Schools Portfolio

The Characters

Children characters:

The game has 3 heroes. 1 boy and 2 girls. They go to a primary school. They are curious to everything around them.

Three 11-year-old children, who go to the same class and they are friends. They know one another well, two of them went to the same nursery school (Liza and Ádám). Dia and Liza are neighbours, they live in the same block of flats, their parents are friends as well. No wonder that the families have no secrets among them, the information is often carried by the chatterbox children.

When the children stepped into the upper class (class 5), they joined the media study circle of the school, as the activity there was adequate to them. Their form master also suggested them that they take part in the classes. When she saw the children’s first work, a report illustrated by colour pictures about the pet beauty contest at school, she knew she had given good advise, and she was very proud of her pupils and showed their article to her colleagues in the staffroom.

Liza

She is a short and thin girl. She has long, brown hair tied up on the back of her neck, though her disobedient curls often make themselves independent. She gazes at the world with wonderful brown eyes from behind her red-framed glasses. For she is interested in everything, she wants to know everything, and what is more she wants to know everything better. She has a good head on her shoulders, she learns quickly, she memorizes immediately what she hears. Her favourite subjects are history, computer science and PE. She likes reading very much, and she herself writes stories as well. She appears with pleasure, She has the ability to be a good actress.

She quickly finds her feet, she has creative ideas and she likes them to come true. She can get her own way, that’s the reason why she quite often has conflicts with her classmates. The argumentations for her truth are heated, usually it is her who comes out of the arguments on top. Sometimes it is her who has to make a compromise. She is offended in such cases and withdraws to sulk. Fortunately her anger doesn’t last long, she laughs with the others in a little while. She is able to admit her mistake, if neccessary, she apologizes. The true nature of hers is happy, cheerful, she is sociable. She makes friends easily and she would do everything for the people who she really loves. She never lets her friends down, they can always count on her.

Dia

She’s a slender, slim girl her constitution is sporty. She swims competitively, she has good results. Her short hair is fairish brown and her huge blue eyes make her glance be a dreamer. She is soft-spoken, low-key. She seems serious for the first impression, but if you know her better, you can notice her gentle sense of humour. She is friendly, kind and polite. She reads a lot, she is a voracious reader. She is often lost in reading a good book in the break between the school periods. In such cases her fellows’ loud noise cannot disturb her either. She doesn’t want to be in the centre of the company at any price, she is still loved and reliable. She always gives her opinion in her gentle style and always frankly. She doesn’t whitewash and palter, she doesn’t hurt anybody after all. She is hard-working, she always does what she undertakes on high level in addition. She makes good use of her knowledge during the lessons, she sees the subject topics multilaterally, she is able to approach them from more directions. She is an excellent pupil. She likes solving logical tasks and puzzles. She is a bit more thoughtful and balanced than Liza. They complete each other well. The range of their interests is the same, though their personality does not correspond. Sometimes they learn together and they often spend their free time together.

Ádám

The third member of the triumvirate is a short, brown-haired dark brown-eyed boy. He is always bustling around, he is restless all the time, he is unable to sit on his place. Because of this he is inattentive and careless, but if he pulls himself together, he is able to concentrate very much. He is the type who learns what he is interested in, that’s the reason why his school report is not so splendid as his friends’. If he gets a bad mark, he is penitent and he pledges himself to correct, but his fervour most of the time vanishes in a few days.

He is cheerful, he likes playing the clown and pulling others leg. He is very curious, he sticks his nose into everything. He has conflicts therefore, but they are smoothed over soon, because you cannot be angry with him. He melts the strained relations with a gesture, a smile or a good pay-off. Though sometimes he gets on his friends’ nerves. In such cases everybody behaves towards him according to their temperament: Liza simply gives him a good dressing down, Dia leaves him without a word.

Ádám plays computer games, browses on the Internet in his free time. He likes cycling if it is weather permitting. He likes pets, he’s got a degu. He never forgets about feeding his pet, he is very responsible in caring it.

Adult characters:

The professor

The professor is a strict and morose man (cross-patch)

Dr. James Cleverhead is a 51-year-old British physicist. He is a well-known individuality of the scientific life. He finished his studies excellent at Oxford University and his career was rising straight. After taking his diploma he took his doctorate in Oxford, then he was called to Cambridge, where he dealt with quantum theory.

A great number of his publications was published and during the years he lectured at universities of a high standard, he became a doctor honoris The modern physics was changed in its basis by his scientific results. His prizes and patents provided a secure financial background for him, so he bought one of the small and hidden islands in the Pacific Ocean. He equiped an ultra-modern laboratory there for himself and his research fellows, who he selected with due care and caution. He began to deal with the space and time continuation. As a result of many years research work he appeared with a world-shattering patent: he had invented the time machine!

The shaman

He is a person living in the era of the conquest, but his age is indefinable. His outward appearance changes according to his current mood or actual machinations. He is selected, born with a sign. When he was born the Great Bear was just above their tent and it shone with such a huge fire that the people of the tribes were not even surprised at the little boy who was crying loudly that he had six fingers on his left hand. „The spirit of Great Bear has sent us a message!” – shouted some people throwing themselves to the ground. The leader of the tribe also heard the news, he saw the child too, then he nodded his assent with a serious face. Everybody knew that the boy was waited for a strange calling…

The newcomer was received by the rest of the initiated priest-magicians and shamans. He was taught science, magic, dance, knowledge of healing herbs. When he was ten, he had an unusual prestige as there was noone else who could beat the shaman drum with such a great passion and wild rhythm except him. There was noone else who was able to cite the spirit of the animal which had to be brought down and drive together the swelling clouds which were full of rain. But he had another particular feature: he was much taller than the other short and stubby men in the tribe, and in addition his hair was much lighter than his fellows’, who had dark night black mane. This fact made him more particular in his selected position. The homage of the people made the young man self-conceited, he desired more power, he wanted to rule the earthly people and other-worldly creatures. He soon got the upper hand over everyone with his magic power, mind and knowledge and so he became the most important member of the tribe, who even led the chief himself. Unfortunately his actions were motivated by selfish interest, vanity, getting treasure and an exaggerated ambition.