Mark Rand

Re: IST San Angelo The European public loves its heroes--and sometimes even its villains, if they show style. Heroes are given as much government backing as the U.N. will allow. One of England's best-known hero teams, The Knights of Pendragon, are a group of men and women imbued with superhuman power by the Green Knight, a protective nature spirit that watches over the world (and in particular the United Kingdom). The current team consists of Francesca Lexley Grace, Kate McClellan, and Joey Chapman. Joey's lover, Lady Jacqueline Falsworth-Crichton, sometimes joins the team. All posess superhuman strength, endurance and speed, enhansed fighting abilities, and can sense Banes, minor demons that serve a greater demon known as The Red Lord. They can also summon speeder bikes that can jump, through ley space, to alternate realities and cal change from what they're wearing to mystical body armor. They can also converse with the owls that act as the Green Knight's messangers and sentrys. Francesca Lexley Grace, who prefers to be known onlyas Grace, is a former businesswoman who always fights in armor. Kate McClellan is Astra TV's fearless and belowed reporter. Kate, a blue-eyed blonde with electrical powers, prefers to fight in street clothes and recently has been seen in the black leather jumpsuit, boots, gloves and jacket she bought just before doing a five-part report on the United Kingdom's motorcycle sub-culture. Her armor, instead of Graces high-tech look, is golden scale-male with a black tabard, hooded cape, black leather boots, gloves and sword belt that holds her scabbarded longsword. The coat of arms on her shield and tabard is, according to some experts, the one Queen Guinevere used after her maggage to King Arthur. Joey Chapman, the current Union Jack, prefers his old costume to his armor, but has used both. Lady Jacqueline Falsowrth-Crichton, Jackie to most, is the rejuvinated World War Two British superheroine Spitfire. She can run at superhuman speeds and wears her old costume, minus its mask.

Re: IST San Angelo I have some interesting posts coming up, folks. We'll visit a hero team in England, a female criminal in France, a grave in Greece, and IST Sinai before returning to the United States and going to the Ross Briothers Circus , the one Holly Collingsworth Valdez works for. We might even watch her get shot out of a cannon.

Re: IST San Angelo The ship's name is Enterprise and the tail number is NCC-1701. We have a winner!!! Someone give "Just A Guy Name" a cupie doll.

Re: IST San Angelo Thank you. There is more to come.

Re: IST San Angelo I misunderstood. Thanks for correcting my error.

Re: IST San Angelo I was actually considering placing the Avengers, from Marvel Comics, in the San Angelo Universe and having the PC team being their west coast branch, but I thought that a GURPS IST campaign fould be more interesting. Of course, all the crossovers I've mentioned in various postings would still be there.

Re: IST San Angelo On or about noon on Monday, November 22. 2004, I will announce the right the right answer and tell everyone who the first person to guess correctly was. Hopefully, someone will send that person a cupie doll.

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Re: IST San Angelo I bought the GURPS IST book through ebay and it arrived yesterday. In it, I found, among other things, a floor by floor description of IST New York and maps for three of its floors (1, 3, and 6) I'll be using the IST New York embassy as the basis for IST San Angelo.

Re: IST San Angelo After an explosion killed Harry Broderick, Chip Carmichael and Melanie Slozar, the people that took over Jettison Scrap and Salvage Company decided that they didn't want The Vulture, the ship Harry and his team used for space missions, and the gear associated with it. They sold all of it to an out of town collector who then donated the whole lot to the University of California at San Angelo's Wells Planetarium, which now has it all on display.

Re: IST San Angelo Eighteen months ago, Sunnydale, California crumbled into a crator. The area around it is now Thhe Sunnydale Crater State Park. In the park, behind a chainlink fence is a yellow schoolbus that, according to the sign on the fence was the last vehicle to leave Sunnydale. Yes, there are vampires, demons, Hellmouths and Slayers. A;though not officially sanctioned by any law enforcement agency. including the DMI and the IST, the Slayers are treated like they were. All IST offices have telephone numbers to contact the Slayers in their area. Six months ago, the Los Angeles office of Wolfram and Hart, a well-known law firm, broke apart at midnight. Mythbusters, a program on the Discovery channel, is operated out of M5 Industries, Inc., a San Fransisco special effects company. The Monteray Bay History Museum has an exibit about The Queen of Swords, a vigilante that operated in the Spanish California town of Santa Helena. The exibit includes replicas of her weapons and a dummy wearing a replica of her costume. Boeing has created, using its 747 design as a base, America's first single-stage-to-orbit craft. The ship's designers claim that it can easily travel throughout the solar system. Although the ship is, as of yet, unnamed rumors are circulating that it will be named after a shap from a television science fiction program, a made for television science fiction movie, or a regular science fiction movie.

