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SRoss wrote:SRoss: "Ok Rocket! You want the Protoculture, here's the list of modifications." (Hands the raccoon a phone book sized sheaf of paper)

Arnie100: "Don't forget the kitchen and the toilet!!"

"I kinda wish our school fight song wasn't a dirge."

Arnie100 wrote:Edwards: "Excuse me; Arnie100, you put in a request for a M.A.C. II?? May I ask why do you need such a heavy mecha??"
Arnie100: "Uhm...students???"
Edwards: "I forgot we had those...for once I'm approving your request...now get out of my office before I change my mind!!"

(Outside of Edwards' office...)

Arnie100: (Fist pumps) "Yes!!!! SCORE!!!"

SRoss wrote:SRoss: "Ok Rocket! You want the Protoculture, here's the list of modifications." (Hands the raccoon a phone book sized sheaf of paper)

Arnie100 wrote:

SRoss wrote:SRoss: "Ok Rocket! You want the Protoculture, here's the list of modifications." (Hands the raccoon a phone book sized sheaf of paper)

Arnie100: "Don't forget the kitchen and the toilet!!"

taalismn wrote:"I kinda wish our school fight song wasn't a dirge."

"What's worse is that the kindergarten across the street, their school motto is 'Crush, Kill, Destroy!'."
"*Sigh* The Rain of Death traumatized so many...."

Good thing our Cheer Squad mastered Capoeira.

taalismn wrote:"What's worse is that the kindergarten across the street, their school motto is 'Crush, Kill, Destroy!'."
"*Sigh* The Rain of Death traumatized so many...."

I smell Gunslinger Girls. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AL9DQXrwmF4

SRoss wrote:Good thing our Cheer Squad mastered Capoeira.

Love her! And that's why you don't mess with maids! And is she there instructor?

Delivery Man: "So; get this...we were delivering this M.A.C. II to a school, right? Check this...one of the cables snap and we kind of dropped it onto a car...the parking spot DID have a name...a T.R. Edwards..."

(At the school parking lot...)

Edwards: "My CAR!!!! Why...WHY?! WHY does this ALWAYS happen to ME?!" (Sobbing)

(In The Dark Arts Class...)

SRoss:
Arnie100: (Looking out the window) "Ooooohhhh...ouch...at least I got my M.A.C. II!!"!
taalismn: "Did you...?"
Arnie100: "I had nothing to do with that...I SWEAR!!"

(Meanwhile...)

Lisa: (On the phone...) "The drop was on target? Good!! Excellent work!" (Hangs up phone)
Rick: "What was that all about?"
Lisa:
Rick "Never mind..."

“...and our phys-ed instructor’s a serious pain in the ass.”
”Could have been worse.”
”Whattya mean, ‘could have been worse’?! The obstacle course has live alligators!”
“We’re lucky.”
“The instructor’s a homicidal maniac!”
“I heard they were looking to hire other people instead. The first disappeared before they could approach her...something about vanishing from lunar orbit...and the other, well, supposedly he’s still sulking on that same moon, and refuses to take students.”
“The moon?”
“Yeah, apparently he got punched into it.”

Alpha 11 wrote:

taalismn wrote:"What's worse is that the kindergarten across the street, their school motto is 'Crush, Kill, Destroy!'."
"*Sigh* The Rain of Death traumatized so many...."

I smell Gunslinger Girls. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AL9DQXrwmF4

SRoss wrote:Good thing our Cheer Squad mastered Capoeira.

Love her! And that's why you don't mess with maids! And is she there instructor?

Then there's the fiesty half-pint who destroys cyborgs Ms. Alita http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw05HLulHeo

Arnie100 wrote:Delivery Man: "So; get this...we were delivering this M.A.C. II to a school, right? Check this...one of the cables snap and we kind of dropped it onto a car...the parking spot DID have a name...a T.R. Edwards..."

(At the school parking lot...)

Edwards: "My CAR!!!! Why...WHY?! WHY does this ALWAYS happen to ME?!" (Sobbing)

(In The Dark Arts Class...)

SRoss:
Arnie100: (Looking out the window) "Ooooohhhh...ouch...at least I got my M.A.C. II!!"!
taalismn: "Did you...?"
Arnie100: "I had nothing to do with that...I SWEAR!!"

(Meanwhile...)

Lisa: (On the phone...) "The drop was on target? Good!! Excellent work!" (Hangs up phone)
Rick: "What was that all about?"
Lisa:
Rick "Never mind..."

taalismn wrote:“...and our phys-ed instructor’s a serious pain in the ass.”
”Could have been worse.”
”Whattya mean, ‘could have been worse’?! The obstacle course has live alligators!”
“We’re lucky.”
“The instructor’s a homicidal maniac!”
“I heard they were looking to hire other people instead. The first disappeared before they could approach her...something about vanishing from lunar orbit...and the other, well, supposedly he’s still sulking on that same moon, and refuses to take students.”
“The moon?”
“Yeah, apparently he got punched into it.”

keir451 wrote:

Alpha 11 wrote:

taalismn wrote:"What's worse is that the kindergarten across the street, their school motto is 'Crush, Kill, Destroy!'."
"*Sigh* The Rain of Death traumatized so many...."

I smell Gunslinger Girls. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AL9DQXrwmF4

SRoss wrote:Good thing our Cheer Squad mastered Capoeira.

Love her! And that's why you don't mess with maids! And is she there instructor?

Then there's the fiesty half-pint who destroys cyborgs Ms. Alita http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw05HLulHeo

Ya, don't want to mess with her, either. And I finally see some Battle Angel Alita. Read some in a massive crossver fanfic and it looked interesting. Now that I've seen that, I think I'll try so see more.

