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[Wwolin]

M.A.G.U.S. Project

Magical Assholes Getting Us Saved

It's the beginning of the largest revolution in human history since the advent of language, and it's all because of one man. Steven Thaddeus Ranger, the man who brought magic into the spotlight. Sure, people had used it for millenia in various forms, from charms to books to chants, but it was Ranger who brought magic from the cults to the civilized world. Like any revolution though, this one is gonna take some time to catch on, and 'modern' technology is still frequently used, even as upper class citizens flaunt new trinkets such as wands, flying rings, and even familiars. However, magic isn't completely stable. People are trying their hardest, but it still sometimes goes wrong, often with cataclysmic results. And nobody (or at least nobody respected within the magic and scientific communities) has ever managed to infuse magic properties into a living being...

Until today

Unbeknownst to all but a select few, the M.A.G.U.S. Corporation (Magical Arms, General Utilities, and Services), headed by Steven Ranger himself, has been working on a new project. Magical Mercenaries. Top secret research has been done on insects and even a few rodents, but today is the day they move from maggots and mice to men. You are one of these new test subjects, having gone through rigorous conditioning to the point where you seem practically superhuman, even without magic. With it, you'll practically be a god, except for one drawback: You will be the property of the M.A.G.U.S. Corporation. Depending on who the highest bidder is, you will be required to use your powers for good, for evil, or most likely of all, for someone's personal gain.

With a crackling noise, the cassette-player in the room shuts off, as a man wearing a brown suit enters through a door to your left.

"Sorry, sorry, that one was completely my bad. I put the wrong cassette in. You'd think that the best engineers money can buy would at least label their cassettes... Or, here's an idea: WHY DON'T THEY DO SOMETHING WITH MAGIC, OR AT LEAST USE 'MODERN' TECHNOLOGY THAT DIDN'T DIE OFF IN THE GOD DAMNED NINETEEN-NINETIES!"

You see a group of embarrassed looking men and women slink away to a corner of the room as the brown-suited man calms himself down and clears his throat.

"Sorry about that outburst; it's just that the newest version of that recording tries to pass the whole 'M.A.G.U.S. owns your souls' thing off as a chance to 'visit interesting places and meet interesting people in the name of science'. Now, I'm not saying that we don't own your souls, but it's really not all that bad. You see, unlike my brother Stan and his damn Looter's Delight project, we don't actually want you to die. But, knowing the competence of these engineers here, some of you will probably die anyways, regardless of whether we want you to or not. But hey, knowing the naturally volatile nature of magic, at least you'll go out with one hell of a bang! Now, enough with the doom and gloom! Who wants some magic powers? Just fill out this little form, and you'll be well on your way."

With that, the man hands each of you the following set of papers:

Spoiler: M.A.G.U.S. Necessary Information (click to show/hide)

Name: When you become famous, people need to know what to call you. Also helps us write obituaries.
Age: After a recent magical mishap which turned an entire preschool into perfect replicas of Charlie Sheen, we are required to ask for your age before experimentation. We are also required to ask you to stay far, far away from cocaine and other shady drugs.
Description: Because kids these days love this kind of stuff, everything you do will be on national television! But because a recent lawsuit has forced us to provide for the children blinded by our faulty magic technology, we need a description of your appearance that can be read to them.
Former Occupation: No matter what the painkillers during the process of magical infusion tell you, you weren't always a magical mercenary.
Stats: Nothing special here. Use pluses, blanks, or minuses, with a + being a plus one bonus in a stat, a - being minus one, and a blank being neutral. Each plus must be accompanied by a minus somewhere else, and you can only have up to + or - 2 in each stat.
Strength: Your physical strength, which affects your melee damage and aptitude for hard labor
Aim: Your accuracy, which affects both melee and ranged accuracy, ranged damage, as well as your ability to perceive things that others might miss
Endurance: Your ability to withstand damage, which affects your defense rolls, as well as your ability to cope with pain
Affinity: Your ability to use magic, which affects... well, your ability to use magic
Agility: Your ability to move quickly, which affects dodging and initiative, as well as tasks that require running
Training: Minuses in this skill will not affect anything, so they're almost like free points. However, every + in this skill will add +2 to rolls involving your specific talent from your former occupation. An ex-mechanic might have a bonus to working with machinery, a girl scout could have one to selling things... it's pretty open-ended, and keeps things interesting.
Major Element: One element that you will have a +2 bonus to manipulating. Please refer to the Great Big List of Elements for this.
Minor Elements: Two more elements that you are capable of manipulating, but without any sort of bonus.
Weapon of Choice: For when magic just won't cut it. In this fine day and age, all ranged weapons produce their own ammunition from latent magic just lying around, so running out of ammo is never an issue. Feel free to be creative; here at M.A.G.U.S. we can supply you with anything you can imagine and then some.

