If magik has a network, you’d better believe there’s a sysadmin out there watching it!

The Administrator

Attributes: There’s a network out there that carries the juice. The Romans had their acquaducts, The State of Texas has its own electrical grid. Without organization, the juice just doesn’t get from the reservoir to the end user. That’s not just true of water and electricity. THe Brits knew this when they built Stonehenge. They needed a butt-kicking router.

If you build a network to get the magik from the source to the end user, you’d better have a take-charge type of person overseeing this connection and making sure the users pay the bills and follow the rules. That person is The Administrator. She manifests anywhere a source of great magical power gets tapped by a variety of users. She lays down the law as to how its all going to work and what its going to take to get access. At least she tries and then, as the bad joke goes, it gets hilarious.

The Administrator is tied to a great source of magical power. He runs that particular check point. It’s his until
someone slips Cerberus some Strychnine. The Administrator will guard it until his death, or until a rival does something worse to him.

She draws her power from the source. Her taboo is to ever leave the source unprotected. SHe will instantly die if the source gets unplugged. She will uncharge if the source is jammed. She gets damaged if it is hacked.

The Administrator gets into wars with CLiomancers and Urbanomancers. They all three want to control the source. The later two don’t have guarunteed Admin rights. It’s a real bone of contention.

The Administrator is a very popular channel for TNI and The Sleepers. It’s the ultimate in oversite for magical sites that may become a wee bit too famous or infamous.

Symbols: Any major computer company’s logo with a slight modification. E.g. “Magic_Soft. How would you like to be f–ked with today?” Cerberus, The Balrog on the bridge or the troll under it.

Masks: The Druid Priest of Stonehenge. Horatio on the bridge into Rome.

Channels:

01-50%: What’s The Magic Word? Channeling this avatar allows the user to set a password that has to be repeated before anyone can draw a charge off a given source. It can be hacked by enterprising adepts, but will work on most novices and require a ritual and the expenditure of some serious charge loads to get rid of.

51-70%: Admin Rights gives the Administrator the ability to draw charges off a magical location even if someone beats her there. It also allows her to make fairly routine repairs to a magical item or shrine. She can also plug an artifact into a magical site and recharge it off that site. It only works on one site that the Administrator has a working password on.

71-90%: User Permissions allows the Administrator to plug in a few of his buddies and charge them up too. It works for up to three friends. It has to effect a site The Adminsitrator has password protected and established Admin Rights to.

91-100%: Denial of Service. This is what The Administrator can do to those who abuse the network. THis allows the Administrator to cancel all of the charges someone has drawn off of a sight and yank their user privaleges while simultaneously revoking their password. This will lead a Cliomancer or Urbanomancer to declare personal jihad against The Administrator.