All,

I have a few questions regarding setting specific issues for IST, if you will indulge me:

1. Where is the IST Training Academy mentioned in Bob's 1990-1999 timeline established? If there was no specific location in mind, does anyone have any suggestions?

2. The 90's timeline seems to suggest that the U.S. will/has pulled out of the U.N., is this a hollow threat on Buchanan's part or is it (depending on the results of the Y2K event) destined to happen? If so, what happens to the IST Embassies in the U.S.? Would they close? Would they remain open? If the latter, under what circumstances could they continue operation?

3. Which nation replaced China on the permanent Security Council?

4. Is there any objection to me posting snippings from the development of my campaign here on the forums for feedback and sanity-checking? Such snippings would be anything from back story, setting details, characters, templates, equipment, etc.?

Cheers and thanks,

-Mike
Michael R. Smith (lastfreehuman@gmail.com)
GURPS IST Aleph Wordpress (http://istaleph.wordpress.com/)
GURPS IST Aleph Twitter (http://twitter.com/IstAleph/)
Trek This! Wordpress (http://dthiller.wordpress.com/)
My Blog (http://lastfreehuman.wordpress.com/)

We're getting links munged by viglink again... only since I'm on Opera, the content blocker is basically preventing me from following links now. The pop-ups show fine, but once I hit the link, viglink has it's way with the link before the browser gets it, so I have to reconstruct it manually. ("http://" stripped off the link to ensure that they don't render it as an actual link.)

Quote:api.viglink.com/api/click?format=go&key=d2f6dc3d61fd72ef48d01980d6bfec29&loc=http%3A%2F%2Fdrunkardswalkforums.yuku.com%2Freply%2F106242%23reply-106242&v=1&libid=1351734349787&out=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.daz3d.com%2Fforums%2Fviewthread%2F10791%2F&ref=http%3A%2F%2Fdrunkardswalkforums.yuku.com%2Fforums%2F1%2FGeneral-Chatter&title=3D%20modeling%20resources%20thread%20in%20General%20Chatter%20Forum&txt=My%20very%20first%20Freebie%20Challenge%20as%20a%20host.&jsonp=vglnk_jsonp_13517344286503

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http://www.thestreet.com/...quire-lucasfilm-ltd.html
So, this is a thing.
Edit:
Grab some popcorn, we can watch the internet explode.  It'll be a blast. 
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Stand between the Silver Crystal and the Golden Sea.
"Youngsters these days just have no appreciation for the magnificence of the legendary cucumber."  --Krityan Elder, Tales of Vesperia.

Greetings,

I am in need of a list of twenty-two cities, worldwide, that have IST embassies to serve as the focal points of an alien invasion that corresponds with Y2K in the timeline I am working on.

My timeline is using a modified version of the classic IST timeline, Bob's additional material, stuff from GURPS Timeline, GURPS Aliens and GURPS Atomic Horror as well as a few smatterings from Ken Hite's Transmission 200 timeline.

I already have IST New York at the top of the list.

Thanks,

-Mike
Michael R. Smith (lastfreehuman@gmail.com)
GURPS IST Aleph Wordpress (http://istaleph.wordpress.com/)
GURPS IST Aleph Twitter (http://twitter.com/IstAleph/)
Trek This! Wordpress (http://dthiller.wordpress.com/)
My Blog (http://lastfreehuman.wordpress.com/)

EDIT:  I'm not as negative now as I was when I posted this originally. I'm still concerned. But really there's not much point in worrying about it. We'll just have to play it by ear and have as much fun as we can with the character concepts we've created. 

This is a potential problem from this thread.

Quote:[table]

Peg and I are home, along with my mom, whom I picked up from her home much closer to the landfall point than we are.  We are still very close, but Sandy is hitting the Jersey shore well south of us.  Both of us are working from home, Peg on a day-by-day basis and me through tomorrow at least.
We were away in West Virginia all weekend, in case anyone was worried about not seeing me in the forums for the last four days.
So far we still have power, gas and lights, and we're at the top of a goodly hill that has been far more than sufficient to isolate us from earlier flooding events (we're at least 100 feet above the highest flood levels predicted for Sandy).  We're well-stocked with emergency supplies, and have a small butane burner to cook with if we lose the gas, thanks to Kat and Joe and Scott.
And almost every tree that could fall on our house already has in previous storms.
Anyway, we're hunkered down for the next 36+ hours, and expect to come out okay no matter what.  We're hoping everyone else in the path of the storm is safe and well and continues to stay that way.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20068927
About cold calling.

Just a few images taken from the Tunnels of Frigga









Rather captures the atmosphere kind of well..... fifty-kilometre tunnel blasts through gloom and dust with an assortment of vehicles. Pictured here are an Aston Martin, a Ferrari and a Lamborghini..... Also present were a bunch of other oddities, including a Freshly restored Shelby GT500 owned by the Con Director, the Highway Star.... a whole clutch of various motorcycles, a number of Supercars, even more muscle cars, a few HGV's, a Tachikoma, and more than a few standard models that may have been launched along with Unreal Estate and kept for whatever reasons. Along with one or two of the more modern wave-modified machinery being produced by the car manufacturers of the world.

All out for three days of free-running, enthusiast get-together, petrol-head headonism. Even if you didn't bring a car or bike, there was bound to be someone willing to give you a ride....

Meanwhile, in the civilised parts of the rock, a Concours d'elegance, alongside a custom vehicle show, film-car replicas, mixed with a trade hall selling various spare parts and addons and tools, one or two manufacturers who decided it was worth their while to sent a model or two all the way out, and a fuel station operated by Stel-oil providing lubricants and fuels... and various standard gas-station cuisines.

