Name: I'd hope I don't need to explain this one.

Age: While the setting is modern fantasy in nature, please don't app some 3000-year old immortal freak.

Gender: Don't make this complicated.

Species: Humans are the obvious choice, but the standard fantasy fare are generally acceptable, with the caveat that they must have sufficiently humanoid bodies/attributes. Don't try and be that guy who apps a god. Also, check with me before you make a nonhuman, so we can talk racial abilities.

Appearance: Yes, you can use a picture. Yes, you can put it at the top of the sheet with a little italicized quote centered under it.

Personality: Don't skimp on this.

History: Remember, your character is, through one means or another, a thief. Whether they're a white collar criminal, an illegal magic-user, or one of those guys who dresses in all black and breaks into secure buildings, this needs to be a factor. Similarly, they need to be acquainted with the organization behind this heist, obviously.



Skills: This includes learned abilities like combat or stealth techniques, racial abilities, magical shenanigans, stuff they went to college for, you get the idea.

Equipment: Things carried on the person, or resources that can be called in. Don't bother including personal wealth since the employee will reimburse expenses within reason. Must be mundane in nature. Don't go crazy here, just what you carry on your person for a job.

Artifact: You've been given permission to select one magical artifact from the organization's stores for this use, with the caveat that the organization thinks that it's useless. For instance, a cigar that will never go out, or an ever-replenishing bag of popsicle sticks.

So, while not a tabletop roleplay, you should expect some dice shenanigans to go on. To explain what I mean by that, there are two main circumstances where dice rolls where arise: "stretch goals", and combat.

A stretch goal is basically something that should be difficult to do, and will have some amount of random chance. This is considered independent of your own personal abilities. For instance, even if you're super strong and you're trying to lift something really heavy, it'll be counted as a stretch goal, but you'll have better odds at succeeding the dice roll to decide what happens than someone else. This also extends to stuff like sick acrobatics tricks, persuading NPCs, and so on.

Combat is basically working in a sort of turn-based DnD style affair, but with the attack and damage rolls consolidated. How well an attack does/if it lands in the first place is decided by a dice roll with the appropriate advantages given for your character. If it fails significantly, the attack will miss, or maybe hit but can't penetrate the enemy's defenses. If it does really well, you attack for massive damage.

NPCs are under the same constraints as the players with regards to this.

Also, it's worth noting that rolling a "1" or a "20" (the dice used will generally be a 20-sided die) results in a critical failure or critical success on that action respectively. An example of a critical success is persuading an NPC so well he decides to become your best friend. An example of a critical failure is throwing your spear at an enemy, but you miss and instead you spear your ally. For critical successes, I'll sometimes just say in the OOC "okay you got a crit success, the enemy's dying from this attack, how do you want him to die" or something so you can have fun with it.

So this will have an element of randomness and unpredictability that you'd expect from a tabletop, but all of the logistics for that are handled on the GM side. This is just so you know what all's going on, and why when I post that the NPC wasn't persuaded by you or that your attack made the enemy explode into a thousand pieces, you know why. This does also mean you can try to pull the sort of bullshit you couldn't ordinarily pull in a fully-freeform RP.

Put simply, magic is more of an art than a science.

The process of casting a spell involves the caster using their innate talent for magic to do two things. The first is converting a portion of their life force to a substance known as "magical energy". The second is using that magical energy to cast the spell.

A spell is essentially "telling a story to reality". It should be known that the caster himself does not create a fireball. Rather, the caster spins a story to reality about how there should be a fireball, and if the story is moving enough, reality obliges. It is the use of art to move the world.

Neither intellect nor charisma affect this. While the words "narrative" and "storytelling" are used, these acts draw on different faculties of oneself than writing an actual novel does; nonetheless, because the metaphor is suitable, it has been adopted in contemporary language.

As a result, magic is rather unpredictable, which factors into its strict government regulation. Two people who tell a story of a fireball will end with different results, because their stories will not be exactly the same. Even if you tried to learn the story of another and cast it exactly, it would not work, because reality will not be moved by a stolen story.

If the spell is the verbal story, a "magic formula" is the book. It is an engraving of someone's personal story which, by injecting magical energy to, they can cast the spell at a far greater speed than the time needed to tell the story itself. Of course, one cannot use another's magical formula. Loopholes to circumvent this have been tried; exchanging cells with someone else, trying to siphon out their personal magical energy, and the like, but nothing has managed to overturn this law yet.

An anomaly worth noting is the strength of multiple mages. If two mages collaboratively cast a spell, that spell will have greater strength than if a single mage casts it, even if the amount of magical energy being used is the same. This is known as the "multiplicity effect". The difficulty of this, though, is that is is exceedingly difficult to do this, as the two mages must be in perfect harmony to join hands and write the same story. As an aside, an incident which nearly ended the world nearly a century ago involved a now-destroyed country somehow managing to have a force of fifty thousand mages collectively cast a single spell, which summoned an eldritch horror beyond human perception.