Re: IST San Angelo Said helicopter could break the sound barrier and was invisible to both military and civilian radar. Among his team members were Special Agents Daphne "Danger-Prone Daphne" Wyeth and Parthenope "Addy" Addison. SAC Huntley was, in public, praising them for singlehanddely capturing a terrorist that the IST had caught when Addy, who was in the middle of correcting Huntley, morphed into a cougar. Daphne looked completely shocked as Addy lunged at SAC Huntley. He backed up, falling over the edge of the platform, then, as Huntley was reaching for his weapon, the cougar-that-was-Addington relieved herself on him before sprinting away. "Wyeth, look at what your partner did to my suit!" Huntley roared. "After we made our last arrest, the perp told us that a Coyote owed him a favor. Obviously, we were cursed. I want to find my partner and get the curse lifted." "Go ahead!" he roared. "Once she's cured, you two can work with the freaks you two like so much." Daphne and Addy showed up one week later. "Report!" he roared. "With some help from a friendly spellcaster, we managed to contact Coyote and talk him into helping us," Daphne said. "With this choker, I can control my shapshifting, and, when I do shift, I'll still have my human intelligence and emotions," Addison said. "Daphne's ring let's her communicate with me when I'm a cougar." "I'll have an assignment for you two, soon." HUntley said. "In the meantime, I want you two to continue looking for that helicopter." "The IST might not approve to two metahuman women working for the FBI," Daphne said. "I don't give a @#%& what they think!" Huntley roared. "Get to work." Since then, they've resigned from the FBI and are now in the IST Academy.

Re: IST San Angelo here's more stuff that's going on in the world. Navada's Perfection Valley is home to a sterile white graboid known as El Blanco. The valley floor is also covered with Mix Master, a chemical that let's non-human DNA combine. Santa Barbara, California's Nelson Institute of Marine Research is home to the submarine Seaview. Former Seaview commanding officers Admiral Lee Crane and Vice Admiral Chip Morton now head the institute that was founded in the 1970s by the late Admiral Haiirmon Nelson. Chip's son, Captain Robert Morton, is the current captain of the Seaview. Lee's son, Commander David Crane, is his executive officer. FBI Special Agent in Charge Thomas Huntley is trying to find, and arrest, the crew of a black helicopter that, he claime, has been carrying out missions for the CIA without proper approval. According to him, the helicopter, which is 50 feet long, 40 of which is the rotors, is called Angel by the people at Edwards Air Force Base and The Ghost of the Coast by Camp Pendleton.

Re: IST San Angelo Snowy Falls, Colorado is a town that's too small to show up on most maps. Just outside of town on the site of the Tipsy Q Ranch, is the Tipsy Q National Wildlife Refuge. What makes it so special is the fact that the only herd of unicorns in the world live there. Samual and Libby Quarrels Coldpony, the ranch's former owners, now manage the refuge for the Department of the Interior and hunting isn't permitted in the refuge. Of all the unicorns, only Phyllis, a sturdy mare, sleeps in the barn and hangs out with Sam and Libby's horses. The others stay near the trees and mountains..

Re: IST San Angelo A few minor notes from Washington, D.C. James Collingsworth is the President of the United States. He's an easygoing man who smokes a pipe and likes ice hockey. His wife, Andrea, is an opthalmologist that, much to the dismay of the Secret Service, still has her private practice near George Washington University Hospital. Like her staff, and, probably, the Secret Service agents protecting her, Andrea wears navy-blue scrubs with the practice's name in gold. Their daughter, Holly, has been married for three years, is an insulin-dependent diabetic, and has been an aerialist on the Ross Brothers Circus for the past five years. Robert Kinsey is the Vice President of the United States. Evelyn Baker Long is the Chief Justice of the United States and Presiding Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Alex McGregor heads the United States Secret Service team protecting the President and other top executives. She has no problem working with superheroes, as long as they're either sanctioned or employed by a law enforcement agency and willing to put themselves under her command. Occassionally, she'll ask her husband, Grant Coleman, a corporate adventure specialist and former Colorado River guide for assistance.

