Oh, yeah, almost forgot. Yesterday SJ Games officially announced that Shapeshifters is on schedule for a July release.

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

It wouldn't be Shapeshifters if the damned book stayed the same two months in a row.
I'm in what's supposed to be final edit, and over the last week or so, I've been fielding many emails from my editor; big, question-heavy, suggestion-laden emails that each take me much of an evening to get through.
The book is changing and evolving even when it's out of my hands.
If I've appeared to be off-line a lot for the last few days, that's why. It'll be going on for a while, yet, too -- I ended last night with four emails left in my inbox that I had yet to address, and overnight another four appeared.

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

Being in SF this past weekend, I had to go looking for Japanese Imports. I didn't find any DVDs I was looking for, but I did find something that I had to get - The BGC Complete Vocal Collection. 3 discs with all the vocal music from the original 8 OVAs (and maybe even BGCrash, I can't read Japanese . One of these days I need to find the lyrics translations to all of these, and see if any of them would be useful for Doug besides Konya-Wa Hurricane...
Offsides
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(Doug hasn't got this song...it's quite obscure, and it'd screw up the plot.
But if he did, it'd give him the power to talk on the telephone with his wife, for the duration of the song.)
Touch Tone Lullabye, John Corning
I say hello, You say hello
Funny how I've missed you since we talked last night.
And I suppose, you ought to know
I've been thinking 'bout you nearly all the time.
All those tender words of love keep coming back to me.
And I think of all the times I've held you close to me,
so Sleep tight my darling, don't you cry,
hold your pillow close and close your eyes
In three days I'll be there to hold you tight
'til then I'll sing my love for you on the telephone line.
I say it's cold, you say it's warm
Been so long since I felt the sun upon my arms.
Work's going well, and only time will tell,
But if this deal goes through we'll surely paint the town.
With all we do our lives apart still seem so incomplete
and I wait for just those times when both our lives will meet
so Sleep tight my darling, don't you cry,
hold your pillow close and close your eyes
In three days I'll be there to hold you tight
'til then I'll sing my love for you on the telephone line.
[instrumental]

With all we do our lives apart still seem so incomplete
and I wait for just those times when both our lives will meet
so Sleep tight my darling, don't you cry,
hold your pillow close and close your eyes
In three days I'll be there to hold you tight
'til then I'll sing my love for you on the telephone line.
I'll sing this touch tone lullabye on the telephone line.

Red Cross Book
I haven't had the time to give it a full readthrough yet, but for my skimming I'd say that the phrasing is vague enough to include just about every theory that's been aired on this board so far.
For instance, 'derived from Lillith' and 'originally having belonged to Lillith' are not at all the same thing. Far's I can see, the same comment (RE: where Rei's soul came from) would hold true for the whole human race.
On reflection, my opinion of the Rei/Lillith thing is that while there is enough genetic and 'aural' connection/similarity to create the observe merging effect, their minds, or souls if you insist on being religious, have little to nothing in common... because both of those things are dependant upon free will, which (at least by what my skimming indicates) neither Lillith nor the Angels have.
Lillith turns into Rei, and previously was unable to move from the cross, because there was nobody home and she wasn't getting any orders from outside.
Rei, on the other hand, -could- have been normal enough, if Rokubungi and SEELE hadn't fucked her over from day one.
Blessed be.
-n
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."

Hello all, long time no post, but this bit of mayhem has been cross-checking around inside my head and finally found a way out.
I was raised on Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies(which gives you an idea of my normal mental state) and a few of these references parsed themselves against my will when I re-read DWII:
"Ho, ho, ho. Doug-Hunters is da cwaziest peoples." (I do believe I've found a .sig for this board)
"Ahhhh, yes! Frustrating, isn't it?"
(Bogart from 'The African Queen' strides into frame. Any part of the series.) "Pardon me, sir, but could you help out a fellow American who's down on his luck?"
"Katherine Madigan. Soooooooper Geeeeeenius!"
Doug pauses as he is about to administer some righteous self-defense to the beginning pack of 'crunchies' and, breaking the fourth wall, notices the audience. He stretches a hand upward out-of-frame and pulls down a black window shade with the word 'CENSORED' proudly stenciled in yellow on its surface. Sounds of violence ensue, rattling the window shade.
How about you guys?
---
Draconan
"Ho, ho, ho. Doug-Hunters is da cwaziest peoples."

