Re: [HOE] Doomsayers and pollution

[Theo McGuckin <tsm@jlab.org>]

>     What do you mean the doomsayers aren't going around spreading
> radioactive waste?  Damon Plague bringer is ALL about that, and he's
> #2 in the Greenie heiarchy!  Your Rad shaman would constantly meet
> green doomsayers since they

I agree that they would probably meet up a lot, but I have to disagree on
a couple points.

> 1) Would be frequenting the same places
> 2) like the same stuff on their cereal (Rad sludge)

I agree with these.

> 3) Like hanging out with the same kinds of people (people polluted... er... 
> chosen by radiation)
> 4) Have similar goals of bringing radiation to poor rad-less children whose 
> parents wont let them have any.  

I have to disagree with these though. Rad Shamans don't worship radiation
the same way doomsayers do. Cleansers especially don't LIKE radiation,
it's just a tool to get back at the manitous. The shamans believe in the
spirits and the spirits have been corrupted by the radiation. None of the
old type spirits are around (or willing to talk to them) so they have to
deal with what they got, sludge, bugs, smog, etc.
Rad shamans (and all shamans) have powers to CLEAN up pollution of all
kinds. This is like killing the doomsayer's sacred deity. The rad shaman
also has a power that can cure (or, admitedly, cause) a mutation.
The rad shaman that I made was actually going to get by (never got to play
him) by curing mutations and hopefully getting "thanked" for it with food
and shelter.
They even say (they being pinnacle) in the book that rad shamans really
mess with doomsayers view of the world and the glow because they are not
"chosen" (i.e. mutated) but can still manipulate the glow, and sometimes
better than a doomsayer.
Hell the immunity (rads) power makes them totally immune to doomsayer
powers (now ain't that a kick in the teeth).

>     Other than the fact that Doomsayers would see the Rad Shamans as
> using a middle man, I really don't see all that much of a difference
> in how they view raw radiation.
>     And considering how there are more Cult of Doomists than Rad
> Shamans, I could easily see the rad shamans becoming a sub-sect.

See above.

 Theo McGuckin -
	"It's not worth it"