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[DrSalvatoreUrbana]

***OOC ON***

Okay, so here goes. Do forgive if I went ahead and mentioned your avatar in the story, I normally ask for permission first. Hopefully it won't be seen as a huge breach of etiquite (sp?).

And yes, I know Gecko's don't have hair... but you can't have a mad scientist, without mad scientist hair.

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“Her Majesties Royal Society on Medicine and Anatomy Illustrated Weekly, March 17th, 1884”

Editorial by Dr. Janus van Fleet, Senior Editor

Today I had the odd distinction of getting to interview Dr. Salvatore Urbana, a former member of the RSMA. Dr. Urbana, who had previously distinguished himself by being the first surgeon to combine steam-powered replacement limbs, has fallen from favor with the RSMA. After several warnings, Dr. Urbana was finally removed as a member-in-good standing, and his license to practice medicine revoked. A decision that the RSMA did not make lightly, and should Dr. Urbana repent, will reinstate with full honors. It is my sincerest hope that Dr. Urbana will recant what he has said and done. The Urbana family deserves a better end than this.

I am writing this op-ed in order to inform our guild about some of the goings on with Dr. Urbana. It is a shame that the RSMA had to revoke the membership of Dr. Urbana, especially when he comes from such an illustrious line of physicians and doctors. Dr. Alphonso Urbana, his grandfather, first discovered organisms that could only be seen with the aid of his Microscope. And later patented Urbana’s Rinse, the first wildly accepted, anti-biotic. This was how the Urbana family made its fortune, and built their estate at the periphery of Bon Bon. Dr. Urbana’s father, Dr. Vincenci Urbana was the first to determine that you could blend steam-gyros with natural organisms to help patients and the disabled. Furthering the good name of Urbana.

Unfortunately, Salvatore, has squandered his family’s wealth, and discredited the good name established for two generations. And, while his progress with steam-bernetic replacement appendages is very commendable, his antics, actions, and lack of ethical science have forced us to disbar him from the RSMA. I do believe that part of his own downfall was due to an accident in his family’s manor house that claimed the life of his beloved Maria. In fact, I do remember prior to Maria’s unfortunate passing on, Salvatore was much more grounded, and doing his family name proud. Now, though, years of solitude must have driven the old gecko insane. I recently traveled to the city of Bon Bon to talk with Dr. Urbana to see if, perhaps, he had regained some of his composure, and was more eccentric with age. But, regrettably, he seems irreversibly mad at this point.

Dr. Urbana, if you still read this periodical, let me tell you that we still hope to someday bring you back into the RSMA with full honors. However, as it stands now, we cannot allow that.

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It was nearly three in the morning. The moon had long since set, and most of the oil-lamps had sputtered out. The old gecko ran his fingers through what was left of his tangled, white, hair. He stood up from the leather chair he was sitting in, and stretched his back. “I should know better than to sit this long.” The old gecko turned his attention back to the weekly periodical. With a regrettable sigh, he closed the well-worn, magazine, and placed it back in the bookshelf. It was the only magazine on the shelf, much in contrast to the other packed shelves in his private library.

“Twenty-eight years have passed, Dr. van Fleet,” Salvatore said aloud to himself.

Salvatore paced around the library, limping on his bad leg. Hobbling over to his desk, he picked up the blueprints he had borrowed from Jillian for the perfect man. Flicking his tongue, as only a gecko can do, he puzzled for the countless time, as he poured over the schematics. “How did she power it? How can it work, when all I can get to work are a few pistons and gyros and valves? How does it work?”

Putting the blueprints down, Salvatore turned to face the cameo of Maria. “Someday, my love, I’ll figure it out, and then we’ll be together again. Daedalus envisioned flight. Someday, Maria… someday.”

[Cole Blacke]

Nicely done. Looks like the beginning of a rather interesting story.

[JohnnyPsycho]

Very nice, I like the Editorial bit at the beginning, really helps set up your character. The only criticism I have is that this should probably be in the PBB forums proper rather than the General forums. Maybe Ronald could move this, if he agrees with my assessment...
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