Got caught up on Battle Angel Alita: Last Order...though I'm uncertain if that's the finale, since it effectively wraps up the entire Earth storyline and seems to quiet things down around Earth, what with the aftermath of the 10th ZOTT.
However, there's still SuperNova(any white guy dressed like a pimp with an afro that big HAS to be uber-evil) on his way to Mars, and there's Frau X, super-nasty Panzer-Kunzt artist and terrorist who seems to have a link with Alita's(when she was known as Yoko) distant past as a Martian terrorist. And I believe that there's still a brain-chip of Lou's somewhere(I'm not certain it was destroyed).

taalismn wrote:Got caught up on Battle Angel Alita: Last Order...though I'm uncertain if that's the finale, since it effectively wraps up the entire Earth storyline and seems to quiet things down around Earth, what with the aftermath of the 10th ZOTT.
However, there's still SuperNova(any white guy dressed like a pimp with an afro that big HAS to be uber-evil) on his way to Mars, and there's Frau X, super-nasty Panzer-Kunzt artist and terrorist who seems to have a link with Alita's(when she was known as Yoko) distant past as a Martian terrorist. And I believe that there's still a brain-chip of Lou's somewhere(I'm not certain it was destroyed).

Will need to see this one from the beginning.

Alpha 11 wrote:

taalismn wrote:Got caught up on Battle Angel Alita: Last Order...though I'm uncertain if that's the finale, since it effectively wraps up the entire Earth storyline and seems to quiet things down around Earth, what with the aftermath of the 10th ZOTT.
However, there's still SuperNova(any white guy dressed like a pimp with an afro that big HAS to be uber-evil) on his way to Mars, and there's Frau X, super-nasty Panzer-Kunzt artist and terrorist who seems to have a link with Alita's(when she was known as Yoko) distant past as a Martian terrorist. And I believe that there's still a brain-chip of Lou's somewhere(I'm not certain it was destroyed).

Will need to see this one from the beginning.

The irony is, the Last Order arc actually went longer than the original arc(which had been cut short, as you may know, when the artist had health problems, and feared he wouldn't be able to finish up, so he rushed in an ending. then when he got better, returned to the story and spun off Last Order from the point Nova blows up Alita after the showdown at his lab at the Granite Inn).

taalismn wrote:

Alpha 11 wrote:

taalismn wrote:Got caught up on Battle Angel Alita: Last Order...though I'm uncertain if that's the finale, since it effectively wraps up the entire Earth storyline and seems to quiet things down around Earth, what with the aftermath of the 10th ZOTT.
However, there's still SuperNova(any white guy dressed like a pimp with an afro that big HAS to be uber-evil) on his way to Mars, and there's Frau X, super-nasty Panzer-Kunzt artist and terrorist who seems to have a link with Alita's(when she was known as Yoko) distant past as a Martian terrorist. And I believe that there's still a brain-chip of Lou's somewhere(I'm not certain it was destroyed).

Will need to see this one from the beginning.

The irony is, the Last Order arc actually went longer than the original arc(which had been cut short, as you may know, when the artist had health problems, and feared he wouldn't be able to finish up, so he rushed in an ending. then when he got better, returned to the story and spun off Last Order from the point Nova blows up Alita after the showdown at his lab at the Granite Inn).

Well, I didn't know that. But that's ok. Still will watch it. So much anime, so little time. And you would consider her a full body cyborg, right?

Actually, I'm referring to the MANGA...the ANIME doesn't even cover a tenth of the overall story.

Gally/Alita is most definitely a full-body cyborg(this gets even more complete later on in the manga series), although bionics in the Gunn universe become so absurdly advanced as to become pseudo-living or even supernatural systems(the Fizziroy and Imaginos bodies for example, and later on we see cyborgs powered by wormholes, regenerated by nanotech, and even possessing zero-point taps).
And the later stages of the original manga series and Last Order entirely deal with the reverse situation, with many of the characters arguably being full-flesh conversion ROBOTS or nanotech-generated clones.

taalismn wrote:Actually, I'm referring to the MANGA...the ANIME doesn't even cover a tenth of the overall story.

Gally/Alita is most definitely a full-body cyborg(this gets even more complete later on in the manga series), although bionics in the Gunn universe become so absurdly advanced as to become pseudo-living or even supernatural systems(the Fizziroy and Imaginos bodies for example, and later on we see cyborgs powered by wormholes, regenerated by nanotech, and even possessing zero-point taps).
And the later stages of the original manga series and Last Order entirely deal with the reverse situation, with many of the characters arguably being full-flesh conversion ROBOTS or nanotech-generated clones.

Wow, that's really advance. So I'm guessing there aren't a lot of flesh and blood humans left, right? And guess I'll have to add another manga to the reading list.

Alpha 11 wrote:

taalismn wrote:Actually, I'm referring to the MANGA...the ANIME doesn't even cover a tenth of the overall story.

Gally/Alita is most definitely a full-body cyborg(this gets even more complete later on in the manga series), although bionics in the Gunn universe become so absurdly advanced as to become pseudo-living or even supernatural systems(the Fizziroy and Imaginos bodies for example, and later on we see cyborgs powered by wormholes, regenerated by nanotech, and even possessing zero-point taps).
And the later stages of the original manga series and Last Order entirely deal with the reverse situation, with many of the characters arguably being full-flesh conversion ROBOTS or nanotech-generated clones.

Wow, that's really advance. So I'm guessing there aren't a lot of flesh and blood humans left, right? And guess I'll have to add another manga to the reading list.

