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The Symphony: Modern Magic

_{April 7
Forest clearing - 23:28}

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Sticky. Everything felt sticky. His skin and clothes felt heavy and tacky with something he couldn't quite pinpoint.

Something soft, warm and chewy was in his mouth. He chewed a few times and swallowed. It smelled of old pennies, but tasted... divine. He licked his lips.

He opened his eyes. Awareness came back to him all at once.

Carnage, all around him. Blood and guts and flesh were strew all around him, splattered on him, soaking into the soil and filling the air with the metallic scent of freshly spilled gore. A carcass laid before him, barely recognizable as the deer it once was. Its empty eyes bore into his.

Mathias looked down at his hands in shock, staring at the long claws sprouting from the tip of his fingers. His tongue idly traced the points of the too-sharp fangs now awkwardly filling his mouth. He could feel small, stringy bits stuck in between his teeth. Sinew, maybe? In a daze, he raised a hand, trying to wipe away the blood caking his cheek, but only managed to smear on even more.

It smelled awful. It smelled delicious.

Mathias looked over at the deer again. It's not deer season, was the first thing that passed through his mind. A small surprised laugh escaped him at his own thoughts, and grew stronger and louder, until he was in full-blown, panicked hysterics. "Why the fuck do I care about poaching?!" he screamed into the forest's empty darkness, tears streaming down his face as he struggled to breathe between each uncontrollable guffaw. "What the fuck?!"

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_{April 15
13 Mourningdove Lane - 00:01}

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Mathias flicked his cigarette butt on the ground, putting it out using his shoe, then bending down to pocket it. He kept his gaze firmly on the mansion's front door, still unsure if he should approach or not. Every bone in his body was screaming at him not to do it, to just turn around and leave. But then again, ever since that night, his instincts also kept telling him to chase catch clamp your jaw around their throat and feast start running after squirrels, so who knew if he could trust his gut feeling.

And he really did want to know just how the hell whoever had sent him that letter knew about his little... hunting incident. He'd been alone, in the woods, at night, with no one else around for miles. He'd burned all of his bloodstained clothing, scrubbed his skin raw and pink to remove every trace of blood. He couldn't do anything about the deer carcass, but if it ever were to be found, which was very unlikely, its state would doubtlessly be blamed on predators and scavengers. As for his... new attributes, his magic if the letter was to be believed, he'd managed to turn back to normal. Or, normal enough at least. Sure, it had taken most of a day to figure it out, and something was definitively still wrong with him, but he looked normal, and that would have to do. Not to mention everything had taken place states away.

All of that to say, no one but him should have known about his abilities. And yet, the letter came anyway, exactly a week later, inviting him to a midnight meeting in a town he'd just arrived in for work... it shouldn't be possible. He had to know what was up.

Mathias huffed a tired sigh, tugging absentmindedly on his dress shirt's cuff. He hadn't bothered to change out of his work clothes for the evening, only taking off his jacket and tie, and undoing the first button of his shirt. He'd probably still be considered business casual, if it weren't for how messy and wrinkled his hair and clothes were by now.

After a few more moments of indecision, he finally started walking towards the mansion proper. He'd seen the two kids just enter, probably locals. It was a relief, in a way. It meant less chances this was a murderous maniac's trap; the vanishing of multiple locals is much harder to hide than the disappearance of an out-of-towner like him, especially in small town like Twin Pines. He'd live. Probably.

A chill went up his spine as the doors opened by themselves with a creak, before he even got the chance to knock. "Fucking... creepy as hell place..." he muttered as he took his first hesitant step inside.

The Symphony: Modern Magic

Brown hair is the second most common hair color in the world, after black. So really, it's not even all that statistically improbable that all out PCs would be brunettes haha

The Symphony: Modern Magic

Mathias "Matt" Lefebvre

"Why am I so... hungry...?"

