File this one under usefull wierdness.
effect Summons one brassier of appropriate size.

Quote:

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BETTE MIDLER LYRICS
"Otto Titsling"
"This next story is a true story.
It concerns two of my favorite subjects:
industrial theft . . . and-a t-ts!
Mmm, what a combo! This is the story . . .
The inventor of the modern foundation garment
that we women wear today was a German scientist
and opera lover by the name of Otto Titsling!
This is a true story.
His name was Otto Titsling.
What happened to Otto Titsling shouldn't happen to a schnauzer.
It's a very sad story. I feel I have to share it with you."
Otto Titsling, inventor and kraut,
had nothing to get very worked up about.
His inventions were failures, his future seemed bleak.
He fled to the opera at least twice a week.
One night at the opera he saw an Aida
who's t-ts were so big they would often impede her.
Bug-eyed he watched her fall into the pit,
done in by the weight of those terrible t-ts.
Oh, my god! There she blows!
Aerodynamically this bitch was a mess.
Otto eyeballed the diva lying comatose amongst the reeds,
and he suddenly felt the fire of inspiration
flood his soul. He knew what he had to do!
He ran back to his workshop
where he futzed and futzed and futzed.
For Otto Titsling had found his quest:
to lift and mold the female breast;
to point the small ones to the sky;
to keep the big ones high and dry!
Every night he'd sweat and snort
searching for the right support.
He tried some string and paper clips.
Hey! He even tried his own two lips!
Well, he stitched and he slaved
and he slaved and he stitched
until finally one night, in the wee hours of morning,
Otto arose from his workbench triumphant.
Yes! He had invented the worlds first
over-the-shoulder-boulder-holder. Hooray!
Exhausted but ecstatic he ran
down the street to the diva's house
bearing the prototype in his hot little hand.
Now, the diva did not want to try the darn thing on.
But, after many initial misgivings,
she finally did.
And the sigh of relief that issued forth
from the diva's mouth
was so loud that it was mistaken by some
to be the early onset of the Siroccan Winds
which would often roll through the Schwarzwald
with a vengeance!
Ahhhhh-i!
But little did Otto know,
at the moment of his greatest triumph,
lurking under the diva's bed
was none other than the very worst
of the French patent thieves,
Philippe DeBrassiere.
And Phil was watching the scene
with a great deal of interest!
Later that night, while our Brun Hilda slept,
into the wardrobe Philippe softly crept.
He fumbled through knickers and corsets galore,
'til he found Otto's titsling and he ran out the door.
Crying, "Oh, my god! What joy! What bliss!
I'm gonna make me a million from this!
Every woman in the world will wanna buy one.
I can have all the goods manufactured in Taiwan."
"Oh, thank you!"
The result of this swindle is pointedly clear:
Do you buy a titsling or do you buy a brassiere?
"Ohhh! Thank you!"

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RightStuf just sent me an e-mail saying my pre-prder of volume 1 of Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya is in their shipping dock - I should be getting it shortly. (How shortly depends on Canada Customs.)
So the Haruhi collector's box (with all the extras, including the mini-pencilboard) should be showing up on store shelves Real Soon Now. Just thought you'd like to know...

-Rob Kelk
--
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

www.sigilprep.com/index.htm
" Deep in the heart of the plane known as the Outlands, inside a tremendous floating ring above the infinitely tall Spire, is the city of Sigil, most renowned of all the planar metropolises in the multiverse. In the city of Sigil, there sits a large conglomeration of huge, majestic buildings and bustling populace. It is the Sigil Preparatory Academy, a school where young men and women (and things) learn the fine arts of adventuring.
Sigil Prep brings together students from around the planes, from Toril to Oerth to Eberron to Krynn, and places beyond. Students are allowed to start here as early as 16 (human equivalent), though most start around 18 or so. Most students are on a five-year program: Freshman, Sophomore, Midyear, Junior, and Senior. Graduate programs are offered, as well. A degree from Sigil is one of the most prestigious documents a young person can earn.

