<meta name="LineWrap" content="true"><TITLE>SR_Bk1 0130</TITLE><A HREF="SR_Bk1-0131.txt">Next (Page 131)</A><BR> They travelled together for awhile before meeting Coabler, Kesh, and Tickle, who had already formed Cup's Club, which the two young women then joined.<P><P>APPEARANCE: Classic is a pretty girl with short dark blond hair wearing a costume of red, black, pink, and white. It's sort of like a formal suit with a jacket and a lot of lace, red and black checkerboards, a few chess piece symbols, and the like. Keep in mind her appearance is a conglomeration of Alice in Wonderland images, Doctor Who characters, Star Trek aliens, and the like, all mixed together in the feverish mind of her mother.<P><P>[3] KESH THE VECTOR<P><P>A tile stepped upon by an unknown figure which became sentient and extremely powerful, he knows that the Cup will reveal the identity of the individual who stepped on him and thereby made him what he is today.<P><P>Kesh gained consciousness and power little by little, over the course of several decades. Slowly, he loosed himself from the grout and began to move around using the vectors he could project from himself. In time, he conceived to collect a variety of materials and construct himself a human-like form, which he then did.<P><P>Over the decades of his gradual awakening, Kesh became more and more aware that someone had stepped upon him with bare feet, and that this is what brought him to life. He could remember feeling it happen. On a table near him, Kesh remembers the Cup of Coffee sitting there for several years during his awakening. He feels that the Cup must have somehow recorded the identity of his unknown "sparker".<P><P>Using his vectors to cross over into different worlds, he eventually came upon Tickle the Monster, on whose shirt was a picture of a giraffe with the Cup of Coffee on its back. He questioned the beast and found he was inexplicably looking for the same artifact as Kesh. Soon thereafter, the two met Coabler the Sawman and formed Cup's Club.<P><P>APPEARANCE: Kesh is really just a small tile, four or five inches square. He uses his vectors to create a humanoid body for himself out of clothing and other matter. He favors green in his choice of materials. His general appearance in full form is like a tattered phantom, with a cloaked head, and the tile where the face should be. As well, all about him is a sort of halo of thin black straight lines, "vectors", holding him all together.<P><P><P>[4] PATTERN INTEGRITY<P><P>A hi-tech Dramptican soldier, got the cup from a museum during a siege on an enemy city.<P><P>When she used her scanning device on it, it made her state the same as the state of the Cup--a pattern integrity. The Cup vanished, and now Pattern Integrity exists as a pattern within reality, meaning she can recreate herself as she was when she scanned the Cup at any time and at any location. Also, she can fly.<P><P>She wants to get the Cup to allow her to continue on with her life, as she's always physically brought back to her exact state when she scanned the Cup.<P><P>After her transformation, she used her newfound powers to fight the enemy, and greatly shortened the length of the war. Lucky for her, she was carrying a Massive Assault Weapon (MAW) at the time of the scan, featuring automatic high-caliber bullets, grenade launcher, and a number of energy blasts. As well, the MAW contains first aid supplies, food, telescope/video recorder/target finder, and more.<P><P>Matter from a pattern integrity dissipates hours to days after being separated from the core pattern. But bullets, grenades, and such do their job in seconds.<P><P>When Pattern Integrity reforms herself, her MAW returns to its basic state, ie, almost fully loaded.<P><P>After the war, Pattern became more and more unhappy with her state--she could only go at most a week or so without reforming, never able to escape that physical state she was in when she scanned the Cup. So she decided to seek out the Cup, attempting to reform herself in its vicinity.<BR><A HREF="SR_Bk1-0131.txt">Next (Page 131)</A>