GURPS In Nomine Revisited: Mindy [GURPS IOU / IN NOMINE]

This one really needs GURPS IOU (GURPS In Nomine, too) to make any sense. Then again, if you don’t have GURPS IOU already then you should get it. I mean, geez: Phil Foglio did the artwork!  What do you want, a sign from the heavens?

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Mindy (Ofanite of the Sword)                     

640 pt (540 Celestial +100)

ST: 14 (0pt)

DX: 18 (45pt)

IQ: 18 (45pt)

HT: 14 (0pt)

Basic Speed: 10*

*+2 for Ofanite of the Sword

Advantages: Ofanite (489pt), Servitor of Laurence (1pt), Ofanite of the Sword (50pt), Charisma +1 (5pt), Combat Reflexes (15pt), Rapier Wit (5pt)

Disadvantages: Dissonance Condition: Laurence (-5/0pt), Duty to Laurence (-15/0pt), Sense of Duty (Other Angels) (-10/0pt), Superhero Code of Honor (-15pt), Lives on Campus (-5pt), Secret ID (Magical Rainbow Glitter Fairy) (-5), Trickster (-15pt)

Quirks: indolent (-1pt); leaves a Trademark glitter swirl when she ‘fights crime’ (-1pt); has difficulty relating to males of any species (-1pt); Overconfidence (Quirk level) (-1pt); Does her best to keep anything from visibly fazing her (-1pt)

Skills: Acrobatics (P/H) 15- (1/2pt), Acting (M/A) 16- (1/2pt), Area Knowledge: IOU (M/E) 17- (1/2pt), Bard (M/A) 18-* (1pt), Broadsword (P/A) 17- (1pt), Driving: car (P/A) 16 (1/2pt), Flight (Winged) (P/A) 17- (1pt), Force Sword (P/A) 17- (1pt), Heraldry (M/A) 16- (1/2pt), History (M/H), 15- (1/2pt), Karate (P/H) 17- (2pt), Latin (M/A) 16- (1/2pt), Literature (M/H) 15- (1/2pt), Musical Instrument (lute) 15- (M/A) (1/2pt), Occultism (M/A) 16- (1/2pt), Philosophy (Western) (M/H) 16- (1pt), Singing (P/E) 13- (1/2pt), Survival: IOU (M/A) 16- (1/2pt), Theology (M/H) 16- (1pt)

*+1 for Charisma.

Songs: Celestial Form 14- (16 -5 +3) (2pt), Corporeal Form 14- (16 -5 +3) (2pt),

Corporeal Healing 14- (16 -5 +3) (2pt), Corporeal Shields 14- (16 -5 +3) (2pt), Corporeal Tongues 14- (16 -5 +3) (2pt), Ethereal Healing 14- (16 -5 +3) (2pt), Ethereal Light 14- (16 -5 +3) (2pt), Numinous Corpus: Wings 14- (16 -5 +3) (2pt)

Background: IOU has all sorts of celestials, including representatives from three distinct Heavens and five different Hells.  There is one particular type, however, that is somehow deemed to be – not more real; that would be judgmental.  Perhaps the proper word would be ‘attuned’.  Whatever it is, one set of celestials seems to just fit in better with the University.  Mindy is one of those celestials: she is a newly-fledged Ofanite of the Sword who is eager to prove herself to her Archangel, just as soon as she can get her Masters degree in Applied Theology. Which may, unfortunately take some time, as she is not precisely an ideal student.

It isn’t that she’s dumb; the problem, in fact, is that Mindy is notably intelligent even for a campus known for its raw brainpower.  She also doesn’t need to sleep, doesn’t need to eat, has esoteric powers over motion… in short, the Ofanite has not felt the need to learn how to discipline herself to do steady work, which is stalling her progress up the hills of Academe.  This would normally not be an issue as long as the student tuition money keeps flowing, of course, but Mindy’s professors have actually begun to put pressure on her to do better.  The delicate hand of the ArchDean is suspected, for reasons probably better left unstated, or perhaps even un-thought.

Mindy has not yet really noticed that she is the target of any cabal, let alone one with the unnatural goal of getting her to graduate on some rough approximation of on schedule.  As her schedule does not push her overmuch, she’s had to go find her own entertainment.  Being a Servitor of the Sword, this means punishing evildoers; being an Ofanite, this means doing so at high speeds… and this being IOU, it seemed to her perfectly logical to adopt a secret persona of a masked, quasi-amine heroine, complete with bright primary colors and a supposed magical ‘wand’ – which is actually just a baseball bat with some illusions put on it, but it’s the style of the thing.  Fortunately for probably everybody, actual serious crime is fairly rare at IOU, so Mindy mostly uses her Magical Rainbow Glitter Fairy persona as an excuse to use her regular angelic abilities without having to answer awkward questions about her, the actual relationship between the aforementioned three Heavens and Five Hells and just why the Archdean and ‘Fred’ are sometimes seen having coffee with that old guy with the socks. Fortunately for Mindy, IOU is about the only place where such a ploy could very well succeed.

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