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[Samarkand]

Character Creation the Game

The residents of FG&RP in Baytwelvia spent their time making one character sheet after the next, hoping to get into games. Sometimes their inability to format a sheet within 40 seconds of the thread opening barred them from the game, sometimes it was the length of their sheet, and other times it was the composition of the party. But all had experienced the rejection of their character on at least one occasion. So we bring you Character Creation the Game, where you must complete different challenges to create the winning sheet! I'm Samarkand, your host, and we'll begin with a round of My Choices are What?!

Round 1: My Choices are What?!
Theme: Technomancer University

In this challenge you'll be given two choices for a variety of different character parameters. You have to create a cohesive story for a character choosing amongst them. There are 6 contestants for this challenge, and the winner will be determined by a vote at the end of the round. You are assigned a contestant number in order of post, so post Reserve to grab your spot and edit the sheet in later. To reiterate, first post gets first sheet, second post gets second, and so on.

This theme means you are all university students which happen to have technomantic powers.

Spoiler: Character Sheet Template (click to show/hide)

Name:
Gender:
Age:
Alignment: Think DnD alignment. Except not. See options below.
Backstory: Should explain why your character is the way they are, including their alignment, major, and minor. This is (hopefully) what people will vote based off of.
Major: Your emphasis of study. See options below.
Minor: That other thing you took a few classes in. You probably can't recall any of it, but that's fine. See options below.
Magical Ability: The stuff you can do without reasonable scientific explanation. See options below.

Spoiler: Character 1 Options (click to show/hide)

Alignment: Neutral Distracted or Lawful Narcissistic
Major: Future Interplanetary Linguistics or Computerized Zoology
Minor: Cybernetic History or Modern Essential Genetic Engineering
Magical Ability: Aeronautical Exorcism or Biochemical Thaumaturgy

Spoiler: Character 2 Options (click to show/hide)

Alignment: Neurotic Neutral or Smug Neutral
Major: Clinical Nanotechnology or Paradoxical Quantumn Studies
Minor: Clinical Quantumn Experimentation or Essential Practical Artificial Intelligence
Magical Ability: Botanical Glamour or Chemical Augury

Spoiler: Character 3 Options (click to show/hide)

Alignment: Nerdy Evil or Neutral Lost
Major: Military Clinical Robotics or Ancient Artificial Intelligence
Minor: Business Terraforming or Laboratory Robotic Taxonomy
Magical Ability: Clinical Charms or Nuclear Scrying

Spoiler: Character 4 Options (click to show/hide)

Alignment: Liberal Evil or Lawful Hyperactive
Major: Interplanetary Parapsychology or Remedial Economic Virtual Reality
Minor: Ethical Popular Terraforming or Economic Nanotechnology
Magical Ability: Demonic Toxicology or Microbiological Consecration

Spoiler: Character 5 Options (click to show/hide)

Alignment: Insecure Good or Neutral Narcissistic
Major: Computerized Studies or Industrial Computing
Minor: Laboratory Academics or Paradoxical Taxonomic Computing
Magical Ability: Runic Physiology or Statistical Demonology

Spoiler: Character 6 Options (click to show/hide)

Alignment: Chaotic Cowardly or Ignorant Evil
Major: Comparative Nanotechnological Communications or Virtual Theology
Minor: Experimental Genetic Engineering or Essential Paradoxical Genetic Engineering
Magical Ability: Hermetic Physiology or Invoked Biology

Spoiler: Notes (click to show/hide)

If this is a completely stupid idea, feel free to tell me that. Just wanted to see what people would think of this. If you have challenge suggestions, I'll take those too. I have a few of my own.

Seventh Sanctum is what I've used for generating stuff so far.

[Samarkand]

Round 1: Start

[Salsacookies]

Name: Lord Emperor Salsacookies
Gender: Jalapeņo Chocolate Chip
Age: Slightly Stale
Alignment: Lawful Narcissistic
Backstory: Salsacookies had a simple dream, and that dream, was too simply rule the world, and show the world, the glory and power, of giant dwarf sized cookies. In order to do so, he attempted to practice Spicemancy. Unfortunately, he was kicked out of his native dimension due to stepping on the king's shoe. His constant attempts at dimensional takeover may have played a part, but him stepping on the king's shoe was the final straw. He doesn't have any feet to step on shoes though, but that's not important. Thankfully, Aeronautical Exorcism was similar enough to Spicemancy, so he's happy.
  He began to think about what he needed to do to properly show his glory, and surely, Computerized Zoology showed his superiority. And it worked. He was so great, all his fellow students in awe of his superior knowledge, that they dunked him in a giant glass of milk, just to shower in sweet, milky, awe and, wait, why am I falling apart? Help?
  After this traumatizing event, he learned that just taking Computer Zoology wasn't enough, or to compensate, he took a course in Cybernetic History, to make sure his grades were up to par.
Major: Computerized Zoology
Minor: Cybernetic History
Magical Ability: Aeronautical Exorcism

[TamerVirus]

Ill just PTW

[Salsacookies]

(This is null and void, spend your valuable reading time somewhere else, like ER. Thank you, and have good day )

[Harry Baldman]

I suppose this might be right up my alley, actually.