The Battle Angel Universe can, in official Tropes terms, be termed a 'crapsack world'...There's plenty of flesh and bloods on Earth, and many more in space, but it's so easy to get maimed that it's easy to get a replacement cyberlimb, and an easy choice for some people to pre-emptively lose limbs and most of their bodies to become cyborgs. Problem is, in the Scrapyard, metalling up just makes your spare parts that much more attractive to being' jacked by the cyberchoppers.
In space, full cyborgs are a bit rarer, but that's because there's better medical care and alternatives to cybernetics. But that's relative, because the environment is just as hostile.
Then there's the transhunans like the Jovians and the Venusians....


Getting back on point, you wouldn't want Zekka as a high school faculty member because he's just plain bugass badass nuts, and his being forced to deal with mewling snot-nosed juvenile delinquents would quickly result in him destroying a good part of the continent....

taalismn wrote:

Alpha 11 wrote:

taalismn wrote:Actually, I'm referring to the MANGA...the ANIME doesn't even cover a tenth of the overall story.


Getting back on point, you wouldn't want Zekka as a high school faculty member because he's just plain bugass badass nuts, and his being forced to deal with mewling snot-nosed juvenile delinquents would quickly result in him destroying a good part of the continent....

At least with My mega character Alecia she has at least a small sense of "proportion" IE she CAN go base zero or whatever its called in star wars where you bombard a planet until the crust is molten. However it takes some time and effort for her to do so. IE first she has to go into her "lab/factory/depot" (in a pocket dimension) and pull her "modified" Star Destroyer out of its shipyard slip (which takes at least a few minutes) then plot out and begin the bombardment process.

If she looses it on a person, unless they are an "uber being" themselves she usually starts with things like:
pull out a phaser (she keeps a 26th+ century concealable phaser on her person) and either stun, or attempt to "kill/ disrupt" (aka poof soot) them.
or pull out one of her various handguns: NE-4? plasma cartridge pistol, shemarian railgun, or various "other" weapons such as her rune Katana, or a lightsaber.

if that fails and she is still ticked THEN it starts escalating, to things like "power armor, walkers (battlemechs), mecha or similar.

Zekka basically perfected a martial arts move that produces a point of antimatter that he uses his fist to then push INTO the target.
He developed this move because his martial arts teacher told him to perfect his martial arts 'beyond utility'.
On the way, one of his developmental moves proved so freakin' powerful when used against his fellow student/rival's own 'beyond utility move' that the side effects OBLITERATED a space station and got him effectively banned from future competition without special permission(and a specially reinforced tournament facility).

taalismn wrote:

Alpha 11 wrote:

taalismn wrote:Actually, I'm referring to the MANGA...the ANIME doesn't even cover a tenth of the overall story.

Gally/Alita is most definitely a full-body cyborg(this gets even more complete later on in the manga series), although bionics in the Gunn universe become so absurdly advanced as to become pseudo-living or even supernatural systems(the Fizziroy and Imaginos bodies for example, and later on we see cyborgs powered by wormholes, regenerated by nanotech, and even possessing zero-point taps).
And the later stages of the original manga series and Last Order entirely deal with the reverse situation, with many of the characters arguably being full-flesh conversion ROBOTS or nanotech-generated clones.

Wow, that's really advance. So I'm guessing there aren't a lot of flesh and blood humans left, right? And guess I'll have to add another manga to the reading list.

The Battle Angel Universe can, in official Tropes terms, be termed a 'crapsack world'...There's plenty of flesh and bloods on Earth, and many more in space, but it's so easy to get maimed that it's easy to get a replacement cyberlimb, and an easy choice for some people to pre-emptively lose limbs and most of their bodies to become cyborgs. Problem is, in the Scrapyard, metalling up just makes your spare parts that much more attractive to being' jacked by the cyberchoppers.
In space, full cyborgs are a bit rarer, but that's because there's better medical care and alternatives to cybernetics. But that's relative, because the environment is just as hostile.
Then there's the transhunans like the Jovians and the Venusians....


Getting back on point, you wouldn't want Zekka as a high school faculty member because he's just plain bugass badass nuts, and his being forced to deal with mewling snot-nosed juvenile delinquents would quickly result in him destroying a good part of the continent....

I believe it.

guardiandashi wrote:

taalismn wrote:

Alpha 11 wrote:

taalismn wrote:Actually, I'm referring to the MANGA...the ANIME doesn't even cover a tenth of the overall story.


Getting back on point, you wouldn't want Zekka as a high school faculty member because he's just plain bugass badass nuts, and his being forced to deal with mewling snot-nosed juvenile delinquents would quickly result in him destroying a good part of the continent....

At least with My mega character Alecia she has at least a small sense of "proportion" IE she CAN go base zero or whatever its called in star wars where you bombard a planet until the crust is molten. However it takes some time and effort for her to do so. IE first she has to go into her "lab/factory/depot" (in a pocket dimension) and pull her "modified" Star Destroyer out of its shipyard slip (which takes at least a few minutes) then plot out and begin the bombardment process.

If she looses it on a person, unless they are an "uber being" themselves she usually starts with things like:
pull out a phaser (she keeps a 26th+ century concealable phaser on her person) and either stun, or attempt to "kill/ disrupt" (aka poof soot) them.
or pull out one of her various handguns: NE-4? plasma cartridge pistol, shemarian railgun, or various "other" weapons such as her rune Katana, or a lightsaber.

if that fails and she is still ticked THEN it starts escalating, to things like "power armor, walkers (battlemechs), mecha or similar.

Don't want to get her mad.

taalismn wrote:Zekka basically perfected a martial arts move that produces a point of antimatter that he uses his fist to then push INTO the target.
He developed this move because his martial arts teacher told him to perfect his martial arts 'beyond utility'.
On the way, one of his developmental moves proved so freakin' powerful when used against his fellow student/rival's own 'beyond utility move' that the side effects OBLITERATED a space station and got him effectively banned from future competition without special permission(and a specially reinforced tournament facility).

