Viscera's Cyborg Guide to Carbondale, Part 2: Body Modifications

Carbondale has many places to which humans can go for repairs, to join with machines, and to mark themselves via traditional branding methods. The pictures included here index just a few of the many body modification sites in Carbondale; in particular, they point to the options near the Town Square.

Humans, it seems, are not satisfied with the serial marks given them by their maker. They decorate themselves with brands called "tattoos." This branding site is called "Dragon Master," perhaps appealing to some sense of a mythical human past.

One of the human practices of which I am quite curious is that of the gifting and/or commodification of their bodily components. In Carbondale, humans can link to machines in a building strangely named the United States Postal Service in order to "donate plasma". It is unclear from outside whom they are donating to, and S. Mac tells me that "donate" is a loose term here, since humans get paid a small reward for letting a machine drain some of their blood and cycle it back to them. This is a site for further investigation.

Of course, humans sometimes need repairs, and there is a rather large complex at which this goal can be accomplished in Carbondale. The hospital dominates several blocks. It is apparently an energy efficient machine - very curious! Humans in need of urgent service enter through one door, it seems, while those who have scheduled maintenance of the dismantling sort enter (and can be "picked up") through another.
To round out this guide, my next post will detail some other orders of being I encountered as I journeyed near Carbondale's Town Square.