Well, here's one for the "Not allowed under Bob's rules but wish it was" category...
Imagine a universe along the Walk where Doug discovers a Weird Al parody of a particular tune by Queen....
(Weird Al doing Freddy Mercury? The mind boggles. I can't imagine what it would look like, but I know I'd pay money to see it)
Here I am
I'm the master of your pastries.
Fire up your oven
It's my appetite you'll feed.

CHORUS:
Yes, I'm the one
The only one
Bakery critic of kingdom come--
GIMME THE PIES!!
JUST GIMME THE PIES!



"I've got something to say -- it's better to eat out, than to waste away!"
:

Just keep yours cakes
Or I'll crush them in my hands.
Your dainty blintzes
You just leave them in the pans.


...and so on.
The original tune is "Gimme the Prize (Kurgan's Theme)" from the "Highlander" OST (There IS only one!).

As for what Doug's metatalent would do with this song... well, *I'd* say that it's blindingly obvious. Unless Doug has some kind of extreme dislike for Three Stooges movies or something....
Originally, I had wanted to cross-tie this in with all those full-page ads in Marvel comics during the 70s and 80s where the Hero(ine), helpless against the Villain's newest plot, is saved by the timely arrival of a shipment of Hostess pies (and cakes), which distract said villain so much (s/he's busy *eating,* and just can't stop) that the Hero(ine) is able to save the day without much effort. But I decided I was stretching things a bit as it was.
And, sadly, there's probably no chance of Doug doing a Neo and asking
for "Pies. Lots of pies," while infinite racks of baked goods appear out of the vanishing point. Too bad.

Time Article
Y'know, here's usually the time where I could say something witty, like, I dunno, titling the thread "SHOCK and ARGH", or perhaps commenting on how that biased liberal media, determined to believe their own country employs torturers no matter the evidence to the contrary, is at it again.
But some things make a man so goddamn angry, so goddamn bitter, so goddamn full of bile and disgust, that trying to make any sort of joke about them tastes like ashes.

news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060...erprinting

Quote:

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Advocates for abuse victims said they were unaware of the policy change and accused the dioceses of placing concern for illegal immigrants above children's safety.

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z-gryphon.livejournal.com/374480.html
Ja, -n
(an extremist)

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"Puripuri puripuri... Bang!"

Wind across Salisbury plain
Ancient stones stand in the rain
Silhouettes against the stormy night
I walk in a counter spiral
Outside of this sunless dial
Waiting, hoping, watching for a sign
I see shadows form and disappear in shades of grey
The flicker of a thousand minds
Voices are calling from another time and place
The name that echoes here is mine
Circle of stone
I step inside
Calling through the window of time
Oh, circle of stone
Circle of stone
It starts to spin
No beginning and no end
Oh, circle of stone
As I turn the storm above me grows away
To reveal a dome of stars
The milky way seems to wink at me as if to say,
"We know exactly where you are"
Circle of stone
It turns inside
Falling through the window of time
Oh, circle of stone
Circle of stone
Forever spins
No beginning and no end
Oh, circle of stone
Rising to the highest plane
Nothing's left undone
In the universal plan
All things are one
Circle of stone
It turns inside
I reach back through the window of time
Oh, circle of stone
Circle of stone
Forever spins
No beginning and no end
Oh, circle of stone
Oh, circle of stone
Wind across Salisbury plain
Ancient stones stand in the rain
Silhouettes against the stormy sky
I walk in a clockwise spiral
Step out of this sunless dial
Back into the darkness of the night
Back into the darkness of the night
-- Laura Powers, Circle of Stone
-- Bob
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...The President is on the line
As ninety-nine crab rangoons go by...

Hey, Bob?
Did I miss a notice somewhere? I haven't seen the random quote on your Drunkard's Walk page for at least the past few days, possibly longer. Did you remove it for some reason, or is something else the matter? Are others still seeing it?
Feinan

I just noticed that both of these books are available as PDFs on e23. Oddly, Robin Hood is listed as "An e23 Original", while Camelot isn't.
Bob, did you know that you have a page there? They want you to send them "a blurb about yourself" - the appropriate e-mail address is on your page.
Edit: Likewise, on both counts, for Peggy.

