Melisma
XV Powersuit
From mberger8837@VAX2.WINONA.MSUS.EDU Mon Oct 6 18:14:39 1997
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 01:37:42 +0100
From: Mark Berger <mberger8837@VAX2.WINONA.MSUS.EDU>
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Name: Melisma XV Powersuit (version final)
Cost: 68.8 cp
Weight: 24.5 kg
Scale: x1/10
Configuration MV Land MA Flight MA
Powersuit -0 6+MV mpt 4 Hex jump
(10 mpt) (200 m)
Servos: Armor:
Location Class Hits Space/Left Cost | Class Type SP Absorp DC Cost
Torso MH 40 16/10 3.2 | MH b 20 0 10H 2.4
Head MH 20 8/5 1.6 | no armor on head.
R.Arm MH 23 9/1 1.8 | MH b 20 0 10H 2.4
L.Arm MH 23 9/1 1.8 | MH b 20 0 10H 2.4
R.Leg MH 23 9/2 1.8 | MH b 20 0 10H 2.4
L.Leg MH 23 9/2 1.8 | MH b 20 0 10H 2.4
Cost: 24
Weight: 50 kg
Notes:
The Melisma XV's 'head' consists of a metal-blue band across the
eyebrows which supports a transparent-gold visor (like the kind used in
skiing goggles). The visor filters out UV light and glare.
Bonuses:
Punch: +5H
Kick: +7.5H
Throwing Range: +12.5m
Sensors:
Sensor Type Range Comm Hits Location Cost Space
Main MS 3.5km 20km 3H H 0.8 1
Cost: 0.8
Weight: 0.5 kg
Weapons:
Name WA Rng Dmg Sht Hits BV CP Space Loc Notes
Guitar -0 melee 5+15H n/a 15 n/a 0.8 3 2-H Music FX
Arm Laser -- --- --- --- 40 -- 3.9 6 RA Folio-3, Power=15
-Blast +1 650m 25H inf. ^ 1 ^ ^ ^
-Burst +1 450m 12H inf. ^ 4 ^ ^ ^
-Scribble +3 200m 3H inf. ^ inf. ^ ^ ^ Concert FX
Arm Laser -- --- --- --- 40 -- 3.9 6 LA Folio-3, Power=15
-Blast +1 650m 25H inf. ^ 1 ^ ^ ^
-Burst +1 450m 12H inf. ^ 4 ^ ^ ^
-Scribble +3 200m 3H inf. ^ inf. ^ ^ ^ Concert FX
Beam Sword +1 melee 45H inf. 12 n/a 1.8 9 1-H
Right Hand +0 melee 5+5H n/a 5 n/a 0.7 1 RA Quick, Handy
Left Hand +0 melee 5+5H n/a 5 n/a 0.7 1 LA Quick, Handy
Right Foot +0 melee 7.5+5H n/a n/a n/a 0 0 RL
Left Foot +0 melee 7.5+5H n/a n/a n/a 0 0 LL
Cost: 13.4
Weight: 14.0
Notes: Attack calls for the weapons are as follows:
Guitar: none, but the guitar makes a loud "KABONG!!" noise when it hits.
Beam Sword: calls out "Beam Sword Activate" when beam sword is turned on.
Arm Lasers: none.
Kicking attack: "Boot to the head!!"
Powerplant
Source: Overcharged Powercell
XS: 1
MV: +1
MA: +1
M-Pool: --
Cost: x0.0
Control System
Type: Reflex
M-Pool: +67%
Other: ------
Cost: x0.1
Hydraulics
Space: +0
+Melee Dmg: +0
Lift: +0
Cost: x0.0
P+C+H Cost Multiplier: x0.1
P+C+H M-Pool Bonus(+%): +67%
P+C+H Other Notes: Powercell life: 72 hours, Melisma owns three powercells. Each cell can recharge in 48 hours, and she has to be wearing the Melisma XV to remove the powercell for recharging.
Cost Multiplier Systems:
System Cost Space Special
Verniers x0.1 5 5 spaces T
SMT: D-Store x0.1 0 used to store the guitar and beam sword.
SMT: Nj.Leap x0.1 0 +2 Hex jumping bonus
Summon SMT x0.33 0 Mecha forms around her nude body.
Total Multiplier: x0.73
Total M-Pool Bonus(+%): +67%
Melisma's henshin sequence is as follows:
Melisma begins to spin around, a la Sailor Moon. The breastplate wraps around half over and half under her arms, and locks into place along two seams: one at the top of her breasts and one over the breastbone. While the camera is focused on this, the lower-body armor and skirt forms from Points Unknown, off-camera. Her boots and gauntlets flash into existence, and the visor forms in an arc of gold colored light across her eyes. Finishing pose is legs shoulder-width, right arm aiming its laser at the camera, left hand gripping the right gauntlet as though to steady it. Melisma usually tries to transform somewhere private (a music practice room often works well, or at worst a bathroom stall), because she doesn't want people to see her naked.
Subassemblies:
System Loc Space Cost Notes
Stereo H 0 0.1 Plays through speakers in torso.
Design & Decor T 1 0.4 +3 COOL
Logic Processor H 1 1.0 +2 INT
Micromanip. RA 1 0.2 Mounted in the arm.
Cost: 0.7
Weight: 0
Final costs:
Base Weight: 64.5 kg
Fuel Weight: 0
New Weight: 64.5 kg
Base Cost: 38.9 cp
Cost (after Multipliers): 67.3 cp
Efficency ( -40 kg): .1 cp
Cost (w/Efficency, links): 67.4 cp
Final Weight: 24.5 kg
Notes:
The Melisma XV was designed by Melisma Sonata of Powersuit City High School
as her class project for Advanced Mecha Technologies. Colored metallic pink
and blue, Melisma's suit is certainly one of the flashier designs at PCHS.
She herself is a singer, and designed her powersuit to allow her even
greater sonic control: she can use the guitar (an option - she doesn't carry
it normally) to attempt to control others' emotions (a trick she's getting
rather good at), and the suit has a built-in amplifier. The "KABONG!!"
noise when her guitar hits somebody was not an original feature, it was
designed in after she chanced to see an old Yogi Bear cartoon and her sense
of humor, warped by watching the LHCT every day for a couple of months,
responded. The shouting of attack names originated from watching some old
"Magical Girls" anime, except for "Boot to the Head!," which was from
listening to a very old tape of Dr. Demento.
(Mecha was designed 'pre-scaled.')