BACKGROUND:
In the year 2125 A.D., the Earth was invaded
by a horde of insectoid aliens, who decimated the
planet's militart defenses. However, a genius scientist
named Akane Yuuki managed to create advanced powered
armor with which a succesful civilian defence was
mounted. In the aftermath of the war, the Earth mangaed
to rebuild, and the first city created after the war came
to be called "Powersuit City". The powersuits
are especially popular as fashion among teenaged girls,
and there are many companies that specialise in making
custom-designed powersuits for them.
- SERIES
INFORMATION -
PREMISE: Action-Comedy
GENRE: Cute girls in armor
LIGHT, MEDIUM, OR SERIOUS: Light (duh!)
REALISM: Thrown out the window
TECH LEVEL: 7-8
STARTING YEAR: 2145 A.D. |
SPECIAL
RULES:
- All characters' hits become bonk.
Powersuits can get trashed, humans can't.
- Throw the EDU substat out.
- Any skill can start at any level (no +5
maximum)
- For damage (both given and recieved), are
considered Powersuits x1 scale
(1 kill = 25 hits) except against human-sized
targets (in which case 1 kill
= 2.5 bonk) |
- PLAYER
CHARACTER INFORMATION -
ROLE OF THE PCs: Junior-High or High School
students
RANDOM, CONCEPT, OR CINEMATIC: Cinematic (60 stat
points, 40 skill points)
REQUIREMENTS: Mecha Design of +3 or better. At
least 20 skill points must
be spent on non-combat skills.
LIMITS: None
PROS & TEMPLATES: Not used |
ESPERS: None
known
ESPER PCs?: No
ESPER POWER LEVEL: Unknown, if any
FREQUENCY OF ESPERS: None known |
ALIENS: One race
(Insectoids)
HOW COMMON: Not present on Earth, but keep making
attacks (you'd think
they'd learn eventually)
ALIEN PCs?: No. |
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GOVERNMENT & CULTURE -
GOVERNMENT: Presumably democratic, but
highest authorities ever seen are
police, teachers, and company heads.
CULTURE: 1990s Japan
PLANETS: Earth only
SYSTEMS: Sol only
LANGUAGES: Japlish (Japanese-English hybrid),
most major modern languages. |
- POWERSUIT
TECHNOLOGY -
SUPERHEROIC OR MILITARY?: Take a guess!
ROLE OF POWERSUITS: Fashion, sport, fighting (see
notes)
AVAILABILITY: Thirteen-year-old girls can afford
them.
REQUIREMENTS: Summoning Your Mecha (SMT)
WEAPONRY: Just about anything.
MTS SYSTEMS NOT AVAILABLE: Lightspeed,
Techno-organics, ESPer lenses.
Teleportation and cloaking cost double normal.
WEIGHT EFFICIENCY LIMIT: At least 67% of original
weight
SPACE EFFICIENCY LIMIT: May remove 30% or six
spaces, whichever is greater. |
CAMPAIGN
NOTES: Powersuits are worn almost exclusively by
females. Nobody
knows the reason for this, but it is theorised
that it may involve the anime
cliche that the only males who have good-looking
powersuits are bad guys.
Besides
being fashion items, the powersuits have useful
applications -
Firstly,
the Insectoid aliens are still stupid enough to
occasionally make
attacks, and the powersuits give an opportunity
to go and beat them up (the
military proved back during the invasion that
they were too unreliable to be
allowed to defend the Earth).
Second,
powersuit-based sports have been popularised. As
well as
gladiatoral-style fights (with the object being
to destroy your opponent's
powersuit), Powersuit-based hockey and gridiron
(football to you
Americans) have gained a large following. Weapons
are permitted in these
sports, but excessive use is discouraged, and
most (but not all) weapons are
designed to entangle or otherwise hinder
opponents.
Third,
a there are fair number of girls who have
doubtful stability and a
tendency to hold grudges (a la B-ko), and the
Powersuits provide an
opportunity to defend oneself (of course, the
grudge-bearing girl will
certainly have her OWN powersuit... 'nuff said).
BTW,
all buildings in the city have nanotech
self-repair systems, and they
need them!
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