-Rob Kelk
--
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

That In Nomine For Dummies page linked in the ROTFL thread made a LOT of stuff in DW5 finally make sense for me! Who's betting that the temple is a tether based around love? I know who Jean is! And I understand why Paradox is even more testy then usual when it comes to their pantheon. That is some rather brilliant, but rather fuscked up stuff. And it also jogged my memory about a certain point people were wondering, on why the sisters are trying to hide Chris's own universe hopping escapades from him. I went back and check the story, and Urd mentions something about Chris stumbling on to his true divine nature before he's ready.
"If Chris realized the truth about the dreams he didn't remember, he might
try to access his full nature, whatever that was, before he was
ready, and only Kami-sama knew what the results of that would be."
I assume that this has means that his full manifestation is different, perhaps drastically so, from the standard inserting avatar system used by the rest of the gods. Perhaps he doesn't have a greater form or incarnations in other universes simultaneously, and has something similar to Hexe, where all of his power is sealed in one body, but he's unable to access a significant amount of it? Depending on which universe he's in, the seal will change slightly allowing him to access different power levels or forms? Hmmm... Maybe, but I don't think so, given that Bob's mentioned that Hexe has little more relevance to the story. So in what is the secret to Paradox's godhood? Does he not have a greater nature like the others? Or given his universe hopping exploits, does he have something greater? I'm dying to see how this turns out. Plus the way Paradox sort of briefly channels one of his experiences and then seems to instantly forget about it in DW5-2 says to me that we'll soon find out what the whole deal is, as he appears to be beginning to remember his jumps. Hmmm... Maybe kami-sama needed a champion or hero that he could exert a reasonable amount of control over? I mean with Doug, all the gods can really do is ask, "Please could you do this for me?" And given his general attitude to gods it's very likely he'd just say screw you and walk off. But kami-sama is in control of where Chris goes and what powers he has when he's there, and given his whole speech on how sometimes an man, not an incredibly holy champion but a least a relatively good guy is needed in the multiverse, he knows within a reason what Chris will do in a given situation. It also makes me think that he's using Chris as a kind of an agent of deniability , just so he can say hey, it wasn't me, I didn't FORCE him to do it, when Chris does whatever his task is in the other universe.
Anybody else have any thoughts along these lines?
Given that one page in particular started this particularly twisting train of thought in my head, I'd better link it. haru_in.tripod.com/INforDummies.html (Bear in mind this is just about In Nomine, and not Drunkard's Walk)

Anyway to wrap it up, most great props to both Bob and Chris on writing something that stimulates the mind and imagination so much. I apologise if I'm being in any way irritating or rude, but is there any more news on when the next chapter will be out? The series is so good and so full of ideas at just a two chapter mark that I have a serious feeling the whole thing will be simply cool as hell(or heaven).
Regards,
David Plywood Lewis

"Playing with GURPS Powers" plus "looking at Bob's website" equals "updated character sheets"... although this is the first conversion from GURPS Third Edition that I've done, so I may have goofed somewhere.
I'm still working on a conversion of Alvin Russet, but my conversion of Ogden Matthias is finished, so here it is. Bob, if this conversion is correct, it's yours to do with as you see fit.

Ogden Matthias
691 points
ST 11 (10)
DX 13 (60)
IQ 16 (120)
HT 15 (50)
HP 15 (8)
Will 16 (0)
Per 16 (0)
FP 11 (-12)
Basic Lift 24
Damage 1d-1 th / 1d+1 sw
Basic Speed 4.5 (-50)
Basic Move 4 (0)
Social Background
TL: 8 (0)
Cultural Familiarities: Western (0)
Languages: English (native) (0)
Advantages
Charisma +10 (50); Patron: powerful individual, generic (+100%), appears on 15- (60); Reputation: +3, everyone, all the time (15); Status 5 (20); Voice (10); Wealth: Filthy Rich (50).
Powers
Mind Control: area effect 60yd (+300%), independant (+70%), no signature (+20%), reliable +9 (power roll is 25; +45%), suggestion (-40%), telepathic (-10%), power can be transmitted through audio signals (+40%), targets must hear his voice (-20%), only one message: "You will obey me" (-40%) (233)
Disadvantages
Fanaticism: God's Kingdom of Supers (-15); Secret: leader of a subversive revolutionary movement (-30); Sense of Duty: to supers (-10); Vow: If he can prevent it, supers will never be persecuted (-10).
Quirks
Subtle and careful -- a long-term planner for everything; Always carries a brass-handled cane; Insists on good PR, no matter what; Knows enough to trust expert opinions, if they're experts he can trust; Rationalizes evil deeds done for a good cause. (-5)
Skills
Administration-16 (IQ) (2); Area Knowledge: NYC-18 (IQ+2) (4); Bicycling-14 (DX+1) (2); Broadsword-15 (DX+2) (8); Computer Operation-16 (IQ) (1); Detect Lies-18 (Per+2) (12); Diplomacy-19 (IQ+Voice+1) (8); Economics-14 (IQ-2) (1); Intimidation-19 (Will+3) (12); Leadership-20 (IQ+4) (16); Occultism-16 (IQ) (2); Performance-21 (IQ+Voice+3) (12); Public Speaking-21 (IQ+Voice+3) (12); Psychology-17 (IQ+1) (8); Savoir-Faire: high society-20 (IQ+4) (12); Strategy: land-17 (IQ+1) (8); Swimming-15 (HT) (1); Theology: Christianity-19 (IQ+3) (16).
Non-Super Equipment
Tactical Vest (DR 12, 9 lbs.), worn only during public appearances.
Brass-handled cane (Can be used in combat as a light club, +2 to damage from the metal head: Damage sw+3 cr, Reach 1, 5 lbs.).

(Edit: Left off a couple of point costs...)
(Edit: Changed "accurate" to "reliable".)
-Rob Kelk
--
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

Yeah, that's the way to get rid of all those dirty pirates!
Subtitled YouTube video of Swedish news:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6DBn0BncMk