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[b]Name:[/b] Magdalene "Mags" Vulpe
[b]Age:[/b] 23
[b]Appearance: [/b]
This lady has slanted blue eyes that are like two lagoons. Her luxurious, straight, collar-length hair is the color of black coffee, and is worn in a right-side parted pixie cut. She is very tall and has a lean androgynous build, so is sometimes mistaken for a man. Her skin is pale, except for reddish scaring on her right cheek, and a sword-shaped birthmark on her chest. She has a low forehead and high cheekbones.

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Andrei Vulpe, freelance journalist, found the baby crying inside a dumpster outside an Atlantic City casino - but instead of handing her over to the police, he brought her home with him to his apartment, telling anyone who asked that she was his baby sister, his parents having died in a car accident back in Romania. And her name was Magdalene. His team, while disagreeing with his impromptu adoption, quickly arranged for documentation.

She was two, a toddler, sound asleep in her room when a curtain too close to the heater caught fire. A scrap of burning fabric fell into her crib, burning the right side of her face. Andrei stormed in with a fire extinguisher, putting out the flames, and took her to the emergency room. Mags recovered quickly, but there was scarring. One of her adopted aunts gave her a flesh patch to hide the scarring when she went to kindergarden, but it was itchy and she scratched it off in the classroom on the first day. Older kids seeing it named her "scar-face".

Every Sunday evening, for as long as she could remember, her father's six friends would show up and would read reports to each other, mostly their observations for that week, typically in Romanian but sometimes English and sometimes in something else. Andrei would collect them afterward. Wanting to be a part of that, Mags threw herself into her studies, practicing her penmanship with such zeal that her teachers had nothing but glowing praise with her class essays. 

She then began writing her own reports, copying their style of an outsider looking in, and reading to them at the end of their meetings - in Romanian. Her adopted aunts and uncles praised her presentation, with a glowing Andrei adding her reports with the others.

Shortly after her twelfth birthday, they got a new neighbor, Justin Tyrell, a retired FBI agent who offered to babysit Mags when Andrei needed to go out to research something for his articles. While he had a lot of interesting stories, she couldn't help but notice he seemed very interested in her brother.

It wasn't too long after that she realized that she was being watched by strangers as she went to school, and they all knew her name. It freaked her out that she would cut classes, having to do summer school to make up for the lost work.

After graduating from high school, Andrei took her on a trip to Romania, where she made some friends - who took her drinking. Waking up one morning with a pounding head, she realized she was in some sort of barracks - somehow she got enlisted in the Romanian army. Andrei tried to get her out, but was reluctant to involve the American embassy.

Bootcamp taught her how to shoot a rifle, some basic hand-to-hand combat, and some wilderness survival. After training, she was assigned to the armory to repair and maintain equipment and weapons, as well as driving the unit commander's vehicle when they went to the field. By the time her enlistment ended, she was a sergeant, and received 520 Romanian Leu mustering out payment - which after conversion to dollars left her with $119.60. 

Fortunately Andrei and the aunts and uncles paid for her ticket back to the states, but she realizes she needs a job.

When she got the offer to go to Alaska to learn magic, it tweaked her journalism interest.
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[b]HP:[/b] 32

[u][b]Skills:[/b][/u]

[b]Combat: [/b]
   Rifle: 4
   Jiu Jitsu: 4
   Knife fighting: 2

[b]Support: [/b]
   Wilderness Survival: 4
   Weapon and field equipment repair: 4
   Journalism: 2

[b]Magic: [/b]
TBD

[b]Equipment:[/b] Romanian army personal issue - M2017 field shirt, pants, and ballcap; O.D. field jacket, V-neck sweater with epaulettes, wool pants, socks, scarf, and gloves, rain cape; brown fur hat, black leather boots, black pistol belt, O.D. canvas duffle bag.

[b]Items:[/b] Romanian Army bread bag, first aid kit, survival kit, 100MPH duct tape, 100ft O.D. parachute cord, Swiss army knife, zippo, lighter fluid, sanitary supplies, brush, two Moleskine notebooks, Pilot space pen, smart phone with chargers and cord.

[b]Money:[/b] $119.60
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