"I need a boomer," I said to Ohara."What?" He stared at me."I need a boomer," I repeated. "Don't worry, I'll disable itsweapons systems before I start working with it."Several moments passed while he digested this. "Do I even wantto know *why*?" he finally asked."No."He pursed his lips and looked at me over his glasses for a fewmore seconds. "All right," he said. "I'll have one sent to yourshop immediately."Immediately was right. Illya showed up at my door at almost thesame moment I did, accompanied by one of the maintenance guys,who was wheeling along a seriously large crate on a handtruck. Istood at the door to my shop and watched as they came to a halt acouple of feet away. "Ordered a boomer you did?" Illya askedwith a grin.When I saw the model number stenciled on the side of the plasteelbox, I gave him an incredulous Look. "You keep combat boomers*on-site*?"He shrugged in a manner that seemed far too Gallic for hisRussian blood. "One or two we have left over from, um, earlierphase of studies.""Yeah, right." I studied the box for a moment, then opened thedoor and stood aside. "All right, bring it in and put it next tothe nanofac."

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

This one is so silly that I'm not seriously considering it; if I were, I'd only share it with my prereaders.
Those of you who have actually seen Kodocha will know that many of the characters are aware that they are in an anime: Sana runs into the leader of the band that does the theme song and thanks him for doing a good job, and Babbit frequently makes comments about the show being an anime, as do other characters from time to time.
So the silly idea is something along these lines -- Doug drops right into the "family". Someone makes one of the semi-standard comments about this being only an anime. Doug laughs it off. Meanwhile, in a small infinity of universes, all copies of Kodomo no Omocha are retroactively revised to include an anime version of Doug...
Not a big thing, and probably not even funny except to me. But it was a cute idea.

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

Hey, is it possible for Douglas to have found a full length "99 Bottles of Beer"? Would be very useful at parties I would imagine.
Couple of other song ideas
Smash Mouth - Defeat You
Bing Crosby - Pistol Packin' Mama
Seemed like something Doug could have used against the Knight Sabers.
"Oh, lay that pistol down, babe
Lay that pistol down
Pistol packin' mama
Lay that pistol down"
Jim's Big Ego - Stress
The equivalent of about a dozen cups of coffee. However it gives Doug a headache and a great deal of stress.
Frantics - Boot To The Head
Let's Doug give those annoying people a boot to the head.
"People talking in movie shows,
People smoking in bed!
People voting Republican,
Give them a boot to the head!"
SSgt Barry Sadler - Ballad of the Green Beret
Simulacra of an U.S. Army Special Forces Green Beret (or however many that Doug can create and maintain) that parachutes in and can help fight.
"Fighting soldiers from the sky
Fearless men who jump and die
Men who mean just what they say
The brave men of the Green Beret"
-Freddy Isnot

"You are now graduated from newbie and are just clueless. Consider that a compliment."
-Zipcode

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Star Wars would be fun, but for the moment I'm not considering it. Basically, Doug has to be ignorant of transfictionality until at least DW10. To this end, he's not an anime fan, nor does he know any more about Science Fiction than can be found in general pop culture. Star Wars is one of those things that, especially at his age, with his family in the movie business, and generally being immersed in American pop culture, he couldn't help but know about. Throwing him into that universe would put him somewhere he would easily recognize as "fictional" back home; so if I do write something like this, it would have to be after DW10 -- which is to say, not to be written for a long, long time.

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...would be interesting, I think. For those unfamiliar with it, Mega-City One houses 2 billion or more people, takes up most of the East Coast of what was the United States, and is the beat of one Judge Joseph "Ol' Stoney-Face" Dredd. Superheroes are illegal, falling under the laws against vigilantes, and the UN is defunct. Doug is freaky enough to fit right in with the incredible array of odd groups that fill the city. And dimension hopping is not unknown in Mega-City One. Some of their worst criminals have come from other dimensions.
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I'm just wondering if there's any plans for other dimensionally displaced people trying to get home in DWn? If so, I think Solsbury Hill (failed gate song in DW2 IIRC) could be used by Doug to take himself and that other person to their home dimension. I doubt it will ever take Doug home himself, but it might leat to an interesting step along the way to be rescuing someone else in a similar situation...
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I dunno what the hoeck is going on, but for some reason DW General keeps poping up in my new list; yet when I go to the page there are no new posts listed. And this is even after having clicked the 'mark all posts as read'. In addition, the activity tag shows some sort of an action having occured today (the 17th) yet the most recent post on the board shows as the 7th!?!?!?!"I was an Otaku before those kids came along and changed the meaning of the word."

-- HM "Howling Mad" Wilson to more than one team-mate.
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-
NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children

"I am not a thug. I am not a fanatic. I am a vitamin supplement to justice."
May I just say, that you are an evil, utterly evil man, Bob? I nearly snarfed Mountain Dew over my keyboard when I saw that. For real. No kidding.
^_^
-Logan

Ya know.... Ghost in the Shell might be an interesting place for Doug to make a stop-over. It's similar to BGC in tone, but the attitude towards androids and cyborgs is much closer to what he's used to... it'd make for an interesting contrast...
-Z
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If architects built buildings the way programmers write programms, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
-Z, Post-reader at Medium
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If architects built buildings the way programmers write programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.

I've made a minor, fun tweak to the Drunkard's Walk Main Page, in case anyone's interested.
You may have to reload the page a time or two to see what I changed.

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