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AFAIK, that's the gate out of "Blue Skies, Blue Water" the Drunkard's Stagger set in Nadia.
Yes, it is.
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Not directly by Bob,
but approved by him...
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and the lyrics are a bit wrong for the sentiment Doug would want from it. The hook yes, but the rest of it implies that the singer is something of a jerk.
That's not too hard to get around. From Chapter 1 of
BSBW (which I am still working on, whenever Real Life lets me):
I switched on my helmet and started my real project for the morning: looking for a song to open a portal to my next destination. I called up my list of possible portal songs, picked a song from it at random, and read its lyrics. Then I thought about what I had read. It might work, but I'd never do
that to Maggie.
Ever. I love my wife, and can't even imagine cheating on her. But that's just proof that I have a burning love for her, as the song says ... On the other hand, with the local mana level so low, I could only try to open a portal once or twice a week. Maybe I could give my power a little push and get it to accept the song.
I looked out to the bay, saw that Marie was waving to me, and waved back. If anything was to go wrong, at least she'd know about it. I keyed the song's code into my helmet computer's keypad, sat down, focused my willpower, and hit the "go" button. It wasn't pleasant; forcing my talent to do what I want with a song is never pleasant. But it worked; a gateway opened on the beach, just out of my reach. I cancelled the song, the gateway disappeared, and I collapsed.
Which leads to a Stagger where Doug knows which song will send him on his way, but for various reasons he won't use...
-Rob Kelk
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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