Re: IST San Angelo My idea of having the U.N. and IST Supreme Headquarters in San Angelo is a bust. However, the embassy there will have 20 supers. Under IST regulations, only two can come from the same region the embassy's in, in this case, the Western United States. Right now, I have, under construction, for female supers under construction. Here's a small biography of each. Paladin calls Boston home. In civilian clothes, her blonde hair is as long as Joan Lunden's. In her heroic identity, her hair falls below her shoulders and she wears golden scale mail, a black tabard with Waterdeep's insignia on it, a black hooded cape, black leather boots, gloves and sword belt. On her sword belt are a knife and a long sword and she carries a shield with Waterdeep's insignia. For transportation, she can summon her warhorse, a white pegasus. Spirit Cat comes from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In civilian clothes, she has red hair. Her costume consists of a black ninja night suit, with gloves. Various ninja devices are carried in the costuymes pockets and on a web belt. Voltron looks like Princess Allura, from Voltron 3D, in her civilian ideniity. Her costume looks like the Lion Force Voltron, and she has yet to master all of its abilities. Warder is the team's mage. She wears a bkack and gold costume and her familiar is Midnight, her black cat. Paladin and Spirit Cat have amulets that let them change into their costumes in an instant. Warder uses magic to make her change, Voltron's change takes 12 seconds. Paladin and Spirit Cat, both expert swordswomen, are training Voltron in armed combat and Spirit Cat, the team's best in unarmed combat, is helping her fellow heroes learn hand to hand combat.

Re: IST San Angelo Good point. Perhaps I should just have them open an embassy in San Angelo, which, according to R. P. Miller, of Gold Rush Games, is near Sacramento.

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Re: How would you make the witchblade? Thank you. This is just what I'm looking for. The lady that weilds the blade will, I think, be a police detective in San Angelo, where the campaign's set. I'll take her write up from Dark Champions.

I've always liked the International Super Teams universe that Steve Jackson Games created for the GURPS (Generic Universal Role Playing System) Supers book. I'm going to use the timeline IST author Bob Schroeck created that takes the universe through the 1990s. However, since I'm dropping the IST into the San Angelo universe, aliens aren't known to exist. The International Super Teams are the U.N.'s metahuman police and take the place of UNTIL. During President Carter's Administration, the UN outlawed military super teams as a destabilizing force and unveiled the IST. Since the UN, at that time, had control of the hot-fusion electrical generating system, most nations were willing to go along with it. Jimmy Carter signed the IST pact as an executive order. One year later, the U.S. Government unveiled the DMI, or Department of Metahuman Information, a superhero sanctioning body. Quoting from the timeline on Bob's site, in the 1990s, the America First Movement began to take wing. In 1996, Singapore officials announce that the U.N.'s secret hot-fusion process has been duplicated. In 1997, during hisinaugration speech, President Patrick Buchanon denounces the U.N.s ambitions to be a world government. Laterthat same year, he announces that the United States would no longer pay its U.N. dues. In 1998, when the U.N. threatens to shut down its power plants in the U.S. if the dues aren't paid, President Buchanon announces that the United States has its own hot-fusion power plants. Later that same year, after theIST partially thwarted a U.S. bombing of Cuban military bases in retaliation for Cuba's attempt to being a Cold War-vintage 1 megaton nuclear weapon into Miami by cgigrette boat, President Buchanon threatened to evict the U.N. and IST Supreme Headquarters from New York City. In this campaign, he did so in 2002. After much debate, the United Nations began construction of a new complex for itself and the IST in san Angelo, California. Local developer and power broker Benjamin Morgan, who hates metahumans, isn't happy.

Re: How would you make the witchblade? As I reread this post from last year, I'm beginning to think a 30 or 40 point VPP would be the best way to create this.

Re: When Worlds Collide: ideas for universe crossovers Thank you.

Re: When Worlds Collide: ideas for universe crossovers I'm considering placing it between Stockton and Sac and having the gulf empty out in the bay I don't know the name of. Anyone out there know its name? I'm still trying to decide between having the team be the West Coast branch of the Avengers and IST Supreme Headquarters. The second would put the U.N. in SA.

Re: When Worlds Collide: ideas for universe crossovers Do you know how big the san Francisco Bay area is? According to a map, copyright 1996 by the Association of Bay Area Governments, San Mateo County, San Francisco County, Marin County, Sanoma County, Napa County, Solano County, Contra Costa County, Alameda County and Santa Clara County are all in the Bay Area. According to the 2001 Rand McMcNally Road Atlas, San Francisco Bay, San Pablo Bay, Suisun Bay, Grizzly Bay, Honker Bay, and an unnamed bay are all within the San Francisco Bay Area. I might add that almost half of that unnamed bay is in Sacramento County.