This will also be going into the DW FAQ, which is in beta right now (see post in DW General).

Oh! My Brother!, and thus Drunkard's Walk V, are in an alternate universe from canon Oh! My Goddess. It is a wildly divergent timeline (wild divergence #1 being our favorite apotheosized Canadian). If there is a canon conflict between Oh! My Brother! and Oh! My Goddess, Oh! My Brother! wins, because that's the storyline Doug's visiting.

If you need to identify when the story takes place relative to events in the canon timeline, Drunkard's Walk V is placed sometime before the canon's "Lord of Terror" arc. Besides that being Chris's designated point in time for OMB, it also happens to coincide nicely to the extent of Bob's exposure to the manga.

As for characters from beyond that point, well, it might be nice if they appear, but first both Chris and I have to a) know about them, b) know them well enough to write them, and c) have a story reason for using them (or get a big enough kick from a cameo). Furthermore, Chris is final arbiter on who gets to live in his universe, and if he doesn't like, say, Hasegawa, well, Tokyo City Records will suddenly be missing a birth certificate...

Is that clear, everyone?

-- Bob
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Single Stage To Orbit: Rockets like God and Heinlein intended them!

Actually, this has been on the website since last week, but no one but AngryOptimist seems to have read my previous announcement. So here's a bit more blatant one. As I said before, not everything's in here yet; I'm still working on some questions offline. But almost everything I was asked for the FAQ, and a few things no one asked, are in here.
www.eclipse.net/~rms/dw-faq.html-- Bob
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Single Stage To Orbit: Rockets like God and Heinlein intended them!
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Since Bob is trying to go against the SI cliches for Doug, let us list the ones for Evangelion SI's.
Right off the bat, Doug is going to break one of them. The three SI fics that I know of have the SI be reborn into the world somehow(I was a Teenage Dummyplug, a fic where the person is constantly reborn with his memories intact(this time Shinji), a fic where the SI spirit inhabited Unit-01)
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Tom Mathews aka Disruptor

I have put a prototype Drunkard's Walk FAQ page up on my website. It has most but not all of the questions I received from my solicitations several months ago; I'm still working on those. This file isn't yet ready for prime-time, and isn't linked to by any other pages on my site. But I'd like it if people took a look at it and gave me their thoughts -- and any new questions they might have.
www.eclipse.net/~rms/dw-faq.html
Thanks!
-- Bob
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Single Stage To Orbit: Rockets like God and Heinlein intended them!
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

As usual, the denizens of the discussion forums get about a 9-hour lead on the FFML.
www.eclipse.net/~rms/dw5.html
From that page you will find the prologue and chapter 1, plus the DW5 Concordance.
Enjoy, and feel free to chat amongst yourselves afterwards. -- Bob
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Single Stage To Orbit: Rockets like God and Heinlein intended them!
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Quote:

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Look forward to more of the Oh! My Brother! crew in Oh! My Brother II/Drunkark's Walk V: Another Divine Mess You've Gotten Me Into.

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Like it says. I just have to do some last-minute cleanup, prep the HTML files for the website, and wave a dead chicken over the keyboard.-- Bob
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Single Stage To Orbit: Rockets like God and Heinlein intended them!
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

I was listening to the radio on the way home, when I heard some of these hits and I thought theyd be good on the Walk.

One Moment in Time
By Whitney Houston

Verse 1:
Each day I live,
I want to be a day to give the best of me.
I'm only one, but not alone,
My finest day is yet unknown.
I broke my heart, for ev'ry gain
To taste the sweet, I face the pain.
I rise and fall, yet through it all, this much remains,
I want...
Chorus:
One moment in time,
When I'm more than I thought I could be.
When all of my dreams are a heartbeat away,
And the answers are all up to me.
Give me one moment in time,
When I'm racing with destiny,
Then in that one moment of time,
I will feel, I will feel eternity.
Verse 2:
I've lived to be the very best,
I want it all, no time for less.
I've laid the plans,
Now lay the chance, here in my hands,
Give me...
Chorus x2.
Bridge:
You're a winner, for a lifetime,
If you seize that one moment in time.
Make it shine.
Give me...
Chorus x2.
I will be, I will be free

