Wizard
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Access: None Additional Access: Wherever you can teleport to Difficulty: Very Hard Supervisors: Space Wizard Federation Duties: Welcome the crew to DIE. Guides: This is the guide Quote: "GREETINGS, WE ARE THE WIZARDS AT THE WIZARD FEDERATION *CHAOS*" |
Crew members of SS13, I offer you my sincerest greetings. My name is of no matter, but if you must call me something, you may call me The QuarterWizard. I would like to inform you that I am the noble leader of the Wizards Federation.
You may be wondering, "Why, why mighty QuarterWizard, why do you send wizards to the station to destroy us all?"
Well, denizen of the station, it's quite simple really: One or more of your crew has angered our magical Federation, and now you will all pay the price.
If you're lucky enough to only have certain members of the crew anger us, like that geneticist who once claimed that us magical folk are merely "products of genetics research", then you're more than likely to survive, assuming you give our wizard the means to escape early on. If not, well... Not even I, the mighty QuarterWizard can guarantee your safety. We train our wizards to be masters of many spells, so there is no saying how exactly you will succumb to our mighty wizards.
But, for you lesser beings, I have archived a list of our most common spells, so as to assist you simpletons in identifying just how skilled and varied our wizards can be. 
Dress to Kill
If you are a Wizard, then remember to keep your gear on. Not only are they the latest in wizarding fashion, they are also a powerful magical amplifier. That's the Wizard's Hood, Robes, and Sandals. If you lose those, you are in a boatload of trouble.
Do everything in your power to keep your skirt on. Hurl spells, throw rocks, shout hurtful names at them. Whatever you do, don't let them touch the clothes.
Preparation
You start on board a nearly destroyed Wizard Ship. You have 10 spell points to spend.
Use the Wizard's Ship you start in to familiarize yourself with the spells before you teleport onto the station. You can even re-learn the spells as often as you'd like as long as you're here. Take your time. No need to jump in right away.
Min-Maxing
You can take any of your spells multiple times to upgrade them, generally giving them a lower cooldown.
Spells and Artifacts
Offensive
Spells and items geared towards debilitating and destroying. You can reduce the cooldown by spending more points on the spell.
Items are not bound to you and can be stolen. Additionally they cannot typically be returned once purchased.
| Icon | Name | Description | Cost | Robed? | Cooldown (seconds) |
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Fireball | This spell fires an explosive fireball at a target. | 2 | ✗ | 6/5/4/3/2 |
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Spell Cards | Blazing hot rapid-fire homing cards. Send your foes to the shadow realm with their mystical power! | 2 | ✗ | 5/4/3/2/1 |
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Rod Form | Take on the form of an immovable rod, destroying all in your path. Purchasing this spell multiple times will also increase the rod's damage and travel range. | 2 | ✓ | 25/21.2/17.5/13.7/10 |
| File:Einathspell.png | Disintegrate | This spell charges your hand with vile energy that can be used to violently explode victims. | 2 | ✓ | 60/50/40/30/20 |
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Blind | This spell temporarily blinds a single target. | 1 | ✗ | 30/23.7/17.5/11.2/5 |
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Mutate | This spell causes you to turn into a hulk and gain laser vision for a short while. | 2 | ✓ | 40/37.5/35/32.5/30 |
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Flesh to Stone | This spell charges your hand with the power to turn victims into inert statues for a long period of time. | 2 | ✓ | 60/40/30/20 |
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Tesla Blast | Charge up a tesla arc and release it at a random nearby target! You can move freely while it charges. The arc jumps between targets and can knock them down. | 2 | ✓ | 30/23.2/16.5/9.7/3 |
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Lightning Bolt | Fire a lightning bolt at your foes! It will jump between targets, but can't knock them down. | 3 | ✓ | 20/15.7/11.5/7.2/3 |
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Lesser Summon Guns | Why reload when you have infinite guns? Summons an unending stream of bolt action rifles that deal little damage, but will knock targets down. Requires both hands free to use. Learning this spell makes you unable to learn Arcane Barrage. | 3 | ✓ | 75/56.5/38/19.5/1 |
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Arcane Barrage | Fire a torrent of arcane energy at your foes with this (powerful) spell. Deals much more damage than Lesser Summon Guns, but won't knock targets down. Requires both hands free to use. Learning this spell makes you unable to learn Lesser Summon Gun. | 3 | ✓ | 75/56.5/38/19.5/1 |
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Curse of the Barnyard | This spell dooms an unlucky soul to possess the speech and facial attributes of a barnyard animal. | 2 | ✗ | 15/12/9/6/3 |