Sigils campus is vast and twisting. Nobody can even venture a guess as to the total student body, and sometimes it takes hours to find ones way off campus. It is absurdly large, with hundreds of buildings, divided into numerous campuses.
They have a huge sports program, playing a number of sports that dont exist on the material planes, such absurdities as football, basketball, volleyball, and soccer. Football is their particular specialty, and they lead the division in this violent and machismo-laden sport.
The Dean of Schools is a mysterious being known as The Lady of Pain, who never appears at school functions, nor does she accept appointments, or see students or faculty, or even allow her name to be mentioned. This is not terribly different from the Dean at most colleges. If in doubt, refer to her as Our Beloved Headmistress, though even this may tick her off.
The Faculty is vast, composed of many races, most of whom are in their early epic levels. Important department heads have reputations far beyond the academic, including Mordenkainen of Greyhawk, Dove Falconhand and Storm Silverhand of the Seven Sisters, and the elusive Raistlin Majere of Krynn.
In a giant donut city
On top of an infinite spire
Stands our dear Sigil Prep
Ever to inspire
We love her standards and her halls
And her headmistress, all the same
Even though we never ever
Call to her by name
Beneath her glowing ring and sigil
With its white and gold
I hope I graduate from this place
Before Im very old."

Crey condemns Task Force Hunter
PARAGON CITY (AFP) - Countess Crey called for the arrest of Task Force Hunter today, following clashes between Crey Industry security and the heroes in Paragon City - blasting their actions as a campaign of deliberate percecution against Crey Industries.
But Freedom Phalanx member Manticore defended Task Force Hunter's actions, calling them within the autonomy afforded to registered heroes by the Federal Bureau of Super-powered Affairs. Praising their actions, he insisted the Task Force had the Freedom Phalanx's full support.
Task Force Hunter was composed of Evangelia, Wide Receiver, Brightsky, Cyberman 8, Shizuru, Frenetic Sublimation and Space Mage, all of The Legendary supergroup, and the notorious hero MechaDeuce. Several of them also hold reserve membership in the Freedom Phalanx.
Task Force Hunter exposed alleged illegal research being conducted at a Crey facility late on Friday. Reports say Rikti technology was seized on-site following Task Force Hunter's raid.
Task Force Hunter later responded to the kidnapping of Paragon City Councilman John Birch, rescuing from what were apparently Crey Industries personnel. Task Force Hunter later arrested Countess Crey's personal assistant, Hopkins, in connection with the incident.
Countess Crey insists the illegal Rikti technology and the alleged kidnapping were staged in a deliberate smear campaign to damage Crey Industry's reputation. The Paragon Police Department and Federal Bureau of Super-powered Affairs are investigating the incident. City Representative Brighid Moreira had no comment for the press at this time.

Task Force Hunter poses in uniform

The heroes in individual costumes
...
Or in other words, Evangelia, Wide Receiver, Brightsky, Cyberman 8, Shizuru, Frenetic Sublimation, Space Mage and MechaDeuce did the Manticore TF last night.
Aside from some hiccups here and there, mostly issues with coordination - we seriously kicked ass.
Thanks, folks! =D
-- Acyl

Linky linky. There's also samples of the new songs she sings on on the site.*********
Touched By His Noodly Appendage
www.venganza.org

"QUESADA!"
"Yes Dark Lord?"
"I told you to 'MANGLE' Marvel Comics, not 'MANGA' it!"
"Potato, potahto. Here, look through these."
(Dark Lord flips through comics)
"I see your point. Carry on."

WILL SOMEONE SHOOT QUESADA ALREADY?!?!?!?!
Dear GOD, when will the madness end??
-Logan
-----------------
"Wake up! Time for SCIENCE!"
-Adam Savage
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Cape mission done, yet to do the tailor thing. Repurposed costume slot 2 as his "formal wear," will make 3 the Legendary variant when I get it.

I should really do the Positron task force at some point soon... anyone up for it?
--Sam
"Sanity, you're a madman!"

...I have no words.

--Sam
"So, foul gelatin, you would do battle with the nose of your birth?!"

