Welcome to I.O.U. Collage for gifted individuals.

[cats]

Okay, this thread is based off of the GURPS campaign under the same title. How ever you won't need to know much about that so don't worry.

It's a collage run by the Illuminati. So students are super heros, magical, aliens, mad scientists, or maybe just have enough money that they applied with out noticing, were accepted with out noticing, and were abducted and placed on campus with out noticing. Ah the interesting thing about money.

Well being in school does give you a nice life insurance policy. More on that latter. To draw you in further I give you the top ten reasons for coming to I.O.U.

10: University, I thought this was a movie Studio tour.
9: I'm not in Kansas (any more)?
8: My saucer crashed. Here.
7: They threatened my dog.
6: I had a critical failure on my teleport spell.
5: I made a wrong turn in Albuquerque.
4: I was paid to come here - this worries me.
3: I was kidnapped.
2: I like it here.
1: Fnord.

 

[cats]

OOC:

Um... oops ment to amke this the OOC, oh well.

If you have questions ask, but keep in mind, this is a really weird place were anything and everything does happen so that should give you an idea. If all goes well it will also have a funny side.

 

[Jagged]

I have read the I.O.U. Gurps book....funny stuff. I am open to joining a frat or Campus security.....would love to go to the Pyramid mall to buy everything from crosses and holy water, to modules from a Russian spacecraft, to a year supply of rommin noodles.


Great choice of settings...I have the book.

 

[The GrandMage]

Well, I've read the Illuminatus! Trilogy,....so,....

I'm gonna have to go with Fnord for five hundred, Alex.

What is,...herbal Tea without the herbs?
What is,...the color only blind people can see?
What is,...why ducks eat trees!

Oops, didn't phrase it in the form of a question. Ahhh,....

Hail Eris?

 

[cats]

Okay so tehre are otehrs that have read the books cool. That makes this eassier although I shouldn't run the full "One Card to Rule the Mall"

Here are the Schools, you can attend classes at any one or more then one of them.

CoC: The Collage of Communications.
CoM: The Collage of Metaphysics. Specializes in Magic, Alchemy, and explosions.
COUP: the collage of Obscure and Unhealthy Profesions. Speacializes in covert operations of all sorts, and explosions.
SASS: School of Anti-social Sciences. See wuse.
SCA: The school of Conservitive Arts. Specializes in ranking in the money. Explosions are unprofitable.
SPCA: The School for Performing and Creative arts. Specializes in artistic and physical arts. Explosions rare but pretty.
SSAS: The School of socail Anti sciences. Specailizes in depressing literature and theories unconected to reality. there are no Uncuth explosions here.
WUSE: The collage of weird and unatural sciences and enineering. Specializes in computers, gadgets, and explosions.

The book has three styles of Play, I am going with Silly, also we will mostlikely start as Freshthings. (Freshmen is not PC.) So no worries if you have no clue, still feel free to join in, the freshthings generally have no clue either so this greatly works.

Next post will include my chara and dorms for those who wish to live on campus both of you are mroe then welcome.

 

[Vixandra]

Sounds interesting Cats.
Would it be okay to have a COM/WUSE cross? Probably humanoid alien (IE not terran)... surname possibly "Inverse."
Let me know, sounds like a lot of fun.

 

[The GrandMage]

Oh, yeah, the CoM, definitely.

Bwahahahaha!

Soon I shall-[fnord][/fnord]!

Ha-ha!
I am master of fnords!

 

[cats]

GM your using Fnord more then I my friend who got me into GURPS, now that is an acheivement.

Um you can if you want, but going between two schools, can be hazardous. Your student is exposed to Blood feuds agaisnt both schools. Also teachers will very as well as subject meterail. the result is mroe jack of all trades with science and magic rather then a focoused character but it is do able.

But first I like to point out The sub departments of each.

WUSE:
Department of chemistry: Does chemical reactions makeing basic polutaints. So mostly chemistry but Demolition tends to apear sooner or latter.
Department of Gentics: They do Biochemitry mainly. Most of the Flura and Funa comes from this department.

