Project Maho Info.

[palla]

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Project Maho

Quick Inf.:
- Maho means, “magic” in Japanese.
- The technology, politics, vehicles, and weapons are the same as modern day, circa 2000.
- Appearance wise, the magic people have has a tendency to affect their coloring, eyes and hair wise.
- The story takes place in a non descript town in the United States, called Rookter.

Story Sketch

Magic was in great abundance centuries ago, but started to disappear after people began to hide it, ignoring their gifts. There was rumor that there was a specific group of humans, non-magic people that spread this discord throughout the magic community.

In the year 2000, magic is making a rapid reoccurrence though people still hide it, but for good reason. An organization, Project Maho, seems to be picking off the people they deem to have the most possibility. Its front is a therapy group that helps people understand their powers. Only the magical community and a few humans have realized that those that enter the Project end up disappearing or supposedly committing suicide. A group of young people and older, by chance, band together to find out the true purpose of this organization and how to put an end to it before magic disappears again.

Magic

There are all kinds of magic that cover everything in the human life, from the mind to the elements to living things. Here is a list of -some- categories that your character can choose their type(s) of magic from:

Earth
Air
Fire
Water
Mind
Health/Body
Enchantment
Protection
Illusion/Glamour

Organization

The organization known as Project Maho is not truly the counseling group it convinces the public it is. In fact, it is a covert government branch that is designed to seek out those with unique “talents”. The people that work for the agency have no true magic of their own, but they do have special abilities, two of which are potentially lethal to a magical person. Each agent has the ability to “sniff” magic, to find it in people even if that person is unaware of it himself or herself. The other ability makes the agent into a sort of leech, able to drain the magic from a person. This is how the “clients” of Project Maho disappear. If proven to be useless, the agents will go to great length to mask their murders.

History

The history of the world is, for the most part, cosistant with what has happened in our world, with the exception of magic.

Before written history truly began, those with magic were held in the highest regard and respected. They were not treated like kings, but there were those that believed they were. Jealousy, probably. In any case, they started to murder mages at random. The mages began hiding their power because of the murders and because of the fear and anger that was spreading through the world. Shortly after the first recorded year, this mytical force disappeared all together. Before it vanished, there was a group that predicted that one day their power would return in greater strength and they would have their vengeance.

Player Roles

These categories are ones that your character will most likely fall under, though it is possible to have a completely unique “class”.

- Magic- a person with magical abilities, dormant or apparent.
- Non-Magic- a person with no magic whatsoever, even if they do have talents that “appear” to be mystical
- Agent- a employee of Project Maho with the lethal abilities that are the inborn traits of an agent
- NPC- any character, including pedestrians, heads of organizations, etc., which are needed as characters, but have no one person controlling them.

Goal(s)

The central goal of the story is to discover Project Maho's purpose, but it is also an instinct in those with magic to seek vengeance against those that allienated them in the first place. It is up to those who control the mage characters as to whether they will be malevolent toward non-mages and seek vengeace, or whether they are belevolent and will protect the non mages from those that would kill them.

Sample Character Profile
Name: (original)
Alias: (if applicable)
Sex: (male/female)
Age: (13-50 yr.)
Eye Color: (any)
Hair Color/Style: (any/optional)
Height: (4’11”-7’0”)
Body Build: (thin, muscular, etc.)
Profession: (job)
Specialty: (special skill)
Other Talents: (optional)
Magic: (if applicable, type of magic)
Spells: (if applicable, personal spells used most often)
Weapons: (if applicable)
Bio: (history)
Pros: (good things)
Cons: (bad things)

[palla]

Palla's Character

Name: Cailean Moriartis
Alias: Caycee
Sex: Female
Age: 23 yr.
Eye Color: Honey gold
Hair Color/Style: Brown/shoulder length, straight
Height: 5’2”
Body Build: Thin, little muscle but strong
Profession: Raises snakes for traders/other breeders
Specialty: Affinity with animals
Other Talents: Linguistics (Spanish, French & modern slang)
Magic: Telepathy/telekinesis, illusion/glamour
Spells: N/A
Weapons:
- 9-mm LadySmith
Bio:

Cailean, a.k.a. Caycee, was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. She has one brother, a mother, and a father. Her mother, currently, is living somewhere with Cailean’s uncle whom she ran away with. Cailean’s father lives with his sister in Mobile with Cailean’s younger brother. They all left Cailean the small family house, which she now uses to run her business, Charmers.

Cailean has been breeding snakes since she was a young teenager. They respond well to her and she has a knack for picking good pairings. She established this business when she turned nineteen.

