Okay, what gives?  They're called both Meeranon and Meeranar (with Meeran being singualar).  Which is right?  Personally Meeranar sounds cooler, I think.  But, that's just me.
And, here's my 4e write-up for the race:
Meeranon [58 points]

Attributes
ST +2 [20]

Advantages
Acute Taste and Smell +3 [6]
Acute Hearing +3 [6]
Combat Reflexes [15]
Damage Resistance 1 (Tough Skin) [3]
Mind Reading (Telecommunication, Psionic) [21]
Telecommunications (Telesend, Psionic) [27]

Disadvantages
Code of Honor (Meeranar) [-10]
Duty (Clan, 9-) [-5]
Overconfidence (12-) [-5]
Impulsiveness (12-) [-10]
Sense of Duty (Home Clan) [-10]
Should they have built-in claws?  I know they didn't, but should they?

Courtesy of http://thrilling-tales.webomator.com/de ... mizer.html]The Pulp-O-Mizer:

-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Well, I’ve been doing a lot of looking for the IST L2 game . . . and there’s a lot of little things that are now “broken.”

The biggest problem is that the old 3e TLs were very neatly delineated.  The new ones . . . are much muddier.  Given that they basically end at TL12 reduces a lot of the ground to cleanly define a TL.  Our world is fully TL8 and TL9 is just around the corner.  But, there are a still a lot of challenges to overcome.

If you don’t have a copy of Ultra Tech 4e, Bob, let me know and I’ll see about getting one for you (ditto a copy of Supers).

I’m going to number these so it’s a little easier to respond to.

1.  So, calling IST TL8-9 seems logical.

2.  Power Cells, in a positive change for GURPS but, potentially a plot changer for the RPC, are all, generically, rechargeable.  I don’t see a real problem with that.  But, if anyone disagrees, we should probably discuss.

3.  Blasters went from TL9 to TL11^ . . . that’s a massive jump.  But, it’s super-hero physics, so we can safely account for that.  Electrolasters are TL9, but, they’re just not blasters.

4.  Old U.N. Battlesuits were PD 6 DR 25, which, thanks to that PD 6 was pretty darned effective.  Now, however, DR 25 is going to get plastered by a wayward super bolt . . . or a reasonably powerful squad-automatic weapon.  Or any type of IED.

A, basic, TL9 Battlesuit (Powered Combat Armor) has DR 70/50 (that’s 70 on the torso and 50 everywhere else).
A TL9 Combat Hardsuit could only has DR 50/30 and could probably fill the niche nicely, but I think using the TL9 Powered Combat Armor would save a lot of work.

My pain meds are kicking in, so I should stop this before I turn sillier.  If anything above doesn't make sense, I blame the pain meds.

The image is copied to the wiki, with permission of the artist. Now to write a story to go with it. At least the original artist gave me the first two lines:

Quote:First day of a new job. Can't afford to have a wardrobe malfunction.

Let's go for something which says "Sure, boss. I'll find those droids you're looking for!"

Is it because you care for a person that you invest a lot of labor in a relationship?
Or Is it because you love the labor invested in a relationship that you care for a person?
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Into terror!,  Into valour!
Charge ahead! No! Never turn
Yes, it's into the fire we fly
And the devil will burn!
- Scarlett Pimpernell

Including me. I just haven't really been active in the MMO arena lately. (Persona 4 Golden is eating my soul)

However, in between bouts of floor hopping and Shadow stomping, I messed about with the offline costume maker that Titan did up a while back.

I recall a certain pun concept being made aaaaaaaaages ago, and I finally sat down and just outright made it.

I give you, the Sabre Senshi
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"Oh, silver blade, forged in the depths of the beyond. Heed my summons and purge those who stand in my way. Lay
waste."

I am notorious for coming up with big ideas and not following through, or starting projects and not finishing. So, I'm looking for collaborators for a few good story ideas.

• The One and a Half Doctors: A QL-DW crossover that I described yesterday in Crossovers That Should Not Be, but have decided it should.
  