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Staff of Change | Allows the wizard to randomly change anyone and anything into an alien, slime, lizardman, cyborg, Syndicate cyborg, monkey, or more! Although it has limited uses, it recharges its magic over time. | 2 | ✗ | |
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Staff of Chaos | Shoots random bolts of magic equal to any of the other wands (including wand of nothing). | 2 | ✗ | |
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Spellblade | A sword capable of firing blasts of energy which rip targets limb from limb. | 2 | ✗ | |
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Rune Crate | A wizard specialized in runecrafting is offering two chests full of runes! The problem is, he mixed up the contents of them so you won't know what you will get! Can include:
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| File:Mjolnir.gif | Mjolnir | The mighty hammer of Thor. Striking your foes with it will send them flying away from you, and can be thrown to achieve the same effect. | 2 | ✗ | |
| File:Mjolnir.gif | Singularity Hammer | A hammer that creates a powerful gravitational field around its target, pulling everything towards it on hit. | 2 | ✗ | |
| File:Cluwnecurse.png | Curse of the Cluwne | This spell dooms the fate of any unlucky soul to the live of a pitiful cluwne, a terrible creature that is hunted for fun. | 2 | ✓ | 60/46.8/33.7/20.6/7.5 |
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Slip | Causes the floor within three tiles to become slippery. | 2 | ✓ | 30/25/20/15/10 |
Defensive
Spells and items geared towards improving your survivability or reducing foes' ability to attack. You can reduce the cooldown by spending more points on the spell.
Items are not bound to you and can be stolen. Additionally they cannot typically be returned once purchased.
| Icon | Name | Description | Cost | Robed? | Cooldown |
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Magic Missile | This spell fires several, slow moving, magic projectiles at nearby targets. | 2 | ✓ | 20/16.5/13/9.5/6 |
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Disable Tech | This spell disables all weapons, cameras and most other technology in range. | 1 | ✓ | 40/35/30/25/20 |
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Repulse | This spell throws everything around the user away. | 2 | ✓ | 40/33.7/27.5/21.2/15 |
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Thrown Lightning | Forged from eldrich energies, a packet of pure power, known as a spell packet will appear in your hand, that when thrown will stun the target. | 2 | ✓ | 1 |
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Stop Time | This spell stops time for everyone except for you, allowing you to move freely while your enemies and even projectiles are frozen. | 2 | ✓ | 50/40/30/20/10 |
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Smoke | This spell spawns a cloud of choking smoke at your location. | 1 | ✗ | 12/9.5/7/4.5/2 |
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Force Wall | Create a magical barrier that only you can pass through. | 1 | ✗ | 10/8.7/7.5/6.2/5 |
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Bind Soul | A dark necromantic pact that can forever bind your soul to an item of your choosing. So long as both your body and the item remain intact and on the same plane you can revive from death, though the time between reincarnations grows steadily with use, along with the weakness that the new skeleton body will experience upon 'birth'. Note that becoming a lich destroys all internal organs except the brain. | 2 | ✗ | 1 |
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Spacetime Distortion | Entangle the strings of space-time in an area around you, randomizing the layout and making proper movement impossible. The strings vibrate... | 1 | ✓ | 30 |
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The Traps! | Summon a number of traps around you. They will damage and enrage any enemies that step on them. | 1 | ✓ | 25/20/15/10/5 |
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Staff of Healing | Shoots bolts that can fully heal the living and raise the dead. | 1 | ✗ | |
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Staff of the Locker | A staff that shoots lockers. It eats anyone it hits on its way, leaving a welded locker with your victims behind. | 2 | ✗ | |
| File:Scryingorb.gif | Scrying Orb | Summoning this crackling orb of energy will grant you permanent x-ray vision in addition to allowing you to ghost while alive, letting you speak with any dead souls. A deceptively powerful tool for spying, essential for the elusive stealth wizard. | 2 | ✗ | |
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Wand Assortment | A belt that comes of one of each useful wand, generated with the highest number of shots possible; they will not, however, regenerate their shots. Includes:
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Mastercrafted Armor Set | Functions the same as normal wizard robes, plus being space-worthy and armored. Minor slowdown. Now you can cast spells in space and low temperature places! | 2 | ✗ | |
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Battlemage Armour | An ensorceled suit of armour, protected by a powerful shield. The shield can completely negate sixteen attacks before being permanently depleted. | 2 | ✗ | |
