Just what the header says, more or less. ^_^
Just that C8 now has a reference to her in his bio at the wiki, and it would be nice if the link actually -went- somewhere, ya know?-Logan
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"Wake up! Time for SCIENCE!"
-Adam Savage
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Bob,
I was reading the final chapter of Interviewing Leather as pointed out in the Still Another Updates Thread: Extreme Edition thread and I started thinking on what music would Doug play when he just wanted to relax. No power, nothing but kicking back and listening to some sounds. As not all songs give Doug a power there should be songs that Doug likes and don't give him a power. Given that some people try and write songs to GIVE him powers are there people trying to write songs he likes that DON'T give him powers?
Bri
If this has been asked before, sorry, a search of the archives found nothing.

Exactly 50 years ago yesterday, Sputnik launched, and the Space Age began.
Welcome to the Future.--
"I give you the beautiful... the talented... the tirelessly atomic-powered...
R!
DOROTHY!
WAYNERIGHT!
--
Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.

Here's the preliminary writeup on a new VG we've just formed over on Justice server, counterpart to the Little Legends. "Dark Heart High" is a lengthy fanfic in a shojo evil-parody mode, about a seemingly ordinary young girl who gets transferred to a school for up and coming young villains. We are hoping to recreate some of this mood in roleplay and fiction in a Rogue Isles setting with our Satellite Campus.

Dark Heart High
Netherworld Preparatory Institute for the Universal Propagation of Evil
(Rogue Isles Satellite Campus)

Dark Heart High is one of the multiverse's most acclaimed academies for the development and preparation of up-and-coming young villains. It offers instruction in all the fields relating to this topic. Popular courses include Basic Villainy, Deathtrap Construction, Minion Relations, and Accounting. Its principal, Headmaster Hamaji Amakusa, is one of the most renowned masters of the art of villainry to ever live.
The main campus is located, of course, in a dimensional analogue of the Japanese city of Tokyo. Nearby are several realted schools, including Evil Tech (a popular vocational school for minions), Sakura Art (catering to the Magical Girl cliques), Knight School (primarily male heroes such as Kamen and ninja), and Zeros Academy (whose students maintain strict neutrality between heroes and villains).
In 2005, however, recognizing the needs of this particular dimensional cluster, Principal Amakusa took steps to open Dark Heart High's unique educational experience to the many in need of it among the youth of the Rogue Isles. Now serving over two hundred students from around the isles, including such famous names as Patricio Marcone and Desiree Falco, it is one of the pre-eminent educational institutes in the region.
The current faculty includes: (Note that these are NPC's, free to be referred to in roleplay or fiction)
Headmistress Alicia deWinter, administrator of the Rogue Isles Satellite Campus. Headmistress deWinter is an able manipulator, an accomplished sorceress, and a genius in selecting possible star students to undertake "class projects" out among the populace of the Isles. Like most of her staff and students, she is a thorough sociopath, but with her centuries of experience at studying the human condition she is able to feign a pleasant demeanor quite well. She also holds an Arbiter's rank in Arachnos, though the means by which she attained this is unknown. Rumor has it that she is either a descendant of, or the same individual as, the Lady deWinter of Dumas' Musketeer tales.
Professor Annette Foxcourt's name is a corruption of the French "Faux Coeur", which means "False Heart", and is an apt enough nomen for this instructress in the fine arts of Basic and Advanced Villainy. One of the most popular instructors at the school, every student has her classes for at least two years while attending the Satellite Campus. She is young and beautiful and intends to remain that way forever - several students who have attempted to act on the student-teacher crushes she encourages have vanished after a visit to her home for "personal tutoring".
Hassan ibn Jamal al'Libakha, the Physical Education teacher, is a swarthy, wiry man of considerable combat experience. He provides the students their primary education in fighting techniques and tactics, in addition to helping them keep physically fit. He is a hard taskmaster with little tolerance for slackness. Previous to his employ with Dark Heart High, he was a training officer for Libyan dictator Moammar Qaddafi's corps of "amazon" bodyguards, and enjoys a certain reputation for "stamina" among the female student body.
Professor Heinrich Jaeger teaches Shop, Deathtrap Construction, and Lair Architecture. The latter is a popular elective among seniors. His courses focus on "hands-on" work, including live demonstrations of student projects. He is a big fan of the classics, including spiked pits, death rays, and laser grids.
Recent guest lecturers have included Karl Rove (topic: Advanced Villainy, interactions with government officials), Hillary Clinton (topic: Advanced Villainy, taking political office for yourself), George Soros (topic: Accounting, use of financial manipulations to take control of large organizations), and Michael Moore (topic: Public Relations, how to spin a media campaign).
Students of any origin and archetype are welcome. School uniforms are semi-optional - many students prefer to customize them with their own additions.
The official female uniform consists of a black miniskirt, black shoes with blood-red socks, a blood-red blouse with black sailor-type collar, and a grey neckerchief. An official logo pin consisting of a golden horned skull is also recommended. Winter uniform removes the sailor collar and adds a black jacket with the horned skull logo on a breast patch.
Male uniforms share the same color pattern, with trousers instead of skirts (obviously), and the jacket year-round.
(ETA: Spelling correction, uniform summary, male uniform added)--
"I give you the beautiful... the talented... the tirelessly atomic-powered...
R!
DOROTHY!
WAYNERIGHT!
--
Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.