Electric Youth
by Debbie Gibson

Ho-woah...
VERSE 1:
Zappin' it to ya
The pressure's everywhere
Goin' right through ya
The fever's in the air
Oh yeah, it's there!
Don't underestimate the power
of a lifetime ahead
CHORUS:
Electric youth
Feel the power, you see the energy
Comin' up
Coming on strong
The future only belongs
to the future itself/in the hands of itself
and the future is
Electric youth
It's true you can't fight it
Live by it
the next generation...
it's electric
VERSE 2:
We've got the most time
to make the world go round
Oh, can you spare a dime?
Place your bet on our sound
Come back to town
Don't lose sight of potential mastermind
Remember when you were young
CHORUS
it's electric
BRIDGE:
We do what comes naturally (naturally!)
You see now
wait for the possibility
Don't you see a strong resemblance
to yourself?(oh...)
Don't you think what we say is important?
Whatever it may be...
The fun is gonna start with me
'cause I'm bringing it back...
CHORUS
it's electrifying
Take it Fred!
CHORUS
it's electric, it's electric, it's electric
CHORUS
inflation
flirtation
relaxation
elation
generation of
an electric youth!

The Living Years
by Mike And The Mechanics
Every generation
Blames the one before
And all of their frustrations
Come beating on your door
I know that I'm a prisoner
To all my father held so dear
I know that I'm a hostage
To all his hopes and fears
I just wish I could have told him
In the living years
Crumpled bits of paper
Filled with imperfect thought
Stilted conversations
I'm afraid that's all we've got
You say you just don't see it
He says it's perfect sense
You just can't get agreement
In this present tense
We all talk a different language
Talking in defense
Say it loud, say it clear
You can listen as well as you hear
It's too late when we die
To admit we don't see eye to eye
So we open up a quarrel
Between the present and the past
We only sacrifice the future
It's the bitterness that lasts
So don't yield to the fortunes
You sometimes see as fate
It may have a new perspective
On a different day
And if you don't give up,
And don't give in
You may just be OK
Say it loud, say it clear
You can listen as well as you hear
It's too late when we die
To admit we don't see eye to eye
I wasn't there that morning
When my father passed away
I didn't get to tell him
All the things I had to say.
I think I caught his spirit
Later that same year
I'm sure I heard his echo
In my baby's new born tears
I just wish I could have told him
In the living years
Say it loud, say it clear
You can listen as well as you hear
It's too late when we die
To admit we don't see eye to eye

A Call To Arms by Mike and the Mechanics
Pass the word, it's a call to arms
Midnight man at your door
Blackened faces run in the night
Daybreak under the floor
Bring my bow
Fill my head with flame, and we must
Let them know that the torch is lit again
Crystallize the pain behind your eyes
Are you ready to fight?
(You hear the drum and) run for your life
(Sweet Avalon the heat is on)
In other words, I hope and pray
That time and tide wash the hate away
A simple man with simple thoughts
Who turned to force as a last resort
All around us, chaos rings
Buildings crumbling down
Silhouettes in the fiery rain
Timbers crash to the ground
Bring my spear, invested with my youth
Bring the children near, they must now be told the truth
Old and young and those of foreign tongue
Are you ready to fight?
(You hear the drum and) run for your life
(Sweet Avalon the heat is on)
In other words, I hope and pray
That time and tide wash the hate away
A simple man with simple thoughts
Who turned to force as a last resort
In other words, I hope and pray
That time and tide keep the day away
When simple men with simple thoughts
Will turn to force as a last recourse

One Moment in Time, Doug has the power to do what must be done for the duration of the song...with the appropriate side effects at the end. Maybe at or just below of the The Touch or it gives him the answer to how to find a way home.
Electric Youth..similar in effect to Lightning's Hand
The Living Years..I think Bob mentioned in another Walk of having someone meet their loved ones who passed away..this is the song to do it, in my opinion.
Call To Arms...similar to With a Little Help From My Friends
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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

So I take it Doug was never Chosen by a Companion? He would definitely be the odd being out then.
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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

Helen Imre and I were discussing the possibility of collaborating on a series of stories set in Warriors' World, about the Warriors. If anything develops from this, I'll let people know.
She's also encouraged me to reactivate the Buffy The Vampire Slayer Step, and to transplant it from my original setting of one of the early seasons to the Glory storyline. I've been thinking about that, and I have to admit there is some appeal to the idea...-- Bob

-- Bob
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