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Battlemage Armour Charges | A powerful defensive rune, it will grant eight additional charges to a suit of battlemage armour. | 1 | ✗ | |
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Cauterize | Replace all brute/burn damage with burn damage, taken over time. Higher levels increases time taken to return back to original damage level. | 2 | ✓ | 80/75 |
Mobility
Spells and items geared towards improving your ability to move. It is a good idea to take at least one. You can reduce the cooldown by spending more points on the spell.
Items are not bound to you and can be stolen. Additionally they cannot typically be returned once purchased.
| Icon | Name | Description | Cost | Robed? | Cooldown |
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Mind Transfer | This spell allows the user to switch bodies with a target. | 2 | ✗ | 60/50 |
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Blink | This spell randomly teleports you a short distance. | 2 | ✓ | 2/1.6 |
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Teleport | This spell teleports you to an area of your selection. | 2 | ✓ | 60/50 |
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Ethereal Jaunt | This spell turns your form ethereal, temporarily making you invisible and able to pass through walls. | 2 | ✓ | 30/25 |
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Knock | This spell opens nearby doors and closets. | 1 | ✗ | 10/8/6/4 |
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Staff of Door Creation | Turns any wall into a door and opens unbolted doors. | 1 | ✗ | |
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Warp Whistle | A strange whistle that will transport you to a distant safe place on the station. There is a window of vulnerability at the beginning of every use. | 1 | ✗ |
Assistance
Spells and items geared towards bringing in outside forces to aid you or improving upon your other items and abilities. You can reduce the cooldown by spending more points on the spell.
Items are not bound to you and can be stolen. Additionally they cannot typically be returned once purchased.
| Icon | Name | Description | Cost | Robed? | Cooldown |
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Instant Summons | This spell can be used to recall a previously marked item to your hand from anywhere in the universe. | 1 | ✗ | 10 |
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Charge | This spell can be used to recharge a variety of things in your hands, from magical artifacts to electrical components. A creative wizard can even use it to grant magical power to a fellow magic user. | 1 | ✗ | 60/55/50 |
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Shapechange | Take on the shape of another for a time to use their natural abilities. Once you've made your choice it cannot be changed. | 1 | ✗ | 20/16.2/12.5 |
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Soul Tap | Fuel your spells using your own soul! | 3 | ✓ | 1 |
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Staff of Animation | An arcane staff capable of shooting bolts of eldritch energy which cause inanimate objects to come to life. This magic doesn't affect machines. | 2 | ✗ | |
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Six Soul Stone Shards and the spell Artificer | Soul Stone Shards are ancient tools capable of capturing and harnessing the spirits of the dead and dying. The spell Artificer allows you to create arcane machines for the captured souls to pilot. | 2 | ✗ | |
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A Necromantic Stone | A Necromantic stone is able to resurrect three dead individuals as skeletal thralls for you to command. | 2 | ✗ | |
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Contract of Apprenticeship | A magical contract binding an apprentice wizard to your service, using it will summon them to your side. | 2 | ✗ | |
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Guardian Deck | A deck of guardian tarot cards, capable of binding a personal guardian to your body. There are multiple types of guardian available, but all of them will transfer some amount of damage to you. It would be wise to avoid buying these with anything capable of causing you to swap bodies with others. | 2 | ✗ | |
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Bottle of Blood | A bottle of magically infused blood, the smell of which will attract extradimensional beings when broken. Be careful though, the kinds of creatures summoned by blood magic are indiscriminate in their killing, and you yourself may become a victim. | 2 | ✗ | |
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Bottle of Tickles | A bottle of magically infused fun, the smell of which will attract adorable extradimensional beings when broken. These beings are similar to slaughter demons, but they do not permamently kill their victims, instead putting them in an extradimensional hugspace, to be released on the demon's death. Chaotic, but not ultimately damaging. The crew's reaction to the other hand could be very destructive. | 1 | ✗ |
Rituals
These powerful spells change the very fabric of reality. Not always in your favour.
