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| [[Image:Wizard64.png|right|64px]] The Space Wizard Federation has gotten their beards in a twist about something, and decided to send their most powerful Archmage to destroy Space Station 13. Unfortunately, he was busy, so they sent some idiot instead. Of course, even a bad wizard is still capable of bending reality to his whims. Compared to [[Changeling|other]] [[Vampire|jerks]] you may encounter on the station, wizards can be a most dangerous [[antagonist]] in terms of [[Guide to Being Robust|fighting]] off large numbers of crew at once, but they don't have much in the way of subtlety due to the theatrics and whimsy space magic.
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| ==Equipment==
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| [[File:WizardsDen.png|thumb|The [[Wizard's Den|wizard's den]] and homebase.]]
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| In addition to the basic gear every wizard spawns with, there's a variety of miscellaneous supplies and machinery to be found on the shuttle.
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| {| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: left"
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| !scope = "col" style="width: 15%" | Item
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| !scope = "col" style="width: 10%" class="unsortable" | Image
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| !scope = "col" style="width: 75%" class="unsortable" | Description
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| |- id="Hat"
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| ! Wizard's hat
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| | <center>[[Image:WizardHats.gif]]</center>
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| | Comes in different colors. All clothes are magically enhanced, making it harder for the crew to strip you naked in an instant.
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| |- id="Robes"
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| ! Wizard's robe
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| | <center>[[Image:WizardRobes.gif]]</center>
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| | You cannot cast any spells if you don't have your complete magical outfit (hat and robe).
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| ! Magic sandals
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| | <center>[[Image:Sandals.png]]</center>
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| | Keeps the wearer from slipping on ice and from falling down after being hit by a runaway [[Security Objects#Segway|segway]]. They also double as [[Clothing#Galoshes|galoshes]].
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| ! Wizard's staff
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| | <center>[[Image:Wizardstaff.png]]</center>
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| | Your spells will be greatly weakened, not last as long and take longer to recharge if you cast them without one of these.
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| |- id="StaffCthulhu"
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| ! Staff of Cthulhu
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| | <center>[[Image:StaffofCthulhu.png]]</center>
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| | Optional enchantment, see explanation below.
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| ! Spellbook
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| | <center>[[Image:WizardSpellbook.gif]]</center>
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| | Your very own magical book to chose spells from. It is attuned to your person and cannot be used by another wizard or somebody dressed as one.
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| ! Teleportation scroll
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| | <center>[[Image:Wizardscroll.png]]</center>
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| | Allows instant teleportation to an area of your choice. It is very common for players to open up the teleport menu and simply leave it up with the wizard's den selected. This lets them zip back if they're ever in trouble. The scroll has four charges.
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| |- id="WizardGuide"
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| ! Wizardry 101
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| | <center>[[Image:Paper2.png]]</center>
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| | The basic ingame equivalent of this wiki page.
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| |- id="Mugwort"
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| ! Mugwort tea
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| | <center>[[Image:Mugwort.png]]</center>
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| | See [[Chemistry#Medical Chems|Chemistry]].
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| |- id="WizardBeans"
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| ! 'Every Flavour' jellybeans
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| | <center>[[Image:EveryFlavourBeans.png]] [[Image:EveryFlavourBean.png]]</center>
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| | Six generic jellybeans to make golems from. They often contain nothing but sugar, and occasionally a mildly dangerous reagent such as [[Chemistry#Poisons and Toxic Shit|porktonium]]. Still, it's better than nothing until you can brew up something better in the chemistry lab.
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| |- id="WizardWardrobe"
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| ! MagiVend & Magical wardrobe
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| | <center>[[Image:GenericVendingMachine2.png]] [[Image:RedCloset.png]]</center>
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| | Both contain spare staves and magical clothing.
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| ! Magix System IV
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| | <center>[[Image:Thinkdos-pc.gif]]</center>
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| | Controls the shuttle's outer airlock and built-in teleporter, which has unlimited uses but has to recharge after every one.
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| ! Magic mirror
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| | <center>[[Image:MagicMirror.png]]</center>
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| | Shows the objectives of all magic users in any given round when examined by a wizard. Intended to promote a little bit of teamwork.
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| ==Available spells==
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| Wizards pay for their spells in so-called magic points, and you get four to spend as you see fit. None of these spells can be used while unconscious, nor can they be cast while standing in the [[chapel]]. Handcuffs are a concern in the sense that you're unable to hold a staff in your hand.
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| ===Enchantment===
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| Passive buffs that increase your fighting ability or odds of survival in some manner.
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| |Staff of Cthulhu||1||The crew will normally steal your staff and run off with it to cripple your casting abilities, but that doesn't work so well with this version. Any non-wizard dumb enough to touch or pull the Staff of Cthulhu takes massive brain damage and is knocked down for quite a while, and hiding the staff in a closet or somewhere else is similarly ineffective given that the owner can summon it to his active hand at will. It also makes a much better bludgeoning weapon than the regular staff, hitting harder and occasionally inflicting brain damage. Taking this effectively sacrifices a spell slot, however, which may not be worth it.
