We already have been told that "different" versions of the "same" song can have differing effects, but what about a song having different effects in different worlds. I know that Doug effectively rewrites reality within at least his basic field, but given that he's prone to drawing at least partially on the local ambient (and nodular) mana, might the nature of the surrounding area have an effect on his powers?
Not necessarily a drastic change, but it would be fun to see the look on Doug's face when he did something and it came off tilted 5 degrees to the wierd...
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I heard The Who's "Mobile" on the way home, and thought of a nifty way to use it. While the song is playing, it has 2 major effects:
1) Doug cannot stop moving - he can control it to a greater degree, but he will always have at least a really bad case of the Jitters. Nothing will be able to restrain him or hold him down, and he is partially exempt from the 1st Law of Newtonian Mechanics. That is, "A body in motion stays in motion." If he chooses, he can go right through things - of course, it will probably hurt...
2) Security systems, audit trails, cops, revenue collectors, and the like simply don't see him (or his activities). SO he could hack through a system, and they would know stuff happenned after the fact, but during it they would be oblivious to it.
A second song that I thought up for no apparent reason is "Here's Your Sign", by Travis Tritt with Bill Engvall. The net effect of the song is that Doug can pull out Bugs Bunny style signs with anything he wants on them, in any size up to around that of a billboard, and then put them back into nowhere. The only caveat is that during the song he can't speak...
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Well, um. I can't find anything I like. The closest to a good candidate is "Venus" by Shocking Blue, and it really doesn't fit that well. ("Goddess on a mountain top, burning like a silver flame...") Any suggestions?

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

Johnny take a walk with your sister the moon
Let her pale light in to fill up your room
You've been living underground
Eating from a can
You've been running away
From what you don't understand...
Love
She's slippy
You're sliding down
She'll be there when you hit the ground
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright
She moves in mysterious ways
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright
She moves in mysterious ways
Johnny take a dive with your sister in the rain
Let her talk about the things you can't explain
To touch is to heal
To hurt is to steal
If you want to kiss the sky
Better learn how to kneel
(On your knees boy)
She's the wave
She turns the tide
She sees the man inside the child
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright
She moves in mysterious ways
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright
She moves in mysterious ways
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright
Lift my days, light up my nights
One day you will look...back
And you'll see...where
You were held...how
By this love...while
You could stand...there
You could move on this moment
Follow this feeling
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright
She moves in mysterious ways
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright
She moves in mysterious ways
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright
We move through miracle days
Spirit moves in mysterious ways
She moves with it
She moves with it
Lift my days, light up my nights
-- U2, Mysterious Ways
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

On a morning from a Bogart movie
In a country where they turn back time
You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre
Contemplating a crime
She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running
Like a watercolour in the rain
Don't bother asking for explanations
She'll just tell you that she came
In the year of the cat.
She doesn't give you time for questions
As she locks up your arm in hers
And you follow 'till your sense of which direction
Completely disappears
By the blue tiled walls near the market stalls
There's a hidden door she leads you to
These days, she says, I feel my life
Just like a river running through
The year of the cat
She looks at you so cooly
And her eyes shine like the moon in the sea
She comes in incense and patchouli
So you take her, to find what's waiting inside
The year of the cat.
Well morning comes and you're still with her
And the bus and the tourists are gone
And you've thrown away the choice and lost your ticket
So you have to stay on
But the drum-beat strains of the night remain
In the rhythm of the new-born day
You know sometime you're bound to leave her
But for now you're going to stay
In the year of the cat.
-- Al Stewart, The Year of the Cat
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Raven hair and ruby lips,
Sparks fly from her finger tips.
Echoed voices in the night,
She's a restless spirit on an endless flight.
Woo-hoo, witchy woman, see how high she flies.
Woo-hoo, witchy woman, she got the moon in her eyes.
She held me spellbound in the night,
Dancing shadows and firelight.
Crazy laughter in another room
And she drove herself to madness with a silver spoon.
Woo-hoo, witchy woman, see how high she flies.
Woo-hoo, witchy woman, she got the moon in her eyes.
I know you want to love her but let me tell you, brother,
She's been sleepin' in the devil's bed.
There's some rumors goin' round, someone's underground,
She can rock you in the night until your skin turns red.
Woo-hoo, witchy woman, see how high she flies.
Woo-hoo, witchy woman, she got the moon in her eyes.
-- The Eagles, Witchy Woman
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

DW2 chapter 12 has already been Googled. I was just searching for the proper attribution for the "Get me outta here" Bugs Bunny quote, and what should be the first thing on the results page but chapter 12. Wow. I must have posted the chapter to the webpage just before the spider got there -- usually it's like a month or two before the search engine notices changes.
That's it, nothing important, just me being moderately boggled.

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

I am somewhat suspicious that the "blessing" is going to give Lisa the "Sailor Loon" powers again. Or at least some sort of power.

