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Effect: general buff and hastening of Laundry Day chores to complete them within the play time of the song, also repairing damage and restoring any partial pairs or sets with lost members. Everything comes out of Doug's laundry basket warm and just at that perfect point of broken in without actually getting worn and threadbare. He must have appropriate facilities and supplies (at the minimum, a bit of soap while beside a "clean enough" water source, and some kind of line or object to hang things up to dry on) but as far as can be told after finishing they have not actually been used, or consumables (detergent, bleach, etc.) depleted. The laundry area (within Doug's AoE at least) will even be a bit tidied up of any messes or minor issues of the sort that can be addressed with normal cleaning and hand tools while waiting for those parts of the process that don't need active effort with the available facilities.

It's not an earth shaking combat ability, but very handy when he arrives in a less developed world, and there are, as ever, possible situations where it becomes the exact tool he needs in a critical moment.

... actually, has Doug ever gotten the chance to play Fairy Godmother, like the literal bippity-boppity-boo "save the day with household magic" kind of deal? Seems like the kind of thing he'd be deeply amused by.

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[Verse 1]
I don't know what lies ahead
It's all a mystery man, I heard it said
You do your thing, you do your best
I take a guess at what happen next

[Chorus]
All I've got is what I need
And that's enough, as far as I can see
Why should I walk into the great unknown
When I can sit here, and throw my bones?

[Verse 2]
I hear the future is so divine
But I'll just wait until I get a sign
'Cause what I've got here, what I'm holding in my hand
Is better for me than some promised land

[Chorus]
All I've got is what I need
And that's enough, as far as I can see
Why should I walk into the great unknown
When I can sit here, and throw my bones?

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[Verse 3]
What's the rush? Who's to say?
You can't escape tomorrow, it's another day
I'm hanging here, I'm here on solid ground
'Cause heaven's full, or closing down

[Chorus]
All I've got is what I need
And that's enough, as far as I can see
Why should I walk into the great unknown
When I can sit here, and throw my bones?
Oh yeah

[Instrumental Outro]

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I know bear/bare is already on the Big List of Booboos, but the example is too good not to share.

Of course you can adapt whatever strikes your fancy, as can generics like BESM, GURPS, or HERO by definition, but I'm wondering what people think of for out-of-the-box. (GURPS Space combined with Lowtech/Dungeon Fantasy are not disqualified if you really think that's the best. I'm just looking for opinions.)

Spelljammer, well, neither 2e or 5e D&D really match the tone I'm looking for, falling far more into Tolkienesque high fantasy than even early science fiction, and it's the only one I'm really familiar with aside from WEG Star Wars and the genericized d6 Space, which is by default a bit too industrial/technological, predictably in both cases due to those being the source material they're based on.

but if so, it's probably on Doug's Restricted list.

Flirtin' With Disaster by Molly Hatchet


I'm travelin' down the road
I'm flirtin' with disaster
I've got the pedal to the floor
My life is running faster
I'm out of money, I'm out of hope
It looks like self destruction
Well how much more can we take
With all of this corruption

We're flirtin' with disaster
Ya'll know what I mean
And the way we run our lives
It makes no sense to me
I don't know about yourself or what you want to be, yeah
When we gamble with our time
We choose our destiny

I'm travelin' down that lonesome road
Feel like I'm dragging a heavy load
Yeah I've tried to turn my head away
Feels about the same most every day

You know what I'm talking about, baby

Speeding down the fast lane, honey
Playin' from town to town
The boys and I have been burnin' it up, can't seem to slow it down
I've got the pedal to the floor, our lives are runnin' faster
Got our sights set straight ahead
But ain't sure what we're after

Flirtin' with disaster, ya'll damn sure know what I mean
You know the way we run our lives it makes no sense to me
I don't know about yourself or what you plan to be, yea
When we gamble with our time, we choose our destiny

Yeah, I'm travelin' down that lonesome road
Feel like I'm dragging a heavy load
Don't tried to turn my head away
I'm flirtin' with disaster every day

And you are too, baby, ha ha ha

Flirtin' with disaster baby
Ya'll know what I mean
You know the way we run our lives
It makes no sense to me
I don't know about yourself or what you plan to be
When we gamble with our time, we choose our destiny

Yeah, we're traveling down this lonesome road
Feel like I'm dragging a heavy load
Don't try and turn my head away, ba ba ba yeah
Flirtin' with disaster every day

To our Canadian friends, what it says on the tin

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Or at least read it?

I've written a scene that's the first time two characters whose native language is Norwegian speak with each other "on-screen", so of course the conversation is in that language because why wouldn't it be? But it's a language that I can't read. We come in near the end of the conversation so there's less than a half-dozen lines.

I'm not completely convinced that Google Translate did a perfect job in translating them.

I don't need the text proofread right away (and can probably get away with footnoting it's mechanically translated), but I'd appreciate a second opinion on the translation, please.