I don't know why I thought of the Beatles' "Here Comes the Sun" (lyrics), but I did, so...
First-order effects: melts ice (handy if Doug's going up against someone with "freeze" powers), disperses inclement weather.
Second-order effect: pisses off Wetter Hexe ("Looney, you
know I needed those storm clouds...")
-Rob Kelk
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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

This song came up in my mp3 player and I decided to pass it along. While I have no power suggestion for it at this time. It looks to have some potential.
"Defeat You" by Smashmouth
Born is a human with a kung fu spine
Equipped with a detector of whats on your mind
You jive you shuck you bob you weave
And when you're down you've got something up your sleeve
And you've got it good as bad as it gets
You make your own incisions that come with regrets
You're in it to win it and make every minute count
You put it all together and dish it out
Hey I know where you're from
It makes it that much nicer to meet you
Hey I know what you've done
It makes it that much better to defeat you
All that knowledge all those skills
All the gas it takes to get up top of the hill
And while the other try to take your spot
You wanna make them stop but you gotta make them stop
Would you do anything whatever it takes
Jacks in the road yeah fix the breaks
It the instinct that's got us locked up tight
And it's the madness that's keeping us up all night
Chorus
It's what we are It's what we are It's what we are
Born is a human with mechanics to win
Born is machine with a human tucked in
You jive you shuck you jab you stick
You're calling out for help when it gets too thick
Your honor your honor its not me
It's the invisible visible evil powers that be
Untraceable insatiable having to feed
Yeah you cry when your wounded and you laugh when they bleed
Chorus

The chorus is the section stanza of the song. Anyway enjoy.
Shawn Earl
Who's now finally glad he can stop writing by-laws and policy guides for a little bit after tonight.

The first thing she saw was Belldandy, singing along sweetly with
the rock-and-roll song as she led a line of dancing auto parts
across the yard and into one of the outlying sheds. She spied
Megumi, waved, and returned her attention to herding her metallic
flock. Megumi weakly returned the wave.

Beyond Belldandy, Urd was making cursory shooing motions with her
hands that seemed to be sweeping a small pile of metallic scrap
along behind the middle sister. In between, Keiichi and Chris
resorted to simple muscle power as they manhandled some of the
mid-sized pieces across the flagstones.

Skuld was on the other side of the yard, a gleaming white device
about the size and shape of a shirtbox in her hands; a beam of
glowing red light shot from it to a pile of engine blocks that
floated, quite unlike engine blocks ought to, a meter or so off
the ground. With tiny movements of the box she seemed to be
nudging the heavy masses of metal along; Megumi noticed that
everyone else was careful to keep from wandering too close to the
levitating cargo.

After watching that with wide eyes, it took Megumi a moment more
to notice that the rock-and-roll music emanated not from the
house's radio but from a motorcycle helmet sitting unattended on
the engawa; with a flash of recognition, she realized that it was
the one that had been worn by the mysterious stranger of the
previous day. Its owner, dressed simply in jeans and a T-shirt,
carried a greasy cardboard box into the shed as a calf-deep river
of parts flowed past him with a bubbling, chuckling sound. Then
Megumi took a second look, blinked and swore softly. The parts
weren't just floating past him, they were being carried -- by
tiny men with pointed red hats and long beards, who laughed and
chortled as they bore their burdens.

"<...Ha ha ha, hee hee hee
I'm a laughing gnome
And you can't catch me...>"

Megumi's English was pretty good in her opinion, and she had
almost no problem understanding the song. She wondered what the
connection between the song and the tiny men was; she was sure
that it couldn't be mere coincidence.

"Well!" Belldandy's announcement from the shed door captured
Megumi's attention before she could boggle any further. "Now
that Megumi's here I do believe it's time for lunch." As the
others ceased their efforts, the goddess turned and bowed to the
army of tiny men streaming back out of the shed. "Thank you ever
so much for your help," she said to them.

Somehow it did not surprise Megumi when the little men -- now no
longer bearing their loads or suffused with laughter -- as one
silently doffed their red hats and returned the bow with a deep
obeisance of their own. Standing straight again, they replaced
their hats on their heads and vanished with a soft "pop!" at the
moment the music stopped.

-- Bob
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Chaos isn't really chaos if it isn't Lawful part of the time.

The opening theme from the PlayStation game Soul Edge.

Transcending history and the world, a tale of soul and swords eternally told.


To love! To shine!
We all need to shine on, to see
how far we've come on our journey
How far yet to go, searching for our star
Deep in the night, I pray in my heart
for that special light
to shower me with love
to shower me with power
to shine from above
I got to get to the Edge of Soul, to carry on what I believed in from the very start
I got to get to the Edge of Soul, to carry on deep in my heart
To love, to shine (2x)
Come strip down and face it, your all
About time you broke down your wall
Free your mind
A brand new world waits for you, you'll find
Nobody can just do it for you
It's time that you knew
It's up to you to love
it's up to you to shine
the light true and blue
You got to get to the Edge of Soul, to carry on what you believed in from the very start
You got to get to the Edge of Soul, to carry on, deep in your heart
You got to get to the Edge of Soul, to carry on what you believed in from the very start (3x)
You got to get to the Edge of Soul, to carry on, deep in your heart
To love, to shine! (2x)
To love!
Depending on whether or not Doug had ever played the game (presumably walking into the room after the song had played, familiarizing himself with gameplay and characters, and only then listening to EoS), but I could see it as giving every person in Doug's AoE a moderately kickass custom-designed weapon.
--Sam Ashley
"He beat up ten ninjas with a loaf of french bread!"

