Wow, first post in a looong time. Damn, did grad school and masters really eat up my time.
Anyway, this is the first time I've noticed this new section and I decided to ask how a) one gets into it, and b) the limits of handwavium.
Because it seems to me that if a bunch of sci-fi fans got this magic mystery thing, they'd do something really outrageous as soon as they got into space if they could.
I'm not even talking about DNA-hacks to get functional immortality or increase brain power or anything like that. Handwavium would probably do something like that easily.
I'm talking about something a lot more ambitious, like mass upload to Matrioska brains, re-engineer the universe anthropically, really bootstrap to Kardishev IV.
Or perhaps something less ambitious, like colonizing the beginning of the universe, or going to the end of time itself to see just how it'll end.
Can handwavium create a higgs-field manipulator? increase gravity to offset dark energy? Vacuum metastability event doomsday weapon?
-murmur

As I had briefly returned to Paragon with the character Sisial this autumn, so am I back again. Just got Sisial (finally) up to 20 for a cape.. well.. more a scarf.
Because what self-respecting karate biker goes around without a red scarf?
Formerly @Grey Rider.
Now @Sisial.
Whenever I finally get a character to 50, the Grey Rider nme will become the name of a Squid.- Grumpy Uncle Gearhead
- Grumpy Uncle Gearhead

Steppenwolf 'Magic Carpet Ride'
I like to dream yes, yes, right between my sound machine
On a cloud of sound I drift in the night
Any place it goes is right
Goes far, flies near, to the stars away from here
Well, you don't know what we can find
Why don't you come with me little girl
On a magic carpet ride
You don't know what we can see
Why don't you tell your dreams to me
Fantasy will set you free
Close your eyes girl
Look inside girl
Let the sound take you away
Last night I held Aladdin's lamp
And so I wished that I could stay
Before the thing could answer me
Well, someone came and took the lamp away
I looked around, a lousy candle's all I found
Well, you don't know what we can find
Why don't you come with me little girl
On a magic carpet ride
Well, you don't know what we can see
Why don't you tell your dreams to me
Fantasy will set you free
Close your eyes girl
Look inside girl
Let the sound take you away
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Magic carpet, flight spd =? can carry Doug and up to 5 passengers (3 comfortably) side effects: the clothes of Doug and anyone riding the carpet transform to something from Aladin or Arabian Nights (though they retain any special capabilities)
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The Romantics 'Talkin in your sleep'
When you close your eyes and go to sleep
And it's down to the sound of a heartbeat
I can hear the things that you're dreaming about
When you open up your heart and the truth comes out
CHORUS:
You tell me that you want me
You tell me that you need me
You tell me that you love me
And I know that I'm right
Cuz I hear it in the night
I hear the secrets that you keep
When you're talking in your sleep
When I hold you in my arms at night
Don't you know you're sleeping in a spotlight
And all your dreams that you keep inside
You're telling me the secrets that you just can't hide
CHORUS
You tell me that you want me
You tell me that you need me
You tell me that you love me
And I know that I'm right
Cuz I hear it in the night
I hear the secrets that you keep
When you're talking in your sleep
When you close your eyes and you fall asleep
Everythng about you is a mystery
CHORUS
You tell me that you want me
You tell me that you need me
You tell me that you love me
And I know that I'm right
Cuz I hear it in the night
I hear the secrets that you keep
When you're talking in your sleep

places target in a hypnotic trance, target must answer all questions truthfully (to the best of their knowledge), target must be in a relaxed state to work (can't be done in combat for example)__________________
The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live. - George Carlin.
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"I've always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific." - George Carlin

...the folks who helped me with the Katie Hannon task force this afternoon:
Logan with Lora'lai
Ebony with Numero Catorce
and
RevDark with Bella Fuego.
With their kind help I not only got the Cabalist badge, and the Ten Times The Victor accolade, I also got the Geas of the Kind Ones accolade and the neat power that comes with it.

-- Bob
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Visit beautiful Boston, proud successor to Seattle as
"City Most Scared Of Its Own Shadow

I'm searching for a certain Cowboy Bebop AMV. The colors where reduced to red, black, white and grey, the band sounded British and the video was rather serious.What if: Chibi Usa, Veteran Speznas Ninja Commando From Hell(tm)?

Hi all this is Peg,
Bob will be delayed, still shoveling out the layer of ice from our driveway this morning and taking a bit longer than he thought.
Will be showing up ~~ 1:30- 2:00pm hopefully.
Happy Hunting,
Peg
-- Bob
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Visit beautiful Boston, proud successor to Seattle as
"City Most Scared Of Its Own Shadow

I'm briefly going to be absent from CoH for about a week or so.
Nothing's wrong, I'm just not going to be able to game with you folks as much as I'd like.
''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

(I'm not completely happy with this, but I don't see any way to fix it short of tearing it up and starting over. But I don't think it's so bad
as to warrant that... -Rob)

EDIT, September 2017: Subsequent developments in Fenspace has made this story non-canonical. -Rob.

I was thinking about the Buffy step - and since I've been reading a lot of btvs fanfic lately - I was wondering how Doug would see Dawn/the Key. Is she a god? Just power? (Although one could argue gods are power with consciousness.)
In Misunderstandings by Don Sample, she has an oversoul and an avatar ... which really sounds a lot like what's going on with the Fates, although in her case it seems slightly more similar to WH in that there is only ONE Dawn in THAT universe, rather than many multiple Dawns in several universes.
Just some speculation. ^_^

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Come on
(Come on, let me show you where it's at)
Come on
(Come on, let me show you where it's at)
Come on-on-on
(Come on, let me show you where it's at)
The name of the place is
(I like It Like That)
Come on
(Come on, let me show you where it's at)
Come on
(Come on, let me show you where it's at)
Come on-on-on
(Come on, let me show you where it's at)
The name of the place
(I like It Like That)
They got a little place
Across the track
The name of the place is
I Like It Like That
Now, you take Sally
An I'll take Sue
And we are gonna rock away
All our blues
Come on
(Come on, let me show you where it's at)
Come on
(Come on, let me show you where it's at)
Come on-on-on
(Come on n' let me show you where it's at)
The name of the place is
(I like It Like That)
Come on
(Come on, let me show you where it's at)
Come on
(Come on, let me show you where it's at)
I wanna show you
(Come on, let me show you where it's at)
The name of the place
(I like It Like That)
Now, the last time I was down there
I lost my shoes
They had some cat
Shoutin' the blues
The people was yellin'
Out for more
And all they were sayin'
Was, 'Go man go'
Come on
(Come on, let me show you where it's at)
Come on
(Come on, let me show you where it's at)
Come on-on-on-on
(Come on, let me show you where it's at)
The name of the place
(I like It Like That)
Come on
(Come on, an let me show you where it's at)
Come on
(Come on, an let me show you where it's at)
Come on-on-on
(Come on, let me show you where it's at)
The name of the place is
(I like It Like That)
FADES-
Come on
(Come on let me show you where it's at)
Come on-on-on.
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Doug has to play the song near a doorway across a set of railroad tracks.
Opens a gate to a Pocket Universe that consists of a Resteraunt/Bar/Dance-club. Leaving through an exit deposits you back where you came from.