Well, sinc Bob wanted another thread for cliches from Harry Potter fanfics, here we go.
Now then. 
The Centaurs in the Forbidden Forest.around Hogwarts.  The heavy majority of stories have the centaurs as always been there.
At any rate, Centaurs are good and belong in the forest around Hogwarts.  I seem to recall in old myth and legend that there was no such thing as a female centaur.  How they continued their species was to capture women and either rape them or gang rape them.(If I ever get back to mine...)  That has never been used to my knowledge
moRon and 'Draco in Leather Pants'.
Bob is going to run into the main problem with the Harry Potter world that I did.  Doug is Competent.  British wizards are not.  Which should take care of the other big clice of drawing the battle out with Voldemort to Harry's 7th year.
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Tom Mathews aka Disruptor

Not necessarily songs affecting politics, but songs about politics. This is the only one I have currently, but I felt that the topic was fairly general, and Doug already has demonstrated that he knows the protest song well, with his presence on the Group W bench.
"Subterranean Homesick Blues" by Bob Dylan
(I included Michael Franti's recent cover just because it's a great version that I wanted to share.)


Johnny's in the basementMixing up the medicineI'm on the pavementThinking about the governmentThe man in the trench coatBadge out, laid offSays he's got a bad coughWants to get it paid offLook out kidIt's somethin' you didGod knows whenBut you're doin' it againYou better duck down the alley wayLookin' for a new friendThe man in the coon-skin capBy the big penWants eleven dollar billsYou only got ten

Maggie comes fleet footFace full of black sootTalkin' that the heat putPlants in the bed butThe phone's tapped anywayMaggie says that many sayThey must bust in early MayOrders from the D.A.Look out kidDon't matter what you didWalk on your tiptoesDon't try "No-Doz"Better stay away from thoseThat carry around a fire hoseKeep a clean noseWatch the plain clothesYou don't need a weathermanTo know which way the wind blows

Get sick, get wellHang around a ink wellRing bell, hard to tellIf anything is goin' to sellTry hard, get barredGet back, write brailleGet jailed, jump bailJoin the army, if you failLook out kidYou're gonna get hitBut users, cheatersSix-time losersHang around the theatersGirl by the whirlpoolLookin' for a new foolDon't follow leadersWatch the parkin' meters

Ah get born, keep warmShort pants, romance, learn to danceGet dressed, get blessedTry to be a successPlease her, please him, buy giftsDon't steal, don't liftTwenty years of schoolin'And they put you on the day shiftLook out kidThey keep it all hidBetter jump down a manholeLight yourself a candleDon't wear sandalsTry to avoid the scandalsDon't wanna be a bumYou better chew gumThe pump don't work'Cause the vandals took the handles
EFFECT: A fast and dirty summary of the sociopolitical climate of the area that Doug happens to be in. Nothing overly detailed (the song is only about 2:20 after all), but it details the major political figures by name and appearance, the pertinent political facts of the day, and the major social issues. It's just a Cliff Notes version, nothing more detailed than what Doug could get by reading about two weeks of the local newspapers, but it does it in two minutes. Unfortunately, with that limited a time, if an issue is particularly complicated or has more than two sides, then Doug might not get all the details.
Ebony the Black Dragon
http://ebony14.livejournal.com

"Good night, and may the Good Lord take a Viking to you."

I'm thinking to make it easier for myself and other operators to invite folks we could post our character@globalname here. I'll try to catch folks online to invite them if I got a name to look for
Terrence Knight@terrenceknight1

The files here date back to Cryptic Studios and 2004, and are fascinating reading, especially when you realize just how much they'd planned even back then. For example, the CoHBible file includes details on just how Mot ended up in Dark Astoria, what the Thorns were up to, and even the Tsoo. There's a few minor changes made since then, but it's still amazingly accurate.

http://docs.google.com/file/d/0BypRfkM ... htN2M/edit

I would like to see such a step, simply because i want to see how Doug would react to a universe where chaos is really really bad and basically everyone is a bastard.  Doug would truly be in a target rich environment.

... in the brand new AE Arc, "Defeat NPC Soft - Save the World!".  A quick-and-dirty lampoon adventure in which you get to beat the crap out of everyone at the evil corporation NPC Soft, who are behind a plan to destroy both Paragon City and the Rogue Isles.
Arc # 553907.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

[link]This thread[/url] got me wondering about the big musical acts in Fenspace. I wasn't able to find very many... Sorted by debut date:

• The http://www.fenspace.net/index.php5?titl ... _Cavaliers]Hong Kong Cavaliers: Debuted in 2011, IIRC, but didn't take their current name until December 2013. Primarily "classic rock," with forays into practically every other style.
  
