Wynternight:
Colour me interested. I don't recall the book saying the player was unable to pick their own type of evolved.
p. 118 of the second edition book, top of the grey box on the right. "Your players should NEVER be allowed to pick their powers. Instead, you should decide, in your capacity as Referee, what powers (if any) they have." Emphasis and parenthetical in the original.
Elsewhere (p.117) it says among adults over 20 about 90% are unaffected, the 10% die a horrible, gruesome way. In adults under 20 about 70% are unaffected. The rest undergo the change. So what's an "adult under 20"? Is that 18 and 19 year olds? Probably.
Just wondering if there is any interest not only in playing (and there seems to be some) and if someone playing would mind not being evolved. (I'm on the fence myself.)