23 November 2007, Ziggursky Penitentiary
Well, here I am in prison. I really don't know why I let Evangelia convince me to go for this deep cover assignment, maybe it's that a 36-year-old Eva is much more commanding a presence than the Sixteen-year-old I last saw in Paragon.
Alternate universes really get to me you know? I should be used to it by now, but like Doug said in what I call "Paragon A," every universe is f***ed up in a different way. Is it my fault I thought the Skuld that came through that portal was an Homage and not the real deal? I mean her outfit was SO not what I expected. I mean I'm pretty solidly tied into the Abrahamic faiths' theosphere. How was I supposed to know she had an "in" with the Boss?
So I arrive here in a Paragon City where everyone I knew is twenty years older, but it's still the year I left "A." Everyone is convinced I'm my own daughter. Yeah, it stinks. Fifteen alternate universes and I'm still a 14-year-old bluenette albino. I should never have accepted those Servitor attunements in the last reality... but when both *letters blur so no one can read it* and Lucy show up and *blur* TELLS you to take them....
Lucy's "gifts" are actually helping me convince folks that I'm this bad little ball of malevolent potential. And the Boss gave me the tools to stay "me." He still hasn't told me why I'm on this Tiresian journey in the first place, but it must be important.... There go the air raid sirens. And the explosions. And Arachnos boots, several hundred in size 12 EE.
My next report is from the Etoilles.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll

This isn't particularly CoH-related, but I found it amusing. Randy Milholland put up this comic today, talking about an unpleasant and possibly unwanted superpower. The punchline really makes it.Ebony the Black Dragon
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"Good night, and may the Good Lord take a Viking to you."

The Virtue wiki just showed up on the "block list" for my job's censorware. Grrrrr.

-- Bob
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I intend to be a freak for the rest of my life, and I shall baffle you with cabbages and rhinoceroses in the kitchen and incessant quotations from Now We Are Six through the mouthpiece of Lord Snooty's giant poisoned electric head. So theeeeeere....

Personal timeline: 25th Year, 280th Day
I must do this thing properly, if at all.
Poor Herbert seems to have been taken in by my "accident;" he believes me dead or lost forever in some distant time. It is for the best, I keep telling myself; the Machine must remain my secret alone if I am to have even the remotest chance of success.
I do not know, even, if it can be done. Can the future be changed? Can the future that I have been to, have experienced myself, be changed, and what then will become of me?
And yet I must try. For the sake of generations yet to come, I must try.
All the tools and knowledge of the future are potentially available to me. I shall become a Scavenger, then, improving my situation and my Machine to the point where I may become an effective force of change.
If it is within my power, the future of Morlocks and Eloi will not come to pass.
If...

I'm pretty sure this is a Metroanime or Skysaber story, but I'm not having any luck finding it. All I can remember is that somehow (via a dimension-hopping Ranma, maybe?), the female members of the Ranma cast get to watch numerous videotapes of Ramna animes from different universes, which are in fact well-known fics from the late 1990s. I specifically remember a scene where everyone was weeping after watching Zen's "Long and Winding Road".
Can anyone identify this for me, and maybe provide a link? Thanks!

-- Bob
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I intend to be a freak for the rest of my life, and I shall baffle you with cabbages and rhinoceroses in the kitchen and incessant quotations from Now We Are Six through the mouthpiece of Lord Snooty's giant poisoned electric head. So theeeeeere....

...this is where I've been posting links to genuinely interesting articles.
The first evidence of another universe has (possibly) been seen.

-- Bob
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I intend to be a freak for the rest of my life, and I shall baffle you with cabbages and rhinoceroses in the kitchen and incessant quotations from Now We Are Six through the mouthpiece of Lord Snooty's giant poisoned electric head. So theeeeeere....

which includes posting things liable to make one snort soda through your nose if your not carefull...
I present this link:
www.reghardware.co.uk/200...m_cleaner/"I was an Otaku before those kids came along and changed the meaning of the word."
-- HM "Howling Mad" Wilson to more than one team-mate.
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-
NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children

Tough decision... The sheer amount of original footage in the video is impressive, though.
Aqualine studio's alternate anime opening credits - that's a direct link to the avi file.
No, I'm not saying which anime - you have to watch it to find out. (Or read the URL...)
-Rob Kelk
"Actually, my goal is to write neat stories. The money just makes it possible for me to write them faster and then buy neat toys."
Ryk E. Spoor, 7 November 2007
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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

I haven't been around much for the last month or so. Got horribly busy trying to reverse entropy at work. (Not impossible! Work is an open system, so it's just a matter of transferring entropy to other people. This is called "delegation" or "paperwork" depending on the methods used.)
ANNNYway. I'm pleased to announce that my wife and I just had our second child (a boy) on the 20th and got to come home on Thanksgiving, no less. We're all doing fine, if a little punchy from lack of sleep, including the newly crowned Big Sister, who is, at long last, larger than someone else in the family.
California has possibly the most generous family leave plan in the country, so I don't have to go back to work for a while, but there's plenty of entropy to keep me busy at home. So I don't know how much I'll be around the next month or two. Probably in fits and starts at odd hours, until things return to some new version of normal. We'll see.
Cheers,
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