Spoiler: Great Big List of Elements (click to show/hide)

Heat
Cold
Stone
Dirt/Sand
Pressure
Metal
Water
Wood
Hormones
Thought
Time
Space
Light
Darkness
Lightning
Acid
Plastics
Vibrations
Flesh
Bone
Hair
Blood
Raw Magic
Animals
Plants
Ghosts
Animation/Reanimation
Mass
Volume
Friction
Creation of Matter
Destruction of Matter
Force
Glass
Anything that you think up and I approve of

"Come on, my grandma can write faster than you, and my grandma lost both of her hands in an accident with a magic-powered refrigerator! Here, I'll turn it into a competition for you: The first six of you to fill those out get to be the first ones in action! Now what are you waiting for? Every second you spend glaring at me is a second that you could be writing!"

[Wwolin]

Current Players

Spoiler: Jason Earl Trent (click to show/hide)

Age: 16
Description: A high school student, recently orphaned in a tragic magical accident that he likes to ignore people asking about. He has narrow wine-violet eyes and dark-colored hair. He is short and slender, with tanned skin and a cheap gray suit with a green tie and hat. Jason's mostly in this to be "cool," and ideally to live.
Former Occupation: Student

Stats:
Stregth +
Aim 0
Endurance -
Affinity 0
Ailigy ++
Training --

Major Element: Animals
Minor Elements: Animation, Hormones
Weapon of Choice: Kukuris

Current Weapon: M.A.G.U.S. Veterinizer - A long, kukuri-shaped blade originally meant to perform surgery on moving animals at big-game reserves. The blade amplifies one's strength in order to cut through thick hide and bends reality slightly in order to cut at a distance. It was discontinued as a veterinary tool after the anesthesia dripping from the blade was found to induce blindness.Can serve as both a melee, short, and medium ranged weapon. +1 to strength rolls. 1/6 chance to cause blindness on attack.

Status: Fine

Items: None

Spoiler: Rand McNally (click to show/hide)

Age: 21
Description:Rand is a rather imposing looking wizard despite his physical weakness, he stands six feet and four inches tall with soulless grey eyes, his pale white skin and long brown hair are hidden under the hood of a battle robe adorned with blackened metal plates covered in runes made of pure lightning that seem to distort the very fabric of reality around them.
Former Occupation: Amateur Ghost Hunter

Stats:
Strength: -2
Aim: +1
Endurance: -1
Affinity: +2
Agility: +2
Training: -2

Major Element: Lightning
Minor Elements: Space, Time
Weapon of Choice: Trans-dimensional Extirpation Rifle

Current Weapon: M.A.G.U.S. Ectoranger - A sniper rifle that would be sleek and black, if it weren't for it being covered in more magical graffiti than the average wall in Detroit. Its long barrel and stability allow it to hit targets with pinpoint accuracy at almost any range, and the shots that it fires exist across all dimensions, making it extremely difficult to dodge. Effective from medium to absurd range. +1 to aim rolls. Missed shots can be re-rolled once.

Status: Shot left thigh. -1 agi

Items: Grilled Cheese Sandwich

Spoiler: Yafnag Abrezzi (click to show/hide)

Age: 31 Z-cycles
Description: A rugged hobo with a fedora shoddily cut into a wizard hat and stitched together with... something best left unidentified. Smells faintly of rat blood whiskey.
Former Occupation: Professional Squatter/Odd Jobs Technician/Demon Cultist

Stats:
Strength: -
Aim:
Endurance: +
Affinity: ++
Agility: -
Training: -

Major Element: Raw magic
Minor Elements: Blood, Thought
Weapon of Choice: Rat launcher

Current Weapon: M.A.G.U.S. Clonecannon - A shotgun-like weapon created to mass produce labrats, which have become an endangered species in this wonderful era of experimentation. Due to a minor magical error, the rats produced by it are almost always on fire, although a recent modification to correct this has given it the ability to fire frozen rats as well. Short to medium range weapon. Can switch between fire and ice modes. 1/6 chance to burn or freeze the target on attack, depending on the mode.

