Bob, you mentioned in another thread that Doug liked to use songs that let him play with the heads of his enemies. Here's a song that might fit in that category.
"Down" - Gravity Kills
lyrics at www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics.../Down.html

Shawn Earl

Some Howard Jones songs that might be useful:
(Lyrics at http://www.lyrics007.com/Howard%20Jones%20Lyrics.html )

Dream into Action
suppress, only against 'bigotry' psych lims
area effect mind control : "do not be divisive"
"Whatever you like to say I'll try to understand
Whatever you do you have the benefit of the doubt
Whatever I do please understand"
possible secondary effect : very basic understanding of others' native languages.

Dig This Well Deep
dig tunnel straight down
area effect mind control : "persevere"
"I'm going to dig this well deep
It's a promise I must keep
I'm going to dig this well deep
'Cos I want to find water
I'm going to dig this well deep
Going to sow before I reap
I'm going to dig this well deep
'Cos I want to find water"
"See it through to a conclusion even if it leads to nowhere
Sometimes there is no solution but the water tastes as good there"

Cross That Line
suppress : "naive" psych lims
mind control : "consider: things may not turn out perfectly"
mind control : "don't waste your chances"
"It's not my fault if you didn't live out your youthful dreams"
...
"Everyone has got to take some responsibility
The grass is rarely bluer, but you wouldn't take it from me
Finding out the hard way can be an endless affair"

Bounce Right Back
There is an extended version of this song that lasts over 8 minutes
? area effect minor regeneration
? area effect Aid to REC
area effect common sense manifests as mental illusion : short guy warns anyone who is about to say something catastrophic
possible side effect : Doug gets a temporary henchman named Luke
"He say yes and I say no
He say what do you mean
I pulled my piece and he pulled his
We stared each other right in the eye
There was a flash like dynamite
And this guy appeared by our side
Well he said button up and tighten your lip
Keep a check on what you say
Those crazy words you fling from your mouth
Are going to bounce back on you some day"

Everlasting Love
This one has a cute video with mummies, still in love after a few millennia.
This song might also kick Doug out of depression from being separated from his wife.
life support : unaging (for the duration of the song, anyway)
area effect mind control : "seek out a lasting relationship instead of a shallow one"
area effect suppress lechery and other psych lims that might directly interfere with forming a healthy relationship
"Is this love worth waiting for
Bitterness will die for sure
Something special, something pure
Is this love worth waiting for"
--Indexfiles aka Index aka J.W. Harris

When Doug played 'Invisible Touch' and touched Lisa's forehead, he temporarily granted her TK (and much more, but that's not what I'm puzzled about).
Is this song explicitly supposed to power-up one person that Doug touches on the forehead rather than himself? Is it supposed to power-up any number of people if he traces the rune on their forehead?
Or is there still some lingering effect from his previous use of "I'll Play For You" (Seals & Croft) that allows Doug to grant the power to Lisa instead of himself?
(I LIKE the idea of meta-songs such as "I'll Play For You", but I should take speculation on that subject to "The Game Everyone Loves To Play".)
--Indexfiles aka Index aka J.W. Harris
BTW, Bob, Drunkard's Walk is VERY good fan fiction, and better than many books I've paid for.

