I need a name

[sraun]

I'm running a female scientist in an RPG campaign starting soon - anyone have any suggestions?

Profession: Scientist

Sex: Female
Age: 49
Height: Very Short
Weight: Heavy
Eyes: Grey
Hair: Blonde, Short & Wavy
Key Feature: Squeaky Voice
Traits: Nervous & Patriotic
Interests: Shopping, Astrology, Reading, Philosophy

Gear: Microscope, Stethoscope, Tweezers, White Mouse, Lab coat, notes, pocket protector, thick glasses, calculator, squeaky shoes, assorted pens and mechanical pencils

It would appear that her area of scientific expertise is biology or medical - maybe drug research? I'll take suggestions for exact field of employment also!

Comments

[skylarker.livejournal.com]

Sukie 'Squeaky' Tash?

[filkferengi]

Helen "Doc Duck" Ducarret [dyu-CAHR-it]

[adina-atl.livejournal.com]

Elizabeth Dover.

A few suggestions...

[drewan.livejournal.com]

Dr. Hazel McTavish

Oops... just Goggled that name, turns out she's real. She's an international expert in fragrance assessment and reasearch.

Dr. Polly McCallion

Yay... she didn't come up in Google.

Additional suggestions, all cleared by Google:

Dr. Marie Von Stein

Dr. Gertrude (Gerty) Clausten

Dr. Gina Carvalho

Dr. Anita Oliveira

Ok, I'll stop now.

[kd5mdk.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a certain Bujold Listie (different field) who seems to offend many people...

[selenite.livejournal.com]

Y'know, it does. I hope they're playing Cthulhu.

[sraun]

Lost Souls, actually. The missing stats are:

Lost Soul Type: Apparition
Consistency: Vaporous
Ghostly Visage: Beauteous

Cause of Death: Disgruntled assistant threw a microscope at me
Unfinished Business: Trying to locate twin separated at birth
Life & Death:
1) Older brother was murdered - I am seeking his killer
2) An Arcane Scholar owes me a favor
3) I resolved a separation with my husband - it was over money problems
4) I had identical twin children.
5) My enemy is deceased - I hurt or killed his loved one.
6) A friend of mine who is a professional Guinea Pig treats me like a child

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First time playing the game - will be interesting to see what happens!

[sraun]

Whose initials are PL and who I'm very tempted to kill-file?

[selenite.livejournal.com]

Kill-filing PL majorly increased my enjoyment of the list.

Besides, the good bits (if any) get quoted anyway.

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

Agreed. If I hadn't killfiled her (and a couple others, but they were minor in comparison) I would have had to give up the list entirely.

[windtear.livejournal.com]

You and me both.

[gomeza.livejournal.com]

You didn't say whether she actually has a PhD or not so I'll leave off the title.

Ima Revenant
Anita Mann
Polly Hedral
Nova Kane

[jiffysquid.livejournal.com]

Biology, medical, or possibly psychology.

As far as gear related to her research, the stethoscope and white mouse don't really mix well. Normally stethoscopes apply to human research and white mice... it would be a tricky combonation to justify. I'd suggest choosing either human research (and having the mouse as a pet/companion) or animal research (and... probably dropping the stethoscope).

With microscope and tweezers, it suggests she works with tissue samples (which lends itself more towards animal research, as usually those who work with the animals will also prepare the tissue samples and analysis, whereas usually those who do human research are more specialized--some researchers will work with patients directly and collect the bio readings (like with the stethoscope) and tissue samples, then those are usually packaged and sent on to the lab technicians who actually prepare and work with the slides).

nervous, squeaky voice and squeaky shoes also lends itself more to someone who does not focus a lot on direct contact with human participants, though I suppose it depends on what kind of nervousness.

Calculator - doesn't seem to fit so well. Outside of math and statistics classes where the equipment available for analyzing research data is very restricted so that you can prove you know your stuff, calculator use is pretty rare. Much better programs for collecting, graphing, analyzing, and graphing data would be found on computers. If she need something lighter and more portable than a laptop, PDAs would often have better data transfer into the lab computer. I think the calculator also lends itself more towards animal research.

Things like -- amount of food given to a rat that is on eating restrictions (often done with psych experiments to make certain the mouse is motivated to say... push the lever for the pellet, is to make certain mice will be hungry when the experiment is supposed to start) is based on simple calculations of the mouse free-feeding bodyweight. Sometimes drug dosage is done as a percentage of bodyweight, but its a bit more rare and depends on what stage of drug testing is involved.