Because something that robkelk mentioned in another part of the forum struck me.
"Under the Sea" from the Little Mermaid soundtrack.
Lryics at: radish-spirit.com/cbl/the...thesea.htm
It gives Doug the powers to swim like a fish, breath underwater, manifest some water defenses, and give fish simple commands.
Could be a very fun song to use at Sea World. This also caused me to think of another song. "Jump in Line" done by the Cherry Poppin' Daddies.
Lyrics at: www.lyred.com/lyrics/Soun...%3Bora%29/
I can see the scene from the Mask in my head. Doug creating a instant conga line in his area of affect. Anyways sorry for the long urls.
Shawn Earl

He's got a road map of Jupiter
A radar fix on the stars
All along the highway
She's got a liquid-crystal compass
A picture book of the rivers
Under the Sahara
They travel in the time of the prophets
On a desert highway straight to the heart of the sun
Like lovers and heroes, and the restless part of everyone
We're only at home when we're on the run
On the run
He's got a star map of Hollywood
A list of cheap motels
All along the freeway
She's got a sister out in Vegas
The promise of a decent job
Far away from her hometown
They travel on the road to redemption
A highway out of yesterday -- that tomorrow will bring
Like lovers and heroes, birds in the last days of spring
We're only at home when we're on the wing
On the wing
When we are young
Wandering the face of the Earth
Wondering what our dreams might be worth
Learning that we're only immortal
For a limited time
Time is a gypsy caravan
Steals away in the night
To leave you stranded in Dreamland
Distance is a long-range filter
Memory a flickering light
Left behind in the heartland
We travel in the dark of the new moon
A starry highway traced on the map of the sky
Like lovers and heroes, lonely as the eagle's cry
We're only at home when we're on the fly
On the fly
When we are young
Wandering the face of the Earth
Wondering what our dreams might be worth
Learning that we're only immortal
For a limited time
We travel on the road to adventure
On a desert highway straight to the heart of the sun
Like lovers and hereos, and the restless part of everyone
We're only at home when we're on the run
On the run...
-- Rush, Dreamline-- Bob
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Chaos isn't really chaos if it isn't Lawful part of the time.

... but I don't want to step on anyone's toes. (And I don't know whether I'll have time to write it, anyway.) So:
1) Bob (or anyone else), do you have a steampunk/pseudo-"Jules Verne" Step planned?
(If the answer to this one is "yes", then we can all ignore the rest of these questions...)
2) Does Doug speak French, or Kiswahili?
3) Does anyone have any suggestions for late-19th-century-era "power" songs? (I won't limit myself to these, but it would be nice for Doug to pick up maybe one or two songs.)
4) Just how spaceworthy can Doug get?
(Careful pondering of these questions should give more than a clue as to where this fanfic Step would take place...)
-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

Its been mentioned that Doug eventually gets a hang of the dimension hopping deal, and, well, barring some America specific lyrics this song seems almost tailor made for Ranma.
The Eagles: Take It Easy
Well, I'm running down the road
tryin' to loosen my load
I've got seven women on my mind,
Four that wanna own me,
Two that wanna stone me,
One says she's a friend of mine
Take It easy, take it easy
Don't let the sound of your own
wheels drive you crazy
Lighten up while you still can
don't even try to understand
Just find a place to make your stand
and take it easy
Well, I'm a standing on a corner
in Winslow, Arizona
and such a fine sight to see
It's a girl, my Lord, in a flatbed Ford
slowin' down to take a look at me
Come on, baby, don't say maybe
I gotta know if your sweet love is
gonna save me
We may lose and we may win though
we will never be here again
so open up, I'm climbin' in, so take it easy
Well I'm running down the road
trying to loosen my load,
got a world of trouble on my mind
lookin' for a lover who won't blow my
cover, she's so hard to find
Take it easy, take it easy
don't let the sound of your own
wheels make you crazy
come on baby
don't say maybe
I gotta know if your sweet love is
gonna save me, oh oh oh
Oh we got it easy
We oughta take it easy---------------
If you want a competition to see who is best at rezoning aqueducts, prepare to be whipped little lady. When it comes to choosing accommodation for hell machines, Id be grateful for a little slack.
-Mayor of Tackleford: Scary Go Round
---
Jon
"And that must have caused my dad's brain to break in half, replaced by a purely mechanical engine of revenge!"

Angel 0?
The image that was the inspiration for something I shan't describe, lest I fail to adequately torture the unknowning.
Well, I think that this was the one. 's been a while.
Ja,
-n
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."

I just think this Nightwish song fells appropriate for a EVA step, no idea what kind of power, if any, it'd grant.
Planet Hell
Denying the lying
A million children fighting
For lives in strife
For hope beyond the horizon
A dead world
A dark path
Not even crossroads to choose from
All the bloodred
Carpets before me
Behold this fair creation of God
My only wish to leave behind
All the days of the Earth
An everyday hell of my kingdom come
The 1st rock thrown again
Welcome to hell, little Saint
Mother Gaia in slaughter
Welcome to paradise, Soldier
My 1st cry neverending
All life is to fear for life
You fool, you wanderer
You challenged the gods and lost

Save yourself a penny for the ferryman
Save yourself and let them suffer
In hope
In love
This world ain't ready for the Ark
Mankind works in mysterious ways