Building Unity (Rick and Morty)?

[CIDE]

Hello Playground,

Had a strange discussion that lead to this weird thought: Is there a way to build Unity in D&D 3.5? For anyone unfamiliar with the entity known as "Unity" from the Rick and Morty franchise they are a hive mind of sorts. A single consciousness that is spread throughout multiple bodies all linked in real time all with Unity's complete consciousness. It's not an insect hivemind with a queen (as far as we've seen) or anything like that. More specifically, could an adventurer (any class) accomplish the same state of being by level 20?

The idea came about for a character that after wanted to explore different bits of life, lifestyles, etc and in doing so could drop duplicates (or something?) of themselves that could go do this but allowing the collective to learn from it all. All while the original could still do their crafting or brooding alone in a high tower or adventuring or whatever it is they're doing at level 20.

Basically any first party allowed, no epic and no divine rank cheese. Otherwise, everyone else is up for grabs. Is something like this possible?

[noob]

Hello Playground,

Had a strange discussion that lead to this weird thought: Is there a way to build Unity in D&D 3.5? For anyone unfamiliar with the entity known as "Unity" from the Rick and Morty franchise they are a hive mind of sorts. A single consciousness that is spread throughout multiple bodies all linked in real time all with Unity's complete consciousness. It's not an insect hivemind with a queen (as far as we've seen) or anything like that. More specifically, could an adventurer (any class) accomplish the same state of being by level 20?

The idea came about for a character that after wanted to explore different bits of life, lifestyles, etc and in doing so could drop duplicates (or something?) of themselves that could go do this but allowing the collective to learn from it all. All while the original could still do their crafting or brooding alone in a high tower or adventuring or whatever it is they're doing at level 20.

Basically any first party allowed, no epic and no divine rank cheese. Otherwise, everyone else is up for grabs. Is something like this possible?

rary telepathic bond + prying eyes everywhere and a lot of simulacrums.

[ExLibrisMortis]

"Locus of consciousness" is mostly a fluff concept, so what you're looking for is a character with multiple (many) (interchangable) bodies that are under the player's absolute instantaneous command, i.e. not commanded through voice or abilities that require activation.

Commanding your characters shouldn't be a problem if they're all clones (i.e. simulacrum, body outside body). Not so much because the spells allow direct control, but because most DMs won't play PC-made copies of PCs as NPCs. After all, the clone's motivations are the PCs, so they're not for the DM to decide.

Instantaneous communication is something that formians and legion devils do really well, so you could just steal their ability directly (i.e. polymorph any object, fusion + astral seed, hell, gate in a sarrukh) and copy yourself a bunch of times (body outside body as SLA is a good one). To get around the "have no queen" issue, just make a hive that's all queens.