Okay... the problem with this song isn't finding an appropriate effect, it's that there are *TOO MANY* potential effects, most of which are far too 'game-breaking'.
Nageki no Rosario, the opening to Gravion (artist unknown)

Tsuki ga yami o terasu toki,
Densetsu ga sora wo ubau.
Kindan no duel no toki,
Tada toss ga yonderu,
Tooku.
Beauty, kamen ni kakushita,
Tsumi no itami to hikikaeri.
Zutto, sagashitsuzuketeru shinjitsu dake o,
Unmei ni tomadou nageki no rosario.
Teppei nai gimoku ga ai ni furueteru.
Tsuki ga yami o terasu toki,
Densetsu ga sora wo ubau.
Kanenai kida tenshi-tachi yo utsukushiku tobe,
Kindan no duel no toki,
Tada toss ga yonderu,
Tooku.

This translates roughly as:
When the moon reveals the darkness,
Legends dance in the sky.
At the time of the forbidden duel,
Only the toss calls to you,
Far away.
Beauty, hidden behind a mask,
Traded for the pain of guilt,
I'm looking for the truth.
Confused in its destiny, a rosary of guilt.
The memories I cannot erase are shivering on love.
When the moon reveals the darkness,
Legends dance in the sky.
O angels without hope, fly beautifully.
At the time of the forbidden duel,
Only the toss calls to you,
Far away.

www.cthulhulives.org/Musical/cdinfo.html
That is all.
- Acyl
-- Acyl

Okay, I wrote the following passage a couple weeks ago just as a gag, after rereading Skysaber's "Otaku 3 -- Eva Revolution". Those of you not familiar with this fic, it's one of Jared Ornstead's "Skysaber" self-inserts, but because of the baggage Skysaber brings to the Eva world, the fact that he's taking the place of Shinji, and the tactic he chooses to derail Gendo's plans, it turns the plot of Eva onto a hilarious and wildly divergent path. Even though Skysaber's work is always uneven (there are moments of brilliance and there are times when you want to strangle him), I highly recommend it; the good parts outweigh the bad parts.

Anyway.

I wrote the following as a gag, and as a tip of the hat to Skysaber, in much the way that there are tips of the hat to other authors in DW2. I sent it off to my prereaders, whose unanimous silence was overwhelming... so I'm posting it here, at least to see if it's the humorous bit I think it is. There's no promise that this will actually go into DW6, but then again, "Sailor Loon" was originally a gag bit written just for laughs and never intended to be actually used...

-- Bob

The current tape in his DAT player at its end, Shinji drifted out
of his room to the kitchen in search of a snack. Opening one
cabinet after another, he surveyed their contents half-heartedly,
knowing that he wanted to eat *something*, but not *what*.
Finally, he selected a bag of wasabi peas that Misato had opened
a couple of nights earlier, then followed the sound of the
television out to the living room.

Asuka and Rei were sprawled on the floor, intent on an anime that
seemed to focus around several girls wearing short, flouncy
dresses in bright primary colors. "What are you watching?" he
asked.

Both girls looked up at him with a simultaneity he found eerie.
"'Cutie Emerald and the Gemstone Girls'," Asuka replied with a
grin.

Shinji settled himself onto the couch behind them and begin
undoing the twist-tie on the bag. "Mahou shoujo show?"

"Yes," Rei replied, as both girls returned their eyes to the
screen. "It is... interesting."

"It's fun, is what it is," Asuka corrected, and Rei slowly
nodded. "Hey, Shinji," the redhead continued, "take a look.
Don't you think Magical Soldier Cutie Emerald looks like Misato?"
She waved a hand at the screen, where a green-clad 14-year-old
blasted her enemies with a beam of glittering power.

He tossed a few wasabi peas in his mouth and studied the smiling
face as he chewed. Then he wrinkled his nose. "No way. She's
*blonde*. The hair is all wrong."

Asuka hmphed, clearly disagreeing. "What do *you* know? You
probably don't think Cutie Sapphire looks like me, either."

"To be honest," Rei said, "the resemblance is not very strong."

Asuka made a rude noise.

"However," Rei continued, unperturbed, "*I* am clearly identical
to Cutie Ruby."

Shinji shook his head. "You two are both nuts, you know that?"
he said around another mouthful of peas.

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

I should have done this sooner but sometimes my stupid side comes out when my attention wanders. So anyway on with the introduction. I'm 24 and was lucky enough to graduate from college with a BA: MIS degree. Also in college I joined a internationl co-ed service fraternity, Alpha Phi Omega. Which I'm still active in today. I'm currently hoping to get back into school for another Bachlor's degree this time in Teaching.
I'm also a gamer. I've played a bunch of different systems most often MERPs and the Palladium system. I'm also into strategy and war games on the computer and their board game incarnations.
I'm an anime fan with a large range of likeable series. Also I like to read and read a lot. My main intrliest for books is Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Fiction. Finally last but not least I'm a large music fan. I currently own over 300 cds with stuff from just about every different genre out there. I think that's it. Any questions can be directed here to this thread I guess.

Shawn Earl