| Name | Description | Cost |
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| Summon Ghosts | Spook the crew out by making them see dead people. Be warned, ghosts are capricious and occasionally vindicative, and some will use their incredibly minor abilities to frustrate you. | 0 |
| Curse of Madness | Curses the station, warping the minds of everyone inside, causing lasting traumas. Warning: this spell can affect you if not cast from a safe distance. | 4 |
Faithful Apprentice
You can select an artifact contract from your spellbook which will allow you to solicit the assistance of a helpful apprentice wizard. Using this contract will select a ghost who has the wizard role enabled and spawn them as your assistant. If no ghosts are available when the contact is used, it will remain usable until one is found. If you do keep yours around note that contracts can be used by non-wizards too. If you change your mind, you can click on your spellbook with an unused contract to refund your spent spell point. When you use the contract you are able to choose from four sets of two spells for the apprentice to learn.
Destruction: Fireball + Magic Missile
Bluespace Manipulation: Jaunt + Teleport
Robeless: Knock + Mindswap
Healing: Forcewall + Charge/Staff of Healing
Once they have chosen a name, the spawned apprentice is given a set of blue robes, a single-use teleport scroll and an objective to keep you alive.
Remember that your survival is paramount! The round doesn't end if your apprentice dies, but do try to keep him alive.
The AI and You!
NOTICE: THE WIZ IS HUMAN (unless he is a lizard wizard or a Skeleton)
Usually, when you go on your long space adventure, you come across an AI.
The AI will either be nice to you and attempt to protect you from the evil crew, or it will track you the whole time, and attempt to trap you! (Luckily, you have been trained by the greatest!) If this happens, go into the AI core, and see how he can track you while it's dead.
If you're feeling nice and don't mind being stunned a few times, you can always pop into the upload! When you get inside, take a Freeform module, pop out, and make nice law explaining how you are practically god of the station, and return to the upload, and of course, upload it!
After that, the AI will be very nice to you, and serve you, his master.
A Friendly Wizard
So you've been made a wizard but don't feel like going on a murderboner and would rather live peacefully among the crew? No problem! The staff are usually very friendly towards wizards [CITATION VERY MUCH NEEDED] if they announce themselves to be friendly and the AI is programmed not to harm them. So pop over to the HoP escorted by the Captain/HoS and request to be part of the station! Who knows, maybe you can be the Janitor! Just remember that you are by law and backstory an enemy of Nanotrasen. Don't get mad when some magic-hating sociopath tries to kill you. They'll try.
Suggested Starting Loadouts
Your first time playing as a Wizard can be disorientating and very hard, but also demanding. Just figuring out what spells to take is half the gamemode onto itself, the other half is utilising those spells. As such this section will detail some basic, but robust, starting Wizard loadouts.
You only get five spells to chose, meaning your spell loadout will be limited. So don't overspecialise.
Stock
- Magic Missile
- Disintegrate
- Ethereal Jaunt
- Blink
- Knock
A basic, but robust set up. Gives you good offensive and defensive capabilities that favour hit and run attacks.
