Technically Astral Hazing isn't aspected, at least not in a usable way. It's sort of like "aspected (anti-this-character)."*

*I use "anti" because a magician who is astrally hazed should never get the benefits from being inside his own BC.

Astral Hazing
Bonus: 10 BP (for non-Awakened characters),
15 BP (for Awakened characters)
A character with this quality has expressed metagenes that
somehow catalyse and feed on the character’s darker emotions and
negative feelings, disturbing the character’s aura and any ambient
mana in her vicinity. For reasons not yet understood, the character
becomes an aspected domain in her own right and taints astral
space around her wherever she goes; a generator of tainted astral
background count (similar to a cyberzombie).

I agree, esp. as it's a flaw, that it should never/hardly ever benefit the character who uses it. That's why I commented that a Toxic Shaman with Astral Hazing would likely brighten up the area around him/herself.

To correct you, it wasn't MY analogy. Street Magic, p 121, read it for yourself. If removing/cleaning up the toxic waste doesn't immediately remove its background count, then why should removing a person do the job? Rating 4 isn't even small-time for background count; this isn't as quick as getting rid of a fart through air dispersal.

For myself, the Astral Hazing is indeed Aspected in an unusable way. It is aspected (anti-every character).

To correct you, it wasn't MY analogy. Street Magic, p 121, read it for yourself. If removing/cleaning up the toxic waste doesn't immediately remove its background count, then why should removing a person do the job? Rating 4 isn't even small-time for background count; this isn't as quick as getting rid of a fart through air dispersal.

For my own analogy, it's a car leaking oil. That oil sits on the road, stains the road, maybe even pools up a bit. It kills things on the small scale, produces an odor for a while, and generally makes the area a bit less pleasant for its presence. Rain can disperse it a bit, as can soapy water or a power washer's spray. It likely will result in a trail of caked-on grime that will lead along the path of that car as it drove around. Until somebody follows along and completely washes it, there will be those grimy oil stains on the ground, and it will always puddle up more where that car stops. Only this car likely will never stop leaking oil until it's completely drained of fluids and junked, and it will leak more noticeably than a conventional car would at its worst operable leakiness.

Go look on the road some time. You'll see the grimy stains of leaked oil, transmission fluid, etc., mostly pooled near traffic lights and other places that cars sit for more than a few moments. You can disagree with me, and you can disagree with RAW, but that doesn't change RAW. Granted, we all find ourselves at odds with the rules from time to time. Don't like it? Don't use it. Easy, and all you have to say is "I prefer it this other way." A nod to RAW, house rules instated, situation good to go. Also, I'm not saying the RAW is necessarily the RIGHT way to handle the situation/quality; rather, I'm saying RAW is rather punishing for this particular flaw. I think you can agree with me on that front at least.

I do also like the way you think for the aspecting (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) Toxic just seems the go-to aspect for dark-emotions-metabolized-into-background-count

Because of the wording in Astral Hazing, the changelings would have to never move or the geomancy would need to start all over again. (Which is why we lock them up...)

Citation?

Neraph--Is your argument that it cannot happen at all, or that the changeling could come and go without affecting the geomancy?

I think he's trying to argue that you geomancy the changeling's body so that the haze is aspected AND travels with him. Which would allow the hazed person to be a mage and get the benefits of domain, which should never happen because negative quality.

I've shown before that, unless you use Shenanigans (which are technically still legal), you end up spending at the very least 98 karma to raise your Magic and get the Initiations required to actually do this, not to mention spending at the very least four in-game months.