Some questions

[Bob Schroeck]

Okay, I can answer these, but most of them require that I be home and not at work, so I can consult a handy copy of GURPS I.S.T. (After 16 years, I don't have this stuff on the top of my head any more...) Assume any question I don't answer here needs me to check later.

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-how old you have to be to join IST?

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While it never actually got into any published material, I believe we finally settled on 18. There are, of course, exceptions.

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-how much time does the training take?

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If I recall correctly, IST basic training takes 3 months.

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-can an IST embassy grant political asylum?

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Hm. Good question. No one's ever asked or thought of that before. I'd say yes.

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-does IST accept stagists?

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I'm not sure what you mean by "stagist". Can you explain, please?

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-IST world's japan is closed and xenophobic as warrior's
world's is?

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Actually, neither version of Japan is particularly xenophobic; that was just something I threw into DW on an impulse as a background detail to show how different Doug's homeworld was.

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-does the Blue Demon have a tail? (I know it's a silly question.)

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I didn't create the Demon, so I can't say authoritatively, but a) I don't remember seeing a tail in any of the illos of it that I've seen b) any kind of useful tail would have a point value under GURPS, and there's no tail listed in its stats. so I think it's likely that it has no tail.

-- Bob
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