This song feels like it should have a power associated with it- it has that 'spark' to it. I just can't think of what it is! Any suggestions?

http://www.animelyrics.com/index.php?ac ... hetwilight

Come with me in the twilight of a summer night for awhile

Tell me of a story never ever told in the past

Take me back to the land

Where my yearnings were born

The key to open the door is in your hand

Now fly me there

Fanatics find their heaven in never ending storming wind

Auguries of destruction be a lullaby for rebirth

Consolations, be there

In my dreamland to come

The key to open the door is in your hand

Now take me there

I believe in fantasies invisible to me

In the land of misery I'm searchin' for the sign

To the door of mystery and dignity

I'm wandering down, and searchin' down the secret sun

Come with me in the twilight of a summer night for awhile

Tell me of a story never ever told in the past

Take me back to the land

Where my yearnings were born

The key to open the door is in your hand

Now take me there

to the land of twilight

A selection of songs.
First, inspired by a thread in the politics sections
Title:Let There Be Guns
Artist: The Arrogant Worms
Run Time: 2:10

Lyrics
Wouldn't it be great if everybody had a gun?
Wouldn't it be great if everybody had a gun?
There'd be no more crime, 'cause everybody'd have a gun!
Wouldn't it be great if everybody had a gun?
Wouldn't it be great if everybody had a gun?
Wouldn't it be great if everybody had a gun?
We wouldn't need the police no more, 'cause everybody'd have a gun!
(Yeah!)
Wouldn't it be great if everybody had a gun?
Wouldn't it be great if everybody had a gun? (had a gun)
Wouldn't it be great if everybody had a gun? (had a gun)
Nobody'd ever get shot, 'cause everybody'd have a gun! (Makes sense!)
Wouldn't it be great if everybody had a gun?
We could go out and shoot things
We could go out and shoot things
We could go out and shoot things
We could go out and shoot things
We could go out and shoot things
We could go out and shoot things
We'd all feel safe, 'cause everybody'd have a gun!
Wouldn't it be great if everybody had a gun? (had a gun)
Wouldn't it be great if everybody had a gun? (had a gun)
Everyone'd be equal, 'cause everybody'd have a gun!
Not me, I got me a rifle!
Well hang on, if you got yourself a rifle then I wanna get me a semi-automatic weapon!
You get a semi-automatic weapon and I'm gonna want an automatic weapon!
You get yourself an automatic weapon, I'm gonna get a super-automatic weapon!
Well if you get a super-automatic weapon, then I'm gonna get a
super-duper-automatic weapon with a CD-ROM drive!
If you get yourself one of those I'm gonna get a
super-duper-automatic weapon with a CD-ROM drive, and a big old hard
drive, and a big guitar amp ...
(rambles on while the rest of the Worms sing)
Wouldn't it be great if everybody had the weapon of their choice?
Wouldn't it be great if everybody had the weapon of their choice?
Wouldn't it be great if everybody had a gun?
(Still rambling..)
I'll go so fast I'll be able to chase you from here to Saigon, and
then I'll shoot like little Nerf rockets at you and poke you in the
eye 'cause it'll have automatic like finger-poking in the eye
things...
Youtube link, because reading a rant is never the same as hearing one.
The obvious effect is to arm everyone, friend or foe, inside the area of effect. Should you ever have a peasant mob and feel like storming a castle...
Second, inspired by the fact that it's Arrogant Worms and I have a playlist on my machine at home
Title: Tokyou Love Song
Artist: The Arrogant Worms
Run Time: [TBD, about 3:15 based on Youtube]