Oh my - where to start, where to start...
Well, overall impressions -
Big fight. Big BIG fight. Very well written. Very clear throughout.
I had no trouble at all visualizing all the action that was happening, with the possible exception of a couple of the knife moves made by Hexe. I parsed the fight between her and Sylia just fine overall, but had trouble visualizing exact arm and hand positions sometimes. A quick reread solved most of that.
I was right about the power level of the Warriors. They are definitely in Justice League territory. And it puts some of my issues with Doug's Fuzion character sheet in perspective. (I still don't think he should have higher than a 12 DEX, though. )
Speaking of power levels - Imagine the Justice League - but trained specifically as soldiers and agents and with that kind of mindset. Imagine a SEAL team given superpowers. That's the Warriors. Yikes....
(On that note - now I'm curious - intensely curious - as to the stats of the other Warriors. Heck, just post or send me the V&V characters stats and I can do conversions of them!)
As to all the Warriors - I'd love to know more about them! I know you don't have the time to do Warriors stories on top of everything else, and these characters are not your own, so I'll just send my compliments to you, as the writer, for portraying them here and making me interested in them in such a short space of time, and to their creators and players for coming up with some truly neat concepts! Shadowwalker and Kat both got time earlier in DW2 and Hexe got an extended scene here, so the only member here that we've seen in "person" now that hasn't gotten as much conversation time was Silverbolt. Perhaps we'll get to see her again at some future time? Heck, Dwimanor has been mentioned enough I'd love to see him. Maybe he might pop up in the (proposed) Sailor Moon step? Yes, I'm an evil evil man.... ^_^
LOVED the entrances of the Warrior's too. Especially Hexe and Silverbolt. "Your entrance was good, his was better. The difference? Showmanship!" ^_^
Madigan's thought - *Damn him! That man is chaos incarnate!* - Why do I get the distinct impression that more than one villain in the Warrior's universe has said that exact same line on more than one occasion? ^_^
The storm and lightning strike - why do I get the impression that Hexe has a presence that makes some minor villains just wet themselves? Important safety tip: Do NOT make this woman truly mad at you...
Daley heard Leon mention Priss' name. He's no more clueless than Leon is. I expect him to start putting 2+2 together as well soon.
Lisa's "Warrior's World" memories getting stronger with the entrance of the Warriors simulacrums - that was a bit of an unexpected twist. How'd you come up with that? And does that happen with everyone that Doug has done that song for?
Speaking of which - I take it that Doug has done that song for himself? Did it have the same effects on him? I think he mentions that he notices something new every time he does it. Can he - in effect - get some limited postcognitive knowledge of things he was never personally around for during the duration of time that the song speaks to? The 50 years or so from the end of WWII to the end of the 20th century, I mean.
A great deal of the apparent ease with which the Warriors mostly have this fight appears to come from the fact that the Sabers don't really know what they're up against. If they did, they could compensate better, obviously. They still wouldn't match them for power level, but it's possible they could do reasonably well, even if the Warriors went all out. But I think if that happened, people would die on both sides. The element of surprise is one which the Warriors in this instance OWN.
Shadowwalker's sonic attack - wow. That was some very nice description there, Bob. Wow.
Just how strong is Silverbolt anyway? Every time I thought I had a rough estimate of her strength, she exceeded it. Sorry to go to game terms here, but by the end of the fight I was estimating her at Fuzion STR 16 or 17. Maybe as high as 18.

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Her opponent recognized her ploy, and smiled as she released Sylia's weapon again. "You'll have to do *much* better than that, White. These blades were forged for me by Hephaestus from mithril mined by the Svartalfar, breathed upon by Indra and blessed by Marduk."

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In a Place that was not a place, Three Beings watched.
"Is that...?" asked One whose Voice was as that of a child.
"Yes," replied another, whose Voice was as the chiming of bells. "Yes, it is."
"So that is what the Stormsdaughter has been doing with Herself these past few decades," murmured the Third, whose Voice would have been deemed sultry by any mortals who might have heard it.
"Ssshh!" hissed the First. "You're missing all the action!"

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The silver woman casually grabbed the back end of a car and lifted. When the bumper came off in her hand, she dropped it,

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A red haze seemed to drop over Nene's eyes. A low, growling voice filled her ears, and only dimly did she recognize it as her own. A distant cry didn't even register. "I'm... *not*... going to let you... win!" she ground out through gritted teeth as she drew back her fist for another punch.

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"" she heard Wetter Hexe bellow from where she loomed over Sylia. Impossibly, the thunder from the sky above roared the English words with her. "
In the plaza before the entrance to Geo City, the forces of the AD Police, the news crews, and the onlookers all froze as one when the distant thunder suddenly formed into English words that rang clearly across the square: ""
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Nene stifled another cry at the sight -- she had deduced that Sangnoir's wife was blind, but...
The woman had no eyes. Nor could she ever have had any.
Not with two glistening patches of fine, silvery grey fur growing on the smooth, flat skin that took their place.

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I stared at her a moment, then sneered. "The luxury of letting slaves try to make a better life for themselves?"
"The luxury of saving them at the expense of the lives of
others." Her voice and posture were hard at first, then softened as she spread her hands wide. "What else would you have me do?"
I didn't have an answer for that. I was still wrestling with
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Inside the Hexe-shaped energy construct was the unmistakable golden glow of a soul. And inside *that*... Inside that was a triple helix of colored energies -- blue, green and red -- that I'd only ever seen in Hexe and a few other beings. The signature aura of an incarnated deity.
"Ho. Ly. Shit," I swore under my breath. "It *is* you."

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In a Place that was not a place, a Fourth momentarily appeared to Three who watched.
"Honored Aunts, once Your bargain with him is complete, kindly
*butt the hell out.*"
Then She vanished.

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Mr. Schroeck,
I apologize if this has already been mentioned, but I didn't see
it anywhere and thought you should know. In chapter 3,
there are several sets of quotation marks that appear as
though they should contain dialogue, but don't.
That said, keep up the good work.
Regards,
Jason McCulley