_______________________________________________ Mathias "Matt" Lefebvre Human | He/Him | 36 years old | French-Canadian | 5'9'' (69 inches) | 146 lbs _______________________________________________ Hunger. _______________________________________________ Skills & Talents "Above all, hunting requires patience." ___________________________________ [+] Hunting ⫻ Experienced at tracking, baiting, stalking, trapping, and calling prey, big and small game alike. Basic stealth and camouflage ⫻ Experience with stalk hunting has left Mathias skilled at moving stealthily through and blending in natural, heavily obscured environments. Those skills are much less effective in urban environments. Basic foraging ⫻ Can identify some edible (or otherwise useful) plants and fungus. Rarer or more difficult to identify species are outside the range he is confident in identifying. Firearm handling ⫻ Experienced at handling hunting rifles, hunting shotguns, and hunting crossbows. Bilingualism ⫻ Speaks fluent French and English. English is his second language. Technological literacy ⫻ Used to working with computers at his workplace. Knows basic IT skills, can type up to 70 words per minute, and is excellent at using Microsoft Excel. Shapeshifting (Emerging) ⫻ Can change parts of himself to gain bestial skills or attributes

Appearance ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ "I know I dress like a teenager, but I just can't bear to dress like a corporate baboon during my off time too." Mathias is a 5'9'' tall man with short, light brown hair. His complexion is naturally very pale, no matter how much time he spends in the sun. He's on the scrawny side, but his love for the great outdoors has left him in deceptively good shape, his clothes hiding his lean, yet surprisingly muscular build. He has an oval-shaped face, with a soft jawline, and he keeps his face close-shaven, as every time he tried to grow a beard, it ended up looking patchy at best. His nose is well-defined, and he has wide grey eyes. His skin is relatively fair, with only a few faint acne scars marring his forehead. One of his front tooth is slightly chipped due to an unlucky fall on concrete from when he was a teenager. "Pretty" rather than "handsome" comes to mind when looking at him, although the effect is somewhat ruined by the deep eye bags perpetually circling his eyes. His dress style is a clash of 2 extremes: at work, he is always impeccably dressed in professional business wear, his hair neatly combed and parted, his posture flawless. Outside of work, however, Mathias favours low effort, casual clothing, such as hoodies, band t-shirts, flannel, camo vests, and old jeans. His hair is messy at the best of times, and he seems to constantly be slouching.

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"There's nothing quite like the great outdoors. No one around for miles, just you, nature, and your next prey..."

MAIN GOAL ⫻
Mathias only wishes to find some measure of contentment in life. Ideally by climbing the corporate ladder, amassing enough savings so that he can afford to retire, and then promptly fucking off into the woods, away from other people, permanently. Yeah, that would be the good life...

PHILOSOPHY ⫻
For Mathias, the daily grind is an unbearable drag and the crowded urban life is a prison. He has trouble seeing people in general as anything other than cruel and selfish, finding them aggravating at best, and downright insufferable at worst. He feels that moving to the city for work, despite being a financially sound choice, was the worst decision he has ever made in his life. Mathias is a nature-lover at heart, and being kept away from this love, while being forced to surround himself with people he doesn't know and barely tolerates, has made him miserable. Unsurprisingly, his outlook on life and future prospects is rather bleak.

SECRETS AND FEARS ⫻

• Mathias hides his sexuality at work, afraid of retaliations should he be outed.
• Mathias' greatest fear and anxiety is ending up stuck in his current urban lifestyle, which he absolutely loathes, for the rest of his life.
• Mathias fell and almost drowned in a lake when he was very young. This caused him to develop thalassophobia, the phobia of deep bodies of water. He'll do almost anything to avoid having to swim or go near or on lakes and pools. He hides this fear, since he finds it deeply embarrassing.

SEXUALITY ⫻ Homosexual. Semi-openly gay in his private life, but fully in the closet at work. Has a thing for bears, older men, and leather. He's not looking for anything other than casual flings.

WHAT WAS THE FIRST DAY WITH MAGIC LIKE? ⫻ Mathias' magic awakened while he was on vacation. After close to a full year of saving up vacation and sick days, he finally could afford to take a full week off, right in the middle of turkey hunting season. And so he was off for seven beautiful days of camping, hunting, and solitude. And thank god for that solitude: because how the hell would he have explained to any witness why he woke up one night next to a mauled, partially eaten deer carcass, his body covered in blood, with long, wicked claws and fangs sprouting from his fingers and maw? How would he have explained the deep, gnawing hunger now churning within him, clamouring for flesh, for prey?