...and then there was the time he supersonic-thumb-wrestled somebody(admittedly they both had the same sort of bionic body).
Not somebody who's going to be brownbagging it to work everyday.

"Good morning class. These are our new transfer students. A-ko, B-ko and C-ko, please step to the front of the class."

SRoss wrote:"Good morning class. These are our new transfer students. A-ko, B-ko and C-ko, please step to the front of the class."

#BEEP#
"Okay, ma'am, unload the missile launcher, put the ammo clip in the tray, then walk through the weapons scanner again..."
"Grrrrrr.......indignity!..."
"Be glad we don't have you take off that exoskeletal enhancer, too!"
"Do you know who my father is?!!!"
"Of all the schools in this city, he sent you to this one. What does that tell you about him?"

taalismn wrote:...and then there was the time he supersonic-thumb-wrestled somebody(admittedly they both had the same sort of bionic body).
Not somebody who's going to be brownbagging it to work everyday.

SRoss wrote:"Good morning class. These are our new transfer students. A-ko, B-ko and C-ko, please step to the front of the class."

taalismn wrote:

SRoss wrote:"Good morning class. These are our new transfer students. A-ko, B-ko and C-ko, please step to the front of the class."

#BEEP#
"Okay, ma'am, unload the missile launcher, put the ammo clip in the tray, then walk through the weapons scanner again..."
"Grrrrrr.......indignity!..."
"Be glad we don't have you take off that exoskeletal enhancer, too!"
"Do you know who my father is?!!!"
"Of all the schools in this city, he sent you to this one. What does that tell you about him?"

Arnie100: "Great. School's started already..." (Starts pulling out weapons from the locked cabinets and begins loading them)
SRoss: "Where did you get those?!"
Arnie100: "Help yourself...you're gonna need them..."
taalismn: (Grabbing an assault rifle) "I never thought you would have to arm yourself just to teach a class."
Arnie100: "With these students..."
taalismn: "Yep. You're right."

Arnie100 wrote:Arnie100: "Great. School's started already..." (Starts pulling out weapons from the locked cabinets and begins loading them)
SRoss: "Where did you get those?!"
Arnie100: "Help yourself...you're gonna need them..."
taalismn: (Grabbing an assault rifle) "I never thought you would have to arm yourself just to teach a class."
Arnie100: "With these students..."
taalismn: "Yep. You're right."

Actually, having student-taught for two weeks(and then deciding that 'high school teacher' was not a title I aspired to), I can safely proclaim that I'd wished at the time that the teacher-preparation school has sent us on a month-long stint with UN peacekeeping forces in some godforsaken corner of the globe to better prepare us.

Hard-won Lesson 1: LEARN all the kids' names(don't rely on the seating chart). If nothing else, you have a name to go with a face at the police lineup....

Hard-won Lesson 2: Have all your lesson plans in triplicate, and prepare to abandon them on a moment's notice("No Plan Survives Contact With the Enemy")

Hard-won Lesson 3: Eye contact. Let them know you're paying attention.

There are a few more, but they're really relevant only to teaching specific classes.

Bear in mind I entered the teacher-preparation program back in the late 80s. Nowadays I imagine the distraction factor is even greater with cellphones. In my current career as a librarian I'm already seeing kids struggle with their prosthetic memories....this is really sad if we have to go the Moon using sliderules....

Arnie100 wrote:Arnie100: "Great. School's started already..." (Starts pulling out weapons from the locked cabinets and begins loading them)
SRoss: "Where did you get those?!"
Arnie100: "Help yourself...you're gonna need them..."
taalismn: (Grabbing an assault rifle) "I never thought you would have to arm yourself just to teach a class."
Arnie100: "With these students..."
taalismn: "Yep. You're right."

taalismn wrote:

Arnie100 wrote:Arnie100: "Great. School's started already..." (Starts pulling out weapons from the locked cabinets and begins loading them)
SRoss: "Where did you get those?!"
Arnie100: "Help yourself...you're gonna need them..."
taalismn: (Grabbing an assault rifle) "I never thought you would have to arm yourself just to teach a class."
Arnie100: "With these students..."
taalismn: "Yep. You're right."

Actually, having student-taught for two weeks(and then deciding that 'high school teacher' was not a title I aspired to), I can safely proclaim that I'd wished at the time that the teacher-preparation school has sent us on a month-long stint with UN peacekeeping forces in some godforsaken corner of the globe to better prepare us.

Hard-won Lesson 1: LEARN all the kids' names(don't rely on the seating chart). If nothing else, you have a name to go with a face at the police lineup....

Hard-won Lesson 2: Have all your lesson plans in triplicate, and prepare to abandon them on a moment's notice("No Plan Survives Contact With the Enemy")

Hard-won Lesson 3: Eye contact. Let them know you're paying attention.

There are a few more, but they're really relevant only to teaching specific classes.

Bear in mind I entered the teacher-preparation program back in the late 80s. Nowadays I imagine the distraction factor is even greater with cellphones. In my current career as a librarian I'm already seeing kids struggle with their prosthetic memories....this is really sad if we have to go the Moon using sliderules....

And ya, its getting really sad in our schools, now a days.

taalismn wrote:

SRoss wrote:"Good morning class. These are our new transfer students. A-ko, B-ko and C-ko, please step to the front of the class."

