Tolkeen Civil Defense League Communicator

Lately I’ve been tivoing alot of Teen Titans. In case you havnt noticed they are a big inspiration to the Tolkeen Civil Defense League. (that and efu’s Civil Defense League!)
All official members of the league are issued a real communicator, they just about the only thing that keeps them together sometimes, as many members are located in distant coalition controled lands.

Upon receiving the communicator the lucky recpient is considered formaly a member of the group. It is estimated that over 200 have been issued so far however many are lost. This does not worry Rez or the security minded much however, because they simply will not work for anyone other than their original recipient, and any messages sent by a person say under the stress of torture or with militious intent are sort of flagged with the emotion of the sender. This gives the other members a sort of psychic heads up if the messages normaly sent by a calm headed one start having suspicion or fear or other emotions mixed up in them. Note this feature also only works if the character has at least some psionic abilities.

They are manufactured by the technowizard named Rez, and provide the following things:

- access to the league’s computer network. The badge works as a key and is required to access the leagues message boards and file storage. Simply plug it into your personal computer, and you can pull up various information (just ask!).

- time sensitive keys for coded communications to other members in range via one of the following:

short range radio (10mile range)

long range directional radio (100+mile range depending on external antenna and amplifier used)

Ley line transmissions can also be sent encoded so other walkers on the line can not read them without the communicator. Training in this type of communication is requried by the user. At the minimum the user must have some psionics or be a spell caster in order to use this feature.
It is rumored that many members along with the founders of both the league and art brutal are notorious computer hackers who have gained access to many restricted files from the Coalition, the Tolkeen ruling party, and the black market.

Often members will post stolen information on the forums for use by other members in outright attacks, practical jokes or other plots against the Coalition.

Here is a sample posting

From: liberator_of_beef

sh.pmqnt ov coaltion beef on route through cordinates 114.343 some 200clicks outta loanstar, 0500hours Sepmbr23. anyone up fer some rastlin? Hey gecho!

(players in my game feel free to make a “post” in one of the comments to ask other members of the league stuff. Maybe I will start to intro npcs this way!)

Making a post on the league’s underground forums requires terminal access to Tokeens computer network, or a leyline can also be used. The T complex the league secretly operates in downtown Tolkeen is a strange looking building, which actualy serves as a giant antenna array as well as a concentrator of leyline energy for use in decoding messages sent. Note there is a chance or garbling or distortion of the messages posted and received when using leylines instead of normal netowork communications. However it is completely anonymous which many members like.

Using a leyline to commicate long distances may not work, its mostly used in the outerlying region of the Tolkeen area and directly ajoining leylines.

Here’s what the badge looks like! It weighs a suprisingly heavy 2lbs, and has a nice heavy golden finish to it.

25MDC in its durable outer casing (100SDC/PV6 for our converted rules).

The internal works are a mystery and there is a very stern NO OPENING writen on the back in American, Spanish, Gobbley and Elven, along with a pictoral NO TOUCH sign.

However Rez tends to talk about them absentmindly almost as if they were alive muttering something about them lasting about 24hrs before needing a “breather” which can be one of the following:

-conventional power can be used to recharge in 5x slower thanreal time (5hr plugin for 1hr use.

-leyline/personal ppe/energy can be used, the device will recharge in one hour on a leyline or if funneled 25ppe/50isp.

note- MAGE, Kash, and Ronan each have one of these.� Feel free to post a comment of what momentous task you did to impress a member so much that you were asked to join.