Magic EXE (DetectiveSky612)

Magic EXE is a book written by DetectiveSky612 on Fanfiction.net. While it had a strong start, the story has since been put on hiatus after Chapter 5. It is unknown whether it will ever be taken off of hiatus.

While publishing has stopped, concepts and characters are in no short supply. This following page will detail all of the notes and ideas I've had writing Magic EXE. Welcome to Magic EXE: The LMMCU Page!

World
The world of Magic EXE is not too far removed from our own. Hosted by a pair of supercomputers at Terraverse HQ, the Universe is split into segments composed of Realms. Each Realm has its own special traits and quirks, all of which are mishmashed into a huge, chaotic nexus in the "Hub World", which gets its own supercomputer host.

Official Realms
Any origin realms of named characters are marked.
 * J K Rowling's Wizarding World - Alabaster's first Realm.
 * Indiana Jones ("Barnett College, 1938")
 * Pirates of the Caribbean ("Port Royal, Jamaica") - Gus' first Realm.
 * The Princess Bride - Elias' first Realm.
 * Star Wars ("The Galactic Republic")
 * The Legend of Zelda ("Hyrule") - Zachariah's first Realm.
 * The Hub World
 * RWBY ("Vale") - Gus' second Realm.

Dramatis Personae

 * Alabaster Dresden, a young wizard planted into J K Rowling's Wizarding World, skilled in the art of spellsmithing (creating new spells from the correct etymology). Though he only carries a couple things on hand at once, his satchel is bigger than it looks, hiding the fact that he's typically armed to the teeth. His faithful Server Link, Dominic, acts as his mobile HUD projector and target-lock system.
 * Icarus Rourke is a Terraverse developer assigned to watch over J K Rowling's Wizarding World while the programming division smoothes over bugs and glitches. Wearing futuristic samurai-style armour, he cements his megalomaniacal rule over this Realm with a Lightsaber-spear and a Banhammer. He first turned up to stop Alabaster at the end of Prisoner of Azkaban 's story arc. He revealed to Alabaster that he no longer existed as he knew it, but rather his Terraverse "self" was a handful of code chunks designed to simulate his personality, starting Alabaster into a race to save both Hogwarts and himself.
 * Gus Ambrose, Zachariah Cogsmith, and Elias Harris are the first-, second-, and third-in-command of a roaming guild of beta-tester-players, known as the Sixteen Bits. They were the first Hogwarts-allied players to break through the Realm Barricade around J K Rowling's Wizarding World during the Battle of Hogwarts. Gus uses a trident and Energy Bow from his first two worlds, and wears a set of red cold-weather gear trimmed down for mobility. Zachariah, nicknamed "the Stig" because of his white outfit and tendency to silence, wields a double-bladed halberd augmented with a Hookshot. Elias wields a rapier with great skill from his tutelage under the Dread Pirate Wesley Roberts and Inigo Montoya, paired with a main-gauche parrying dagger.

The Tower of the Moon
Alabasters builds and christens this dungeon during the gap between his fourth and fifth years at Hogwarts, continually working on its structure, superstructure and infrastructure, eventually making it more of a small city than a dungeon. It's essentially its own nation, locked away in a pocket dimension. Alabaster serves as the general of the standing army there, and occasionally as the dungeon boss (the position is usually filled by his pet dragon, Tierzis).

The army, the Legion of the Moon, is split into battalions of sixty-four soldiers (or eight AFVs), which is then narrowed down to eight platoons of eight soldiers (or one AFV) each. The rank of an individual is determined by the colour of ornamental cape, helmet, or hat-plume they wear. A purple accessory denotes the High Commander, which is Alabaster himself, while a white accessory is reserved for the Commanders of each battalion, and blue is used for the Captains of each platoon. To date, the largest mass mobilization of the Legion was at the Battle of Hogwarts, where one of the two swordsman battalions, both marksman battalions, one of the two tank battalions, the sharpshooter battalion, the artillery battalion, and the Romani Battalion were all scrambled to defend the castle against Rourke's army of Death Eaters and noobs that pre-ordered the game (the Battle of Hogwarts happened a couple of days after the release of Terraverse to the public).

Other Products and Non-Canon Appearances

 * Alabaster has appeared in LEGO Voidhoppers, and plays an integral part in the third act of the story.

