TorontoRoyalOntarioMuseum

Royal Ontario Museum
Established by the University of Toronto in 1912 and becoming it's own independent entity in 1968, the Royal Ontario Museum has been host to many weird, wonderful, and worrying exhibits over the last century or so. Frequent changes in layout and administration have caused an eclectic state; while in other major cities, there are museums dedicated solely to Natural History, Art, War, Human History, Ancient Cultures, and a dozen others, "the ROM" does it all.

Of course, when you have this many ancient artifacts sitting around under the control and influence of mundane mortals, something dangerous is bound to slip in now and again. At one point in time, a genuine Egyptian Prince, mummified, was lost in the museum's archives for decades. There are several fossilized dinosaurs, or parts thereof, in the upper section of "The Crystal" wing...including "Gordo", a recently rediscovered Barosaurus, and an unnamed Deinonychus, the same species which was misnamed in //Jurassic Park// as a "velociraptor". A small wing is dedicated to a collection of artifacts from Egypt and Greece, including several sealed jars which the officials haven't had much interest or nerve in opening. And then there's the rotating exhibits. A travelling exhibit on coins and currency was here a few years back. Then the Dead Sea Scrolls. And don't get me started on the Terra Cotta Warrior exhibit. It's like a constant parade of dangerous or suspicious materials through here.
 * The Idea**

History Bites
 * The Aspect**

Dr. Amal Singh
 * The Face**

Dr. Singh (don't call him "Amal") is pretty much exactly what you'd imagine in a museum curator; bookish, knowledgeable, a little uptight and stuffy. Originally from the Indian subcontinent, he was raised in England, schooled in Eton and Oxford, he gives the air of upper-crust British respectability. He is also as thoroughly mundane as one could expect, completely uninformed as to the supernatural side of things. One may consider him of the "Waldo Butters" school of science; he's willing to accept monsters and magic as a theoretical possibility, but he'd have to see the science explaining it. Much of the weirdness that happens under his watch has an obvious, tidy, and wrong explanation, most-times fed to him by his friend, Ron Katrib.
 * Motivation(s):**

Dr. Singh isn't the most outgoing of people, and tends to keep to himself as much as possible; that said, he does have some close friends. Detective Peters thinks that he's a sweet guy and a dear friend, which kinda sucks, as he's been dying for an excuse to ask her to dinner. He also tends to spend a great deal of time enjoying a fine brew and roast chicken at Peter Silenus' pub, down in the Distillery District.

Clueless Curator
 * High Concept:**


 * Other Aspects**
 * A Stiff Upper Lip
 * I am not Shy! I am an "introvert".

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