There's a rather interesting/alarming idea that's been percolating, on and off, in my head for rather too long. But as it's rated solidly H I don't know if it's appropriate for discussion here.
The high-ish concept is this: "What if Urotsukidoji was a shoujo romance/action manga?" Three worlds--Ningen-kai, Inju-kai, Neko-kai...
--Sam
"Egad! Too much anatomy!"

Again, not a Bob-designed character, but one who is fairly important to the IST World as it eventually emerged. This is based on the 1500 point version of the character, but without Matter Control abilities ... I might add them after I get my grubby mits on Powers.
Doctor Radiation (Heinrich Glasser) -- 1738 points.
Attributes: ST 10 [0]; DX 13 [60]; IQ 18 [160]; HT 13 [30].
Secondary Characteristics: Dmg 1d-2/1d; BL 20 lbs; HP 13 [6]; Will 18 [0]; Per 18 [0]; FP 13 [0]; Basic Speed 6.50 [0]; Basic Move 6 [0].
Social Background: TL 8^; CF Western [0]; Languages: English (Native) [6], French (Native) [6]; German (Native) [0]; Spanish (Native) [6].
Advantages: DR 50 (Force Field, +20%) [300]; Enhanced Move 9 (Air Speed 6144) [180]; Flight [40]; Insubstantiality (Affect Substantial, +100%) [160]; Intuition [15]; Intuitive Mathematician [5]; Mathematical Ability 3 [30]; Mind Shield 20 [80]; Patron (Guatemalan Dictatorship, 9 or less) [25]; Radiation Beam (15d Burning Attack [Affects Insubstantial, +20%; Affects Substantial, +40%; Armor Divisor [5], +100%; Cone (10 Hex), +150%; Damage Modifier (rad), +100%; Increased 1/2D Range 10x, +15%; Increased Max Range 2x, +5%; Selectivity, +10%; Variable, +5%]) [409]; Radiation Field (4d Burning Attack [Area Effect (2 yard radius), +50%; Damage Modifier (rad), +100%; Variable, +5%; Emanation, -20%]) [47]; Radiation Tolerance (PF 1000) [45]; Regeneration (Fast) (Heals Radiation, +40%) [70]; Status 4* [5]; Unaging [15]; Unusual Background [50]; Wealth (Multimillionaire 2) [100].
* Includes +3 for Wealth.
Disadvantages: Enemy (IST/ICTF/Interpol, 9 or less) [-40]; Intolerance (Racial) [-10]; Megalomania [-10]; Reputation -4 ("Criminal, terrorist, and would-be world conqueror", everyone, always) [-20].
Quirks: Celebrates Oktoberfest with light-hearted, "gentle metavillainesque" crimes; enjoys prolonged sunbathing; favors German food; hates being called "Doc Rad"; sends Harvey Banks an ominous Christmas card every year [-5].
Skills: Accounting ([IQ-6]+3, H)-15* [0]; Aerobatics (DX-1, H)-12 [2]; Administration (IQ, A)-18 [2]; Armoury (Small Arms) (IQ-1, A)-17 [1]; Biology (Earthlike) (IQ-2, VH)-16 [2]; Chemistry (IQ-2, H)-16 [1]; Computer Operation (IQ, E)-18 [1]; Computer Programming (IQ+2, H)-20 [12]; Diplomacy (IQ-2, H)-16 [1]; Economics (IQ-2, H)-16 [1]; Engineer (Electronics) (IQ+3, H)-21* [4]; Explosives (NOD) (IQ-1, A)-17 [1]; Innate Attack (Beam) (DX+2, E)-15 [4]; Intelligence Analysis (IQ-2, H)-16 [1]; Leadership (IQ, A)-18 [2]; Literature (IQ-2, H)-16 [1]; Mathematics (Applied) (IQ+4, H)-22* [8]; Physics (Nuclear Physics) (IQ+7, H)-25* [20]; Politics (IQ, A)-18 [2]; Strategy (Supers) (IQ-2, H)-16 [1]; Streetwise ([IQ-5]+3, A)-16 [0]; Tactics (IQ-2, H)-16 [1].
* Includes +3 from Mathematical Ability.
** Includes +3 for "tough Reputation".

Original character designed by Mark Johnson, updated for GURPS Supers 2nd Edition by John A. Siminoff.

A silly inspiration struck me yesterday.