The department of computer wizardry: This department is the classic technomacer mixing machines and magic, it's newer and actully co run by the two departments your looking at Vix. How ever it is technicly udner WUSE for now....

The department of military Biologoy: Also very new. Fairly simple the 101 class is Aplications for Neuro toxins.
The department of Military Sciences and Cost Over Runs: Self explanatory actully. (And big on explosions)
Department of Physics: They are in a compatition with Military over runs and Chemistry for most explosions.
Lastly we have the dapartment of THE Computer Science: deidcated to understanding THE Computer.

CoM:
Department of Alchemy: Self explaining.
Department of Thumaturgy: This class is for those who can't cast spells but wants to do spells any ways. It is pure magic theory and these people make spells for otehrs to use normaly, unless they jsut want to amke new fun spells for themselves, but mostly nonmagic users.

If you feel you need otehr departments for each school, let me know and I'll get back to you on it.

Name: Kyle Wind
Age: 20
School: Coup
eyes: Blue
hair: brown
Body type: Fit and dexteritous.
Advantages: Comfortable income, quick reflexes.
disadvantages: Thinks purple thiongs are alive.... and must be killed! has a fear of cats see below. Lives on campus.

Bio: A recent adition to IOU. He joined coup because it sounded like a good idea at the time. his fear of cats is because kicking a cat while the arc dean jsut happened to be looking out the window also seemed like a good diea at the time. Now keeping a healthy distance from cats seems to be a good idea.

 

[Vixandra]

Okay, I'll go with the Department of Computer Wizardry. Sounds about up my alley.
I've not read any of these books so am going stricktly off of what you're putting up here.

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)
disadvantages: little loud, can eat though anything almost, has a thing against dragons
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.

How's that Cats?

 

[SwampThing]

This looks cool. Cats, you've got the best thead ideas around here.

Name: Alex LeBlanc
Age: 20
School: SPCA
hair: varies (usually brown)
eyes: varies (usually brown)
Body type: varies (usually average)
Gender: varies (usually androgenous)
Advantages: Unconscious natural super ability to blend into groups, and always appear as whoever (or whatever) the audience expects to see. Charming, charismatic.
Disadvantages: Unconsciously uses ability all the time. Has no fixed appearance / gender. Doesn't believe in super-powers, magic, aliens, etc. Extremely susceptible to mentral control.
Bio: Alex was always a natural actor, and enrolled for the drama program at NYU. Alex bought a plane ticket to New York, but ended up here instead. Alex is still pretty confused about the whole thing, but is just going along with it.

 

[The GrandMage]

Name: Hellion "James" McKimble
Age: 22
School: CoM
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Black
Body type: Fit, heathly, 12' wingspan
Advantages: Strong, intelligent, and a powerful user of magic, magick, and majik. The ability to see and use fnords.
Disadvantages: Extremely large appetite, Arachibutyrophobia (Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth), Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia (Fear of long words), Lutraphobia (Fear of otters), Nostophobia (Fear of returning home), Rhabdophobia (Fear of being beaten by a rod), Feels the need to correct people's grammar and use of words, and is addicted to IBC Root Beer.

Bio: A Discordian from the not-really-so-far-off planet of Htrae (Ha-trAY), he came to IOU because the great batlike wings sprouting from his back wouldn't hinder his ability to fit in here. He has a bit of an ego, but generally sticks to himself. He's at the top of his classes, and his teacher's hit lists. Where he gets the money to pay for his tuition, or what his Discordian faith will affect his being in a school run by the Illuminati has yet to be seen,...

 

[DarkThoughts01]

erm..b4 i try and hop in here,im completly lostX_X
do i have to know any prior knowledge of anything outside thethread to hop in?
*stares*

 

[The GrandMage]

erm..b4 i try and hop in here,im completly lostX_X
do i have to know any prior knowledge of anything outside thethread to hop in?
*stares*

I doubt if prior knowledge would be helpful to you.

