07-04-2009, 09:26 AM
Dr. D Carvine, MSc Phys, AeEngD
Twenty Questions:
1. What is your persona name?
Douglas Carvine
2. What is your personas personality?
Very single-track minded, tends to see most things in terms of his research work and has to actively restrain himself from boring those around him with intricate details of how he's just thought about an experiment to track the aetheric remnants of a typists finger-tips moving through time and space as a fool-proof form of key-logging...
This is mainly a side-effect of spending most of his free time engaging in said research work, and as he's spent more time in relaxation at the Arcanum building a smoother, more social side to him is slowly being shown.
3. What is your persona's history?
Born to well-off parents living in a nice house in London, Douglas' story only really picks up towards the end of Secondary School education, where he had picked up an interest in the sciences. His physics teacher Mr Samuel Wilkes, himself an associate of the Society, took a personal interest in Douglas' education and eventually pointed him towards the Theoretical Physics Master's degree course at University College London taught by a Professor Michael Helmawr, head of Paraphysical Studies at UCL. Over his years of study, his focus of interest strayed from the Physical and Sub-Atomic planes to the Aetherial plane, through which all energy passes and leaves traces, and ended up receiving a doctorate in Aethereomantic Engineering after proving it was possible to develop a device that allowed the user to very slightly manipulate the Aetherial plane. He is now a research fellow of the University, with lodgings and a lab on Gower Street, and spends most of his time working on actually creating such a device.
4. Physical Description?
5. What is your personas general appearance?
6. Where was your character born?
Royal Free Hospital, London
7. How old is your Character?
28
8. Does your character have a family?
Both parents still survive, although rarely have any contact with their son. His sister is a journalist.
9. Has your persona begun their own family?
No
10. How and where was your persona educated?
University College School - 9 GCSEs , 1 AS Level and 4 A Levels
University College London - Masters in Science, Theoretical Physics
University College London - Doctor of Aethereomantic Engineering
11. What jobs has your persona done in the past?
A few retail jobs and some work as a bouncer during his University education; otherwise his entire professional career has been spent as a research associate.
12. What are your persona’s beliefs and outlooks on life?
Frustration, and endless wonder, that no matter how well we may document the universe around us we may never understand it.
13. What is your characters moral code?
Moral Codes can be highly destructive in and of themselves, but none-the-less are necessary to our humanity. Otherwise - obey the law when possible, avoid causing pain to others where possible. Remember that people are more important than answers, regardless of how fascinating the questions may be.
14. What special qualities does your persona posses?
Tinkers with and creates devices ('gadgets') for the viewing, analysing and manipulation of Aethereomantic traces and energies. The ability to stay awake during a three-hour lecture on the non-colour of a Charm quark.
15. What are your persona’s goals?
To develop, refine, patent, market and get famous off a fully working Carvine Mechanism.
16. What is it that your persona simply cannot do?
17. What does your persona love?
Scientific research for the sake of scientific research, tapping the unknown.
18. What does your persona hate?
People unable to reconcile religion with science ("There is a god" is not a testable hypothesis, but that does not mean that science says it's false - merely that it's not a phrase that can be proven. Large parts of the supernatural can, however). Those who would choose to use knowledge for their own power rather than improving the lives of others. Spiders. Moths. Headline writers. Grazia magazine.
19. Friends, Allies and Enemies!
Friends: Mr Samuel Wilkes, Physics teacher, Paraphysical researcher and associate of the Arcanium Society. Roger Felworth, post-graduate research assistant.
Allies: Henry Gomm, Chief Editor of New Scientist and New Arcanist magazines. Professor Michael Helmawr, head of Paraphysical Studies at UCL. The rest of the Paraphysical studies department.
Enemies: Lawren Smithline and Pak Chim Lo, an American inventor and Korean researcher respectively, are both working on parallel technologies to the Carvine device and a bitter, though civil, rivalry has grown between the three.
20. Why has your persona become a adventurer?
Joined the Arcanium Society to make use of it's extensive library and contacts (with the annual fees paid for by the university). Adventures to engage in field tests of both Aetheric detection and manipulation devices. He thinks he's on the verge of making his first field-stable Carvine Mechanism, and may well be right.
