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Re: 80s Clothing for a rich Valley Girl
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And when the storm warning came in, Corelli took his two fellow agents to a small camping store in town and made them buy some items of proper outdoors wear to add to their woefully inadequate wardropes.
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04-02-2016, 04:59 PM | #212 |
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04-03-2016, 08:09 AM | #213 |
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Re: 80s Clothing for a rich Valley Girl
Indeed.
Despite appearances, Agent Estevez is quite competent. It's true that her law enforcement skills are newly acquired and not tested in the field, but she was top of her class at Quantico, just as she has excelled at everything else. Well, everything but making friends and having fun, as being the best at, well, more or less everything, didn't leave her much time for a social life. Ironically for a Very Beautiful character with Charisma 3, her weakness is social manipulation. It isn't that she's shy, but rather that her attempts at manipulation are laughably obvious (Easy to Read, Misfit Anti-Talent 2 and Oblivious). So far, everyone has liked her anyway, as she usually relies on Reaction Rolls. I guess the PCs don't really have a Face character, but rather split the capabilities of that role between them. Agent Estevez relies on good Reaction Rolls. Agent Corelli relies on gravitas and forceful presence, usually eschewing falsehood in favour of inexorable reasonableness (Diplomacy), until it is clear that sweet reason is knocking at the wrong door, at which point he's merely inexorable (Intimidation). Agent Ledoux is the most traditional Face character, he simply oozes charm and will lie without compunction, but his Reaction bonuses are lower than Estevez's and his Diplomacy and Intimidation inferior to Corelli's. And his Dishonest Face Quirk puts him at a disadvantage when he approaches law-abiding people in his offical capacity as FBI agent.
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I was almost thirty in 1988; ended a government job that year & was living in the DC suburbs. Don't remember wonderfully, but will try.
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Only a DC bureaucrat would have been surprised at what happened next. Since lots of Americans loved big iron on the roads the auto companies "civilized" their commercial vehicles and cranked out the "sport-utility" vehicles to answer this need. So we got the "suburban" gas-hog 4WD vehicles that never went off pavement and got about 9 miles per gallon. Quote:
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Re: 1980s American Cars, Guns, Gadgets and Consumer Goods [Atmosphere, look, minutiae
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So if a police officer wanted to look up someone's criminal record, they would send in a call to the police department with identifiers (name, possible aliases, SSN, state driver's license number, etc.) with a request to send that information request over to the records division. Then when the records clerks got to the computers they could look it up PDQ, but there might be a delay of hours or days before they got to any particular request. Quote:
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Re: Cold Weather Survival Gear for a Maine blizzard
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Yes the BSA is the Boy Scouts of America. Sorry. They did have a multitool stamped with their brand in any case. And probably still do. "Preppie central" is hardly how I would imagine LL Bean and none of the book copies I ever had looked like something a preppie would own. They were used copies so you maybe that was the problem but preppie central did not seem to be their market. If I was to be asked to give what I would imagine preppie central to look like, I would have thought more a James Bond sort of look. They seemed to give a "salty old man" air more to them. There is no accounting for teenagers today-I rather think they are deliberately trying to look like orcs many times with all that weird stuff about deliberately ripping holes in their clothes. But Levis has long had an "honest working man" air to them and it may be that teenagers are simply trying to steel the show like the kind of people who wear Highland garb but haven't gone on a cattle raid in their entire lives. In any case the Levis I remember are tough, stand a lot of beating and are good for a fairly basic sort of work pants. Obviously they are not Hazmat wear but if you want something for chopping wood it'll do you well. Plaid woolens are another possibility and will work well for Maine. I haven't the slightest idea how all those Men In Black get their black suits. Clearly plain clothes G-men have no interest in standing out in real life.
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Re: 1980s American Cars, Guns, Gadgets and Consumer Goods [Atmosphere, look, minutiae
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One thing that you might do is that almost every establishment worth going to except the generic stomach-fillers and even some of those had a self-serving salad bar of some kind at least in Oregon. That continues to this day. I certainly remember that.
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SUVs have been around since the Jeep in 1952, but weren't called SUVs. That was a product of the early Reagan years. [...] So we got the "suburban" gas-hog 4WD vehicles that never went off pavement and got about 9 miles per gallon. [/QUOTE] Those are the ones I'm looking for, whether called 'SUV' or not. Quote:
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He has the Low TL disadvantage (he's not up on all the new TL8 technology just coming into use) and the Chauvinism and Nostalgic Quirks. He also has antiquated disadvantages like Code of Honour (Officer's), modified to suit an FBI job, Pacifism (Cannot Harm Innocents) and a strong sense of patriotism manifested as Sense of Duty (America). All that results in the Quirks Distinctive Features (Former Military, G-Man) and Epitome (Conservative Lawman). Agent Corelli makes for a very bad undercover man, because everyone who sees him immediately fingers him for a former military man who works for the Federal government.
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Hmmm... it sounds as though I should incorporate AIDS hysteria into the media frenzy about the 'Werewolf of the Village', the NYC serial killer who appears to have cut off pieces of his victims like a butcher and even bit them. There certainly was enough blood involved. The PCs immediately wondered whether the suspect in custody for the murders might be homosexual, as he had no visible means of support for at least two or three years of living in NYC and he is a young man of effeminate appearance. Add to that no confirmed girlfriends when he was growing up, apart from one short-term one while he briefly attended the University of Chicago. The PCs believe that it is much more likely that he had a 'sugar daddy' or worked as a male prostitute than he was sponging of rich widows or married women.
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