A question (or two) about Doug's helmet:
First, mp4:
Why does he use mp4 as his default compression format instead of Ogg Vorbis? Does Warrior's World mp3 and mp4 closely resemble our real world versions of those formats, including the licensing baggage?
Several times Doug's helmet has been described as having an enormous storage capacity. Why not store audio in a lossless format such as FLAC or Ogg FLAC? Does Doug have a good enough 'ear' to be distracted by compression artifacts in formats such as mp3?
BTW, double-blind hearing tests (google on "ABX ogg vorbis") seem to support Ogg Vorbis as THE superior lossy audio compression format.
Regarding Doug's 'ear' for flaws in music... After spending a lot of time with various CD-ripping programs before switching to CDparanoia, I can NOT ignore the tiny pops and clicks that crappy CD ripping software hardware introduces. Also, after doing many ABX tests of original music versus various compressed versions, I have a difficult time ignoring compression artifacts.
If you spend enough time listening for flaws in music, it becomes difficult to ignore those flaws in the future.
Loonix:
Is this derived from Linux, by any chance?
To grossly simplify: In the real world, early Linux development depended on three people. Linus Torvalds, of course. Richard Stallman, because he had already written many open source software tools -- including a compiler -- required to have an operating system rather than merely an operating system kernel. And Bill Gates, for making sure that MS Windows would work on cheap clone hardware, thereby encouraging vicious competition in PC hardware that resulted in low prices.
Linux probably would not have achieved critical popularity over the various BSD operating systems if the reputation of BSD had not been temporarily crippled by a frivolous lawsuit. (see www.freebsddiary.org/linux.php , search for "USL" on this page.)
wwEarth (Warrior's World Earth) has to deal with extraterrestrials on a regular basis, correct? Among ETs, is there any intellectual property law? For practical reasons, I assume not, that whenever some ET wants to restrict information, they simply keep that information secret.
How has dealing with such attitudes shaped intellectual property law on wwEarth, and how has it shaped Doug's attitudes?
Okay, so Doug is the Warrior's Chief of Security, but he seems to have a rather casual attitude toward intellectual property.
Perhaps on wwEarth, whenever groups try to restrict intellectual property, some alien or gadgeteer sells something slightly better, no strings attached beyond the purchase price?
Doug seems to understand what Priss means by bootlegging music, but seems not to care. Does this mean that wwEarth has groups like the RIAA and MPAA that try to restrict copying, but that they are less powerful than on our Earth?
Thinking about the information...
--Indexfiles aka Index aka J.W. Harris

Impossible Dream (The Quest)
To dream the impossible dream
To fight the unbeatable foe
To bear with unbearable sorrow
And to run where
the brave dare not go
To right the unrightable wrong
And to love pure and chaste from afar
To try when your arms are too weary
To reach the unreachable star
This is my quest
To follow that star
No matter how hopeless
No matter how far
To fight for the right
Without question or pause
To be willing to march,
march into hell
For that heavenly cause
And I know
If I'll only be true
To this glorious quest
That my heart
Will lie peaceful and calm
When I'm laid to my rest
And the world will be
better for this
That one man, scorned
and covered with scars,
Still strove with his last
ounce of courage
To reach the unreachable,
the unreachable,
The unreachable star
And I'll always dream
The impossible dream
Yes, and I'll reach
The unreachable star

Seems to describe Doug to a tee. Plus it seems to fit this walk.
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Into terror!,  Into valour!
Charge ahead! No! Never turn
Yes, it's into the fire we fly
And the devil will burn!
- Scarlett Pimpernell

Here's an interesting song that I thought might be useful. Whiskey gets its name from a phrase that means 'water of life.' With this song, Doug might be able to turn it into the real thing.
Effect: Turns whiskey into a powerful healing potion. It can't revive the truly dead - that takes a deity's power - but as long as the person could be revived by CPR (i.e. - brain death hasn't occurred), whiskey affected by this song should be able to jump-start the body and heal anything up to but not including true death.

