Tomb Raider animated show being made?
I have to send this link to one of the people in my gaming group.
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Epsilon

This may have been lost in the Haruhi Question folderol...
At some point during the big squabble between the SOS-dan and the SMOFs, it is revealed that a particular biomod has been reverse-engineered by the Boskone/Reavers/what-have-you.
The primary result of the mod is "catgirling." This change itself is purely physical, no mental changes beyond the eventual adaptation to new facts of life. The Boskone have to do it a different way than was done to "Tabitha" Doe, since Captain Corcoran was able to retreive Tabby's Sleep-teacher.
Primary Boskone behavior modification methods are limited to mostly hardtech and Thionite. Sadly, these folks are usually pretty good at hardtech behavior modification in regards to sex slaves.
Again, most fen are ecstatic that the Reavers are too dim to realize just how combat-capable their "toys" are. Most fen who have seen Tom Dobbs in action are glad the boskone s/he deals with don't get back to the bosses to tell them to train the biomodded as grunts. Nothing like meeting a US Marine Corps veteran of the Second Iraq War who can't be disarmed of 10 nasty knives...
If anyone cares, I do have the specifics thought up for the procedure... just let me know...
''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

Starting on Saturday, we might not be around very often, got to do some stuff, and unless someone else resolves it, we probaly won't be around very often. So...Catch you around!
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For those curious..We're going to Austrila for a vacation. And we're not sure if we're bringing a computer. So, if you don't see us around, don't worry. We're fine. So, until we see you again!
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Nevermind, plans where cancelled....Still, we -may- not be around much. Mabye we'll just take a vacation here at home, away from everything. Who knows?

Although Star Ranger has already made note of it in the current Updates thread, I think it bears announcing in its own thread:
There is a new Symphony of the Sword installment over at Eyrie, for Symphony #5. Direct Link.

-- Bob
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The Internet Is For Norns.

Just a little something that grabbed me at 2am last night and wouldn't let go.

I could swear to god that someone has mentioned this song (which I am currently blasting, most amplified, oh yes).

Quote:

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Got out of town on a boat
Goin' to Southern islands.
Sailing a reach
Before a followin' sea.
She was makin' for the trades
On the outside,
And the downhill run
To Papeete.
Off the wind on this heading
Lie the Marquesas.
We got eighty feet of the waterline.
Nicely making way.
In a noisy bar in Avalon
I tried to call you.
But on a midnight watch I realized
Why twice you ran away.
Chorus
Think about how many times
I have fallen
Spirits are using me
larger voices callin'.
What heaven brought you and me
Cannot be forgotten.
I have been around the world,
Lookin' for that woman/girl,
Who knows love can endure.
And you know it will.
And you know it will.
When you see the Southern Cross
For the first time
You understand now
Why you came this way
'Cause the truth you might be runnin' from
Is so small.
But it's as big as the promise
The promise of a comin' day.
So I'm sailing for tomorrow
My dreams are a dyin'.
And my love is an anchor tied to you
Tied with a silver chain.
I have my ship
And all her flags are a flyin'
She is all that I have left
And music is her name.
Chorus
Think about how many times
I have fallen
Spirits are using me
larger voices callin'.
What heaven brought you and me
Cannot be forgotten.
I have been around the world,
Lookin' for that woman girl,
Who knows love can endure.
And you know it will.
And you know it will.
So we cheated and we lied
And we tested
And we never failed to fail
It was the easiest thing to do.
You will survive being bested.
Somebody fine
Will come along
Make me forget about loving you.
At the Southern Cross.

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Or any other nautical-style step - Horatio Hornblower, for example.
Schooner Fare's Rolling Home

Quote:

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Call all hands to man the capstan,
See the cable run down clear
Heave away, and with a will, boys,
For New England we will steer.
Rollin' home, rollin' home,
Rollin' home across the sea,
Rollin' home to old New England,
Rollin' home, dear land, to thee.
Many thousand miles behind us,
Many thousand miles before,
Ancient oceans lead us homeward,
To our own New England shore.
To the friends we leave behind us
We will bid a fond adieu,
We'll remember tears and laughter,
And the joys we've spent with you.

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I meant to ask earlier in the week -- how did folks make out?

-- Bob
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The Internet Is For Norns.

I don't know if it's been brought up yet, but 'Stayin Alive' by the 'Bee Gees' would be a good one.
Aside from the rather obvious temporary Invulnerability, he'd also be slightly insane as a side effect.
Sangnoir likely wouldn't use it, but it'd be interesting to see everyone's take on it anyway.
Here's the lyrics:
Stayin' Alive Lyrics
Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk,
I'm a woman's man: no time to talk.
Music loud and women warm, I've been kicked around
since I was born.
And now it's all right. It's OK.
And you may look the other way.
We can try to understand
the New York Times' effect on man.
Whether you're a brother or whether you're a mother,
you're stayin' alive, stayin' alive.
Feel the city breakin' and everybody shakin',
and we're stayin' alive, stayin' alive.
Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive, stayin' alive.
Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive.
Well now, I get low and I get high,
and if I can't get either, I really try.
Got the wings of heaven on my shoes.
I'm a dancin' man and I just can't lose.
You know it's all right. It's OK.
I'll live to see another day.
We can try to understand
the New York Times' effect on man.
Whether you're a brother or whether you're a mother,
you're stayin' alive, stayin' alive.
Feel the city breakin' and everybody shakin',
and we're stayin' alive, stayin' alive.
Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive, stayin' alive.
Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive.
Life goin' nowhere. Somebody help me.
Somebody help me, yeah.
Life goin' nowhere. Somebody help me.
Somebody help me, yeah. Stayin' alive.
Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk,
I'm a woman's man: no time to talk.
Music loud and women warm,
I've been kicked around since I was born.
And now it's all right. It's OK.
And you may look the other way.
We can try to understand
the New York Times' effect on man.
Whether you're a brother or whether you're a mother,
you're stayin' alive, stayin' alive.
Feel the city breakin' and everybody shakin',
and we're stayin' alive, stayin' alive.
Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive, stayin' alive.
Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive.
Life goin' nowhere. Somebody help me.
Somebody help me, yeah.
Life goin' nowhere. Somebody help me, yeah.
I'm stayin' alive.

And that's the song. Tell me how you think it'd work?

Seen on The Inquirer: Judge halth RIAA 'illegal' activity
It's about time somebody stood up for due process...

-Rob Kelk
"Read Or Die: not so much a title as a way of life." - Justin Palmer, 6 June 2007
--
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