New battery technology promises to run your laptop for 30 years. The science is apparently sound if a little optimistic. Apparently these batteries produce too few kilowatt hours to actual be practical at this point.
But dude, nuclear powered laptops!
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Epsilon

I meant to post something about this yesterday... Wednesday night I was playing Evangelia, and in going through my big screen o' clues, I noticed that I had never finished the Vahzilok Plague arc with her. I pulled down my contact list and phoned Julianna Nehring, who had set her on that arc. Now I know that in person she won't talk to me any more, but imagine my surprise when the cell call gets a full mission assignment window! Whatever check is run to see if the contact will talk to you is broken somehow -- either it incorrectly shuts down the in-person talk when you're over-level but still on an arc, or it incorrectly allows it over the phone.
So I figured, what the hell, and completed the arc. I wasn't sure if the villains would be scaled up to Eva's L42, so I got some provisional pledges of help from Legendary folks online at the time, but they turned out not to be needed -- the badguys maxed at L19. So I walked through the entire rest of the arc, took out Dr. Vahzilok with two sword blows, and slaughtered his entire merry crew of zombies and mad doctors. It was so ridiculous it was funny.
Oooh! Oooh! Oooh! And I got a L22 DO enhancement for finishing the arc! Wow!
(Said enhancement is now on the table in the base for anyone needing a magic-compatible L22 Damage.)-- Bob
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One of the primary differences between the Left and the Right is their attitude toward the Future. The Radical wants the Future to have gotten here yesterday. The Reactionary wants the Future quietly shot and the corpse buried where no one can find it.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Stairway to Heaven performed by a pair of Spanish-classical guitarists. Unplugged, it goes without saying.-- Bob
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One of the primary differences between the Left and the Right is their attitude toward the Future. The Radical wants the Future to have gotten here yesterday. The Reactionary wants the Future quietly shot and the corpse buried where no one can find it.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

So my frustration with the lack of plot-progress on OGJ has combined with my love of VROOM and my recent gameplay of Motherload to form..
Charles Darwin.

Wait, no, that's not right.
I have an idea for a story that I'd like some data and a co-author or two. The timeframe would be at the end of OGJ, as part of the finale. The current dev-title is "The Penultimate Peril"
The basic outline is thus - planetbuster bomb used to hold the Solar System hostage, defeated by a small crew of Fen and AI, who have to fight there way down to the depths of Mars through active boskonian resistance.
Current crew roster is myself, Mr. Sparky on heavy weapons, V on overwatch and EW, and I'm planning on running off a clone of G.O.D. from Hoplessly Lost for the prime mover of this convoy.
Temporaly, this will be happening simultaneously/slightly before the finale of OGJ, so characters should not be able to appear in both stories - though comms is always a possibility.

Current rough trope-plot includes realization, penetration, gauntlet, technobattle, humorous denoument, and lengthy-follow-up-problem.
Please reply in board or by email to wiregeek at tertiary dot net if interested, all characters and authors welcome.
Current plan is for this to be a Hephaestus flagged operation, though I am willing to give up the driver's seat in-story for good reason, and the driver's seat for the project for VERY good reason and proven performance.

Thank you for your interest.Wire Geek - Burning the weak and trampling the dead since 1979Wire Geek - Burning the weak and trampling the dead since 1979

Tsubasacon is happening this weekend not more than a dozen blocks from my apartment. Naturally I'll be going.
Besides giving a shout-out to any other attendees, I mention this because I'm planning on dropping by Artist's Alley, cash and CoH screenshots in hand. For those prepared to cover the cost of the commission, I'd be pleased to act as errand boy for anyone else who's looking for art.
Ja, -n

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"Reseeestunce ees fiutil. Yoo weeel bee Useemooletud. Borg Borg Borg."
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."

There's a reasonably-successful local woodworking and gardening tool business in town (yes, they take web orders), and they have a reference-book sideline. This month, the reference books are 20% off. Details here, for those who are interested in such references or who collect books. But who wouldn't want a copy of "Open Timber Roofs of the Middle Ages", "The Great Saskatchewan Fowl Supper and Literary Contest", or "Traditions of the Navy", to name just three? (For some reason, the naval reference works are filed with the gardening books...)

Hmmmmm... Maybe these posts should be going into Marketplace... Bob?

-Rob Kelk
"Read Or Die: not so much a title as a way of life." - Justin Palmer, 6 June 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