Finnegan's Wake
by The Clancy Brothers
Tim Finnegan lived in Walkin' Street
A gentleman, Irish, mighty odd;
He had a brogue both rich and sweet
And to rise in the world he carried a hod.
Now Tim had a sort of the tipplin' way
With a love of the whiskey he was born
And to help him on with his work each day
He'd a "drop of the cray-thur" every morn.
Chorus:
Whack fol the darn O, dance to your partner
Whirl the floor, your trotters shake;
Wasn't it the truth I told you
Lots of fun at Finnegan's wake!
One mornin' Tim was feelin' full
His head was heavy which made him shake;
He fell from the ladder and broke his skull
And they carried him home his corpse to wake.
They rolled him up in a nice clean sheet
And laid him out upon the bed,
A gallon of whiskey at his feet
And a barrel of porter at his head.
chorus:
His friends assembled at the wake
And Mrs. Finnegan called for lunch,
First they brought in tay and cake
Then pipes, tobacco and whiskey punch.
Biddy O'Brien began to bawl
"Such a nice clean corpse, did you ever see?
"O Tim, mavourneen, why did you die?"
Arragh, hold your gob said Paddy McGhee!
chorus:
Then Maggie O'Connor took up the job
"O Biddy," says she, "You're wrong, I'm sure"
Biddy she gave her a belt in the gob
And left her sprawlin' on the floor.
And then the war did soon engage
'Twas woman to woman and man to man,
Shillelagh law was all the rage
And a row and a ruction soon began.
chorus:
Then Mickey Maloney ducked his head
When a noggin of whiskey flew at him,
It missed, and falling on the bed
The liquor scattered over Tim!
The corpse revives! See how he raises!
Timothy rising from the bed,
Says,"Whirl your whiskey around like blazes
Thanum an Dhul! Do you thunk I'm dead?"
chorus:
Have fun with it.
Feinan

See the white light
The light within
Be your own disciple
Fan the sparks of will
For all of us waiting
Our kingdom has come
Rays of power shining
Rays of magic fall
On the golden voice
That speaks within us all
For all of us waiting
Your kingdom will come
Kingdom Come
Feel the white light
The light within
Yeah it burns a fire
That drives a man to win
For all of us waiting
Your kingdom will come
Kingdom Come
Words of power
Calling to us all
Holding us together
While other kingdoms fall
No longer waiting
Our kingdom has come
Kingdom Come
Kingdom coming
Another kingdom falls
The rightful are waiting
But all are not rightful
Wait and receive
The weight of the fall
Kingdom Come
-- Manowar, Kingdom Come
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Here's the correspondence. I think that means "sure, go ahead."

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Well, if it weren't offered for sale, I wouldn't hear about it, so my
opinion wouldn't much matter. I think my agent would rather I leave it
at that.
--Spider
Christopher Angel wrote:
>
> What is Spider's position on the use of the settings and/or characters of
> the Callahan's books in fanfiction?
>
> Specifically, these are works that are not for profit, and entertainment use
> only. It would only be posted to the web and/or mailing lists. Spider's
> ownership of the characters/settings would be explicity noted.
>
> Thanks for your response, I'm trying to settle an argument.
>
> --
> Christopher Angel--
Christopher Angel, aka JPublic
The Works of Christopher Angel

I know I threatened to do this many months ago and never did, but this time I'm serious. I browsing through the member records last night, mainly because of the explosion in new members over the past few weeks, and noticed that there are many people who joined up who haven't posted something in a year or more. I've decided to finally purge inactive members from the roster, probably on Thursday. So, if you don't want to suddenly find you registration for this board gone by the weekend, please at least post a reply to this message, so you display as having contributed something recently. My cut-off point will be April 2003; basically, if you've posted at least once in the last year, you're safe. If you're a lurker, consider delurking for a moment just so I don't unknowingly nuke you.
Thanks.


-- Bob
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There's no wrong way to eat a Rhesus.

Well since I've bought the soundtrack that this song comes from I've gone back to it a lot. So I'm going to pass on the knowledge to you all.

"Strangers" - Performed by: Raj Ramayya
Lyrics by: Raj Ramayya from the Wolf's Rain soundtrack.
Lyrics at jameswong.com/ykproject/d...f&track=09
As to what this song might bring Doug, I just don't know. Maybe just a mood piece to play when Doug is recounting a time spent with Shadowwalker. I recommend the whole soundtrack since its very good.

Shawn Earl
edit: corrected some info