Maggie stands at 5’8, but with a nigh-perpetual glare that makes her seem like she’s 15 feet tall and looking down on others like insects that have inconvenienced her. She has a small and somewhat wiry frame, but is more toned than you might think underneath her sleek business casual.
Maggie has somewhat short, curly black hair, having cut the majority of her hair off to accommodate her new lifestyle wearing a tinkertech helmet.She wears little to nothing in the way of makeup, but has clear and healthy skin (beyond occasional dark spots under her eyes from long hours coding and tinkering)
As Magnum Opus, Maggie wears a high quality suit of armor, that resembles a vintage Cosmonaut suit, the suit itself is a mix of mundane material science, and bits of tinkertech. The suit features an Emerald/Gold gradient, with detail work in one of the two base colors. As well as a reflective black visor.
Equipment and Resources
Wealth Level: 6
Provided with a Tinker lab by the Siberian Touchstone Foundation, located in their corporate team’s headquarters.
Bought a small but exceptionally nice home
in town, fairly near the University campus, and drives a Hi-Vis yellow M3 Sedan
They have an office in the HQ where they can do coding for the game that had been so central to their trigger.
Green) Domino Mask
(Gold) Facemask
(Green) Jumpsuit
Cellular Phone
First Aid Kit
Handcuffs and Zipties
GPS (built into their Hair clip)
Skills and Specializations
Bachelor in Computer Science, specializing in game design.
Phenomenal Game Developer, almost 10 years of experience.
Excels at all-things Coding.
Proficient in First Aid, keeps up-to-date.
Has begun taking in-house Martial Art classes, and is learning quickly.
Good driver.
Pilots License.
Mentality
Magnolia is an extremely smart woman, prom queen and valedictorian in Highschool, she made top marks in college, and easily set herself apart from her peers as both a game developer and a creative lead. Undeniably a remarkable woman, she is also an unrepentant megalomaniac with a god-complex. She isn’t all bad, she’s just vicious, looking down on others unless they can prove themselves in her eyes, meeting a standard she sets for them in her head.
Throughout her life, she has been compared on several occasions by her co-workers and classmates as being a bit like Herbert West from the film ‘The Re-animator', something that when it trickled up the grapevine, she took as a compliment having watched the film in response to the gossip.
Magnolia is the kind of person who considers it an honor to hangout with her, and that anything she creates is something to marvel at.
Power
Trigger type: Single Natural (Liberty Tinker) Trigger
As is typically characterized by a Liberty tinker, Magnum Opus’ power allows her to bypass any restrictions related to specialty, allowing her to tinker relatively unrestricted, in much the manner of a Free tinker.
Upon reaching approximately 70-90% completion in the building of a project, the shard cuts off Magnum Opus’ ability to finish the project, and the shard finishes the project itself over the couple days, usually 1-3 depending on the complexity of the project.
The Shard does this via a combination of tweaking physical properties, extra-dimensional connections, and sometimes mechanisms that it quietly slipped into the designs (typically without Magnum Opus’ awareness)
The end result always differs from the intended result that Magnum Opus sets out for, this is rarely ever straight-up worse than what he wanted, retaining the thematic function of a device, just designed and implemented through the lens of something alien.
META This will be played out by me (Magnum Opus) come up with an idea for a piece of tech, then present it to a group of players/staff (The shard) on the discord, and they suggest ways to twist and tweak the device into something similar but distinct, and I write up the equipment in accordance to those tweaks.
Looks a lot like a futuristic cosmonaut helmet, the internal sensor-suite itself can be reconfigured to attach to a stripped down headset if the armored section of the helm itself is compromised.
Abilities
Intended Abilities: Intended to use a whole slew of sensor technology, pass it through a filter, and allow real time sight through walls, not unlike the 'X-ray' vision seen in the Superman Comic series.
Actual Abilities: Instead of seeing past things, it sees inside them. Capable of Focused or Passive scans of objects, organisms, and structures internals. A Material Scientist's wet dream.
Calibrated by default for 'Focused' scans, namely to scan anything within MO's normal human 180 degree FOV, emitting a barely visible green light, that shows this FOV, the sensors themself are indiscriminate, collecting useful data and junk data in equal measure (requiring Info Filters to try and get anything relevant in-the-field).