Project Maho has noticed her through the publicity drawn to her names. They noticed her specialty handling dangerous animals and her unique eyes. They have not yet made a large move toward her, though they have sent her letters requesting her presence at their headquarters.

Pros:
- High charisma
- Smart (helps her to learn new languages quickly)
Cons:
- Prefers to be alone
- Sharp tongue

[palla]

Tassatul's Character

Name: Adam Tlantoc
Alias(MahoCodename): Tass
Sex: male
Age: (17)
Eye Color: blue on blue(where normally white is blue, like Fremen)
Hair Color/Style: Shoulder length, Black
Height: about 6 foot
Body Build: medium, not to strong, physically fit
Profession: normal kid, soon to be Agent
Specialty: inborn Magical detection
Other Talents: ability for Agent powers
Magic: n/a
Spells: n/a
Weapons: small handgun, standard for Agents
Bio: Tass is just a normal kid for now. His only differences are odd blue-on-blue eyes, and an innate ability to know if someone has the potential for magic

Pros: intelligent, active, inquisitive
Cons: arrogant

[palla]

Cobra's Character

Name: Will
Sex: Male
Age: 19
Eye Color: Blue
Hair Color/Style: Brown, spikey
Height: Normal
Body Build: Thin and very muscular
Profession: Fugitive
Specialty: Getting out of ANYTHING alive, through sheer luck
Other Talents: Excelent marksmen
Magic: Some rumors say he is a mage, other disagree
Spells: Unknown, If any.
Weapons: A big pistol. Some rumors say a rifle.

Bio: A fugitive on the run from more people then can be counted. Maho, the police, forigen governments, bounty hunters, vigilantes, vengeful rivals, people he dosn't even know... Everybody wants to get their hands on him. Good luck... they'll need it.

They say that he is not human. That he should not be among the living. That, no matter what happens, no matter how bad the odds are, no matter what the cirumstances are, he will come out on top. And, they say he can kill you in an instant. That even so much as a glare can put you down. This particular rumor has earned him his nickname, "The Cobra". They say that he travels from town to town, and in his wake, there is nothing but destruction and death, and any who meet him are bound for death. They say he is an evil, ruthless man, with no regard for human life. They also say that if you catch him, about a million people will pay you big bucks to hand him over... dead or alive.

What no-one actually knows:
(In actuality... He's just a normal, happy guy. Optimistic in nature, he always trys to solve his problems with words, or other non-violent solutions. Although, he is no pushover, and if pressed, he is a fighter like no other. However, it is true that his luck is something else. Good or bad... that's debatable. He always seems to, accidently, get in to the worst kinds of trouble... and that is why everyone is after him. And, he always seems to get out of this trouble unscathed... by astronmically impossable odds...)

Pros: Unbelieveably lucky...
Cons: When he gets in trouble, he gets in trouble...

[palla]

Bug Hunter's Character

Name: Tanyu Onikage (this is the 5th version and is similar to the GTA version)
Alias: “The Blade”
Sex: Male
Age: 22
Eye Color: Dark Brown
Hair Color/Style: Black (spiky)
Height: 5’ 10”
Body Build: Muscular, but not beefy
Profession: Bounty Hunter
Specialty: Getting his pay
Other Talents: Close combat, blades, marksmanship, and weapons; able to down a full mug of beer in one gulp
Magic: N/A
Spells: N/A

Weapons:
- Kitana
- Explosives
- Customized Twin Pistols
- Concealed Wrist blades
- Ankle Knife
- Incapacitation Devices (like the halo or magnetic cuffs; all for safe capture of bounties that are needed alive)
- Experimental Laser Rifle (stolen from a lab; but he didn’t steal it even though he has it now; requires a short recharge time before each shot but contains power cells that will last 300 years)

Other Equipment:
- Black bullet proof trenchcoat (conceals weapons and is quite fashionable in this line of work)
- Body armor
- Leather gloves (the cool kind that Predator has)
Sunglasses (for the style)
Steel toed boots

Bio: Tanyu is a fairly young bounty hunter who works for the highest bidder. He’s been known to take jobs as a mercenary, a soldier, and even as a bodyguard. But more popularly, his profession calls upon hunting down criminals (at least, thought to be criminals) and bringing them in, dead or alive (depending on the rules for the reward). He's a rookie by his group's standards; he's been in the profession for only 5 years. Before then, he was in light military training as a child. He also has a tendency to not take things seriously and is a bit carefree at times. However, when appropriate he does get serious. And even then, Tanyu still can’t resist a good drink. Unfortunately, he gets a bit goofy when he gets drunk. He also got the name "The Blade" for being known to use and his ability with a kitana sword, which he keeps hidden on the inside back of his trenchcoat.