Spoiler: Character 2 (click to show/hide)

Name: Arthur Zwinkiewekic

Gender: Male

Age: 26

Alignment: Smug Neutral

Backstory: currently working toward obtaining his PhD, Arthur is known far and wide among the faculty as kind of a bellend in the best of times. Not that he's a bad guy, necessarily, or in any way incompetent. The problem lies mostly in his occupation, which is all he ever talks about. And that, my friends, is quantum mechanics. Paradoxical quantum mechanics, in fact, which is what he wrote his Master's thesis on, which by some miracle actually got published in a respectable technomancy magazine - he never shuts up about it once even slightly prompted, and keeps at least three copies of it on hand as we speak. He likes to start explaining paradoxical quantum mechanics to people with a shit-eating grin on his face, especially to people who aren't his colleagues, and he's especially smug about his own contributions to the field, namely the use of chemical augury (usage of seemingly unrelated chemical reactions in a different room to predict a given experiment), a sort of very indirect observation, and its interaction with quantum phenomena. He keeps talking about how he's "beating the system" and how exactly he's "being a total cheater and loving it" that particular week smugly, and these are the only things people really tend to understand of what he says, given that literally all he talks about due (to great insecurity about being terribly uninteresting when he talks about anything else, ironically enough) is his work. What makes it worse is that he's currently a lecturer as well, which allows him to project his annoying smug superiority on unsuspecting grad students who've chosen the subject, and condescendingly explaining to them what he calls "the very basics". He has been punched in the face four times in his life, and three of those times the assailants were otherwise well-adjusted grad students, incapable of containing their gut reaction to his speech. In his free time he likes to condescend to undergrad students as well, and people at bars, who typically try and ignore him, though one guy at a bar has punched him in the face in the past as well. It is very safe to say that he is tolerated at best.

Major: Paradoxical Quantumn Studies
Minor: Clinical Quantumn Experimentation

Magical Ability: Chemical Augury

[Again_Dejavu]

Reserved! Lets see what I just got into...
EDIT
Oh god I got #3

[SomeStupidGuy]

Reserve, because eh why not.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Christine Vale

Gender: Female

Age: 20

Alignment: Liberal Evil

Backstory: Clad in a sharp (if ill-fitting) suit, a closely trimmed haircut and more often than not, a vicious grin, Christine has that subtle air of vague cruelty to her that only comes from years and years of undeserved pride. A devout believer in pure economic freedom, she fights unrelentingly to increase awareness of virtual currenc- no, stop laughing, it's the way of the future!
At any rate, her major doesn't stray far from her vehement(if somewhat ill-considered) beliefs. Economic Virtual Reality was something of a fictional major, being essentially something Christine made up on a whim during a drunken night spent with some friends(maybe friends isn't quite the right term, but 'people too nice to say no' is slightly too unwieldy.
She's never been the sharpest knife in the drawer, leaving her choices generally limited to remedial classes, a fact that she hides with a big vocabulary and a loud mouth. Her choice of Ethical Popular Terraforming as a minor was purely chosen off of fitting into Christine's view of an easy class, and her want to avoid any difficulty overtook her complete distaste for 'ethics', whatever those are.
Christine's 'ability' is, in truth, generally considered imaginary by most people that aren't herself. She's not particularly well-liked by both the religious and non religious students of the university, as she often makes claims of blessing people and things on a microscopic level. Which is interesting, as no one(certainly not her) can really say what belief-system she subscribes to.

Major: Remedial Economic Virtual Reality

Minor: Ethical Popular Terraforming

Magical Ability: Microbiological Consecration

Okay, when I saw that my options were Liberal Evil and Remedial Economic Virtual Reality, I couldn't help myself. I just had to go with a libertarian joke (with a semi-Evangelical twist) for the character. Hopefully y'all don't blame me. :v

[Samarkand]

The games have begun and we have two great entrants so far! One is a megalomaniac cookie exorcist and the other is an incredibly irritating master of the quantum world who has no qualms about informing you of his complete mastery. We have an additional two submissions on the way, so stick around to see what academic abominations they can create! Additionally, we are still welcoming two more entrants to this round.

[Samarkand]

24 hours till I open this up for voting. We have three sheets, if we don't have a fourth by then I'll let this die peacefully.

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

Reserve #5

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Sam Smith
Gender: Unknown to any but s/he, and s/he isn't telling.
Alignment: Neutral Narcissistic
Major: Industrial Computing
Minor: Laboratory Academics
Magical Ability: Runic Physiology
Backstory: Sam Smith does not let anyone know where s/he came from, in order to keep as little knowledge from getting beyond his/her grasp as possible.  What is known is that she is currently working on a project in order to turn magic into a profitable industrialized prospect that can be exploited by a creation of his/her own choosing and get all the glory of making magic commonplace.  S/he has turned to computers as the means to achieve her goal, but the difficulty in building an industrial computer that can deal with the complexities of magic had him/her take Laboratory Academics as her minor.
Appearance: S/he constantly wears a hooded trench coat over padded clothing and a mask.  The mask gives him/her the facial features of Cthulhu, though the facial features are partially cloaked in shadow.

[Again_Dejavu]

Can't do it, sorry. Sheet #3 is back open.