GURPS IST in Champions

[Southern Cross]

Re: GURPS IST in Champions

 

Fair enough.

[Mark Rand]

Re: GURPS IST in Champions

 

Fair enough.

Thanks. What do you think of the world and city information?

[Mark Rand]

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IST Pittsburgh is on Wood Street between Fifth Avenue and Oliver Avenue. Although it occupies the entire block of Wood Street, it doesn't occupy the entire block. Apple Way, a narrow alley, separates the embassy's loading dock ramp from the Park Building and Saks Fifth Avenue. (The third floor and above have restroom and maintance facilities.)

 

The first floor has telephone booths, a news stand, a gift shop and, unlike other IST embassies, a coffee shop. A door leads to the kitchen from Fifth Avenue. It can be opened from inside and is monitored by IST security and the base mainframe.

 

The second floor houses the HVAC equipment.

 

The third floor houses security. An emergency deployment hatch opens above the loading dock ramp.

The fourth floor is the administrative floor. Along the Wood Street side are the administrator's office, his secretary's, the legal attache's office, her secretary's, her law library, the PR director's office, her secretary's, the PR photo and artical library, a staff conference room and a photo studio complete with darkroom and computer systems. The Oliver Avenue side has a press briefing room and administrative and secretarial offices. More offices are on the Apple Way and Fifth Avenue sides.

 

The fifth floor is the residential floor. Ten suites, consisting of a bedroom, living room and bathroom are on the Fifth Avenue side. Ten more are on the Oliver Avenue side. The Apple Way side has the dining and kitchen facilities, which are always open, as well as the head cook's office. The Wood Street side has the rec room, where the gates are, the entertainment center and the office the majordomo, head housekeeper and their secretary share.

 

The sixth floor is the operations center. The Wood Street side is the team leader's office, the communications denter, and the team's meeting room. The Oliver Avenue side has the medical and dental facilities. The Apple Way side is the gymnasium, with weight training, martial arts and cardiovascular training. The telecommunications facilities, electronics lab, forensics lab and technical library are on the Fifth Avenue side.

 

Above this floor is the helipad.

 

Next time, we visit the underground floors and, maybe, go through the gates.

[Mark Rand]

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Now, we look at the IST Pittsburgh's underground floors.

 

The basement, which can be entered through the loading dock, has the laundry room and storage areas for food, ammunition and everything else.

 

Sub-level one has the morgue, holding cells and closed-circuit link to the various courthouses.

 

Sub-level two has the computer room, the head of data processing's office, the morgue, and the combat simulation chamber.

 

Sub-levels three and four contain the embassy's fusion reactor and its systems, two 10,000-gallon cisterns, water filters and pumps, and various repair shops.

 

Next up, we go through the gates.

[Mark Rand]

Re: GURPS IST in Champions

 

Both gates are in the rec room. IST policy requires the cremation of bodies found through these gates and permits the recovery of their clothes Except for choir and pulpit robes, which are kept where they were found, the clothes are placed in storage in a room or rooms in one building and the heroes and staffers are given a list of what is there. Signs that were in the buildings haven't been removed.

Gate one goes to a Japanese garden. Two spectral women, dressed like geisha, play music here and tend the garden.

 

Gate two leads to a two square block area. One block has a rec center. The other has a hotel, a church, a bar, a restaraunt, a beauty shop and a uniforme store.

 

The rec center has a pool, gymnasium with an overhead running track, a weight room and other facilities. A sign on the cork board informs people of a health fair in the gymnasium. A second sign reminds the cheerleaders to stop by their coach's office and pick their uniforms up. The gate is in a bus shelter outside the building.

 

The church had a blood drive going on in its Fellowship Hall.

 

The hotel was hosting a conference of Islamic women.

 

According to newspapers found in the buildings, a madman threatened to unleash a deadly plague unless the world disarmed. If it was unleashed, the Powers That Be, or some other higher power, made sure whatever killed them was now dead.

 

Next, we meet my two NPC heroes and some of the support staff.

[Mark Rand]

Re: GURPS IST in Champions

 

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]

Re: GURPS IST in Champions

 

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]

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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.