[catabur]

Okay, lemme give my 2 cents.

Since I know there's a tad amount of bitterness from more recent events.

The Mask of the Night Lord is a mechanic that helps with certain RP scenarios. Someone could, for example, use illusions to turn themselves into a Spatial in the middle of town without one. All it does is offer a visual support for whatever you want to do.

You could, for example, use the vorpal rabbit sprite and say you're just a regular rabbit. Or the scarebear sprite and say you look like a giant teddy bear. Or just say you're wearing a crude costume of the monster you're imitating. There are so many different options you can use the Mask for instead of just giving up and saying, "WELL THIS DUMMY GOT ARRESTED FOR USING IT SO LET'S GET RID OF IT FOR EVERYONE".

What I will agree with is: putting in default sprites that can be used instead of only monsters. The pet kit's sprites seem decent enough for it.

(Although I believe Devy still might be a bit scarred from certain incidents in SL1.)