If fact, for this type of thing, a complete lack of knowledge would probably be best to start.

But that's my opinion.

Besides, he said you didn't need to know much...

 

[cats]

OOC:

The only bit of knowledge you need is Fnord is used in this book. Alot.

As for classes and specific departments feel free to make them up as well as the teachers.

Swamp, as for the trhead idea, this one isn't mine. I'm useing a gurps book that was funny as hell. Your character actully fits in very well with the book, have you read it before? Also I msut make a quick clarification, about your chara.

Is it Mundane? Mundane is the super pwoer of a select few to be walking down the street while people run past them ducking for cover, and some how not notice Godzilla is running around behind him. This is oposed to mundane (Not the M is not capitalized,) who have no powers, or access to high tech, magic and so on. (Poor souls.) I would prefer leaveing the Mundane power to NPC's for now. How ever do note that in the school you have selected there is a very large number of NPCs with the Mundane power, this pwoer is also comon SCA.

DT, GM is most certinly right. Less knoledge is more in this game.

 

[cats]

The World

OOC: Hopefully the plot will fallow soon, but for now let me get posting started.

I am debating as to weather or not put up an OOC thread. Opinions are more then welcome.

IC:... three weeks ago.... A random boy:

A student sits in the dark, deep underground, surrounded by rats. He carefully thinks over his move and picks up his last Demi pawn. He moves it one square up, hoping to win and escape with the glowing can of spam behind the giant rat. If he lost he'd have to eat the fossilized cracker next to him, and it didn't smell to fresh.

The giant rat moved his over lord into the fifth dimension and smiled as he won the game. Another giant Rat came up behind him picked up the cracker and shoved it in the boys mouth. The boy almost choked on the foul tasting and ancient source that probably was never meant to eat. As he swallowed the last of it the rats moved in and eat him alive just to add further insult to injury.

IC: Kyle: I moved to my next class trying not to be late. I held up the map of the school given to me on the first day. "I sill don't get why they place a map of the entire campus on a five inch square of paper. They might as well not hand out maps at all."

I walked past a giant tree. "Wait isn't that the botany building? Shit I started here." I looked around at the deceptively normal campus. If it wasn't for the fact that the botany building was a giant tree, I would almost say this place is normal since no students are around.

'Meow.' I turn around and see a white cat right behind me, and closing fast. I immediately start to run blindly forward to escape the perusing feline. I decide the best coarse of action is to head for the nearest building which just happens to be botany. After a few minutes of running I am at the door. I turn around and the cat is gone. Guess there is no since going in. I look back at the building and see that it isn't the botany building but instead my class. "What the hell?"

I look behind me and see the botany tree a ways off in the distance. "I swear nothing her makes sense."

 

[The GrandMage]

Hellion "James" McKimble

Hellion had a half a hour before his next class started. He was sitting on a bench in front of the CoM, staring across the campus, sipping at a Coke. He was dressed in a pair of jeans and a deep red t-shirt, and was listening to The Fernando Poo Incident's rendition of Rock Around the Clock.

He had a backpack on the ground, his feet resting upon it. He looked down at his boots, which were already showing a good deal of wear and dirt. He sighed, and took a long pull off his Coke. He had joined the IOU shortly after he'd been freed from Htrae. He'd told people that it was planet, and was hoping that no one knew about it, or he may be sent back. Which, quite frankly, he did not want to happen.

A large explosion rocked the building behind him, and debris went sailing over head. A young man landed in the grass just beyond where Hellion was sitting. Hellion turned off the music and pulled his headphones down. The young cannonball stood up, and began brushing himself off. "Best hurry, James, or you won't have time to find class."

Hellion looked up at him. "Try the janitor's closet on the second floor, just beyond Enchanting 1101."

The young man stopped, and stared at Hellion, clearly thinking over what he'd said. He nodded once. "Okay, I'll try it. See you in class then?"