He’s part of a small underground organization with other hunters. Its not exactly secret... like, people in high places know its there, but they don’t do anything to get rid of them. In fact, they rather like hiring them because they're so good at their work. However, it's rare to see more than one working together on jobs. At the present time, Tanyu's organization is mostly taking jobs from the Project Maho organization since they’re currently offering high bounties on people with “talents”. They don’t know that Project Maho are doing bad stuff, they just tell them they're criminals with magic powers. But what do they care, they're just bounties to the hunters. So sometimes you can see Tanyu's people working in accordance with agents. The score count for Tanyu is 5 right now, two of them being "talented", but his co-workers (who’ve been at this much longer, and are better) have taken in several more, normal and "talented". During one capture of a magic user, who stole a bunch of experimental items from a Project Maho lab, he decided to keep an experimental laser rifle the guy stole. Curiously enough, no one seems to miss it.

Pros:
- Skills in combat and weapons
- Very professional
- Mostly Carefree

Cons:
- Not as good as his co-workers
- Loves a good drink (gets drunk)
- Works for the highest bidder (could work for the bad guys)
- Still a rookie (by the others' standards)
- Carefree

[palla]

Details About Maho

Maho is organized within a small appearing building, roughly five stories high. It has many "doctors" offices within its walls, to maintain the facade of a physchiatrists' office. However, in the central area, there is an elevator shaft leading down underground. It looks like a large cavern, like Menzoberranzen (sp?) only on a little bit of a smaller scale. The layout is mainly "experiment" rooms with a large central cavern that is glass enclosed (special bulletproof glass). This area serves as a sort of prision, where the mages can look out and see the torture that happens to others, as well as the ways to freedom which they cannot reach. The glass, in addition to being bulletproof, has been reinforced with, well, no one knows, but no mage has been able to use their talents top break it. It is suspected that a traitor mage used a charm to protect the glass from penetration.

Maho Gadgets

One gadget that the Maho agents are quite proud of are Halos (like the ones from Minority Report). They put this one on the mages that are kept within the prision so that, should there come a time when a mage would be able to break the glass, then their powers are lessened and the agents would be able to restrain them before the prision shattered.

[palla]

Name: Lucifer Deis
Alias: “Silver”
Sex: Male
Age: 22
Eye Color: Violet
Hair Color: Silver, medium length
Height (and weight): 6’1”, 192lbs
Body Build: toned, albeit thin- and somewhat lanky
Profession: freelance artist/musician (guitarist)
Special Skill: Astral Projection, Post-cognition
Other Talents: artistically and musically inclined
Magic: Psychokinesis (creating blasts of psychic energy), Air elemental magic
Spells: commonly sends out- Gale Blades (blades of wind) and Forces (psychic pushes)
Weapons: N/A -knows some martial arts, and how to use a katana only if absolutely necessary- other than that he’s wholly dependent on his magical skills

Bio:

In the files of Project Maho under “High-Priority,” lie his name: Lucifer Deis. A mysterious anomaly to the organization, he appears at random and assists mages who he comes across. Thanks to that meddling, Lucifer had cost the organization a great number of “clients.” His extensive powers have made him a prime target for the group and its’ agents...who have yet to succeed in capturing him.

Born in Edinburgh, UK- raised for nine years in London and two years in Kyoto, Japan- he was taken to Rookter at the age of twelve. His parents were two extensively powerful mages, who brought him up to be fully aware of his “gift.” In Edinburgh and London, he learned of his ancestry, in Japan, he learned to bring forth his latent powers and harness them. Constantly moving, the young Lucifer became aware that his parents were running from something...and whatever it was...he was being prepared for it.

Everything then came together on his thirteenth birthday...when Maho came down upon his parents. In a confrontation that still haunts his memories...he lost both his parents on that same day, not before they got him to safety. Taking all he had learned about the past in England, he put all the pieces together, and realized what it was that he was born into.

Since that time, Lucifer did what he could to assist the mages of Rookter...and earned the name of “Silver” from his attack pattern: a silver flash sweeps in front of the agents and blows them all away in another silver flash (the visual effect of the Gale Blades spell).

A modern day knight, and gentleman best describe him; living by strict codes of conduct and honor. Lucifer spends his days doing what he can to try and fulfill the role his parents left him, all while taking moments to draw pictures and strum on his guitar.

Pros:
+ Exceedingly powerful magic ability
+ When he makes an ally, he’ll defend him/her to the death
Cons:
- His codes of honor can restrict him
- Memories are a weak spot

[BugHunter]

this old dust collector should also be in the rpg Ideas board

[copyKatt]

or the archives... whatddya think?

[Cobra5]

Archives.