Status: Fine

Items: Grilled Cheese Sandwich, Charged Bloodcrystal Orb

Spoiler: Sir Ronove Fitz (click to show/hide)

Age: 1000+
Description: A ridiculously fancy butler that totally isn't from the Umineko series. He works with his savvy and somewhat slutty enchantress Beatoriche-samasan-obii-wan-koro-ni the zinc witch. Ronove is famous for the 'small bomb' incident at a local bank and has been pushed into the fragment of outcastery for further judgement. However, the clever and despicable Sir Ronove Fitz started practicing magic instead of going to court. He obtained the power to make Really Annoying Ass Barriers(tm) and his only weakness is brass knuckles. His arch nemesis Crinzo wants to get his filthy hands on the great Beatoriche's delicious and juicy zinc powers, so Sir Ronove Fitz 'became one' with the infinite sorcerer Rattler through the use of his rather lengthy display of red and blue 'rods'. Now he can protect the great Beatoriche, and de-feet the filthy Crinzo FOREVER.
Former Occupation: The great Sir Ronove Fitz has devoted his life to the strict art of Butlery ever since he was a baby.

Stats:
Strength: -- Butlers need not worry of their physical powers.
Aim: + Plate throwery is a standard trait of the talented butler.
Endurance: - Butlers do not bother with fancy armor, but care more about their appearance.
Affinity: ++ Strong barriers are needed to keep out robbers and various cheesemongers.
Agility: + Meals need to get to their designated locations quickly!
Training: -- Ronove is already a butler for his entire life, so no need for this.

Major Element: Force
Minor Elements: Animation/Reanimation, Blood
Weapon of Choice: Legendary Serving Cart(tm) (Launches Food at the bad guys to poison and damage them.)

Current Weapon: M.A.G.U.S. Battlebutler - A serving cart made for bodyguards, which provides delicious meals for clients while also functioning as a shield. An interesting byproduct from the magically enhanced cooking-process is hot milk, which is launched from the front of the cart to scald enemies while putting them to sleep. Short to medium range. Can produce food to heal allies. +1 to endurance rolls. 1/6 chance to induce sleep on attack.

Status: Barrier (1 turn remaining) +2 to endurance rolls, deflects endured ranged attacks.

Items: Grilled Cheese Sandwich

Spoiler: Arnold Viplash (click to show/hide)

Age: 22
Description:Arnold was the lead singer in a heavy metal band, he's dressed in all black, with large spiked wrist bands and hair past his waist.
Former Occupation: Lead Singer in a heavy metal band

Stats:
Strength: -2
Aim: +1
Endurance:
Affinity: +1
Agility: -1
Training:+1 to screaming

Major Element: Hair
Minor Elements: Vibrations(sound) and Metal
Weapon of Choice: Guitar and amp, which fires supersonic blasts of sound.

Current Weapon: M.A.G.U.S. Magmacaster - Made in response to the growing demand for magical musical weapons, this electric guitar launches extremely powerful soundwaves which vibrate quickly enough to cause burns. While the heat produced shouldn't be enough to cause structural damage to anything other than wood, the heavy magic radiating off of the soundwaves reacts extremely violently with metal, creating temperatures of well over 2,000 degrees Celsius, giving the weapon its distinctive name. Melee to short range. 1/3 chance to burn on attack. Double damage against metals.

Status: Fine

Items: Grilled Cheese Sandwich, Gigantic Hair-Arm

Spoiler: Murphy Albello (click to show/hide)

Age: 57
Description: A Sunglass-wearing, Black-Suit-Wearing, Morgan Freeman-esque Black Man who is not as frail as you'd expect.
Former Occupation: Jazz Saxophonist

Stats:
Strength: -
Aim: +
Endurance: --
Affinity: +
Agility:
Training: +

Major Element: Creation of Matter
Minor Elements: Wood and Vibrations
Weapon of Choice: A JUPITER M.A.G.U.S. brand Saxophone, used to craft objects from materials, kinda like how a charmer hypnotizes a snake. The pieces float up, and slowly form together. Think LEGO blocks. PLUS, the reeds are sharpened to allow for tossing like knifes, and are extendible for use at close range.

