Casting I.O.U. (Again)

[cats]

Welcome to the recasting and reopening of the best opportunity you have to join or rejoin a thread I have started that contains the vowels i o u in consecutive order and capital forms.



So what is I.O.U.

I.O.U. is a university of such magnitude and prestige that it easily eclipses its nearest rivals Oxford, Princeton, USC, and The Art institute of Las Vegas.

I suppose the more practical answer is what the letters stand for.

Illuminati
O. Classified
University

What type of people join this school

Any one and every one can join this school, although the latter would result in over crowding. The only qualifications needed are the ability to pay tuition out of your ass, figuratively or literally, and the ability or desire to learn. Members of the moopsball team are exempt from the second requirement.

What does this mean? It means all types of characters come here, for example:

Cavemen: Major in History
Serial Killers: Nursing
Demons: Law
Androids: Mechanics
norms: Bussiness
Martians: Earth Science
Pyrokeneticists: Art (simply lovely explosions by the way.)

Campus Rules

1. The Arch Dean always receives 10% of the profits.
2. No exceptions to rule number 1, no freebies.
3. Don't Mess with Cats.
4. Thou shalt never lower the Arch Deans stock values.
5. First semester Freshlings are completely off limits.
6. No black holes on campus. Except small ones on pizza.
7. No antimatter on campus either, even on pizza.
8. Destruction of the earth, sun, or other solar system object(s) requires written permission of the Arch Dean.
9. No faculty blood feuds with out a current permit.

Location
So were is this great school located? An excellent question, the only IOU campus happens to operate out of your home town.

Benefits

Ample blackmail material.
An education?
A degree in a potentially exotic field.
The most comprehensive life insurance policy ever devised, standard issue. They will bring you back from the dead, if only to keep your student loans valid.

 

[cats]

Serious stuff

All right any and every character you may want to play is approved, however they may have power limitations placed upon them at the campuses discretion.

All characters are to be past there first semester and were recently volunteered to serve as campus security which places them as a target for the craziness that goes on campus. (These two items make it eassier to move the group.)


Other facts: Campus food normaly is dangerous, or the cafateia will tern into a battle field. The campus buildings move but never when some one will notice, and they do so in a manner that always results i students being lost or needing to go threw the place they want to be the least. It is possible to leave and become lost for hours only to arive before you even left.

At the center of the school is a clock tower with the Arch Deans office at its top, all four sides display difrent incorrect times. The botnay building is a giant tree. There is a hedge maze in the school.

 

[Vixandra]

Hurray!

I like this thread. Its random.

I think Ari's about to get her rear end handed to her by the stew-sludge-blob-monster thingy.

So come on in people!

 

[cats]

Its possible although I have decided upon its weakness.

 

[Vixandra]

Its possible although I have decided upon its weakness.

Given the fact I've been awake since 2am and only got four hours of sleep before that... I doubt I'll find it. Hell I'm amazed I'm coherent enough to be laughing at Questionable Content.

 

[cats]

Whats questionable.

 

[Vixandra]

http://www.questionablecontent.net/

Beautiful comic. GM got me hooked on it if I remember right.

 

[cats]

I wholely recamend Order of the Stick if you are a DnD fan.

Least I Could Do, if your a fan of a male shovinist in persuite of sex in all of its forms.

Misfile, if you like religous questions.

Dominic Degan, if you bend to Tumbles will.

8-bit theater if you... well... Hmm... If you read todays post in the ORP forum.

Looking for Group, if you play WoW or enjyed least I could do.

 

[Jedi_Khan]

I had no idea this thread existed until Ms. Vixandra bumped it earlier. Very interesting. Anything goes, yes?

 

[cats]

For character creation purposes yes.

The thread is centered on Weird science and Weird Magic... and blackmail.

 

[Jedi_Khan]

Uh-huh. So, I can basically design a character around a DBZ template and use that?

 

[Vixandra]

No, omfg, no dbz. *cries*


Course I'm stealing from Slayers, but still.....

 

[Jedi_Khan]

No, omfg, no dbz. *cries*


Course I'm stealing from Slayers, but still.....

Ah, no DBZ? How about SW?

 

[cats]

Oh sorry I didn't think about that.

No named characters, and avoid named worlds. So a Star Wars character is fine as long as he no idea who the empire is, or sith, or jedi, etc.

DBZ style is fine, ofcoarse goku, andriod 18, Freeza and the like must be unheard of and dragon balls is likely something you eat before qustioning your sexuality.

 

[cats]

Easy answer.

Rip off and steal what you want from a character or serious. But understand you are not the character nor is anything from the world necessarily fact.


I am glad you reminded m before some one posted Goku.

 

[Jedi_Khan]

Huh, well since there was a definitive vote against DBZ, and SW probably won't be too interesting, I'll have to put my mind to coming up with something else.

Would you be so kind cats as to put up the different colleges and departments that are available? And also, is it possible to be at the school and not be a student, i.e. a full-time security guard?

 

[cats]

Full time gaurds and students both have contracts tat expire with death. A gaurd gets payed until death and a student is paying until death. As such gaurds lack the schools life insurance making death permament rather then the waste of a few hours.