FLAWS ⫻ Mathias is very emotionally closed off, with many misanthropic tendencies. Almost all of his (few) relationships are surface-level only, with no true bond or attachments formed, out of fear of getting hurt. His attitude, when not at work or cruising, is also rather abrasive, which doesn't help matters. This distance he keeps between himself and others is keeping him from finding any fulfillment in his current life.

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"Secondary school fucking sucked. I'm glad I never have to see any of those assholes ever again."

Mathias was born in and grew up in the rural parts of northern Québec, in Canada. He was close to his maternal grandfather, who taught him how to hunt and trap, a love that's still strong to this day. He never really got into fishing however: when he was 7, he almost drowned in a lake while on a family trip, and has stayed as far away as possible from large bodies of water ever since.

Secondary school was rough: he'd realized he was gay at 15, and tried shooting his shot with another boy in his class. He was promptly rejected and outed by that boy, and, as was typical of rural regions in the early 2000s, became the victim of mockery, bullying and even homophobic violence by his peers, until graduation, when he finally moved out of his hometown for post-secondary education. Luckily his family was generally supportive, but these events still instilled a distrust in others in Mathias, and are the prime motivators behind his aloofness and being in the closet at work.

He got a business degree in administration, and began working as a secretary. He eventually found a job under his current employer, and rose through the ranks through hard work, going from a simple administration assistant to a high-placed executive's personnal secretary. This new position, and the raise in salary that came with it, had him transfer to the U.S. corporate offices in New York. He's now been living in the States for the last 2 and a half years. Mathias hates his job and is deeply unsatisfied with his life, but can't really afford to quit.

More recently, business has brought his boss, and thus him, to Twin Pines. The smaller, much less dense town is a... welcome reprieve from the city.

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"I've never felt so alive. So hungry."

MAGIC ⫻ Therianthropy A.K.A. human-animal shapeshifting. Mathias can morph his body adopt animal characteristics and boost his physical abilities.

MAGIC DESCRIPTION ⫻ Mathias can modify his physiology to gain animal-like characteristics. The changes range from boosted senses and abilities, to new or modified body parts. Though vastly reversible, some changes appear to be permanent: ever since his first accidental shift, his instincts are sharper (though not always right) and he has developed a strong prey drive, as well as a hunger for raw bloody living fearful fresh meat. He's also discovered that raw meat is not only much more palatable to him now, but that he can also digest it without problems.

Improved senses and abilities ⫻ Through subtle changes in his eyes, joints, and olfactory system, Mathias can improve his night vision, speed and sense of smell, though to nowhere near the level of an actual wild animal. Other (or further) improvements should be possible, but he hasn't figured out how to make it work yet.

Beastly transformation ⫻ Mathias can currently grow large wolf-like claws and fangs. His ears, arms and legs grow patches of soft brown fur whenever he transforms in these more obvious ways.

LIMITS ⫻

• Mathias' magic can only affect himself, and not others.
• Shifting isn't instantaneous, it takes a moment to complete.
• The range of his transformations is very limited (for now).
• When faced with a life threatening situation, or hunger, his new instincts might act up and make him behave in a more aggressive way than usual.

WEAKNESSES ⫻ It was once said that monsters were once men who toyed with magic and were cursed for their folly. While this is mostly untrue, there is a shred of possibility to it. Mathias will notice the more he uses the magic the more it takes to put it away. He could find himself in a situation where his magic could take hours, or even days, to undue. This is brought about by repeated shifting in a short amount of time and the more he shifts the higher the chance may be stuck in that form for a prolonged period of time, or possibly even forever.

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"What's real funny is that I've always been more of a cat person."

MISQ SECTION

• Used to have a dog allergy, before seemingly being cured after his magic manifested.
• Suffers from mild chronic eczema.
• Is a decent cook, but sticks to simple, easy recipes. Anything too complex is both not worth it in his eyes, and at risk of ending up less than appetizing.

A hello from me!

Welcome to the guild!

The Symphony: Modern Magic

Mathias "Matt" Lefebvre

"Why am I so... hungry...?"

