Fish's modus operandi is to push his luck until the GM and his fellow players make him stop. I've also known/been around him long enough to believe that he's actually a fairly intelligent human being, rather than a troll or internet-dumbass, but still. I don't particularly expect you guys to deliberately allow yourselves to become injured, but that's what I'm here for.
Fish, I believe you need to re-research the definition of powergaming, because you don't seem to know the meaning of the term, and it's not making this more fun for anyone else.
I'm also feeling inclined to let Hache pull his thing with the bits of souls, that being a particular skill of his kind, since it sounds interesting.
/nonsequitur Incidentally, I have just eaten an "Original Extra-Strong Menthol Cough Lozenge" made by a company "Est. 1865". I can feel it doing my respiratory passages a world of... Something. Also, my teeth are tingling. If I do not reappear, assume I have succumbed to menthol poisoning.
...No GMing while high on cough lozenges, Amp. ;P
As for powergaming:
Point taken, I'll try to stop. Although in this case, ?Dustan? has just encountered what he thinks is a simple system (see prior arguspam) that very much isn't.
And yes, I did actually look it up.
@Dustan:
It seemed clear, to me, that you were trying to make Spark malfunction via magic taint, and the soulsucking was an incidental effect of a telepathic bond. It was not clear that the intent was to soulsuck as a primary effect.
And I haven't had any real opportunity, save maybe the troglodytes, to take injuries prior to Amp giving me injuries. I narrated my original entry rather poorly, and took the logical action when faced with a berserker horde but was expecting some sort of mini-fight in between. Amp kinda just skipped that.
==Re: No you can't hack my AI==
And yes, I'm bloody well protecting what amounts to a magic AI with magic protection from magic interference. You went straight for the most defended part, for crying out loud. Right straight for the part that I'd secure more, as a mage and as a programmer type. I mean seriously. A weighted net would probably have worked better, especially as he would have no height advantage. Although, if we hadn't had this argument he probably would have...Eh...Maybe. I dunno. Definitely would have slowed him down more. But at this point it's purely hypothetical because it didn't happen, and thus is kinda moot.
Heck, Murdoc seems to be nullifying the point of this entire debate with one of his own.
FWIW, I would be willing to have a sort of magic virus that kicks in after a bit, but I really don't think it's reasonable that under chase scene conditions, at first sight of anything computerlike, to have someone be able to hack a computer.