Ada Goldfoot

   
Nature: Innovator- | -Demeanor: Contrary
Character Type: Mage- | -Concept: Natural Philosopher and Magical Mom
Player Name: Otka- | -Clan/Tribe/Dynasty/Ect:' Traditions / Society of Ether

Attributes

PhysicalSocialMental
Strength1Charisma4Perception2
Dexterity3Manipulation3Intelligence5
Stamina2Appearance2Wits3

SPECIALTIES
Charisma - Enthralling
Intelligence - Creative
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Abilities

TalentsSkillsKnowledges
Alertness0Animal Ken0Academics3
Athletics0Crafts2Computers1
Awareness3Drive0Cosmology0
Brawl0Etiquette0Finance0
Empathy2Firearms3Investigation0
Expression0Melee0Law0
Intimidation0Performance0Medicine3
Leadership0Stealth0Occult0
Streetwise0Survival1Politics0
Subterfuge0Technology3Science5
Other TalentsOther SkillsOther Knowledges
 0 0 0

SPECIALTIES
Crafts - Tinkering
Science - Specialty: Biochemical Engineering

Advatages

Backgrounds
Allies1Praxton Goldfoot - her Son (19 year old CEO of a tech startup)
Avatar2 
Node1 
Resources1 
Sanctum1 
Spheres
Correspondence: 0Life: 2Prime: 3 1 2
Entropy: 0Matter: 2Spirit: 0
Forces: 0Mind: 0Time: 0
1 Affinity Sphere - Prime
2 No Instrument Needed for Prime
Focus
ParadigmTech Holds All The Answers
PracticeWeird Science
Instruments
1.Books
2.Brews, Potions, Powders, and Other Concoctions|
3.Elements
4.Gadgets and Inventions
5.Herbs, Roots, Seeds, Flowers, and Plants
6.Laboratories and Lab Gear
7.Toys
8.Weapons
9.Writing and Inscriptions
Arete3
Willpower5 : 5
Quintessence2 : 2
Paradox0
Merits
Scientific Mystic/Techgnosi3 pts.
Flaws
Curious2 pts. 
Old Flame2 pts.Nahiel al Sabyr
Ward3 pts.Honoria Goldfoot

HISTORY

Dr. Ada Goldfoot began life as Michelle Wasserman, a nerdy girl who read Wired and Popular Mechanics instead of Following YouTube stars, spent hours in science museums and at the zoo rather than on her make up and fangirled great scientists the way her peers did the latest Celebutantes and on trend Instafamous people. So it was no surprise to her family when she won another Robotics competition, or Science Fair but didn’t get asked out to Prom. Though proud of her when she was accepted to every college she applied to, they didn’t understand why she had to go all the way to Boston to attend MIT.

Michelle’s year at MIT were happy ones, especially when she won a place in it’s media lab. At first, it felt so good, like she’d finally come home and was surrounded by people who could understand her. Unfortunately, maybe it was a case of familiarity breeding contempt, or perhaps it was due to the fact that it took very little time for her incredible intellect to have her race past her fellow students and catch up with her professors, either way, within 6 months in the visionary lab she began to chafe under it’s limitations and the restrictions placed upon her by the failings of the celebrated faculty who could not feed her hungry mind. Then, she found it and her World was changed forever.

As part of a research project, Michelle came across an obscure reference that drew together so much she had learned in so perfect and novel a way the scales fell from her eyes and she Awoke to the truth she’d always known in her heart of hearts, All is possible through Technology! Not because of the devices and gadgets themselves, but in so far as they were the legacy of an Intellect focused on fixing a change in the Universe informed by their Vision and Will. This realization seemed so vastly important and so simple, it really was just a matter of following the breadcrumbs in all the lesson’s she’d ever been taught and finding this primal truth to life at the end of her search. No longer a sleeper, now a Mage, she was welcomed into the Society she currently enjoys membership in.

As an Apprentice to the Society of Ether, she left her old life behind and took on a name inspired by hero idol Ada Lovelace and her favorite song to study to, Living Dead Girl by Rob Zombie. She learned from true masters, then retreated to her own lab in order to further hone her understanding and capacity to affect the world through Science! More an academic than an adventurer, she still did her time out in the field, sometimes serving as a medic, other times meeting challenges with cunning and acumen few could muster. Along the way, she had a fling or two, sometimes with other Mages, sometimes with more... esoteric beings. From such relations came her children, Praxton Goldfoot, her son by an Order of Hermès Mage called Edmon Trois-Freres, and Honoria Goldfoot, her daughter by a Solificati named Nahiel al Sabyr who she still adores. Praxton is now 19, has multiple doctorates and is CEO of Wear-there, a Startup making cutting edge wearable computers that integrate one’s “real life” with one’s digital presence and the Internet of Things seamlessly. Honoria, a girl of 12, serves as Dr. Goldfoot’s sometimes helpmate in her adventures, though more often a cause for consternation as they unfold.

NOTES

Paradigm (Expanded): Dr. Goldfoot is an Empiricist, seeking to plumb the Universe for essential truths, unbound by an adherence to dogma and the limitations put on one by Standing on the Shoulders of Giants. She reveres the methodology of Science but harkens back to Aristotle and Victorian explorers of Natural Philosophy’s dedication to observation and experimentation. This is why she has a more open mind and willingness to encorporate quasi-mystical Instruments into her Practice while never abandoning her pursuit of higher Truth. Case in point, her studies of Matter began under the tutelage of a Solificati named Nahiel al Sabyr and though she’s tested for herself many of the premises taught her, she has found much value in infusing natural elements into her methodology, even going so far as to take up the craft of an Apothecary to better affect Life in it’s most fundamental forms.

Old Flame: Nahiel al Sabyr is a brilliant, passionate, dashing man Ada met when she was a young Mage. A master of Matter, he opened her eyes to the power of incorporating historic methodologies into her modern practice in order to accelerate her understanding of reality. It was humbling, but also enlightening to see how wasteful it was throwing the baby out with the bath water and eschewing the mystic in favor of the new. She came to love him for the way he challenged her givens and was drawn to his unceasing fervor for self improvement. Witnessing him burn away the dross of his existence and leave behind only the purest gold was at once frightening and attractive to her in a way she’s never quite been able to shake. To this day he can undo her resolve with a look and carefully chosen question, and she finds herself in his arms again, or at his side, again, feeling equal parts dread and exhilaration.