• http://www.fenspace.net/index.php5?titl ... S238_Brass]Junior Fabulous and the PS238 Brass: Not sure when they debuted, but before the end of the Boskone War. Jazz and big-band, when they're not the "horns section" for the Hong Kong Cavaliers.
  
• Bombastic Hush: Debuted June 2013. A French-influenced electropop trio. Renée Taliaferro fronts and plays guitar; two more band members TBD.
  
• Sunshine Galaxy: Possibly debuted at Serenity-Con - the backstory is still in flux as of this posting. Pop with occasional forays into harder rock, metal or power ballads (and the occasional mambo or dance track voice over rap). Fronted by singer Hoshikage Kouyou, backed by session musicians.
  
• The Red Lad Revue: Debuted February 2018. Primarily "show tunes." Fronted by Kohran Li, with Makoto Miyadera and five more core members TBD.
  

I think what I was getting at in (possibly unwisely) raising the question of MLP-related biomods was whether there might reasonably be some sort of 'standard' list of biomods?  Existing wiki entry:
http://www.fenspace.net/index.php5?title=Biomod
Obviously, every biomod has at least the potential to be be different, but the basic idea of biomods is one of the signature traits of Fenspace, and there are some common patterns.  Then there are things which look like biomods, but aren't, biomods which are mixed-in with something else, and biomods which are so extreme that the person isn't biological anymore, or even becomes living handwavium.
It might be worth mentioning people going the other way, and becoming either more biological, or becoming legal persons when they weren't before.  Then biomods of things which are neither persons before nor after, like animals or plants.
Seeing as Fenspace isn't a dystopian setting, saying something about what are the limits on a 'Joker' (a biomod that is (almost) all quirks), or even a 'Black Queen' (death or its equivalent) might be worthwhile.  Also making it clear whether this is a limit on what handwavium will do, what stories it is desirable to tell in the Fenspace setting, or both.  I think the terminology is inspired by the 'Wild Cards' braided novel/collective writing setting:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Cards
(apologies if this is mentioned somewhere obvious, but I've managed to miss it).
Each faction can have its own standard biomods (the Trekkie aliens are probably a good example), but some biomods cut across factions or might even become the origin of a faction.  It would probably be worth a least noting imperceptible or unnoticed biomods, that might be the result of accident or medical intervention.  Some theories to the logic behind biomod results would obviously be worth linking from here.
Then there's things like the legal status of biomods in various places on Earth, and when that changes in the timeline, whether or not involuntary biomodding might be used anywhere in Fenspace except as a final emergency medical treatment, possibly as a 'final chance' alternative to execution, and links to faction rituals to do with biomodding.  And, whether any of that is considered too dystopian for the Fenspace setting.
Making sure that it's clear: some of the information is common knowledge in Fenspace, some is only known to small groups of people, and some is 'meta' and is there for use by writers.  Also when in the timeline various things become known.
So, is this worth doing?  Or, is there enough about biomods in other places in the wiki?
Or, none of the above? [grin]
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"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind

Hi,

I had a crazy idea yesterday what is going on at the Little Big Bang Labs around Nostromo. I need a bit more SCIENCE! and less "Science" there.

An accident with a larger (and self-contained) Mass Effect core force the catgirls to eject the core... which shortly afterwards detonate, directly on the Limit of Nostromo.

It somehow interacts with the FTL limit of Nostromo and creates a short burst of gravity which race outwards... and carry the FTL prohibiting effect with it. For some time (minutes? hours?) the Limit of Nostromo is increased by a few lightminutes/-hours before it snaps back. Several gravity engines in the area are misfunction or just forced out of FTL, some of them need to be repaired.

It creates a "WOW... lets try this again" kind of reaction among the catgirls there... but it might take a year or two until the effect can be reproduced under controlled conditions by a series of satellites around Nostromo.

Would this be an acceptable event for Fenspace?

Gotten via Janice "Ardaniel" Collier earlier today.
http://www.atlantamagazin...es/Story.aspx?ID=1764014
(Only posting it in Politics because there is no way in hell this can be considered a topic to be neutral on.)
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"You know how parents tell you everything's going to fine, but you know they're lying to make you feel better? Everything's going to be fine." - The Doctor