The Entity
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Quote: "You may think being electromagnetic is fun, but it's a pain in the neck when some idiot waves a lightning rod at you. Also...magnets." The Entity's story begins several years ago, with an ill-conceived experiment by several of the Board's many mages to create a more efficient fusion generator by using magic, employing mystical energies to set up powerful containment fields and manipulate the local laws of physics. It all went horribly wrong, as such things are wont to do, and the resulting explosion of vast quantities of magical and physical energy rent open holes in the fabric of space-time that M-Division and Weird Science personnel spent months repairing. But that wasn't the only unexpected side-effect: the chaotic interplay of diverse energies somehow spawned a new life-form from the bizarre cohesion of energy fields and gaseous plasma that had been at the heart of the reactor. The bloblike creature left the wreckage of the lab shortly after the repair crews departed, and meandered through the corridors of the Funky Horror until it came across a computer terminal, which it rapidly deduced the basics of operation of and began to browse. Board technicians found it still there a week later, trying to map out the principles of human society and language from studying Archives and spec threads. After a brief debate it was offered the chance to become a Boardie, which it did enthusiastically, choosing for itself the name "The Entity" and adopting a humanoid form. Since then it has mostly been engaged in studying Boardie culture and interaction, as well as serving as a technician for several of the Board's more insane research projects (mostly due to a considerable proficiency with computers and technical systems, and the ever-handy ability to solder components and wires together with bare fingers). In personality, the Entity is mild-mannered, reticent, somewhat sardonic, and at times difficult to talk to due to its thoughts being occupied by some recent topic of interest to it. Its exact nature is still somewhat unclear: Weird Science has formally classified it as "a body of plasma enclosed by a self-organising multispatial energy manifold with subspace-mediated information organisatorial and processorial capacities", which most people don't find terribly informative; M-Division took a brief look at it, announced it was probably "some kind of plasma elemental thingy", and excused themselves to deal with a containment failure in the tentacle monster lab on deck 104. |
Name: The Entity