Mark Rand

Re: IST San Angelo Since the stuff I place is stuff the IST knows about, the United States government might be keeping secrets like Project Quantum Leap, Project Tic Toc (The Time Tunnel), or the Stargate Project from them. Blue Thunder is a prototype Department of Justice project for fighting metahumans that's on loan to the LAPD. FLAG still exists. Michael Knight and Reginald Cornelius III now head the foundation. Wilton Knight's daughter, Jennifer, who also is Reginald's wife, is chairman of the board and Michael's wife, Bonnie Barstow, is in charge of all technical matters. There are two cars, each with a 2002 TransAm body and a Knight Industries Three Thousand AI. Michael and Bonnie drive KITT when they go out on missions. Their new operative drives KATT, short for Knight Associates Three Thousand.

Re: IST San Angelo I belive the helicopter was used in the short-lived NBC series The Highwayman.

Re: IST San Angelo Yeah, that guy, or a white-clad lady, is often nearby. As far as the car goes, that hasn't been ruled out. Oh, before I forget, the version of the copter I'm using was created in 2000, not 1980.

Re: IST San Angelo A few quick notes. On the White House Staff: Ginger is Toby's assistant. Bonnie, is a Communications Department aide. On the number of heroes in IST San Angelo: It has gone from 20 to 8. Paladin will go to another embassy. Spirit Cat is being completely rewritten. More later.

Re: IST San Angelo Two criminals showed up in my mind a few minutes ago. The first is a woman that can an electromagnetic pulse, range touch, when she feels like doingh so. The second is a man that can generate a field of unluck in whatever direction or at any person, group of people, or thing he wants to. He must also say, "I lay Murphy's curse on (who or whatever) and wish it/them evil. `Whatever can go wrong, will"'.

Re: IST San Angelo The last name for Keiko, Mariko and Kimiko is Nakamura. Ladies wear gloves with everything from evening gowns to jeans and tee shirts. In the real world, nurses are beginning to, once again, wear white. Some hospitals are, in fact, requiring it because it identifys the nurses. In the game universe, they white uniforms and scrubs are turning up on many nurses all across the country and old-style nurses' caps are beginning to make a comeback. (Kimiko often wears her old University of Pittsburgh cap with her white scrubs.) The Committee on Pernanent Peacekeeping Forces has always had a covert branch that operated special units. With the increase in organized crime and terrorism, IST embassies get assigned an intelligence analyst and a field intelligence agent. Both must come from a member nations' intelligence services and spend at least five yearsd working for the U.N., and pass a thorough background check before being assigned to an IST. Sir John Royal, of the United Kingdom, is IST San Angelo's team administrator.

Re: IST San Angelo Thanks. As readers of previous posts will, hopefully, remember, Spirit Cat was originally a redhead. After deciding to ninja sisters, I made them Japanese-Americans. Keiko, Spirit Cat, and Mariko, the engineer, are both skilled fighters. However, Mariko prefers to work on equipment while Keiko fights crime. Both are devoted to their mother, Kimiko, who became a nurse in the mid 1970s and was the nurse at the gymnastics school her daughters attended before coming, with them, to the IST.

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Re: IST San Angelo If they're in they campaign, we assume that they've passed the course. Most of the skills require only a basic familiarity (8-). The 10 points in martial arts is the basic training in it. Of course, a team member can have a higher skill level. One team member is a ninja who started learning when she was 6. She has over 50 points in martial arts and several combat skill levels.

Re: IST San Angelo Due to the internet and their appearences in the newspapers and and on television, people know who the members of the President's staff are. I am, therefore, introducing them to you. If they seem familiar, they shood. They're from The West Wing. I loke that program and, since they have such wonderful on-screen chemistry together, I've cast Martin Sheen and Stockard Channing as The President and First Lady. Charles Young is the President's personal assistant. Dolores Landingham is the President's secretary. Nancy is her Assistant. Leo McGarry is the White House Chief Of Staff. Margaret is his assistant. Josh Lyman is the Deputy Chief Of Staff. Donna Moss is his assistant. C.J. Cregg is the Press Secretary. VCarol Fitzpatrick is her assistant. Toby Ziegler is the White House Communications Director. Either Bonnie or Ginger is his assistant. The other also works in the Communications Department. Sam Seaborn is the Deputy Communications Director. Cathy is his assistant. Admiral Percy Fitzwallace is the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

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Re: IST San Angelo Floors five and six have labs, but white kind? The book doesn't say and there's little information on the floor plans in the book. One is labled "lab" while the other is labled "technical lab". In my opinion, there are electronics, clinical chemistry, and biochemistry labs as well as one holding a STEM (or scanning/transmission electron microscope). There is probably a photo studio with a darkroom, too, but I think they're on the fourth floor. Any ideas?

Re: IST San Angelo The IST has a training school for its superheroes. Here's a list of the skills learned, by the San Angelo team, in Hero-system terms. AK: San Angelo AK: United States systems operation KS: International History 10 points min in martial arts fluent English Tactics Additionally, all heroes must spend at least eight hours a week in combat and physical training.

