[X] My Assistant

[Kazuhiro]

Yeah, the basic idea I have is that there's no particular reason you can't play a "Toxic mage" as long as he's not actually a Toxic mage.

What *would* you call it? A Radiation-o-mancer? A Horrible Painful Death Adept?

[Harbin]

Something I could see happening would be a sort of slippery slope character, where they went for more power, and thus slowly spiraled downward into insanity. Not like it hasn't happened before in various literature and comics and other media, but still.

[KnightIII]

This has quickly become a morality issue. Which is the predominate question when playing a socially unacceptable class. So you have to compare it with other fictional or similar RL examples.

Warlocks (classic lit)- Can they be good? Not likely, the deal with demons and barter in souls. Does that make them evil? Not exactly. Demon hunters learn the same skillset and strike many of the same bargains. They protect the world from demons at the cost of themselves.

Assassins- Kill people in their sleep. Will be the first to stab someone in the back. Rely on lies, subterfuge, and deception of all kinds. Usually well versed in poisens. Not exactly Better Crocker type people, but not inherantly evil either.

Vampires/ghouls/other infected- They (usually) cant help what they have become. But none the less their dietary practices are less than... socially acceptable. Even if Bob just tried to kill you, chances are seeing Bob chopped up and served with a glass of white wine (red wine is terrible with beef) is unsettling at best. But are they inherantly evil? Not really. Though, as I said, they didnt have a choice.

So maybe we had a young neophyte pixie. The pixie discovers hes awakened. Awakened are still relatively rare. So whats to stop a happy go lucky pixie from running into a (typical) evil toxic mage first? The mage, sees the perfect evil chance in corrupting an "innocent" pixie (no one suspects the butterfly, mwaa hahahaha). And so the pixie, with growing unease, learns how to harness and channel their awakened potential through the toxic tradition. Experimenting and practicing at first in remote places and on paracritters or wild animals. Then the mage deems the pixie worthy of the final test. And sends tinkerbell to killa metahuman. Tink rebels, maybe kills the mage, and flees into the one place it might have a chance. The shadows.

[Tymeaus Jalynsfe...]

Sorry. I didn't realize you were the only one allowed to be a preachy, self-righteous asshat in their posts. I'll try to remember that in the future.

I see you still have not really changed, have you Dr. Funkenstein? You appear to be the same, lovable character that you have always been...

Oh well...

Keep the Faith

[Nyost Akasuke]

Hoboy. We had this discussion with some other dude two or three months ago who wanted to play a "toxic-friendly" mage. You get that toxics are (or are at least widely perceived to be) the bad guys, right? And that playing a toxic will basically paint a bull's-eye on your character's forehead?

If you're referring to me. Don't worry, I'm still here. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

While I would love to jump into this whole debacle, sadly I have nothing new to contribute, as some people know I've gone through this before. Though I would like to reiterate what some people have said before.

Body 1 and the Infirm quality. While I'm pretty sure I can see the reasoning behind this, this character is beyond fragile. If I were going for this combination, I'd pump several more points into dodge if at all possible. Even if you are to be in your astral form the majority of the time, I'd say there's still a strong chance of you being caught up in less-than-comfortable situations while your full, meaty, delicious flesh-body. In that situation, even for one of that (a pixie's) size, I imagine a high chance of some sort of comic-book onomatopoeia followed by a quick death. But I am by no means an expert on anything, specially since I haven't read any of the books in like... a month.

In other news: Let the contagion spread. Soon, the followers of the toxic ways will crash down upon you all like torrential wave, and the old ways will be swept away with the tides! Buwhahahahaha. I'll probably be dead then.

[fistandantilus4....]

Oh yeah, and indeed Big D pretty much put a bounty on the heads of toxics and blood mages. Moreover, I don't remember seeing any notices of IE using Blood Magic during this cycle; neither of dragons using Blood Magic at all, with all the advanced stuff they have besides that. Okay, maybe except for those Feathered Serpents in AZT - but not that Dunkelzahn supported those, did he?

Aina, for one.

And I would like to point out that this is the same Dunk that helped Anne Pinchet set up the Empowerment Coalition post mortem. The same almost-prez that is a mantis spirit, killed her running mate Yeats, who was a bug, and actively draws in more bugs (femals are autmomatically good merges with mantis, meking them very good at hiding.). You'll note how similar the "Empowerment Coalition" is to "Universal Brotherhood." So don't tag dunk's issues with blood magic down to morality. He's was just being practical about mana spikes.

*Snip*

for a terrorist cell of Alamos 20k operatives to take on a Changeling Troll as their new party member

Didn't that pretty much happen in canon?

My point is, it's not the sterotypes and same old on the face of things that makes the good stories. It's the exceptions to the rules. They've alraedy said that it's good to go in the OPs posts, so throttle it back a little. I seriously doubt Tomothy was loooking for a four page arguement complete with name calling.

[Saint Sithney]

What *would* you call it? A Radiation-o-mancer? A Horrible Painful Death Adept?

How about a Cosmic Mage? Willpower + Logic. An Atomancer? Willpower + Intuition. Rider of the Solar Winds? Willpower + Charisma.

Radiation is life, man. Without radiation there would be nothing.

[Dr.Rockso]

What *would* you call it? A Radiation-o-mancer? A Horrible Painful Death Adept?

I'd call him Dr.Manhattan, son

[Dr.Rockso]

and served with a glass of white wine (red wine is terrible with beef)

Ah, but red is the prefect choice for long pork.

[KnightIII]

Indeed. Hence pork... the other white meat. Mmmm.

[Manunancy]

Body 1 and the Infirm quality. While I'm pretty sure I can see the reasoning behind this, this character is beyond fragile

I didn't notice teh 'infirm' quality. It doesn't fits well with a mutation mentor - who spits on weakness.

[Apathy]

Is long pig considered white meat, or red meat?

[Dr.Rockso]

Is long pig considered white meat, or red meat?

Different from person to person