Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-32931283-20170828122858/@comment-366087-20170901230018

Personally, IMO, I don't think Cocteau understood or appreciated *EXACTLY* the true nature of Phoenix. I'm betting that had he chosen someone else, he'd have had better control of him and the situation. I'm thinking that Cocteau simply looked up "worst in the facility" and Simon was at the top and loaded him with Subliminal Programs to allow him ready acclimation to the technology.

Cocteau was not only the creator of his society but a clear *product* of its mindset too. Hubris was his downfall.

Sure he crossed a line, but in *games* just crossing a line once was often not enough to change an alignment, but to start a journey toward a change which need not have been completed… but that's games, at least as my old groups played it.