Current Weapon: M.A.G.U.S. Masterphone - Created by M.A.G.U.S. and made popular by the great saxophonist and counter-terrorist Zergio Makky, this saxophone was one of the key factors that allowed M.A.G.U.S. to dominate the musical weapons industry. The player of this instrument is able to move extremely heavy objects with their mind as long as they are playing, and the soundwaves produced by it are capable of chilling objects to the core; a feature added by Makky himself for the sole purpose of making 'cool' puns. Melee to short range. Capable of manipulating objects up to 600 lbs at up to medium range. 1/6 chance to freeze on attack.

Status: Fine

Items: Grilled Cheese Sandwich

Waitlisting

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Dead

None... yet

[Noodlerex]

*IN*

sheet up soon

[GreatWyrmGold]

Spoiler: Jason Earl Trent (click to show/hide)

Age: 16
Description: A high school student, recently orphaned in a tragic magical accident that he likes to ignore people asking about. He has narrow wine-violet eyes and dark-colored hair. He is short and slender, with tanned skin and a cheap gray suit with a green tie and hat. Jason's mostly in this to be "cool," and ideally to live.
Former Occupation: Student

Stats:
Stregth +
Aim 0
Endurance -
Affinity 0
Ailigy ++
Training --

Major Element: Animals
Minor Elements: Animation, Hormones
Weapon of Choice: Kukuris

Whoo, first! I need sleep!

[Unholy_Pariah]

Name: Rand McNally
Age: 21
Description:Rand is a rather imposing looking wizard despite his physical weakness, he stands six feet and four inches tall with soulless grey eyes, his pale white skin and long brown hair are hidden under the hood of a battle robe adorned with blackened metal plates covered in runes made of pure lightning that seem to distort the very fabric of reality around them.
Former Occupation: Amateur Ghost Hunter
Stats:
Strength: -2
Aim: +1
Endurance: -1
Affinity: +2
Agility: +2
Training: -2
Major Element: Lightning
Minor Elements: Space, Time
Weapon of Choice: Trans-dimensional Extirpation Rifle
well i never managed to get a mage up and running in looters delight so lets get one in here shall we

Edit: had to change minor elements... interstellar travel is just too tempting.

[LordSlowpoke]

Spoiler: Yafnag Abrezzi (click to show/hide)

Name: Yafnag Abrezzi
Age: 31 Z-cycles
Description: A rugged hobo with a fedora shoddily cut into a wizard hat and stitched together with... something best left unidentified. Smells faintly of rat blood whiskey.
Former Occupation: Professional Squatter/Odd Jobs Technician/Demon Cultist
Stats:
Strength: -
Aim:
Endurance: +
Affinity: ++
Agility: -
Training: -
Major Element: Raw magic
Minor Elements: Blood, thought
Weapon of Choice: Rat launcher

alright done

[stefmor90]

Name: Sir Renove Fitz
Age: 1000+
Description: A ridiculously fancy butler that totally isn't from the Umineko series. He works with his savvy and somewhat slutty enchantress Beatoriche-samasan-obii-wan-koro-ni the zinc witch. Ronove is famous for the 'small bomb' incident at a local bank and has been pushed into the fragment of outcastery for further judgement. However, the clever and despicable Sir Ronove Fitz started practicing magic instead of going to court. He obtained the power to make Really Annoying Ass Barriers(tm) and his only weakness is brass knuckles. His arch nemesis Crinzo wants to get his filthy hands on the great Beatoriche's delicious and juicy zinc powers, so Sir Ronove Fitz 'became one' with the infinite sorcerer Rattler through the use of his rather lengthy display of red and blue 'rods'. Now he can protect the great Beatoriche, and de-feet the filthy Crinzo FOREVER.
Former Occupation: The great Sir Ronove Fitz has devoted his life to the strict art of Butlery ever since he was a baby.

Stats:
Strength: -- Butlers need not worry of their physical powers.
Aim: ++ Plate throwery is a standard trait of the talented butler.
Endurance: - Butlers do not bother with fancy armor, but care more about their appearance.
Affinity: ++ Strong barriers are needed to keep out robbers and various cheesemongers.
Agility: + Meals need to get to their designated locations quickly!
Training: -- Ronove is already a butler for his entire life, so no need for this.

Elements:
Major: Force
Minor1: Animation/Reanimation
Minor2: Blood

Weapon of Choice: Legendary Serving Cart(tm) (Launches Food at the bad guys to poison and damage them.)

