Gavatorialicos, aka Professor Calico
308-year-old Time Lord Male of the Iniex Chapter (a lesser chapter)
TL - 10 (other familiar TLs - 4, 5)
Story Points - 5
Attributes
Awareness - 2
Coordination - 2
Ingenuity - 5
Presence - 3
Resolve - 4
Strength - 2
Traits
Iniex Chapter Traits - Time Lord (special good), Brave (minor good), Code of Conduct (minor bad)
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Brave - The Brave trait provides a +2 bonus to any Resolve roll when the character could get scared or need to show their courage.
Code of Conduct - Code of Conduct means that the character should try to do good at most times, and are unable to harm another being unless it is absolutely necessary and for the greater good.
Other Good Traits - Boffin (Major), Charming (Minor), Experienced Time Lord x2 (incl. Time Traveller x2, choose other PCs' tech levels)
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Boffin - This trait allows the character to create Gadgets through the fine art of ‘Jiggery-Pokery’. Your average Joe can try to open their household appliances and wire them together to try to make something – though they’ll probably only gain an electric shock or worse. Only a Boffin can create a useful device that can scan DNA, crack a safe or disable Dalek forcefields. More details on creating Gadgets can be found in the
Jiggery-Pokery rules on pg. 113.
Charming - When the character is trying to charm their way through an encounter, they receive a +2 bonus to the roll. Useful for talking your way out of being killed, but not always suitable for every social situation.
Other Bad Traits - Insatiable Curiosity (Minor)
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Insatiable Curiosity - It is usually unhelpful, but the character simply has to know what is going on, why something is happening or how it works. It may put their life at risk, but it doesn’t make them suicidal. If the character tries to fight the urge to press that button or open that door, the player can make an Ingenuity + Resolve roll, with a -2 modifier to resist.
Skills
Athletics - 2
Convince - 3
Craft - 3
Fighting - 1
Knowledge - 4 (Alien Cultures +2)
Marksman - 0
Medicine - 1
Science - 4 (Mathematics +2)
Subterfuge - 0
Survival - 0
Technology - 4
Transport - 2
Equipment
The old family Type 58 TARDIS, or, as he likes to call it, home
Spoiler: OOC: Idea for the TARDIS Internals...
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I had this idea for the TARDIS interior. I spelled out Iniex in Gallifreyan script (
https://flic.kr/p/2pyqBqB), and I figured that would be a coded way for him to build the internal layout of the ship.
Instead of a circle, the word is built on a sine wave, left to right. All of the lines and circles are the corridors of the ship, and the rooms are connected to them.
The first "I" is a ring that bisects the sine wave, with a spoke that arcs from its lower edge to the sine wave slightly downstream. The control room and dimensional interface are on the terminus of the sine. Crew and guest cabins are in along the spoke, wardrobe is just off the control room.
"NI" are concentric circles just off the inside of the positive arch of the sine wave (just before the inflection point). Both the N and the I have a spoke, and the I (which is the inner of the circles) spoke is a straight corridor that crosses the outer circle to intersect the sine wave. The N spoke is just offset of the I spoke, and intersects the sine wave near the inflection point. The area in the center of the I is the Cloister Room. Next to it, attached to both the N and I rings is the Zero Room. Engineering spaces fill the rest of the circles there.
The E circle intersects the negative part of the sine wave, but has no spokes. The upper side of the E ring (above the sine) are the professor's study, lab, and workshop. The area between the underside of the E ring and the sine wave is Auxiliary Control. Next to that is what the Professor calls the "Storeroom" (but what others might call his "Junk Room"); thanks to dimensional engineering, it's accessible from both control rooms (you just have to remember which side of the door you open from the inside to get to which control space). (The dimensional interface is also accessible from auxiliary control; the TARDIS knows which control room is in operation, so she controls which room you enter when you come in from the outside.)