Can be calibrated for 'Passive' scans, which are much slower but cover a wide area encompassing 100 ft in all directions from MO's helmet, this emits a barely visible green glow that fades into invisibility after about 6 inches from the Helmet. This releases periodic but constant low-level scans, each ping getting a small tidbit of data. This function is extremely useful for seeing past illusions, stealth, or for mapping environments and floorplans.
Looks very much like a futuristic gauntlet, the actual exaust barrel is usually exposed for cooling purposes, but can be retracted in poorly suited environments. Painted to match the gold to emerald gradient of MO's costume.
Abilities
Intended Abilities: Interned to be a simple heat ray, using an internal battery and focusing chambers to fire a beam of red-hot energy.
Actual Abilities: The Exaust gauntlet itself has more in common with a reactor than a gun, the device taking a small bit of charge to 'ignite' the engine, before building up decent quantities of electricity, and extreme amounts of heat.
The electricity is rerouted to the rest of the suit, or discharged if the systems are fully charged.
The heat on the other-hand builds and builds and builds, needing to be vented via the exhaust barrel, in a powerful beam of red-hot energy, that can cut through steel like a welding torch on butter.
This MUST be vented periodically, lest the glove enter emergency shutdown mode, or melt itself into molten slag.
Duration
Requires venting every 15 minutes, can enter emergency shutdown, in which case it requires time to cool completely before being re-ignited.
Looks very much like a futuristic gauntlet, Painted to match the gold to emerald gradient of MO's costume.
Abilities
Intended Abilities: Intended to be a simple Freeze Ray, made to draw moisture to an effected target, and sap the heat from the target, and flash freeze the moisture.
Actual Abilities: The Thermal Absorption gauntlet operates as a wave-to-particle machine.
The Gauntlet works by creating small scale Thermal Absorption Field, and an accompanying Containment field.
The TA-field absorbs 100% of the heat that enters its small radius (1cm to 2in) while the C-field keeps everything from becoming coated in frozen gas/liquid and becoming non-operational, while also keeping the artificial vacuum contained to the 1cm-to-2in range.
The Heat is converted into carbon pellets or rods, that are stored in a compartment on the gauntlet. This process creates a LOT of ambient background radiation, that MO keeps contained within the shielded gauntlet.
While having the top 1cm-to-2inch of your flesh flash frozen is less than ideal, It isn't an inherently lethal armament, something MO is happy enough with since its her only current close-combat option beyond fist fighting. At the very lest its good for deterring grappling her, as extended contact can be far more than anyone bargains for.
Duration
When disconnected from the suit, it has an internal battery that can last about 38hrs, it can absorb a small fraction of the absorbed heat as electricity, enough to add incrementally to its battery life, the rest being converted normally.
In ideal circumstances it extend its battery for ages, by absorbing the heat from the 'Exhaust gauntlet' and its periodic expulsions, or by siphoning from the internal supply gathered by the 'Absorption Plate'
A futuristic (somewhat feminine) chest-plate for her suit, featuring the standard gold-to-emerald gradient paint-scheme of the rest of her suit. When active, it creates a slight barely visible distortion centered on the chest plate.
Abilities
Intended Abilities: Originally designed to project an exotic energy field that deflects the energy of an attack, each deflected hit using roughly 20 percent of the charge from an internal battery regardless of strength of the actual hit. Acting as regular armor while the shield is depleted and recharging.
Actual Abilities: The resulting device projects an exotic energy field that absorbs the energy of an attack, converting it into electricity, each absorbed/nullified hit charging an internal battery by about 20 percent of its full charge regardless of strength of the actual hit.
Upon reaching 100% charge the electricity must be discharged from the system, either into attached systems or released as ambient static and heat. This discharging process takes a couple minutes to complete.
In the Meanwhile the chest-plate itself acts as Level III armor on the ballistic chart, and can take some hits by merit of armor plating, a consolation prize compared to the energy field that protects their entire center-of-mass.
The Absorbtion-Field itself is kept active by a small secondary battery, that provides just enough juice to keep the field powered on, so that the Field is actually active to charge the Primary battery.
