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It's in the rogue's gallery now.
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Mage: The Awakening - OOC Planning Thread
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Festy_Dog
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Sorry, I have a bad habit of sometimes writing backgrounds that are a tad on the long side. 
Taking the conversation and stuff out of it shortens it by a fair bit.
[sblock=Summarised Background]
Kevin is a fairly generic male of anglo-celtic descent, easy on the eyes but totally forgettable. Light brown hair, short and often styled, ginger facial hair and dull blue eyes often covered by a pair of round sunglasses. His taste in clothes favours conservative but stylish clothing in earthy tones. His build is resoundingly average, but through family genetics he is graced by a fairly nice figure without the need for much exercise. While he never actually spent much time in Canada, Kevin is told that he has a Canadian accent. Kevin has one distinctive feature, but it isn't readily visible while he is fully clothed. It is a large tattoo that takes up the majority of his back. It is a four-armed crucifix, with the arms intersecting to make an 'x'. Intricate and small phrases in Atlantean are written around it. While it looks religious and arcane, in truth it is little more than a tattoo he copied out of a favourite video game and took some liberties with in adding Atlantean text. He was inspired to get it shortly after his Awakening and enjoys explaining it to anyone who may see it and are curious about its nature.
Kevin's father was Australian, and his mother was American. They met in the course of their work, as they both had diplomatic roles for their respective governments. Events took their course and Kevin was born in Canberra, Australia. Aside from regular relocations due to his parents' embassy work, Kevin's childhood was largely uneventful. Of course, Kevin's measure of uneventful is comparing his home life to that of his friends. There were no major problems at home that he could think of, although he came to this conclusion because his parents were never home long enough for problems to be caused or revealed. In the end though the solitude did no real harm, he enjoyed being left to his own devices and if he wanted company it wasn't difficult to make friends at school (he was able to pick up languages quickly). Due to both his parents' roles he was given a front row seat to much of the drama that would often unfold wherever they happened to be. Business was often discussed at the dinner table, and while his parents didn't think much of it then Kevin absorbed quite a lot of what they were saying. He was an intelligent and talented child and he displayed as much during his schooling.
Kevin was most of the way through high school when his parents split up. Oddly enough he was apathetic to the whole event. He pursued his own interests for the most part. Conspiracy theories intrigued him. Kevin took a philosophical stance upon the matter of conspiracies. From his studies he deemed conspiracies to be born of peoples' desire for an enemy greater than the coincidental acts of idiocy of public figures: An enemy who they could actually fight because it bore ill will towards them in some way. People needed enemies. Through his own parents he usually had a good means of determining the validity of a theory, and while most were just absurd or turned out to be based on a convincing set of coincidences, occasionally he'd come across one that would prove defiant in his efforts to unravel it. He was a competent young investigator, with a knack for fooling information out of people, but he could never get enough information to validate or invalidate one of these particular few theories.
Kevin began to study the occult in pursuit of the truths behind the more difficult conspiracies. It seemed to be one of the connecting factors between the toughest cases, but that too only took him so far until he hit a wall. By the time his parents' divorce had been settled Kevin had begun living in Washington DC with his mother. He had obtained dual citizenship and was regularly flying between the States and various embassies to spend time with either parent. Eventually he began his university degree in Washington DC, majoring in international relations. Needless to say he found it quite easy using all the knowledge acquired from his background.
It was early on in Kevin's degree that he experienced the Awakening. It was a crushing experience for him. At some points he had taken some psychology electives however and one of the psychology lecturers, an Enchanter by the name of Dr. Scott Bauer, took notice of Kevin's predicament. He was a Guardian of the Veil and saw in Kevin an ideal mindset for the order, so the moment Kevin displayed a solid chance of Awakening Scott put into motion the Veils in the hope of snatching up the talented young man before any of the other orders took notice. With his natural interest in conspiracies Kevin was easily drawn in, and his progress through the Gray Veil was surprisingly successful. Just before the partaking in the Crimson Veil he had his Awakening, and it changed him. Kevin completed the Crimson Veil, but not in the way Scott expected. Kevin seemed colder after his Awakening, as though it went wrong somehow and had scarred him. When Scott spoke with Kevin about it, it was just as he had thought, but he didn't think the experience was bad enough to alter Kevin's suitability or odds of success.