The X circle intersects the terminus of the wave. It has two spokes, which arc around to meet the two spokes from the NI combo on the sine wave. These corridors house most of the recreational sections of the ship, and they're the most modular spaces. He had a nine-pin bowling alley in there at one point (when he was living in the 19th Century), but that's been replaced by a small movie theater, complete with a 1966 Bell & Howell film projector. It hasn't seem much use lately...in about 50 years or so. The Bath is in this area, of course. And previous companions have had personal recreational facilities over the years. One even wanted a full Athenian gymnasium; they compromised on something less...natural...
His Trusty Sonic Screwdriver, which may be a bit long in the emitter crystal - Traits: Open/Close, Restriction (Cannot open Deadlock Seals, Tricky Controls), Scan, Transmit, Weld. Story Points: 2
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19mm-diameter by 130mm-long gunmetal primary cylinder (aka handle), accented bronze (ridged on/off/standby switch is set 80mm from base; transaxial selector dial sits at 100m from base); twin probe blades, each 3mm thick by 6mm wide by 70mm long, 4mm apart along centerline, with bridges at 10mm, 20mm, and 30mm from handle; each blade width tapered from outer edge to 1mm at crystal end; 3mm square by 25mm long ARC (aquamarine resonance crystal) emitter suspended between blades via isomagnetic field
Background
Born in Old Harbour on Gallifrey, Gavatorialicos grew up on the exploits of the renegade Time Lord known as the Doctor. Like many of his generation, he came to idolize the Doctor, and sought to emulate his dashing protection of time from marauders. He and several other members of Iniex Chapter founded an "intervention society," calling themselves "the Interns," dedicating themselves to working to protect the timeline and innocents around the universe from marauders like the Daleks and Cybermen.
Maintaining the strict code of conduct that had successfully (possibly to their detriment) kept the Iniex Chapter out of Time Lord politics, the Interns swore to "First, do no harm," in their intervention efforts, seeking to avoid physical conflict or unethical acts (like coercion, subterfuge, and skullduggery) to achieve their aims. Each member also took on an alias that reflected sagacity, wisdom, or healing. Gavatorialicos decided on the name Professor Calico.
His first regeneration (190 years ago) happened during....TBD
His second regeneration (88 years ago) occurred when...TBD
He has most-recently been "incognito," teaching maths at the London Met (1968-2016), but is ready to get back into the action. (He also taught maths at London Met's predecessor City of London College (later City Polytechnic) (1863-1900) earlier in his 3rd incarnation. He was his own "grandfather.")
Appearance - Calico is not entirely unhandsome, but he's not terribly exciting, either. His current form is a bit slight (he says it seems to be a constant trait of his), though not proper skinny. His face is round-ish and weathered, with gray-green eyes that betray a sharp wit and determination within. He usually wears a comfortable tweed or worsted wool suit (depending on the weather), but has been known to don "outdoor gear" (khaki shirt and cargo trousers/shorts, with an expedition jacket and wide-brimmed hat) when out on an excursion. (Think Sean Pertwee as Alfred in "Gotham.")
His Second Incarnation was more "sporty," he likes to say...Calico was tall, slim, attractive, brown haired, and appeared in his 30s. (Think Nick Hendrix from Midsomer Murders)
His First Incarnation...he remembers himself as average in height, slim, average in looks, auburn haired (loved that hair, really), and perpetually "young" (teenaged). "Well, I was just...young, really." (Think Jake Bongiovi...yes, John Bon Jovi's kid)
Personality - He has a friendly, inquisitive personality that tends to set others at ease. It's not that he seems harmless to others; instead, he comes across as a helpful sort (he'd say that he's just mellowed with age). He can easily fall down the rabbit hole, and sometimes needs a prompt to return to the task at hand. He has a tendency toward polite understatement. When faced with danger or a crisis, however, he becomes resolute and inexorable.
His Second Incarnation was also more "sporty" in the personality department, though, looking back, he thinks he came across too strong sometimes...(more TBD)
His First Incarnation was just full of youth and exuberance; he would say he was "always excited and excitable, an unfortunate combination"...(more TBD)
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