Using Ethereal Jaunt to launch a ambush, then using Magic Missiles to grant you a effective area stun attack while Disintegrate lets you quickly dispatch a single target. Blink and Knock offer a effective fallback to escaping a bad situation or if you screw up.
Offensive
- Magic Missile
- Disable Technology
- Mutate
- Disintegrate OR Fireball
- Blink
Heavily oriented around attacking and killing the crew, you suffer from very little defensive spells, thus relying on being robust enough to kill anyone before they become a threat.
This loadout focuses on Magic Missiles and Mutate in order to kill, as well as either Disintegrate or Fireball to help deliver the coup de grâce. Disable Technology is effective in sapping all energy from Security Officers weapons while Blink offers a small defensive spell to get out of a bad spot.
Defensive
- Magic Missile
- Teleport
- Ethereal Jaunt
- Blink
- Smoke OR offensive spell
This loadout focuses on survivability almost exclusively. You're going to have to rely on stealing station weapons in order to kill people, however you yourself will be really hard to kill as you have a large array of defensive and retreat spells to use.
Stealth
CHOOSE A REALISTIC NAME.
No Robes
- Fireball
- Knock
- Mind Swap
- 2x Free Robeless Spells
A dangerous and advanced loadout, this set up relies on stealth, evasion and confusion to get the job done. However this can prove effective in avoiding getting shot and pulling of outrageous tasks.
If you're discovered you will have few defensive or offensive abilities to employ, Fireball is your only main offensive spell, taking either Blind or Smoke can help in avoiding targets and Forcefield can help keep away pursuers.
These loadouts are meant as a general guide on a simple loadout to use. We highly recommend you experiment with any spell combination when you can.
Tips
- While knocked down, you can still change your "facing" direction by clicking on a tile or at-tempting to move. This means you can aim fireball while knocked down.
- Someone in the "Unconcious" state can be instantly Soul Sharded, regardless of health. Anyone under 50% HP can be KO'd by a briefcase with 100% reliability. See that assistant that burned himself to shit on the door? Briefcase bonk, shard.
- If you use the scroll of teleportation, put it in your pocket and leave the teleportation win-dow open, when you select "Okay" on the window, you'll still teleport, even if it's not in your hands. You can also do this while stunned. So if your escapade as Gas-Mask Wizardtington the "Greyshirt" with a stolen ID ends up getting you tased, you can SCRYAR NILA INCINERATOR 3 times before they'll be able to cuff you, instead of throwing out a panic fireball and hoping he gets KO'd. This is far more useful to a robeless wizard than a robed wizard...as the robed one will likely just cast teleport/blink/jaunt if he ever gets stunned.
- Suicide bombing is a very easy way to kill a wizard. Welderbombings can also knock the wizard out if he's not very good.
- Removing a wizard's hat will often render him completely impotent, as very, VERY few wiz-ards carry spare hats in their backpack. Polyacid smoke grenades work well for stripping their hats.
- You can label constructs, so please please please steal a hand labeler as a wizard so that your artificers actually know which juggernaut to heal.
- The Staff of Animation can animate holographic objects. They retain their 'force' and do not disappear when they leave the holodeck/the holodeck is shut off. So you can load up the thunder dome simulation over and over for infinite E-sword buddies.
- Wizard EMP shocks doors, so you should not better use doors as wizard, after you use EMP skill. Also the staff of animation is even more OP then veil render, just use it on knifes, hatchets and other items of big robustness. Combine this with EMPing security guys, which approach you and mutating in hulk, when you see guys with syringe guns (however, if chemist is not mainstream and deploys lexorin or unstable mutagen, you would get outrobusted) for greater effects.
- The wizard's Knock spell opens bolted doors too.
- The staff of change works on AIs.
...Now, fearless follower of the Wizards Space Federation..
I have but one question for you, now that I revealed all this knowledge to you,
Will you be ready?
With Love,
The QuarterWizard
