Thank you for the tips, Grif. And just to clarify to all of you: nationality, cultural heritage, ethnicity, religion, etc. are not things I'm big on. Like was said, they are a part of a character, not the first part. I felt it was somewhat assumed that the opposite was the case with me. It's really not. I just prefer to know what a person has experienced and believed before figuring out what they will believe next. Because what you believe first will determine wehat you will believe next. ;)

And that's especially true in AMRO. We may be dogs, but we're not identity-less soldiers. The Chrono Asylums themselves are proof of that. Our identity before joining (however briefly it may have been developed) has an effect on how we change in AMRO. I would even argue that our identity before joining is [b]crucial[/b] to being COVERT agents; put on the mask that is comfortable and rarely will you slip. 

That's my two-cents anyway. ^^
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Alchemic styles weren't around back when I was here, so I don't understand them 100&. I speculate that their hardcoded limits can't be overridden/bypassed with just clever interpretation of the wording. Trust me on that, can't tell you how many times I've driven Xodus to reword things so certain thresholds couldn't be reached/breached until later when a plot point made it possible. 

Not that I was intentionally trying to frustrate him >.<

Hmm... storing 'spells' huh? Nothing wrong with that, I reckon. Not a real difference between storing bullets in the magazine and waiting to 'trigger' them lol ;) 

Careful you don't develop a trigger-happy mood to spell-slinging... the insanity is real. ^^