(Female voice)
Relax. You're quite safe here.
(Male voice)
dm-dm-dm-dm-dm-Am I dreaming?
No.
Where am I?
In bed?
Well, what am I doing?
Oh. T-t-t-t-talking to myself.
Look, I must have a star on my door.
Or better still, a door-a doo-a door.
Ah, swing doors up.
O-o-o-okay doors,
swing.
(Chorus) Paranoimia
(Male voice) Swing.
(Chorus) Paranoimia
(Male voice) Swing.
Now I know I'm dreaming
dreaming dreaming dreaming dreaming dreaming.
Hmmm. How do I get to sllllleeep?
I know, I'll count those bars on the window.
One
Two
Three...
Sleep!
(Chorus)
Paranoimia
Paranoimia
paranoimia paranoimia paranoimia
paranoimia paranoimia paranoimia
Paranoimia
paranoimia paranoimia paranoimia
paranoimia paranoimia paranoimia
ParaParanoimia
(Male voice)
How do I get - how do I get to sleep?
Please let me sleep.
Po-po-poetry. That'll work.
"Come sweet slumber, enshroud me in thy purple cloak."
Hm. Doesn't even rhyme.
(A bell used in the orchestration rings for several seconds)
Does that mean my tea is made?
(Chorus)
Paranoimia paranoi-
(Male voice)
I can't stand tea.
teateateateateateateateateateateateatea tea tea
tea.
(Chorus)
noimia
paranoimia paranoimia paranoimia
paranoimia paranoimia paranoimia
Paranoimia
paranoimia paranoimia paranoimia
paranoimia paranoimia paranoimia
Paranoimia
paranoimia paranoimia paranoimia
paranoimia paranoimia paranoimia
Paranoimia Paranoi-
(Male voice)
Aahhhhh.
Happy Harry's High Club.
HowdoIhow'm I gonna get to sleep?
(Female voice, gradually altered to get slower and deeper)
Trust me.
Trust me.
Trust me.
Trust me.
Trust me.
-- The Art of Noise, featuring Matt Frewer as Max Headroom, Paranoimia

-- Bob
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It's a "magical" land. I think "magical" is ancient Greek for "pain in the butt". -- Bun-Bun, Sluggy Freelance, 11/9/03

Tell me one more time again just like I didn't hear you
Like I don't know what's going through your mind, I do
I play the same game too
I know it's hard to stop
Even when you want to
Now the moon lights up your face and I can see you're crying
You never liked me to see you cry, it's true
I've done some crying too
You know, the hardest part about it
Is trying to hide it from you
Well it would be great to be so strong
I never needed anybody else to get along
But we're so scared of the silence and the tricks that we use
O, we're careful and we're cunning, but we're easily bruised
I don't want to lie about it, I'm not bulletproof
Well I finally found the way to hide from all your glances
Til the waiting game we play is through
I can, but what's the use
When all I really want to do is hide out with you?
It would be great to be so strong
You never needed anybody's help to get along
We're so scared of the silence and the language that we use
Oh we're careful and we're cunning, but we're easily bruised
I don't wanna kid about it, I'm not bulletproof
Tell me one more time again I guess I didn't hear you
And I don't know all the secrets that you keep inside
I tried the same thing too
But they all come pouring out of me when I'm talking to you
Well it would be great to be so strong
Never needed anybody else's help to carry on
But I'm not waking up each morning with forgiveness I can use
No I'm careless and I'm cruel, but I'm still easily bruised
But I'm so tired of lying about it, I'm not bulletproof
No, and I'm not going to lie about it, I'm not bulletproof
Blue Rodeo, "Bulletproof" (from the 2002 album "Palace of Gold")

The vibe I get from this is that Doug's powers are supressed for the duration of the song.
Now, why would he want to do that? Normally, he wouldn't, but his powers include that improbability field that causes him so many problems in "normal" activities.
(And it's a ballad, so it wouldn't be completely out of place in a romantic situation...)
-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

Future Imperfect: Last Transport
www.eyrie-productions.com/UF/FI/lt.txt
D for Drakensis

You're only young once, but immaturity is forever.

The newest production from the mind of Benjamin D. Hutchins has been released into the wild.
Please go to the usual place and do enjoy "Last Transport".Brazil has decided you're cute.