Security was provided by a a few Bailey's rolling around in a Ford Falcon XB coupe, painted up in MFP colours.... And an old Dodge Monaco Police Special.

(Actual source is Top Gear driving under the People's Palace in Romania)
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--m(^0^)m-- Wot, no sig?

At least that's what it says on all the signs.
Anyway, I'm back. Morgantown has been deceptively warm and sunny; I expect winter to attack at any moment.
Ebony the Black Dragon
http://ebony14.livejournal.com

"Good night, and may the Good Lord take a Viking to you."

Cat Empire is an Aussie band with lots of fun songs.One Four Five:

Quote:Oh listen doctor I've a pain

That grows inside myself

So help me please

I just can't ease the pain

I need some drugs to help

Ah pollution fills my lungs

And convolution fills my mind

Ah my legs do ache

I contemplate

That living's less than fine

My spine does tingle

When I think of being

Freed from this curse

But what is worse I feel

Life is a bubble

Blown until it's burst

Oh doctor I am desperate

To get rid of this feeling

Oh doctor I am desperate

For some good soul healing

The doctor turned and gave a grin

And reached into his bag

But instead of an injection

Got a record with a tag

That said listen to this daily

With hip shaking and such things

Then he puts the record on

Grabs a mic and starts to sing

You need some

One four five

To make you high to make you high

To make you high to make you high

When heaven falling from the sky

To make you high to make you high

Oh, doctor I am feeling better

What was that you sang

Did you write it or recite it

Or just steal it from a band

Ah my bones are feeling stronger

And my spirit's feeling fresh

Ah that dose of 145 has put the life

Back in my breath

'yes yes yes' the doctor said

Then he sat me down and say

'young man don't think I wrote

These chords they're written in your brain'

And when you hear them

There's a shakedown that begins within the mind

Cos these three chords make people

Feeling better all the time whah-oh

They keep repeating

Like a scratch on a CD
But it's quality cos these three harmonies

Breed positivity

Protecting against insanity

Of modern insecurities

Believe me when I tell you

All you need is to be hearing all that

One four five

To make you high to make you high

To make you high to make you high

When they said what and you said why

To make you high to make you high

The doctor turned and gave a grin

And reached into his bag

But instead of an injection

Got a record with a tag

That said listen to this daily

With hip shaking and such things

Then he puts the record on

Grabs a mic and starts to sing

You need some

One four five

To make you high to make you high

When you could not count to pi

When you're told you can't fly

To make you high to make you high

Times like these you need some

One four five .... Hmmmmm

Quote:Songs and melodies change and change and sway

But they still stay the same

The songs that we sung when the dark days come

Are the songs that we sung when we chased them away

If I ever found a pot of gold

I'd buy bottles untold of the nectar of the vines

I'm going to die with a twinkle in my eye

'cause I sung songs spun stories loved laughed and drank wine
CHORUS:
Tomorrow is another day

The cats are out to play, to play

That old rusty spaceship wants to sail

Into the milky way again

On a river of red red wine
Run (x13)
Let's have some
Fun (x15)
We'll
Drink (x13)A toast to theSun (x15)(Repeat from "Run")

In summer the bushfires rage and rage and rage

On such beautiful days

And we fight them with water that runs through the cracks

Water we're desperately trying to save

So I'll just live on wine and water my vines

And sleep on the wind with the fires right behind

And sing on the beaches and swim through the night

Oh we'll cry 'pass the wine, pass the wine, pass the wine'

CHORUS

Oh what a beautiful day today!

Today's a day to celebrate

Grab your bucket, grab your spade

We're heading down to Half Moon Bay

I saw a plane go into a cloud

I'm drunk I'm happy I'm singing and loud

Two o'clock in the arvo, but hey that's allowed...

I'm having a good time and of that I am proud

Quote:[Chorus:]
Lord unchain my hands
Let me sing inside the crowded trams
Let me dance among the traffic jams
We're going to sleep on the St Kilda sands
Lord unbind my feet
Let me mingle with the good people we meet
Water rising up into the street
Unbind my feet

'The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet black bough"
Ezra Pound found the formula
Our houses are rectangular
But life is curved not angular
So when things start to strangle ya
Remember
Rain still falls on the halls of power
New babies being born every hour
And the eagle keeps watch on the old clock tower
Over me...
[Chorus]

On the train I refrain from sitting with head and shoulders bowed
They told me time is of the essence
No wandering allowed
But then I saw a pretty girl
Whose features stood out in the crowd
Went ten minutes past my stop waiting for her to look around
I'm just another clown kicking around in Melbourne town
Cooling out, relaxing, watching the world go round
So if you ever got the time
And you want to go drink some wine
I'd rather greet you with a smile
Than greet you with a frown...
[120% more bombastic chorus]

Quote:He had a thousand ideas
You might have heard his name
He lived alone with his vision
Not looking for fortune or fame

Never said too much to speak of
He was off on another plane
The words that he said were a mystery
Nobody's sure he was sane

But he knew
Knew more than me or you
No one could see his view
Where was he going to?

He was in search of an answer
The nature of what we are
He was trying to do it a new way
He was bright as a star

But nobody understood him
"His numbers are not the way"
He's lost in the deepest enigma
That no one's unraveled today

But he knew
He knew more than me or you
No one could see his view
Oh, where was he going to?
And he tried
But before he could tell us he died
When he left us the people cried
Where was he going to? Oh....

He had a different idea
A glimpse of the master plan
He could see into the future
A true visionary man

But there's something he never told us
It died when he went away
If only he could have been with us
No telling what he might say

But he knew
He knew more than me or you
No one could see his view
Where was he going to?
But he knew
You could tell by the picture he drew
It was totally something new
Oh, where was he going to?