Lyrics
I had a love that was so bright
I used to dream of her each night
And then rush to her side every morning (oooh)
I had her all to myself
We never noticed anyone else
We didn't even hear the radio warnings
Our love was no joke, you know
It was the talk of downtown Tokyo
We'll be happy forever, I promised her
But just as I proposed, her feet
Were made to touch her nose
As she was crushed by a Japanese monster
(ohhh-ohhh-ohhh-AAAAAAGH!  GODZILLA!)
Our love was so true
But now she's 3 foot 2
And she used to be 5 foot 11
Her death was unintentional
But now she's 2-dimensional
My angel is truly in heaven
She's the one I kiss and hug
Till she was crushed like a bug
I guess it's hard to see a monster above you
She said she'd save her heart for me
But now it's there for all to see
And her last words to me were, "I AAAAAGGHH!"
Our love was so true
But now she's 3 foot 2
And she used to be 5 foot 11
Her death was unintentional
But now she's 2-dimensional
My angel is truly in heaven
(Take it George!)
[Guitar solo consisting entirely of glissandos]
She was young (so young)
And sweet (so sweet)
But now she's part (she's part)
Of the street (the street)
And I want (so much)
To have her back (come back)
So I'll get a putty knife
So I can scrape her from the crack
(Oh.  You might need a wider brush.)
Our love was so true
But now she's 3 foot 2
And she used to be 5 foot 11
Her death was unintentional
But now she's 2-dimensional
My angel is truly in heaven
My angel is truly in heaven
My angel is truly in heaven
And Youtube link, because I can't find the CD to give the correct time *mumble, rant, grumble*.
Yes, I know the title on the Youtube linked vid is wrong. No, I'm not uploading one with the correct name.
The effect is a little harder to place here, but it's clearly meant to be used during a giant monster attack. To my mind, that means Tokyo-3. The non-kaiju elements line up fairly well too.

• Lady Jane should act more intelligently in combat situations now.

Have a talk to Fusionette while you're at it, could you?

• 48 Month Veteran Reward pets should no longer charge into combat. Really.

It's the 'really' that breaks me.

• Bowstring on Talsorian bow should now stay attached to the bow

Alice: Well, THAT'S a relief.

Back of book description:

For two years before she left Iran in 1997, Azar Nafisi gathered seven young women at her house every Thursday morning to
read and discuss forbidden works of Western literature. They were all former students whom she had taught at university. Some came from conservative and
religious families, others were progressive and secular; several had spent time in jail. Shy and uncomfortable at first, they soon began to open up and speak
more freely, not only about the novels they were reading but also about themselves, their dreams and disappointments. Their stories intertwined with those they
were reading - "Pride and Prejudice", "Washington Square", "Daisy Miller" and "Lolita" - their Lolita, as they imagined
her in Tehran. Nafisi's account flashes back to the early days of the revolution when she first started teaching at the University of Tehran amid the swirl
of protests and demonstrations. In those frenetic days, the students took control of the university, expelled faculty members and purged the curriculum. Azar
Nafisi's luminous tale offers a portrait of the Iran-Iraq war viewed from Tehran and gives us a glimpse, from the inside, of women's lives in
revolutionary Iran.

Conclusion: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
---
"Oh, silver blade, forged in the depths of the beyond. Heed my summons and purge those who stand in my way. Lay
waste."

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/2 ... index.html]Intel refuses to upgrade their corporate computers to Vista.

I think this pretty much settles it; Vista is this software generation's version of ME.
Mr. Fnord interdimensional man of mystery

FenWiki - Your One-Stop Shop for Fenspace Information

"I. Drink. Your. NERDRAGE!"

Hi Folks! (^_^)
A while back I promised to post the colour pic that Jeff Moy did of my katana/SR scrapper, Bladestryke.
She's my all-time favourite character...I can't quite define why - might be the costume, might be my leaning towards anything with a Japanese/Anime  influence, but she's my preferred scrapper when it comes to laying the smackdown on something. 
Anyhow, in her character bio, the Rikti were responsible for killing her older brother in the first Rikti War, and she's held a bit of a grudge ever since. (Hence her signing up with the Vanguard and slaughtering anything that even looks like a Rikti in the Warzone...)  Since the Rikti Chief Soldiers are the only boss-type that has so far been able to one-shot her in a stand-up one-to-one fight, I asked Jeff for a picture depicting her private war against the Rikti by showing a duel with a Chief Soldier. And thus we have the picture, titled "Bladestryke's Last Stand??".