The young man didn't wait for a reply, but retrieved his flaming backpack from under a chunk of rock, and hurried off to class. Hellion looked over at the chunk of wall, already closing, like some great wound. He sighed, and gathered his things, deciding he'd better start off then before he ended up late for class.


OOC: Hey, whatever floats your boat, Cats, but I'm sure you'll get a lot of OOC questions for something like this. Hell, I almost know what some of this stuff is kinda going to be maybe along the lines of, and I know I'll end up confused. But, then again, that's the whole point, isn't it?

 

[Vixandra]

Arivania "Ari" Inverse

IC:
I sat in first class, patient awaiting the bell. My former master had given me a map of the school for my forearm computer, so I'd managed not to get lost, at least physcially.
So I was in the right place but I had no clue what was going on, a novel rarity.
My first class was Trinary Basics, something I already knew inside and out but they wouldn't let me challange the course. Oh well, there are worse things. Besides, I mused, checking my computer, might be something interesting to learn.
Knowledge is power, my family motto. And magical knowledge is all that much better!

 

[cats]

OOC:

Okay two last ooc deals.

While the campus has many rules not all staff really cares about them, however there is a handful of rules that all campus staff enforces.
1. The Arc Dean always gets 10% of the profit.
2. There are no exceptions to rule number one.
3. Don't mess with cats.
4. Thou shalt never lwoer the Arc Deans stock values.
5. First semester Freshthings are off limits.
6. No black holes on campus. Except little ones on pizza.
7. No antimater on campus. Even on pizza.
8. Destruction of the earth, moon, sun, or other major solar system objects requires writen permision from the arc dean.
9.No faculty blood-feuds with out a current permit.

Next some major things of campus.
Arc Dean: the top officail on campus, a little girl looking about 18 with blonde hair. Likes cats and wearing white leather and if she runs the school you can imagine she is ridiculously powerful.
Bimbaras and Kajones: Think very beutiful dumb blonds, for the bimbaras, how ever they are smart enough to efectively run there jobs largely secatary positions. Kajones are the male equivolent.
Lab rats: White albino rats, very common how ever they show the effects of much of the work done to them and any given one may have the pwoer to teleport, be imune to magic, or have cybernetic parts, as sych.
Tunnel Rats: Large mutated rats that live in the tunnel, they live in gruops of 50 to 1000 and occupy the steam tunnels under the school. They aren't very bright save for the royal ones which play pan-demensional chess. A very complex game, hard for any one who can't sense five dementions. The loser eats stale crackers.
Mall Rats: Found in halls of five to ten in pryamid mall, and ocasionaly found in smaller groups in any place where things are sold. They are adolecents between the age of 11 and 15 wear japanesse school uniforms and mob atractive members of the otehr gender. Never get between them and a sale.
Meeps: Furry little half circles with the bizar ability to make those watching them come up to them and start petting them periodicly saying meep. The victims may or may not druel while doing this. Originaly thought of as a way to common pest, until it was discovered they are edible and taste very good. Now they are fairly rare.
Squirels: are on campus. In adition to the normal ones you have three other types as fallows.
Watchers: Despite being smart and haveing a strange habit of watching human activity this variety is completely harmless. Really.
Mugger: these squirels attack any one that may have shiney objects or food, or may just be unlucky. They take anything edible or shiney and run. Large numbers have jumped out of trees on victims pined them to the ground and ran off with all such objects before.
Vampire: Not common during the day. These ones may attack you biteing on the neck and suck a small amount of blood. They also can shape shift into flying squirels when they want. Any one who is low on blood, attacked by a groupd of these or something simialr may wake up with a craving for nuts. An alergic reaction to sun light slowly killing them, an adiction to blood, and the power to turn into a gaint flying squirel.

Dryads: green skinned nature spirits that look like beutiful women are comon in botnay and the gardens.
THE computer: A computer that is linked to all computers on campus and runs threw them. It's main terminal is some where unknown on campous. It is undoubtably syintient. The rumors that it is deranged are hopefully made up.

there are other assorted things to be reveiled latter and don't rule much out.