...can go in this thread.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: I was talking with Jimmy about his "VIIOR Avatar"
[The Legendary] Jimmy Amp: you were? when?
[The Legendary] Foxboy: This morning
[The Legendary] Jimmy Amp: and why don't I remember this?
[The Legendary] valles: Which's that?
[The Legendary] Foxboy: You play Electroeagle don't you?
[The Legendary] Jimmy Amp: not I
[The Legendary] Foxboy: My bad.
[The Legendary] valles: Speaking of which...
[The Legendary] valles: ...how aware is Nogi of her ninja?
[The Legendary] Jimmy Amp: no worries... haven't slept in 36 hours or so
[The Legendary] valles: Emotional state?
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Well she's gotta have some equivalent to the "pet window"
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Knowing when her pets are mezzed, damaged, buffed, etc.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: So... lessee
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Hive mind-ish
[The Legendary] valles: I'm planning to write Akai as knowing when Nogi's about to cap off about the Spines guy, so.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Semi autonomous drones with Nogi as the "queen mind"
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Perfectly allowable.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Even if Nogi were "natural" origin, it could be assumed her ninja know her well enough to look underneath the underneath and know what she's about to do
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Hm.
[The Legendary] valles: Great! *blinkblink* ...could they survive without her? Assuming a power source.
[The Legendary] valles: A la FSN's Servants.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Presumably, so...
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Oho! For later when Nogi discovers her serial immortality.
[The Legendary] valles: I'd had a throwaway line to that effect, though I -hadn't- formed that connection.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Or the relationships that may develop between her ninja and "real people"
[The Legendary] valles: It was... just something that followed from the assumptions I was making.
[The Legendary] valles: I figure that if Nogi -does- end up developing her own Epic Pool...
[The Legendary] valles: Brightsky'll ask for Akai.
[The Legendary] valles: Hm. More generally, I'm working from the assumptions that...
[The Legendary] valles: The kunoichi's bodies are physically real.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Or close enough as makes no difference
[The Legendary] valles: That is, they have all the right biological and neurological functions to be real people.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Clarke's Law and its inverse
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: ...indistinguishable from a rigged demo
[The Legendary] Foxboy: HUH? That one eludes me.
[The Legendary] valles: The magic involved in sustaining them is all about connecting the departed spirit to the summoned meat.
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: I can't remember the whole thing ;.;
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Got it
[The Legendary] valles: Psychologically...
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Or meat-like food substitute product
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Spam ninja?
[The Legendary] valles: ...the girls don't think of themselves - aren't, in a meaningful sense
[The Legendary] valles: ...enslaved.
[The Legendary] valles: They're -retired-.
[The Legendary] valles: They're quite capable of defining and working towards their own goals, but...
[The Legendary] valles: They've already -done- all that.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: They've been part and parcel of Nogi;s goals for so long her goals are their goals
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Actually the serial immortality is gonna SCARE the bejeebers out of the core of myself that's still there.
[The Legendary] valles: Not as bad as the girl that gets jumped to. ^_^
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Right but let's say that Nogi has a "nictuslike" incorp state.
[The Legendary] valles: I'm dead.
[The Legendary] valles: HOLY FUCKING SHIT, I'M DEAD!!
[The Legendary] Foxboy: And... I AM not getting Judged for my life as my beliefs tell me. I am damned.
[The Legendary] valles: or, 'Waaaaahhh! Where'd the world goooo!!'
[The Legendary] Foxboy: THAT one is gonna cause some difficulty.
[The Legendary] valles: 'cause the good girls go to heaven, but the bad girls go everywhere...'
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Essentially V!Nogi will eventually find out why she didn't go to final judgement:
[The Legendary] Foxboy: She "aten't all the way daid"
[The Legendary] valles: *blinkblink*
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Sorry my Discworld fennishness kicked in
[The Legendary] valles: Ah. She doesn't -really- die until some magical heavy zarks the ghost?
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Pretty much
[The Legendary] valles: The thing that's gonna scare Brightsky shitless is...
[The Legendary] Foxboy: I mean the "possessing ghost" isthe Natural state of a Nogitsune
[The Legendary] valles: ...I approach my emotions about the same way as a rigid Jedi.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: And Sky wears her heart on her sleeve.
[The Legendary] valles: They are unambiguously The Enemy.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Ohhhh.
[The Legendary] valles: So, not only is she emotive, but...
[The Legendary] valles: her temper.
[The Legendary] valles: Sky - canon Sky - is terrified of herself.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: That's something that I hope Dead!Nogi can pull off: the moral search for a host.
[The Legendary] valles: She is just one step short of being an outright berserker....
[The Legendary] valles: ...and she knows it.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Right.
[The Legendary] valles: She -knows- that when she loses it, she'll hit whatever gets in her way.
[The Legendary] valles: Including civilians.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: So a better written Skysaber Akane, eh?
[The Legendary] valles: I don't read Skysaber, but it sounds apropos. ^_^
[The Legendary] valles: And... 'To serve and protect'... that's her -life-.
[The Legendary] valles: Thats -why she feels she exists-.
[The Legendary] valles: ...compared to, I literally cannot remember the last time I sincerely lost my temper.
[The Legendary] valles: In a wierd way, I think each of us wants to be the other.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: So a Yin and Yang balancing act.