_______________________________________________ Mathias "Matt" Lefebvre Human | He/Him | 36 years old | French-Canadian | 5'9'' (69 inches) | 146 lbs _______________________________________________ Hunger. _______________________________________________ Skills & Talents "Above all, hunting requires patience." ___________________________________ [+] Hunting ⫻ Experienced at tracking, baiting, stalking, trapping, and calling prey, big and small game alike. Basic stealth and camouflage ⫻ Experience with stalk hunting has left Mathias skilled at moving stealthily through and blending in natural, heavily obscured environments. Those skills are much less effective in urban environments. Basic foraging ⫻ Can identify some edible (or otherwise useful) plants and fungus. Rarer or more difficult to identify species are outside the range he is confident in identifying. Firearm handling ⫻ Experienced at handling hunting rifles, hunting shotguns, and hunting crossbows. Bilingualism ⫻ Speaks fluent French and English. English is his second language. Technological literacy ⫻ Used to working with computers at his workplace. Knows basic IT skills, can type up to 70 words per minute, and is excellent at using Microsoft Excel. Shapeshifting (Emerging) ⫻ Can change parts of himself to gain bestial skills or attributes

Appearance ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ "I know I dress like a teenager, but I just can't bear to dress like a corporate baboon during my off time too." Mathias is a 5'9'' tall man with short, light brown hair. His complexion is naturally very pale, no matter how much time he spends in the sun. He's on the scrawny side, but his love for the great outdoors has left him in deceptively good shape, his clothes hiding his lean, yet surprisingly muscular build. He has an oval-shaped face, with a soft jawline, and he keeps his face close-shaven, as every time he tried to grow a beard, it ended up looking patchy at best. His nose is well-defined, and he has wide grey eyes. His skin is relatively fair, with only a few faint acne scars marring his forehead. One of his front tooth is slightly chipped due to an unlucky fall on concrete from when he was a teenager. "Pretty" rather than "handsome" comes to mind when looking at him, although the effect is somewhat ruined by the deep eye bags perpetually circling his eyes. His dress style is a clash of 2 extremes: at work, he is always impeccably dressed in professional business wear, his hair neatly combed and parted, his posture flawless. Outside of work, however, Mathias favours low effort, casual clothing, such as hoodies, band t-shirts, flannel, camo vests, and old jeans. His hair is messy at the best of times, and he seems to constantly be slouching.

_{Psychology
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"There's nothing quite like the great outdoors. No one around for miles, just you, nature, and your next prey..."

MAIN GOAL ⫻
Mathias only wishes to find some measure of contentment in life. Ideally by climbing the corporate ladder, amassing enough savings so that he can afford to retire, and then promptly fucking off into the woods, away from other people, permanently. Yeah, that would be the good life...

PHILOSOPHY ⫻
For Mathias, the daily grind is an unbearable drag and the crowded urban life is a prison. He has trouble seeing people in general as anything other than cruel and selfish, finding them aggravating at best, and downright insufferable at worst. He feels that moving to the city for work, despite being a financially sound choice, was the worst decision he has ever made in his life. Mathias is a nature-lover at heart, and being kept away from this love, while being forced to surround himself with people he doesn't know and barely tolerates, has made him miserable. Unsurprisingly, his outlook on life and future prospects is rather bleak.

SECRETS AND FEARS ⫻

• Mathias hides his sexuality at work, afraid of retaliations should he be outed.
• Mathias' greatest fear and anxiety is ending up stuck in his current urban lifestyle, which he absolutely loathes, for the rest of his life.
• Mathias fell and almost drowned in a lake when he was very young. This caused him to develop thalassophobia, the phobia of deep bodies of water. He'll do almost anything to avoid having to swim or go near or on lakes and pools. He hides this fear, since he finds it deeply embarrassing.

SEXUALITY ⫻ Homosexual. Semi-openly gay in his private life, but fully in the closet at work. Has a thing for bears, older men, and leather. He's not looking for anything other than casual flings.

WHAT WAS THE FIRST DAY WITH MAGIC LIKE? ⫻ Mathias' magic awakened while he was on vacation. After close to a full year of saving up vacation and sick days, he finally could afford to take a full week off, right in the middle of deer hunting season. And so he was off for seven beautiful days of camping, hunting, and solitude. And thank god for that solitude: because how the hell would he have explained to any witness why he woke up one night next to a mauled, partially eaten deer carcass, his body covered in blood, with long, wicked claws and fangs sprouting from his fingers and maw? How would he have explained the deep, gnawing hunger now churning within him, clamouring for flesh, for prey?