 

[cats]

Kyle

IC: 'Hey James!' I glanced over at the person who seemed to eb adressing me. 'James, what are you doing here? This is CouP teritory, and you know they don't like compatition.'

"What are you talking about CouP likes compatition, they are good in soup." 'Good one James, but you best hurry to your next class. Oh and thanks for loneing me this.' he hands me a tiny gem on a necklace. "Whats this and why are you calling me James?" 'You feeling okay James? your acting funny, oh and I got my teleporter working.' You know if this guy doesn't start leaveing me alone I'm going have to kill him. 'See check it out.' The boy pushes a button in his belt and is gone.

"Finally he is gone." I start walking forward when a group of two students come around the corner. 'Theres the kid from Wuse!' "You just missed him." 'Oh no we won't.' I looked at them curiously. One charges me with a set of brass knockles the other one draws a gun from a holster.

"Shit... something is wrong here!" the one with brass knuckles closes in I grab him by the arm as he punches and throw him into the wall. Then I dart back and forth while closeing in on the one with the gun. I kick him in throat droping him quickly. I then pick up the gun turn around and make sure the one taht I trhew into the wal wasn'tr geting back up. "Bunch of weaklings."

I turned down the hall and starting heading for my class. 'You know it's always the ones you don't see that get you.' I turned around just in time to be cut in half by a third assain. I fall to the ground lifeless.

Some time latter I wake up in darkness. "I really hate upper classmen, they are so into showing off." I stand up and a cermic lid slides off the top of the fairly large container I am in. I place one hand on the rim and jump over. "Okay what did the school use to revive me this time?" The school wants to make as much money possible and keeping students alive certinaly does help, also they charge ten dollars for each revive. There are a couple of ways they can revive some one which one is cheapest at the time is what they normally do.

My room mate casually says 'The Crockpot of the gods.' My room mate is an upper classmen who has been here a bit longer then me, she works in CoM. "How does it work?" 'Puree the body and put it in the crock pot plug it in and let it boil for a full day.' "Interesting." Wait did he say a full day? "Shit! I missed class!" 'Also your undressed. Your cloaths are next to the pot.'

 

[The GrandMage]

Hellion "James" McKimble

Hellion left class, looking at his watch with a scowl. The class had gone over it's limit, but the teacher kept right on. Every time a student had left, he'd given more information. Finally, when only three students were left, he'd tried to fnord over everything, and had left. Luckilly for Hellion, he knew about fnords, and wasn't caught off guard by them, so he remembered the lecture on training people to ignore things.

It was really quite ironic. But now he only had forty minutes for lunch. He could teleport to the cafeteria, but that usually got you in the middle of a gang war or worse yet, as part of the menu. He frowned, and started making his way across campus. Halfway there, a strange tentacled creature lept out from a crack in the pavement, towering over Hellion.

"WUSE forever!" it cried, flinging itself at Hellion and blasting lasers everywhere. Hellion threw up a hasty wall of air, blocking the creature and its laser, though only for a time, and drew his gun from the holster at his side. He lifted the weapon, and fired.

He was thrown backwards as the gun discharged, a spelled bullet ripping power from his as it both fired a bullet and cast it's automated spell. It was one of the inventions to come out of CoM's and WUSE rare and barely understandable alliances with the Department of Computer Wizardry (DoCW). Because of his strengths in Magik, he was allowed to look around it, although tensions ran so high it wasn't unusually for six or seven wars to break out during a day, instead of the usual three or four.

The tentacled mass quivered, and fell backwards. Hellion stood up, putting away his weapon and looking at the mass. "Wuss." He shook his head, and glanced around before continuing on to the battlefield known as the cafeteria. He hoped he could find some other CoM's making a rush towards the food line. He couldn't take being killed again this week.

 

[cats]

Kyle

IC: I sliped on my cloaths once more and began to walk to my class when I noticed that my watch said it was noon. Wait my class isn't even today with me dieing yesterday and all. Okay time for lunch.