[The Legendary] valles: ...in a washing machine.
[The Legendary] valles: Which is why, when Akai actually draws blood...
[The Legendary] valles: ...kaboom.
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: On heavy load?
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Still mezzed right?
[The Legendary] valles: Yep.
[The Legendary] valles: Sky's still mezzed - though thinking more in terms of 'I'm fine, -they're- being controlled'
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Messy.
[The Legendary] valles: Uh-huh.
[The Legendary] valles: Akai spends a moment or two thinking, 'Eep.'
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Like 'Why can't they see they're working with a VILLAIN?'
[The Legendary] valles: I actually do have her using the AV line.
[The Legendary] valles: She makes a beeline, Akai gets in the way...
[The Legendary] Foxboy: The Holy [excrement] it's an AV!
[The Legendary] valles: They fight a bit...
[The Legendary] valles: Then everything goes all cold and shadowy.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Darkest night or Shadow fall?
[The Legendary] valles: Whichever one Nogi's going to be dropping - can't recall off the top of my head.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: OR the Howling Twilight
[The Legendary] valles: I figure she gets the entire battlefield with it.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Howling Twilight for the mass res.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: And disorient.
[The Legendary] valles: Aagh! Can't -see-!
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Letting Shizuru get some mad containment action
[The Legendary] valles: Which would, I figure, include demezzing the Legendary who'd gotten got.
[The Legendary] valles: ...sky pulls up short, thinking, ohh... shit...
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Some impassioned speech by one of the heroes counts as giving you a BF insp
[The Legendary] valles: Telepath vs. Telepath wouldn't cover it?
[The Legendary] Foxboy: That works too.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Right, Shi is a sonic she can do clarity
[The Legendary] valles: Or I could go with the original plan for how that happens...
[The Legendary] valles: chu! [3
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Ah the Madmartigan tactic
[The Legendary] valles: Don't recognize the reference, but sure. ^_^
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Willow?
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Dingding!
[The Legendary] valles: I saw that... once... how long ago?
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Val kilmer in a Celtic-inspired medieval starwars/snow white combo
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: You misplaced "starwars" and "celtic"
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Details!
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker:
[The Legendary] valles: Of course, this is -after- Akai tried to talk her out of it, thought she'd succeeded... and then barely missed getting kicked int he stomach.
[The Legendary] valles: Faking a ninja isn't going to happen, of course, but Sky tried.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Good thing she isn'ta pirate or it would have been to the death
[The Legendary] valles: Snrk.
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: ...There will be so many Real Ultimate Power flipouts out there...
[The Legendary] valles: RUP?
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Google it.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Mostly from Nin/nin stalkers and kat/regen scrappers.
[The Legendary] valles: Okay, one sec.
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Nin nin! [3
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: ...sorry, too much Disgaea
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Inconceivable!
[The Legendary] Foxboy: No such thing!
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: A *large amount* then
[The Legendary] valles: Oh, -those- guys.
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: The purpose of a ninja is to flip out and kill people.
[The Legendary] valles: In a lot of ways, it's a real shame I've never been able to really get into Negima.
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: It is.
[The Legendary] valles: I mean, deliberately transparent hot ninja Xellos babe.
[The Legendary] valles: It's perfect.
[The Legendary] valles: But the book just bores me to tears.
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker:
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Ah well...
[The Legendary] valles: I'd've done a little teary face, but the game punches those into local for wierd reasons.
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: ;.;
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: No it doesn't
[The Legendary] valles: ...gah.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: You need to put a space before the first ;
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: (I can see Negima being called a lot of things, but boring? A first)
[The Legendary] valles: ...D'OH!
[The Legendary] valles: I had a thought about how to handle the big Legendary Discussion Scene.
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: ...Yes?
[The Legendary] valles: Rather than show it...
[The Legendary] valles: ...show the TV interview(s) where the participants talk about it.
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: (And I think I can get the King over to the east coast without marooning him in his kingdom... excellent...)
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Ah, nice.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Hm. Depends on who can do what Talk show host/reporter
[The Legendary] valles: It'd be much easier if we still had the logs of that argument I got into about what the govt would do...
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Well, let's see. How long would it take the so-alled "real govv't" to believe it was actually happening?
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Becasue the local is going to pass the buck and it goes all hte way up
[The Legendary] valles: At the national le-
[The Legendary] valles: Hm.
[The Legendary] valles: I would guess... not long.
[The Legendary] valles: Hour or two, tops.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: And this is pre-"Surge" right?
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Vazhilok and Clockwork teamup in this mish. Makes sense, they have different recycling lists.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: ^_^
[The Legendary] valles: Um... I need to pay closer attention to the news?
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Oh man... were any *troops* playing CoH?
