her toes. It coats the inside of its host as well, completely covering the interior of almost every externally accessible internal organ. Some of these it fills, or partially fills, absorbing body wastes which might otherwise pass through. Withing the rest, it merely acts as a moderating membrane, allowing air and nutrients to get through, but preventing hazardous substances from causing harm.

In the event that a biogel host encounters a hazardous external environment which might cause harm to her exposed head, the biogel will spread upwards and encase her head in a featureless 'helmet' until the threat passes. When so encased, the host gains vastly enhanced senses, and can even see all around her body, all at once, without the slightest bit of disorientation. The encasement also provides filtered air, and can even provide enough oxygen itself for its host to survive up to a day in a total vacuum. In addition to protecting against emergencies, a host sufficiently comfortable with their biogel suit can trigger this effect virtually at will.

Biogel is highly resistant to acids, bases, point heat sources, and moderately intense cold. It acts as an ablative to energy weapons, though its capacity to act as such is dependent on available excess mass to be sacrificially vaporized. It acts as a non-Newtonian armor against slicing or puncturing as well, and can stop steel tipped high power rifle rounds, though not without considerable bruising beneath.

A biogel suit acts as a healing catalyst, vastly accelerating healing action, to the point where minor to moderate wounds heal completely within seconds. For more serious injuries, the biogel can replace lost or damaged body parts with its own substance. This replacement is so seamless and perfect that the host may not even have time to notice the extent of their injury before all feels perfectly normal again.

If a biogel suit senses that some catastrophic event is about to befall its host, the biogel with rapidly convert its host into its own substance, a process often refereed to as 'glistening'. The resulting 'gummy', is barely animate and quite helpless, though still very much alive. This effect will also occur when the biogel hasn't had its excess waste mass removed within an appropriate interval. One day between cleaning/filtering is safe. Two carries with it a minuscule chance of glistening, 0.00001%. This chance is for glistening within a given 6 hour period, and it doubles roughly every six hours that have passed. At 4 days, the chance is 0.65%. At 5 days, it is 10.5%. By 6 days, the chance exceeds 100%, meaning that glistening is virtually guaranteed.

Biogel suits are so deeply insinuated within their hosts' bodies that they are effectively irremovable. Attempts to do so will generally result in glistening.  

Biogel suits can merge into any mass of biogel, and offer sensations to its host as if the host actually were that mass of biogel. The host can thereby feel and potentially physically interact with anything touching its surface, both inside and out.

It is possible for a biogel suit to contain the living, conscious soul of someone else who was transformed into a liquid biogel 'gooey' and 'reprocessed' into a biogel suit. When a host dons such a suit, they are said to be 'married'. The soul within the suit can only communicate with its host via emotional impression, and physical manipulation. Such activity can be quite arbitrary, uncomfortable, and intensely compelling. However, if the host finds such interaction unpleasant, the biogel 'spouse' is compelled to find it unpleasant as well, forcing it to temper any desire it might have to dominate the relationship.

Biogel suits are exclusively available to citizens of the Feyli Empire and certain other per-authorized individuals. They can be obtained from any Gelitech outlet or vending machine, and typically come with a kit including a mattress and filter unit for keeping the suit free of waste mass. The kits can be ordered by Imperial Mail, as well. Prices range from ¢150 for basic suit kits, to ¢7,000 for more premium versions.