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| |Soulguard||1||Soulguard is basically a one-time "do-over" that teleports you back to the wizard shuttle in the event that you die, respawning you in a new body and completely naked. However, the enchantment doesn't trigger if your body has been gibbed or otherwise destroyed. Also note that wizards can prepare teleportation spells for pre-casting fairly easily. Unless you're really afraid of getting instantly knocked into critical by something like a [[Chemistry|chemical reaction]] or explosion, you may want to hold on soulguard and use the spell slot for something else.
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| ===Utility===
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| !Name!!Cooldown!!Cost!!While stunned?!!class="unsortable" | Description!! class="unsortable" | Effect w/o staff
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| |Clairvoyance||60 seconds||Free||✓||States the general location of a target, even if they're inside a closet or similar container. The [[chaplain]] and people standing in the chapel will block your attempt to pinpoint them.||Takes longer to recharge.
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| |Phase shift||30 seconds||Free||✓||Lets you simply move through walls, doors, and whatever other detritus that sits in your way. Other people can't attack you as long as you're incorporeal, and phaseshifting while on fire will extinguish the flames.||Doesn't last as long, takes longer to recharge.
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| |Summon S. of Cthulhu||60 seconds||(1)||✗||Available to the owner of the staff. Cast the spell and it'll magically show up in your hand (or on the floor if you have both hands full) provided the crew hasn't [[Waste Disposal|crushed]] it yet.
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| |Blink||10 seconds||1||✓||Randomly teleports you a short-to-medium distance in the direction you're facing. Good for escaping or breaking into places, but beware that you can end up overshooting your intended target or end up moving only one tile forward. You can't blink into space or the chapel either.||Teleport is less accurate.
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| |Teleport||45 seconds||1||✓||Comes with unlimited charges, unlike that scroll in your pocket. Teleport can take you anywhere on the station and back to your shuttle. Unlike the scroll, however, the spell won't send you there instantly, but does extinguish flames if you happen to be on fire. There's a short delay that leaves you vulnerable for a moment.||Takes longer to recharge.
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| |Knock||10 seconds||1||✓||Opens all doors, closets, crates and [[cyborg]] head compartments in a five tile radius. Also unlocks the interface of various [[robots]]. Great for getting into places and lockers without having to worry about getting a high-ranking ID or for dealing with the cyborgs after the crew makes wizards non-human. Rip their brains out and throw them in your bag, they make great trophies!||Restricted to point-blank range.
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| |Empower||40 seconds||1||✓||Temporarily gives you the hulk superpower for 30 seconds, allowing you to bash down walls, rip apart handcuffs and punch people with great force, sending them flying. You also get the classic form of telekinesis. Unlike its [[Guide to Genetics#Mutations|more recent replacement]], old TK enables you to directly interact with the world without being in close range to anything - pick up and use items, operate computers or attack the crew from across the room. And yes, it can be combined with hulk.||No TK, doesn't last as long.
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| |Animate dead||85 seconds||1||✓||Causes the skeleton of a nearby corpse to tear itself free and come to life. The body and all the stuff on it is gibbed in the process. These skeletons are extremely hostile to anyone other than wizards and will chase people down, then knock them over and beat them to death with their horrid, undead strength. They're a little fragile and not too hard to run from, but they're pretty good at killing lone targets or people you've stunned with other spells. Keep in mind that every corpse these things create is another potential skeletal servant!||Takes longer to recharge.
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| |Summon golem||50 seconds||1||✗||Turns any reagent in a container which you're holding in your active hand while casting this into a golem made of the substance. The golem is a [[critter]] that will attack anybody it sees with the exception of wizards. It converts into a cloud of whatever substance you used when it dies, and anyone caught in the cloud will have the chemicals added to their blood. For understandable reasons, it's very common for wizards using this spell to teleport into chemistry or the bar and make several beakers of the nastiest chemicals available. The [[Wizard#WizardBeans|'Every Flavour' beans]] on the wizard shuttle can also be used to make golems.||Takes longer to recharge.
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| ===Defensive===
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| !Name!!Cooldown!!Cost!!While stunned?!!class="unsortable" | Description!! class="unsortable" | Effect w/o staff
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| |Warp||10 seconds||1||✓||The devious sibling of blink. Sends a target to a random location within several tiles of your field of vision. While it may either send unlucky crew into a [[Powering the station|blazing inferno]] or barely two inches away from your place, it does have the fortune of recharging quickly.||Target is more likely to end up closer to you.
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| |Forcewall||10 seconds||1||✓||Causes a wall of force to project from your sides, stopping anyone from passing through the wall for 30 seconds. Good for blocking off a hallway while you make your escape or wait for cooldowns to finish.||Wall is shorter.
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| |Spell shield||30 seconds||1||✓||Encases you in a magical shield for 10 seconds that blocks all projectiles and melee attacks. Also reduces the severity of explosions.||
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| |Doppelganger||30 seconds||1||✓||Similar to phase shift, but with a twist. A copy of you goes in the direction you were facing before, while you turn invisible and can get away in the opposite direction. The type of obstacles you can pass through are limited (windows, doors and solid objects), and walls will still be impenetrable. Nevertheless, doppelganger tends to lead the crew on a wild-goose chase and can thus be useful for making a quick escape.||
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| ===Offensive===
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| |Magic missile||20 seconds||Free|||✓||Unleashes homing bolts of energy that automatically target up to six of the nearest crew members. Knocks down and stuns anyone unlucky enough to get beaned by it, and deals a minor amount of damage. The missiles are slow and can be outrun easily, however.||Targets only one person.