Re: Mystical Voltron-Inspired Powered Armor I've edited the powers list slightly. Since I want to use Voltron in my IST campaign, where all the heroes go through a training camp, she's know what she can do with her armor. The stared ones now are the ones she uses most often and has CSLs with.

Re: IST San Angelo IST San Angelo is one of the few embassies that's not located in the center of the city. Instead, it's located in University Commons , near UC San Angelo. Developer Ben Morgan isn't happy about the heroes being there. He wanted that spot and took the U.N. and the man who sold it to them to court to get it. The U.N. assigned Kuntala Singh, the Harvard-educated daughter to two career diplomats to the case. She one easily and is now the embassy's legal attache. Beth's, a coffee shop in the next block, is a favorite of many off-duty IST staffers.

Re: IST San Angelo There are a number of important posts mandated by The Committee On Permanent Peacekeeping Forces. They are: the Team Administrator, the Field Leaderor Team Leader, a Public Relations Officer, a Legal Attache, and a Security Chief. The embassy also has a support staff off 100 or more people. Many are domestic staff, which is headed by the Majordomo. Under him are the Head Housekeeper, who heads the cleaning staff, the Executive Chef, who runs the kitchen and food service staff, and various maintanance technicians. Others are medics, doctors, nurses and medical technicians, or trainers. The remainder are the necessary administrative staff any international embassy must have. Additionally, there are security officers, including the Powered Infantry. The IST supers go to a special training school before being assigned to an embassy. The courses, in Hero system terms, are, for the San Angelo team: AK San Angelo, AK The United States, Systems Operation, KS International History, min 10 points in martial arts, English langage, Tactics.

Re: IST San Angelo Here is the layout of IST San Angelo, which is based on the IST New York layout from the book. Sub-basement Two: Fusion reactor, electrical generator, (2 10,000-gallon) water tanks. Sub-basement One: Holding cells (8), combat simulation chamber, long-term storage, vault morgue. Basement: Receiving dock and associated offices, supplies and storerooms, including ammo locker. Ground floor: Newsstand, pay phones, assorted stores. Second floor: Mechanicals: air conditioning, heat, related environmental systems, including air filtering, cellular radio subsystems. Third floor: Powered infantry barracks, armory, armor shop, parts storage, lockers, off-duty area, firing range. Fourth floor: Team Administrator's office, other administrative offices, auditorium for press conferences, PC network room. Fifth floor: Personal quarters for IST supers, labs, library, kitchen, dining room. (The library is a general reading one.) Sixth floor: Gymnasium/CSC, showers, medic, conference room, labs, technical library, mainframe room, command cente. Roof: Elevator mechanisms, primary satellite dishes, helipad. (The roof elevators and elevator mechanisms share a structure on the roof that has exits on the north and south side. Near the north exit is a nesting box that's home to a family of peregreen falcons. Pigeon bones can often be found under it)

Re: IST San Angelo A quick stop in Las Vegas. All Nevada Crime Scene Investigators are deputy sheriffs and must carry a department-approved firearm. CSI Catherine Willows, the swing-shift supervisor at Clark County's crime lab, is a metahuman. She can become a Bengal tiger that has human intelligence. After a high-speed camera experiment, conducted by computer and video expert Archie Johnson, it was discovered that she has an in between form that resembles a humanoid tiger. Catherine, however, can't, yet, stop the change at that form. Next, back to San Angelo.

Re: IST San Angelo Laura Clark, D.M.D., and Jill Thomas, R.D.H.. both from Durant, Oklahoma, where the circus has its winter quarters, form the dental team. For several years, Laura was a partner in her father's dental practice and Jill was their hygienist. They both liked the circus and every year gave the circus discount coupons. Finally, he decided to retire and sold the practice to a group in Tulsa. Finding out that they didn't want to help the circus, he gave Laura and Jill some information and suggested that they join the circus. They did, bringing with them informnation about little-known federal grants that would let the circus build the medical and dental offices for free. Rumiko and Connie always wear black sweaters and jeans, along with footwear suited to the lot. Rumiko also carries a backpack that serves as her medical bag. Anne, Becca and Catherine Campbell all wear navy-blue flightsuits, because they'll stand up to life on the road, and proper boots. Jill and Laura wear navy-blue scrubs Mary and Annie dress like working cowgirls.

Re: IST San Angelo Due to some government regulations, circuses are required to employ one full-time nurse for each 125 employees and, if they have animals, a veterinarian. If the circus doesn't play large cities, a physician, a dentist, and either a dental assistant or a dental hygienist are strongly suggested. Rumiko Yamashiro, D.V.M., monitors the health of all the show's animals. Before joining to the circus, she worked at a zoo that closed due to finincial problems. While she was there, a drunken hunter shot the zoo's only leopard, a female that was about to give birth. Rumiko was able to save the baby, a black leopard cub (or kitten) that she named Ebony. Ebony quickly bonded with Rumiko and, when the zoo closed, went with her to the circus where she's part of the menagerie. The medical team consists of Anne Campbell, M.D., Becca Campbell, R.N., BSN., and Catherine "Cat" Campbell, C.R.N.P. Anne was a physician with her own practice until she sold her practice to a managed care group. Finding out that they were more interested in making money that in caring for their patients, Anne joined her daughter Catherine at the circus. Becca, her daughter and office nurse, joined her. Cat worked at a level one trauma center before being laid off after the hospital she worked for was bought out by another and its trauma center closed.

