Re: The 198


Dan McEwen wrote:
> "rja.carnegie@xxxxxxxxxx" <rja.carnegie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
> news:1137068259.168269.163030@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
>
> >> >
> >> >Like Jazz, whose stated "power" is that he has blue skin?
> >> >
> >> You know that this means that the 198 handbook now must back up the
> >> 'mutant gene = mutant' thing. Otherwise the loads of mutants who lost
> >> their power but kept their, for example, coloured skin would have to
> >> be included.
> >
> > I'm not sure just what you're saying, but obviously you can keep a
> > visible skin colour if you lose your mutation - consider a guy who
> > gets tattooed all over. You could have a mutation that's equivalent
> > to a tattoo. On the other hand, if your mutation affects the surface
> > of your skin, it'll wear off.
>
> Okay, fine, but how do you differentiate between Jazz (still a mutant
> but with no "power" other than blue skin) and an ex-mutant whose skin
> didn't revert to a normal skin tone.

As I posted nearby, only one of these shows up on a handheld
mutant-meter.

Actually, Nightcrawler notwithstanding, it /is/ a lousy power. Unless
it means that tattoos /don't/ show on you. Even then... but it might
have uses. They'd go crazy trying to number you at the Weapon X death
camp, anyway. (But I don't suppose they'd try for long.)

Suppose I'm White but my mutation is I look Black, or vice versa...

.

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