I'm having a hard time finding a derogatory term to use for all the awakened folks that piss off my mundane character. Variety would be nice too, like a really mean one and one you could call your awakened friend or teammate.

Help!

lightbulb . . allways on the recieving end . .
deadhead . . nothing in there aside from some funny pictures . .

Good ones:

• Criss Angel
• A&E
• Witch
• Magic

Bad ones:

• Illusionist
• Mindfreak
• David Blaine
• Theif
• Scam artist
• Charlatan
• Magic Kid
• Harry Potter
• Magick
• Twinkle toes
• Queen of the Fairy Gaymothers
• Faghag
• Strawberry
• Pixiestick

Twinkletoes (adept)
Wandfondler (magician)

My big question is why the hell would you want to head derogatory insults upon individuals who can make your head explode just by looking at you. It seems to be about as wise as a white guy using the N-word at the Vibe Awards.

Matchstick or Burnie (fire elementalist/combat mage)
Squishie (i'm sure the stereotype of the mage as the weakling still exists in the 6th world)

Spiritfucker.

big deal, i can do that too . . if i can see someone, i can make his head explode . . and i won't even have a migrane afterwards!
but yeah, usually i don't do that too . . i just hope for gel ammo in my gun and point and shoot if he even so much as blinks into my general direction in a way i don't like . .

call them modern magicians.

Copperfield, Houdini, etc.

Spirit Enslaver
Wiggle Fingers
Crap Caster
Elemental Buddy
Faey Boy
That Monster Mage


WMS

My personal prize goes to wandfondler. Classic AH.
Call a full magician a groggy will have the effect you desire.
There is also xman from the SR4 slang for adepts.

Thanks for the suggestions everyone.

And the reason I would want to use some of these words vary. Sometimes you may insult a friend to shit talk them, or insult someone you don't like behind their backs. Or say you insult an awakened weakling or burnout or someone who is powerful but when you are holding a gun to equal their spell.

You also need things for NPCs to call the player mages to get them to blow things up.

People who are bad-mouth others in such a way as to get into fights are not known to be wise.

See if you want to piss of an adept that is the point where the adept power throws a penny through your head. A mage will just use turn flesh to goo and walk away.

Why is any of this a good idea?

don't forget that there is still the ini-roll . . and the samurai is most of the times faster than both adept and mage . . so if the samurai decides not to risk it the magical guy will most likely end up shot before he can do something himself . .

Who said the mage or adept won't just take the abuse, and then blast you when you turn you back.

Why would any adept throw a penny through someone's head when throwing a baby through someone's head is so much cooler?

I got you both left in the dust. Riddick can kill someone with a tea cup, and he isn't even an Awakened or has cyber enhancements all over. Why not for an Adept or Street Sam?

"Gandalf"

"Elminster"

"Mr. Abra Kadabra"

"Mr. Hocus Pocus"

"Mr Kumbaya" (Shaman only)

"Nosebleeder" (any magician who tends to take lots of drain)

Mumm-Ra!

Hmm, amongst runners wouldn’t the following be appropriate:

Leadmagnet

How about

Aspmagnet

Blue Rajah, for throwing adepts...

I almost made a throwing adept with that name... also thought of making a female throwing adept and calling her The Bowler's Daughter.

These are my favorites from above, and they all deserve being mentioned again.



i would only use this for an ELF mage

this one is awesome


I'd like to add also:

Healing Mage: "Band-Aid Man"
Mage that uses lots of Mind Manip: "Mindgrinder"

And while not a derogatory name, calling his spell "Magic Missile" is fun for taunting a teammate.
If he pisses you off, mimic something he just said in a falsetto voice, followed by "blah blah blah, I'm a Level 9 Wizard."

Awesome.

I don't think calling the awakened in 2070 names of supposed illusionists who lived in the year 2000 would have much an insulting effect, as I am almost certain their magic tricks have long since fallen into the shadow of real magicians, and their names are remembered only by history buffs.

Insults I would direct at a mage would be more based on the gross ignorance, stereotypes, and emotional vulnerability's being awakened might instill in a fella.
Like:

FREAK!!
Careful, or ol' Toys in the Attic here will melt your face with his mind!
I bet you like watchin little kids in the shower, huh!?
Don't you fuckin look at me you drek eating freak of nature!
I heard mages don't eat like normal people. I heard they gotta use spoons made from human skin and bones and can only drink people's tears instead of water! Think about it, man! Thats how come you never seen those freaky spooks eat nothin in public!

I think you should really play up the whole 'freak' bit. You are different from us. And your difference is wrong, therefor we should harm you and cast you away from our numbers before you eat the fetuses from the bellies of our pregnant women.

And I bet you dollars to doughnuts there are heaps of crazy paranoid people out there who blame the problems of their daily lives on the malevolence of the awakened. Things so simple as 'The food I put in my mouth fresh from the zap-o-wave was too hot, some fraggin witch must be drekin with me' or 'I can't stop drugs because cooperate magicians compel me to'

Mutant. I mean common it's kinda like X-men at times.

The term "heaps" would be a vast understatement, if my knowledge of human nature is correct.

You much like me are likely thinking "small mountains" in the actually geological sense of the word.