Duration
Discharging the Primary battery once it reaches Max capacity takes about 3 minutes when diverting to other systems, and 5 minutes when released as ambient heat/static.
Secondary battery can keep the Absorption-field powered on for up to three (3) days
A pair of bulky futuristic boots, featuring the standard gold-to-emerald gradient paint-scheme of the rest of her suit. When active it creates a shimmering crimson halo of light around each ankle.
Abilities
Intended Abilities: Projects a series of energy fields that allow extremely precise and graceful flight, allows the wearer to hover in a stationary position, where the energy fields will act to try and dampen and repel outside forces that attempt to dislodge the wearer from their stationary position.
Actual Abilities: Projects a series of energy fields that allow swift and unrelenting flight, allows the wearer to get from point-a to point-b, flying swiftly but unable to remain stationary, the energy fields will act to dampen and repel outside forces that attempt to alter the wearer's flight trajectory.
Damaging attacks that hit may still Damage MO, but the fields ensure they don't go careening off into a crash landing because of a kinetic blast or a powerful aerokinetic gust.
When active the suit forms shimmering crimson halo's around each ankle, the portions of the field that wrap around the rest of the body are invisible to the naked eye, although it can become visible when its actively repelling an attempt to alter MO's trajectory.
Able to go from 1mph to 100mph in a couple of seconds, before maxing out at around 150mph at the upper end of its current capabilities, energy fields keep the deleterious effects of g-forces at bay.
upon arriving at a destination the field dissipates, and needs maybe 20 seconds for the coils to charge back up, to be ready to activate again. ability to juke away from danger is offset by the fact that its needs some care to be put into actually setting a trajectory, since it would be all to easy to crash headfirst into a concrete wall.
Duration
Internal battery can allow continuous operation for a full day of active flight, but can be recharged mid-journey by the Absorption Plate, Null Energy Gauntlet, and the Exhaust Gauntlet.
Thanks to Zed for the rough base concept.
Backstory
Maggie has worked hard to get where she is, lead developer and creative lead for a video game, that she believes to be her Masterpiece, even more so than any of the other projects she's worked on this is going to be her Mona Lisa.
Maggie's project has been in development hell for years, the ASSHOLES on Team C had produced another Flop, and corners have been cut yet again, manpower shifted, Maggie even being forced to work on the absolute rubbish projects of Team B and C.
But after so long of barely any progress, the Masterpiece is back on track, things look clear at last, her Masterpiece shall be completed according to schedule, recognition and appreciation of both her and her stunning project.
Then she received work that the company had been bought-out, and her and her team laid off entirely, apparently another larger studio had set its eyes on that abysmal fighting game series Team B had been so keen on.
Her work her Masterpiece, so close to completion, and yet again she is denied the recognition and appreciation that she so rightfully deserves.
+++TRIGGER+++
Things are different now, Maggie has designs in her head, she's not stupid, she's clearly a parahuman, and that gives her options. After exploring her power she learns that her power is potent, but so infuriating to work with, why could her projects never turn out like they are meant too, denied the perfection in her minds eye.
She makes inquiries looking for work among the corporate sector, eventually she comes across one willing to hear out her rather odd terms, she has a helluva power, but the oddness of her terms had put off several of her prospective employers.
The request to purchase the rights and the data from the half-finished game from the studio that had made her trigger, that she may finish it herself, hell she would let the new company release it, she just NEEDS to finish this, compulsively drawn to complete what had broken her.
The company saw an opportunity to make money, and another leash to keep her on their side should she become discontent, after all she needs their cooperation to finish her masterpiece.
Agreeing, purchasing the game, and hiring her on, she becomes Magnum Opus, a fitting name, and in her spare time she alone, with no team to speak of, works on her Masterpiece, triple checking that her power isn't influencing it in the slightest. This would take a while... it hadn't exactly been going quickly when she had a team of 30 to pass the grunt work onto either.
Maggie's bold choice of car.
The jumpsuit worn under Maggie's Armor, usually accompanied with golden domino mask.
Maggie's fancy suburban home, showcasing her unique tastes in architecture.
