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A song to drive Doug batty..... - Feinan - 03-15-2006
Ok. I was listening to this song, and got the weirdest flash of powers for it, so I thought I'd share with the class. And since the version that I have is around ten minutes long, Doug has all sorts of time to play with.
Bat Out Of Hell
Meatloaf
The sirens are screaming and the fires are howling
Way down in the valley tonight
There's a man in the shadows with a gun in his eye
And a blade shining oh so bright
There's evil in the air and there's thunder in the sky
And a killer's on the bloodshot streets
And down in the tunnel where the deadly are rising
Oh I swear I saw a young boy
Down in the gutter
He was starting to foam in the heat
Oh Baby you're the only thing in this whole world
that's pure and good and right
And wherever you are and wherever you go
There's always gonna be some light
But i gotta get out
I gotta break it out now
Before the final crack of dawn
So we gotta make the most of our one night together
When it's over you know
We'll both be so alone
Like a bat out of hell
I'll be gone when the morning comes
When the night is over
Like a bat out of hell I'll be gone gone gone
Like a bat out of hell I'll be gone when the morning comes
But when the day is done
And the sun goes down
And the moonlight's shining through
Then like a sinner before the gates of heaven
I'll come crawling on back to you
I'm gonna hit the highway like a battering ram
On a silver black phantom bike
When the metal is hot and the engine is hungry
And we're all about to see the light
Nothing ever grows in this rotten old hole
Everything is stunted and lost
And nothing really rocks
And nothing really rolls
And nothing's ever worth the cost
And I know that I'm damned if I never get out
And maybe I'm damned if I do
But with every other beat I got left in my heart
You know I'd rather be damned with you
If I gotta be damned you know I wanna be damned
Dancing through the night with you
If I gotta be damned you know I wanna be damned
Gotta be damned you know I wanna be damned
If Gotta be damned you know I wanna be damned
Dancing through the night
Dancing through the night
Dancing through the night with you
Oh Baby you're the only thing in this whole world
that's pure and good and right
And wherever you are and wherever you go
There's always gonna be some light
But I gotta get out
I gotta break it out now
Before the final crack of dawn
So we gotta make the most of our one night together
When it's over you know
We'll both be so alone
Like a bat out of hell
I'll be gone when the morning comes
When the night is over
Like a bat out of hell I'll be gone gone gone
Like a bat out of hell I'll be gone when the morning comes
But when the day is done
And the sun goes down
And the moonlight's shining through
Then like a sinner before the gates of heaven
I'll come crawling on back to you
Then like a sinner before the gates of heaven
I'll come crawling on back to you
I can see myself tearing up the road
Faster than any other boy has ever gone
And my skin is raw but my soul is ripe
And no one's gonna stop me now
I gotta make my escape
But I can't stop thinking of you
And I never see the sudden curve until it's way too late
I never see the sudden curve till it's way too late
Then I'm dying on the bottom of a pit in the blazing sun
Torn and twisted at the foot of a burning bike
And I think somebody somewhere is tolling a bell
And the last thing I see is my heart
Still beating
Breaking out of my body
And flying away
Like a bat out of hell
Then I'm dying at the bottom of a pit in the blazing sun
Torn and twisted at the foot of a burning bike
And I think somebody somewhere must be tolling a bell
And the last thing I see is my heart
Still beating
Still beating
Breaking out of my body and flying away
Like a bat out of hell
Like a bat out of hell
Like a bat out of hell
Like a bat out of hell
Like a bat out of hell
Like a bat out of hell
Powers: The primary power is transformation. For those of you who've seen/read Hellsing, it allows Doug to transform into a large cloud of bats and back at will for the duration of the song. Now...there are a few other perks.
First, the bats are bright red and covered with a thin layer of flame. Two, they can fly like the devil himself was after them - they can probably push or even break Mach 1. The faster they fly, the more intense the flame surrounding them becomes, and the longer the trail of fire they leave behind them (and the longer it endures). The cloud is immune to flame, and by flying back and forth in an area can fill it with fire, torching anything flammable within it. If the entire cloud flies in a circle fast enough, they can even form a fiery version of a tornado. Finally - Doug can reform at the location of any single bat, the rest vanishing as he turns human again. This is very useful for evasion, as the cloud can split apart and fly in a myriad of directions to avoid an enemy, and then Doug can appear at whichever location is enemy-free.
So...there you go. Useful at all?
--Feinan
Re: A song to drive Doug batty..... - DHBirr - 03-15-2006
Maybe I'm way off base on this, but I'm a bit concerned about the part that goes:
"Then I'm dying on the bottom of a pit in the blazing sun
Torn and twisted at the foot of a burning bike"
It's all up to Doug's subconscious, of course, but the imagery of disaster in those two lines struck me very forcefully -- even though the bit about his heart breaking away suggests escape. Escape for his soul, maybe. Still, Doug is demonstrably a more optimistic person than I'll ever be, so perhaps....
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Big Brother is watching you. And damn, you are so bloody BORING.
Re: A song to drive Doug batty..... - Bob Schroeck - 03-15-2006
I dunno, I always saw it as a travel song, possibly manifesting a "Ghost Rider"-style bike -- high-speed, very dangerous, but very very effective.
-- Bob
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For Jor-El so loved the Earth, he sent his only begotten son...
Re: A song to drive Doug batty.... - Feinan - 04-01-2006
Sorry I haven't answered before this - I've been distracted by Galactic Civilizations 2 for the past two weeks...
Well...the bat cloud CAN move at near-Mach speed, so it could certainly be used as a travel song, but I can see where you'd like the Ghost Rider-style bike. Though given that Doug already has a pretty nice bike, maybe you might consider it as an 'upgrade' song? Transforms his current vehicle to a 'Hell' theme, and turbocharges it with regards to speed and the like? It'd let you use the Ghost Rider bike imagery with Doug's current bike (a flaming bike soaring through the air would be very cool-looking), and you'd be able to transform a car if you wanted to try something different...
--Feinan
Re: A song to drive Doug batty.... - Bob Schroeck - 04-03-2006
Yeah, that'd work, and maybe with a trail of bats streaming out behind...
-- Bob
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For Jor-El so loved the Earth, he sent his only begotten son...