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Re: The Candy Striper Eastern Knight stares in mesmerized envy at the candy-shaped weapons. So far there has been no enmity aroused between the two women. Until The Candy Striper reaches for one of her candy-shaped weapons and find a little Asian girl's mouth attached to it.

Re: 'Smells like Teen Spirit'? I happen to agree that that would be too weird. Now, Boogie Pop would be cool, something like that, but when I think of DC and teens, I think something like Kite. But I'm generally more for the darker game settings.

Re: Realism check: How accurate are lie detectors? Why didn't you ask me this last night? We had a discussion about this in one of my classes a while back. Nowdays, they have computer polygraphs that are generally considered to be nearly 100% accurate. But the expertise of the user is what makes mistakes usually. It's sort of like diagnosing a rare disease. An examiner may not be able to distinguish the results, and instead of putting "inconclusive", he puts down that there were errors in the test. This changes the accuracy rate of the test. Instead of being able to toss out the inconclusive results, they use the inconclusive results as inaccurate. They are still the most controversial tool in law enforcement by far. Correct test patters have to be established of course, to lay down what the person's bio output is when they tell the truth. They'll be nervous anyway, of course, but they'll be nervous on normal questions rather than just on the important ones, thus letting a decent groundwork be laid for any changes in their output. The test is only as good as its operator, then, I guess. We never settled on anything in our class discussion. It's effective enough in some circumstances in law enforcement, at this point in time, for it's used a good deal for the results just to be tossed out. An argument could be made I suppose on the expertise of the operator and the experience and equipment of the company issuing the test. More importantly would be, in what government (state, country, etc.) are you using it? Some put more stock into it than others. In some places, you can take one then toss it right out because it's not good for much.

Re: Have a Holly Jolly Security Breach Addy (Eastern Knight): She would rip into the presents even if it wasn't Christmas day (she's Buddhist anyway) and see if Santa sent her what she asked for. (she wrote to Santa and any other possible figure who might potentially send gifts on Christmas just in case) She'd attempt to explain to Tao that elves made toys in a really cold place and broke into people's houses one night every year and left their heart's desire, and next Christmas, she'd make Tao sit up with her to try to catch him on film. But I suspect Tao wouldn't see it as something to look forward to, lol Eisen to Ghost while setting up extra security cameras and testing trip wires: "I don't care who the bastard is, he isn't breaking into my house." Rui to Tohru: "Look, Tohru, Santa was here! Tohru to Rui: "Rui...there's no such thing as Santa..." Rui looking crestfallen, his mouth turned down in a frown: "Oh..." Razor, kicking the presents out the fire escape: "Save it for someone who cares." LOL wow, my characters are kinda cynical, lol.

Re: WWYCD: Only So Many Shopping Days Till Christmas Well, of course, for Stat, Addy would get her a gift certificate to one of those stores that would actually make clothes to fit her...luscious endowments. Then Bushi would smack Addy for it! lol

Re: WWYCD: Only So Many Shopping Days Till Christmas Tohru Shinozu: Of course, seeing as how he has developed a new softer side, he'd get Rui a silk kimono and Rui would model it for him, lol Anyone else? Yeah, he'd give 'em all a big bang on his way out the door. Addy (Eastern Knight): She would have ulterior motives for giving her gifts, once someone reminded her that it was Christmas. She'd give Polaris a new bar-b-que pit! lol She'd give Major Victory a big fluffy pillow of Domo, lol. Just for kicks she'd give Tao one of those t-shirts that say Stay Back, I've Got PMS, lol.

Re: WWYCD: "He'll be back." I was trying to put several of my characters into the situation, but kept coming back to Heidi, a.k.a. Eisen, for obvious reasons. Being basically a cyborg, with altered legs, skeleton, one altered arm, and an altered eye and ear, she would likely fall more into the machine category than the human. And she has been altered personality-wise, by living the way she has for so long. She would be on the machine side, of course, but because of the limited contact she has had with one particular "normal" human, she would be ripe to be swayed if someone tried to get to her more emotional side. It would take a bit, though, as Ghost was her partner for so long and it took years for him to get to her. I could see her as being sympathetic to the humans. Addy (Eastern Knight): "You mean...time travel? Like when Bulma and Trunks made that time machine and Trunks went back into the past to kick some android butt?? Or like when Inu Yasha went through the sacred well and into modern Tokyo and started trying to do Iron Reaver Soul Stealer on that photo booth? I am soooo there! Come on, Bushi, let's do the fusion dance! KaaaamehaaameeeeHAAAAA! I'm hungry..." Razor: "What do I care? None of us have a future anyway. Stop whining and face up to your future. We're all doomed, robots or no robots. We're just walking corpses."

