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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mickerus" data-source="post: 878199" data-attributes="member: 11011">I'm still definitely interested in playing.As far as concept goes, I'm leaning hard on the idea of lifting a page or two from the idea of dipsomancy from Unknown Armies (another great occult-style game, by the way, if you aren't familiar with it); I'm thinking a fellow in his thirties, a talented musician and songwriter out of the American midwest with more than a few skeletons in his closet - assuming he ever stayed in one place long enough to have a closet.  He's in his mid-thirties, and a lifetime of failure and regret have driven him to alchohol.  Ten years ago he would have been a natural for the Cult of Ecstacy, but now his apparent bent for self-destruction makes that questionable.In non-Mage terms, think Tom Waits with a little bit of Jack Kerouac thrown in.In Mage terms, either Cult of Ecstacy or an Orphan.  For magic, I'm definitely planning on Time; his constant longing for the "old days" has actually manifested, and he often finds himself literally seeing the past, though not necessarily his own.  Other spheres... not so sure.  I'm certainly entertaining the notion of Entropy; both as a reflection of his grim view of the world and that intangible "drunk's luck".</blockquote>