Did the Transformers, as a cartoon concept, exist in Warriors World?
A friend of mine just gave me (another!) copy of the Transformers: The Movie soundtrack, and so I was listening to it (did I mention that it's probably my favorite single 80s collection of music?) and my brain fixated on Doug for some reason (probably to get it away from the Transformers stuff), and it kind of lodged inside the old yabbo...
The Touch: Does not use it except it world-shattering emergencies. Gives him utter, complete and total combat superiority. Unfortunately, once the song runs out... so does he, at the level of a failed (or successful!) Walk.
Instruments of Destruction: sonic attacks?
Death of Optimus Prime: does Doug get anything from instrumentals?
Dare: amps his improbability (!) so that no matter what happens to him, he lives through it. (He may be UNHAPPY, but he'll be ALIVE...)
Nothin's Gonna Stand In Our Way: superhuman speed and near-invulnerability. The Cannonball Effect.
The Transformers (Theme): ....I have no idea. It scares me.
Escape: another instrumental.
Hunger: this is a highly negative song, and may turn Doug into a life-force vampire. One of those he keeps around for 'no other choice in the matter'.
Autobot/Decepticon Battle: another instrumental.
Dare To Be Stupid: No net effect - this is probably the default song Doug lives under. Brazil has decided you're cute.

I actually have an opening for that one now... enough to warrant moving it over here. There's not likely ever to be any more of it though.
(For one thing, I see Doug as intervening to defuse the Eddie/Frank conflict, which while morally admirable and so forth does toss much of the rest of the script right out the window. For another, let's face it, most of Doug's lines would be obscene. Hilarious, but obscene.)
(Perhaps this one could be opened to all interested parties? Then again, that might provoke a flamewar over the "proper" AP responses.)

This, thought Douglas Q. Sangnoir, is not how it's supposed to go.
It was a simple sequence of events, repeated so many times by now he knew exactly what to expect: Open a gate to some other world, enter it, fall asleep, wake up already on said other world. He never experienced the interdimensional transit as anything but the occasional odd and vivid dream.
Not this time. This time, as far as he could tell, he was fully conscious astride his gravbike... and drifting in the midst of a dead-black void. He might have assumed that he'd jumped into a dead or failed universe, if it weren't for two things:
1) his inexplicable failure to suffocate and die in hard vacuum; and
2) the oddest sensation of movement, in a direction he couldn't quite place.
No, Doug was going somewhere, of that he was certain. But the getting there was getting... boring.
Nothing but darkness, like a sensory deprivation tank, or a blank movie screen...
Movie screen?
I'm getting punchy in here. But what the hell... Doug waved a hand at nothing and declaimed:
"And God said... Let there be LIPS!"
And--
much to his amazement and amusement--
--there WERE Lips.
And they were good.
The collossal disembodied mouth opened and began to sing...
Michael Rennie was ill the day the Earth stood still
But he showed us where we stand...
"On our FEET!" Doug caroled joyously. It was weird, it was bizarre, but for once on this long strange trip he was certain he knew exactly where he'd be landing next.
And he already had a good idea what he'd be doing when he got there.
This was going to be fun...
--Sam
"Whip me, beat me, mistreat me... make me write bad checks!"

I have now read all of Cat Tails and JLAint. I haven't felt that obsessed since I read all of Eryie's works or DW.
So, I'm asking you, my friends, to point me in the direction of some other masterpieces. That might be off the path of my usual FFML hauntings.--
Christopher Angel, aka JPublic
The Works of Christopher Angel

This is a copy of a post I just made over in the "Locating IST" thread.

Okay, here's the scoop. SJ and I hammered this out last night in email.
I wrote Steve and asked what it would cost for me to buy back the rights so I could do my own electronic second edition, PDF format. He counteroffered letting SJG actually handle the production and distribution, and I naturally said "yeah".
The main complication to this plan is that SJG has several big projects on its plate right now. The primary one actually works in my favor -- that's their new electronic publishing division called E23 -- intended to do this very thing. (I wasn't even aware that they were trying to set this up, so I know that I must have sounded rather stupid and/or uninformed in my emails... oh, well, I can agonize over that later.) The thing is, it's taking longer to set up than they thought, and SJG can't do the project until E23 is up and running.
So basically, once E23 starts selling stuff, a PDF version of IST will go into the pipeline, with the caveat that I get to bring it up to date and all that. This isn't graven in stone, yet -- I called it a "non-binding handshake" deal, and Steve didn't disagree. But I'll tell you, things are looking very positive.


-- Bob
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There's no wrong way to eat a Rhesus.