#BEEP#
"Okay, ma'am, unload the missile launcher, put the ammo clip in the tray, then walk through the weapons scanner again..."
"Grrrrrr.......indignity!..."
"Be glad we don't have you take off that exoskeletal enhancer, too!"
"Do you know who my father is?!!!"
"Of all the schools in this city, he sent you to this one. What does that tell you about him?"

reminds me of Alecia's experience on DS 9
this was before she learned to "stick weapons in mini "bent space pockets" prior to that point in the campaign, Megarea had the portable dimensional space storage, except that Alecia already had her "lab door" access (of course her lab door access has restrictions for use: (like it has to be on a flat surface "big enough for the door to be placed" and some others)
so Alecia walks up to the checkpoint, and being as it was her first visit to DS 9... the weapons detector kind of went nuts, because Alecia started out as "special forces" she routinely packed weapons for "every occasion". I want to say at that time she had something like: 4 grenades, MP-23A caseless smg, 3 knives, a rune Katana, a lightsabre, neroni plasma cartridge pistol, Shemarian rail gun (slung over her shoulder) a forearm laser, a phaser (the old kirk remote control pistol core) she might have had a star wars blaster or 2, etc. basically every part of her body had weapons attached, to the point that if she wasn't careful she .... Rattled. After that experience she toned it down a bit... but she also had been random rifted often enough that she was kind of paranoid about letting weapons get "away from her"

so her version of going through the weapons/ metal detector would be kind of crazy, and worse if it can detect stuff in "hammerspace" aka portable holes, or bent space pockets, then it would be "worse"

guardiandashi wrote:

taalismn wrote:

SRoss wrote:"Good morning class. These are our new transfer students. A-ko, B-ko and C-ko, please step to the front of the class."

#BEEP#
"Okay, ma'am, unload the missile launcher, put the ammo clip in the tray, then walk through the weapons scanner again..."
"Grrrrrr.......indignity!..."
"Be glad we don't have you take off that exoskeletal enhancer, too!"
"Do you know who my father is?!!!"
"Of all the schools in this city, he sent you to this one. What does that tell you about him?"

reminds me of Alecia's experience on DS 9
this was before she learned to "stick weapons in mini "bent space pockets" prior to that point in the campaign, Megarea had the portable dimensional space storage, except that Alecia already had her "lab door" access (of course her lab door access has restrictions for use: (like it has to be on a flat surface "big enough for the door to be placed" and some others)
so Alecia walks up to the checkpoint, and being as it was her first visit to DS 9... the weapons detector kind of went nuts, because Alecia started out as "special forces" she routinely packed weapons for "every occasion". I want to say at that time she had something like: 4 grenades, MP-23A caseless smg, 3 knives, a rune Katana, a lightsabre, neroni plasma cartridge pistol, Shemarian rail gun (slung over her shoulder) a forearm laser, a phaser (the old kirk remote control pistol core) she might have had a star wars blaster or 2, etc. basically every part of her body had weapons attached, to the point that if she wasn't careful she .... Rattled. After that experience she toned it down a bit... but she also had been random rifted often enough that she was kind of paranoid about letting weapons get "away from her"

so her version of going through the weapons/ metal detector would be kind of crazy, and worse if it can detect stuff in "hammerspace" aka portable holes, or bent space pockets, then it would be "worse"

After hearing that, I can understand why she has all that on her. Any chance you can list all the places she has gone, and maybe also the stats on her?

Alpha 11 wrote:
After hearing that, I can understand why she has all that on her. Any chance you can list all the places she has gone, and maybe also the stats on her?

first you have to realize I played Alecia for a long time ~5 years of 3-5 sessions a week

places I KNOW she has been to: rifts (she started there) she ran into Archie 3oz early enough that it was part of her back story. she had a few adventures there, then she got "rifted to Star Wars galaxy where she was determined to be force sensitive, and picked up some Jedi training.
Another early "rifting" took her to battletech in ~3025 ish
Battlestar Galactica (classic aka the 70's version) at least a couple times, her reflexes were so impressive they ran her through viper training
Neo Tokyo aka bubblegum crisis/crash
several alternate variant versions of that kind of stuff.
she repeatedly ended up on "tulip world" a very strange place the GM came up with and Alecia found out the hard way (along with several other peoples chars) why you don't want to mess with the tulips basically their pollen is highly charged and has mutational effects, just walking down the roads (and being there too long) and you start having to make saves vs magic (at high difficulties) and then make percentile rolls for the transformation effects:
known effects that have happened to people: gender changes, body/limb replacement IE one moment you are human, an effect happens and you wake up furry (mutated into a dog boy) or you suddenly have tentacles, and /or bat wings, super powers or just about anything else,
there are dozens of tables, sub tables etc.
(the gm also used it to get the players into a game, and give them special abilities. like this example: you are going to meet (group) at the movie theater to watch (insert movie) when suddenly there was a blue flash and you are driving through a field of 10ft tall tulips, make a driving/piloting check.... ok after you ran into 5 tulips the rest of them within ~100 yards orient on you and blow pollen at you... make 30 saves vs number your relevant stats were ....

ok alecia was in star trek several times, star wars several more times, went through the macross part of robotech at least 5x the entire series at least 2 or 3 times.
ran into the mechanoids s few times.

about the only major verse I don't think she was ever in was Dr. Who or avatar.
she did run into transformers, a few times etc.

along the way she has picked up various ranks: she worked up to an E10 Master Gunnery Sargent. She has been an Lieutenant, a Captain, a "wing commander", she may have even gotten up to being a commodore in a fleet or 2.

Ok stats:
Old original char sheet:
and that's BEFORE she Ascended and became a lesser goddess

a LATER Char Sheet

...in short, you don't wanna know what she does when the vending machine doesn't deliver her soda/snack.

taalismn wrote:...in short, you don't wanna know what she does when the vending machine doesn't deliver her soda/snack.

