GURPS IST in Champions

[Mark Rand]

I forgot two things in the embassy description. The embassy's main library is on the Wood Street side of the fifth floor and the whole building is wired for digital cable.

Now, on to my two NPC heroes, neither of which are team leaders.

Cat, sceret identity Jennifer Green, can, at will, make a suit of battle armor, that looks like a metalic felionoid, appear around her.

Lady Arcane is the team's mage. Her familiar, Amber, named for the color of her eyes, is a Western Screech Owl. The public knows that she's Denver-born heiress Lisa Clark.

April Curtis, M.S. in electronics engineering, is the embassy electronics engineer. The brunette daughter of a wealthy Pittsburgh family, she's also an amateur race car driver, a former Olympic and University of Pittsburgh gymnast, and a kunoichi, or female ninja, that would rather work on equipment than fight crime. Occasionally, the team leader has been able to talk her into coming on a mission. When she does, she's addressed as either Nekokami or Spirit Cat.

Denise Dupont is the U.N. Intelligence agent, a former CIA black-bag jobs expert and a skilled actress. An attractive, blue-eyed blonde, Denise started wearing gloves constantly while getting ready to portray a fashionable woman in a play that was set in 1902 Boston. Although she usually wears a khaki jumpsuit, she sometimes wears one of the 1961 American Airlines stewardess uniforms, given to her by her maternal grandmother after she wore them in a play.

Ann Gray, R.N., BSN, is one of the embassy's nurses. Unlike the others, who wear scrubs, she wears white uniforms and a cap that were found on the other side of the gateway.

Christine Hunter, M.S., the head of embassy computer section, received her computer science degree from Carnegie-Mellon University, A black woman with vraided, shoulder-length black hair, she recently began wearing vintage 1960s British Caledonian Airlines stewardess uniforms that were found in the gateway world.

Elena Lopez heads the embassy's PR department. A lean Hispanic woman who fences for fun, she's the decendent of the 1820's California vigilante known as the Queen of Swords.

Keiko Nakamura is the base photographer. A Japanese-American woman, she's a graduate of the Art Institute and worked for UMPC before joining the embassy staff.

That's all for now. Your comments on everything would be appriciated.

[Mark Rand]

I made a slight error in the last post. Christine Hunter doesn't wear the old British Caledonian stewardess uniform. She wears the same khaki jumpsuit April, Denise, and Keiko wear. The uniform, however, can be seen on a billboard for British Caledonian Airlines that's visible from the bus shelter.

[Mark Rand]

Mention has been made of a Hellmouth, Slayers, and Watchers, as in Buffy, post season seven. The Southwestern Pennsylvania area has three Slayers. Here they are. All three use stakes, crossbows and personal weapons and go to the same high school, which is on the Hellmouth.

Slayer Mariko Yamashiro was trained in ninjitsu and gymnastics by her mother, Fujiko, who also trained by IST electronics engineer April Curtis, before she became a Slayer. Her father, Hikaru, is the principal of the high school on the Hellmouth. Mariko and Fujiko patrol together and carry swords as well as regular Slayer weapons.

Slayer Joy West was also trained by her mother, Jennifer, a Jedi Knight and fugitive from the emperor, who now owns an art gallary, as a Jedi before she became a Slayer. Her father, Tom, works for the county crime lab. Mother and daughter patrol together and use their lightsabers as well as conventional Slayer weapons.

Slayer Kendra Thomas was adopted by her Watcher, Paul, after her Jamacia-born parents were run over by a drunk driver as they walked home from church one Sunday. He is now the school librarian and his wife, Cathy, is the school nurse. Her favorite weapon is a scythe, like Buffy's, that she found in the wearhouse. Her father, who patrols with her, has no favorite weapons.