Re: Question for female players of Champions I agree with Nexus. I've often been told that I am not a typical girl. Gender enhances who you are. There is no one way a woman would act or not act. One thing is, don't worry about one of the personalities being a sex kitten type. Most women I talk to want to be seen that way and if one of the dominant personalities of your character, or perhaps her "true" one, is mousy or masculine, this is a way for her to be who she WANTS to be, and some girls may hate me for saying this, but we all want to be seen as sexy and desirable. We all want the guts to dress "that way" in public. ANd the little details like the Navaho headband, while overly sensitive types might see it as an insult, seem very logical for someone who is merely part of an MPD. They'll do all they can to BE that persona. In my experience, and this is just me, girls do NOT prefer the company of other girls. Maybe occasionally, but I've been very social in my life (cheerleading, dancing, even in a ghost hunting group) and nearly every girl whom I got close to in each setting admitted to going home most times and crying over something one of the girls did/wore/said/looked/got/thought. Not jsut teenagers. One group I belonged to was made defunct due to a group of near-40 married women trying to get the favor of this nasty, trollish, ignorant, sweaty man in the group, cuz he was the only guy. Women are complicated and strange, even to me. Most women in my experience view each other with more suspicion than they do men. They will gravitate to one woman they see as being either most like them, or the least threat, and talk about the others behind their backs. They will try to form alliances against the other women and when a man in the group turns to one of those other women, even if the woman we're talking about doesnt like said man, he will find himself shunned. So, at risk of sounding horrible, and getting people mad at me, that's my experience, being a very feminine woman doing mostly male stuff. I would say, have her play that way, maybe give each personality one person they like out of all the others, LOL. I NEVER buy into these shows and comics where the girls on the team unite against the guys. It's more like a Raven (teen titans) thing

Re: MancerBear's Art Den I loved Lockdown, as well. Great stuff!

Re: Your occupation, please. 1. a nun who was also the daughter of a mafia consigliere 2. the handicapped daughter of a German geneticist 3. a celebrity with no talent, who, like Paris Hilton , can't sing, act, or do much of anything, but is famous nonetheless

Re: Your Character's Room at the Base One of my favorite characters, Eastern Knight, shares a room at the base with her mentor, Bushi. Knight is about 25, but only in chronological years. Her powers, in a nutshell, are part natural gravity defying stuff (wuxia type jumping), and a few other minor things she acquired from a magical suit of samurai armor that belonged to her great grandfather, and his sword. Bushi is her 19 year old mentor, a monk assigned to be her teacher, who is very uptight. Knight, however, is a big kid who eats three times her weight in food and lives for video games and Dragonball Z. She's been known to cry out "Kamehameha" during a fight. Bushi never let her have a TV or video games. Their room is very traditional Japanese minimalist, so Knight spends all her time in the TV room at the base, playing video games on the big screen. Before they moved into the base, she had to climb out on the side of the building they lived in, using her powers, and watch TV through other people's windows.

Re: Dark Teen Champions: The Anime Series (genre concept)

Re: Dark Teen Champions: The Anime Series (genre concept) There's always that creepy teacher, not the loud-mouthed, blow hard martial arts teacher, but the unassuming, quiet, lurking literature teacher or something who turns out to be heading up all things wicked. He wins the confidence of a "good guy" or two, only to betray them to the student government kids, so that the good guys realize who their real enemy is, and that the conspiracy runs much deeper than they'd imagined.

Re: Dark Teen Champions: The Anime Series (genre concept) If it's a setting in a Japanese type school (as you mentioned anime), getting them in the same school is easy, with how they do their testing, and approving and denying students for different reasons. Getting them to the same place wouldn't be hard. And that villainous student government type could be trying to provoke them into doing something to reveal their powers in public, or to test them, see how powerful they are. I like the student government aspect mentioned before. It's classic.

Re: Dark Teen Champions: The Anime Series (genre concept) Who are the villains? I'm assuming all the PCs are hero types. Are the villains actual superpowered villains, adult, or are they kids of past heroes/villains that also go to the same schools, or whatever? I think it's a brilliant idea. I'd love to play in a game like that. My characters tend to be on the darker heroic side, almost anti-heroes, so that goes really well with the high school theme. Where better to find villains are just villainous to be villainous? The most evil people I ever ran into in real life were teachers and fellow students in high school. Are the kids known by everyone to be the children of past heroes/people with super powers? Because that would make them either watched closely or really picked on by bullies, probably.