Saki is like Hikaru no Go but with mahjong instead. It features a girl named Saki who, at first, doesn't like to play mahjong due to some bad New
Year's Eve experiences with her family. After playing with Haramura at the school mahjong club, she finds she does like it and aims for the nationals.
So... basic plot line is pretty normal but it's a fun enough manga.

Hyakko reminds me of a mix of School Rumble or in the style of Azumanga Daioh. It's a lot like short skits but it's hilarious. Torako, in particular,
really is a force of nature and she gets into plenty of trouble, dragging her friends along with her.

Warface's guide to base raids

salient points:

• this is multiple team
  
  
• nothing will be permanently destroyed or damaged
  
  
• this has to be agreed upon by clicking an accept prompt
  
  
• base PVP is a whole new realm - requiring a completely different base design philosophy
  

Ayup, I updated my Graphics drivers so I could watch a DVD and now when I log into CoX....

Wonkery

That's supposed to be Nogi next to the Gamblers by the ferry in Nerva.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll

At playauditorium.com. It's a fun game and I do like the music. Won't tell how to play it because that's part of the fun. =)

Added 'torture room', WIP, feel free to make changes

Added Long Corridor off of Teleporter room - this is temporary, don't put anything there except for play/practice
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies

... but it's worth it. A
Nanoha fan with way too much time on his hands... If they only worked a little more smoothly, and without the tethers (compressed air lines?), I might
want one, just for the coolness factor.
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

It is one of the 50 things Hexane is not allowed to do... but she's considering it.

Fat Tony... wasn't. He'd earned the nickname a long time ago, and as is the way with such things, he was stuck with it for the rest of his life. The
idea of that didn't bother him -- at a subconscious level he considered it right and just and the only way things could possibly be, a man's nickname
was his identity, after all -- but when someone referred to him that way, after all the hassle he'd gone to and the dieting and the working out in the gym
and the freakin' Weight Watchers meetings and all of that CRAP... well, he got a bit irritated.

Yeah, he was Fat Tony, but he was Fat Tony to people who'd earned the right to call him Fat Tony. And this worm didn't qualify. Mister DiAmazzio
would do, or just Tony if the guy was feeling informal, he didn't care.

With a minor twitch of his head he forced himself to pay attention to the union rep. The oily character was, in Tony's opinion, more deserving of the
nickname than he himself currently was, by a good eighty pounds if he was any judge, but -- bah.

"So let me get this straight," he said, picking up a pen from his desk and fiddling with it. "You want me to kick out my best headliner?
She's positioned, Jerry. You know what that means, right? Within the next month, maybe two, she'll hit it big, and that'll all trickle right back
down here 'cause good ol' Tony's the one who gave her her big break. You get it?" He snorted and leaned back in his seat. "I don't
give a rat's left nut about how she pulls it off. The crowds love her, my boys love her, hell, I might like her a little myself. So what if she's too
good at the biz to suit you?" He nodded slowly. "That's it, isn't it? Your other performers getting jealous?" He snorted
contemptously.

"It's not that, F-T." Tony winced as Jerry continued. "See, she's different. Her tricks are -real-, get it?" The union rep
settled back in his seat and glowered at Tony. "The insurance guys are going nuts. She's not covered by the union anymore, and you're a union
shop. So if you know what's good for you, you'll dump her before any customer gets the idea that maybe their head is really being messed with, and not
by stage magic."

"Half the damn shows in Vegas are real these days, Jerry!" Tony exploded, rattling the office windows. "People -want- real magic shit!
They're lining up by the hundreds to pay for it!"

"At the big-name places, yeah. The big names that can afford the big-name lawyers and the big-name bank account and the big-name insurance to settle
lawsuits, Tony. You ain't a big-name place, and the union doesn't support metahuman performers anyway. They've got their own group." Jerry
scowled. "Your choice, F-T. Pull her, or we pull everyone else, 'cause we sure as hell ain't goin' down on behalf of your little hole in the
wall. You wanna face the lawsuits once word of what she's been doin' gets around, you're doin' it on your own."

"I don't take well to threats, Jerry."

"Ain't a threat, or a promise. It's just the way things are." Jerry rose and straightened his suit. "I'll give you a day to make
up your mind, so long as she don't perform tonight. After that, well, we'll see, right?"

The door closed quietly behind Jerry, leaving Tony to stare, fuming, at the visitors chair. Finally he sighed and stabbed at his desk buzzer. "Find
Rebecca and send her in to me. And get me the checkbook."

I've been a bit stalled on my next chapter of Songs of Innocence, my mega-x-over fic starring Chibi-Usa. Perhaps the most annoying point is this:

In the next chapter I introduce The Eschatones (also known as Rei and the Eschatones), a four-piece rock band made up of characters from various anime series.
I have three of them, including:

Ayanami Rei, lead singer and guitar. Originally from Neon Genesis Evangelion.

Kisaragi Quon, bass guitar. Originally from Rah Xephon.

Himemiya Anthy, drums. Originally from Shoujo Kakumei Utena.

I chose those three for many reasons, having to do with their roles in their respective series and also for their apparent ages in the time period I set the
Mega-Tokyo section of this story. The story for now is set in 2032. Quon, as seen at the end of the TV series, is reincarnated as a baby. I am
assuming/creating a similar scenario for Rei. Anthy, following on Chris Davies, simply always looks that young throughout time.

Rei, Quon and Anthy are all initiators/harbingers of the Apocalypse (however you want to define that), having messiah and anti-messiah qualities to them.
Hence the name The Eschatones, from eschaton or the end of the world.

So I am looking for characters that would be "reasonably" able to join a teenage girl band set in the 2030s who have the sort of qualities that are
common with Rei, Quon and Anthy. I really would prefer characters that could actually be teenagers in the 2030 and not, like Anthy, just look like it. But
I'll take what I can get.

Demonstrated musical talent not a necessity.

A caveat: no Haruhi, for many reasons.

Some possibilities I've thought of and tentatively abadoned are:

Iwakura Lain, from Serial Experiments Lain. Set too early, but otherwise a good fit.

Mima Tokiko or "Key" from Key the Metal Idol. Again, set too early. Not apocalyptic enough. But will probaby show up somewhere as either a
character or passing reference.

Skuld from Ah! My Goddess. Once again, set too early. Also doesn't connotate apocalypse.

Lynn Minmei from Superdimensional Fortress Macross. Still set too early, not exactly a spiritual harbinger of the apocalypse.

Mylene Jenius from Macross 7. Set too late, not a harbinger of the apocalypse. Does have musical talents. Her older sisters may show up.

Maetel from Galaxy Express 999. Set too late, though she is a time traveller or at least that's implied. But too old, man, too old.

Kei from Akira. I have another role in mind for her but maybe . . .

Any help appreciated, please! Thank you.

-Murmur

I just noticed that the entirety of chapter 2 of DWII is in preformatted text tags ( and ), no doubt a leftover from when the story text really was "preformatted" 80-column monospaced text. This causes the chapter to display... oddly... in some browsers.

And the concordance for DWII chapter 1 still says that GURPS IST is out-of-print. It's now available on e23. You might be losing a few pennies in possible royalty payments because of that comment, Bob...
--
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