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[CircuitBoyBlue]

I've got this character that's a "city shaman." For a while, I've had this "war mask" that I made with a gas mask, some nylon rope for hair, and some face paint. I even ended up making a RL version of it to show the GM what my character was wearing (for those interested, Chillicothe, Ohio, has a Christmas Supply/Military Surplus store that sells $10 gas masks). It's worked out really well, because as it turned out, the mask looks a little Predator-esque, which prompts me to use Invisibility a lot. And putting on the War Mask leaves no doubts in my teammates' minds as to how I intend to carry a situation.

Here's the thing. Obviously, not all the situations my character encounters are going to fall under the category of "War." Stealth missions, for instance. Or a couple weeks ago, the group had just pulled off a job, and took one of the vehicles they'd stolen for it out to the Ash Dunes and lit it up. They then proceeded to dance around the fire in a celebratory fashion (how this wasn't the shaman's idea, I don't now. Also, I kept referring to my character as "dancing naked around the fire," and I'm not sure if anyone else at the table caught it). Clearly, I should have had a mask for that occasion.

My question for DumpShock is, what other sorts of masks would you create, if you were playing a city shaman, and what would the mask be like? I'm hoping for masks that reflect general situations, and not specific actions. Having a mask I wear whenever I cast Manipulation spells would be just like having a fetish for a limited spell (which I've already got for a lot of spells). Also, before anyone gets this filthy, I've already kind of ruled out using a gimp mask for any of these masks, just because it would look too similar to the gas mask.