Scott, known as Jester in mage circles, didn't expect Kevin to actually come so close to failing the Black Veil. He's still unsure if what Kevin did would constitute failure, he simply didn't expect it to take the turn it did. Scott decided, after consulting a number of elder Guardians, that Kevin had barely passed. The incident was never spoken of again. There were two factions who drew Kevin's attention within the Guardians, the Prophets and the Faceless. He decided to start with the Prophets, then perhaps receive training with the Faceless. As far as he could tell there didn't seem to be anything preventing him from joining both.
Kevin finished his training as a Prophet at roughly the same time as he graduated from university. It was his intention to go on holiday with his parents (albeit separately, the divorce was rather heated and even now his parents couldn't stand one another) as a way of celebrating his success before he went back to Washington and finished some more arcane training before starting his career. A package from the town of James Cove, not too far away, prompted him to change his plans in order to find out what his presence was needed for in the sleepy coastal town. He rang his parents to inform them that he couldn't go on holiday due to career opportunities that had suddenly been placed before him. While neither would have argued with that he was sorry to disrupt their plans. He cancelled his flight, only getting a partial refund due to the lateness of the cancellation, and caught a bus to James Cove.
Back in Washington DC Jester had started to think about Harlequin's progress. He had caught wind that Harlequin had cancelled his flight at the last minute and instead had taken a bus up the coast for some reason. That was of no great concern at the present moment, but Jester was starting to wonder whether he should have pressured to have Harlequin failed for the Black Veil rather than to have him passed. It gnawed at him when he thought about the repercussions of having someone that he had trained, his first student no less, potentially be a magic-wielding psychopath. Jester did some research and found a prophecy describing events that could be interpreted as the ones that were taking place around him at present. He sought advice from an old friend in the Mysterium, who assuaged his fears partly but not completely.[/sblock]
Taking the conversation and stuff out of it shortens it by a fair bit.[sblock=Summarised Background]
Kevin is a fairly generic male of anglo-celtic descent, easy on the eyes but totally forgettable. Light brown hair, short and often styled, ginger facial hair and dull blue eyes often covered by a pair of round sunglasses. His taste in clothes favours conservative but stylish clothing in earthy tones. His build is resoundingly average, but through family genetics he is graced by a fairly nice figure without the need for much exercise. While he never actually spent much time in Canada, Kevin is told that he has a Canadian accent. Kevin has one distinctive feature, but it isn't readily visible while he is fully clothed. It is a large tattoo that takes up the majority of his back. It is a four-armed crucifix, with the arms intersecting to make an 'x'. Intricate and small phrases in Atlantean are written around it. While it looks religious and arcane, in truth it is little more than a tattoo he copied out of a favourite video game and took some liberties with in adding Atlantean text. He was inspired to get it shortly after his Awakening and enjoys explaining it to anyone who may see it and are curious about its nature.
Kevin's father was Australian, and his mother was American. They met in the course of their work, as they both had diplomatic roles for their respective governments. Events took their course and Kevin was born in Canberra, Australia. Aside from regular relocations due to his parents' embassy work, Kevin's childhood was largely uneventful. Of course, Kevin's measure of uneventful is comparing his home life to that of his friends. There were no major problems at home that he could think of, although he came to this conclusion because his parents were never home long enough for problems to be caused or revealed. In the end though the solitude did no real harm, he enjoyed being left to his own devices and if he wanted company it wasn't difficult to make friends at school (he was able to pick up languages quickly). Due to both his parents' roles he was given a front row seat to much of the drama that would often unfold wherever they happened to be. Business was often discussed at the dinner table, and while his parents didn't think much of it then Kevin absorbed quite a lot of what they were saying. He was an intelligent and talented child and he displayed as much during his schooling.