Re: IST San Angelo A few numbers for consideration. A circus ring has an outside diameter of 44.5 feet. The areas between the rings, properly known as stages, and the area between the rings and seats, properly known as the hypodrome track, are each 15 feet across. From there, it's 20 feet to the sidewalls and 5 feet more to the stakeline. Plugging the peoper numbers into my calculator, each time Holly's shot from American Beauty, her red, white, and blue circus cannon, she travels 193.5 feet. The Secret Service agents and police officers behind the seatwagons stand where they have a clear view of both the stands and the backstage area. Holly is a 5 foot tall blue-eyed woman with waist-length blonde hair and a small frame.Since she's an athlete and muscular, she appears heavy for her build. Since she's an insulin-dependent diabetic, and a human cannonball, she does her best to keep her weight steady.

Re: IST San Angelo We are now at the Ross Brothers Circus, where Holly Collingsworth Valdez, President James Collingsworth's married daughter is an aerialist. As one might expect, she's protected by Secret Service agents. Agent Annie Nelson travels with Mary "Cowgirl" West, the show's 24-hour advance agent. Mary marks the route with paper arrows, lays the lot out and contacts the sponsor. Annie contacts the local authorities. Both women inspect the lot for problems. Like all circus performers, Holly sets up and checks her own rigging. Several agents, including Agent James Marshall, who heads Holly's detail, wear the same uniform the show's prop department wears and come out when Holly does. For the cannon act, there are two agents standing my to assist. One is at the cannon, which her husband fires, while the other is by the net. Since she hits the net at 12Gs, the agent there doesn't stand under the net. Other agents and law enforcement officers are behind the seats, too. Agent Connie Wells stays as close to Holly as she can and keeps an eye on her from behind the seat wagons, too.

Re: IST San Angelo IST Sinai is our destination. There's nothing special about the embassy, the location, however, is special. The embassy is within walking distance of Mount Saint Catherine, which is considered one of the most holy spots on Earth. Why? The reason is simple. Mount Saint Catherine is believed by many to be the Biblical Mount Sinai. The monastery's main source of water is a well, or underground spring, that sits on the very spot where Moses met his future wife, Zipporah, after protecting her and her sisters from an aggressive group of locat sheperds. The monastery's spiritual heart is the Chapel of the Burning Bush. This chapel sits atop the roots of the Biblical burning bush. A few feet from the chapel is the reputed bush itself, a rare species of the rose family called Rubus Sanctus. This species is endemic to Sinai and extremely long-lived. Source authority for the information: http://www.geographia.com/egypt/sinai/stcatherine.html.

Re: IST San Angelo We visit Greece to explore a legend. According to Greek legends, 200 Amazon warriors of various ages battled 2 Roman legions in Southern Greece about 150 years BCE. All 200 Amazons died, as did half the Romans. A few years ago, the battle site, with its mass grave, was uncovered by archaeologists studying other ruins in the area. The battlefield is now a historic site. A visitors' center, with a gift shop, vending area, and various displays, including weapons and shields from the battle, was built near the grave. Although most of the remains have been covered by dirt and grass, a lexan window covers some of those closest to the center.

Re: IST San Angelo I forgot to add that the Knights, the IST and the Slayers get along quite well. On th France. As mentioned before, the European public loves its heroes--and sometimes evrn its villains, if they show style. Some criminals, such as le Chat Noir (French for the Black Cat) of France are cult figures for their flamboyance and their refusal to cause serious harm to either persons or property. Although the book gives no furthur information about le Chat Nori, my version is a tall, polite, and soft-spoken female cat burglar with axquisit taste in loot and a silencer-equipped Beretta 92F is always loaded with knockout darts. Like all of Europe's "gentle" metavillains, confrontations with her are like chess matches instead of battles. She is a bit ticked off at the Suave Marauder, Metahuman Monthly's fashion columnist over comments he made about her matt-black costume and has threatened yto send him a hair ball or two. Recently, Paris was plaiged by a murderer that targeted only prostitutes. Ordering the IST to let them handle it, the police were unable to catch him. However, le Chat Noir caught him in the act while burglarizing the 20th story penthouse apartment that belonged to a wealthy Parasian laweyer. After knocking out, binding and gagging him (the lawyer had already bound and gagged his victim, she stole what she was after and escaped, tripping the burglar alarm as she left. The Paris Police tried to make it look like they did it, but the headline in the next morning's newspaper, CAT BURGLAR BAGS PROSTITUTE KILLER, and the accompanying story, left them with egg on their face.