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Oh dear.
[The Legendary] valles: Probably.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Even worse good RP'ers playing CoV
[The Legendary] valles: Definitely.
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: "Iraq is MINE!'
[The Legendary] Foxboy: No.
[The Legendary] valles: Merc MM.
[The Legendary] valles: In the military.
[The Legendary] valles: In Iraq.
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: *snerk*
[The Legendary] valles: Eep?
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Say it with me: "COOOOBRAAAAAA!"
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Yo, JOE!
[The Legendary] valles: LOL.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Female model... I Oncssssse wassss a man.....
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: *dies*
[The Legendary] valles: Uh.... okay....
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Quote from the GI Joe movie
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Cobra.... LALALALALALALA!
[The Legendary] valles: ...That was even longer ago than Willow.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Cobra commander became a snake creature at Serpentor's whim
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Thoughtt hat was Golobulus
[The Legendary] valles: With... this... giant clamshell thing?
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: (The comic was SO much better.)
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Yeah
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Either way is fine with me
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Exactly
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Mutation spores in the clam
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: ...that just doesn't sound right.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Another question how many Cease and desists for N00bs in the tutorial at the time of the event?
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: ...A lot.
[The Legendary] valles: Um? Like, would-have-been-generics?
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Yup
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Lotta short hairy Canadians, eh?
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: ...help me...
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: I do not want even my avatar to live in a world overrun with Logan
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Laughing that hard, Lurker?
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Yep
[The Legendary] valles: Their attempts to escape the legal action of the Marvel corporation would become known as...
[The Legendary] valles: ...the Logans' Run.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: OWWW!
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: *can no longer breathe*
[The Legendary] valles: Score!
[The Legendary] Foxboy: I simultaneously LOVE and HATE that movie
[The Legendary] valles: Never seen it. ^_^
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Book, better
[The Legendary] valles: Never read it. ^_^
[The Legendary] Foxboy: The also-ran sci-fi movie of 1977
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Eh, I said "better," not "great"
[The Legendary] valles: Just -knowing that it existed- was enough. ^_^
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: The chase scene in the finished Crazy Horse memorial...
[The Legendary] Foxboy: [-- real first name is Logan
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: --]Wolverine's isn't
[The Legendary] Foxboy: I'm glad most of my "teasing years" were in Oklahoma rather than New England
[The Legendary] valles: Eh?
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Otherwise I'd be stuck wiht "Airport" as my nickname
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Ouch!
[The Legendary] Foxboy: SO glad my last name isn't O'Hare
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: I need to use that now
[The Legendary] Foxboy: The name Logan O'Hare?
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Ues
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Yes
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Iteven fits an Irishman
[The Legendary] Foxboy: 'Y'great gobshite! Say't agin an I'll cosh and pandy ye smartly, boyo!"
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: I can't do Irish
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Just barely Scottish
[The Legendary] valles: Hmph. Well sure and you're a fool, then, or you'd not be sayin' somethin' so daft.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Believe it or notit took a british puppet show for me to get a "Modern" Irish accent down pat... oog I punned myself
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: And that's only because I have some Scot ancestry
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: ...well, and some Irish, but a lot less
[The Legendary] Foxboy: I Cannae rrrrrrroll me arrrrrrrs prrrrrroperly.
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Scot pirates!
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Stage Scots is pretty close to stage Pirate
[The Legendary] valles: Sans rum.
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Plus whiskey.
[The Legendary] valles: But... why is the -rum- gone...?
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Horrible band name for Oh My Goddess just popped into my head
[The Legendary] valles: Oh?
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Bob Whaley and the Marllers
[The Legendary] valles: *laughs*
[The Legendary] valles: Nice thing about playing an MM:
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Another mini arc for VIIOR just came to mind
[The Legendary] valles: Plenty of time to chat.
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: I was just wondering what Redemption Song might do for Doug, and it snjowballed
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: A Schrodinger
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: 's Whale with a mini Marller backup group
[The Legendary] valles: Ooh, ooh, arc, arc!
[The Legendary] Foxboy: 'Two Weeks Notice'
[The Legendary] Foxboy: The last two weeks some of the Virtues have at their old jobs
[The Legendary] valles: Wherin many employers conclued that ... ooooooh. I like that better.
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Clever
[The Legendary] Foxboy: See Ninja mastermind at a supermarket help desk
[The Legendary] Foxboy: 'This one must not kill the customers"
[The Legendary] valles: Hee.
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Flip out and greet people!
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: (coined by Chibi Konatsu)