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| |Ice burst||20 seconds||1||✓||If magic missile wasn't enough to take care of the hordes, this spell typically will. Throw freezing balls of frost that leave trails of ice in their wake! Your victims (up to three) will be chilled to the bone and often frozen solid in blocks of ice. Use the temperature difference to outrun them.||Targets only one person, doesn't coat the floor in ice.
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| |Blind||10 seconds||1||✓||Temporarily inflicts blindness on a target of your choice, and also stuns them briefly.||Doesn't last as long.
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| |Bull's charge||15 seconds||1||✗||Records your movement for 4 seconds, after which a massive bull charges along the recorded path, smacking anyone unfortunate to get in its way (excluding yourself) and dealing a significant amount of brute damage in the process. Watch your head for loose items, they are thrown around too. Because bull's charge is very situational and somewhat hard to master, you should combine it with magic missile or another spell that stuns your victims.||
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| |Rathen's secret||50 seconds||1||✓||Send asses flying as the power of your spell tears them from their owners! If you're lucky, the shockwave might even sever an arm or leg. You can't count on it for damage or limb removal, but the spell does stun everybody in the area briefly and the smoke it makes will also hide your escape or approach.||
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| |Clown's revenge||2 minutes||1||✓||Can you hear it? The pained laughter? The dull smack of a forehead against metal and glass? The incessant need to honk without end? Spare all pity and show no mercy, for you have brought the curse of the [[cluwne]] to the station! Even the [[Head of Security|worst of threats]] will be reduced to that of a hideous, mewling, crying, honking ur-clown in a puff of smoke, leaving it with no easy means to save itself from its dreadful clothing and ghoulish cranial damage.||
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| |Pandemonium||40 seconds||1||✓||The spell of the wizard who's feeling lucky today! This spell can have any of the following effects: temporarily halves the cooldown of all your spells; randomly summons meteors or a bunch of grilles around you; temporarily gives everybody funny accents or breaks their radios; makes you use the [[vampire]]'s chiropteran screech; stuns people around you briefly, makes them high or sets them on fire.||The random effect may harm you as well.
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| |Fireball||20 seconds||1||✓||Casts a homing fireball that explodes on impact with the target, inflicting severe injury to everybody in the vicinity and setting them alight. Will also wreck nearby walls and machinery, so you could deliberately target the cloning equipment or use the splash damage to hit someone who is hiding around a corner. Very deadly due to the combination of blast damage, limb loss, stun and the effects from burning up alive (accumulating burn damage, movement penalty etc). Be advised that the fireball can also heat and ignite flammable materials caught in its wake, including yourself.||Weaker explosion, shorter range.
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| ==Wizardry 101==
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| You spawn on the wizard's den in your underwear. Grab a robe and hat of your choice from the magical wardrobe, get yourself a staff (plus a few spares you put in your backpack or backpack box) and make sure you have your teleportation scroll. Choose your spells and head over to the computer at the front of your ship, and use it to teleport wherever you want. Keep in mind, your game plan is based on what spells you have. If you're planning on doing some murder and have knock, consider going to the [[armory]] in the [[brig]] for shotguns. If you want to make golems, consider robbing [[chemistry]] or the [[bar]].
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| Zip around and focus on getting your objectives done. Strongly consider dealing with the [[chaplain]]. Track him down and murder him if he didn't already launch himself into space out of boredom before you showed up. Chaplains are immune to most of your spells, so it's easiest to get your hands on a [[Security Objects#Taser|taser]] or something similar to bash his head in. The [[chapel]]'s holy aura will stop you from casting spells, so don't follow people in there.
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| You probably aren't going to succeed the first time you play wizard, so don't feel bad. It's practically expected that a wizard will die in twelve seconds. Wizards usually only come in groups of one to three, so numbers are always going to be against you. Watch and learn from other wizards, and [[mentorhelp]] any questions you might have.
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| ==Fighting a Wizard==
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| '''Please be aware of the [[Metagaming#In-Game Stuff|special guidelines]] regarding the wizard shuttle.'''
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| If you're the [[chaplain]], you don't have to worry about most of his spells (the ones that summon followers or destroy parts of the station can still hurt you, though). If you aren't, the wizard is a deadly opponent. Stunning a wizard will make him drop his staff but won't prevent him from casting spells. They'll just be weakened. Your aim is to knock him out, which will stop him from casting. The best way to do this is with the assistance of an angry mob to overwhelm him. Once knocked out, try to strip him naked and beat him to death with blunt objects. A wizard is capable of teleporting away to his den if prepared, so if you stun him, knock him out as fast as possible and don't allow him to recover. Wizards can choose soulguard, which will save their life one time, in which case you'll have to kill them twice.
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| ==Supplementary Video==
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