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Way Too Powerful...But I've Gotta Mention It
Way Too Powerful...But I've Gotta Mention It
#1
...mostly because I'm having fun picturing Bob making puppy-dog eyes at a Game Master and saying, "Please?"
Play That Song Again
Joan Jett, Ricky Bird, & Frank Carillo
Twenty-one and lost out on the street,
You won't take nobody's sympathy.
Back at home you reached for love
But you was turned away.
Black and blue, you cry most every night.
You tell your friends that everything's all right
Hoping when you close your eyes
It all will go away.
(But with the music loud
Your life gets better somehow)
All right, play that song again,
All night and never let it end;
You'll find something there for you;
All right, it can get you through.
It's though there's someone trying to break you down;
There's a million takers in this town.
It's too hard when no one even wants to understand.
Guitar coming from a radio,
Always takes you where you wanna go;
Somehow all your troubles always seem to fade away.
(But with the music loud
Your life gets better somehow)
All right, play that song again,
All night and never let it end;
You'll find something there for you;
All right, it can get you through.
Guitar coming from a radio,
Always takes you where you wanna go.
(But with the music loud
Your life gets better somehow)
All right, play that song again,
All night and never let it end;
You'll find something there for you;
All right, it can get you through.
All right all night.
All right all night.
Effect: Doug has to play this song completely through, but then if he starts a new power song within thirty seconds, the power from the new song lasts twice as long as the song itself does ("playing" the song again) -- unless it's night. In that case, the power lasts for the rest of the night.
That's not necessarily as beneficial as sounds, because he can't shut it off once the second power song has finished playing -- he has to wait for the extended duration to complete -- and he can't use any other power songs during that period.
And if you need another unpleasant side effect, Doug feels like an alienated, unloved twenty-something at least during the playing of the initial song, although the second song should cheer him up.
DHBirr
"Up, lad, up! We've villages to pillage, maidens to slay, and dragons to rescue!"
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Big Brother is watching you.  And damn, you are so bloody BORING.
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Re: Way Too Powerful...But I've Gotta Mention It
#2
man that's awesome.
'fly like an eagle'...
I gotta make it to Alpha Centauri!Wire Geek - Burning the weak and trampling the dead since 1979
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Re: Way Too Powerful...But I've Gotta Mention It
#3
"I'm a Pioneer" might be a better choice for that scenario - "Fly Like and Eagle" has that troublesome time-slip factor too, and by the time he'd spent eight or ten hours in the song (assuming he'd started it relatively early afterdark) it would be weeks later.
- CDThat which does not kill us... has made its last mistake.
SERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
" It's crazy to try to spell out all the mega-nooks and hyper-crannies of a Borg contrivance." - Doug Drexler
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Re: Way Too Powerful...But I've Gotta Mention It
#4
Double the duration, double the angst.
I like this. A good metasong, which I need a few more of.

-- Bob
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It's a "magical" land. I think "magical" is ancient Greek for "pain in the butt". -- Bun-Bun, Sluggy Freelance, 11/9/03
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