• Minor hassles like rearranging the furniture or well-timed unsites, to rock the victim off auto-pilot and make them think.
• Enforced quests to show they have a wide knowledge of the game.
• Violent assault by suspiciously high-level personae they've never even seen before.

If a player with a mage has not lost a high-level persona at some previous stage, the wizzes will almost certainly wish to see that they can handle such a loss (so that they know what effect this can have on people - this is important if you're going to have wiz powers at your disposal), and they will therefore attempt to cause it (but if you're good enough, you can still survive - there's something wrong if you feel you need to take a fall). Most testing is genuinely to sound out how good a player is, and make life interesting. Some, however, is likely to be an excuse to cause a player pain and sorrow. Testing by several wizzes in quick succession can seem a lot like bullying, but mortals shouldn't necessarily moan unless it happens all the time - it's probably just coincidence or as a result of the mortal's not playing frequently enough for the testing to be spread around. In a test, wizzes are looking for character (sense 4), ability, resolve, but most importantly that spark. All mortals can expect at least one really over-the-top test (they may not get it, but they can expect it!). In this, they will be attacked unremittingly and for no good reason while being hassled unmercifully by wizzes; this is to show them how it feels, so they won't be so inclined to abuse their powers when they make wiz (except, of course, while themselves testing people...). Tests are not official, there are no passes/failures, and mortals may not even know they're being tested. Mild testing will begin at perhaps necro, with the heavy stuff reserved for 120k mages (which might be why so many of them seem to get stuck around that score for several weeks!). See tweak.