Instinct

There are a number of ideas that arise from instinctual impulses. Although these drives are innate rather than learned, they still operate as ideas in that they interact with other ideas along similar lines.

Hunger

Rest

Sleep

Warmth

Socialization

PHYSICAL NEEDS

Most of the things people think they “need” are technically wants. You dont ‘need’ the car you want like you you ‘need’ to eat food. You need food, water and sleep or else you will die. While these requirements are physical realities which all humans share, they have a psychological component which motivates us to satisfy them and physical needs sometimes compete and temporarily lose out to more urgent idea-based impulses, such as when you delay going to the bathroom to avoid missing your favorite television show.

Periodic Needs Increases

Powerful instincts motivate us to fullfilll physical needs until we are temporarily satisfied. Human needs grow in urgency over time until they force us to satisfy them and are temporarily forgotten again. Computer simulation tracks needs changes invisibly, but for role-playing it is inconvenient to track the change of everyone’s needs with each passing hour. On occassion a GM may ask players to make an update of their needs. Players test the rank of their Needs at the time they were last updated and increase them according to how much time has passed since then.

So if you had 20% hunger and 30% rest about 5 hours ago, you now have 70% hunger and 80% rest, indicating that while you were busy doing things, you became tired and forgot to eat.

Need triggers are things that do not actually increase the need but temporarily make it more noticeable and urgent.

Hunger

Hunger
Hunger for food increases +10% per hour and +20% per hour of excercise.
Eating
Eating food lowers hunger by –10% per 1 kg of food consumed.
Calories
100 grams = 500 calories
People need to eat 400–800 grams or 2000-4000 calories of food per day.
Triggers
Smelling and seeing food and eating can make you want to eat when you are not hungry. A person dies after not eating for a couple weeks.
Heavy people with more body fat can last much longer.
When you goes for food for a whole day, you begin to starve. See Environments: Starvation.
Malnutrition
Starvation and eating a poor diet of food lead to a lack of the nutrients needed for optimum health. Malnutrition in children and adolescents causes permanent stunting of growth. Stunting causes...

Starvation

Starvation occurs when a person wastes away and dies from lack of the food nutrients essential for life: carbohydrates, fats, minerals, proteins, vitamins, and water. Nutrients furnish energy for regulating body processes and for building and maintaining body tissues.
How long a person can survive without food depends on the person’s supply of body fat. Fat is the body’s most efficient form of stored energy. However, most people can survive only 60 to 70 days without food.
Related
Anti-Hunger, Anti-Poverty

Thirst

70% of the human body is water and all our organs need water and salts for chemical reactions to function or our cells will weaken and die.
Thirst: +10%/+10% exhaustion.
Drinking: –20%/1L 2-4 liters/4-8 cups/.5-1gallon o per day.
Triggers: Drinking –50%, +50% talking, singing, stress, nervousness.
Heat: In very hot climates, you need twice as much water to avoid dehydration.
Children need half as much.
You can go without water for 1 day plus a number of hours equal to your Constitution / 10. After this time, you must chance a Constitution risk each hour (DC 50%, +5% for each previous risk) or sustain 30% stun damage.
You can go without food for 3 days, in growing discomfort. After this time, you run a Constitution risk each day (50%+5% per day) or sustain 30% weakening damage.
Someone suffering weakening damage from lack of food or water is fatigued. Weakening from thirst or starvation cannot be recovered until you get food or water, as needed—not even treatment that restores health heals this damage.

Beverages

Desire for water can be transformed into desire for another tasty beverage. Humans die from not drinking for about a week.
Dehydration (Water Deprivation)
Thirst is a dry feeling in the throat. A lack of sufficient saliva can produce this kind of thirst, even when the body has no need for water. In a similar way, the thirst sensation created by the internal environment’s need will disappear briefly if water is drunk and wets the throat. But unless the water reaches the internal environment, thirst will recur after a short time. Human beings and other mammals usually drink liquids before any large change occurs in the internal environment.
In humans, the most critical nutrient is water. Death occurs when a person loses 20 per cent of total body water. Environmental temperature may vary the rate of water loss, but most people will be able to live only about a week without water.

Bladder

A full bladder is not something you can ignore for long.
“WHEN YOU’VE GOT TO GO, YOU’VE GOT TO GO.”
Physical needs like our bladder compete directly with competing ideas like laziness or distractions.
Drinking
+10% bladder per –10% thirst.
Triggers
+20% Hearing running water.
Urination
Relieves bladder up to –80%.

