Maze Guard (no ontology)

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A Maze Guard is a member of the Maze Personnel and an iconic, almost ubiquitous creature in Mazeworld. Maze Guards represent law enforcement in Mazeworld and are basically the Mazes' police officers. They are armed, like Maze Soldiers, but unlike them, they are generally neutral, promoting peacekeeping and problem solving by more pacific means, rather than making use of deadly force.

Guards enforce a set of laws and attach a Wanted Level to perpetrators they see or know about. Although Guards need to be present to enforce those laws and proceed to arrestations, anyone can be pegged with a Wanted Level if they have been reported.

Despite their generally peaceful nature, Maze Guards tend to dislike youkai, and further participate, along with the Maze Soldiers, to the segregation between humans and youkai. Youkai are not exempt from respecting the laws, but their treatment is even worse than that of human outlaws: they are often executed right off the bat, rather than made into prisoners. This explains why there are never any youkai prisoners.

Because the job of Maze Guard may be particularly dangerous, they are paid on a day-to-day basis, depending on their rank and branch. The base pay of a standard Maze Guard is 120 P$/day.

Maze Guards are declined in several variants and ranks.

Regular police force

Equipment of a regular Maze Guard:

• Cop hat
• Guard shirt
• Guard pants
• Regular shoes
• Guards may carry either a Class 1, Class 2 or Class 3 weapon as their main weapon.
• Load-bearing equipment depending on rank, with 1 extra magazine (or equivalent) for each of their weapons
• Handcuffs, which are used for arresting perpetrators
• Mobile phone with full battery

Equipment of a Special Response Team Guard:'

• Dyneema Helmet
• Guard shirt
• Heavy Dyneema vest
• Dyneema arm pads
• Guard pants
• Dyneema leg pads
• Military boots
• Special Response Team guards carry either a Class 1 or Class 2 weapon as their main, plus a Class 3 weapon as their backup.
• In addition, they always carry one M18 smoke grenade and one M84 flashbang.
• A RM22SF LBE, with 1 extra magazine (or equivalent) for each of their weapons
• Handcuffs, which are used for arresting perpetrators
• Mobile phone with full battery

The different variants include…

• The regular Maze Guard, who carries the 72P LBE
• The Guard Sergeant, who carries the 72P LBE as well, a nightstick and wears a Type 2 Kevlar vest along with their standard weapon.
• The Guard Chief, who always carries a Class 1 weapon, but also a Class 3 sidearm, a Type 2 Kevlar vest, a nightstick, a IIFS LBE, and wear extra protection: Armored elbow pads + Armored knee pads.

• The Special Response Team Guard, the Mazes' equivalent of a SWAT officer and whose equipment is detailed above. A SRT Guard is considered to be of equivalent rank to a Guard Sergeant, and is under the command of a Chief.

Pay grades

• The base pay of a Maze Guard is 120 P$/day.
• A Guard Sergeant receives a pay of 200 P$/day.
• A Guard Chief receives a pay of 350 P$/day.
• A Guard that is part of the Special Response Team receives 300 P$/day.

Laws and Wanted Level

More information: Wanted Level

Overview

Specifications of a Maze Guard…

• Armor class: Regulated by clothing and armor
• Strength perk: None
• HEAD group: Head
• BODY group: Upper and lower body
• LIMBS group: 2 arms, 2 legs
• EXTREMITIES group: 2 prehensile hands, 2 feet, mouth with teeth (facial)
• WEAK POINTS: 2 eyes (facial), genitals
• Skeleton type: Human (Human broken limbs rules)
• Body type: Soft flesh
• Can be tamed: Yes - By making use of convincing power
• Can use weapons and firearms: Yes, and will actively use them
• Are they protected by the law: Yes - Attacking one warrants a Code Orange, killing one warrants a Code Red.
• Other notes: Law enforcement, Loyal ; Attached to its job, is difficult to convince to join the contestant as an ally.

Maze Guards are iconic members of the Maze Personnel. For the contestant, they will either be neutral, friendly and talkative cops, or one of their worst enemies.

Although they are armed, they are not as deadly as Soldiers in terms of training and equipment, even for the higher ranked ones. As a result, Guards are less of a potential threat than Soldiers can be.
Nevertheless, it is most often a bad idea to provoke them, or to cause trouble. As members of law enforcement, they WILL attempt anything they can to fulfill their duty, regardless of the wanted level of the perpetrator - and by definition, of the contestant himself/herself.

Arresting

A Maze Guard has the ability to arrest perpetrators using their handcuffs. Only they can perform an arrest - the handcuffs are used to immobilize the perpetrators, then Guards use their clearance to proceed and punish according to wanted level; either confiscation, or detainment.

All Guards carry handcuffs, and it is possible to take them, should a contestant find a dead Maze Guard. More information on the handcuffs article.

Disguise

A contestant can disguise as a Maze Guard if the following conditions are met:

• Wearing only the clothes of a Maze Guard (Body armor and helmets tolerated, so long as the former doesn't hide the uniform)
  • NOTE: Either Regular shoes or Military boots is approved for wear, as regular police and SRT use either, respectively.
• Carrying a weapon of some kind is mandatory - an unarmed Maze Guard is suspicious

Effects of the disguise:

• Fellow Maze Guards (+all variants) become peaceful to the contestant
• Maze Soldiers (+all variants) are all peaceful to the contestant
• All other members of the Maze Personnel become neutral to the contestant (+ applicable perverted variants)
• All other creatures are unaffected.

Gallery

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See also

• Encounters
• Maze Soldier