Events (Special Quests)

 * Super Expy Bros. - When Hermione's Note enters the story of Chamber of Secrets, this quest pops up, saying to "find and slay whatever's in the pipes".
 * Don't Mess With Time - During Harry, Hermione, Ron, and Alabaster's first go-around of saving Buckbeak and the Shrieking Shack, Alabaster (from the future) turns up to himself, alone, and convinces Past Alabaster to take a compass he'd enchanted after the freeing of Sirius Black.
 * The Black Tower - Alabaster, Harry, and Hermione save Sirius Black.
 * Don't Mess With Time II - Alabaster replays Don't Mess With Time, except this time he's the Alabaster that comes in from the future.
 * The Forbidden Journey - Alabaster decides to skip class with Harry, Ron, and Hermione, which winds up to be a bit of an adventure after Hagrid loses a dragon somehow.
 * Little Hangleton Graveyard - When Alabaster and Harry grab the Triwizard Cup together, this event triggers once they land. Voldemort attempts to kill Alabaster, but the Hogwarts Battle Deck saves Al's life and he manages to escape Voldemort's attention by playing dead.
 * Dumbledore's Army - Alabaster is present at the founding of Dumbledore's Army, cementing his alignment as Chaotic Good.
 * The Battle of the Astronomy Tower - Alabaster's trying to repel the Death Eater invasion. Instead, he ends up reviving Dumbledore.
 * Escape from Gringotts - Alabaster's first (and last) day as security detail at Gringotts.
 * The Battle of Hogwarts - Alabaster's main objectives here? Defend the castle. Kill Rourke.

Stats and Mechanics
Items in Terraverse are organized into 5 tiers, and items in a dungeon of a certain tier receive a functional stat that changes range based on the tier. Special items do not have a tier, and are instead "Tier X", and have their stats determined by the modifying the player's applicable stat, similar to an equation. Monsters can also be organized this way, receiving a base HP stat equivalent to 500x their tier.

TI: +5-10 ATK, +15-25 DEF, LVL 1-10

TII: +15-25 ATK, +30-45 DEF, LVL 11-25

TIII: +30-45 ATK, +50-75 DEF, LVL 26-50

TIV: +50-75 ATK, +80-100 DEF, LVL 51-100

TV: +80-100 ATK, +125-150 DEF, LVL 100+

TX: x2-5 ATK, x2-5 DEF, Special Case

Time Travel
If you time travel to the past, Terraverse uses a recording of what you had and were doing at that time with an AI approximation of your mind and personality. Anything you change will take effect across the server once you “close the loop” and return to the present. If you go to the future, your Inventory will be an AI approximation as well.

Staves
Staves (plural of "staff", for the uninitiated) are customizable magic tools common among wizards in the Medieval Era, though supplanted by wand today because of the wand's concealability.

A staff has 3 cores, compared to 2 in a sceptre and 1 in a wand - One at the foot of staff (typically a marble, granite, or obsidian spike or monster tooth), one in the shaft (usually a unicorn hair, phoenix feather, dragon heartstring or other wand core), and one at head of staff (commonly a gemstone or runic stone)

The shaft of a staff is the handle, which must be longer than 3 feet to distinguish it from a sceptre - It's usually made of wood. Wrought-metal shafts exist, but became more common among staff users in the late Medieval Era (metal shafts provided more durability and wouldn't chip or crack beneath a sword)

The fastening, or core mount, is the bit just beneath the top of the staff that connects shaft to the Head Core. Most revivalist Core Mounts are made of silver or chromium, but black iron can be used as well - although it’s usually a hallmark of a Dark Magic user.

Any extra gizmos or decorations are usually mounted on the fastening, between the shaft and Core Mount.

Soundtrack

 * Alabaster's Waltz
 * Hogwarts Grounds (Years 1-4)
 * Hogwarts Grounds (Years 5-7)
 * The Dark World
 * The Forge
 * Overworld
 * Hogsmeade
 * Astronomy Tower
 * Alabaster's Dungeon, the Tower of the Moon
 * Alabaster's Theme (Star Wars)
 * Alabaster's Theme (Pirates of the Caribbean)
 * Underneath the Trapdoor
 * Aragog's Lair
 * The Chamber of Secrets
 * The Honeydukes Passageway
 * The Shrieking Shack
 * The Past
 * The First Task
 * The Second Task
 * The Final Task
 * The Ministry of Magic: Department of Mysteries
 * The Horcrux Grotto
 * Hogwarts (It becomes a Dungeon after Dumbledore dies)