Cigar Trick

If you have a rough, tough, grizzled toon who likes to chomp a cigar as he or she goes into battle, here's a nice bit of chrome to liven things up: at the Tailor or Facemaker, choose "Animal Fury" for your toon's aura, and restrict it to "breath", making the breath a golden brown or similar smoky colour.

This will give you a true-puffin' stogie-fied animated smoker. I got a great kick out of giving this look to both my Comedian homage, Laughing Justice, and my were-canine Cadaver Dog.

The only drawback is that you can't have a more impressive aura, but cigar-chompers tend to be Naturals, anyway, and rarely sport bioplasm or hellfire.

The best part is that the smoke is non-addictive, nontoxic, and the Animal Pack which this trick requires is cheaper than a good stogie.

Enjoy!

This was the first thing I did with the animal pack for one of my characters pretty much the hour it went live. Of course you're not so much smoking as smoke-hyper-ventilating but it gets the point across.

Good trick, but cigar smoke is more a very pale blue-white. I tried this on my bots mastermind, and it works great. Good catch!

I'll admit, I clicked on this thread expecting to have to moderate it.

It's good to be proven wrong .

Heh. Yeah, not a mention of Monica. Good work OP.

And to think I thought I *didn't* need the animal pack... sigh...

Just before I posted, I thought for about a millisecond that "Cigar Trick" as a subject title might bring a swarm of Mods, but genuinely, if it had been info about making a sword or gun more interesting using an aura, it would have been called "Gun Trick". So the subject line could have easily been "Cigar Gimmick", or "Of Interest To Smokers". I suppose that since the Clinton-Lewinski debacle, the simple word "cigar" will always bring a "nudge nudge wink wink" in North America & elsewhere.

But, as Freud once said, after a long lecture to a class re: phallic projection etc., when he saw them all staring at the smoldering stogie in his hand:

"Sometimes, gentlemen, a cigar is just a cigar." ; )

PS: How about adding a "cigarette holder" costume part for languid masterminds and femme fatales?

Reading this convinced me to pony up for the animal pack. It turned out that you can't combine the cigar with the "gunslinger" mustache, so I ended up not using it, but the experiment with it still showed that it was a neat trick.

If I ever DO make a cigar-chewing character, I'll be glad to know that he can be a real "smoker". That was the biggest reason for never choosing the cigar in the past - it just sat there, never changing, in a most un-cigar-like fashion.