stickman said
BTW, what power do mages have actually?
Differs a lot from person to person, but mages generally have the ability to cast spells and conjure spirits. The power level varies, but an important ability that most mages and shaman have is that of assensing, basically looking into the astral plane. In the astral plane you can see people's auras (and learn a lot from looking at them), spirits that may be invisible in the physical world, basically anything that's alive and/or magical in some way lights up. It's both really useful for spotting enemies and it allows the mage or shaman to get an idea of the magical security in, say, a certain corporation's building ;)
There's a few different ways to fill the gap left by Old Soul. I think getting a new mage or shaman would be the best idea. These days, any corp worth their salt has a wagemage on site, so our team is gonna need a spellslinger of our own to dispel mana barriers, get rid of any guard spirits, stop a combat mage from dishing out his manabolt, you get the idea. If anyone wants to play a mage, be my guest, otherwise I'm happy to either play a mage myself or find someone to create an Awakened character.
Of course, there's also the completely different, much easier option of simply agreeing that Koch-Huang has little to no magical security.
What do you guys think?