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Name: Theodore Felix Remmington

Age: 26

Gender: Male

Species: Human

Appearance: When he's in normal clothing, he looks just like everyone else. With a mop of unruly blonde hair and alluring hazel eyes, Theodore looks like a charming young man. There's always a smile on his face whenever he talks to somebody. His normal clothing usually compromises of collared shirt and pants. He prefers smart casual clothing, it would seem. When he's out doing magic tricks for others, he takes on a suit and tie. When he's out doing his thievery, he changes his appearance to that of above - with his purple and violet suit being replaces with a black and grey one. He also wears a mask to hide who he really is.

Personality: Theodore values fun above all things. He wants people to always smile around him, and he wants to smile as well. There are little things he wouldn't do in the name of fun. Unfortunately, his sense of 'fun' is rather twisted. Anything that seems like it would bring laughter to him is something he deems as fun. While he may seem to care if other people are enjoying it like him, the truth of the matter is that he doesn't really care about what others think about it. However, what he finds fun is actually chaos itself. It's part of the reason why he derives sick pleasure from casting illusions. He seems to highly enjoy breaking the law repeatedly.

He is well aware of his condition - something that would've crippled him for life, but he still kept on going. This is part of the reason why he feels that he should live life to the fullest and his constant use of magic despite its repercussions on his life. He was going to die anyway, so why not speed up the process and enjoy the ride along with it? However, despite this, he is actually generally kind and helpful and tends to use mundane magic tricks to amuse children. One of his few limitations is that he does not want any harm to befall a kid as a result of his actions - directly or indirectly. Theodore is rather friendly and seems to talk with anyone with ease.

History: Theodore had been born with a strange illness. It was never clear what exactly it was, but they knew that it was eating Theodore alive. He was bound to die at a young age and every doctor knew it. However, the Remmington family wanted to suppress it for as long as possible because who would want their first born to die? Theodore was weak ever since he was a child. He only learned how to walk when he was already three years old, and as a result of his weak constitution, he was home schooled. His parents got the best tutors from around the world to teach him. They used the resources they had to make Theodore's life better, but it was never enough. He suffered from severe backlashes which usually ended up with him having seizures and nearly killing himself almost the entire time. In the midst of his parents worrying and doctors scrambling to do something for the poor child, Theodore discovered magic. He was on his own back then when he suddenly had been able to cast a small fire, flickering on his hands. He had a good potential in magic, higher than his parents at the very least. He began to study up on it in secret as he knew it was illegal to practice magic itself.

When he was ten years old and already proficient in basic magic, he was suddenly whisked away from his parents by a mysterious group. Someone staged a fake death for him and then pilfered half of the Remmington family money. Theodore was none the wiser. The organization was the one who managed to stabilize his condition, though it didn't mean that he would live any longer. It only meant that he would be able to go on with life without convulsing every now and then. Theodore felt like he owed the organization a lot and soon forgot about his own family - but he still paraded with his original name. However, outside the country he originated from, the name held no weight so it didn't really matter. Theodore Remmington was trained further in the art of magic and was molded to become one of their agents. He was expendable, due to his willingness to die in the name of him having fun.

With years of experience under his belt when it came to being an illegal magician and being a thief, he was contacted once more to rob the newly opened Maede Museum of Art. Theodore was more than happy to oblige and is looking forward to his companions.

Stats

• Strength: 7
• Dexterity: 13
• Constitution: 6
• Intelligence: 10
• Charisma: 9
• Magical Potential: 15

Skills:

• Illusion Magic - He seems to lean more into illusion magic as it has been his first learned magic. He's been able to make distinct illusions with much concentration. However, none of it can actually harm anyone aside from their mental process.
• Levitation magic - Though not as dangerous and still in its developmental stages, he typically uses it for distractions using his cards. It's why he needs to have a constant supply of cards.
• Sleight of Hand - Magic that isn't really magic is something he uses frequently. Mostly involved in card tricks but has been known to dabble in a few others, Theodore had always found passion in tricking people without even using anything dangerous or illegal.
• Sneaking - Of course, he is a thief first and foremost. He knows how to sneak around.
• Lockpicking - Finally, he has learned the art of lockpicking, of all things.

Equipment:
- A deck of playing cards used for magic
- [5] Homemade flash bangs inside a small sphere for quick escape
- A cane. No one knows why he has it.

Artifact: A lockpick that never breaks. Since this particular artifact has a double, he was allowed to bring it with him. This made it all the more easier to break into some other places.