To be a gaurd you need some dirt on some one important, (not the arch dean.) If you have a really good story you may even qualify for the treatment. (Perhaps the ultimate super power in game other then being a Norm.)

Other members of faculty recieve life insurance, or the treatment, the treatment strikes back, or even the return of the treatment. Mind you recieveing the treatment usaly secures one with life insurance.

So other faculty is fine.

(For the record this game world comes from GURPS IOU.)

 

[Jedi_Khan]

Full time gaurds and students both have contracts tat expire with death. A gaurd gets payed until death and a student is paying until death. As such gaurds lack the schools life insurance making death permament rather then the waste of a few hours.

To be a gaurd you need some dirt on some one important, (not the arch dean.) If you have a really good story you may even qualify for the treatment. (Perhaps the ultimate super power in game other then being a Norm.)

Other members of faculty recieve life insurance, or the treatment, the treatment strikes back, or even the return of the treatment. Mind you recieveing the treatment usaly secures one with life insurance.

So other faculty is fine.

(For the record this game world comes from GURPS IOU.)

Uh-huh. So, as a full-time security guard, I'd have to be pretty special to qualify for life-insurance, yes? I wonder what would make a security guard special enough for that?

(For the record, I have no knowledge of GURPS except that it is possibly the ultimate in customizable RP.)

 

[cats]

College list

Some examples of sub colleges fallow each main branch.

School Of Weird and Unnatural Sciences and Engineering. (WUSE)
Chemistry, computer wizardy, department of THE computer science, etc.

College of Obscure and Unhealthy Professions
Medicine, Law, etc.

Collge of Temporal Happenstance, Ultimate Lies, And Historic Undertakings(C.T.H.U.L.A.H.U.)
Department of Prehistory, Department of Ancient History, Department of Orthodox Chronodisplacement Theory and Original Research (D.O.C.T.O.R.), etc.

School of Conservative Arts (SCA)
This is a business school and none of the staff have a sense of humor in very literal way.

School of Performig and Ceativ Arts
Department of Cinematography, photography, pyromania, etc.

College of Metaphysics
Department of Alchemy, Department of Temporal Metaphysics, Department of Thaumaturgy, etc.

College of Comications
Department of Journalism, Department of Mass Media, Department of Yelling really loud, etc.

School of Social Anti-Sciences
English Department, etc.

College of Zen Surrealism
No one knows, maybe. But its there anyhow.

 

[cats]

Uh-huh. So, as a full-time security guard, I'd have to be pretty special to qualify for life-insurance, yes? I wonder what would make a security guard special enough for that?

(For the record, I have no knowledge of GURPS except that it is possibly the ultimate in customizable RP.)

Younailed gurps on the head, it also uss only D6s and the version I am familar with looks suspicously like DnD 3.0

IOU is just an odd setting but I feel you have a good idea of it. I just am giving credit to the product I am siting in several places.




Basicly you need Dirt on a Chairthing or the school as a whole stored in a manner that it would come out if you stayed dead to long. If you want to go this route start pming ideas, as I have no ideas at the moment.

Also security is a painfull and wholely unpleasent job, so perhaps you work for room and board only and the school has dirt on you. Once more PM me.

 

[Jedi_Khan]

Younailed gurps on the head, it also uss only D6s and the version I am familar with looks suspicously like DnD 3.0

IOU is just an odd setting but I feel you have a good idea of it. I just am giving credit to the product I am siting in several places.




Basicly you need Dirt on a Chairthing or the school as a whole stored in a manner that it would come out if you stayed dead to long. If you want to go this route start pming ideas, as I have no ideas at the moment.

Also security is a painfull and wholely unpleasent job, so perhaps you work for room and board only and the school has dirt on you. Once more PM me.

Huh...what kinda stuff would be bad for a "Chairthing" at an oddball place like IOU? *ponders for a while, looks at rules, then light bulb moment* PM to come shortly.

 

[cats]

I may or may not be on tomorow. I plan to be with tumble and family rom out of town.

 

[Jedi_Khan]

I may or may not be on tomorow. I plan to be with tumble and family rom out of town.

Um, okay. Have fun. PM has been sent.

 

[cats]

Note blackmail is a big part of faculty politics and a student could become well connected with proper dirt.

 

[Vixandra]

*being lazy so I can find this easily*


Name: Arivania "Ari" Inverse
Age: 19
School: WUSE
hair: Red
eyes: green
Body type: very slender, petite
Advantages: spunky, great sense of humor, rather pretty (for a petite gal), can produce electric charges and connect via them with most computer systems.
disadvantages: little loud, can eat though anything almost, has a thing against dragons. Can overproduce electric charges, leading to dangerous explosions.
Bio: Picked up off of a relatively still underdeveloped planet as a child, Ari ended up being sold by the aliens that got her to a WUSE allumi who took her under his wing (bird-guy). She learned basics from him, a few tricks, eventually developed a metamagic jump drive patent worth oddles of cash. Went in half and half with her owner, they split the profits. Bought out her enslavement fees, set a lot in saving and is set to live comfortably the rest of her likely life. Very ambitious though, hard to keep down, occasionally seen as bitchy but that's how she shows she cares.
Has a space ship with a quirky AI in orbit.