Arnie100: "What the hell happened to the vending machine?!"
taalismn: "One of our new students, I think..."
SRoss: "Besides, don't you have a stash in your cabinet, anyways?"
Arnie100: "Among other things... "

Here are some of the possibilities of what happened to that vending machine:

-It is currently in pieces no bigger than a dime.
-It is an aerosol vapor
-It is in orbit of Pluto
-It is on its metaphoric knees, in a puddle of its own lubricant, begging and pleading for its existence.
-It is now a mechanical death machine, rampaging down the halls, intent on destroying all in its path.
-It is retroactively and preemptively empty of all contents(that is to say, nobody remembers when it was full, and it cannot be refilled)

an early mobile vending machine prototype, before petitie cola bought them out..

and why we don't see the macross vending machines by southern cross..

glitterboy2098 wrote:
and why we don't see the macross vending machines by southern cross..

The Paladin Steel Tsubasa Vend-o-Tank.

guardiandashi wrote:

Alpha 11 wrote:
After hearing that, I can understand why she has all that on her. Any chance you can list all the places she has gone, and maybe also the stats on her?

first you have to realize I played Alecia for a long time ~5 years of 3-5 sessions a week

places I KNOW she has been to: rifts (she started there) she ran into Archie 3oz early enough that it was part of her back story. she had a few adventures there, then she got "rifted to Star Wars galaxy where she was determined to be force sensitive, and picked up some Jedi training.
Another early "rifting" took her to battletech in ~3025 ish
Battlestar Galactica (classic aka the 70's version) at least a couple times, her reflexes were so impressive they ran her through viper training
Neo Tokyo aka bubblegum crisis/crash
several alternate variant versions of that kind of stuff.
she repeatedly ended up on "tulip world" a very strange place the GM came up with and Alecia found out the hard way (along with several other peoples chars) why you don't want to mess with the tulips basically their pollen is highly charged and has mutational effects, just walking down the roads (and being there too long) and you start having to make saves vs magic (at high difficulties) and then make percentile rolls for the transformation effects:
known effects that have happened to people: gender changes, body/limb replacement IE one moment you are human, an effect happens and you wake up furry (mutated into a dog boy) or you suddenly have tentacles, and /or bat wings, super powers or just about anything else,
there are dozens of tables, sub tables etc.
(the gm also used it to get the players into a game, and give them special abilities. like this example: you are going to meet (group) at the movie theater to watch (insert movie) when suddenly there was a blue flash and you are driving through a field of 10ft tall tulips, make a driving/piloting check.... ok after you ran into 5 tulips the rest of them within ~100 yards orient on you and blow pollen at you... make 30 saves vs number your relevant stats were ....

ok alecia was in star trek several times, star wars several more times, went through the macross part of robotech at least 5x the entire series at least 2 or 3 times.
ran into the mechanoids s few times.

about the only major verse I don't think she was ever in was Dr. Who or avatar.
she did run into transformers, a few times etc.

along the way she has picked up various ranks: she worked up to an E10 Master Gunnery Sargent. She has been an Lieutenant, a Captain, a "wing commander", she may have even gotten up to being a commodore in a fleet or 2.

Ok stats:
Old original char sheet:

Spoiler:

IQ 22
ME 14
MA 27
Supernatural PS 27
pp 34
Supernatural PE 23
pb 21
spd 41
ppe 17 ISP 48
age 27 appears ~17 height 6'2" (6'8" in armor) weight 173 lbs Strawberry Blond Hair
level 6 with 41665 xp (which means she is actually 3/4 of the way through level 7)
I am not going to bother with skills, but she has a lot most of them in the ~60-90+ percent ranges
sample equipment
1000 star wars credits, lightsabre blue blade. 1000other credits, ~5000 in black market items,
MechWarrior combat suit, SLDF Neural helmet, handheld computer, handcuffs, 50ft rope, 1 suit NE-C20 camo variable armor, 1 suit dress clothing, 1 gas mask + air filter, 1 set camo clothing, tinted goggles, NG S2 survival pack wilks pc2020 field ID, 4 grenades, Neroni Plasma cartridge pistol NG-P7 PB rifle, NG E12 heavy plasma ejector, mp-23A caseless SMG, WI-GL21 +40 grenades robot med kit, IRMSS, Grappling hook, "phase pistol" (this is the BSG viper pilot pistol) 8d6x100 sdc /shot 50 shots per clip .45 auto pistol .50 cal desert eagle pistol, rune katana, "amulet of Battlemaster" (can summon a battlemaster Battlemech) 13 million rifts CS credits a 1 ton "bent space pocket" aka portable hole KHI 117 female Terror Assault Trouper armor.
1 gen 2 robot? 1,015,000 CR star trek
Viper pilot uniform, Enhanced Imaging card for battlemechs, owns a bunch of Blackwell industries, and GM stock, ~8 million cbills/year dividends,
1 Tie fighter landing Gantry, blueprints for imperial Star Destroyer, blueprints for Tie Fighter, 1 TIE interceptor, 1 Saber Cyclone, 2 sets CVR-3 Body armor, 1 small boat, 12 tasers, 2 Lamda Class Shuttles, 1 Gamma class Assault Shuttle, 1 Viper, 1 Vindicator, Blueprints for Battlemaster (Nicki Cats model), blueprints for Dasher Omnimech, 1 Dasher H, blueprints Tie Defender, Blueprints Tie intercepter (Heir to empire version) Mon Mothma's imperial File, 1 portable Tractor Beam.

and that's BEFORE she Ascended and became a lesser goddess

a LATER Char Sheet

Spoiler:

IQ 25 ME42 MA32 SN PS 66 GL PP 71 SN PE 50 PB 30 spd 371 (all stats are supernatural.
height 6'2" weight 185 Blond Hair, age 1 (161) as a gd lifespan ~50,000 years
MDC 6915 PPE 6960 CHI 600 ISP 1020 Personal shield 550 MDC
skills, communications, domestic, electrical, mechanical, medical, military, piloting, pilot related, science, technical, all skills for each group, all @ 98%, additional skills, hacking, concealment, streetwise, 98% each, all weapon proficiencies @ level 12 equivalent
special abilities H2H ninjitsu art of evasion, art of vanishing, stone ox, Dam Sum Sing.
"mirror Mind power can clone any 1 skill of anyone within 100 years @ their level, force abilities (d6 equivalents control 10D+2 Sense 10D+2, Alter 11D
strength note, can carry 16.5 tons and lift 23.1 tons
Deity Title Goddess of High Tech Warfare Occ/Rcc Godling 148,480 xp level 8
additional Deific Power Can command technological items to work/not work and they will 1x/week (this is actually a lot weaker than it sounds but its still cool)

Wow, and she's a goddess. Anyone ever draw a picture of her?

taalismn wrote:...in short, you don't wanna know what she does when the vending machine doesn't deliver her soda/snack.