In other news, here's a picture that Jeff did for me at Anime Central - it's my Martial Arts/Inv. scrapper Captain Vaeria, teamed with her usual sidekick, Atom Lass. (Atom Lass is a character created by my friend Silver Shrike - all characters on the Protector Server. )


Enjoy!   (^_^)
Regards,
B. Van Vliet
aka SkyKnight/MechaDeuce
[http://www.bgcrisis.com

http://www.pvponline.com/

http://www.pvponline.com/2008/07/01/welcome-back/

Priorities, man.. priorities..
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies

The first trailer's up, according to http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/01 ... 2_trailer/]The Register

(Or you could just go straight to http://flash.sonypictures.com/video/mov ... railer.mp4]the MP4)

Looks like it's going to be a good installment...
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

Okay, as mentioned in the other thread, if there's anything you folks want me to draw...well, have at it. =)

No rules, as such. But I'll just ramble on a bit about what I can or can't do.

WHAT:

I'm most comfortable doing portrait-style images, as opposed to fight scenes or anything seriously dynamic. However, that's just what I'm
comfortable with. I'll consider any scene requests or even mini-comics - after all, I'm trying to improve my skills, which means pushing the boundaries.

Likewise, most of the time I draw characters in simple poses, with minimal background to the picture. Once again, though, if you've got something more
difficult, I will probably try. I just don't guarantee success. If it proves too hard for me, I'll settle on
some sort of compromise.

By default, I'm talking single-character images here. It occurs to me folks might want pictures with two or more characters in them...that's tricker.
If they're just standing by each other or something, then it pretty much counts as two drawings. No problem there, but it'd take longer, obviously. If
the two characters are interacting in some fashion, then it falls under the 'scene' and 'complex pose/background' clause - ie. I'll try,
but I can't promise.

WHO:

City of Heroes/City of Villains characters! Now, if you'd like me to do something else...I can, but
there's a few reasons I'm doing CoH characters. One, I know these are characters folks care about. Two, I'm doing this as something for the
supergroup and our little community. And three...

...if I'm drawing a CoH character, I can have reference images! Screenshots! Which is what I'll need from you. =D

Ideally these should be full body shots, though if you quite specifically don't want a full body drawing, then
anything goes. Either in-game shots or screenies from the character selection/tailor screen, it doesn't matter - but preferably with good lighting and the
higher texture settings (in graphics options).

Either post screenshots in this thread, or e-mail me - acyl84 ((at)) gmail ((dot)) com, minus the anti-adbot bracketing. I'd actually prefer if requests
are posted in the thread, so it's all together and so everyone else knows what's being worked on, but if
that's impossible for whatever reason, e-mail.

WHERE:

The finished images I've posted in the other thread are hosted on Photobucket, and are all 786 pixels in height. That's because of the
maximum image dimensions for a free Photobucket account. As it happens, though, this is pretty close to my preferred final image size anyway.

However, given that the raw images I work on are much larger than this, I can
provide larger versions if you want them for printing purposes, editing, etc. I can also (usually) provide seperate black and white lineart for any coloured
image.

Or if you want something in black and white, no colour at all - that's fine, in fact it's quicker for me,
obviously...and my colouring skills aren't really great anyway. That's why I'm practicing. =)

Finally, images will be posted on the boards as I finish them. I beg your patience if I get too many requests, if I get busy with other things, so on, so
forth.
-- Acyl

And the hits just keep on rolling in from that Sci Fi hating BASTARD with the death note!

Seriously! What the hell is WITH this year anyway?!

That's it - I'm calling it right now!

Bets on one or more of the original cast of Star Trek buying it before the year is out? We already lost James Doohan and Deforest Kelley. I bet Shatner or
Nimoy are next. Takei? Nichols? Koenig? And takers?

(Purposefully goading the universe's sense of perversity to prove me wrong just so as to keep them out of harms way.)