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  I forgot to mention this...
Posted by: Bob Schroeck - 12-06-2002, 09:54 PM - Forum: General DW Chatter - Replies (2)

The newest, and hopefully final, version of Doug's Fuzion character sheet can be found on my website at www.eclipse.net/~rms/dougfuzn.html
Many thanks to Logan Darklighter for his number-crunching and his patience with my interminable "Oh wait, just one more thing!" emails.

-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

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  A question
Posted by: Murmur the Fallen - 12-06-2002, 07:33 AM - Forum: The Game Everyone Loves To Play - Replies (4)

Do covers of songs have a different effect from the original?
Such as, would Paul Simon's "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard," imprison someone in an energy barrier and Me First And the Gimme Gimmes version give a targeted enemy worse direction sense than Ryouga?
And that's not even touching on showtunes.
Oh, my recommendation: "Dies Irae" from Verdi's Requiem. I see it as a wave of invisible power emanating from Doug that turns everything around him for as far as he can see into ash and dust like the fist of god.
It's an angry day song.
And the song that Doug should never hear is "England Made Me" by Black Box Recorder.
I had a dream last night, that I was drunk
I killed the stranger, and left him in a trunk
In Brighton railway station
It was an unsolved case
A famous murder mystery
People love mystery

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  Different Worlds
Posted by: offsides - 12-06-2002, 02:46 AM - Forum: The Game Everyone Loves To Play - Replies (7)

We already have been told that "different" versions of the "same" song can have differing effects, but what about a song having different effects in different worlds. I know that Doug effectively rewrites reality within at least his basic field, but given that he's prone to drawing at least partially on the local ambient (and nodular) mana, might the nature of the surrounding area have an effect on his powers?
Not necessarily a drastic change, but it would be fun to see the look on Doug's face when he did something and it came off tilted 5 degrees to the wierd... [Image: smile.gif]
Offsides
Drunkard's Walk Forum Moderator and Prereader At Large

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  Yet another couple of fun ones
Posted by: offsides - 12-05-2002, 07:10 AM - Forum: The Game Everyone Loves To Play - Replies (2)

I heard The Who's "Mobile" on the way home, and thought of a nifty way to use it. While the song is playing, it has 2 major effects:
1) Doug cannot stop moving - he can control it to a greater degree, but he will always have at least a really bad case of the Jitters. Nothing will be able to restrain him or hold him down, and he is partially exempt from the 1st Law of Newtonian Mechanics. That is, "A body in motion stays in motion." If he chooses, he can go right through things - of course, it will probably hurt... [Image: smile.gif]
2) Security systems, audit trails, cops, revenue collectors, and the like simply don't see him (or his activities). SO he could hack through a system, and they would know stuff happenned after the fact, but during it they would be oblivious to it.
A second song that I thought up for no apparent reason is "Here's Your Sign", by Travis Tritt with Bill Engvall. The net effect of the song is that Doug can pull out Bugs Bunny style signs with anything he wants on them, in any size up to around that of a billboard, and then put them back into nowhere. The only caveat is that during the song he can't speak...
Offsides
Drunkard's Walk Forum Moderator and Prereader At Large

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  A Little Theme Music: Silverbolt
Posted by: Bob Schroeck - 12-05-2002, 03:43 AM - Forum: Drunkard's Walk II: Robot's Rules of Order - Replies (12)

Well, um. I can't find anything I like. The closest to a good candidate is "Venus" by Shocking Blue, and it really doesn't fit that well. ("Goddess on a mountain top, burning like a silver flame...") Any suggestions?