[Noodlerex]

Name: Arnold Viplash
Age: 22
Description:Arnold was the lead singer in a heavy metal band, he's dressed in all black, with large spiked wrist bands and hair past his waist.
Former Occupation: Lead Singer in a heavy metal band
Stats:
Strength: -2
Aim: +1
Endurance:
Affinity: +1
Agility: -1
Training:+1 to screaming
Major Element: Hair
Minor Elements: Vibrations(sound) and Metal
Weapon of Choice: Guitar and amp, which fires supersonic blasts of sound.

[Greenstarfanatic]

IIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNN.

SHEET IN THE MORNING.
OR NOW.

 Name: Murphy Albello
 Age: 57
 Description: A Sunglass-wearing, Black-Suit-Wearing, Morgan Freeman-esque Black Man who is not as frail as you'd expect.
Former Occupation: Jazz Saxophonist
Stats:
Strength: -
Aim: +
Endurance: --
Affinity: +
Agility:
Training: +
Major Element: Creation of Matter
Minor Elements: Wood and Vibrations
Weapon of Choice: A JUPITER brand Saxophone, used to craft objects from materials, kinda like how a charmer hypnotizes a snake. The pieces float up, and slowly form together. Think LEGO blocks. PLUS, the reeds are sharpened to allow for tossing like knifes, and are extendible for use at close range.

[Unholy_Pariah]

((oh god... i almost cannot resist abusing this magic system... by allowing us to pick both time and space we can manipulate the 11th dimension and create compressed space-time bubbles then utilize said bubbles for FTL travel...

interstellar exploration anyone?))

[kj1225]

Name: Kyle Johnson
Age: 21
Description: A tall lanky man with long greasy brown hair. His eyes are very dark brown which makes it disconcerting to look him in the eyes.
Former Occupation:  Hacker for a PMC
Strength: -2
Aim: -
Endurance: -
Affinity: +2
Agility: +
Training: +
Major Element: Blood
Minor Elements: Raw magic, Mass
Weapon of Choice: A device that is latched to the wrist capable of firing high frequency sound waves at a target.

[Remalle]

Spoiler: Liz Matheson (click to show/hide)

Name: Elizabeth "Liz" Matheson
Age: 23
Description: A shy, somewhat gangly young woman.  Her blonde hair reaches just to her shoulders, and her blue eyes are a little too large.  A childhood electrical accident left her with burn scars all along her right arm and robbed her of her left leg below the knee, requiring the use of a prosthetic.
Former Occupation: Student
Stats:
Strength: -
Aim: +
Endurance: -
Affinity: +
Agility: +
Training: -
Major Element: Lightning
Minor Elements: Pressure, Water
Weapon of Choice: Wrist-mounted flamethrowers

[Xantalos]

Name: Zarlan the Australopithicus
Gender: Male
Age: 2 million years
Description: An apelike being about 4 feet tall, with wiry black hair growing all over it's body. Has green eyes and inexplicably jelled hair.
Former Occupation: Cheiftan/Negotiator Guy (CHA)
STR: --
END: +
AFF: ++
AGI:
TRN: --
AIM: +
Major Element: Force (Telekenisis basically)
Minor Elements: Creation of matter, Space
Weapon of Choice: Crusher Cannon. Think a gun that causes it's target to implode by increasing the mass of the target in certain places until it collapses in on itself.

[Errol]

LET'S GO JUSTIIIN

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Aria
Age: 36
Description: Even in today's age of magic, a certain few people still try to advance the cause of technology. Science marches on, as they say, undeterred by any other happenstances - because of people who try and do what they can. Because when there's knowledge to be gained, a true scientist will stop at nothing to reach her goal.
Aria has fiery, long red hair, dark gray eyes and wears the obligatory labcoat (still clean) over a "SCIENCE!" -t-shirt and jeans. There's several pens and a pair of sunglasses in one of the pockets. Liberal abuse of time magic and scientific supplements has left her looking perhaps half her age. Her baseline mood is "giddy".
Former Occupation: MAD SCIENTIST
Strength: --
Aim: +
Endurance: --
Affinity: +
Agility:
Training: ++
Major Element: Time
Minor Elements: Lightning, Creation (of matter)
Weapon of Choice: Throwing Knifes

[scapheap]

Ready

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Amy Misty
Age: 27
Description: Red hair in a ponytail and green eyed woman. About 5'10", sight build and flat chested. Her clothes tend to be as tight as possible to allow her to run fast.
Former Occupation: Courier

Stats:
Strength: --
Aim: ++
Endurance: --
Affinity: ++
Agility: ++
Training: --

Major Element: Light
Minor Elements: Force and Air
Weapon of Choice: Bow and arrows