Secure:Dr. Regal
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| Dr. Regal | |
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| Real Name | Dr. Leonard Regal |
| Code Name | Nebula Gray |
| Race | {{{race}}} |
| Gender | {{{gender}}} |
| Creator(s) | Dr. Wily (Only 3 people know this) and Mrs. Regal |
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| Faction | Umbrella |
| Function | Evil Bastard |
| Primary Specialty | Psychology |
| Secondary Specialty | Servers |
| IC E-Mail | lregal@umbrella.com |
| Divisions | Umbrella [NA] |
| Weapon | Monocle Beam |
| Weapon Type | ENERGY |
| Buster | Purple and White |
| Avatar - {{{avatar}}} | |
| [[Image:|200px|{{{avatar}}}]] | |
| Function | {{{vfunction}}} |
| V-Weapon | {{{vweapon}}} |
| V-Weapon Type | {{{vwtype}}} |
| Soul Unison | {{{su}}} |
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Background
Dr. Regal was born about the same time Light and friends were going through college to a Ms. Whatever Regal; he was born out of wedlock during one of her later terms of college. There are no particularly strange circumstances about his early years save that the family moved to Japan shortly after Momma Regal finished college. His story only gets really interesting when he gets into upper academia in Neo Tokyo, where his mother and her husband lived. He carries two doctoral degrees, one in Human-Computer Interaction (wide topic in the modern era, ranging from Human-Reploid interactions to the more traditional computer interface applications) and one in more traditional Psychology. His published work in this era is primarily on social and psychological programming, presented in more technologically aligned terms; he was run out of academia briefly after he completed his second doctorate, due to his stance that anything could be programmed. Given the recent Robot Master and/or Maverick attacks, people in his department were hesitant to compare any aspect of themselves to robots.
Regal returned to the academic scene a few years later as students begin to pick up his work and take it seriously, and it becomes somewhat destigmatized. His sudden ascent to a professorship at a prestigious East Coast university in the United States is a little fishy-looking, but no one can find anything obviously and horrifically wrong with it. He left this position some time in the last two years, when offered a job at Umbrella as their primary staff psychiatrist; in addition, he is one of their leading server techs. He has a publishing deal for a relatively benign looking organizational psychology textbook written for undergraduate students at the sophomore or junior level, too; it's due out around April, in time for most nations' summer terms.
Academically, Regal tends to do a wide variety of research that leans more toward psychology than Human-Computer Interaction, though he is fairly published in Comp-Sci journals for fairly mundane things. He has been involved in a wide variety of highly detailed stimulus-response studies, especially dealing with things like light, color, and medication; while he has no actual skill in pharmacology, he has worked on several teams that did more with that sort of thing. The social programming aspects also show up fairly frequently in his studies, as does, surprisingly, mathematical modeling of trust (and how to gain it, lose it, et cetera). More curious, however, are the pseudomystical phenomena he frequently tries to investigate the "real" nature of -- so-called places of power, hypnotism, et cetera. Generally he is well-received in academia, though conspiracy theorists think his focus is too much on controlling people's reactions. He tends to make appearances in most legitimate psychology and psychiatry field events, especially on the internet; he is also often spotted on parapsychology sites, though he is known there for sleeping through anything primarily physical.
Not a lot gets out of Umbrella generally; those who have come out after working with him claim that he is almost too gentle and reassuring, and few have bad things to say about him. The tech department complains more about him, usually because in this position he is somewhat domineering and tends to blame the many for the failures of the few. Rumors of his actual clout within Umbrella seem to vary wildly depending on who, when, and where the questions were asked; all in all he doesn't seem /that/ important according to what gets out, save for holding two fairly key positions.
Leonard does not have terribly many "meaningful" connections in his off-hours. Most of the contacts he makes are fairly transient; he does talk with Neo Arcadians and upper-end Umbrella executives as an equal, however, and some of the Umbrella lower-rung employees are remarkably deferential to him, more than his official status would imply. If questions, most of those who behave in such a manner will speak positively of his unflappability and genuine desire for the happiness of his patients.
