I came up with an idea for an advantage based on watching DBZ (OK, I admit it, I enjoy the mindless show ) : That Which Does Not Kill Me Makes Me Stronger.
For those who don't know, there's a race in DBZ that grows in power everytime they recover from damage, somewhat proportionally to the amount of damage they took, but occasionally exponentially (and possibly including a metamorposis of sorts when they reach a new level). It seems to me that this could be multi-leveled advantage, from someone who gains 1/10 point to put towards increasing ST/HT for every Fatigue/HP they recover (say, a 25-point variant) to something really obnoxious for 100+ points (haven't figured out the formula yet, but probably something exponential based on the proportion of damage).
While not particularly useful for true role-playing campaigns, it could be very interesting in a purely combat-oriented campaign...
Just a thought (I do have them on occasion )
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Drunkard's Walk Forum Moderator and Prereader At Large

Okay, I'm finally getting around to assembling a "soundtrack album" for DW2 (now that I have a cd burner...). And I've been thinking -- what would be a good "theme song" for the story as a whole? For a long time, I've been favoring "Original Sin", a Jim Steinman song originally recorded by Pandora's Box, an all-woman group he assembled circa 1990. I even began writing a script for a music video to go with it. But I'm having some second thoughts. So I'm putting the question to both board members here and my prereaders on their own list -- is there a song out there that you can think of which says "Drunkard's Walk 2!!!" to you?
Thanks.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Just a little treat for folks. Several times Doug mentions the Warriors' headquarters in England, which is simply called "The Mansion". Here's a picture of it:

(Well, actually, it's a building at a college in England, but everyone in the campaign looks at it and says, "Yup, that's the Mansion.)
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

A thought that came to mind: What if the first time Doug heard a song, he was watching a music video of it?
Might his subconscious key to something he saw in the video?
I have this image in my head of Doug keying up Europe's Final Countdown and having an Eva unit launch behind him...
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Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.

When the moon is in the Seventh House
And Jupiter aligns with Mars
Then peace will guide the planets
And love will steer the stars
This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius
Age of Aquarius
Aquarius!
Aquarius!
Harmony and understanding
Sympathy and trust abounding
No more falsehoods or derisions
Golden living dreams of visions
Mystic crystal revelation
And the mind's true liberation
Aquarius!
Aquarius!
When the moon is in the Seventh House
And Jupiter aligns with Mars
Then peace will guide the planets
And love will steer the stars
This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius
Age of Aquarius
Aquarius!
Aquarius!
Aquarius!
Aquarius!
-- Aquarius, from the musical "Hair"
Music by McDermot, lyrics by Rado and Ragni
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Quote:

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What did I want?
I wanted a Roc's egg. I wanted a harem loaded with lovely odalisques less than the dust beneath my chariot wheels, the rust that never stained my sword. I wanted raw red gold in nuggets the size of your fist and feed that lousy claim jumper to the huskies! I wanted to get up feeling brisk and go out and break some lances, then pick a likely wench for my droit de seigneur -- I wanted to stand up to the Baron and dare him to touch my wench! I wanted to hear the purple water chuckling against the skin of the Nancy Lee in the cool of the morning watch and not another sound, nor any movement save the slow tilting of the wings of the albatross that had been pacing us the last thousand miles.
I wanted the hurtling moons of Barsoom. I wanted Storisende and Poictesme, and Holmes shaking me awake to tell me, "The game's afoot!" I wanted to float down the Mississippi on a raft and elude a mob in company with the Duke of Bilgewater and the Lost Dauphin.
I wanted Prester John, and Excalibur held by a moon-white arm out of a silent lake. I wanted to sail with Ulysses and with Tros of Samothrace and eat the lotus in a land that seemed always afternoon. I wanted the feeling of romance and the sense of wonder I had known as a kid. I wanted the world to be what they promised me it was going to be -- instead of the tawdry, lousy, fouled-up mess it is. -- Robert A. Heinlein, Glory Road

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"Why Does the Sun Shine?", by They Might Be Giants.
Useful if the sun goes out, as in D.C.'s "Final Night" crossover. Or, potentially, if Doug's stuck in a universe with a pre-Copernican cosmology.
Otherwise, I don't really see it doing anything other than ensuring that the sun continues to exist, the visible effects of which should be minimal.
At first, I was afraid it would summon "a mass of incandescent gas", but fortunately, "the sun is far away".

... as a weremachine.
That concept just broke me and boggled me at the same time.
And while I have no idea how well the mechanics work yet, the background looks good!
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(This messasge was written using wireless networking on a pen-based PC with no keyboard. Ain't technology fun? )Drunkard's Walk Forum Moderator and Prereader At Large

Hello everyone.
I am, alas, merely a lurker who has cast aside his silence and anonymity that I may join in the fun. Um...whee?
*laugh*
I'll try not to be too much of a nusiance and hopefully interject some witty dialogue here and there. But for right now....
*waves jauntily, then trots off to bed.*
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"Sweet songs of youth, the Wise, the meeting of all wisdom. To believe in the good in Man."
- "Loved by the Sun" Legend Soundtrack

Can anyone help me? I'm looking for a coherent timeline of Evangelion; one that matches the actual calendar for 2015-16 would be best. Every timeline I've so far come across on the Net has been incomplete -- fragmentary blocks of text assigned with no finer grain than yearly -- or demonstrably wrong -- the only Friday 11th's in 2015 are in September and December, so Asuka and Shinji couldn't have performed their "duet" attack in the spring of that year as so many sites maintain.
Actually, it doesn't have to match the calendar, as long as it can give me a better sense of when things happen on a monthly basis. Too many sites just list the angels with the year "2015" written at the top and call that a timeline. I'm hoping that somewhere, someone has something more.
Can anyone help?
Thanks.

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