[The Legendary] valles: Might it be best to use only rough approximations of real people?
[The Legendary] Foxboy: 'This one is Japanese and not Chinese...
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Well chain stores will have to be fictionalized
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Will they? We're not publishing, are we?
[The Legendary] Foxboy: If it's on the web? It's published or as good as.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: So could count as badmouthing the company etc.
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: I'm pretty sure 7-11 doesn't care about fanfic...
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Though one of my best bits includes a supervisor not believing that Nogi's ears are real
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Heh
[The Legendary] valles: Oooh.
[The Legendary] valles: Mebbe a five year old or two has the same problem?
[The Legendary] Foxboy: And a nice Kansai war bride encountering a Kitsune for the first time since 1936
[The Legendary] valles: Or worse, doesn't?
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: ...wait, what?
[The Legendary] Foxboy: 'Momma lookit her ears!'
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: What *is* the status of magic pre-Virtue, anyway?
[The Legendary] valles: 'Itaiiiiiiii... Please, Kodomo-chan, release this oNE!'
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Pretty much wiped out
[The Legendary] Foxboy: I figure Europe was zorched during WWI
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Zorched?
[The Legendary] valles: Probably shaky long before then.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Right
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: I suspect I missed a lot of discussion
[The Legendary] valles: To keep from getting consistent results when tested.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Let's say that some of the Ley line kookswere SORT of right
[The Legendary] valles: You're not alone. ^_^
[The Legendary] Foxboy: The old flows of magic were along the lines connected by churches graveyards, etc.
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: For example, has the Virtue thing actually *changed* the laws of physics? Are colliders turning up new kinds of particle]?
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Hm.
[The Legendary] valles: Ooh.
[The Legendary] valles: That would be -fun-.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Newtonian physics are relatively unscathed.
[The Legendary] valles: The blood in Uni physics departments would get knee deep, but it'd be fun!
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker:
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Let's jsut say that exotic radiation will be more common
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: See, I am just this nosy, so King-me will be asking himself all the hard questions
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Allowing for totally native supers down the line
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: And concluding "On some level, this was a deliberate action."
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Someone DID this to us.
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Which is true/
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Even if it was an accident
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker:
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Lessee. Falwell will get a few shots in on the Virtues before he dies.
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Bleh.
[The Legendary] valles: Hah. Hahahaha.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Verisimilitude.
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: How many of them will shoot back?
[The Legendary] valles: Bets someone ends up taking exception to his language?
[The Legendary] valles: In person?
[The Legendary] Foxboy: If it's Nogi, she might actually divine his time of Death
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: And tell him?
[The Legendary] valles: That's twisted and perfect.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Yup.
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Yikes.
[The Legendary] valles: Also, tell his insurance company.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: ^_^ All of them ^_^
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: ...*owie*
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Hm. We may have a few suicides among the Virtues.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: ESPECIALLY the "vampires"
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: There was one like that in Ed Becerra's thing...
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: The convention...
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Yup
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Where I got the idea.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Steal shamelessly and from the best.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Also a couple of Buffy Fans might do in one of their friends who got "turned"
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: But then there's the vamps and infectious werewolves who *like* their state...
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Could get *ugly*
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Fortunately, the Virtuesthemselves are likely immune
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Could be worse. Could have been a populous WoW PVP server.
[The Legendary] valles: Eegh.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Yes MUCH worse
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Raidtards on the march...
[The Legendary] valles: And I just Killed DEATHSURGE! Woo!
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: *applause*
[The Legendary] valles: *bow*
[The Legendary] valles: Thought:
[The Legendary] Foxboy: The pocket D arc for VIIOR should coincide with the Valentine's event
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Pocket D arc?
[The Legendary] valles: You have cases where young kids had adult characters, like in Rev's bit.
[The Legendary] valles: You also have cases where people were _RPing_ kids.
[The Legendary] valles: ...age of majority laws.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Right. And hte Pocket D arc is when someone gets the guts to use the Pocket D VIP pass
[The Legendary] valles: Consent, responsiblity, custody, etc.
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Another question to ask oneself... were the characters *cloned* from their world, or *transferred and merged?*
[The Legendary] valles: I've been assuming 'cloned'
[The Legendary] valles: -then- merged.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Personally I prefer "cloned" but the question is valid for character angst.