Additional Investigations
Mostly, what one can find about 'programming' is what's already there -- journal publications. He did a lot of classes on social programming when he was a professor at Boston, and has published enough on the subject that it looks like a research focus. His methodology seems to be fairly benign and well within research ethics standards. On the stuff he publishes. If you're looking for this you probably know better already.
Regal's mother was a philosophy major at the same college as Wily at about the same time. There's not a lot to say about Mrs. W. Regal-Oozono; she's mostly a homemaker-type. His stepfather is an unremarkable yet generally well-received Japanese salaryman. Other people are a whole different animal of +request.
The conspiracy theorists are not a unified voice by any standards, but they generally have a few things in common when you look at exactly what they're saying. If they're complaining about Regal's ethical practices or the nature of his research (one of the more common complaints since he started working for Umbrella), they're largely academics with too much time on their hands and tenure, generally in the psychology department. At least one or two of them are dead, generally the ones that teach the fewest classes. Other more disparate complaints have similarly disparate groups of people, but many are semi-successful grad students. A few of them might even be working at Light Labs.
Leonard's work is mostly psychiatry. He's the classic psychiatrist as far as his day-to-day responsibilities go with Neo Arcadia -- people sit down and talk to him about their problems. He does psych evaluations for Neo Arcadia and Umbrella on a fairly regular basis, too; the results are confidential, but a little illegitimate research will turn up the fact that the incidence of mental disorders is slightly higher under Regal than the average. (Admittedly, one must consider for whom he works.) He had a brief practice while out of academia as well, which looks a little more normal until near the end, when things start looking like the Umbrella numbers.
The Computer Science club is one of the typical slacker CS clubs one tends to encounter off and on almost anywhere. Most of their activities were LAN parties, and generally they remember Regal as a bit distant, more often working on modifying the code somehow than actually playing the games. A few of his mods are still up on the CS club servers; he tends to deal with real time strategy games and Civilization-esque sims, and the conflicts in any total conversions he worked on are generally law/chaos oriented, with law taking the 'good' side.
The Roleplaying Club was his more active interest, and a few of the people who remember him will generally note that it seemed like he was trying to put his degree to good use there. He was a frequent GM, and people talk of his ability to create complex, realistic characters. The other thing they remember is his unusually frequent use of a general theme of boss monsters. The theme is generally described as based off of the Balor fiends of old RPG systems, bathed in fire of purple and crimson, but the details differ each time -- Regal isn't repetetive enough to use the /same/ monster often, just similar ones. A couple of things can be found in the old archives, however; they seem useless, but repetition tends to mean /something/, right?
RAK'THI, THE GATEKEEPER Name: Rak'thi Soul: Pedagogue Faction: The Pit Player: GM Core: Static Concept: Final Boss Chronicle: RPC Behavior: Monster Group: n/a POWER ******** CHARISMA ** OBSERVATION ****** TOUGHNESS ******** CUNNING ********* INTELLIGENCE ******** AGILITY ****** POISE ** COURAGE ******** Skills: Inhuman; if players force skill check, roll Stat+3 Notes: You have been chained to the bridge you guard, and by Ta'nor, you're angry. You long for people to try to attack your ancestral lands, as it is your single outlet for your growing bloodlust. If unchained you become remarkably more reasonable, however, even benevolent. When you have the ability to choose your position, it is to teach others what your years of containment have taught you.
FIEND OF THE TWISTING VOID Large Outsider (Law, Extraplanar, Evil) HD: 20d8+400 HP Init: +11 Movement: walk 40/fly 40' AC: 35 (flatfooted 28) BAB: +23 Saves: FOR: 22 REF: 19 WIL: 19 Attack +30 melee by +1 vorpal longsword (2d6+4, 19-20x2 crit) full attack +1 vorpal longsword +31/26/21/16 AND +1 flaming whip +30/25 (1d4+4 + 1d6 fire + entangle) or two slams +31 (1d10+7) SA: death throes, chain entangle, spell-like abilities, SQ: damage reduction 15/steel and chaotic, darkvision 60', flaming body, immunity to darkness gravity fire, resistance to acid/cold 10, SR28, telepathy 200', constant detect chaos, detect good, detect other fiend A picture is attached; it is somewhat similar to http://nwdownloads.bioware.com/neverwinternights/desktops/balor_800.jpg though the flames engulf its entire body, and those not on the head are green rather than red-orange.
One of the lab grad students, who spent a little more time on this particular item due to having crossed paths with Leonard briefly at Boston (damn CS club), has gotten in touch with some of his old professors and gotten you a little more information in a well you may have thought already tapped out.
John Israelsen (Professor, Boston; PhD in psychopharmacology) has apparently tossed an e-mail to this particular tech. While the full text is obviously privileged communication, the young man explains that Israelsen had an office down the hall from Leonard's back in the day, and that his early time at Boston was full of a variety of angry academic types storming into his office over some perceived issue or another. What's curious is that, apparently, more often than not they /left/ placated. This could just say Regal is a particularly good communicator, but the more paranoid-sounding side of the story is that things seemed too formulaic. Out of twenty or so 'solved' arguments, there were really more like /five/ distinct reactions on the way out.
The grad student, on his way out after presenting you with this information, says to himself as if quoting something (the e-mail, maybe?), "Show me four college professors at the same place with reactions that similar, and I'll show you a Stardroid riding Centaur Man."
The techs examine the mods carefully, over and over again. There is little that seems suspicious; it seems that the only clues these hold are to Regal's personal ideology.
The day spent face-to-face chatting with associates is well spent, but tells you little you didn't already know. A lot of these guys are under nondisclosure agreements with Umbrella, but the general gist of it confirms the vast majority of what you've already gotten that doesn't reek of evil. It's something, at least.
There is enough uniformity in the way the 'placated' people read to say 'Yeah, there's something going on here.' Several of them do /not/ read in any way like they've been tampered with. Regal has a lot of natural charisma, too, and some of these people were easy enough to talk down when they came in. (Some of the uniformity can be accounted for in the fact that a lot of them are archetypally similar. Academia attracts a certain type of person, despite what some may think.) Enough, however, both 'read' in brain scans when pressed on the subject and read in overt ways too similarly for comfort. Leonard's been up to things. It's been long enough that a /deprogramming/ would actually look more suspicious and probably not return A-grade results, but at the very least, you've got evidence.
The /detailed/ scan is what returns the fun results. It confirms the cursory scan, but moreover, any expert on this sort of thing (or sufficiently crackpot theorist) will tell you that what shows up on the results is typical of someone /learning/ the practical side of these skills rather than someone experienced. This is a little hamfisted. A little of it even shows that sort of experimental, "let's see what happens if I..." sort of mindset. Whoever did this is probably a /lot/ better now than they were when they did it, because there's no more need for experimentation -- what works is already committed to memory.
Myspace
Regal's MySpace (drlregal) is actually quite spartan, when it comes down to it, but extremely tasteful; faint classical music plays in the background, and the entire thing is a rather pleasing shade of purple which is supposed to be one of the most relaxing colors for 88% of the human population.
His background image, transparent over the purple and not terribly clashing, is an Illithid in battle stance, a little nod to Boston's Roleplaying Club and a particularly epic encounter. If one goes through the full music list rather than just letting the classical music play, one can also get a little of virtually everything -- most of it is classical music, but the occasional bit of techno or rock can be found, and more recently several Order and Chaos tracks (many from P:RICK) have been added.
Regal's top eight spaces are Maddy, Count Elek, Josef Holznecht, Order and Chaos, and four graduate students who started out at the same New England university (Boston). Most of the graduate students are either Comp Sci department majors or list roleplaying among their interests.
The comments section is boring. Mostly people keep asking him to come back to Boston University and he keeps casually rebuffing them. He also gets occasional conspiracy-theorist spam from other academic types, most of whom (after some casual digging) are generally discredited and seen as paranoid.
Trivia
- Regal lives in Innerpeace presently, and works more at the New York branch of Umbrella than the El Paso branch.
- As a professor, Leonard was actually an advisor for both the Computer Science Club and the Roleplaying Club. In addition, his /academic/ advisees have generally gone on to graduate school, where they still are today, with a few exceptions.
- Leonard is rumored to have had several disagreements with Dr. Josef Weil about any number of things, especially recently.
- Regal is an enormous dick when refereeing.
Other
- Dr. Regal appears to be involved with Nebula.
- Regal was present at the Alouette Kidnapping.
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