Maurice (Maury to his friends) figured out what Mak Attax were up to. Not the whole picture, not even most of it. He doesn't know about how they changed the world 20 years ago or their ethos or factionalism or anything about what they want. He wouldn’t have cared much about that part, he's an ordinary guy with an ordinary life and he likes things that way. He's be comfortable with his world having an understandable rhythm and flow. He just liked burgers.
Maury is what Attaxers would call a ‘superuser’, they’re supposed to be careful about who gets charges through their Special Orders and keep an eye out afterwards but in practice the demands of the job don’t always give them that kind of leeway. Occasionally someone gets a bunch of them and the results are more powerful and stranger than usual. Maurice ate an Attaxer franchise almost every single day for 4 years, in that time he received almost half a dozen by happenstance. Now he can smell magick.
It wasn’t enough to connect the poltergeist attack and the rain of nickels to his daily lunch, that part of his routine was set in stone and the strange occurrences weren’t. It was noticing the acrid ozone smell as a Special Order passed from cashier to customer and seeing her cough up flowers that clued him in. Following two others over the next month who had the same oddly scented burgers passed to them and seeing their own minor miracles sealed it.
Cautious but not particularly subtle, Maury is considering his options. He can't go to the police, he isn’t sure he even would if he could. He’s not sure about confronting the workers, they might not know what they're doing. For what it’s worth they’ve noticed him, Maurice is a mountain of a man and sticks out like a sore thumb at the half a dozen restaurants he now frequents. If he doesn’t say something one of them is going to.
For his efforts Maurice has managed to finagle a dozen Special Orders for himself, either timing an order of a dozen burgers to when he can tell one with a charge is on the grill or imposing himself on a customer and offering 5 times what they paid for it in the parking lot. They’re all in his refrigerator, still humming with magick. It’s a good thing they keep forever.
STATS
Personality: Generous and hardworking. Slow but not stupid. Maurice has a measured lanquidity to his actions, taking all the time he needs to mull them over. He won’t be rushed and when he does act he won’t be swayed.
Rage: Cheats and liars. Honesty carries a lot of weight with Maurice.
Noble: Hard work. Maurice was raised to see his labour as his value.
Fear: Being taken advantage of by the legal system. His aunt lost everything in a civil dispute so Maurice is very cagey about interacting with lawyers (Helplessness).
Obsession: Keeping his part of the world in order.
Wound Threshold: 70.
Gigantic 70% (Substitutes for Struggle, Substitutes for Fitness, Provides Wound Threshold.)
Chargescent 50%* (Specific Information: Smells Charges, Casts Rituals, Use Gutter Magick.)
Shock Gauges
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