As of this mornin Imperial Dynasty costume set is now available on the market

After having watched The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya last week, I got to thinking about the Fenspace versions of the SOS-Dan, and in a free moment last night whipped up the following. It's very first-draftish, and I'm open to suggestions for changes and improvements. As for wiki markup, I'll do that when I have something close to a final version.

I'm sure we can do something with You Turn Me On, I'm A Radio...

Hmmmmm...

Lets Doug act as a two-way radio for somebody else in the AoE?

Lets Doug communicate with Maggie, anywhere in the same dimension?

Hello! Long time no post, but the upside is I've had a lot
of time to get ideas for power songs, so to start the first of likely several
suggestions, we have

 

 

Good

 

Meet me halfway –
Black Eyed Peas – 4:49

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7HahVwYpwo&ob=av3e

 

 

I can't go any further than this

I want you so badly, it's my biggest wish

 

I spent my time just thinkin thinkin thinkin bout you

Every single day yes, I'm really missin' missin' you

And all those things we use to use to use to do

Hey girl, what's up, it use to be just me and you

I spent my time just thinkin thinkin thinkin bout you

Every single day, yes I'm really missin missin you

And all those things we use to use to use to do

Hey girl what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up

 

Meet me halfway, right at the boarderline

That's where I'm gonna wait, for you

I'll be lookin out, night n'day

Took my heart to the limit, and this is where I'll stay

I can't go any further than this

I want you so bad it's my only wish

 

Girl, I travel round the world and even sail the seven seas

Across the universe I go to other galexies

Just tell me where to go, just tell me where you wanna to
meet

I navigate myself myself to take me where you be

Cause girl I want, I, I, I want you right now

I travel uptown (town) I travel downtown

I wanna to have you around (round) like every single day

I love you alway... way

 

Can you meet me half way (I'll meet you halfway)

Right at the boarderline

That's where I'm gonna wait, for you

I'll be lookin out, night n'day

Took my heart to the limit, and this is where I'll stay

I can't go any further than this

I want you so bad it's my only wish

I can't go any further than this

I want you so bad it's my only wish

 

Let's walk the bridge, to the other side

Just you and I (just you and I)

I will fly, I'll fly the skies, for you and I (for you and
I)

I will try, until I die, for you and I, for you and I, for
for you and I,

For for you and I, for for you and I, for you and I

 

Can you meet me half way (yup yup)

Can you meet me half way (yup yup)

Can you meet me half way (yup yup)

Can you meet me half way (yup yup)

Meet me half way, right at the boarderline

That's where I'm gonna wait, for you

I'll be lookin out, night n'day

Took my heart to the limit, and this is where I'll stay

I can't go any further than this

I want you so bad it's my only wish

I can't go any further than this

I want you so bad it's my only wish

 

Power – Okay, I
realise I'm either stretching the lyrics or being really optimistic here, but I see this as either a dual
teleportation song, (Doug and a person he mentally chooses) would be teleported
to the exact middle point between them, i.e meeting halfway. Or since ‘meet me
halfway' can mean a mental agreement or compromise, that it would create a
mental link or projection of Doug and one other person he has met and who
mentally agrees to the meeting once the song begins – they are mentally projected
to the halfway point between where the two currently are, be It a few feet or
thousands of miles, once there they can talk and discuss freely for the
duration of the song, and both fully remember the experience and conversation.
*Shrugs* I know it's unlikely, but that's where my mind led me.

 

 

 

Bad

 

 

Animal – Neon Trees –
3:31

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM7Hlg75Mlo&ob=av2e


 

Here we go again

I kinda wanna be more than friends

So take it easy on me

I'm afraid

You're never satisfied

Here we go again

We're sick like animals

We play pretend

You're just

A cannibal

And I'm afraid

I won't get out alive

I won't sleep tonight

 

Oh oh

I want some

More

Oh oh

What are you waiting for

Take a bite of

My heart tonight

Oh oh

I want some

More

Oh oh

What are you waiting for

What are you waiting for

Say goodbye to my heart

Tonight

 

Here we are again

I feel the chemicals kickin' in

It's getting heavy

And I wanna run

And hide

I wanna run and hide

I do it every time

You're killin' me now

And I won't be

Denied by you

The animal inside of you

 

Oh oh

I want some more

Oh oh

What are you waiting for

Take a bite of my heart tonight

Oh oh

I want some more

Oh oh

What are you waiting for

What are you waiting for

Say goodbye to my heart tonight

 

Hush, hush The world is quiet

Hush, hush We both can't fight it

It's us that made this mess

Why can't you understand?

Whoa, I won't sleep tonight

 

Here we go again [3x]

 

Oh oh

I want some more

Oh oh

What are you waiting for

Take a bite of my heart tonight

Oh oh

I want some more

Oh oh

What are you waiting for

What are you waiting for

What are you waiting

 

Here we go again [3x]

Say goodbye to my heart tonight

 

Oh oh

I want some more

Oh oh

What are you waiting for

Take a bite of my heart tonight

Oh oh

I want some more

Oh oh

What are you waiting for

What are you waiting for

Say goodbye to my heart tonight

 

 

Power – This one
is much simpler to guess. A pretty blatant ‘transform person into savage
monster obsessed with devouring my flesh' song.

 

 

 

 

Depends- on-Circumstances

 

 

Airplanes – B.O.B
Feat. Haley Williams – 3:12

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn6-c223DUU&ob=av3e

 

 

[Chorus: Hayley Williams]

Can we pretend that airplanes

In the night sky

Are like shooting stars?

