Dough lands in the world of Dai-Guard... and his interdimensional arrival registers as a Heterodyne... and in fact gathers an elemental charge, attracting a whole damn lot of whatever he has the most affinity for - probably water, given how he tends to adapt his responses to whatever situation he finds himself in - and wakes from his post-transit blackout to find a super robot pulling an arm back to run him through with a drill arm... I dunno what really could o from there, my fundage for buying DVDS ran out after I got the third one in that series, which really pisses me off, since it was shaping up to be all the things I thought I would like about Evangelion before I actually saw Evangelion... insert Standard Rant #38 (Why Evangelion is an abomination that defiled my DVD drive just by being inserted) here.
- CD
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows

Since I'm giving running totals up top, I figured I might as well tell you all what the titles for chapter 13 and 14 will be. I don't think this will give anything terrible away...
Chapter 13: I Wonder What The *Poor* Robots Are Doing This Season...
Chapter 14: Pronoun Trouble

-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

I had such a cool idea for the climactic battle between Utena and Akio while driving in to work this morning. I wish I could share it with you all, but it'd be such a spoiler if I did. I'll have to write it up for the prereaders soon, though.
Sorry if that's annoying, but I had to say something to somebody, and Peggy doesn't like getting phone calls at work just so I can say, "I had such a great idea!".

-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

I went home. I did a post-mortem on the fight, and then I crashed. By the end of my analysis -- which, by the way, I flunked myself on -- I was running solely on fumes and caffeine from a cup of mint tea I'd made myself, and the latter was about to run dry. I had almost no energy reserves to speak of, so I could barely heal myself before crashing; I managed to knit my broken ribs and scab over the worst of the wounds and that was it. I did manage to undress myself before falling into the chirping metallic hammock that pretended to be my bed.Of course, I had to get up a mere five and a half hours later. Most other days, five hours' sleep would've let me pop right up, fresh and energetic, but that morning I felt like an extra in a George Romero movie. My energy reserves were there -- I finished healing myself before getting into the shower -- but I simply hadn't gotten enough sleep to shake a general feeling of headachy exhaustion. "Gods help me if I have to fight anyone or anything today," I muttered to myself as I got dressed. I made it to work without crashing my bike, and stumbled into the lobby, carrying my helmet in via the bowling ball bag again. I managed to be polite and friendly to Kendra as I tottered through to the cube farm beyond -- she was still a little twitchy, poor thing -- but I only grunted when Chizue threw me my morning bagel.I had already taken a couple bites from it when I pounded on Ohara's door."Come," was the muffled reply."Good morning, and aren't we the picture of health," he said as Istaggered in and put down the bag.I didn't feel like clever repartee that morning. "I thought youwere going to quit it with the fucking boomers."Ohara put down his pencil and looked up at me with honest surprise in his eyes. "We did.""The bunch that I fought last night all locked on to me just like the little army you deployed against me at Bunko's. You're telling me they weren't yours?""They certainly weren't," Ohara declared. "Why the hell would we do that? We *have* you already. The only reason we sent boomers after you was to capture or test you, and to study what you could do. We can do that a lot more safely -- and *cheaply* -- here in the Tower."If I hadn't been so fried from the aftereffects of the battle, Iprobably would have thought of that myself. I hadn't, though, soI made the universal gesture of "oh what a schmuck I am" by wipingmy hand down my face and groaning as the obvious implication finally made itself known to me. "Oh, great. Just great," Igrowled. "A third player's joined the game."Ohara thought about that for a moment, then nodded soberly. "Ithink you may be right.""I *know* I'm right." I rubbed my eyes and wished for some aspirin."Gods, I hate this world."Ohara smiled his little not-smile smile. "I don't blame you. I'mnot too fond of it myself sometimes."
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Being just close to you won't make love happen
Even if I make it a puzzle you couldn't figure it out
Because you're slow
We came to the beach wearing summer clothes
Please cover me gently with your shirt
My Heart won't let me say
Please kiss me
Day dream, my dreams get bigger and disappears
High in the sky
Any girl can be happy
If she's full of love she can be invincible
Even if tears start flow or my heart aches,
It's because of you, and it won't be sad
I want to have a secret,want to feel guilty
Even if I know what's happening with you
I pretend that I don't
Even if my heart pounds in fall or I feel blue in winter,
It will be ok, if my precious love bears fruit
I want to be certain about your heart,
I believe in your fingers touching me.
It's my first true love,
Which is why my cheeks are burning up
When a girl falls in love she can be beautiful
And she doesn't even need red lipstick
Even if she can't sleep at night all she does is dream
She's overflowing with feelings of love
Any girl can be happy.
They all start shining once they fall in love.
Even if tears start to flow and my heart aches,
It's because of you and she'll become gentler.
-- My Heart, Your Heart (Theme from Oh My Goddess! OVAs),
Goddess Family Club (Kikuko Inoue, Yumi Fuyama, Aya Hisakawa)
(Rough English translation)
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Classical Gas,
Mason Williams
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

... located here.
But they say it's not available yet.

-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

As I expected, I got no writing done this past week while we were on our vacation. I'll probably start again tonight or tomorrow. Since I didn't stop where I did because I was stuck or clueless, I shouldn't have a problem picking the thread back up; I know my muse is still around, because she's been whispering in my ear all this time...

-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Hope this is the right place to put this...
When I logged in, I found the "New Messages" marker on "General Chatter" and "Future Steps".
The first was discussions of the blackout, but there were no (visible) new messages in the second.
The latest message date stamp on the top page was:
8/14/03 8:16 pm
but, when I looked at who had posted what lately, nothing seemed to match (all recent posts looked to be blackout related).
Not sure how significant this is, maybe just a deleted message or something (?), but thought I should mention it.
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"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind