Reginald Spenser

Background
Reginald's first brush with Inspiration was not a pleasant one. He was introduced to Mania by Professor Alexander Castle when he was studying for a PhD in literature. In the hope of earning a little spending money Reginald signed up to participate in an experiment on human-computer interaction. Unknown to everyone except Professor Castle the experiment was really a mad (and quite stupid) quest to see how far Wonders formed purely from computer code could be pushed before Havoc set in. The answer turned out to be not very far at all. The test subjects could log in safely, but as soon as they even tried to run the program computers started exploding. Professor Castle died when he dived on top of an exploding computer, trying to shut it down. Everyone else made it out with no more than minor injuries.

Reginald accepted the Peerage's hush money and thought he would put it all behind him, but he had been infected with Mania. It began slowly, he started to dream about the computer room. Then it grew with flash backs striking at the most inconvenient moment, and each time new ideas came into his head. Powerful ideas. Wild ideas. Mad ideas. For as long as he could Reginald resisted his obvious and growing insanity, but the ideas were too exciting to be contained within his head. Reginald dropped out of classes and began devouring books on computer science, electrical engineering and quantum physics in an effort to understand his own thoughts. Half working creations began to grow and multiply in his bedroom and hard drive. But it was only when a flashback revealed Professor Castle's passwords; piecing together the "obvious" deduction from various "clues" hidden around the room that the growing seed of Inspiration took root for good. On the Professor's network drive was source files for true Wonders; programs built around the Axioms. An outlet for Reginald's growing Mania.

Emerging from his room for the first time in a week, and feeling a little more stable Reginald contacted the Peers who had bribed him to keep quiet. He hoped that they might explain what had happened to him. They could, for the Peerage exists in part to protect the Inspired from Illumination, but none of them were particularly interested in a student. And since Professor Castle was dead no one could pin the responsibility upon him, so they introduced Reginald to the Peerage and left him to find his own way. Find his own way he did; or as well as a madman can find his way in a society comprised entirely of madmen. Two advantages gave Reginald a chance to make a good impression with his new Peers; firstly his early experience with Havoc had taught him well to avoid it forevermore. Secondly he catalysed out of curiosity born from an experiment in trying to defeat Havoc.

Basically, Reginald really dosn't go for Havoc and in the Scholastics that earns you respect.

Among the Scholastics Reginald began to learn the Axioms, probe the mysteries of Mad Science and even make a few friends. It was one of those friends who asked him to visit Georgia. Something big was happening, and she needed help.

That's where Reginald's memory goes blank.

The next thing he can remember he's back in his laboratory, being rematerialised from storage on a data crystal. The funny thing was, he couldn't remember ever owning a data crystal, or the technology to digitise a human being. If the clock was accurate his missing time stretched for quite a while. There weren't many clues in the laboratory, but the scrambled e-mail from himself to himself suggested something had gone wrong. It was only after kitbashing a mind probe to search for his own missing memories that Reginald discovered the truth; he was a clone. When Reginald went to Georgia he cloned himself as a precaution, and whatever happened to his first body it was dire enough to activate the automated wake up procedures.

If Reginald wants to find out what happened to him he's going to have to go to Georgia a second time. He's a little scared of what he might find, he's worried that when he gets to the heart of the mystery he's going to find out that he's responsible for whatever went wrong. Or that might just be jumping to conclusions, when you're a madman with supernatural powers a lot of your problems are self inflicted.

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