I headed to the cafitieria not looking forward to it. One of the worse things about liveing on campous is that you peridoicly have to eat on campus. Meals here are often a contest to see weather we eat the food or the food eats us.

By the time I got to the cafiteria the arc deans clock tower was ringing bells. The digital surface said it was 7:15 on one side and 10:50 on the other. To me it seemed tehre was no ryhme or reason to the tower. I supose the arc dean had a reason but you never know.

Walking into the cafiteria I saw that it was rather suspicious, no fights, no gaint blobs, the food didn't seem to be alive or undead for a change. I took a tray and walked down the line, the juice was almost all sugar but it was beter then the curdled milk, or teh way to strong coffee.

I moved further down and saw peas, that looked suspiciously edible. Perhaps I should try something else. I much ratehr face the normal hazards here then an unknown one. "Pardon me wheres the Spam." the slightly old meat was normaly the safest thing to eat.

'We don't have any it was recaleld.' I looked at her a bit suprised and afraid. Then I have no choice but to go with the mac and cheese. I took a spoon and placed some on my plate before moveing down, and takeing a seat.

 

[The GrandMage]

Hellion "James" McKimble

It was quiet. Too quiet. It was, "The killer is about to grab you through a window and drag you to your bloody death" type quiet. He didn't trust it. No did he trust the lack of Spam. He piled his plate high with food, keeping an eye on everyone. His gun hand twitched.

But nothing happened. It was becoming more and more suspicious. He glanced across the faces of the others, and moved close to a student who had just gotten his food, sitting next to him. It wasn't always smart sitting next to a student you didn't already know. But something was up.

Hellion had a little of everything, even the peas, which looked to much like peas to actually be peas. He looked over at the guy, "Something's up today. You think they drugged the food again?"

 

[cats]

Kyle

IC: 'Do you think they druged the food again?' Maybe, it is possible, after all the food isn't attacking any one yet. Maybe they actually do want us to eat it. "It's possible, I supose."

"Something worries me." I looked down at the plate and pushed around a couple of the peas. "Have you ever found something wrong with one of the peas? They strike me as a little to inocent, and that bothers me."

"I really wish they had some of that old spam from the cold war. At least I knew that was edible, if only barly." I turned to glance over at a tv in the far corner. 'Thats right we are aproaching the sixth hour of this hostage situation here in Podunk Nebraska. The group simply calling them selves the rats has aprently managed to keep the mayor and other key figures in the basement and under there control demanding for an imdeate withdral of all pest control personel and a metic ton of cheese.'

"Rather odd news braod cast. Don't you think. Mainly for two reasons. First off the cafateria doesn't have a tv, and next off the braod cast was on about a week ago. If I recall strait they never did say what happened to the kidnapers." A man in a black suit was standing in the corner aparently watching us more then the TV. I wonder what he wants.

 

[The GrandMage]

Hellion "James" McKimble

"I know just what you mean," he said, looking over a forkfull of peas. "They're too much like peas to actually be peas, unless by some freak accident they gave us regular food."

He looked over at the television, nodding in response to it. "Yes, this is very odd. Oh well, only one way to tell..."

He raised the forkfull of peas to his face, and, with only a moment's hesitation, he ate it. It tasted,...

Well, it tasted like peas. That should have been his first clue that something was dreadfully wrong.

 

[Vixandra]

Ari

I walked into the cafateria, wondering about the place. My teacher had said it was always crazy and never sane, to not eat the normal looking food.
I scanned the treys of food set out- there was something that vaguely resembled what Teacher had called "Japanese" cooking. I grabbed a couple of rice balls, something labled Gyoza and what I assumed to be some kind of animal meat grilled in teriaki sauce. What animal- could not tell you, but the meat was red, so something bovine probably.
I looked around for an empty seat- there was one next to two guys. Better then sitting by myself, I guess.
I walked over, snagging a Coke and politely asked, "Can I join you guys?"