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: But people who don't know can be worried...
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: If I get rid of the King, does that set him loose on his world again?
[The Legendary] valles: Brightsky's attitude towards that question will be pretty much...
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Becasue if in a later arc Nogi!Me encounters Nogi!Prime
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Could be amusing or not pretty at all.
[The Legendary] valles: 'Neither of the people who made me did this on purpose, and neither of them would want me to worry about it. So. I won't worry.'
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Heh.
[The Legendary] valles: Anyway, I figure that the law -should- decide to count a person as -either- their real or character age, -whichever is younger-.
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: I would have hoped that they'd take actual maturity level into account. Oh well...
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Or perhaps apply the emancipated minor rules in cases wehre body and mind mismatch
[The Legendary] valles: How on -earth- do you -determine- something like that?
[The Legendary] Foxboy: For more liberal places.
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Good question
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Besides, assuming someone was "minored" that might make them wards of the state if the don't have relatives willing to take them in
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: If you can prove your identity and are acting your age...
[The Legendary] valles: Really, that suggestion is just an excuse to toss V!Sky and O!Sky into the same freshman dorm room.
[The Legendary] valles: Sometime way later.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: And V!Nogi as guest professor in Comparative Thaumatology.
[The Legendary] valles: From which Comedy Ensues.
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: No, no. Hijinks.
[The Legendary] valles: ...QB would -spaz-.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Heh.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: As would Crey.
[The Legendary] valles: I think Crey would spaz just on general principles....
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Nogi's current body might be considered stolen property aftre all
[The Legendary] valles: ...an entire new world full of markets and victims...
[The Legendary] valles: ...all of them -Preconditioned to hate the brand name-!
[The Legendary] valles: It's not -fair-!
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: *ha!*
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Ooog. Rikti invasion on hte Heels of Nemesis....
[The Legendary] valles: In -our- -world-?!
[The Legendary] valles: ...woah.
[The Legendary] valles: That's kinda scary, yeah.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Mebbe. but MUCH later on
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: ouchie
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: So what *does* the Pocket D pass do?
[The Legendary] valles: I want to see some V-Earth native organization knock Arachnos back on its heels, though.
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: ...That'd be a nice trick.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: For one thing a lot of the portals from *A* Paragon City wid up in a state park in Rhode Island
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Uh-oh...
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Protected Salt-water marsh
[The Legendary] Foxboy: IIRC
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Is there even room in Rhode Island for anything that isn't Paragon City?
[The Legendary] valles: They've placed it to real geography?
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Croatoa would be like on the Connecticut/RI/Mass. border.
[The Legendary] valles: Probably not...
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Heck, I'll go google for a map.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: No but the closes match to the Geography I found was a state park in western Rhode Island
[The Legendary] valles: IIRC, Paragon's supposed to be the largest city in its world...
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Random Factoid: The Circle of Thorns has almost NO interest in V!Earth
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: No Mu, No Oranbega, different Gods if any
[The Legendary] valles: Oranbega never existed, and datamagic has -fuck all- to do with what they practice.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Right
[The Legendary] valles: ....wait.
[The Legendary] valles: Datamagic.
[The Legendary] valles: ...nanoha.
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: run away!
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: (I think I see it. There's a river almost the right shape.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: You know...
[The Legendary] Foxboy: nvm i lost my train of thought
[The Legendary] valles: Creating an Intelligent Device or something clsoe to it would be an absolutely logical thing to do.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Okay. Datamagic might be V!Earth's "Breakthrough!"
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: So... people from V-Paragon will be able to get to V!Earth from Pocket D?
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Hmmmm.
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Trying to figure out what you meant
[The Legendary] Foxboy: I'm guessing that DJZero can get people "home" from the Pocket D
[The Legendary] valles: Two questions:
[The Legendary] valles: Breakthrough?
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Issue 9
[The Legendary] valles: And, what the heck -is- DJZ, anyway?
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Inventions system
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: DJ Zero runs the Pocket D
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: He has dimensional travel powers
[The Legendary] Foxboy: DJ Zero is a Mxyzptlk-type actually for CoH
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Ah, didn't know that
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Or REALLLY powerful mutant
[The Legendary] valles: ...y'know, I kinda wish it were possible to attack people in Pocket D.
[The Legendary] valles: Not, I hasten to add, to damage them, merely to attack.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Storywise, you can but you'll get banned depending on the severity.
