Perhaps this is why in some countries mages must be registered.
Also those countries have a special investigative devision.

I'm a pretty nice person; I assume I won't be pissing off too many mages.

Plus, I'm assuming that I will be a mage, since I am awesome, so I'll probably be the one nuking people with my head.

I am, however, a kind and just demigod.

You would be know really soon by most mages in the world, I'm sure.

I think the biggest thing Emo is forgetting about is DRAIN. Walking around casting fireballs right and left would give you the biggest motherfragging headache ever, if not make your brain jump out of your skull to escape the torture. Even if you had spirits sucking down the drain for you, pretty soon those said spirits would start refusing orders from you or not coming to your beck and call.

I like how Emo is suddenly a grade 4 initiate even though not even some characters that have been run for 2 years solid have that grade. nice

And 99% would thrash 1% even if they had those elements. Extreme disbelieve has to be considered with the Ghost Dance and how Native Americans somehow stopped the biggest military powerhouse in the world through mudslides and tornadoes. Sure it was "magical" but when you think about it how many times has the US Army gone 1 way to a location? Where the hell did the drain for all that "most powerful spell-casting and spirit-summoning session ever" go? I'm pretty sure it was some "most extreme focus ever." Anyways, I voted 1%, that's more than enough in my book. Stupid mages.

Also, mundies have this thing called "Willpower" that allows them to resist magical attacks to them. Some people have more than others but I'm sure that your "all-powerful" mage would be able to kill them all

Manaballs are pretty low drain, too. And I'd be very, very nice to the spirits.

Plus, I wouldn't actually fireball people; more like use earth elementals to bury them in the ground up to their chins.

No, see, you'll be all "Look at me, I can masturr the inturrnet," and I'll be like, "blargh, stunball you," and you'll be like, "blargh, I am stunballed."

And I won't slaughter people; I'll just humiliate them, and kill them only if they call for genocidal bullshit.

The good thing about mages:

They will never know wether or not the guy standing behind them just waits for a sign they might probably be a spellcaster and shoot them "just to be sure".

9mm kills Mages anytime!

You can't kill what you can see. With a 9mm at least.

Who's praying in 2070 anyway?

Certainly not the aetheists.

edit: A jab at the other thread, I'd certainly be praying in a world filled with fantasy creatures come to life, that witches CAN cast spells, dragons really do eat people and all the other things that go bump in the night. Yeah, I'd be praying.

What do you have against mages anyway, Birdy? Besides the fact that you aren't awesome enough to be one.

? You answered with a gun brand. I don't know what that has to do with hating mages.

So if so many Native Americans "willingly" sacrificed themselves to perform the GGD, how the hell did they have enough people to take over the western half of the US of A? I'm not an expert on population but I seriously doubt that there would be enough of them to contend with the US just waiting them out. The US lost a very large stretch of land because of a "magic" flex but then where did all those Native Americans come from to take it over?

When you are on a reserve there is nothing else to do but multiply.

Always kinda wondered about that myself.

The way I figure it anyone who was at least 1/8th Indian suddenly found themselves considered full blooded. The 1/16ths to 1/32nds were suddenly half-breeds.

Anyone living what might be considered an Indian Lifestyle and all the wanna-be's suddenly found out that now they were full blooded Indians.

Not sure if even that would be enough really, so then we bring in reincarnated Indians, and clones.

Of course, it is easier to take over the World if you have the biggest, deadliest weapon, and everyone elses weapons don't seem to work very well against you.
In effect, the Indians had the Gatling guns and cannons this time, and the rest of the world had the bows and arrows.

Most hermetics wouldn't agree with you...

I forgot about your background.

I had a lot hermetics in my campaings and convention games. Hermetics don't have a strict mindest and don't face the penalites of a shaman for certain spell categories.

Even far away from the Netherlands getting good stuff is only a 10 minutes walk away

Spending 50€ on beer will buy you 150 bottles of Astra. That should be enough for you and four friends, unless they're Skinheads.

I'm a fan of $12 mickeys of rye whiskey when I want to get drunk on the cheap. That's about as cheap as booze comes in Canada unless you throw self respect out the window and buy Old English. Urgh.

I don't like getting drunk by booze, been a beer fan since childhood. Cheap booze will cost you 4-5€ here, but don't expect too much in taste unless you mix it with cola.

i'm for 1% at a maximum, preferably even less. Maybe 1% mages, with half of those actually recognizing their talent

So that you have a chance of winning a war with them if you decide to go stupid and genocidal?

Everyone knows that RL magic will be so much more awesome than SR magic. We will still kick your stupid Humanis ass.

And Birdy, what if YOU were given magic powers? I mean, as a full mage?

Oh yeah, you'd kill yourself. Cool.

I voted every one awakens. An armed society is a polite society. Armed with super powers, a society is super polite.

So... magically-active, on-topic soccer team?

It's impossible to cut the ties between St. Pauli and Astra: both have a cult status and both are located "in the heart of St. Pauli".

German soccer clubs are a joke nowadays. The league is boring and international the german club teams are too weak. Fuck it. I prefer watching only "high class" games of every league.

Now THAT would make Birdy kill himself.