FLAWS ⫻ Mathias is very emotionally closed off, with many misanthropic tendencies. Almost all of his (few) relationships are surface-level only, with no true bond or attachments formed, out of fear of getting hurt. His attitude, when not at work or cruising, is also rather abrasive, which doesn't help matters. This distance he keeps between himself and others is keeping him from finding any fulfillment in his current life.

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"Secondary school fucking sucked. I'm glad I never have to see any of those assholes ever again."

Mathias was born in and grew up in the rural parts of northern Québec, in Canada. He was close to his maternal grandfather, who taught him how to hunt and trap, a love that's still strong to this day. He never really got into fishing however: when he was 7, he almost drowned in a lake while on a family trip, and has stayed as far away as possible from large bodies of water ever since.

Secondary school was rough: he'd realized he was gay at 15, and tried shooting his shot with another boy in his class. He was promptly rejected and outed by that boy, and, as was typical of rural regions in the early 2000s, became the victim of mockery, bullying and even homophobic violence by his peers, until graduation, when he finally moved out of his hometown for post-secondary education. Luckily his family was generally supportive, but these events still instilled a distrust in others in Mathias, and are the prime motivators behind his aloofness and being in the closet at work.

He got a business degree in administration, and began working as a secretary. He eventually found a job under his current employer, and rose through the ranks through hard work, going from a simple administration assistant to a high-placed executive's personnal secretary. This new position, and the raise in salary that came with it, had him transfer to the U.S. corporate offices in New York. He's now been living in the States for the last 2 and a half years. Mathias hates his job and is deeply unsatisfied with his life, but can't really afford to quit.

More recently, business has brought his boss, and thus him, to Twin Pines. The smaller, much less dense town is a... welcome reprieve from the city.

_{Magic
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"I've never felt so alive. So hungry."

MAGIC ⫻ Therianthropy A.K.A. human-animal shapeshifting. Mathias can morph his body adopt animal characteristics and boost his physical abilities.

MAGIC DESCRIPTION ⫻ Mathias can modify his physiology to gain animal-like characteristics. The changes range from boosted senses and abilities, to new or modified body parts. Though vastly reversible, some changes appear to be permanent: ever since his first accidental shift, his instincts are sharper (though not always right) and he has developed a strong prey drive, as well as a hunger for raw bloody living fearful fresh meat. He's also discovered that raw meat is not only much more palatable to him now, but that he can also digest it without problems.

Improved senses and abilities ⫻ Through subtle changes in his eyes, joints, and olfactory system, Mathias can improve his night vision, speed and sense of smell, though to nowhere near the level of an actual wild animal. Other (or further) improvements should be possible, but he hasn't figured out how to make it work yet.

Beastly transformation ⫻ Mathias can currently grow large wolf-like claws and fangs. His ears, arms and legs grow patches of soft brown fur whenever he transforms in these more obvious ways.

LIMITS ⫻

• Mathias' magic can only affect himself, and not others.
• Shifting isn't instantaneous, it takes a moment to complete.
• The range of his transformations is very limited (for now).
• When faced with a life threatening situation, or hunger, his new instincts might act up and make him behave in a more aggressive way than usual.

WEAKNESSES ⫻ It was once said that monsters were once men who toyed with magic and were cursed for their folly. While this is mostly untrue, there is a shred of possibility to it. Mathias will notice the more he uses the magic the more it takes to put it away. He could find himself in a situation where his magic could take hours, or even days, to undue. This is brought about by repeated shifting in a short amount of time and the more he shifts the higher the chance may be stuck in that form for a prolonged period of time, or possibly even forever.

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"What's real funny is that I've always been more of a cat person."

MISQ SECTION

• Used to have a dog allergy, before seemingly being cured after his magic manifested.
• Suffers from mild chronic eczema.
• Is a decent cook, but sticks to simple, easy recipes. Anything too complex is both not worth it in his eyes, and at risk of ending up less than appetizing.

New person!

Welcome to the guild!

Hi there!

Welcome to the guild!