Winamp is feeling nasty. This song came up in the queue right when I started typing a paper. Exactly NOT the suggestion I need. But I thought it could make Doug's opponent feel half drunk and convinced they just got dumped, only to find fraternal solace with their friend who wears that weird helmet all the time
Reel Big Fish- Beer
she called me late last night,
to say she loved me so
it didn't matter anymore,
i say she never cared
and that she never will,
i'd do it all again
i guess i'll have to wait until then
if i get drunk well, i'll pass out
on the floor now baby
you won't bother me no more
if you're drinkin' well, you know
that you're my friend and i say
i think i'll have myself a beer.
she called me late last night, to say
she loved me,
so..? but i guess he changed her mind
well i should have known it wouldn't beall right,
but i can't live without her
so i won't even try...
if i get drunk well, i'll pass out
on the floor now baby
you won't bother me no more
if you're drinkin' well, you know
that you're my friend and i say
i think i'll have myself a beer.
maybe some day, i'll think of what to say.
maybe next time i'll remember what to do,
she looks like heaven, maybe this is hell,
said she'd do it all again,
she'd promise not to tell!
If i get drunk well, i'll pass out
on the floor now baby
you won't bother me no more
(and she said)
it's ok boy cause you know we'll be good
friends
and i say, i think
i'll have myself a beer.---------------
Oh crap. I've got Destiny.
---
Jon
"And that must have caused my dad's brain to break in half, replaced by a purely mechanical engine of revenge!"

Since "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" ended last season, and "Angel" has been announced to be cancelled at the end of this season, and the putative "Ripper" shows no sign of getting out of the wishful-thinking stage... what are the chances of that world's being revived as a possible setting for a Step?

Well because I have the time and the music I was thinking about the Utena step fragment that was posted just a little bit ago. This song came up in my player and I thought it might make a good theme for Akio. "Theme to a Fake Revolution" - Powerman 5000
Lyrics at www.lyricstime.com/lyrics/54332.html

Shawn Earl

If I were to get back the rights to IST and begin setting up a PDF second edition, what would people like to see added/removed/changed?


-- Bob
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There is no spork.

Note: I tried to search this, but search seems to be down, so I'm sorry if it's already been suggested
Tonight's movie on Bravo got this song suggestion known to the world. It might be useful should Doug have to adjust time for some reason. The lyrics might lead to other powers too, such as invisibility or driving someone insane.

It's astounding
Time is fleeting
Madness takes its toll
But listen closely
(Not for very much longer)
I've got to keep control
I remember
Doing the Time Warp
Drinking those moments when
The blackness would hit me
And the void would be calling
Let's do the Time Warp again
Let's do the Time Warp again
It's just a jump to the left
And then a step to the right
With your hands on your hips
You bring your knees in tight
But it's the pelvic thrust
That really drives you insane
Let's do the Time Warp again
Let's do the Time Warp again
It's so dreamy
Oh, fantasy free me
So you can't see me
No, not at all
In another dimension
With voyeuristic intention
Well secluded, I see all
With a bit of a mind flip
You're into the time slip
And nothing can ever be the same
You're spaced out on sensation
Like you're under sedation
Let's do the Time Warp again
Let's do the Time Warp again
Well I was walking down the street
Just a having a think
When a snake of a guy gave me an evil wink
He shook-a me up, he took me by surprise
He had a pick up truck and the devil's eyes
He stared at me and I felt a change
Time meant nothing, never would again
Let's do the Time Warp again
Let's do the Time Warp again
It's just a jump to the left
And then a step to the right
With your hands on your hips
You bring your knees in tight
But it's the pelvic thrust
That really drives you insane
Let's do the Time Warp again
Let's do the Time Warp again
-- The Time Warp, The Rocky Horror Picture Show soundtrack
It still amazes me that both Susan Sarandon and Barry Bostwick readily acknowledge they were in this movie, and have even appeared at anniversary events associated with it. Co-star Tim Curry runs away from it. Then again, while they spent great portions of the movie running around in their underwear, neither of them spent the movie in fishnets and high heels like Curry did. Jeanne

"I'm Your Puppet", which according to Google is apparently by Elton John.
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Pull the string and I'll wink at you, I'm your puppet
I'll do funny things if you want me to, I'm your puppet
I'll be yours to have and to hold
Darling you've got full control of your puppet
Pull another string and I'll kiss your lips, I'm your puppet
Snap your finger and I'll turn you some flips, I'm your puppet
Your every wish is my command
All you gotta do is wiggle your little hand
I'm your puppet, I'm your puppet
I'm just a toy, just a funny boy
That makes you laugh when you're blue
I'll be wonderful, do just what I'm told
I'll do anything for you
I'm your puppet, I'm your puppet
Pull them little strings and I'll sing you a song, I'm your puppet
Make me do right or make me do wrong, I'm your puppet
Treat me good and I'll do anything
I'm just a puppet an you hold my string, I'm your puppet
Yeah, I'm your puppet
Walking, talking, living, loving puppet
I'm hanging on a string girl, I'll do anything now
I'm a walking, talking, living, loving puppet, and I love you
I'm a smiling happy face when you want me to
Even make you happy when you're feeling blue
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Note: This effect is pretty much based on the events of last night's episode of "Angel", which is where I got the idea in the first place; now that I look at the song, some of the lyrics don't seem like a good match and some of their possible alternate effects don't seem at all desirable, but it's stuck in my mind so here it is.
For the duration of the song, turns Doug - clothes and all, presumably including helmet - into a living, Muppet-style puppet, with appropriate reduction in size. Except for perhaps less physical toughness (puppets tear pretty easily), he's still just as strong, fast, et cetera, as ever.
This probably wouldn't be too useful in practice, but it might be good for the freak-out factor on occasion (how weird is it for your ordinary crook or street thug to be getting his ass kicked by an animate Muppet?), and I've got this image of Doug hiding in a pile of stuffed toys a-la "E.T."...