Philip Baker (ex_badscienc500) wrote in hydepark_ooc, @ 2009-06-13 23:19:00 |
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Jon again. :P As you all know, you can contact me via the information on my character journal, or aim: leapfrogandpenny.
Philip Charles Baker is a scientist who has faced one crushing defeat after another, and yet still manages to get up in the morning and go about his business as if the prospect of debtors prison is not a reality he must not yet face. Too poor to study his love of chemistry at university, he instead worked in laboratories until he scraped enough money through loans to rent enough space to conduct his own research on medicines and healing tonics. He was successful, for a time, selling a tonic which offered to subdue periods of hysteria, or bouts of insanity, and the tonic was known to at least calm those who suffered such ills and become popular with private citizens caring for loved-ones and with hospitals and asylums.
But fire destroyed his dreams and his savings and now he conducts research for others in order to pay back some of his debt, but his merge income hardly covers the interest, never mind his living expenses or the majority of his loan.
As such, he studies the work and methods of mediums, of those who claim power beyond that of the normal realm of the scientific, and with what materials he has attempts to measure their ability, to document, and to discuss as best he can. He is unconvinced, sure that it is all elaborate tricks to fool people who allow themselves to be fooled out of grief and desperation, but he says nothing. Such remarks would be less than scientific.
I'm hoping he might be able to interact with some of the human-humans, as well as some witches and mediums too? Any ideas are welcome!