Arnie100 wrote:

taalismn wrote:...in short, you don't wanna know what she does when the vending machine doesn't deliver her soda/snack.

Arnie100: "What the hell happened to the vending machine?!"
taalismn: "One of our new students, I think..."
SRoss: "Besides, don't you have a stash in your cabinet, anyways?"
Arnie100: "Among other things... "

taalismn wrote:Here are some of the possibilities of what happened to that vending machine:

-It is currently in pieces no bigger than a dime.
-It is an aerosol vapor
-It is in orbit of Pluto
-It is on its metaphoric knees, in a puddle of its own lubricant, begging and pleading for its existence.
-It is now a mechanical death machine, rampaging down the halls, intent on destroying all in its path.
-It is retroactively and preemptively empty of all contents(that is to say, nobody remembers when it was full, and it cannot be refilled)

glitterboy2098 wrote:an early mobile vending machine prototype, before petitie cola bought them out..

and why we don't see the macross vending machines by southern cross..

Only in Japan ( for the first one).

taalismn wrote:

glitterboy2098 wrote:
and why we don't see the macross vending machines by southern cross..

The Paladin Steel Tsubasa Vend-o-Tank.

no not really on an image of Alecia
but right now my mental image is a lot like the Selene char in underworld, but as a Blond, or Strawberry blond.

the "scary thing" is take that image and put Shemarian armor on it as "power armor" and riding a monst-rex sized Wolf/husky or Tiger oh and she wouldn't have the "vampire" complexion

I do remember one "experiment" Alecia did to some people she really didn't like. that was kind of a test of her strength and speed in the sense of strikes. She decided to see if she could hit them "flat palm strikes on the sternum" and see if she could grab their heart before the body got displaced out of arms reach. The results were "Messy"

guardiandashi wrote:no not really on an image of Alecia
but right now my mental image is a lot like the Selene char in underworld, but as a Blond, or Strawberry blond.

the "scary thing" is take that image and put Shemarian armor on it as "power armor" and riding a monst-rex sized Wolf/husky or Tiger oh and she wouldn't have the "vampire" complexion

I do remember one "experiment" Alecia did to some people she really didn't like. that was kind of a test of her strength and speed in the sense of strikes. She decided to see if she could hit them "flat palm strikes on the sternum" and see if she could grab their heart before the body got displaced out of arms reach. The results were "Messy"

Kyle: "Are you sure about this?"

Edwards: "Listen! All we have to do is sit here at the entrance monitor the weapons detector. It's perfectly safe."

Ikaros walks in ... Weapons Detector overloads and explodes.

BSS Sargent: "MOVE IT! MOVE IT! Get those ashes to the cloning chamber!"

They tried manning with the door entrances with GMP robots....
"Have. A. Nice. Day." (*robot waves as student walks by with the better portion of a Garfish cruiser's arsenal in her knapsack.)


It should, however, be noted, in all fairness, that in its entirety of operation, MCG#69 NEVER actually had any shooting incidents on campus. The staff and students may have been insane, crazy, demented, but they NEVER were criminally deranged. Any hint of staff or students planning on doing actual bodily harm to others was taken MOST seriously and treated accordingly.

SRoss wrote:Kyle: "Are you sure about this?"

Edwards: "Listen! All we have to do is sit here at the entrance monitor the weapons detector. It's perfectly safe."

Ikaros walks in ... Weapons Detector overloads and explodes.

BSS Sargent: "MOVE IT! MOVE IT! Get those ashes to the cloning chamber!"

taalismn wrote:They tried manning with the door entrances with GMP robots....
"Have. A. Nice. Day." (*robot waves as student walks by with the better portion of a Garfish cruiser's arsenal in her knapsack.)


It should, however, be noted, in all fairness, that in its entirety of operation, MCG#69 NEVER actually had any shooting incidents on campus. The staff and students may have been insane, crazy, demented, but they NEVER were criminally deranged. Any hint of staff or students planning on doing actual bodily harm to others was taken MOST seriously and treated accordingly.

SRoss wrote:Kyle: "Are you sure about this?"

Edwards: "Listen! All we have to do is sit here at the entrance monitor the weapons detector. It's perfectly safe."

Ikaros walks in ... Weapons Detector overloads and explodes.

BSS Sargent: "MOVE IT! MOVE IT! Get those ashes to the cloning chamber!"

Arnie100: (On the phone) "Yep...uh-huh...that's right...according to plan...Kyle and Edwards...disintigrated...that's correct...have a nice day!"

(Meanwhile....)

Lisa: (Hanging up the phone) "Thanks...it's in your account..."
Rick: "Did you hear about what happened to Edwards and Kyle?"
Lisa: "What happened?"
Rick: "Disintegrated at the school..."
Lisa: "Really? That's...horrific... "
Rick: "I don't think I wanna know..."

Edwards: "So I'm safe from intentional harm?"
Principle: "INTENTIONAL. But then what are the odds of you being in the path of a careening ten ton truckload of frozen creamed spinach with its brakes failed? They're( *SSSCCWWEEEEELCCCHHH!!!* )....that good, apparently...."