I could really use a wish right now

Wish right now

Wish right now

Can we pretend that airplanes

In the night sky

Are like shooting stars?

I could really use a wish right now

Wish right now

Wish right now

 

[Verse 1: B.o.B]

Yeah, I could use a dream or a genie or a wish

To go back to a place much simpler than this

'Cause after all the partyin' and smashin' and crashin'

And all the glitz and the glam and the fashion

And all the pandemonium and all the madness

There comes a time where you fade to the blackness

And when you starin' at that phone in your lap

And you hopin' but them people never call you back

But that's just how the story unfolds

You get another hand soon after you fold

And when your plans unravel in the sand

What would you wish for if you had one chance?

So airplane, airplane, sorry I'm late

I'm on my way so don't close that gate

If I don't make that then I'll switch my flight

And I'll be right back at it by the end of the night

 

[Chorus: Hayley Williams (B.o.B)]

Can we pretend that airplanes

In the night sky

Are like shooting stars? (Shooting stars)

I could really use a wish right now (Wish right now)

Wish right now (Wish right now)

Wish right now (Wish right now)

Can we pretend that airplanes

In the night sky

Are like shooting stars? (Shooting Stars)

I could really use a wish right now (Wish right now)

Wish right now (Wish right now)

Wish right now (Wish right now)

 

[Verse 2: B.o.B]

Ya, ya, somebody take me back to the days

Befo' this was a job, befo' I got paid

Befo' it ever mattered what I had in my bank

Ya, back when I was tryin' to get a tip at Subway

And back when I was rappin' for the hell of it

But nowadays we rappin' to stay relevant

I'm guessin' that if we can make some wishes outta'
airplanes

Then maybe oh maybe I'll go back to the days

Befo' the politics that we call the rap game

And back when ain't nobody listen to my mixtape

And back befo' I tried to cover up my slang

But this is fo' Decatur, what's up Bobby Ray?

So can I get a wish

To end the politics

And get back to the music

That started this shit?

So here I stand and then again I say

I'm hopin' we can make some wishes outta' airplanes

 

[Chorus: Hayley Williams (B.o.B)]

Can we pretend that airplanes

In the night sky

Are like shooting stars? (Shooting Stars)

I could really use a wish right now (Wish right now)

Wish right now (Wish right now)

Wish right now (Wish right now)

Can we pretend that airplanes

In the night sky

Are like shooting stars? (Shooting Stars)

I could really use a wish right now (Wish right now)

Wish right now (Wish right now)

Wish right now (Wish right now)

 

[Outro: B.o.B {Hayley Williams}]

I could really use a wish right now {oh, oh-oh}

(I could really use a wish right now)

I-I-I could really use a wish right now

(I could really use a wish right now)

Like, like, like shootin' stars {oh, oh... oh}

(Like shootin' stars)

I-I-I-I could really use a wish right now

(I could really use a wish right now)

A wish, a wish right now

(A wish right now)

 

 

Power - If there
is airplane above him (or his AOE) at night, Doug is granted genie-like powers
for the duration – one wish per plane - but the power drain would vary
considerably depending on the wishes granted. Plus I get the feeling he'd have little
control over it, like ANY wish in the AOE would be granted – no matter who made
it.

 

 

Any thoughts?

Take a look at the picture from below in flight right under the "behavior and Ecology" heading and tell me that's not where the MP Evas' wings came from visually.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_Vulture

- CD
--
"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows

Found another band for Doug to add to his 'do not touch with a barge pole' list, namely Darkest of the Hillside Thickets. As for why they should be avoided, their songs are either about things from the Mythos or about things equally creepy (although "Shoggoths Away" might be useful in situations where you need to cause a lot of damage and aren't fussed about keeping it contained).

There's a distinct lack of mentions of RPGs in it, alas...

http://www.sjgames.com/general/stakeholders/
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

Homage to the old Robin Hood movies. The detail in the arrow's flex in her last shot is very nice.

BARE NECESSITIES by Louis Armstrong

Look for the bare necessities
Simple bare necessities
Forget about your worries and your strife
I mean the bare necessities
Mother Nature's recipes
Make the bare necessities of life
Wherever I wander, wherever I roam
I couldn't be fonder of my big home
The bees are buzzin' in the trees
To make some honey just for me
You look under the rocks and plants
Take a glance at the fancy ants
And, maybe try a few
The bare necessities of life will come to you
Look for the bare necessities
Simple bare necessities
Forget about your worries and your strife, oh
I mean the bare necessities
Bear even rests at ease
Have the bare necessities of life
Just relax, in my backyard
And if you act like that bee acts
You're working too hard
Don't fill your time just lookin' around
For something you want that can't be found
You'll find out you can live without
Go along not even thinkin' about it
Tell you something true
The bare necessities of life will come to you
Will come to you
Will come to you
WIll come to you
Oh, Yeah

Gives Doug the "bare necessities" for survival: food, water, air, if needed, etc. He wouldn't be living in luxury but he'd survive.
Edit -- Missed a word in the lyrics.

So, I saw this yesterday instead of "The Secret World of Arriety" (thinking I would see that with my girlfriend, who unbenknownst to me, saw it on Saturday). What they don't tell you on the promos is that it's a Hammer Film. You know, the folks that made Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee famous. And it's a pretty good ghost story, with some really nice jumps put in. I recommend it to anyone who likes horror, without a lot of gore (one scene with blood and a bunch of ghost children with the effects of their death on them in a brief scene, and not much else).
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"Good night, and may the Good Lord take a Viking to you."