Illuminati University: A semifictional
location produced originally (we think) as a concept by
Steve Jackson Games - and later as a full GURPS sourcebook. Rumors remain unconfirmed if it happens to be an actual location or not.
Home to the second-strangest
college ever.
Students and
faculty don't need to
worry about getting killed, as a full-scale forced-growth
cloning center with braintapes and a mysterious 'Treatment' for the
faculty make
death inconsequential.
The only thing which
might be considered
unusual here are completely
mundane things. If it's
weird, it may be here - somewhere.
The
campus itself is set in a generally
Earthlike place, similar to
suburbia for the most part -
Pyramid Mall and the
faculty residences nonwithstanding. On the actual campus, however, it's entirely
up for grabs.
Reality Stabilizers are built into the walls of the campus to keep the worst
experiments by the College of
Thaumaturgy, C.T.H.U.L.H.U. (not to be confused with
Cthulhu), and WUSE from shredding the
universe apart.
Where normal faculty have academic battles, at
IOU (you're not cleared for what the O means) the term is a 'faculty bloodfeud', and often ends up with repeated
deaths on each side. COUP (The College of Obscure and Unhealthy Professions) often lends a hand to the highest bidder, in the former of
assassination,
blackmail, and
torture. Bloodfeuds can erupt over
anything, up to and including attempts to absorb entire
colleges into others, form new colleges, or just get a
raise.
Pretty much anything goes at IOU, as long as one rule is remembered: the
ArchDean ALWAYS gets 10% of any profits. No exceptions.