• Untitled QL story: Part 1: Sam fails at whatever it is he's supposed to do and leaps out once the failure is complete. Part two: He has leaped into someone else in the same time and place to try again. So there are two Sams operating in the same setting, and their separate attempts to right the wrong get in each other's way. Some events from the first try are changed while others seem to have been muddled by "Sam II" in the first place, being left deliberately ambiguous; the timey-wimey stuff is extra wibbly-wobbly. Part 3: The two Sams figure out what's happening and start working together. The solution to the problem is one that could never have been pulled by one leaper alone.
  
• QL alternate timeline - Sam gets home. Two story sequence.
  

1. 1. Introduction: Start with the first episode sequence where Gushy calls Al to say that Sam is leaping and Al tells the girl with him in the convertible "Hang on, beautiful." Continue from there with dialog about how it's not like Sam to be so reckless and what could have made him do it? Main story: Not long after visiting Beth, perhaps immediately after, Sam leaps into Sam the day before he first leaped out. Holo-Al and future-Ziggy tell Sam that all he has to do is not leap when he originally did and he'll end up coming home like he'd never left. He starts to go along, but sees signs of the good he's done - Donna is his wife and at the project, Sammy Joe Fuller, someone has a picture of Jackie Kennedy, Al and Beth are together - and decides to go through with the leap. Holo-Al tells him that Ziggy can't predict what would happen if Sam re-leaps while on a leap. Sam says "Well I know. Things will go a little ca-ca." Meanwhile, solid-Al and the rest of the team are going about business as usual. Al's three daughters are home. The oldest and youngest are married with three kids between them and all are gathered for the middle one's wedding in a couple of days. When Sam begins the leap and Gushy calls solid-Al, the conversation is almost identical to the first time, but Al is having dinner at home with the whole family; he gets up to leave giving the bride a kiss on the cheek and telling her "Hang on, Beautiful."
      
   2. Immediately following: Sam is on a fairly "routine" leap, one of two bodyguards or cops or secret service or something protecting some VIP who is going to die. Meanwhile, back at the mountain, Al is ready to retire and Ziggy is getting some major upgrades, both to the electronics and the wetware; she is going to have more donated brain matter installed from Al's replacement as the observer. Ziggy has determined that Sammy Joe is the most compatible choice; Donna is jealous, as neither of them knows the real reason for the choice. Once the upgrades are complete, Sammy Joe begins to "remember" things from alternate versions of history that only Al, Ziggy, and (sometimes) Sam know. Meanwhile, back on the leap, none of us is surprised to learn that the other body guard is the murderer. He kills Sam first with some kind of cliff hanger moment (maybe literally.) Sam leaps out at the moment of death, leaving the real guard dead in his own time and (meanwhile back at the mountain) Sam dead in the accelerator. He is moved to the floor in the control room where there is much wailing. That's when Sammy Joe "remembers" that Sam is her father. Donna somehow knows it too, so in just a moment of eye contact and understanding all is forgiven between them. But Sammy Joe will not accept the unfairness. How can this great man be her father without her knowing it until his death? She won't stand for it. She steps into the accelerator and leaps into the other guard. She pulls Sam up from the cliff edge (or whatever) so the VIP and everyone lives. They both leap out. Meanwhile, back at-you know- Sam's body disappears from the floor (blue and white sparks and all) and Sam appears alive and well in the accelerator. Sammy Joe does not return. Sam sends Al off to enjoy retirement, and goes to the imaging chamber to be the observer for Sammy Joe's next leap, and all the many more to come.
      
      

The Shortest Leap

Quote:by Joesph Avins

At least, not in Ottawa.

The Hogsback Brewing Company is about to release a time-limited Oatmeal Bacon Stout - beer flavoured with real bacon. They're calling it "http://hogsback.ca/our-beers/]Aporkalypse Now"... but I still want to try a pint.
--
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

So, for the next round of our GURPS IST game, the team is going to be stationed on the newly-christened Unity Station at the Lagrange 2 point, for the year 2012.
So, in preparation for this, I'm making a new International Super Teams Monthly cover.
The main picture is still rendering, which is why it's fuzzy.  And, I need to come up with more cover text, which I'll figure out while I'm at work tomorrow.
I do realize that the picture is, technically, impossible from a "geographical" standpoint.  But, it's more striking this way.