[OOC] The Madness (An insane roleplay)

[OscarioTheGuy]

Yeah, same here. I have been very busy recently too. Hopefully I will post more now though.

[tenebrae16]

Aw everyone is busy aren't they?

[OscarioTheGuy]

Doesn't mean it's dead.

[tenebrae16]

Yeah, but it's slow and unless you're a turtle slow things often die quickly. Like old machines..

Let's hope we're a turtle everyone.

[OscarioTheGuy]

[tenebrae16]

Quick check, how's everyone enjoying the rp so far?

[aegyolk]

Good- but I haven't been able to post for a while. Spiderlegs is dead?

[tenebrae16]

It would seem so, not been active for a month. I'll be advertising for more people since we're a little short now. Go ahead and move your character to the cafeteria.

[OscarioTheGuy]

I really enjoy this RP. Adam/Bruce is actually a character I have for my original story and I'm glad that I get to really explore their personalities and actions through this RP. I apologise for not posting nearly as much as I should though, I've been pretty busy.

[tenebrae16]

So I can assume the current active rpers here are

Oscariotheguy
Sheeplon
aegyolk
The paintblob

Honestly, we've lost a few people and so on, I'm hoping to get more and turn this rp into something more focused, but I have to ask, due to how far we've come and how little there is done.

Should we do somewhat of a reboot? As in starting more strongly from where we are now and taking what we have as practice with our characters or prologue? Because I feel like we started off a little weak and right now I'm hoping to get more people on board with this. Or would you all rather continue since it's still relatively early and so on.

[ThePaintBlob]

Hmmmm. How would we start more strongly?

[tenebrae16]

Hmm, I was thinking that we'd have a better sense of our characters and I would try to provide a clearer picture of the facility and try to steer the plot better. I don't know, I always doubt my ability to do anything. ;P

[Traitor]

Catherine Caldwell

Scientists
Name: Catherine Caldwell
Age: 24
Appearance

Personality: Catherine has a relaxed, cheerful personality. She doesn't quite fit into the archetype of a nerdy scientist much, as is already implied by her visual appearance. She's not shying away from social interaction, acting cheekily curious both with colleagues and test subjects. Adding insult to injury, she's somewhat quirky, provoking strong reactions from either, be they positive or negative. Sometimes falls back into crude language, and regularly speaks before thinking. She handles formalities and directives laxly, which usually gets her in trouble with authorities - but on the other hand makes it easier for her to befriend patients. This character trait of hers overlaps with most things she does, manifesting in a lack of discipline and universal lazyness. At this point of the dossier, personnel managers usually wonder why Catherine chose a carreer in genetics, a justified question. What qualifies her for the job to begin with is an unparallelled, nearly eidetic memory, enabling her to comprehend genetic processes and chemical reactions at a level of complexity that requires most others to use scientific calculators and simulation software. Paired with a seemingly infinite personal interest in genetic engineering, she can often make up for her disciplinic shortcomings and lack of experience with work efficiency and reliable 'mental math' predictions. It is furthermore noteworthy that she regularly blends out sensory input about her surroundings when concentrating on a complex calculation, making one able to easily distract/disable her by simply throwing the right complex variables at her. Despite the obvious suspicions, cognitive tests have shown no sign of autism.

History: Catherine has always been a child of great talent but lacking ambitions. She somewhat effortlessly made it through high school, yet without any outstanding accomplishments. While there never was any official proof about the matter, one might suspect Cat finishing her PhD in genetics at the age of 22 didn't quite happen under fair circumstances... specifically regarding that Mr. and Mrs. Caldwell are renown, wealthy chemists with a certain reputation and 'influence'. She herself has established a bit of a reputation on her own as a luminary in the field of estimating experimental outcomes, albeit being difficult to work with, according to her latest employment reference. Fueled by her own interest, she learned basic programming in order to write a batch of simulation software that is almost as time-efficient as her own head and similarly difficult to operate, making them relatively useless without Catherine around, but nonetheless impressive as an example of what the little scatterbrain can achieve when she's genuinely interested in a project. Her playful nature has proven to be both aggravating for her superiors and beneficial for interaction with patients, another double-edged feature of hers.

Reason for agreeing to take part in project: She signed up for the project without much of a dedicated motivation. While it's more interesting than the jobs she did before, the main reason lies within her parents sending her there, both to force their offspring into a meaningful workplace and to get their family name associated with the potentially world-shaking results of it.

Department: Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology

Random fact: Catherines natural hair color is a rusty brown. The now prevalent orange is the result of a compound she developed herself and tested herself - on herself. It changed the phenotype of her hair permanently and irreversibly. The pink and light blue streaks on the other hand are regular hair coloring.

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I hope this lives up to your standards, and doesn't clash with the general tone of the already present scientists too much!

OOC fact: I have not the foggiest clue about biochemistry and will more than likely babble on about pseudo-scientific nonsense that will be painfully cringeworthy for anyone who has. If that is a problem, please notify me about it.

Random fact: I had 7 different random facts ready to go with the CS and it took me almost half a day to pick my final choice.

[Traitor]

Insert obligatory 'the website derped' apology for double posting here >_<

[ThePaintBlob]

Ooh new scientist! I don't mind restarting if you think it will be even better ;) esp now that we have a new scientist! Yo!
If you wanna keep it as it is so far too we could just make so that everything so far was some sort of time loop, dream, flashback, vision bla bla. Y'know... something..yeah . XD.

[tenebrae16]

Accepted! You get a point for having a random fact for your random fact but lose it for double posting. When you reach negative seventy five, you will automatically receive a puppy and then get kicked out of the rp :3
I think it's alright, though remember there is a serious tone to working in the project and don't worry, I don't understand half of the scientific technobabble that comes out of Luka's mouth. Wait assignment in the observation deck with the other scientists :3

As a note, don't worry if the rp only gets updated weekly, I think due to the holiday an exam season now, we're having slow schedules. Also feel free to refer more people to this rp *insert shameless plug *

I think we might continue, but on a stronger foot now, because we really haven't gotten too far, unless majority wants a full reset?

[Traitor]

Damn shame, I was hoping to accumulate positive seventy five points in order to get the puppy without the RP kick, and now I'm back to where I started! At this rate I'm never going to achieve my goals before dinner. Thanks for the warm welcome, regardless.

Also, for what it's worth, I don't mind 'turning up late' at the lab. I don't see a good enough reason to scrap everything you established so far. Plus being late fits Cat like a glove.

I might be able to bring another person into this, that's another point for me right? \o/

[OscarioTheGuy]

Welcome friend! :)

I'd be fine with a reboot, like you said, this could simply be practice or whatever, and I think it would be better if you did explain the surroundings more clearly and what exact predicament we are in. Without revealing too much of course...

But I guess that's fine for me since I play as an experiment who wouldn't know very much about what's going on, but as for the scientists, I would be quite confused in their place. Sadly, I think that may be why some of the scientists left :(

I like the sheet by the way, Traitor :)

one more thing

I'M SORRY FOR NOT POSTING FREQUENTLY D:
I WAS SUPPOSED TO WRITE SOMETHING THIS WEEKEND BUT SO MANY THINGS HAVE CAUGHT UP WITH ME UGH

[tenebrae16]

Well, if you can bring someone else in on their own will (or otherwise) you get five points, (4 if it's a kidnapping, wel actually that's more effort so 7 points).

-10 points for Oscario!

Hmm, now I'm thinking of a point system with prizes like steering the plot XD

Hmm, anyone else want a reboot?

[sheeplon]

I'm fine with a reboot. I agree with Oscario in the fact that the scientists having more info would be useful.