Mark Rand

Re: IST San Angelo Eight hours later, the four women were at the now-active gatewat. April, Christine, and Midori were in black. Mariko was in scrubs. "My shift starts in one hour," she said. "I'll send Keiko through once she gets off duty." "Fine," Christine said as the gate appeared. "Let's go, ladies." They steped through and ended up standing in a bus shelter. "Nobody in here with us," April said, turning the light strapped to hermasked head on. Pointing to a ten by fifteen foot lot enclosed by a chain-link fence, she added, "There's the Inferno area." "Yeah. LEt's check out the road beside it," Christine said. After going one hundred feet, they came to a sign. "It's an archery range," Midori said. "Perfect for Voltron," April said. "Let's see what's next." "A mansion or villa," Midori said. Pointing to the bodies, she added, "It looks like a formal party." "Yeah," Christine said, spotting the men in tuxedos and the women in evening gowns and long gloves. "It'll take too long for us to clear the place out. Where to next?"

Re: Is the Cat Burglar template in the DC book suitable for a spy? I've started working on Christine's sheet.

Re: IST San Angelo Suddenly, the telephone rang. Sir John picked it up, spoke for a minute, hung it up and said, "Warder, our gate closed." "It'll reopen within eight hours," Warder said. "We have to establish residence in the universe," Warder said. "Who is going through?" "April, Christine, and anyone else that wants to," Sir John replied. After a quick conversation with her daughters in Japanese, Midori said, "Mariko and I will go. Keiko will go through once she's off duty." "No problem," Christine said. "Wear black clothes, ladies, and make sure you're wearing gloves and ski masks. April and I are playing cat burglar. Midori, Keiko, Mariko, you're just dressing the part." "Make sure you have what you need for three days," April said. "We can bring the rest of our luggage through later."

Re: Mystical Voltron-Inspired Powered Armor The thread "Character for Review: Voltron" has been posted to this board.

Re: IST San Angelo "Kinsey got indited on assault and battery, assault with the intent to commit murder, attempted murder, and attempting to cause harm to the President of the United States," Sir John said as the heroes and some staffers entered theconference room. "He was also remanded to custody and received 120-days in jail for comtempt of court for yelling at the judge." "Serves him right,' Kuntala said, smoothing out a slight wrinkle in her sari. "Yes," Sir John said. "Stargate Command is refusing to let either NASA or the State Department talk to the Asguard of the people from Cimmeria without their permission. Oh, The House Judiciary Committee has started hearings into Mr. Kinsey's Impeachment." "Kinsey has a lot of pull," Christine said. "I'm sure he's been involved in a lot of shady deals. When the Secret Service get his records, the IRS is going to have a field day with them." "Any word about the status of Statgate Command?" Kuntala asked. "France tried to bring sanctions against the United States for violating the edicts, but was shot down. Aparently, most of the nations either have, or want to sign the Stargate Treaty." "Interesting,' Kuntala said. "A quick point," Warder said. "We should start having people move into the gateway world as soon as possible. As long as we're only either exploring it or cremating bodies, the guardians can kick us out of it and assign us another." "We should remove the bodies from the apartment house first, then have people take up residence in it," April suggested. "It should be second," Christine said. "Remember, the gate is in the airport bus. We have to clean that out first." "Right," April said. "I forgot."

Re: Character For Review: Voltron Great! I didn't know this existed.

Re: Character For Review: Voltron

Re: Character For Review: Voltron Before I forget, this character was created using Hero Designer version one and was exported into three-column HTML format before being pasted here. This is also the first character I ever created with it, much less posted to these hallowed boards.

Re: IST San Angelo The Voltron character sheet has been posted. You can find it at "Character For Review: Voltron".