(In Edwards' Office)

Kyle: "What're you doing, Edwards?"
Edwards: "Checking my office for booby-traps, etc., etc..."
Kyle: "Who would want to booby-trap your office?"
Edwards: "REALLY?! Haven't you been paying attention?! The ice bucket challenge, the M.A.C. II dropped on my car, the weapons detector incident..."
Kyle: "I think you're just be -- what's that?!"
Edwards: "What?! Where?!"
Kyle: "See? You're just rattled. Get yourself something to drink..."
Edwards: "Maybe you're right...(opens up refrigerator)"
**BBBBBBOOOOOMMMM**
Kyle:

"I've never seen potato salad explode like that...how long did you have it in there, Edwards?"
"...it was pineapple salad..."
"Oh. In that case you were just asking for it, tempting fate like that."

Arnie100 wrote:

SRoss wrote:Kyle: "Are you sure about this?"

Edwards: "Listen! All we have to do is sit here at the entrance monitor the weapons detector. It's perfectly safe."

Ikaros walks in ... Weapons Detector overloads and explodes.

BSS Sargent: "MOVE IT! MOVE IT! Get those ashes to the cloning chamber!"

Arnie100: (On the phone) "Yep...uh-huh...that's right...according to plan...Kyle and Edwards...disintigrated...that's correct...have a nice day!"

(Meanwhile....)

Lisa: (Hanging up the phone) "Thanks...it's in your account..."
Rick: "Did you hear about what happened to Edwards and Kyle?"
Lisa: "What happened?"
Rick: "Disintegrated at the school..."
Lisa: "Really? That's...horrific... "
Rick: "I don't think I wanna know..."

taalismn wrote:Edwards: "So I'm safe from intentional harm?"
Principle: "INTENTIONAL. But then what are the odds of you being in the path of a careening ten ton truckload of frozen creamed spinach with its brakes failed? They're( *SSSCCWWEEEEELCCCHHH!!!* )....that good, apparently...."

Arnie100 wrote:(In Edwards' Office)

Kyle: "What're you doing, Edwards?"
Edwards: "Checking my office for booby-traps, etc., etc..."
Kyle: "Who would want to booby-trap your office?"
Edwards: "REALLY?! Haven't you been paying attention?! The ice bucket challenge, the M.A.C. II dropped on my car, the weapons detector incident..."
Kyle: "I think you're just be -- what's that?!"
Edwards: "What?! Where?!"
Kyle: "See? You're just rattled. Get yourself something to drink..."
Edwards: "Maybe you're right...(opens up refrigerator)"
**BBBBBBOOOOOMMMM**
Kyle:

taalismn wrote:"I've never seen potato salad explode like that...how long did you have it in there, Edwards?"
"...it was pineapple salad..."
"Oh. In that case you were just asking for it, tempting fate like that."

taalismn: "Ok class, today's subject is Hyperdimentional Calculus. But before we start, I'd like to introduce your new classmate."

Astraea: "Hi! I'm Close-Combat Angeloid, Type Delta, Astraea!"

One hour later...

Arnie100: "GOOD GOD! WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU!!!"

taalismn: "She's, she's, Sooooo dumb..." "LEAP INTO AN OPEN GRAVE! MAKE IT A TRIPLE! KEEP THEM COMING!!!"

Arnie100: "I wonder how SRoss' day went?"

Meanwhile...

SRoss: "Ok Louie, explain to me again, how you built a fully functional Cyclone, OUT OF PANTIES!?!"

SRoss wrote:taalismn: "Ok class, today's subject is Hyperdimentional Calculus. But before we start, I'd like to introduce your new classmate."

Astraea: "Hi! I'm Close-Combat Angeloid, Type Delta, Astraea!"

One hour later...

Arnie100: "GOOD GOD! WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU!!!"

taalismn: "She's, she's, Sooooo dumb..." "LEAP INTO AN OPEN GRAVE! MAKE IT A TRIPLE! KEEP THEM COMING!!!"

Arnie100: "I wonder how SRoss' day went?"

Meanwhile...

SRoss: "Ok Louie, explain to me again, how you built a fully functional Cyclone, OUT OF PANTIES!?!"

taalismn wrote:They tried manning with the door entrances with GMP robots....
"Have. A. Nice. Day." (*robot waves as student walks by with the better portion of a Garfish cruiser's arsenal in her knapsack.)

"Them robots are smarter then we give them credit for."

"Ahem. Welcome to HyperDimensional Calculus. First lesson, those advanced calculators you all brought with you? Turn them off, throw them out. HyperDimensional Calculus has just about NOTHING to do with advanced mathematics. HyperDimensional Calculus has more in common with philosophy than any 'hard' science you are familiar with. HyperDimensional Calculus is more the upfront pondering and virtual experiencing of realms of probability and possibility that beggar human and computative linear thought, and move beyond even the ability of quantum computers to fully embrace. FEELING and EMOTION have as much to do with HyperDimensional Calculus as equations. When dealing with the substance of HyperDimensional Calculus, one must be acutely aware of the Observer Effect, in that the mere act of OBSERVING the subject, changes it. This is the equivalent, in the simplest possible example, of your math homework worksheets changing as you are reading them. That's an ever-simplification of the realm of HyperDimensional Calculus, where even contemplating possible solutions to a problem, changes the problem and its possible solutions. Under ideal circumstances, then, it is possible to guide the ultimate solution to a problem by mere thought.
The problem is, it's not that simple. The universe has a way of responding to attempts to change it in such manner by its sheer infinity. The universe has a nasty habit of stating I'M BIGGER THAN YOU. -YOU- CHANGE. "