Name: Dr. Blaine Morton Nowacki Age: 36 Race: Human Sex: Male Nationality: American (1/2 Polish, 1/4 Czech, 1/4 Irish) Height: 5' 4" Weight: 154 lbs Hobbies: Inventing, eBay Favorite Color: White Strengths: Anything technical. Weaknesses: Anything not. B: 5 M: 6 S: 4 ACV: 5 DCV: 3 HP: 45 + 10 = 55 EP: 50 + 0 = 50 CP: 29 = (25 given, 4 defect) Used: 29 Description: ------------ Blaine is a short, pale, wiry man, with a red beard that looks absolutely out of place on him. He is balding a little on top, but still sports a matted, nappy-looking mane that rarely gets washed. He sports gigantic glasses that look like they just came off the Hubble. Blaine is often likened to a gnome, or, less whimsically, a burrowing monkey - he has a tendency to seek low places, but can actually climb and perform decently acrobatic balancing acts off of girders and supports. One of his favorite tricks is working on technical equipment while hanging upside down off a pipe. Disposition: ------------ Blaine is jumpy, and generally anxious. He has a tendency to flit from subject to subject, but he can focus if he buckles down. He gets easily confused in complex social situations, but doesn't go out of his way to avoid them. Most of the time, he just kind of floats along, interjecting where he can. (11 CP Total) Attributes: Level: Points: Effect: ---------------------------------------------------- Mechanical Genius 2 4 Build/Repair at 5x, +1 to Electronics/Mechanics skills Highly Skilled 4 4 +40 SP Damn Healthy! 1 1 +10 HP Personal Gear 2 2 4 major, 0 minor items Unknown Supernatural Power - 4 Power provided by GM (60 SP total) Skills: Level: Points: Specialty: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mechanics 3(4) 8 Robotics, Servos, Automobiles Electronics 4(5) 11 Computers, Robotics, Consumer Electronics, Security Computers 5 12 Security, AI, Programming Physical Sciences 2 4 Physics Acrobatics 2 8 Balance Gaming 4 5 Computer, Strategy Forgery 2 2 Electronic Documents Visual Arts 2 3 Video Animation, CGI Writing 2 3 Technical, Fiction Artisan 2 4 Metalworking Personal Gear (4 major, 0 minor) -------------------------------- Ungodly Computer System (2 major) - Blaine's personal computer (which is the one he keeps at work) is an impressive amalgam of all the latest sort of tech. In actuality, it's four dual-processor motherboards linked together, to create a massive eight-processor system. It sports about seven drives of various CD ilk, as well as floppy, superfloppy, Zip, Jazz, and tape drive. It has a tremendous amount of storage space, arrayed in two RAID:5 clusters. It also provides an ungodly number of ports, and includes a fingerprint scanner. The operating system is Blaine's own, a heavily modified variant of Linux. Coincidentally, he also coded all his own drivers. It is, of course, cooled by nitrogen... the problem with this is that it makes the system effectively immobile without a great deal of effort. Impressive Laptop (1 major) - Top-of-the-line custom built laptop, sporting nothing too fancy, but everything a computer professional would need to do his job, including a large software suite of development tools. 1981 AMC Gremlin (1 major) - A white Gremlin, in good exterior shape, with just over 150,000 miles on it. (4 CP total) Defects: Level: Points: ------------------------------------------------ Easily Distracted (High Technology) 1 1 Physically Unappealing 1 1 Absolute Social Defecit* 1 1 Marked # 1 1 * Absolute Social Defecit - Blaine was a rather sheltered child, and a marginally less sheltered adult. He has little to no idea of how society works offline, to the point of not knowing exactly why people still print books, or any form of etiquette (excepting chatroom "Netiquette"). # Blaine has a birthmark that sort of looks like Richard Nixon's profile between his shoulderblades. Brief History: -------------- Son of two overprotective parents and two older brothers with a penchant for football and wrestling, Blaine was generally isolated from the rest of the world. He was homeschooled all the way through highschool, and attended MIT for undergraduate research, majoring in Computer Science, with a focus on AI and robotic control. He continued on to get his Masters, and then his doctorate, with an impressive thesis covering the manipulation of genetic algorithms to control modular and non-modular robots. . He emerged from school at the young age of 29, and had managed to keep direct contact with other humans to an absolute minimum. He was snapped up by the University of Wisconsin's WARF (Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation) program, and was quickly recognized for his skill and prowess at ... well, anything technical. His official position at WARF is Associate Researcher, but he essentially does any and all server/security maintenance required. Occasionally he'll wander up to one of the labs in the daytime. Blaine is not a sociophobe. He does not feel scared of people, too much, and though he's insufferably jumpy and nervous, he generally holds together well when not in front of a computer. He has gained a reputation as a master technician, and is often called the Computer Gnome (in a respectful manner). That suits Blaine just fine - nobody makes fun of him, and he can do most of his work without seeing another human. Work is all Blaine's interested in, really, except for a little animation and drawing on the side. He comes in before everyone else, usually, and leaves at some ungodly hour of the morning, when he doesn't just sleep on the cot in his basement office (which is just the main server room). When the inventing bug hits, Blaine uses his tech skills to unlock doors, and when that fails him, he uses ventilation shafts and the like to get him where he wants to go in the building. One way or the other, he always gets _something_ invented.