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Simulacrum: Agatha Heterodyne
08-30-2011, 10:45 PM
"Sparks"
from _Night Castle_ by Trans-Siberian Orchestra
Lines
Of a tale
Cut in the face of a crowd
Sentenced no bail
There
In the night
Deep in the back
Through the black
Beckons a life
Time
Moving in a straight line
But then at a whim
A change in the wind
A story begins in its mind
For deep in her eyes
Beneath the lies
Of the dark
Leaving marks
Sparks
She
Has been steeled
Standing there looking so tight
Taut and high-heeled
One
Of a kind
The kind of a girl
That only a dream
Could design
Time
Seen through glasses of wine
Never reveals
The why or the when
How this story will end
As you find
That deep in her eyes
Beneath the lies
Of the dark
Leaving marks
Sparks
Come on
Conjure up a reason for living
Take me round
And around
And around
And around
And again
Come on
Do it in the name of living
For if not tonight
Tell me when
For if not tonight
Tell me when
Ahhhhh
Hearts
Can confuse
That messed up bundle of nerves
That tends to bruise
Still
Lay it bare
It's better to bleed than to need
And never have dared
Chance
A move based on a glance
A move based on no more than feel
In this unreal circumstance
For deep in her eyes
Beneath the lies of the dark
Leaving marks
Sparks
- CD
ETA: On second thought, don't do this. The mere concept of those two together fills me with terror.
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<evil grin>
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Fortunatly or Ill, he HASNT met her yet (on screen anyway) so he cant till he does unless Bob is gonna say it happened between scenes so to speak.
Though I'd argue that it would be dynamic enough of a story that it should happen on screen though it wont any time soon as that would violate several of Bob's basic operational criteria. (They just won ANOTHER Hugo. I'd say that qualifies as an Active Franchise!)
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NO QUARTER!!!
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And neither of Fenspace's Agathas were around when Doug passed through, either...
Though I'm glad that his notion of her won't be informed by R. Agatha Clay. That is a scary lady.
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Doesn't Doug have at least one sim song for a character he only knows as fiction? I thought he did.... maybe it was just "The Laughing Gnome" and I got confused...
- CD
ETA: Looking a little higher up the board... the Arsenal thread lists several songs which conjure a unique, fictional character: Ballad Of The Blue Cyclone, Frosty The Snowman, Mr. Pinstripe Suit, and Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer, along with a few more like The Laughing Gome that summon up a number of archetypical figures like members of a marching band, soldiers, or garden gnomes. So it could work either way, is all I'm saying, and I am if anything even more filled with fear at the notion of an Agatha who, discovering that she's the image of a fictional character, devotes her six minutes of existence to building something to stay around longer...
--- Say, what does Doug's metagift think of Paul's Soundstretch Extreme? Granted, it can only keep a recogniseable lyric line at fairly minor levels of expannsoin rather than the days-long versions the program is capable of turning a typical music file into, but some utility effects would benefit from being just a little longer. Probably doesn't work, since it's sort of cheating, or else has a modified effect like a cover of the song, but it was just a question that occurred to me.
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Depending on when he aquires the song she might try to download her self onto Eimi's hard-drive.
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Manytales00 Wrote:Depending on when he aquires the song she might try to download her self onto Eimi's hard-drive. Which could be rather awkward, since Noah's beta-version of R. Agatha Clay is already on Eimi's hard drive. (Or, at least, she was when Eimi left Fenspace. Who knows when or if Eimi and Doug might have built bodies for Agatha and the other nine personality sims Eimi was carrying?)
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What is it about the terrifying that fascinates humans so? Regardless, I have a further suggestion: If Sim Agatha goes to the mad place, she takes Doug with her, Team Synchronized Sparking style. Double the crazy, double the fun!
- CD
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Quote:Which could be rather awkward, since Noah's beta-version of R. Agatha Clay is already on Eimi's hard drive. (Or, at least, she was when Eimi left Fenspace. Who knows when or if Eimi and Doug might have built bodies for Agatha and the other nine personality sims Eimi was carrying?)
You know, Rob, it would be nice if you would tell me these things so I can account for them somehow. (Seriously, I'm pretty sure that's not in the notes you gave me on Eimi.)
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I would have sworn I said something about the personality sims being on Eimi's hard drive, and her occasionally using them to simulate a full staff for Noah before the others woke up...
Edit: Yes, it's in her FenWiki entry.
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Oky, mea culpa, then, for either forgetting or never checking. My apologies.
-- Bob
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