Exhaustion

Human beings and most other animals need a certain amount of daily sleep and rest between periods of activity.
Exhaustion: +10% per 2 hours.
Sleeping: Sleep –10% per hour. 8 hours per night.
Resting: Muscles get tired and require rest to restore
Triggers: While resting +20% (objects at rest want to stay at rest).
Comfort: Sleep and rest are both easier with conditions of comfort. Softer beds, couches and chairs add their comfort
Sweating: Exertion causes sweating: the excretion of waste water from the skin. This reduces smelling hygiene by –10% per 10% of exhaustion incurred.
“Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.” —Benjamin Franklin
When a person falls asleep, all activity decreases and the muscles relax. The heartbeat and breathing rate slow down. The person slowly becomes less aware of what may be happening all around.
Dreaming
Periods of small, fast brain waves, similar to those of an awake person, occur at intervals during sleep when the sleeper’s eyes move rapidly as though they were watching the events of a dream. A sleeper who is awakened during such a period probably will recall dreaming and remember details of the dream. Sleep during these periods is called dreaming sleep or REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep.
Nightmares
Bad dreams caused by stress, fear and worry.
Our natural 24-hour cycle of rest and wakefulness cannot be disrupted lightly. It takes a strong competing desire to override our natural desire to sleep after a long day of exertion. The opposite of rest is energy. When we are full of energy, we find it difficult to sleep or sit still. Sleep performs many important functions. Different sleep patterns have different effects. Warmth provides a temporary bonus to Rest.
Sleep Deprivation
People deprived of sleep lose energy and become quick-tempered. After two days without sleep, a person finds that lengthy concentration becomes difficult. Through pure determination, a person may perform tasks well for short periods but is easily distracted. Many mistakes are made, especially in routine tasks, and attention slips at times. Every “sleepless” person experiences periods of dozing off for a few seconds or more. The person falls completely asleep unless kept active continuously.
After three days without sleep people suffer impaired thinking, seeing, speaking, hearing and may experience hallucinations and paranoid delusions. After 11 or less days humans just fall unconscious.
Human beings have gone without sleep for up to 11 days.
Paranoid Delusions
Some people lose contact with reality for periods of time. They become suspicious and fearful of others. For example, they may believe that a doctor is an undertaker who has come to bury them, or that their food is poisonous.
The need for sleep. Sleep restores energy to the body, particularly to the brain and nervous system. People require both slow-wave sleep and dreaming sleep. Extra sleep of either kind does not make up for a lack of the other. Slow-wave sleep may help especially in building protein and restoring the control of the brain and nervous system over the muscles, glands, and other body systems. Dreaming sleep may be especially important for maintaining such mental activities as learning, reasoning, and emotional adjustment.
Mysteries Of Sleep
Scientists are still seeking answers to many questions about the need for sleep. They do not know, for example, why human beings cannot simply rest, as insects do. Nor have they discovered exactly how sleep restores vigor to the body.”
Snoring
People who fall asleep may snore. Snoring is rough, noisy breathing that occurs during sleep produced by the vibration of relaxed structures of the mouth and throat. Snoring is common among people over the age of 40 or overweight.
Fatigue
People who go without sleep can become Fatigued. Each day of fatigue causes –10% penalty on all ability scores, involuntary yawning, irritability, paranoid delusions.
“Even gradual decreases in the total time for slow wave sleep and deep sleep is correlated to a kind of decrease in memory function, and in turn to a decrease in the ability to recognize hidden structures or the awareness of such things.” —Jan Born

Resting

Everyone has to sleep but some choose to rest periodically.
“Cats look like they’re asleep, but they’re only resting. This is a typical behavior of carnivores. If they’re well-fed, there’s no sense in going out and running the risk of meeting a rival or a predator; instead, they rest, and conserve energy.”

Comfort

Sleeping in poor comfort can cause back and neck injuries and pain. Hygiene
Hygiene is
Seeing:
Smelling: Exhaustion from exertion causes sweating. When sweating exceeds 50% it becomes visible seeing hygiene loss.
Comfort
Comfort is all about being able to rest relaxingly. People get tired and irritable if they are strained or discomforted for long periods of time. Resting on comfortable seating restores comfort, while standing for long periods and sitting uncomfortably will strain it.

Human Desires

Desires are basic wants inherent to human nature. Desires are not physically life-threatening like needs are, but they can be psychologically life threatening and even result in degraded health.
Human Nature
—noam chomsky

Interaction

All people want to spend time with others. Some people are more drawn to socialize than others. Spending time with friends and family

“Social action must be animated by a vision of a future society.” —?

Relaxation

The opposite of stress.

Stress

Stress is the body’s emergency response to real or imagined danger. A stress reaction prepares the body for a burst of action to fight or flee a threat. The heart races, hands get cold and sweaty, muscles tense, and the stomach feels jittery. Stress that lasts a long time can exhaust the body and cause a frazzled mental state of feeling worried and overwhelmed. Any event, thought, or situation that causes stress is called a stressor.

Fun

“Everyone wants to be amused and entertained. Socializing, playing games, laughter, sports, all of these fulfill our desire for fun.”

Socializing

“People become lonely without the company of others. Some are more content than others in solitude.”

Procreation

“Once people reach young adulthood, they want to have children. They want to pass on their genes. This is often especially powerful in women. Stability. The desire to procreate before you are think you are too old to do it anymore gets stronger every year. It supports Procreation and counters Anti-Procreation.”

Femininity

Anti-Overpopulation Control, Anti-Adoption

Sanctity of Life

“Reverence for life is the ethic of love expanded to embrace the universe.” —Albert Schweitzer