...and normally I wouldn't ask here, except that I'm about 80% certain that I found the story through a link which was posted here a while ago - and of course searching the archives [i[now[/i] doesn't do much good.
The story is reasonably large (though it would not necessarily be considered epic), and complete AFAIR. Salient points which I remember are:
1 ] It involves, and follows through on, the Kagome/Inuyasha pairing.
2 ] By dint of there being no one else available to do it, along with perhaps other factors, Kagome winds up becoming caretaker for (and effectively adopting) an abandoned hanyou infant.
3 ] Back in the present day, there is a female social worker (or maybe it was a doctor - and I forget why either came to be consulted) who is Very Much Not Happy about the fact that this teenage girl is now lactating.
4 ] At some point, not much earlier than about two-thirds of the way through the story, they finally complete the Shikon no Tama (I forget what happened to Naraku, but whatever it was seemed plausible at the time); the wish they make results indirectly in a) a visitation from the miko mentioned in the SnT's backstory and b) the final elimination (and presumably purification) of the jewel.
5 ] Without the Shikon no Tama to power it, time travel through the well is no longer possible.
6 ] By some mechanism which I forget, both Inuyasha and Kagome have become something approximating unaging by that point.
7 ] The final 'arc' of the fic takes place back in the present day, just after the last time Kagome had come back home temporarily, and begins with a reunion between those for whom their last encounter was mere days ago and those for whom it was several hundred years ago. (To quantify "unaging", above, Kagome does not look visibly different despite the time lapse.)
8 ] By this point, Kagome and Inuyasha have a sizable brood of children - although whether any of them are their own I don't recall (I think she may in fact be pregnant with their first); the vast majority, at the very least, are instead adopted "unwanted hanyou" like the one from point 2 above.
9 ] Sesshoumaru is still around, but not particularly hostile anymore; he appears to be paired with Rin.
10 ] The clan is, by this point, both Very Rich and Very Influential - both among youkai (who tend to live in human disguise these days) and among humans. Describable examples don't readily spring to mind, although I could ramble about helicopters and impressive weddings and large land-holdings (in Japan!) and "you'll drop this subject if you want to keep your job" against that social worker from point 3 and so forth.

Does this ring any bells for anyone?
(And, on a completely different topic, does the Website someone started up once to compile all the story recommendations from this forum in one plage still exist? I've forgotten the URL...)

Well, now...
Back to back, belly to belly,
Well, I don't give a damn
'Cause I done that already,
Back to back, belly to belly
At the zombie jamboree.
(Now hear the chorus)
Back to back, belly to belly,
Well, I don't give a damn
'Cause I done that already,
Back to back, belly to belly
At the zombie jamboree.
Zombie jamboree took place in a New York cemetery (Where?) Zombie jamboree took place in Long Island cemetery.
Zombies from all parts of the island. (Where?)
Some of them are great calypsonians. (Some.)
Since the season was carnival
They got together in bacchanal.
Oh, what ya' doin'?
Back to back, belly to belly,
Well, I don't give a damn
'Cause I done that already,
Back to back, belly to belly
At the zombie jamboree.
One female zombie wouldn't behave.
She say she want me for a slave.
In the one hand she's holding a quart of wine,
In the other she's pointing that she'll be mine.
Well, believe me folks, I had to run. (Why?)
A husband of a zombie ain't no fun! (Don't knock it!)
I says, Oh, no, my turtle dove,
An old bag of bones I cannot love.
Oh, what you doin'?
Back to back, belly to belly,
Well, I don't give a damn
'Cause I done that already,
Back to back, belly to belly
At the zombie jamboree.
Right then and there she raise her feet.
"I'm a-going to catch you now, my sweet.
I'm gonna make you call me 'Sweetie Pie'."
I says Oh, no, get back, you lie!
"I may be lyin' but you will see (What?)
After you kiss this dead zombie." (Blah!)
Well, I never seen such a horror in my life.
Can you imagine me with a zombie wife? (Yes!)
Back to back, belly to belly,
Well, I don't give a damn
'Cause I done that already,
Back to back, belly to belly
At the zombie jamboree.
(Oh, what a good game)
Back to back, belly to belly,
Well, I don't give a damn
'Cause I done that already,
Back to back, belly to belly
At the zombie jamboree.
(You're all alone, you know)
-- The Kingston Trio, Zombie Jamboree

-- Bob
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It's a "magical" land. I think "magical" is ancient Greek for "pain in the butt". -- Bun-Bun, Sluggy Freelance, 11/9/03

This one's not all that amazing, but it's a personal fave and I've just mentioned the song in the Power forum, so may as well post the link.
www.animemusicvideos.org/...hp?v=32053
Sensitive Martial Artist by Haunter103
It's got some very good reviews and It's quite a laugh, so pop by and download if the mood strikes you.