Kevin was most of the way through high school when his parents split up. Oddly enough he was apathetic to the whole event. He pursued his own interests for the most part. Conspiracy theories intrigued him. Kevin took a philosophical stance upon the matter of conspiracies. From his studies he deemed conspiracies to be born of peoples' desire for an enemy greater than the coincidental acts of idiocy of public figures: An enemy who they could actually fight because it bore ill will towards them in some way. People needed enemies. Through his own parents he usually had a good means of determining the validity of a theory, and while most were just absurd or turned out to be based on a convincing set of coincidences, occasionally he'd come across one that would prove defiant in his efforts to unravel it. He was a competent young investigator, with a knack for fooling information out of people, but he could never get enough information to validate or invalidate one of these particular few theories.
Kevin began to study the occult in pursuit of the truths behind the more difficult conspiracies. It seemed to be one of the connecting factors between the toughest cases, but that too only took him so far until he hit a wall. By the time his parents' divorce had been settled Kevin had begun living in Washington DC with his mother. He had obtained dual citizenship and was regularly flying between the States and various embassies to spend time with either parent. Eventually he began his university degree in Washington DC, majoring in international relations. Needless to say he found it quite easy using all the knowledge acquired from his background.
It was early on in Kevin's degree that he experienced the Awakening. It was a crushing experience for him. At some points he had taken some psychology electives however and one of the psychology lecturers, an Enchanter by the name of Dr. Scott Bauer, took notice of Kevin's predicament. He was a Guardian of the Veil and saw in Kevin an ideal mindset for the order, so the moment Kevin displayed a solid chance of Awakening Scott put into motion the Veils in the hope of snatching up the talented young man before any of the other orders took notice. With his natural interest in conspiracies Kevin was easily drawn in, and his progress through the Gray Veil was surprisingly successful. Just before the partaking in the Crimson Veil he had his Awakening, and it changed him. Kevin completed the Crimson Veil, but not in the way Scott expected. Kevin seemed colder after his Awakening, as though it went wrong somehow and had scarred him. When Scott spoke with Kevin about it, it was just as he had thought, but he didn't think the experience was bad enough to alter Kevin's suitability or odds of success.
Scott, known as Jester in mage circles, didn't expect Kevin to actually come so close to failing the Black Veil. He's still unsure if what Kevin did would constitute failure, he simply didn't expect it to take the turn it did. Scott decided, after consulting a number of elder Guardians, that Kevin had barely passed. The incident was never spoken of again. There were two factions who drew Kevin's attention within the Guardians, the Prophets and the Faceless. He decided to start with the Prophets, then perhaps receive training with the Faceless. As far as he could tell there didn't seem to be anything preventing him from joining both.
Kevin finished his training as a Prophet at roughly the same time as he graduated from university. It was his intention to go on holiday with his parents (albeit separately, the divorce was rather heated and even now his parents couldn't stand one another) as a way of celebrating his success before he went back to Washington and finished some more arcane training before starting his career. A package from the town of James Cove, not too far away, prompted him to change his plans in order to find out what his presence was needed for in the sleepy coastal town. He rang his parents to inform them that he couldn't go on holiday due to career opportunities that had suddenly been placed before him. While neither would have argued with that he was sorry to disrupt their plans. He cancelled his flight, only getting a partial refund due to the lateness of the cancellation, and caught a bus to James Cove.
Back in Washington DC Jester had started to think about Harlequin's progress. He had caught wind that Harlequin had cancelled his flight at the last minute and instead had taken a bus up the coast for some reason. That was of no great concern at the present moment, but Jester was starting to wonder whether he should have pressured to have Harlequin failed for the Black Veil rather than to have him passed. It gnawed at him when he thought about the repercussions of having someone that he had trained, his first student no less, potentially be a magic-wielding psychopath. Jester did some research and found a prophecy describing events that could be interpreted as the ones that were taking place around him at present. He sought advice from an old friend in the Mysterium, who assuaged his fears partly but not completely.[/sblock]
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