Here is Voltron from the IST San Angelo campaign I hope to start soon. The character creation rules are: 200-point base as much in disadvantages and experience as you need up to 5 quirks (1-point disadvantagges) can be used knacks, from Digital Hero #23, can be used Name: Voltron Alternate IDs: Allison Harper Player: GM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Val Char Roll Notes 33 STR 16- HTH Damage 6 1/2d6 END [3] 33 DEX 16- OCV 11 DCV 11 14 CON 12- 12 BODY 11- 16 INT 12- Perception Roll: 12- 16 EGO 12- Base ECV: 5 15 PRE 12- Base Presence Attack: 3d6 16 COM 12- 28 PD 28 ED 4 SPD 6 REC Run: 6" 28 END Swim: 2" 26 STUN Leap: 6 1/2" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Disadvantages Pts Distinctive Features: battlesuit, Not Concealable, Noticed and Recognizable, Detectable By Commonly-Used Senses 15 Social Limitation: Subject to Orders, Occasionally (8-), Minor 5 Social Limitation: Secret ID, Frequently (11-), Major 15 Psychological Limitation: Code vs Killing, Common, Total 20 Hunted: IST Command, More Powerful, 11- (Frequently), Watching, Extensive Non-Combat Influence, PC has a Public ID or is otherwise very easy to find 20 Psychological Limitation: protective of inosents, Common, Total 20 Hunted: the press, Less Powerful, 11- (Frequently), Watching 0 Psychological Limitation: needs to prove herself, Very Common, Strong 20 XP 0 Base : 200 Disads : +115 XP Spent : +188 Total = 503 50 : Characteristics Cost 368 + Powers Cost 85 + Martial Arts/Skills/Perks/Talents Cost 503 = Total Cost -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pts. Power/Skill/Perk/Talent END Powers 11 +20 STR (20 Active Points); No Figured Characteristics (-1/2), Only In Heroic Identity (-1/4) (added to Primary Value) 2 48 +20 DEX (60 Active Points); Only In Heroic Identity (-1/4) (added to Primary Value) 36 Flash Defense (20 points) (Hearing Group), Hardened (x5; +1 1/4) (45 Active Points); Only In Heroic Identity (-1/4) 36 Flash Defense (20 points) (Sight Group), Hardened (x5; +1 1/4) (45 Active Points); Only In Heroic Identity (-1/4) 8 Flash Defense (10 points) (Radio Group) (10 Active Points); Only In Heroic Identity (-1/4) 24 Flight 15" (30 Active Points); Only In Heroic Identity (-1/4) 3 15 Life Support (Safe in High Pressure, Safe in High Radiation, Safe in Intense Cold, Safe in Intense Heat, Safe in Low Pressure/Vacuum, Self-Contained Breathing) (19 Active Points); Only In Heroic Identity (-1/4) 10 High Range Radio Perception (12 Active Points); Only In Heroic Identity (-1/4) 53 Suit Weapon and Defensive Systems: VPP, 40 base + 13 control cost (60 Active Points); Incantations (-1/4), Only In Heroic Identity (-1/4) [Notes: Incantations refers to Allison mentally commanding her armor to activate a weapon or system, and she doesn't know everything it can do.] 15 Armor (5 PD / 5 ED) (added to Primary Value) [Notes: This is the actual suit, which is, more or less, bulletproof spandex and can be worn under clothes with the gloves and hood/mask off. (The hood/mask can be worn just like the hood of a sweatshirt.)] 112 Force Field (20 PD / 20 ED), Hardened (x10; +2 1/2) (140 Active Points); Only In Heroic Identity (-1/4) (added to Primary Value) 14 Martial Arts 3 Basic Strike: 1/2 Phase, +1 OCV, +0 DCV, STR +2d6 Strike 5 Defensive Block: 1/2 Phase, +1 OCV, +3 DCV, Block, Abort 4 Fast Strike: 1/2 Phase, +2 OCV, +0 DCV, STR +2d6 Strike Skills 1 KS UN and World History 8- 1 Systems Operation 8- 4 PS Graphic Artist 13- 5 PS Painter 14- 1 Tactics 8- 3 TF: Common Motorized Ground Vehicles, Equines 1 KS The United States 8- 1 KS San Angelo, California 8- 2 KS Colorado 11- 4 KS Colorado Rockies 13- 4 KS Boulder, Colorado 13- Perks 5 Fringe Benefit (International Police Powers) 5 Fringe Benefit (Membership IST) 36 Contact (14-) (Contact has access to major institutions, Contact has significant Contacts of his own, Contact has: extremely useful Skills or resources, Very Good relationship with Contact), Organization Contact (+2) (36 Active Points) Base OCV: 11 Base DCV: 11 Base ECV: 5 Adjustment + Adjustment + Adjustment + Final OCV: Final DCV: Final ECV: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Combat Maneuvers Name Phase OCV DCV Effect Block 1/2 +0 +0 Block, Abort Brace 0 +2 1/2 +2 vs. Range Mod. Disarm 1/2 -2 +0 Can disarm Dodge 1/2 --- +3 Abort, vs. all attacks Grab 1/2 -1 -2 Grab two limbs Grab By 1/2 -3 -4 Move and Grab Haymaker 1/2* +0 -5 +4DC to attack Move By 1/2 -2 -2 STR/2 + v/5 Move Through 1/2 -v/5 -3 STR + v/3 Set 1 +1 +0 Ranged attacks only Strike 1/2 +0 +0 STR or weapon -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Range 0-4 5-8 9-16 17-32 33-64 65-128 RMod 0 -2 -4 -6 -8 -10 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DEX: 33 SPD: 4 ECV: 5 Phases: 3, 6, 9, 12 28 PD (25 rPD) 28 ED (25 rED) MD: 0 END: 28 STUN: 26 BODY: 12 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Roll Location STUNx NSTUN BODYx To Hit 3-5 Head x5 x2 x2 -8 6 Hands x1 x1/2 x1/2 -6 7-8 Arms x2 x1/2 x1/2 -5 9 Shoulders x3 x1 x1 -5 10-11 Chest x3 x1 x1 -3 12 Stomach x4 x1.5 x1 -7 13 Vitals x4 x1.5 x2 -8 14 Thighs x2 x1 x1 -4 15-16 Legs x2 x1/2 x1/2 -6 17-18 Feet x1 x1/2 x1/2 -8 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Height: 5' 5" Hair: Blonde Weight: 130 lbs Eyes: Blue Appearance: Out of armor, Allison looks like Princess Allura in V3D. In armir, she resembles the lion-force Voltron. Background:

Re: IST San Angelo

Re: Is the Cat Burglar template in the DC book suitable for a spy? I'll be doing Christine's character sheet in Hero Designer version 1 soon and posting it on this forum for comment once my computer, Athena, has her Christmass present, an additional 128 Megs of RAM. Look for it, soon.

Re: IST San Angelo Just a quick note. Tomorrow, December 30th, I'm taking my computer, Athena, to the shop tomorrow for her Christmass present, 128 Megs of RAM. Once that's done, she'll have a total of 192 Megs and I'll be able to use Hero Designer (version 1) to create sheets for my characters. Once I do that, I'll post April (Spirit Cat), Voltron, Warder, and her familiar, Midnight on this forum and Christine on the Dark Champions one.

Re: IST San Angelo "Begin cremating the bodies, following the tradition Warder uses tomorrow," Sir John said. "For now, get tome sleep." "Right," April said. "Understood," Christine said. As the meeting broke up, Midori said, "I'd like to see the uniforms you found." "They'll be on display once they've been cleaned," April said. "It might be fun to try some of them on and have someone take photos." "Yeah, especially if we adopt natural poses," Christine laughed. "True," April said.

Re: IST San Angelo "What's this `Inferno'?" Sir John asked. "A building housing a gateway to a fire dimension," Warder replied. "The bodies are placed on a marked area on the floor of the gateway building. Once the beings that put the body there can't be detected near the body, the floor vanishes and the body falls into the fire." She paused, then added, "It's tradition to strip the body before placing it there." "Noted," Sir John said. "Was anything happening in any of the buildings when the incident occurred?" "The high school was having its homecoming," April replied. "Since its mascot was the mustang, everyone but the cheerleaders, nurses and O.V.T. practical nursing students were required to be in Western gear on the day of the game. Golves, masks, and toy weapons were permitted." "O.V.T.?" Sandi asked. "The Occupational Vocational Technical, or O.V.T., training program enabled high school students to train in certain career fields while in high school," Midori replied. "I took the O.V.T. practical nursing program in high school, then went to college for my B.S.N. and R.N." "Oh." "The school nurses were doing TB testing and, with parental permission, giving out flu shots," April said. "A blood drive was going on in the church basement and a health fair and a belly dancing class were in progress in the community center. Additionally, the ladies in the community center offices were all wearing gloves while they worked." "Interesting," Kuntala said. "Think they were from a different reality?" "Possible," Christine replied. "They were all from different cities, none of which was New York. Neither the three busses nor the school crossing guards were from New York." "We also found a station wagon from a housekeeping service by the apartment building. It didn't have New York plates either."