-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

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  A Little Theme Music: Shadowwalker
Posted by: Bob Schroeck - 12-05-2002, 03:24 AM - Forum: Drunkard's Walk II: Robot's Rules of Order - Replies (2)

Johnny take a walk with your sister the moon
Let her pale light in to fill up your room
You've been living underground
Eating from a can
You've been running away
From what you don't understand...
Love
She's slippy
You're sliding down
She'll be there when you hit the ground
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright
She moves in mysterious ways
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright
She moves in mysterious ways
Johnny take a dive with your sister in the rain
Let her talk about the things you can't explain
To touch is to heal
To hurt is to steal
If you want to kiss the sky
Better learn how to kneel
(On your knees boy)
She's the wave
She turns the tide
She sees the man inside the child
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright
She moves in mysterious ways
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright
She moves in mysterious ways
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright
Lift my days, light up my nights
One day you will look...back
And you'll see...where
You were held...how
By this love...while
You could stand...there
You could move on this moment
Follow this feeling
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright
She moves in mysterious ways
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright
She moves in mysterious ways
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright
We move through miracle days
Spirit moves in mysterious ways
She moves with it
She moves with it
Lift my days, light up my nights
-- U2, Mysterious Ways
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

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  A Little Theme Music: Kat
Posted by: Bob Schroeck - 12-05-2002, 03:21 AM - Forum: Drunkard's Walk II: Robot's Rules of Order - No Replies

On a morning from a Bogart movie
In a country where they turn back time
You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre
Contemplating a crime
She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running
Like a watercolour in the rain
Don't bother asking for explanations
She'll just tell you that she came
In the year of the cat.
She doesn't give you time for questions
As she locks up your arm in hers
And you follow 'till your sense of which direction
Completely disappears
By the blue tiled walls near the market stalls
There's a hidden door she leads you to
These days, she says, I feel my life
Just like a river running through
The year of the cat
She looks at you so cooly
And her eyes shine like the moon in the sea
She comes in incense and patchouli
So you take her, to find what's waiting inside
The year of the cat.
Well morning comes and you're still with her
And the bus and the tourists are gone
And you've thrown away the choice and lost your ticket
So you have to stay on
But the drum-beat strains of the night remain
In the rhythm of the new-born day
You know sometime you're bound to leave her
But for now you're going to stay
In the year of the cat.
-- Al Stewart, The Year of the Cat
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

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  A Little Theme Music: Wetter Hexe
Posted by: Bob Schroeck - 12-05-2002, 03:20 AM - Forum: Drunkard's Walk II: Robot's Rules of Order - No Replies

Raven hair and ruby lips,
Sparks fly from her finger tips.
Echoed voices in the night,
She's a restless spirit on an endless flight.
Woo-hoo, witchy woman, see how high she flies.
Woo-hoo, witchy woman, she got the moon in her eyes.
She held me spellbound in the night,
Dancing shadows and firelight.
Crazy laughter in another room
And she drove herself to madness with a silver spoon.
Woo-hoo, witchy woman, see how high she flies.
Woo-hoo, witchy woman, she got the moon in her eyes.
I know you want to love her but let me tell you, brother,
She's been sleepin' in the devil's bed.
There's some rumors goin' round, someone's underground,
She can rock you in the night until your skin turns red.
Woo-hoo, witchy woman, see how high she flies.
Woo-hoo, witchy woman, she got the moon in her eyes.
-- The Eagles, Witchy Woman
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

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  Damn, that was fast.
Posted by: Bob Schroeck - 12-04-2002, 10:03 PM - Forum: General DW Chatter - Replies (4)

DW2 chapter 12 has already been Googled. I was just searching for the proper attribution for the "Get me outta here" Bugs Bunny quote, and what should be the first thing on the results page but chapter 12. Wow. I must have posted the chapter to the webpage just before the spider got there -- usually it's like a month or two before the search engine notices changes.
That's it, nothing important, just me being moderately boggled.

-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

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  Hexe's Blessing
Posted by: Scrambler - 12-04-2002, 06:01 AM - Forum: Drunkard's Walk II: Robot's Rules of Order - Replies (4)

I am somewhat suspicious that the "blessing" is going to give Lisa the "Sailor Loon" powers again. Or at least some sort of power.

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