[The Legendary] valles: ...leading immediately to your being dumped where you were when you entered, with a load of debt for your trouble.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Hm. First arrival to Pocket D from V!Earth might have to stay a bit longer than they wanted to while DJ Zero sets up the portal connections
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: And might have to deal with a lot of questions about why he's dressed up like person X
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Hmmm. I'm trying to think of "celebrity" level Virtues... like Ascendant
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: ...yeah, I can't reconcile this geography with real RI at all
[The Legendary] Foxboy: It's too big, yeah.
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: And no part of the coast does anything *remotely* like it even if I assume the compass points are wrong
[The Legendary] valles: As long as the surrounding states are correspondingly smaller...
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Heh
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Did you see the state park in the west?
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Becasue ther is MORE tectonic activity in COH!RI than real
[The Legendary] Foxboy: So more varied coastlines...
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker:
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: I did find a few golf courses and a very small state park
[The Legendary] valles: Not neccessarily -natural- tectonic activity, either.
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: The closest match is in an area with some golf courses and small towns
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Potowomut River almost looks like whatever the Independence Port body of water is called
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Oh... OW
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Hm?
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: If there are connections... if the Mirror Kingdom is connected to both...
[The Legendary] valles: Six shadows.
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: The REAL King of 3 Shadows will be pissed!
[The Legendary] valles: Not, in an of itself, such a bad thing. Merely inconvenient.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Fortunately, transit via the two mirror kingdoms is harderthan between MK and Earth whatever
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Can be spun that way
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: I was thinking there was only the *one*
[The Legendary] valles: Fox, you weren't here for my earlier...
[The Legendary] valles: ...commentary about how Sky's defensive powers work, were you?
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Nope or if I was I was SF-ing
[The Legendary] valles: In short, she can painlessly deflect anything she sees coming.
[The Legendary] valles: But, to have the unconcious 'go away!' reflex that stops most damage she'd receive...
[The Legendary] valles: ...she needs to feel it.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: ... Street sweeping is the way to go for salvage it seems]
[The Legendary] valles: This means that, one, Sky ends up with a lot of superficial bleeding.
[The Legendary] valles: And two, medkits mean than she's usually in better shape than her clothes.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Ah, just like "empowered" by Adam Warren... sorta.
[The Legendary] valles: Dunno it.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Wait didn't we discussthis vis-a-vis Icon versu JCPenney?
[The Legendary] valles: ...don't think so.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: That COH costume "slots" are more durable than "normal clothes"
[The Legendary] valles: I didn't realize she'd suffere the Fairchild Effect until -after- I'd worked out the logic of it, actually.
[The Legendary] valles: Yes, but, unconcious deflection relies on the pain trigger.
[The Legendary] valles: Its like how the 'pull your hand back' reaction....
[The Legendary] valles: ...to a 'yow that's hot' stimulus doesn't even need to reach the brain before the muscles go into action.
[The Legendary] valles: Hm.
[The Legendary] valles: Her outfit's probably pretty durable vs. most things.
[The Legendary] valles: ...subject to Theiss Theory.
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Incidentally, y'want this chatlog saved and posted?
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Might be a good idea.
[The Legendary] valles: ...sure, go ahead.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Perhaps a seperate thread like VIIOR Chatlogs?
[The Legendary] valles: I don't think I blurted anything -too- embarrasing....
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Alright, I'll handle that before logging off
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Nogi's not powerful at all, she just soloed three 50 bosses! Whooo!
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Sweet!
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Losing her Oni TWICE early in the fight!
[The Legendary] valles: Heh. You have to wonder how many -other- topped out 50s were on that night...
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Scary Akai and Kuroi is RIGHT!
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Yee.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: I'd like to make the assumption that theres MAYBE 5 others
[The Legendary] Foxboy: And GW and GM_Emily
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: I'd *like* that, sure...
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: But how *likely* is it?
[The Legendary] valles: After accounting for whatever differences are made by character concept, etc.
[The Legendary] valles: A stock 50 is just a stock 50.
[The Legendary] valles: Breaking that barrier requires something underlying the mechanics.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: I can handwave and say they were on Alts, nw Khelds or switching characters/servers
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker:
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Or even testing respecs on Test
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: ...Khelds in a world with *no Nictus*.
[The Legendary] valles: Happy space squids?
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Which reminds me, there should be recipes for temp power quantum weapons
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Well, except for the angsty Power gamers who became Khelds
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Of course
[The Legendary] valles: Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke.

Anyone seen it? I've watched the first two eps so far and am wondering if it's worth watching the rest.*********
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