Magus

Magus researched The Tower with the goal of finding The Magician.

Was killed by Spire, "never regained its sentience, the pieces of the Magician, its soul, remain scattered ... This mindless copy of the Magician is unnecessary."

## Lore / Tarot

When the Magician appears in a spread, it points to the talents, capabilities, and resources at the querent's disposal to succeed. The message is to tap into one's full potential rather than holding back, especially when there is a need to transform something.

**Upright card (keywords)**: Determined, Dexterity, Resourceful, Skilled, Strong powerful man

**Reversed card (keywords)**: Communication blocks, Confusion, Deceit, Ill intentions, Lack of energy

## Events / Interactions

### On November 12, 2020, magus asked:

> To what extent are you familiar with Aeternus, the Tower, or the shatter?
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### On March 11, 2021, magus sent:

> Well if it's coming through our systems, it would have to be through some internal access. But like I said, as long as our firewall is up, they'd be unable to get access to the data about this 'fake' event.
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> We could take the firewall down temporarily to try baiting the thief, but it will introduce a great deal of risk/danger to Aeternus and Taskforce Earth. If you think the risks are worthwhile and have someone in the target area to plant a fake dead drop, we can investigate the possibility.
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### Missing Items

From: Robin Scots

To: magus

> Magus,
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> I know you said that the missing Morphic box wasn’t Taskforce business and we weren’t allowed to know more. But we had something of an idea that you may wish to use in future recovery. We propose that you fake a Morphic event, plant a box as normal bt include fake contents, some meaningless documents or some such but included inside, a GPS device of some variety or something else you can easily track. Broadcast its being picked up in the same way Tim did (unfortunate for safety but still necessary) and if it gets intercepted and taken back to the same place you will know where to go and we could assist with recovery of both boxes if it was local or send contractors if not. If you feel this is a valid idea and wish for our involvement, please let us know as we would be happy to offer assistance, we are all on the same team after all.
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> -Scots
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From: magus
To: Robin Scots

> We’ve considered such a thing, but it’s difficult to pull of due to other actions we’ve taken. We narrowed down the morphic leak to either our systems of Obscurum Space systems, and due to a number of factors have taken our network offline from external access. If the leak was the Obscurum systems, we’re unable to fake a Morphic event in their systems, and if it was our systems that were breached, with the firewall up the assailants shouldn’t have access anymore.
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> -magus
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From: Robin Scots
To: magus

> One note to add to this, what if the breach was internal? Like a mole or something like that? Wouldn’t faking an event weed out that possibility? If there isn’t a rbeach you lose nothing by trying, but if there is, you have everything to gain.
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> -Scots
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> From: Magus
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To: Robin Scots

> Well if it’s coming through our systems, it would have to be through some internal access. But like I said, as long as our firewall is up, they’d be unable to get access to the data about this ‘fake’ event. We could take the firewall down temporarily to try baiting the thief, but it will introduce a great deal of risk/danger to Aeternus and Taskforce Earth. If you think the risks are worthwhile and have someone in the target area to plant a fake dead drop, we can investigate the possibility.
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> -magus
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From: magus
To: Robin Scots

> If you think the risks are worthwhile and you have someone in the target area, it will take a bit of time to run the necessary calculations to fake an event, so try letting us know by the Friday of the week before you anticipate having an asset available to perform this fake dead drop.
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> -magus
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From: Robin Scots
To: magus

> Copy that will do, thank you magus
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### Checking in

From: Robin Scots

To: magus

> Hey magus,
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> I have a small question for you and I am hoping you can answer. A few night ago Tim Malor went to go pick up what I assume is a morphic lockbox but at the end of the night he posted a fleet to his twitter of him on the ground and someone in black gloves taking the box. Suddenly Tim is back and avoiding talking about the night and its making all of us nervous that something has happened to him and its to do with the Seekers. Would you be able to find out what happened without asking Tim directly if he’s even around?
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> It would put my mind at incredible ease because I know you are always an objective point of view and I don’t think you’d lie to me about this.
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> -Scots
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From: magus
To: Robin Scots

> The incident is being investigated.
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> Tim is fine, further details about the incident are not accessible to you or the rest of the Taskforce.
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> -magus
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From: Robin Scots
To: magus

> Thank you for putting us at ease magus, we were incredibly worried that something was very wrong and were on the cusp of asking you to intercede as if Tim’s accounts had been compromised we would be pretty damn screwed. If there is anyhting we can do to help, let us know.
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> If there is anything we can do to help, let us know.
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> -Scots.
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### **Lynx**

From: Robin Scots

To: finisaevum

> Hello?
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> I am so unsure of what’s going on here but the fact that TD\* is coming up again has me curious cos I was part of it. Please, get in touch if you can see this.
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From: magus
To: Robin Scots

> This account has been terminated, as the employee no longer works for our organisation.
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> -magus
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From: Robin Scots
To: magus

> Thank you for the speedy reply magus, if it is possible could I please be told what that AE was doing? It’s designation/purpose/who released it? I was heavily involved with Operation TD\* and have not been allowed to learn anything more about it since it was shuttered and with Finis and Val gone there is literally no one else I can ask besides the folk at Aeternus, alongside yourself and any of the other AEs I am allowed to speak with.
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> Please magus, it would mean a lot to me.
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> -Scots
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From: magus
To: Robin Scots

> Unfortunately there aren’t many details to share, as it was mostly a self contained project and no one who ran it remains. Details on the AEs designations are missing as its Aeternus designation was removed prior to lending it out to the project leads. The other AE was meant to provide a supporting role to introduce complications as needed to direct participants interactions in interesting directions, and otherwise mostly acted as a watcher. Observing behaviour within the game. Other than that, I don’t believe there’s anything relevant from the TD\* operation that is important to current events.
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From: Robin Scots
To: magus

> Thank you, I think the AE was given the name john. I am curious if you know who let it back out and what it was trying to do? It was trying to get a message across, you can see that right? Do you not think it prudent to figure out what one of your assets was doing under another’s direction?
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From: magus
To: Robin Scots

> It is being investigated by Aeternus personnel.
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> -magus
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From: Robin Scots
To: magus

> When they find something, would it be alright for you to inform me?
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> -Scots
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> P.S.
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> Also a question to sate my own curiosity, what is the Magician?
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