ISWAT

:Not be confused with the real-life ISWAT (International Space Weather Action Teams) of NASA.
== Overview ==
ISWAT, or Interworld Special Weapons and Tactics, is as much an elite strike team as it is an adventuring party. In a multiverse of varied puzzles, forces and dangers, Infinity needed a team with a diverse set of skills and abilities. They got their wish, but kept it a secret--according to Infinity Unlimited, ISWAT doesn't exist. 
Those that are assigned to this secret group are officially documented as Patrolmen, written up as being "on assignment" on uninteresting Homeline parallels, extended training missions, and ambiguous headquarters duties.
==Postures==
It may not be obvious since they are out of their iconic outfits, but B367's explanation of postures uses them as examples:
#Iotha is standing, holding a rifle while dodging a bullet aimed at her left foot
#William Headley is sitting, holding a spellbook
#Dai Blackthorn is kneeling
#Sora is crawling
#Louis is lying down
==TL==
The Technology Level and pricing of the iconic characters sets an interesting precedent for interpreting the team.
*B309 TL9 costs 5 points for C-31
*B311/317/319/321/323 TL8 costs 0 points for Dai and Iotha and Sora and Janos and Xing
*B313 TL"5+4" costs 5 points for Louis d'Antares
*B314 TL7 costs -5 for William Headley
TL8 is clearly considered the base default, with the robot/mage having standard-priced deviation from it.
Low TL is not re-listed under disadvantages for the mage/bot so it is something easy to miss when tallying things up. It also means it is not explained in detail where it needs to be.
This could lead players questioning what is up with Louis. Breakdown":
*Being TL 5 relative to TL 8 is a base -15 disadvantage
*it would normally cost 20 points to get +4 to TL
The end result just seems to be that Louis functions as TL9 like C-31 does, but it is noted that he had to buy it up due to originating at a lower TL than the campaign average.
== Named Members and Origins ==
Name 	Basic Description 	Original Timeline
Director Otis Skorneheavily edited from Otto Skorzeny, since no one wants a dude with the same name as a Nazi war criminal	A terribly unfortunately-named man from a timeline that didn't have Austrian Nazis. He changed his name upon joining the Patrol, for everyone's sake.Seriously though, this change was direly needed 	Aeolus
 	 	
C31R07 	Post-Hellenic warbot turned Buddhist monk. Immensely powerful, but immensely obvious -- he doesn't exactly go on stealth missions. 	Iskander-2
Dai Blackthorn 	A classic thief from a fantasy timeline. His ability to teleport gets him into vaults, and out of trouble. 	Yrth
Haut-Cornet Louis d'Anteres 	A romantic laser-swordsman from a pulpy space setting. He's used to high adventure and dastardly villains. 	Cyrano
Professor William Headley 	A professor of parapsychology, psychology, criminology, and more. Headley was running troubleshooting mystery-solving teams before ISWAT even knew him. 	unknown (see page)
Iotha 	An ancient fey-like elf with a hunger for adventure. She mastered the bow, then the laser rifle. She's fought villains in multiple worlds, from giants to Grays to gargoyles. 
It's implied that she can locate natural paths between worlds. 	unknown, (not Yrth)
Sora 	An expert martial-artist who escaped a Manila run by interworld Triads.In essence, imagine if Nightwing was a compact Filipina assassin While some might say she's more assassin than adventurer, she's actually more "street-level superhero" than adventurer. 	unknown (see page)
Baron Janos Telkozep 	A vampire baron who escaped a secret cabal called... the Cabal. He's familiar with magic and finance, and everyone's hoping he's not secretly planning on selling out ISWAT to the Cabal -- he is a vampire named Janos, after all. He discovered a few methods of getting between worlds with artifacts.	unknown
Xing La 	Xing La is a mechanic and survivor from a world that was destroyed through reckless industrialization. She's a bioengineered gremlin of a gearhead -- she can drive and fix just about anything, but she also has red eyes, bad posture, and can bite through chain-link fencing. 	Lenin-2
== Approximate Numbers ==
The total number of ISWAT members is classified, but the total is somewhere under 600, divided into 5-7 person squads. This would make a total of approximately 100 squads, which presumably have a lot of leeway on missions, since they're utilized on different Worlds, or at least different areas on a given World.
== Legends within the Patrol ==
Different squads of ISWAT are often separate from each other, and no one really knows what sort of supernatural task forces exist just beyond their own squad. Within the Patrol, legends exist of "special squads" composed of supernatural entities. Infinity Unlimited has just barely learned about magic in other realms, so it's not too much of a leap to assume that they have speciaized squads for high-magic timelines where guns and chems can fail.
== Non-ISWAT Iconic Characters ==
Name 	Basic Description 	Original Timeline
Del Duque 	A masked wrestler from a luchador timeline. He is strong, noble, and never ever takes off his mask. 	
Adrian Froste	A swashbuckler young woman from a swashbuckling timeline where women aren't usually allowed to wear pants. A master of longsword, sword-and-buckler, and glaive fighting.	
Kai Lian 	A Shaolin monk, with hardened nails and rapid limbs. She is small, but remarkably fast, far beyond the human limitations of Homeline. 	
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