Twenty Questions:
1. What is your persona name?
Douglas Carvine
2. What is your personas personality?
Very single-track minded, tends to see most things in terms of his research work and has to actively restrain himself from boring those around him with intricate details of how he's just thought about an experiment to track the aetheric remnants of a typists finger-tips moving through time and space as a fool-proof form of key-logging...
This is mainly a side-effect of spending most of his free time engaging in said research work, and as he's spent more time in relaxation at the Arcanum building a smoother, more social side to him is slowly being shown.
3. What is your persona's history?
Born to well-off parents living in a nice house in London, Douglas' story only really picks up towards the end of Secondary School education, where he had picked up an interest in the sciences. His physics teacher Mr Samuel Wilkes, himself an associate of the Society, took a personal interest in Douglas' education and eventually pointed him towards the Theoretical Physics Master's degree course at University College London taught by a Professor Michael Helmawr, head of Paraphysical Studies at UCL. Over his years of study, his focus of interest strayed from the Physical and Sub-Atomic planes to the Aetherial plane, through which all energy passes and leaves traces, and ended up receiving a doctorate in Aethereomantic Engineering after proving it was possible to develop a device that allowed the user to very slightly manipulate the Aetherial plane. He is now a research fellow of the University, with lodgings and a lab on Gower Street, and spends most of his time working on actually creating such a device.
4. Physical Description?
5. What is your personas general appearance?
6. Where was your character born?
Royal Free Hospital, London
7. How old is your Character?
28
8. Does your character have a family?
Both parents still survive, although rarely have any contact with their son. His sister is a journalist.
9. Has your persona begun their own family?
No
10. How and where was your persona educated?
University College School - 9 GCSEs , 1 AS Level and 4 A Levels
University College London - Masters in Science, Theoretical Physics
University College London - Doctor of Aethereomantic Engineering
11. What jobs has your persona done in the past?
A few retail jobs and some work as a bouncer during his University education; otherwise his entire professional career has been spent as a research associate.
12. What are your persona’s beliefs and outlooks on life?
Frustration, and endless wonder, that no matter how well we may document the universe around us we may never understand it.
13. What is your characters moral code?
Moral Codes can be highly destructive in and of themselves, but none-the-less are necessary to our humanity. Otherwise - obey the law when possible, avoid causing pain to others where possible. Remember that people are more important than answers, regardless of how fascinating the questions may be.
14. What special qualities does your persona posses?
Tinkers with and creates devices ('gadgets') for the viewing, analysing and manipulation of Aethereomantic traces and energies. The ability to stay awake during a three-hour lecture on the non-colour of a Charm quark.
15. What are your persona’s goals?
To develop, refine, patent, market and get famous off a fully working Carvine Mechanism.
16. What is it that your persona simply cannot do?
17. What does your persona love?
Scientific research for the sake of scientific research, tapping the unknown.
18. What does your persona hate?
People unable to reconcile religion with science ("There is a god" is not a testable hypothesis, but that does not mean that science says it's false - merely that it's not a phrase that can be proven. Large parts of the supernatural can, however). Those who would choose to use knowledge for their own power rather than improving the lives of others. Spiders. Moths. Headline writers. Grazia magazine.
19. Friends, Allies and Enemies!
Friends: Mr Samuel Wilkes, Physics teacher, Paraphysical researcher and associate of the Arcanium Society. Roger Felworth, post-graduate research assistant.
Allies: Henry Gomm, Chief Editor of New Scientist and New Arcanist magazines. Professor Michael Helmawr, head of Paraphysical Studies at UCL. The rest of the Paraphysical studies department.
Enemies: Lawren Smithline and Pak Chim Lo, an American inventor and Korean researcher respectively, are both working on parallel technologies to the Carvine device and a bitter, though civil, rivalry has grown between the three.
20. Why has your persona become a adventurer?
Joined the Arcanium Society to make use of it's extensive library and contacts (with the annual fees paid for by the university). Adventures to engage in field tests of both Aetheric detection and manipulation devices. He thinks he's on the verge of making his first field-stable Carvine Mechanism, and may well be right.