DORA

A DORA is the name given to those who can see gates and use them. Unknown if this is an acronym or a reference to Dora the Explorer. The term was not created by our group.There are other DORAs as well and the Halfway Inn.

Our Group of Adventures are most likely all cousins to each other along with the original members of MMO Land, so say the results of a paternity kit conducted by Joshua MacKay that tested out to second cousins being positive.

Us, the Adventurers
Joshua MacKay

Doc Fulton

It's Alex Kinley, bitches

Raslen Rad

Jack Swade

Lumsie Nusbah

Aeolous aka Freddy

Colburn Maddox

The Woman with No Name aka Mildred Bumgardener

Jacob "The Rock" Eberson

Tommy Barlow aka Tom Tom

Phil

John Dampierre

Glenn James

Dana Zuul

Dr. Stephen Yang

Pwyll Dyfed

Rodger aka Questions?

'''Frank? - '''

Ally

Caleb Moses?

And so much more

Halfway Inn -
big hangout for other DORAs, just missed two in Gothic, but didn't get a chance to ID them

Settlers in Kinleyville MMO Land
They are are now considered DORAs, so like us I assume their physical appearance will reset on occasion. They physically look like elves and other demi humans.

Zog and his Generals
work for the purpose of Lords of Chaos

Amberites
work for the purpose of Amber and the Pattern

Attributes of DORAs
When not in a realm, a DORA is not anywhere, just gone

See gates and pass through them

Sense other DORAs, at least the ones we wake up with

Physical Appearance - can reset on occasion, even plastic surgery can revert back to your residual self image of when you became a DORA, just ask Mildred, or maybe not. In the Shadow Academy we were bald 12 year old kid versions of ourselves, and after gating back, our bodies resumed and the hair rapidly grew back.

DNA/Genetic Testing
3/30/2019 - Joshua MacKay - DNA/Genetic Testing - Freddy, Doc Yang & myself had our DNA tested in Cyberpunk Hong Kong

- We are first cousins. - we have Alien/synthetic DNA strands

The report will be left at the Embassy if anyone with appropriate knowledge wishes to see if more can be learnt from the results.

3/30/2019 - Aeolous - DNA/Genetic Testing - The scientists there were quite interested in studying us further. It seemed they were willing to do a fair bit for the opportunity, but we told them we would think about it and get back to them. This could potentially be worth quite a lot of money if we were willing to let ourselves be studied. Given that this is a fairly futuristic zone with lots of high-level technology, there may be risks involved (in terms of what they could potentially do with this information), or there may not. Does anyone have any objections in allowing the scientists to further study us if we were to gain a substantial amount from it? Obviously, we would do our best to secure a nondisclosure agreement of some sort on top of the promise that our DNA would not be used for anything outside of testing without our consent.

3/31/2019 - Aeolous - DNA/Genetic Testing - No actual figures were discussed, but they seemed awfully keen. I mentioned something about a "clean room" to Joshua (I needed one. Still kind of do, but too expensive) and they overheard me, seeming quite interested in allowing us to use it. The standard cleanroom that I found online costs around HK$8000 per hour and I needed one for possibly up to 2 days, which would be approximately HK$160,000.

To give you a rough idea of how much that is: a big Mac is worth HK$70, a monofilament sword is worth HK$5000, a "standard/medium" translation earpiece is worth HK$5000, and a pair of VR glasses is worth HK$4000. I should also add that things are much more expensive if you don't have ID, assuming you are able to find someone willing to do business with you if you don't have one. It may be worth investing in some top of the range fake IDs. I believe Doc Fulton paid around $70,000 (in Night City, USA) for his false ID back in the day. I do not know what the price would be in Hong Kong. Also, a crappy smelly hotel charges around HK$2500 for 3 people without ID per day, opposed to only HK$400 if you have ID.

4/7/2019 - Joshua MacKay - DNA/Genetic Testing - We took the DNA testing to the next stage - some background folk (the Cooks in Burlington) and some Doras that were background folk - Darius & Claire from MMOland. Darius and Claire were concerned about their DNA getting into the hands of a private company due to their DNA possibly already being on file (as to if they have the same DNA as they did when in Night City is debatable). Abiding by their wishes we did not do the testing at a clinic. Instead we bought a high end home DNA testing kit called "Are you my daddy DNA testing kit". This kit gives a positive or negative result. With a positive occurring out to second cousin.

Darius and Claire came out as positive matches to myself, Glenn and Dana. The Cooks came up as negative.

The DNA tester is currently in the Embassy. If you wish to use it take it to a tech friendly location. It worked ok in Burlington. We just did it behind closed doors, out of site of the background folk.

Whether someone with medical and or programming knowledge can modify the kit to give better/more detailed results remains to be seen. We also consulted with a Psychic, Spencer at the village of Santa Clause in Gothic. He advised that we (Glenn, Dana & myself) were related and Merlin is our grandfather, firming up what we were starting to suspect and believe.

4/8/2019 - Joshua MacKay - DNA/Genetic Testing - So that would mean we are great grandchildren of Corwin, who is Merlin's father & King Random's brother and possibly great great (great?) grand-children of Benedict, another of Random's and Corwin's brothers.

4/8/2019 - Aeolous - DNA/Genetic Testing- So I guess that makes Random our Great Uncle?