[ WP ] life is an rpg where everyone finds out their class at age 18. Business owners start as level 1 merchants , police and military as level 1 guards/fighters , ect . When you turn 18 , you discover you are the first level 1 wizard in over 1000 years .

`` Wizard?'' 
 
 `` Yes, you heard that right. Wizard.'' 
 
 `` A thousand years?'' 
 
 `` Well, the Profession-Assignment Agency has n't actually existed for that long, but that's our best guess. All the magicians since then have been lesser mages, like thaumaturges and sorcerers. Most of them went into entertainment when they realized they did n't need $ 500 to make an elephant disappear.'' 
 
 `` You're telling me magic is real.'' 
 
 `` How do you think the machine works? You did n't seriously believe it infers everyone's personal qualities from a blood sample and cross-references them with potential careers, running up to 100,000 placement algorithms simultaneously and completing each one in less than 10 minutes using computational logic alone?'' 
 
 ``... I guess I never really questioned how the machine worked.'' 
 
 `` Nobody ever does. And as someone who works with it every day, nobody should.'' 
 
 `` So... I'm a wizard.'' 
 
 `` Only because the machine decided it was the best profession for you. You do n't have innate magic any more than a writer has ink in their veins.'' 
 
 `` Exactly what purpose am I supposed to serve as a'wizard'?'' 
 
 `` Do you think the machine gives context for every assignment? All the machine outputs is a slip of paper with a name field and a profession field, see? There's the name field, with your name, and the profession field, with the single word'wizard'.'' 
 
 `` Wonderful, you're so helpful. Print me some ID cards with those on them, and I'll go find a good'wizard academy' to learn spells and shit.'' 
 
 `` Geez, calm down. Listen, magic is a secret. It's not a very closely-guarded one, but it does n't need to be. A bunch of thaumaturges a long time ago got bored of being asked to use magic for things outside their actual capabilities and decided to make magic a secret by making it'fake'. They'confessed' to being charlatans and tricksters, and set up a society of magic-users to continuously pay for the training and continued performance of stage magicians in order to propagate the myth of magic being tricks. 
 
 `` The only ones in on it are the magic-users themselves, and the machine administrators - that's people like me. It's the perfect cover - people will never believe in magic of their own free will, but if you make it their job, they have to believe - because nobody questions the machine. 
 
 `` As an administrator, I am allowed to recommend a college based on your new profession where you can receive training in the appropriate fields before apprenticing yourself to a master of your assigned profession. There is currently only one college for magic-users... here's the pamphlet.'' 
 
 `` This is a flier for a military research base.'' 
 
 `` Exactly. If anyone asks, your profession is researcher.'' 
 
 `` But my badge will still say'wizard', wo n't it?'' 
 
 `` No, for the conspiracy continues. The Society for the Secrecy of Magic provides enchanted blank badges for new magicians, which can be altered to read ( and authentically scan as ) any other profession, according to the desires of the bearer.'' 
 
 `` I'm not just the first wizard in 1,000 years, but I'm also automatically a member of a secret society with the power to perfectly imitate any other profession?'' 
 
 `` Pretty good deal, huh? Of course, while I never get the chance to ask, I'm sure there's some kind of code you have to follow when you use these. Or maybe they just issue you a mundane one when you find the college.'' 
 
 `` So, is that everything you can tell me?'' 
 
 `` That's pretty much the long and short of it, as far as I'm aware. You'll need this paperwork, and your badge.'' 
 
 `` It's magical, huh?'' 
 
 `` One of the few examples I get to see in person. I usually tell people to imagine it saying another profession, and it usually works. Might as well test it out before you leave.'' 
 
 ``... Did it work?'' 
 
 `` Yep, researcher. Keep that folder of paperwork closed, though. Those documents ca n't be enchanted ahead of time - at least, that's what they tell me.'' 
 
 `` I'm still trying to wrap my head around the idea of being an actual wizard. I keep thinking you're going to point out a hidden camera or something.'' 
 
 `` I wish. The faces people make when they find out the machine has decided they should be magic-users can be priceless.'' 
 
 `` Well, if that's everything, I guess I should be going.'' 
 
 `` Good luck being a wizard, by the way. The way these folks operate, they'll probably have some prophecy about you that they want you to fulfill - or fail to fulfill.'' 
 
 `` I'll keep that in mind. Goodbye.''
