I'd like to write some bit of IST fanfic, but all I know of that setting came from the chapter about it in GURPS Supers. Maybe someone can give me a little help? I've got a few questions (maybe more than a few):
-how old you have to be to join IST?
-how many IST embassies there are in USA?
-wich kind of training IST operatives get?
-how much time does the training take?
-can an IST embassy grant political asylum?
-does IST accept stagists?
-when does earth and myrr had their first contact?
-IST world's japan is closed and xenophobic as warrior's
world's is?
-how much is gravtech spread in IST world?
-does the Blue Demon have a tail? (I know it's a silly question.)
Thank you in advance for the help.

Once again, the sewer of my mind has come up with a crossover that's so wrong, it's right. People are welcome to take this idea and run with it, as I'm a horrible writer and am not intending to perform such self mutilation anytime soon.

I give you: No Need For Harry Potter
At the age of five, a burst of accidental magic and his desperate wish for a mother in his life ( he vaguely recalled that mothers should have red hair) caused Harrys cupboard to spontaneously generate an opening to Washuu's pocket dimension.
See! Harry Potter raised by Washuu Hakubi.
See! Ryouko beating the crap out of Peeves.
See! Harry Potter, the Cabbit animagus.
See! The Killing Curse blocked by the Wings of the Light Hawk.

Well, you get the idea.
Crawling back into my shell,
Jervic

Because it has no real relevance to what Nathan or Greiver are writing, though I mentioned it in that thread by way of where my own Otome-SI-musings had gone...

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Hey, Drogn? The way you're talking, those nanite packets have more powers than just healing... I'm curious to know what they are. ^_^

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...but this is a Step idea that I'm kind of surprised I didn't think of long ago.
Not every flying-dutchman character wanders through dimensions... some of them dance through time. If Doug met Brooklyn... well, I'm not quite sure what would happen, but it'd be cool, admit it!
--Sam
"To everyone else, it was five minutes... to me, it was forty years."

...Specifically for 'Take a Shot', the insert song from episode 12 of MSLN. Google is... unhelpful, at least so far. Anyone here have a clue?
Ja, -n

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"Puripuri puripuri... Bang!"

...both of which have been brought up briefly before, and then dropped. ^.^;
I finally found time to confirm that the opening quote from ch. 2, the one about the living god, is not originally from The Story of O, but rather from Robert W. Chambers' "In the Court of the Dragon," one of the short stories collected as The King in Yellow. O was published in 1954, KiY in 1895.
The final paragraph:
Death and the awful abode of lost souls, whither my weakness long ago had sent him, had changed him for every other eye but mine. And now I heard his voice, rising, swelling, thundering through the flaring light, and as I fell, the radiance increasing, increasing, poured over me in waves of flame. Then I sank into the depths, and I heard the King in Yellow whispering to my soul: "It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God!"

As for the question... the conversation between Urd and Chris after Doug recounts his travels strikes me as strange, because we are given absolutely no reason why Urd would want to keep The Truth from her visitor; in fact, we aren't even really told that she does--Chris simply assumes that she must, for no reason that I can see, and Urd agrees, again without saying why. It's been bugging me for a while now...
--Sam
"That cow's tasted human blood!"

My name is Luca Nicolai, and I'm Italian (but please, do not blame me for the state of my country. I Did Not Vote Him). I'm a nineteen-year-old student at the Gorizia International and Diplomatic Science Faculty. I'm a short-sighted, ironic, clumsy, irritating, adorable lad. I met Drunkard's Walk while I was forced to bed by a nasty kind of flu, and I falled in love. Ive been lurking around this forum for months before I found the courage to actually log in. My only hope is that my English is not too much inadequate...

...cause I'm thinking I might have done so when I aquired the CD-Single with it on, but as I've recently got & seen some eps of GITS:SAC 2nd gig it's come back into my thoughts.
Song is Rise, sung by Origa and's yet another Yoko Kanno song. Lyrics are @ www.animelyrics.com/anime...l/rise.htm
Yet for powers, the song plus OP animation has me thinking of a solder similcun..crum..er whatever - one of them, quite probably one Doug knows or has met in his journey. Problem is, for some reason my mind is primarly linking it to a Senshi or a bunch of 'em, Saturn being a front runner. Secondly, it's also linking it to Batou & a generic solder archtype.
Yes/no? Suggestions from the peanut gallery?
--Rod.H

I've been asking Bob a few questions about Doug and the Walk lately, but they've been spoilers so they were by e-mail. This one isn't a spoiler, and other folks might be interested in the answer, so...
When Doug's helmet computer is in combat mode, just how much of a hair-trigger is it on?
For example, which of these would trigger the healing song?
a) Doug says "System. I'm Alive. Play" - we've seen that work.
b) Somebody else says "System. I'm Alive. Play" while wearing the helmet.
c) Somebody else says "System. I'm Alive. Play" while beside the helmet.
d) Doug says "...blah blah blah System, I'm Alive. Play blah blah blah..." (replacing "blah blah blah" with normal dialogue)
e) Doug says "...blah blah blah system blah blah blah I'm Alive blah blah blah Play blah blah blah..." (again, replacing "blah blah blah" with normal dialogue)
f) Doug says "System", then waits for a few seconds, then says "I'm Alive", then waits for a minute, then says "Play".
g) Doug says "System", somebody else says something, Doug says "I'm Alive", somebody else says something, Doug says "Play".

-Rob Kelk
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

Powers that can be done in silence. His silent powers are enumerated as enhanced speed or combat-hyping. improbability field, and magesight.
First technique is taken from from Naruto with the kawarami no jutsu. He could throw down a smoke pellet and use his speed to switch himself with whatever object is handy. Needs strength if he's going to go with logs.
Yadomejutsu: The art of arrow-cutting.
Wooden Table Spin:He's a martial artist so he could be able to manipulate a wooden table he's standing on top of to spin and smack enemies.
Iaijitsu:The ability to kill a person in a single draw from a sheathed sword. Called speed draw when used with pistols.
Houkou Incarnate:The ability to watch a person move in slow motion. It allows the twitch of a muscle to give away predicted motions. (This is specific to martial arts masters as they know what motion follows the muscle twitch).
Sense the Demon/Angel//Etc. :Self-explanatory. Extraplanar visitors tend to stand out. Same technique Skuld used to sense Doug's arrival.
Le Parkour Running:He does this anyway.
A few extra tricks to have up his sleeve. A magician always has an extra trick up their sleeve.