Re: IST San Angelo When April and Christine returned, they were asked to report to the conference room. As they did, they caught sight of Midori, in her usual white scrubs, and Sandi, another nurse, in a white uniform. "I thought you wore only scrubs, Sandi," Christine said. "White uniforms are coming back into style," she said. "Hospitals in a number of states are now requiring them. According to the San Angelo Times, the Kelley Hospitals, the St. Mary's Hospitals, and the University Medical Center all require their nurses to wear white uniforms now and the St. Mary's Hospitals are considering bringing the cap back." "Intreging," Midori said as they entered the Conference Room. "The gate took us to a bus on West 145 Street, near the part of New York City's Riverview Park between West 139th Street and West 147th," Christine said. Besides the park, which included ball fields, a carousel, a cafe, a cultural center, a waterfroont amphiter, an indoor skating rink, an indoor athletics center, an aquatics center, a track and a maintainance building, we found a high school, a church, a bridal shop that also sold evening gowns, an apartment building, with a pool, and something called an Infirno." "Besides our bus, there were two others," April said. "One was an airport bus and the other was a regular bus. There were gloved stewardesses in the airport bus, which places it, on our timeline, in the 1960s, and the women in the second regular bus, including the driver, wore the same kind of head covering Islamic women do." "You're kidding," Sir John said. "I'm not," April said. "Most of the women were veiled. A few also had the veil's screens over their eyes. Accordoing to the textbook I found, the same people that captured Jerusalem captured Rome and Vatican City."

Re: IST San Angelo At 7:45, after training and dinner, April, Midori, and Christine returned to the Control Room. "We're ready," April said. "Good," Sir John said. "A quick news recap. The First Lady is with the President. Due to elevated blood pressure, Holly sat the early performance. However, she has been given permission to be part of the evening show." "The blood pressure increase could've been due to stress," Midori said. "Noted," Sir John said. "Mr. Kinsey is now in the El Paso County Jail." "Good," April said. Turning to Warder, she asked, "Ready?" "All set," Warder replied. "I'll cast my spell in that dead-end hall on the fifth floor." "Fine," Sir John said. "Proceed when ready." They went downstairs and walked to the hallway where the spell would be cast and Warder cast it. The portal appeared. "Ready?" Christine asked. "Yes. You?" April asked. "Yes," Christine replied. "Let's go." They did.

Re: Mystical Voltron-Inspired Powered Armor On the "IST San Angelo" thread, Voltron admitted that she just figured out, with help from April and Christine, how to transform into one lion, then five lions. She also admitted that she started using the blazing bow on the target range, but needs archery lessons. I think I'm going to stick with Janel Moloney (Donna from The West Wing, as the actress I'd like to play her. She has the look of a novice superheroine that looks eager to prove herself. I'd cast Emily Proctor as U.N. intelligence agent Christine Hunter. She has the look of someone that is deadly serious about her work.

Re: IST San Angelo Once C.J.'s press conference ended, the various networks trotted out their experts and the discussion of the days events began. At IST San Angelo, the large monitor was shut off and April and Christine headed for the combat simulation chamber. Voltron went with them, hoping they'd let her use her armor's abilities in some of the tests. "No problem," Christine said. "I want to test April's stealth skills. Then, if there's time, you can join us in the training." "Good," Voltron said, pulling her suit's mask over her head. "I want to see how well I do in the dark against both of you." "Then, I assume, this will be scored as a normal training session?" asked the trainer that they'd met outside the room. "Yeah," Voltron said. "I need to know how will I can use my suit." "How many weapons have you used?" April asked. "Six," Voltron replied. "The electrosaber, the blazing sword, the eye beams, the electroforce cross, the solar stars, and I started using the blazing bow yesterday. I need archery lessons." "Wasn't Voltron composed of five lions?" Christine asked. "Yeah," April replied. "Do you think she can split into five lions?" "It's possible." Turning to the novice heroine, Christine asked, "What do you think?" "I'll try it." After a moment, she said, she said, "I just got an `Unable to do such function in this mode' message from my armor. Does this mean I'm no good and have to go back to being Boulder, Colorado artist Allison Harris?" "Not necessarily," April replied. "Can you convert to a single lion?" "I'll try it," Voltron said. A moment later,she yelped, "It's working." "Once you're ready, switch to five lions," Christine said. "Chances are, you'll be controling the other four by remote." "Ready," Voltron said. Suddenly there were five lions. "It works!" "Yeah, now you'll just have to reverse the process to look human again," April said. "I know."

Re: Is the Cat Burglar template in the DC book suitable for a spy? Here's a bit of information on U.N. intelligence agent Christine Hunter. The following information is from my "IST San Angelo" thread. Besides being a skilled stage actress, she's a capable combatant, a skilled seductress and a highly effective cat burglar. Christine is a blue-eyed blonde with an athletic build who always wears gloves. In her file is the following statement. "During my senior year in college, I was cast as a fashionably-dressed woman in a play set in 1902 Boston. Since women wore gloves all the time back then, I had to learn how to do everything with gloves on. My mother, who was a fashion model before becoming a hair stilest and opening her own salon, taught me the basics and I decided to keep them on and practice. After the play ended, I discovered that I loved wearing gloves and, since then, I've worn them all the time."

Re: IST San Angelo Probably. Head of Homeworld Security and Head of Home Planet Security mean the same thing. He's in charge of keeping the whole planet safe from threats from outer space.

An NPC in my IST Campaign is a U.N. field agent with a lot of experience doing black-bag jobs. Is the cat burglar template in the DC book the right one for her?

Re: IST San Angelo Back at the White House, Toby was handed another note. "That wraps it up here. C.J.'s about to come on from Stargate Command." The briefing room was being used to house the press conference. "A few announcements first," C.J. said. "The President is alert and complaining of a slight headache. A skull series has been taken and the doctors believe he has a mild concussion. They are preparing for a Computerized Axial Tormography, or CAT, Scan. "Captain Bethany Fields of the United States Air Force, SG-2's linguist, sprained her right ankle. Since SG-2 is an exploration team, not a front-line combat team, women are permitted on it. Since they're out in the field, it's policy that they are armed. "Mr. Kinsey is awake and yelling at everyone, including the guards and the nurse that was sent make sure his skull wasn't shattered by being slamed into the wall. "The people from Cimmeria are getting medical examinations and, so far, have been found to be in excelent health. "I'll take questions now."

Re: IST San Angelo A few notes. A bunch of spelling errors in my posts have been fixed. Midori, Mariko, and Keiko aren't the only nurses at the embassy. They're just the ones that live in. As the press conference continued, Kuntala said, "Since some of the nations on the Security Council are involved with this program, they might not do anything against the United States. I wonder though if Lieutenant Colonel Carter will be considered a metahuman because of her symbiot." "Good point," Sir John said. "What about Ms. Summers and her symbiot?" "She's the senior Vampire Slayer and her Watcher, Rupert Giles, is president of the Waychers Council," Warder said. "The council will probably ask a few questions and decide what to do. Since they're so committed to protecting the world from non-human dangers, Stargate Command probably will get more recruits. They may be assigned to help protect Earth if Anubus tries to land." "we'll probably get heroes from all over, and a few villans, wanting to help, too," Sir John said. "Such as?" Voltron asked. "La Chat Noir," Sir John replied. "Her activities as a cat burglar would be curtailed by Anubus and his thugs." "Think she'd sign up?" Christine asked. "I doubt it," Sir John replied. "However, she'd cause as much damage as she could." "You're right," Christine admitted.

Re: IST San Angelo Toby, is Dr. Daniel Jackson the same man that had those wild theories about ancient gods?" "Yes," Toby replied with a grin. "It looks like he was right." "How do you think the academic world will react to this stargate?" "I don't know. However, I assume they're still in shock." He paused as Carol entered with a note. "Excuse me a moment." He read it, then said, "The President's physician thinks that they'll do a skull series, evaluate the results, then do either an MRI or a CT scan. The First Lady was between patients when the President was knocked out. She was so shaken that another doctor will be doing the rest of the operations she'd planned to do today. The First Daughter was watching the speech with friends and was badly shaken up by Mr. Kinsey's actions. She may not be performing today." "Will Mr. Kinsey be Impeached?" "Probably. That depends on the House Judiciary Committee and what charges are brought against him when he's arraigned." To be continued